[RicocheT]

No one can write as sharp and interesting than Mark Steyn.

[bunkerhill7]

Obummer the Left Detour on American Avenue.

[One Name]

He is all that.

His writing is superb; more spectacular is his on-his-feet wit.

Dude’s mind is amazing; his command of language and ability to associate and draw juxtapositions on the fly leaves me in awe when I’m not actively laughing...

I’d like to meet him but I’m afraid I’d be tounge-tied.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Mark was beyond excellent today, as Rush’s substitute host. On a day when there was such profound tragedy, be just said all the right things. For three solid hours. Brilliantly.

[Iron Munro]

"He said, 'If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.'"

There is an aspect of Obama's speech I haven't seen mentioned yet.

Oama wasn't just lecturing the producers, hard workers and self starters.

He was throwing a sop to his followers, to his hard core base. He was speaking directly to the moochers, lay-abouts, welfare queens and others who have made a career of sucking on the teat of government.

He was giving them another jolt of false self-esteem and at the same time firing up their class envy and sense of resentment.

Obama was saying to them -

"Those well off people and rich guys are no better than you and they aren't any more gifted or smarter than you are. They didn't earn that big house and that new BMW any more than you did. They are slippery and sly and greedy and selfish. They just figured out a way to fiddle the books, to take more than their fair share of the things that belong to all of us. They wouldn't have the wealth they have if they didn't use up resources that belong to all of us and hog the wealth for themselves."

"You shouldn't feel bad about taking a government check, after all, the wealthy are unfairly getting more help from the government than you are. They over-use your share of the roads, bridges and everything else to enrich themselves. That's why they should pay more taxes - its just a way to make them pay you back for the unfair way they make their wealth. They owe it to you. They owe it to all of us."

[karnage]

Steyn is the best thing to come out of Canada since... I don’t know, Wayne Gretzky?

[Noob1999]

bfl
So sorry I missed Marc on friday!

[Zeppo]

Tip for fellow Mark Steyn enthusiasts:

Apparently Michael Mann, the climate "scientist" behind the infamous and debunked climate "hockey stick" graph, is threatening to sue Mark Steyn (and National Review?) for defamation over a recent blog post where Steyn quotes another blogger and then very effectively makes the point that the same Penn State administration that covered up the Sandusky child rape episode investigated and "exonerated" Mann's work.

See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/20/mann-invokes-the-streisand-effect-on-twitter/#more-67852 (and don't miss the hilarity in the comments section).

Mann is a ridiculous figure (and a big-time confused leftist) to begin with. Threatening to sue Steyn promises to unleash a verbal and intellectual thrashing that Mann can not possibly understand.

[neverdem]

If this is the best all the king’s horses and all the king’s men can do to put Humpty Dumpty’s silver-tongued oratory together again, they might as well cut to the chase and argue that accurately quoting President Obama is racist.

LOL!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"The evil of such a system is not the waste of money but the waste of people. Tony Blair's ministry discovered it was politically helpful to reclassify a chunk of the unemployed as 'disabled.' A fit, able-bodied 40-year-old who has been on disability allowance for a decade understands somewhere at the back of his mind that he is living a lie, and that not just the government but his family and his friends are colluding in that lie."

DAISY: You would have been a big success, Onslow, except for your one little fault.

ONSLOW: (Angrily) And, wot, exactly, might that be?

DAISY: You're bone-idle.

[Rummyfan]

In Obama's "visions," he builds roads and bridges. In reality, the President of Dependistan has put nothing but roadblocks in the path to opportunity and growth.

That he can build. That's all he can build.

[EveningStar]

Hmm. Most of the article seems to have vanished in the last few minutes.

Alternate site:

http://news.investors.com/articleprint/618988/201207201747/president-lets-real-feelings-show-toward-small-businesses.aspx

[Gritty]

An “incomparable Steyn” BUMP