Quote of the Day: “Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Milton Friedman
The Front Page today has an article by Jeff Outhit and features Adrian Hoyte who teaches French at Chicopee Hills Public School in Kitchener. Hoyte tells us that “Everywhere I go, I’m the only teacher like me”. Well, I think that if Hoyte looks just a bit harder, he will find other teachers who are just as big a whiner as he is.
On the Editorial Page, Craig Wallace talks about President Jimmy Carter and the fact that at age 98, he has just gone into hospice care. As unfortunate as this is, Wallace tries to rewrite modern history when he suggests that: “The evidence shows he was anything but [a weak, unsuccessful president].” After talking about the Camp David Accords and arming of future Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, Wallace conveniently forgets that Carter brought down the Shah of Iran and that installed the brutal, theocratic government of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979. He suggests that allowing the Shah into the U.S. for medical treatment precipitated the seizing of the American embassy in Tehran and the 52 hostages. Wow. Wallace also forgets the huge stagflation that Carter’s socialist policies inflicted on the American people including 14.7% mortgage interest rates.