‘Steyn, laboring under the mistaken impression that Americans have some sort of ‘freedom of speech…”

Indeed:

While discussing that possibility in a post on Saturday night, he quotes a remarkable statistic from Conrad Black: “The US has 5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated people, and 50 percent of the world’s lawyers, who invoice almost 10 percent of US GDP (around $1.4 trillion annually.)

How often have we heard such statistical comparisons offered as one of the reasons we had to nationalize the health insurance industry…?