MARK STEYN: IT TAKES A SPILLAGE
I believe it was Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.” Barack Obama was supposed to be the best, the very best, and yet…...
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
MARK STEYN: WHEN NARCISSISTS REALIZE THAT “WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR”
So a man swept into office on an unprecedented tide of delirious fawning is now watching his presidency sink in an unstoppable gush. That’s almost too apt. Unfortunately, in the…...
Friday, June 04, 2010
MARK STEYN: COWBOYS, REALISTS, YOUNG TURKS AND MIDDLE EAST STABILITY
Foreign policy “realists”, back in the saddle since the Texan cowboy left town, are extremely fond of the concept of “stability”: America needs a stable Middle East, so we should…...
Friday, May 21, 2010
MARK STEYN: WHAT OBAMA OWED DANIEL PEARL BUT WOULD NOT GIVE
Barack Obama’s remarkable powers of oratory are well known: In support of Chicago’s Olympic bid, he flew into Copenhagen to give a heartwarming speech about himself, and they gave the…...
Monday, May 17, 2010
MARK STEYN: THE DOTS SOME DON’T WANT TO CONNECT
What with the Fort Hood mass murderer, the Christmas Pantybomber and now the Times Square Bomber, you may have noticed a little uptick in attempted terrorist attacks on the US…...
Monday, May 10, 2010
MARK STEYN: TIMES SQUARE BOMBER JUST OVEREAGER
The story of the Times Square bomber reads like some Urdu dinner theatre production of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” that got lost in translation between here and Peshawar: A man…...
Friday, April 16, 2010
MARK STEYN: REAL THREATS IGNORED - OBAMA AND NUCLEAR PRETENDING
In years to come – assuming, for the purposes of argument, there are any years to come – scholars will look back at President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit and marvel.…...
Friday, April 09, 2010
MARK STEYN: AMERICAN TAXPAYERS - CARRYING GLOBAL ORDER
We are nearing the climax of “tax season”. That’s the problem right there, by the way: Summer should have a season, and baseball should have a season, but not tax.…...
Monday, April 05, 2010
MARK STEYN: PAROCHIALLY POST-AMERICAN
Hillary Clinton, America’s Secretary of State, was in Canada last week. She criticized Ottawa for not inviting Aboriginal groups to a meeting on the Arctic, and for not including the…...
Friday, March 19, 2010
MARK STEYN: A GIANT CONDOM OVER THE U.S. CAPITAL TO PROTECT AMERICA?
MARK STEYN: A GIANT CONDOM OVER THE U.S. CAPITAL TO PROTECT AMERICA? On Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine…...
Friday, March 05, 2010
MARK STEYN: THE HEALTHCARE BILL IS ABOUT ONLY ONE THING - GINORMOUS GOVERNMENT
So there was President Obama giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment”, the same moment he’s…...
Friday, February 26, 2010
MARK STEYN: OBAMA, PELOSI, REID – TURNING US INTO CALIFORNIA OR GREECE?
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care “summit”, thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot.…...
Friday, February 19, 2010
MARK STEYN: WHY THE WEST IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN
News from around the world: In Britain, it is traditional on Shrove Tuesday to hold pancake races, in which contestants run while flipping a pancake in a frying pan. The…...
Friday, February 12, 2010
MARK STEYN: GETTING OUR GROUP-THINK ON
A man asks for a plastic bag at the supermarket checkout. Next thing you know, his head's slammed against the counter, and he's being cuffed by the Green Police. "You…...
Friday, February 05, 2010
MARK STEYN: SPENDING US INTO OBLIVION - INCENTIVIZING UNSUSTAINABILITY
At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama singled out for praise Navy Corpsman Christian Bouchard. Or as the President called him “Corpseman [CORRECT] Bouchard.” Twice. Hey, not a big deal.…...
Friday, January 29, 2010
MARK STEYN: THE ONE NOTE PRESIDENT WHO JUST WILL NOT QUIT TALKING
The world turns. In Indonesia, the principal of a Muslim boarding school in Tangerang who is accused of impregnating a 15-year old student says the DNA test will prove that…...
Monday, January 25, 2010
MARK STEYN: OBAMA - YOU NEED MORE OF ME, YOU JUST DON’T KNOW IT
So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is that he overestimated you dumb rubes' ability to appreciate what he's been doing for you. "That I do think…...
Friday, January 15, 2010
MARK STEYN: DEMOCRAT CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLYING OFF THE CLIFF WITH BARACK
I’ve been out of the country for a couple of days, so let me see if I’ve got this right: America’s preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of Good King…...
Friday, January 08, 2010
MARK STEYN: PANTY BOMBERS AND LOSING SLOWLY WHILE X-RAYING OCTEGENARIAN NUNS
Not long after the Ayatollah Khomeini announced his fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the British novelist suddenly turned up on a Muslim radio station in West London late one night and…...
Friday, January 01, 2010
MARK STEYN: THE PANTYBOMBER AND HOW AMERICA IS BECOMING A JOKE
On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? But the Pantybomber wasn’t the big…...
Monday, December 28, 2009
MARK STEYN: CROSS THE RIVER, BURN THE BRIDGE
Last week, during a bit of banter on Fox News, my colleague Jonah Goldberg reminded me of something I’d all but forgotten. Last September, during his address to Congress on…...
Friday, December 18, 2009
MARK STEYN: IT MAY LOOK GREEN, BUT NOTHING IS REAL IN COPENHAGEN
The best summation of the UN climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia’s Herald Sun: “Nothing is real in Copenhagen - not the temperature record, not the…...
Friday, December 11, 2009
MARK STEYN: OBAMA - A GOD BECOMES A CRASHING, BANAL BORE
It wasn't so long ago that Barack Obama's speeches were being hailed as "extraordinary" "rhetorical magic" (Joe Klein in Time) that should be "required reading in classrooms" (Bob Herbert in…...
Friday, November 27, 2009
MARK STEYN: CLIMATE SCIENCE AND THE PEER-REVIEW CONSENSUS FORGERY
My favorite moment in the Climategate/Climaquiddick scandal currently roiling the "climate change" racket was Stuart Varney's interview on Fox News with the actor Ed Begley Jr, star of the 1980s…...
Friday, November 20, 2009
MARK STEYN: PRESIDENT SUPERBOWER - “SPEAK LOUDLY, CARRY A SMALL TWIG”
My radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama “doesn’t know how to be president”. It was a low but effective crack…...
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