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The new book by the Pope is likely to irritate Democrats and European liberals to no end. Comparing abortion to the Holocaust, attacking gay marriage, and criticizing communism — three things covered by the Reuters newswire about the book are all likely to stir up anger among the left. Who knows what other things he says in the book? No doubt there will be quite a furor over this for a while.

This article is interesting. As far as I’m concerned, they can have their urinal stickers (my dad talks about the “Official Jane Fonda Urinal Sticker” that resided in one of the bathrooms in the Naval Depot in Mechanicsburg for years), but the whole bit at the end about arranging to have a reporter fired because he wrote something bad about the government is taking things a little too far. I’m not sure exactly how socialized the news media is in Belgium, but it’s a fairly good illustration of how illiberal socialist systems are. (For an interesting book on that topic, read The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek.)