MIRACLE IN NORWAY? - AT 5:35 P.M. ET:  We can dream, can't we?  From AP:

OSLO | Siv Jensen has an unusual ambition for a nation famous for its cradle-to-grave welfare system: She wants to go down in history as Norway's Margaret Thatcher.

And polls leading up to Monday's national election in this oil-rich Nordic state of 4.8 million people show the leader of the right-wing Progress Party may have a shot at pursuing her dream of applying a free-market overhaul to a society often called a socialist paradise.

The Progress Party is locked in a tight duel with Prime Minster Jens Stoltenberg's left-leaning Labor Party, Norway's dominant political force since World War II.

COMMENT:  As Sinatra liked to put it, leave us we should pray.  One of the keys to breaking the power of the left in Western nations is to have changes of government in Norway and Sweden, who are looked to as the models.  If the models decide to change their models, it would be a great boost to free-market forces.

September 14, 2009