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Friday, November 04, 2011

MARK STEYN: FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SLOTH

  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

MARK STEYN: SELF-RELIANCE, DIAPERS,  AND OCCUPYING AMERICA

  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

MARK STEYN: FOURTH GRADE ECONOMIC FOOLISHNESS – BIDEN PROMISES THE MORE DEBT FIX

  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

MARK STEYN: CRISIS OF DECADENCE

  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

MARK STEYN: OCCUPY WALL STREET AND THE MORONIZATION OF BIG SLOTH

  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

MARK STEYN: AMERICA GONE SOFT AND THE PRESS THAT MISSED IT ALL

“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…...

MARK STEYN: AMERICA GONE SOFT AND THE PRESS THAT MISSED IT ALL

“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…...

MARK STEYN: AMERICA GONE SOFT AND THE PRESS THAT MISSED IT ALL

“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

MARK STEYN: REPUBLIC AT TWILIGHT AND CHEAP POLITICAL SHOWBOATING

  “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…...

MARK STEYN: REPUBLIC AT TWILIGHT AND CHEAP POLITICAL SHOWBOATING

  “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

MARK STEYN: BIG GOVERNMENT AS FAMILY AND MORAL DECLINE

  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

MARK STEYN: DEPENDENCY AND BUREAUCRACY CLASS - HUMAN CAPITAL WASTE

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

MARK STEYN: THE BORROWED MONEY IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY OF OBAMA

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

MARK STEYN: BRITAIN’S HARVEST OF BIG GOVERNMENT – FERAL YOUTH AND COWED POLICE

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

MARK STEYN: IT’S A MAD, MAD WORLD - OF GIANT DEBTS

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

MARK STEYN: SPENDING INTO DECLINE - GLOBAL ORDER AND PROSPERITY ON THE LINE

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

MARK STEYN: DEMOCRATS HAVE ONE SPENDING PLAN - SPEND MORE!

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

MARK STEYN: THE MAGICAL FAIRY KINGDOM OF SPENDAHOLICA

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

MARK STEYN: NEWS OF THE WORLD, CORRUPT ATLANTA EDUCATORS, FAST AND FURIOUS – MISDIRECTED PITCHFORK

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

MARK STEYN: AT THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF WITH MONEY NO OBJECT

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

MARK STEYN: OBAMA’S “SPEECHWORLD” V. REAL WORLD

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

MARK STEYN: PRETEND LESBIANS AND THE LUNACY OF LIBERALISM

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

MARK STEYN: OBAMAS’ DEAD END ECONOMY

“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

MARK STEYN: WHEN WEINERS HAVE STAFFERS

    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

MARK STEYN: TYRANNOUS REGULATION

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

MARK STEYN: YES THEY KAHN!

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

MARK STEYN: GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE - ROMNEYCARE…NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION

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

MARK STEYN: ONWARE AND UPWARD - TO COLLAPSE!

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

MARK STEYN: THE WORLD HEARS OBAMA AND THUS THE DOLLAR DIVE

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

MARK STEYN: DEBT AND DECAY - AMERICA AS THE BIG CASINO

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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