I've been complaining about...

...the Wall Street Journal for years now, particularly its habit of spinning the truth to support its free market religion. (Even when I was a libertarian, I remember thinking, "These guys are trying too hard.")

This morning, Paul Krugman says (well) what I've been thinking for a long time:

American conservatives have long had their own private Europe of the imagination — a place of economic stagnation and terrible health care, a collapsing society groaning under the weight of Big Government. The fact that Europe isn’t actually like that — did you know that adults in their prime working years are more likely to be employed in Europe than they are in the United States? — hasn’t deterred them.