Mark Steyn
Friday, November 04, 2011
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on November 4, 2011 at 09:39 am
Way back in 1968, after the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley declared that his forces were there to “preserve disorder”. I believe that was one…...
Friday, October 28, 2011
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on October 28, 2011 at 01:32 pm
Last Thursday was officially “Diaper Need Awareness Day” in the state of Connecticut. Were you aware of it? There are so many awareness-raising days, it’s hard to keep track.…...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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on October 25, 2011 at 03:12 pm
In one of those inspired innovations designed to keep American classrooms on the cutting edge of educational excellence, the Administration has been sending Joe Biden out to talk to…...
Monday, October 17, 2011
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on October 17, 2011 at 03:58 pm
When the think-tank chappies ponder “decline”, they tend to see it in geopolitical terms. Great powers gradually being shunted off the world stage have increasing difficulties getting their way:…...
Monday, October 10, 2011
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on October 10, 2011 at 10:08 am
Michael Oher, offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens, was online on Wednesday night when his Twitter feed started filling up with tributes to Steve Jobs. A bewildered Oher tweeted:…...
Monday, October 03, 2011
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on October 3, 2011 at 09:34 am
“The way I think about it,” Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, “is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft.” He…...
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on October 3, 2011 at 09:34 am
“The way I think about it,” Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, “is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft.” He…...
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on October 3, 2011 at 09:22 am
“The way I think about it,” Barack Obama told a TV station in Orlando, “is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft.” He…...
Monday, September 26, 2011
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on September 26, 2011 at 09:39 am
“It’s the end of the world as we know it,” sang the popular musical artistes REM many years ago. And it is. REM has announced that they’re splitting up…...
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on September 26, 2011 at 09:39 am
“It’s the end of the world as we know it,” sang the popular musical artistes REM many years ago. And it is. REM has announced that they’re splitting up…...
Monday, September 05, 2011
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on September 5, 2011 at 08:56 am
I was on a very long flight the other day and, to get me through it, I had two books: the new bestseller Of Thee I Zing by Laura…...
Monday, August 29, 2011
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on August 29, 2011 at 10:13 am
Unlike many of my comrades in the punditry game, I don’t do a lot of TV. But I’m currently promoting my latest doom-mongering bestseller so I’m spending more time than…...
Monday, August 22, 2011
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on August 22, 2011 at 09:19 am
Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, has only been in the presidential race for twenty minutes but he’s already delivered one of the best lines in the campaign: “I’ll work every…...
Friday, August 12, 2011
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on August 12, 2011 at 03:25 pm
The trick in this business is not to be right too early. A week ago I released my new book – the usual doom’n’gloom stuff - and, just as the…...
Monday, August 08, 2011
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on August 8, 2011 at 09:14 am
On Thursday, in honor of Barack Obama’s 50th birthday, the Dow dropped ten points for every year he has walked among us. It was the ninth largest drop in history.…...
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
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on August 2, 2011 at 11:42 am
That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the “debt ceiling” negotiations the other day: “What we’re trying to do is save the world from the…...
Monday, July 25, 2011
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on July 25, 2011 at 09:11 am
Earlier this month, Moody’s downgraded Irish government debt to junk. Which left the Irish somewhat peeved. The Department of Finance pointed out that it had met all the “quantitative fiscal…...
Monday, July 18, 2011
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on July 18, 2011 at 06:31 am
There is something surreal and unnerving about the so-called “debt ceiling” negotiations staggering on in Washington. In the real world, negotiations on an increase in one’s debt limit are conducted…...
Friday, July 08, 2011
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on July 8, 2011 at 04:46 pm
Something rather weird happened in London last week. For some time, The Guardian, a liberal, broadsheet, “respectable” newspaper, has been hammering The News Of The World, a populist, tabloid, low-life…...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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on July 5, 2011 at 10:29 am
Dozens of countries have “Independence Days”. November 25th, for example: Independence Day in Suriname. In that instance as in most others, the designation signifies nothing more than transfer of de…...
Friday, June 24, 2011
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on June 24, 2011 at 02:00 pm
The Democrats seem to have given up on budgets. Hey, who can blame them? They’ve got a ballpark figure: Let’s raise two trillion dollars in revenue every year, and then…...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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on June 21, 2011 at 01:09 pm
Last week was a great week for lesbians coming out of the closet – coming out, that is, as middle-aged heterosexual men. On Sunday, Amina Arraf, the young vivacious Syrian…...
Monday, June 13, 2011
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on June 13, 2011 at 10:14 am
“There are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery,’’ President Obama said at a Jeep plant in Toledo the other day. “We’re going to pass through some…...
Friday, June 03, 2011
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on June 3, 2011 at 12:46 pm
After the tumult of the First World War, noted Winston Churchill, only the intractability of the Irish Question had emerged unscathed: “Great Empires have been overturned. The whole…...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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on May 31, 2011 at 01:28 pm
Cass Sunstein is head of something called the “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs”. I’ve seen enough conspiracy thrillers to know that when someone has so obvious a blandly amorphous…...
Friday, May 20, 2011
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on May 20, 2011 at 11:35 am
Back when he was still the officially designated Next President of France and not an accused rapist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was glimpsed at the annual IMF soccer tournament wearing a T-shirt…...
Friday, May 13, 2011
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on May 13, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Unless things change, the man (or woman) elected in 2012 will be the last American president to preside over the world’s leading economy. If things get really bad, he will…...
Friday, April 29, 2011
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on April 29, 2011 at 12:18 pm
The other day Paul O’Neill said that… Oh, wait. I suppose I ought to explain who Paul O’Neill is. A decade ago, he was President Bush’s first Treasury Secretary. I…...
Friday, April 22, 2011
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on April 22, 2011 at 03:44 pm
Congressman Paul Ryan, one of the least insane men in Washington, has a ten-year plan. President Obama, one of the most insane spenders in Washington, has a twelve-year plan. After…...
Monday, April 18, 2011
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on April 18, 2011 at 12:40 am
I always enjoy the bit in Planet Of The Apes where a loinclothed Charlton Heston falls to his knees as he comes face to face with a shattered Statue of…...
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