The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Questions Nobody Is Asking
“Which Countries Jail the Most Journalists per Capita?”–headline, Columbia Journalism Review website, April 2

Bottom Stories of the Day

  • “Romney, Ryan Accused of Bribing Voters With Sandwiches”–headline, BuzzFeed.com, April 3
  • “Canada Ranks 5th on ‘Happiness’ Survey”–headline, CBC.ca, April 3
  • “Associated Press Chief Offers Lavish Praise for Obama”–headline, WeeklyStandard.com, April 3

Great Moments in Socialized Medicine
“An elderly woman was ordered to find a new GP because the ‘carbon footprint’ of her two-mile round trips to the surgery where she had been treated for 30 years was too large,” London’s Daily Telegraph reports:

Avril Mulcahy, 83, was told to address the “green travelling issues” over her journeys from her home in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, to the West Road Surgery. The surgery wrote to Mrs Mulcahy, telling her to register with a new GP within 28 days.

The letter said: “Our greatest concern is for your health and convenience but also taking into consideration green travelling issues. Re: Carbon footprints and winter weather conditions, we feel it would be advisable for patients to register at surgeries nearer to where they live.

“We would be very grateful if you could make the necessary arrangements to re-register at another practice.”

“In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors,” former Enron adviser Paul Krugman has written. “We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false.” That would be a relief if only Krugman didn’t have such a long record of mendacity.

As far as we know, ObamaCare doesn’t address the “problem” of carbon footprinting when going to the doctor, but who knows where government control of medicine might lead next? And don’t forget Barack Obama is concerned about this stuff too, as the Hill reports:

“Cap-and-trade was originally proposed by conservatives and Republicans as a market-based solution to solving environmental problems,” Obama said during a fiery speech at a luncheon hosted by The Associated Press.

Obama, isn’t satisfied with bad liberal ideas. He wants to enact every bad idea conservatives have ever come up with too.

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