TODAY'S OPINION PAGE
In our lede edit today, we urge the L.A. County supes to be more forthcoming about their new CEO system. Then we mock Rocky Delgadillo's showboating about his supposedly new, awesome, gangster-deportation program that's neither new nor awesome.
On the op-ed side, we've got Thomas Sowell (print only) on liberation, and the CNA's Rose Ann DeMoro praising Michael Moore's "sicko" and calling for national health care. It's a good piece, but for the life of me, I can't understand why DeMoro or, for that matter, Moore, invoke Cuba in their case for socialized medicine. Why give propaganda points to a two-bit dictator whose claims to an excellent health-care system are utterly unverifiable?
What kind of health care is Castro giving to the dissidents languishing in his political prisons? Or the citizens risking their lives to flee his island paradise on rickety rafts?
If you want to make the case for socialized medicine, you'll go a lot further if you stick to the UK and Canada as your examples.