Tandoori Tatanka

FROM THE ARTICLE:

We don’t have to be paranoid about Arab males; we just have to avoid the opposite: Being fearful of coming across as Islamophobic, and thereby failing to look straight at a situation.

We don’t have to be paranoid about Arab males; we just have to avoid the opposite: Being fearful of coming across as Islamophobic, and thereby failing to look straight at a situation.

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The integration compact depends on a broad trust that the immigrant’s desire to be American can happily co-exist with his other forms of racial/cultural/religious identity. Once that trust doesn’t exist, America faces a problem in need of urgent resolution.

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Let the first lesson of the Hasan atrocity be this: The U.S. Army has to be a PC-free zone. Our democracy and our way of life depend on it.

Let’s suppose that CO2 emissions are an accurate measure of an individual’s and by extension a nation’s overall greenliness score. This measure includes all energy consumed by an individual both directly (leaving lights and TVs on, driving to the market) and indirectly (consider the energy used in manufacturing and transporting myriad electronics, food, clothing and various whatnot).

Framed as a measure of environmental responsibility on a personal and national scale, the issue of CO2 emission control sheds the shackles of the Climate Change controversy and makes room for other controversial subjects e.g. Population Control.

From the report titled Fewer Emitters, Lower Emissions, Less Cost, commissioned by the Optimum Population Trust:

Contraception is almost five times cheaper than conventional green technologies as a means of combating climate change.

The study, based on the principle that “fewer people will emit fewer tonnes of carbon dioxide”, models the consequences of meeting all “unmet need” for family planning, defined as the number of women who wish to delay or terminate childbearing but who are not using contraception. One recent estimate put this figure at 200 million. UN data suggest that meeting unmet need for family planning would reduce unintended births by 72 per cent, reducing projected world population in 2050 by half a billion to 8.64 billion. Between 2010 and 2050 12 billion fewer “people-years” would be lived – 326 billion against 338 billion under current projections.

I suspect that opposition to universal health care in the US is based on a fundamental distrust or lack of confidence in the federal government. The alternative is to have faith that private insurers will compete to deliver efficient, capable and fair service. Are we able to admit that both systems have serious flaws with subtle but important consequences?

“As a Canadian living in the United States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one.”

Myth: Taxes in Canada are extremely high, mostly because of national health care.

Myth: Canada’s health care system is a cumbersome bureaucracy.

Myth: The Canadian system is significantly more expensive than that of the U.S.

Myth: Canada’s government decides who gets health care and when they get it.

Myth: There are long waits for care, which compromise access to care.

Myth: Canadians are paying out of pocket to come to the U.S. for medical care.

Myth: Canada is a socialized health care system in which the government runs hospitals and where doctors work for the government.

Myth: There aren’t enough doctors in Canada.