Archie unfortunately some of the bad recreational chemicals you've imbibed over the last half century have wreaked havoc on your synapses. Yes the Canadian government does pay for their citizens to get treatment in the US because the command market which they have instituted does what all command markets do - it has suppressed supply. They can get away with that because the US has capacity right next door - where do Americans AND Canadians go when we have the same system?

Because the most important mentor he ever had was the communist poet and labor agitator Frank Marshall Davis- there is even some speculation that Davis may have been his father. It is pretty clear that BHO senior spent damn little time with Stanley Ann either before or after the birth of our progressive messiah.

This gets to the heart of the matter!!

What rock did you crawl out from under? You are both ignorant and stupid. Let's fix a little of the ignorance. Dr. Williams teaches economics at George Mason University - it is a member of the Colonial Athletic Association - not the Ivy League. And, contrary to many Ivy League tenured professors, Dr. Williams teaches a full schedule including undergrad beginning courses through PhD seminars. A look at his syllabi will show that he is a superb and creative teacher.

Yes this is equivalent to the BLS Table A-15 Line U6 which says: U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force

Unemployment will be 7.9% on November 1st even if there are only two people with jobs in the entire USA. This administration has no compunction against telling any lie necessary to extend their criminal tenure in power. Maybe I should be mathematically accurate 7,9% if there are only 921 people in the entire country with a job. The BLS will say that everyone but 1000 people have left the workforce.

Sowell is a scientist and writes his columns outside of economics based on empirical evidence. We have had a dysfunctional foreign policy for a long time under both parties. A foreign policy backed by overwhelming strength, force projection, and limited foreign excursions backed by a Constitutional declaration of war - is what should be done - and I'm pretty confident would be one Dr. Sowell would support.

Actually the broken windows theory holds up very well from any historical analysis. Crime rates including urban murder began their increase in coincidence with the rise of in-car policing. When the beat cop was on foot - he knew a lot more about his neighborhood / beat than any social scientist - and the petty crime was surpressed. When in a squad car that interpersonal dynamic is not there. Guiliani reinstated a lot of that dynamic and the results have proven it works.

PS BHO has the magic touch I sure wouldn't want him or his buddy VP Biden coming to my plant or saying something positive about my business - such has proven the kiss of death for jobs everytime.

Electric cars have been around as long as the auto industry - see the Baker Electric manufactured in Cleveland from 1899 to 1916. In 1902 Walter C. Baker set a land speed record of 127 mph in the Baker Torpedo. In 1907 the build 800 cars making them the largest auto manufacturer in the world. There is nothing new under the sun including the blind stupidity of the green insanity of Pres Obama and his lackeys.