Mark Steyn
Friday, April 08, 2011
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on April 8, 2011 at 04:16 pm
Hey, it’s the weekend, and everyone’s singing the same maddeningly catchy refrain! Rebecca Black’s “Friday”? Nah, that was last week’s moronic singalong. This week’s is even perkier! “Paul Ryan proposes…...
Monday, April 04, 2011
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on April 4, 2011 at 11:34 am
If I recall correctly, we went into Libya – or, at any rate, over Libya – to stop the brutal Gaddafi dictatorship killing the Libyan people. And thanks to our…...
Monday, March 28, 2011
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on March 28, 2011 at 07:37 am
It is tempting and certainly very easy to point out that Obama’s war (or Obama’s “kinetic military action”, or “time-limited, scope-limited military action”, or whatever the latest ever more preposterous…...
Friday, March 18, 2011
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on March 18, 2011 at 10:52 am
By the time you read this, President Obama will be taking a well-deserved break from the 54th hole of today’s scheduled golf game and the grueling responsibility of picking out…...
Monday, March 14, 2011
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Beacon Author
on March 14, 2011 at 07:11 am
How mean-spirited are House Republicans? So mean-spirited that they would end federally-funded cowboy poetry! Last Tuesday, Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, took to the senate floor to thunder that this…...
Friday, March 04, 2011
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Beacon Author
on March 4, 2011 at 02:08 pm
According to Bismarck’s best known maxim on Europe’s most troublesome region, the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Americans could be forgiven for harboring similar…...
Friday, November 05, 2010
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Steve Cates
on November 5, 2010 at 09:04 am
Outstanding Interview -
THE MICHAEL COREN SHOW
INSUFFICIENTLY ALARMIST
Mark Steyn joins Michael Coren for a wide-ranging TV interview covering a great deal of apocalyptic ground:
http://www.ctstv.com/michaelcoren/?vidID=20537...
Friday, June 18, 2010
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on June 18, 2010 at 09:16 am
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…...
Friday, June 11, 2010
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Beacon Author
on June 11, 2010 at 10:19 am
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
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Beacon Author
on June 4, 2010 at 12:13 pm
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
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Beacon Author
on May 21, 2010 at 03:22 pm
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
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Beacon Author
on May 17, 2010 at 11:21 am
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
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Beacon Author
on May 10, 2010 at 10:39 am
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
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Beacon Author
on April 16, 2010 at 12:47 pm
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
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Beacon Author
on April 9, 2010 at 11:56 am
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
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Beacon Author
on April 5, 2010 at 10:08 am
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
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Beacon Author
on March 19, 2010 at 11:58 am
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
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Beacon Author
on March 5, 2010 at 02:23 pm
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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Beacon Author
on February 26, 2010 at 03:47 pm
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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Beacon Author
on February 19, 2010 at 04:17 pm
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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Beacon Author
on February 12, 2010 at 03:17 pm
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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Beacon Author
on February 5, 2010 at 01:32 pm
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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Beacon Author
on January 29, 2010 at 01:27 pm
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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Beacon Author
on January 25, 2010 at 01:37 pm
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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Beacon Author
on January 15, 2010 at 01:51 pm
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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Beacon Author
on January 8, 2010 at 05:26 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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Beacon Author
on January 1, 2010 at 01:32 pm
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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Beacon Author
on December 28, 2009 at 01:47 pm
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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Beacon Author
on December 18, 2009 at 01:23 pm
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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Beacon Author
on December 11, 2009 at 09:50 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…...
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