Mark Steyn just released his new book After America, available here: http://www.steynstore.com/ Anyway, he is making the rounds of talk shows and talk radio joking that his publicist arranged all the calamity happening with the downgrade and London riots to coincide with the release of the book.
I have my personally autographed copy (only available from the Steyn store, and it is a wonderfully written book, filled with the wit and insight that we have come to expect from Mark Steyn. I highly recommend the book.
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To: JLS
2 posted on
08/12/2011 2:27:08 PM PDT by
passionfruit
(When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
To: passionfruit; Deb
Vintage Steyn. He certainly knows of what he talks about here. Usually I love his humor but this is quite sad. Poor Britain.
Please dear God, do not permit America to fall into this "logical dead end of the Nanny State", where "Big Government means small citizens."
To: passionfruit
4 posted on
08/12/2011 2:38:25 PM PDT by
Yardstick
To: maica; Freee-dame
Brillian essay. I was going to copy a paragraph, but it’s all a must-read.
5 posted on
08/12/2011 2:40:55 PM PDT by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: passionfruit
6 posted on
08/12/2011 2:42:41 PM PDT by
Vision
("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
To: passionfruit
“Big Government means small citizens: it corrodes the integrity of a people, catastrophically. Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the Earth’s surface and a quarter of its population.”
7 posted on
08/12/2011 2:43:54 PM PDT by
flowerplough
(Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
To: passionfruit
You have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat me to Western Civilization's descent into barbarismTheodore Dalyrimple (sic) is good at that too
8 posted on
08/12/2011 2:45:30 PM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: passionfruit
“In Britain, everything is policed except crime.”
10 posted on
08/12/2011 2:52:02 PM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: passionfruit
No racial correlation noted by Steyn.
Unlike the obvious dichotomy in the US, perhaps in the UK there isn’t one?
14 posted on
08/12/2011 3:03:03 PM PDT by
EyeGuy
(2012: When the Levee Breaks)
To: passionfruit
To: passionfruit
To: passionfruit
As part of my promotional efforts, I chanced to find myself on a TV show the other day with an affable liberal who argued that what Obama needed to do was pass another trillion-dollar – or, better yet, multi-trillion – stimulus. I think not.I believe this was on Varney & Co., which I watch daily. The "affable liberal" was Ellis Hennican, and the look on Steyn's face when he started in on what O needed to do was MORE stimulus, was just priceless.
To: passionfruit
This is the logical dead end of the Nanny State. When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the British welfare regime in 1942, his goal was the "abolition of want" to be accomplished by "co-operation between the State and the individual." In attempting to insulate the citizenry from life's vicissitudes, Sir William succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. As I write in my book: "Want has been all but abolished. Today, fewer and fewer Britons want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity." And we are following right behind them:
Cell Phones For The Poor On The Taxpayers Dime
19 posted on
08/12/2011 3:28:37 PM PDT by
PogySailor
(The ruling class will not go down easily. And neither will their paid hacks.)
To: passionfruit
21 posted on
08/12/2011 3:39:36 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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23 posted on
08/12/2011 3:59:17 PM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
To: passionfruit
This may be the best column Mr. Steyn has written in a long time.
24 posted on
08/12/2011 4:12:55 PM PDT by
elhombrelibre
("I'd rather be ruled by the Tea Party than the Democratic Party." Norman Podhoretz)
To: passionfruit
Steyn nails it once again!
26 posted on
08/12/2011 5:15:58 PM PDT by
Gritty
(Like Lenin, Obama's aim is to make things worse to make them better - James Lewis)
To: passionfruit
Who knew that A Clockwork Orange was not fiction but rather a documentary. /rhetorical
30 posted on
08/12/2011 6:52:13 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Murray / Baucus / Kerry / Upton? I've had better picks come out of my nose.)
To: passionfruit
This is wincingly, painfully, epigrammatically brilliant.
What’s it doing in Chat/General? Shouldn’t it be in News?
32 posted on
08/12/2011 7:05:20 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be" said the Cat,"or you wouldn't have come here.")
To: passionfruit
"For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family... and imagine it applied to the general population."
If dems have their way - we're next...
33 posted on
08/12/2011 9:09:43 PM PDT by
GOPJ
(England.... From Royal fairytale to banana republic in one summer. - - Allister Heath)
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