A couple of comments on the passing scene: in the last week, two writers have promoted democratic socialism by asserting that the happiest countries are Scandinavian socialist countries. This is, however, not true. Scandinavian countries are not socialist. They are capitalist welfare states that have chosen to heavily tax their middle class to provide universal social welfare benefits. Their tax rates are much less progressive than ours here in the United States. I lived in Finland for two years and yes, the systems of social services work very well. But socialist they are not.
Another observation on (the normally great) Tim Steller’s Sunday opinion piece. In addition to using Hamas’ casualty statistics, which do not differentiate between fighters and civilians, he used “The International Association of Genocide Scholars” as an unbiased scholarly group. Unfortunately, the only qualification to be a member of this organization is to pay the $35 fee. Tim is a nuanced and an objective fact-based writer. This piece was not up to his normal standards.
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Wade Thompson
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