Social Democracy: How's it Working for Europe?

The answer to this posts title, especially in the aftermath of the riots in the UK (and previously in Greece) is:  Not very well.

Bret Stephens reveals some ugly facts about Europe's "quaint" social engineering experiment in the WSJ.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Scalia, wrote a timely review of Mark Steyn's timely book After America in hte blog, First Things.

Looks like the police van in the image above, could use some mechanical stimulus to get running again...