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Majority Rule: The New Coup
Matthew Yglesias — I once had the unpleasant experience of being subjected to an unhinged attack from Cato’s Ilya Shapiro who’s apparently the kind of libertarian who sees dogmatic American nationalism and attacks on other people’s patriotism as the highest form of classical liberal values. Later, I had the more pleasant experience of learning from some colleagues of Shapiro’s that he’s actually a Canadian. So naturally, he now has an item ranting and raving against the “palace coup” that’s going to take the Conservative Party out of power in favor of a center-left alliance ...

Prorogue
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... this post is really priceless. Aside from the idiocy of arguing that coalition consisting of a majority of the legislature representing a majority of Canadian voters could represent a "coup," I particularly enjoyed the argument that "by definition a minority government can be outvoted if other parties gang up on them." Sounds scary! Just like McCain lost because voters unfairly "ganged up" on him, I guess. ...

Weird (Incorrect, in Fact) Analysis of the Canadian Situation
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Ilya Shaprio at Cato@Liberty writes(Woe Canada!: And here’s the short version of what’s gone down to upset the applecart: In a new fiscal program unveiled last week, PM Harper announced, among other things, cuts to public funding of political parties and restrictions on public sector unions’ right to strike. The opposition would have none of this and quickly arranged what in other circumstances might be a called a palace coup: Liberal leader Stephane Dion (already a lame duck after leading his party to its worst showing ever), citing the Conservatives’ ...