Iggy Needs To Apologize Immediately

To Stephen Harper and all of his followers. To compare Stephen Harper to the Devil, is a flat out insult. Satan is only the Prince of Lies, Stephen Harper is the King. H/t to Jeff Jedras.

P.S. I'm home from Europe and still jet lagged. Regular programming will resume as soon as I can figure out what time it is.

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Happy 4th, Neighbors

There is something fitting about a bunch of Canadians singing about the States today. Happy Birthday America. Your best days are yet to come.

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And Now Another Installment

Of, What Caplan Said.

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Hey Here Is A Surprise

Iggy is going to spend his summer telling rural Canada he is just as blue as Stephen Harper. Of course Liberal progressives will eat it up with a spoon.

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Who Is Krugman Describing

Anyone we know?

When I was young and naïve, I believed that important people took positions based on careful consideration of the options. Now I know better. Much of what Serious People believe rests on prejudices, not analysis. And these prejudices are subject to fads and fashions.

Of course Krugman was being naive, our Prime Minister has built a career on personal ideological prejudice.

Update: Note Krugman's despair at the stupidity of it all. I guess like most Americans, he has not been paying attention to the rise of our Dear Leader and his crack team of economic geniuses.

Update 2: And finally, a challenge to the MSM. If you ever get the chance to ask Harper another question, perhaps you can formulate it, using Krugman's final paragraph as its base:

So the next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you’ll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we’re bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we’re good. And real-world policy — policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families — is being built on that foundation.

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Canada Day

Let's make it the last one under the misrule of Stephen Harper.

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Of Iceland And Canada

Krugman has some interesting numbers comparing Iceland with other European basket cases. It turns out that by not following the economically orthodox advice spouted by folks like our PM, Iceland has weathered its disaster better than its contemporaries, even though its economy was essentially destroyed by its banking class. Krugman finishes by writing this:

The moral of the story seems to be that if you’re going to have a crisis, it’s better to have a really, really bad one. Otherwise, you’ll end up taking the advice of people who assure you that even more suffering will cure what ails you.

Sadly, Canada's recession was not as bad as Iceland's and now were are going to gut ourselves with a dull knife, on the advice of a Prime Minister, who said there was no chance of a recession in the first place.

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