You've got to be kidding, he really did that? Did he remember to say it was the very last achievement?
Absolutely scary for America.
“GM has about 95,000 workers but provides health benefits to a million people: It’s not a business enterprise, but a vast welfare plan with a tiny loss-making commercial sector. As GM goes, so goes America?”
The man is absolutely brilliant!
I’m changing my ‘Dream Round Table.’
I’m leaving Ben Stein in the dust...I DO like his views on investing, but something has to give.
It’s now:
Mark Steyn to my right, followed by Dr. Walter E. Williams, Anne Coulter, Chief Justice Roberts, Thomas Sowell and Rush.
Of course, their brainpower will cow me, so I’ll just be serving the meal and the drinks and the cigars (Annie, too!) and listening in...But dang, that would be a fun, fun, fun evening! :)
There's better phrase-making in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, in a coinage of Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Committee on Foreign Relations. The president emeritus is a sober, judicious paragon of torpidly conventional wisdom. Nevertheless, musing on American decline, he writes, "The country's economy, infrastructure, public schools and political system have been allowed to deteriorate. The result has been diminished economic strength, a less-vital democracy, and a mediocrity of spirit." That last is the one to watch: A great power can survive a lot of things, but not "a mediocrity of spirit." A wealthy nation living on the accumulated cultural capital of a glorious past can dodge its rendezvous with fate, but only for a while. That sound you heard in Cairo is the tingy ping of a hollow superpower.
We have been warned. Again.
bttt
A BTT. What I find most disturbing is that the MSM have done their best to spike the murder of a U.S. soldier by a Muslim extremist on U.S. soil, because it might detract from the 0bama Surrenderpalooza show overseas. I expect very little from them these days but I didn’t expect that.
Mark’s gotta do a piece on ol’Judge Qar ~ he’s the jugeared bald guy pictured on that tomb in Egypt that Obama visited the other day.
When does all this end? We all it’s not sustainable. When does the poop hit the fan? I’m frickin’ scared about how bad things might get. I just have a bad feeling that Obama is going to be allowed to get away with this for two terms.
Paragraph quoted for truth.
It’s interesting how easily the words “the Muslim world” roll off the tongues of liberal secular progressives who’d choke on any equivalent reference to “the Christian world.” When such hyperalert policemen of the perimeter between church and state endorse the former but not the latter, they’re implicitly acknowledging that Islam is not merely a faith but a political project, too. There is an “Organization of the Islamic Conference,” which is already the largest single voting bloc at the United Nations and is still adding new members. Imagine if someone proposed an “Organization of the Christian Conference” that would hold summits attended by prime ministers and Presidents, and vote as a bloc in transnational bodies. But, of course, there is no “Christian world”: Europe is largely post-Christian and, as President Barack Obama bizarrely asserted to a European interviewer last week, America is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Perhaps we’re eligible for membership in the OIC.
nobama's wishes are getting in the way of his rhetoric.
Steyn is a treasure.
It's amazing that Steyn can do what he does, time and time again, day in and day out.
But you're right: Steyn nails this one even more than usual.
Ah, Mark Steyn. He’s on Hannity tonight. 40 more minutes!
You've got to be kidding, he really did that? Did he remember to say it was the very last achievement?
Steyn simply runs circles around other columnists. That’s because unlike 98.44% of them, he actually knows what he’s talking about.
What destroyed GM will destroy America.
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