Mark Steyn
Friday, March 05, 2010
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on March 5, 2010 at 09:23 am
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
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on February 26, 2010 at 10:47 am
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
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on February 19, 2010 at 11:17 am
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
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on February 12, 2010 at 10:17 am
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
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on February 5, 2010 at 08:32 am
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
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on January 29, 2010 at 08:27 am
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
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on January 25, 2010 at 08:37 am
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
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on January 15, 2010 at 08:51 am
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
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on January 8, 2010 at 12:26 pm
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
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on January 1, 2010 at 08:32 am
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
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on December 28, 2009 at 08:47 am
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
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on December 18, 2009 at 08:23 am
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
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on December 11, 2009 at 04:50 pm
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
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on November 27, 2009 at 08:39 am
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
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on November 20, 2009 at 07:41 am
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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