Jack Layton - nowhere near dead enough!

Ezra Levant says it best:

Iggy and Jack: crypto-commies

Here's my choice for National Post letter of the day:

Re: A Communist Party Manifesto for Canada, Miguel Figueroa, April 14.

Thank you for publishing Communist Party of Canada leader Miguel Figueroa's election platform. It is refreshing to see an honest politician proudly promote policies -such as expanded social programs, corporate tax increases and cancelled military investments -as communist. At least we now know where Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton are coming from.

Neil Flagg, Toronto.

Right on Neil! Iggy and Jack may not be full-blown commies (yet) but if we followed their path to more and bigger government entitlement programs we'd get there eventually.

Negotiating with the Taliban

Charles Adler, in Tuesday's 'Full Comment' blog, lets us know how he feels about Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom supporting Jack Layton's enthusiasm for negotiating with the Taliban:

Taliban Jack is no doubt a happy camper. His foolishness has received respectability from the Liberal newspaper of choice. And to think that all it took to meet the Toronto Star's price for respectability were a few dollops of kidnapping, rape, murder and blackmail.

Good post and the comments are well worth a read too.