Home Contact Register Subscribe to the Beacon Login

Mark Steyn

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…...

Page 1 of 1 pages