Following a national referendum last year, the tiny former Yugoslavian republic of Slovenia has taken the first giant step on the road to euthanasia by legalizing medical suicide for the terminally ill. Unlike in Canada, notes Jonathon Van Maren in The European Conservative, Slovenia’s new law is highly restrictive, protecting anyone who actually wants to live, as well as the mentally ill – at least for now.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.