Tuesday digest

- Good article here on how both sides have it wrong when it comes to the labour market these days, while Bruce Bartlett asks if Americans are overtaxed. It would seem that most think they are. What about Canadians?

- On that note, Econ 101: Why raising the minimum wage is bad for the unemployed, French protestors notwithstanding. And here's a brief look at the disease that is sweeping Europe and is bound to put even more distance between the economies of North America and the Old Continent.

- A couple of interesting looks at two of the Left's favourite catchphrases these days: "support the troops" (which really means get them to lay sandbags in Winnipeg in spring rather than having them hunt down the Taliban in Kandahar) and "progressive" (which really means establishing tariff walls, quitting NATO and declaring pacifism while hoping Osama scratches you off the list, and expanding the size of government exponentially).