The Canadian Taxpayers Federation have joined the blogging world. Maybe it’s just me, but does this post by the Federation’s Saskatchewan director, David Maclean, rub anyone else the wrong way?

“Yet in 1938, according to both William Shirer and John Toland, the Nazi regime held no more than 20,000 political prisoners. Political executions up to the time might have reached a couple thousand, and most of these were of renegade Nazis themselves during the indiscriminate butchery known as the “Night of the Long Knives.” The famous Kristallnacht that horrified civilized opinion worldwide caused a grand total of 71 deaths. This in a nation of 70 million.”

It seems to me that when trying to win an argument, downplaying the negatives of Nazi Germany is never a good way to make your point.