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  • Tea and Sympathy ( Hasan suffers from Pre Post Traumatic Stress Disorder )

    11/07/2009 6:07:41 PM PST · by Halfmanhalfamazing · 15 replies · 438+ views
    NRO ^ | November 7th | Mark Steyn
    The Nothing-to-see-here media continue to do a grand job. Chris Matthews: We may never know if religion was a factor at Fort Hood. That's almost certainly true in your case, Chris. As for yelling "Allahu akbar" as you open fire, Michael Tomasky, one of the American lefties on the Guardian's payroll, explains it for us know-nothings: The fact that Hassan reportedly shouted the above is meant, I suppose, to imply that he was an extremist fanatic. I'm not sure that it does. My understanding is that it's something Arab people often shout before doing something or other. It's used in...
  • Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategy

    11/07/2009 12:43:11 PM PST · by T.L.Sink · 57 replies · 1,206+ views
    OC Register ^ | Nov. 6, '09 | Mark Steyn
    Thirteen dead and 28 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and a great victory for the Taliban. Brave soldiers trained to kill America's enemy abroad were killed in the safety and security of home by a man who believes in and supports everything the enemy does. And he's a U.S. Army major. And his superior officers knew about his beliefs but seemed to think this was just a bit of harmless multicultural diversity - as if believing that "the Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor" (i.e. his fellow American soldiers) and...
  • A Fatal Flaw In The War On Terror

    11/06/2009 5:39:06 PM PST · by Kaslin · 12 replies · 529+ views
    Investors.com ^ | November 6, 2009 | The great MARK STEYN
    Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a "tragedy" (as too many people called it), but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the "war on terror." Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America's enemy abroad were killed...
  • MARK STEYN: MULTICULTURAL ILLUSIONS KILL - NO STRATEGY TO DEFEND AGAINST IDEOLOGY

    11/06/2009 9:36:18 AM PST · by Mount Athos · 54 replies · 1,470+ views
    dakota beacon ^ | November 06, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    Thirteen dead and 31 wounded would be a bad day for the US military in Afghanistan, and a great victory for the Taliban. When it happens in Texas, in the heart of the biggest military base in the nation, at a processing center for soldiers either returning from or deploying to combat overseas, it is not merely a “tragedy” (as too many people called it) but a glimpse of a potentially fatal flaw at the heart of what we have called, since 9/11, the “war on terror”. Brave soldiers trained to hunt down and kill America’s enemy abroad were killed...
  • Mark Steyn: Obama makes Bush his blame czar

    10/31/2009 8:54:04 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 46 replies · 1,556+ views
    Orange County Register (CA) ^ | October 30, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    It's now Obama's war, his jobless rate, his debt, etc. Valerie Jarrett announced the other day that "we're going to speak truth to power." Who's Valerie Jarrett? She's "Senior Adviser" to the president of the United States – i.e., the leader of the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth. You would think the most powerful man in the most powerful nation would find a hard job finding anyone on the planet to "speak truth to power" to. But I suppose if you're as eager to do so as his Senior Adviser, there's always somebody out there: The...
  • Truth to Power’

    10/31/2009 5:42:04 AM PDT · by rellimpank · 20 replies · 679+ views
    NRO ^ | 31 oct 09 | Mark Steyn
    Valerie Jarrett announced the other day that “we’re going to speak truth to power.” Who’s Valerie Jarrett? She’s “Senior Advisor” to the president of the United States — i.e., the leader of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth. You would think the most powerful man in the most powerful nation would find a hard job finding anyone on the planet to “speak truth to power” to. But I suppose if you’re as eager to do so as his Senior Advisor, there’s always somebody out there: The Supreme Leader of Iran. The Prime Minister of Belgium. The...
  • Mark Steyn: Obama a tough guy, at least with Fox News

    10/23/2009 6:29:15 PM PDT · by pissant · 36 replies · 1,821+ views
    OC Register ^ | 10/23/09 | Mark Steyn
    Benjamin Disraeli's most famous advice to aspiring politicians was: "Never complain and never explain." For the greatest orator of our time, a man who makes Churchill, Lincoln and Henry V at Agincourt look like first-round rejects on "Orating With The Stars," Barack Obama seems to have pretty much given up on the explaining side. He tried it with health care with speech after speech after exclusive interview for months on end, and the more he explained the more unpopular the whole racket got. So he declared that the time for explaining is over, and it's time to sign on or...
  • Rush Limbaugh And A Tale Of Two Soundbites

    10/22/2009 4:54:25 AM PDT · by IbJensen · 15 replies · 1,266+ views
    The Bulletin ^ | 10/21/2009 | Mark Steyn
    Here is a tale of two soundbites. First: “Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.” Second: “The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You’re going to make choices... But here’s the deal: these are your choices; they are no one else’s. In 1947,...
  • Enough (Mark Steyn on Scozzafava-Hoffman race)

    10/21/2009 3:43:12 PM PDT · by pissant · 50 replies · 1,437+ views
    NRO ^ | 10/21/09 | Mark Steyn
    On NY-23, I'm with Fred Thompson and Jack Fowler: A Conservative can win in a three-way race, and Doug Hoffman is deserving of your support. Newt really needs to re-think his support for Dede Scozzafava. This isn't RINO but DIABLO - Democrat In All But Label Only. It's not one of those "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" bi-swinger deals — not when you're pro-"stimulus", pro-cash-for-clunkers. And the reductive argument that her sole redeeming value - a willingness to vote for John Boehner as Speaker — is reason enough to support her is silly in a special election. If he's ever Speaker,...
  • Enough (Steyn endorsed Hoffman in contentious House race)

    10/21/2009 4:42:00 PM PDT · by ellery · 20 replies · 905+ views
    National Review ^ | Oct. 21, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    On NY-23, I'm with Fred Thompson and Jack Fowler: A Conservative can win in a three-way race, and Doug Hoffman is deserving of your support. Newt really needs to re-think his support for Dede Scozzafava. This isn't RINO but DIABLO - Democrat In All But Label Only. It's not one of those "socially liberal, fiscally conservative" bi-swinger deals — not when you're pro-"stimulus", pro-cash-for-clunkers. And the reductive argument that her sole redeeming value - a willingness to vote for John Boehner as Speaker — is reason enough to support her is silly in a special election. If he's ever Speaker,...
  • Mark Steyn: Limbaugh bad, Mao good

    10/21/2009 10:54:18 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 5 replies · 1,304+ views
    The OC Register ^ | 10/21/2009 | Mark Steyn
    Here is a tale of two sound bites. First: "Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark." Second: "The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You're going to make choices. ... But here's the deal: These are your choices; they are no one else's....
  • Re: Scozzafava Campaign in Damage-Control Mode [Mark Steyn]

    10/20/2009 2:00:10 PM PDT · by xzins · 85 replies · 2,603+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 20 Oct 09 | Mark Steyn
    Re: Scozzafava Campaign in Damage-Control Mode [Mark Steyn] Well, I'm with The Weekly Standard on this one. When a GOP candidate with an entourage winds up calling the cops over a reporter from a pro-GOP publication, that's one seriously dumb campaign — and the ludicrous post-911 call spin only makes it more pathetic. But here's my bigger thought: After the great summer surge of town halls and tea parties, the Republican Party gets to take the first electoral test of the new public mood and what does it offer the public for a reliable Republican district? A pro-tax pro-card-check liberal...
  • Muslim Demographics

    10/17/2009 5:59:34 PM PDT · by donna · 17 replies · 665+ views
    YouTube ^ | March 30, 2009 | YouTube
    Islam will overwhelm Christendom unless Christians recognize the demographic realities, begin reproducing again, and share the gospel with Muslims.
  • Mark Steyn: A Tale of Two Soundbites - Which one sounds “divisive” to you?

    10/17/2009 1:45:31 PM PDT · by neverdem · 33 replies · 1,984+ views
    National Review Online ^ | October 17, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    October 17, 2009, 0:07 a.m. A Tale of Two SoundbitesWhich one sounds “divisive” to you? By Mark Steyn Here is a tale of two soundbites. First: “Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.” Second: “The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You’re going...
  • Limbaugh's So 'Divisive' The Left Had To Make Up Lies About Him

    10/16/2009 5:37:28 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 26 replies · 1,526+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 16, 2009 | MARK STEYN
    Here is a tale of two sound bites. First: "Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark." Second: "The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Tse Tung and Mother Teresa. Not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is: You're going to make choices. ... But here's the deal: These are your choices; they are no one else's....
  • Mark Steyn: Nobel tops 'SNL' for Obama joke

    10/10/2009 7:28:31 AM PDT · by fiscon1 · 40 replies · 2,406+ views
    O.C. Register ^ | 10/10/2009 | Mark Steyn
    But that was then, and this is now. As the historian Robert Dallek told Obama recently, "War kills off great reform movements." As the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne reminded the president, his supporters voted for him not to win a war but to win a victory on health care and other domestic issues. Obama's priorities lie not in the Hindu Kush but in America: Why squander your presidency on trying to turn an economically moribund feudal backwater into a functioning nation state when you can turn a functioning nation state into an economically moribund feudal backwater?
  • Mark Steyn: Nobel Tops 'SNL' for Obama Joke

    10/09/2009 6:03:13 PM PDT · by kellynla · 54 replies · 2,861+ views
    ocregister.com ^ | October 9, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    The most popular headline at the Real Clear Politics Web site the other day was: "Is Obama Becoming A Joke?" With brilliant comedic timing, the very next morning the Norwegians gave him the Nobel Peace Prize. Up next: His stunning victory in this year's Miss World contest. Dec. 12, Johannesburg. You read it here first. For what, exactly, did he win the Nobel? As the president himself put it: "When you look at my record, it's very clear what I have done so far. And that is nothing. Almost one year and nothing to show for it. You don't believe...
  • POINT OF NO RETURN ... Mark Steyn

    10/07/2009 7:33:55 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 27 replies · 2,154+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 4 Oct 2008 | Mark Steyn
    Twelve months ago, the advance of Senator Obama to President Obama was starting to look inevitable, thanks in part to some characteristically Beltwaycentric bungling from John McCain, for whom the economic crisis of mid-September provided the perfect opportunity for the peculiar combination of narcissism and self-destruction he appears to favor. But beyond that more and more influential "moderate Republicans" were beginning to hail the Obama ascendancy. I declined to join them, for reasons that, I think, stand up pretty well: Across the electric wires, the hum is ceaseless: Give it up, loser. Don’t go down with the ship when it’s...
  • Mark Steyn: Beyond Transgression - You can’t make a Hamlet without breaking a few chicks?

    10/03/2009 8:27:42 AM PDT · by neverdem · 54 replies · 2,081+ views
    National Review Online ^ | October 03, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    October 03, 2009, 7:00 a.m. Beyond TransgressionYou can’t make a Hamlet without breaking a few chicks? By Mark Steyn As the feminists used to say in simpler times, “What part of ‘No’ don’t you understand?” Quite a lot, if the reaction to Roman Polanski’s arrest is anything to go by. I didn’t know, for one thing, that, if you decide to plough on regardless, the world’s artists will rise as one to nail their colors to your mast. Whoopi Goldberg offered a practical defense — that what Polanski did was not “rape-rape,” a distinction she left imprecisely delineated. Which...
  • Dog-Feces Ice Cream

    09/26/2009 11:17:53 AM PDT · by smoothsailing · 27 replies · 1,565+ views
    National Review ^ | 9-26-09 | Mark Steyn
    September 26, 2009, 7:00 a.m. Dog-Feces Ice CreamAmerica and Libya are defined by their differences. By Mark Steyn Half a decade or so back, I wrote: “It’s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix ’em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That’s the problem with the U.N.” Absolutely right, if I do say so myself. When you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn’t that they'll meet each other half-way but...
  • Mark Steyn: Dislike Obama? You must be racist.

    09/25/2009 9:55:38 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 31 replies · 1,880+ views
    MacLeans ^ | September 24, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    A year ago, in the final stretch of the U.S. election campaign, I would find myself in New York or Los Angeles or points in between and asked for my thoughts on who would win. I usually answered “John McCain,” more in hope than expectation: I’ve no use for the soi-disant “maverick,” who was a catastrophic candidate, but in those heady days between Sarah Palin’s boffo convention speech and McCain’s characteristically inept response to the economic meltdown there was briefly a faint chance that the Alaskan governor might yet save the Republican party from its rendezvous with destiny. And at...
  • Facing Down Iran (old but relevant)- Mark Steyn

    09/25/2009 7:07:28 PM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 4 replies · 547+ views
    city journal ^ | 4-1-2006 | Mark Steyn
    Our lives depend on it. Most Westerners read the map of the world like a Broadway marquee: north is top of the bill—America, Britain, Europe, Russia—and the rest dribbles away into a mass of supporting players punctuated by occasional Star Guests: India, China, Australia. Everyone else gets rounded up into groups: “Africa,” “Asia,” “Latin America.”
  • Obama Will Disappoint Europeans As Post-American World Emerges

    09/25/2009 6:16:45 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 23 replies · 1,252+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | September 25, 2009 | MARK STEYN
    Half a decade or so back, I wrote: "It's a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice cream and a quart of dog feces and mix 'em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That's the problem with the U.N." Absolutely right, if I do say so myself. When you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn't that they'll meet each other half-way but that the free world winds up going three-quarters, seven-eighths of the way. That's what happened in New York...
  • Mark Steyn: Obama helping Putin restitch Iron Curtain

    09/19/2009 10:27:17 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 15 replies · 1,051+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 19 sep 2009 | Mark Steyn
    Scrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar.Was it only April? There was President Barack Obama, speaking (as is his wont) in Prague, about the Iranian nuclear program and ballistic missile capability, and saluting America's plucky allies: "The Czech Republic and Poland have been courageous in agreeing to host a defense against these missiles," he declared. "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defense system that is cost-effective and proven."On Thursday, the administration scrapped its missile defense plans for Eastern Europe. The "courageous" Czechs and Poles will...
  • The Long Retreat

    09/19/2009 9:42:29 PM PDT · by Lorianne · 9 replies · 789+ views
    National Review Online ^ | September 19, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    Our security will now depend on the kindness of strangers. ___ It is interesting to contrast the administration’s “wise” diplomacy abroad with its willingness to go nuclear at home. If you go to a town-hall meeting and express misgivings about the effectiveness of the stimulus, you’re a “racist” “angry” “Nazi” “evilmonger” “right-wing domestic terrorist.” It’s perhaps no surprise that that doesn’t leave a lot left over in the rhetorical arsenal for Putin, Chávez, and Ahmadinejad. But you’ve got to figure that by now the world’s strongmen are getting the measure of the new Washington. Diplomacy used to be, as Canada’s...
  • Obama helping Putin restitch Iron Curtain

    09/18/2009 10:25:11 PM PDT · by JLS · 27 replies · 1,265+ views
    Orange Country Register ^ | 18 September 2001 | Mark Steyn
    Scrapping of U.S. missile defense plans hands big victory to Russia's new czar. Was it only April? There was President Barack Obama, speaking (as is his wont) in Prague, about the Iranian nuclear program and ballistic missile capability, and saluting America's plucky allies: "The Czech Republic and Poland have been courageous in agreeing to host a defense against these missiles," he declared. "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defense system that is cost-effective and proven." On Thursday, the administration scrapped its missile defense plans for Eastern Europe. The "courageous" Czechs and...
  • After Sizing Up New Washington, Bullies Start To Have Their Way

    09/18/2009 6:34:59 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 27 replies · 1,616+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | September 18, 2009 | MARK STEIN
    Was it only April? There was President Obama, speaking (as is his wont) in Prague, about Iran's nuclear program and ballistic missile capability, and saluting America's plucky allies: "The Czech Republic and Poland have been courageous in agreeing to host a defense against these missiles," he declared. "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defense system that is cost-effective and proven." On Thursday, the administration scrapped its missile defense plans for Eastern Europe. The "courageous" Czechs and Poles will have to take their chances. Did the "threat from Iran" go away? Not...
  • Where's Sarah?

    09/14/2009 5:46:34 PM PDT · by Al B. · 73 replies · 3,180+ views
    American Thinker ^ | Sept. 14, 2009 | George Joyce
    Despite some estimates the September 12th march on Washington approached a record 2 million American citizens, Rasmussen is reporting today that President Obama’s approval index has experienced a stunning turnaround over the past week. From an approval rating low of a minus 13 on September 7th, Obama has seen his positive numbers jump over 10 points since his health care speech to Congress last Wednesday. In other words, up to 2 million colorful and passionate defenders of limited government flooding in to the nation’s capitol had no effect on a steady and continuing rise of Obama’s political fortunes at this...
  • Obama won't surrender in his war of choice

    09/12/2009 9:54:06 AM PDT · by JLS · 3 replies · 676+ views
    Orange County Register ^ | 11 September 2009 | Mark Steyn
    He'll get some form of health care plan rammed through because it's key to permanently shifting America left. So why can't the silver-tongued post-partisan healer seal the deal on this health care business? Surely it should be the work of moments for the greatest orator in American history to whip up a little medicinal Gettysburg, a touch of Henry V-in-the-Agincourt-casualty-tent, and put this thing away. Yet there he was the other night with the usual leaden medley of tinny grandiosity (all the this-is-the-moment, now-is-the-hour stuff), slippery reassurances (don't worry, you won't be "required" to change your present health arrangements), imputations...
  • Where Is Obama’s ‘Center’?

    09/12/2009 6:42:57 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 54 replies · 2,194+ views
    NRO ^ | Mark Steyn
    So why can’t the silver-tongued post-partisan healer seal the deal on this health-care business? Surely it should be the work of moments for the greatest orator in American history to whip up a little medicinal Gettysburg, a touch of Henry V-in-the-Agincourt-casualty-tent, and put this thing away. Yet there he was the other night with the usual leaden medley of tinny grandiosity (all the this-is-the-moment, now-is-the-hour stuff), slippery reassurances (don’t worry, you won’t be “required” to change your present health arrangements), imputations of bad faith to anyone who takes a different view (they’re playing “games”), and the copper-bottomed guarantee that you...
  • Eight Years On (Steyn on 9/11)

    09/11/2009 4:54:52 PM PDT · by xzins · 25 replies · 1,419+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 9/11 | Mark Steyn
    Eight Years On [Mark Steyn] No dynamic culture can stand still, so we shouldn't be surprised that fewer and fewer people, from the president down, find it harder and harder to remember quite what "the day that changed the world" was all about. Nevertheless, there is unfinished business — starting with that hole in the ground in lower Manhattan. As James Lileks says: That we couldn’t stand there eight years ago was their fault. That we cannot stand there today is ours. At Ground Zero and in that field in Pennsylvania, we broke faith with the dead. What a small...
  • Steyn lands one to the kisser of msm

    09/06/2009 12:38:48 PM PDT · by rvoitier · 12 replies · 2,829+ views
    NRO-The Corner | Sept. 6, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    For some reason the usual link isn't working so Mark Steyn's post is below.
  • M. Steyn: The Omnipresent Leader - They want us to “pledge to be a servant to our president”?

    09/05/2009 7:31:04 AM PDT · by neverdem · 60 replies · 2,944+ views
    National Review Online ^ | September 05, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    September 05, 2009, 7:00 a.m. The Omnipresent LeaderThey want us to “pledge to be a servant to our president”? By Mark Steyn On Friday, I had the rare honor of appearing in the pages of the New York Times, apropos President Obama’s plans to beam himself into every schoolhouse in the land in the peculiar belief that Generation iPod will find this an enthralling technical novelty. As Times reporters James C. McKinley Jr. and Sam Dillon wrote: “Mark Steyn, a Canadian author and political commentator, speaking on the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, accused Mr. Obama of trying to...
  • Obama 'Outreach' To School Kids Feels More Like Personality Cult

    09/04/2009 6:00:31 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 40 replies · 2,174+ views
    IBD Editorials ^ | September 4, 2009 | The great MARK STEYN
    On Friday, I had the rare honor of appearing in the pages of the New York Times, apropos President Obama's plans to beam himself into every schoolhouse in the land in the peculiar belief that Generation iPod will find this an enthralling technical novelty. As Times reporters James C. McKinley Jr. and Sam Dillon wrote: "Mark Steyn, a Canadian author and political commentator, speaking on the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, accused Mr. Obama of trying to create a cult of personality, comparing him to Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader." Oh, dear! "A Canadian author":...
  • Mark Steyn: Things only a Kennedy could get away with

    08/29/2009 5:19:12 PM PDT · by Chairman of the Bard · 150 replies · 9,227+ views
    ocregister ^ | 08/29/2009 | Mark Steyn
    Mark Steyn: Things only a Kennedy could get away with And by not calling his bluff on Chappaquiddick, Americans became complicit in it. We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation – or, at any rate, its "mainstream" media culture – declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's passing, America's TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there's a...
  • Mark Steyn: Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne ("Only a Kennedy could get away with it.")

    08/29/2009 7:01:34 AM PDT · by kellynla · 140 replies · 5,090+ views
    National Review ^ | August 29, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation — or, at any rate, its “mainstream” media culture — declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s passing, America’s TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there’s a baby buried in the backyard but everyone agreed years ago never to mention it. In this case, the unmentionable corpse is Mary Jo...
  • Do you notice anything shrivelling? ... Mark Steyn

    08/28/2009 4:16:40 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 28 replies · 1,754+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 28 Aug 2009 | Mark Steyn
    We’ve never had more personal sexual liberty. And less freedom of almost every other kind. The other day CTV reported the astonishing statistic that in the whole of Canada there are just 33 sperm donors. That seems awfully low for a nation of 30 million people. Three sperm donors per province plus one per territory? Surely we can do better than that. All hands on deck! Ah, but it’s not as simple as that. Apparently, the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act makes it illegal to pay donors for sperm. I mean, it wasn’t even the usual Canadian Wheat Board-type racket...
  • Do you notice anything shrivelling?

    08/27/2009 6:21:33 PM PDT · by JLS · 60 replies · 2,435+ views
    MaCleans.CA ^ | 27 August 2009 | Mark Steyn
    The other day CTV reported the astonishing statistic that in the whole of Canada there are just 33 sperm donors. That seems awfully low for a nation of 30 million people. Three sperm donors per province plus one per territory? Surely we can do better than that. All hands on deck!
  • BREWING AND BREEDING ... Mark Steyn

    08/25/2009 1:00:54 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 17 replies · 1,394+ views
    Steyn Online ^ | 25 August 2009 | Mark Steyn
    The intersection of the environment and demography continues apace. In the old days, we worried about “overpopulation” in general, which, if only by implication, indicted the fecund mothers of Asia and Africa at least as much as the developed world, if not more. But eco-demography is a more exact science these days. Issuing a stirringcall for the British to breed less and doing it from the exalted perch of The British Medical Journal, doctors John Guillebaud and Pip Hayes explain the arithmetic: Every new baby born in the United Kingdom will in his or her lifetime produce 160 times more...
  • Mark Steyn: He's Spending Your Future

    08/24/2009 5:34:44 AM PDT · by kellynla · 16 replies · 1,738+ views
    Washington Times ^ | August 24, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    The other day, wending my way from Woodsville, N.H., 40 miles south to Plymouth, I came across several "stimulus" projects -- every few miles, and heralded by a two-tone sign, a hitherto rare sight on Granite State highways. The orange strip at the top said, "Putting America Back to Work" with a silhouette of a man with a shovel, and the green part underneath informed readers that what they were about to see was a "Project Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." There then followed a few yards of desolate, abandoned scarified pavement, followed by an "End of...
  • OVER HERE WE CAN DEFEND OUR HOMES

    08/23/2009 8:35:28 AM PDT · by Sherman Logan · 18 replies · 1,456+ views
    Steyn Online (originally UK Sunday Telegraph) ^ | 23 August 2009 (republished from 1999) | Mark Steyn
    This Sunday Telegraph column generated a lot of mail a decade ago, and we've had a lot of requests for it over the years. I regard the "right" to defend one's property not merely as a right but as a moral obligation. Remove it and an awful lot of civic life crumbles in its wake, as it has in Britain: Let's take a hypothetical situation: I'm up late working on a Sunday Telegraph column at home. I hear a noise downstairs and cautiously investigate. It's a fellow I've never seen before, hunched over my stereo. What do I do? I...
  • Why the Stimulus Flopped

    08/22/2009 2:01:53 PM PDT · by smoothsailing · 35 replies · 2,222+ views
    National Review ^ | 8-22-09 | Mark Steyn
    August 22, 2009, 7:00 a.m. Why the Stimulus FloppedUnder Obama, nothing is certain but death panels and taxes. By Mark Steyn The other day, wending my way from Woodsville, N.H., 40 miles south to Plymouth, I came across several “stimulus” projects — every few miles, and heralded by a two-tone sign, a hitherto rare sight on Granite State highways. The orange strip at the top said “PUTTING AMERICA BACK TO WORK” with a silhouette of a man with a shovel, and the green part underneath informed you that what you were about to see was a “PROJECT FUNDED BY...
  • Mark Steyn: Stimulus hits a pothole

    08/22/2009 5:56:00 AM PDT · by Puzzleman · 41 replies · 2,396+ views
    Orange County Register ^ | August 21, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    The other day, wending my way from Woodsville, N.H., 40 miles south to Plymouth, I came across several "stimulus" projects – every few miles, and heralded by a two-tone sign, a hitherto rare sight on Granite State highways. The orange strip at the top said "PUTTING AMERICA BACK TO WORK" with a silhouette of a man with a shovel, and the green part underneath informed you that what you were about to see was a "PROJECT FUNDED BY THE AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT." There then followed a few yards of desolate, abandoned scarified pavement, followed by an "END OF...
  • The [NOT] Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Show - Tuesday, August 18, 2009 MARK STEYN SUBS

    08/18/2009 7:53:37 AM PDT · by IMissPresidentReagan · 141 replies · 2,782+ views
    The EIB Network ^ | 08/18/09 | Mark Steyn
    For the gals (especially RWI)
  • Voting with Their Feet (2000000 Americans Leave America)

    08/18/2009 6:04:33 AM PDT · by sr4402 · 86 replies · 4,146+ views
    National review ^ | 08/06/2009 | Mark Steyn
    If that's correct, I can't think events in 2009 will do anything to diminish the flow. What I wonder is: Where did those 2 million go? Britons, Canadians, Europeans, etc, who seek "greener pastures" generally wind up in the U.S. For most of us immigrants, this is the last stop on the tour: There's nowhere else to go. So where on the planet do a couple of million Americans go to find somewhere "greener"?
  • Mark Steyn: We can’t talk about immigration

    Christopher Caldwell's new book is called Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. And, if you don't quite get the Burkean allusion, his subtitle spells out his real concerns: "Immigration, Islam and the West." Given my own obsessions in recent years, you'd expect me to be favourably disposed to it. And I am, my enthusiasm only slightly tempered by the instant conventional wisdom that, if you're only going to buy one Islamophobic Euro-doom-mongering diatribe this summer, Caldwell's is the sober and respectable one, in striking contrast to certain others we could mention. "Unlike [Oriana] Fallaci and Mark Steyn, Caldwell does not...
  • Mark Steyn: Unplugging Grandma isn't the problem

    08/15/2009 5:14:52 AM PDT · by libstripper · 49 replies · 2,524+ views
    OC Register ^ | August 14, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    Some years ago, when I was a slip of a lad, I found myself commiserating with a distinguished American songwriter about the death of one of his colleagues. My 23-year old girlfriend found all the condolence talk a bit of a bummer and was anxious to cut to the chase and get outta there. "Well," she said breezily. "He had a good innings. He was 85." "That's easy for you to say," he said. "I'm 84."
  • Mark Steyn: Conformity is now the new dissent; Community Organizer wants to organize us all

    08/10/2009 10:38:40 PM PDT · by Red Steel · 22 replies · 1,499+ views
    OC Register ^ | August 7, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTI… No, wait, that bumper sticker expired January 20th. -snip- "The right-wing extremist Republican base is back!" warns the Democratic National Committee. These right-wing extremists have been given their marching orders by their masters: -snip- Senator Barbara Boxer has denounced dissenters from Obama's health care proposals as too "well-dressed" to be genuine. -snip- Thankfully, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has seen through the "manufactured anger" -snip- Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, added her own distinctive wrinkle to the Brooks Brothers menswear. She disdained the anti-Obamacare protests as fake grassroots. "I think...
  • Mark Steyn: The Community Is Restless

    08/08/2009 7:15:31 AM PDT · by kellynla · 46 replies · 2,327+ views
    National Review ^ | August 8, 2009 7:00 AM | Mark Steyn
    DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTI- . . . No, wait, that bumper sticker expired January 20. Under the stimulus bill, there’s a new $1.3 trillion bills-for-bumpers program whereby, if you peel off old slogans now recognized as environmentally harmful (“QUESTION AUTHORITY”), you can trade them in for a new “CELEBRATE CONFORMITY” sticker, complete with a holographic image of President Obama that never takes his eyes off you. “The right-wing extremist Republican base is back!” warns the Democratic National Committee. These right-wing extremists have been given their marching orders by their masters: They’ve been directed to show up at...
  • Mark Steyn: The Spectecutive Branch

    08/04/2009 6:23:13 AM PDT · by kellynla · 11 replies · 1,072+ views
    National Review ^ | August 03, 2009 | Mark Steyn
    Re my earlier post, an Arlen Specter defender (the loneliest march down Main Street?) writes: Every CEO in the country, including Ronald Reagan as President, reads executive summaries of important documents. The idea that any Senator has to read an entire bill is nonsense. He needs staff not only to read it but to relate how items on page 3 relate to provisions on page 1009. Did George Bush read every line of the bills he signed? Bill Clinton signed Welfare reform and I bet he did not read the final bill (though to be fair he is wonky enough...