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[EEGator]

Mark Steyn is always a pleasure to read...witty too.

[douginthearmy]

“Death in the name of Allah is our goal.” Like

Literal LOL.

[Albion Wilde]

Sowell for President. Steyn for Secretary of State.

[nathanbedford]

One of the basic defects of the Bush administration’s designation of a “war on terror” was that it emphasized symptoms (bombs and bombers) over causes (the underlying ideology). In the war of ideas, the West has chosen not to compete,

True enough, but at least the Bush administration aimed at real solutions, regime change and democracy, while the Obama administration indulges in appeasement and assassination. I am less inclined to criticize assassination than I am to find fault with appeasement.

Nevertheless, I think Marc Stein is on something in this column as he brilliantly skewers our tendency to substitute anything for unpalatable reality. We will prattle on inanely like Maureen Dowd about cultural phenomenon like Facebook rather than recognize blood in the streets and rape in broad daylight, or we will declare war on a tactic (terrorism), or we will pretend we are not at war while waging murder from the skies.

When will we have a President who stands before the world and says, "Western Christian civilization is superior to Islamic barbarism and we will defend our higher way of life against the forces of medievalism, female mutilation, and authoritarianism; it is Islam which must reform and not America and the West which must apologize or submit"?

[Albion Wilde]

...decent people should revile in the strongest terms thug-senator Chuck Schumer’s attempts to punish Zuckerberg’s partner Eduardo Saverin for wishing to enjoy his profits under the less confiscatory tax arrangements of Singapore...

Dubya's opinion of Schumer:

[GOPJ]

In the course of the election campaign, the Muslim Brotherhood has cast off the veil of modernity and moderation that so beguiled the U.S. State Department and the New York Times: Khairat el-Shater, the deputy leader, now says that “the Koran is our Constitution” ...

Years ago it seemed the nightmarish outcomes of liberal ideas was a 'mistake'...

Liberals acted surprised at painful "unintentional consequences"... And we believed them. Believed the myth of the bleeding heart. It was a lie. They're not even bothering to pretend on this one - it's just 'move-on to the next lie'.

The Egyptian end game - with the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamists in charge - flags waving as they march backwards into horror - is what democrats wanted. I repeat, it's what democrats wanted. There's no 'patrick moynihan' types to provide cover for the goons... no one believes dems feel anyone's pain - it's hunger and greed now. Illusions long past...

It works for them.

Making blacks childlike and dependent wasn't a 'mistake' of theirs either - it secured 90%+ of the vote. This horror will be the same. Don't know how they'll do it, but we'll see dems 'cash in' on what's to come.

[mykroar]

Brilliant as always.

[buffaloguy]

“Indeed, for a “social-media revolution,” the principal beneficiaries seem to be remarkably antisocial: Liberated from the grip of Mubarak the new Egypt is a land where the Israeli embassy gets attacked and ransacked, Christians get killed and their churches burned to the ground, female reporters for the Western media are sexually assaulted in broad daylight, and for the rest of the gals a woman’s place is in the clitoridectomy clinic.”

Even more anti-social than you can believe. The “clitoridectomy clinic(s)” in Egypt are now mobile. No waiting...

[Lancey Howard]

This guy Steyn is the best.
He’s like a wittier, more intellectual version of the Ann Coulter of five years ago.