Doing Business

Steyn Online ^ | 6 Jan 2026 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Yesterday we noted that the Honourable Member for University-Rosedale in the Canadian House of Commons has a simultaneous gig as Economic Advisor to the President of Ukraine. Today's hardest-working man in "public service" is Abukar Dahir Osman: it seems the President of the United Nations Security Council has his own Freelandesque side-gig with a "home health" business in Ohio.

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I can confirm public speculation that Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman, Permanent Representative of Somalia to the UN and President of the Security Council, is in fact associated with Progressive Health Care Services, a home health agency in Cincinnati.

To summarise:

*Chances of the US superpower doing effective (constitutional republic) nation-building in Somalia: zero per cent;

*Chances of basket-case Somalia doing effective (corrupt tribal bleephole) nation-building in Ohio, Minnesota, Your State Here: one hundred per cent.

Historically, lack of corruption has been a largely north-western European phenomenon. It all gets a bit iffy if you go as far south as France, never mind Italy or Greece. That latitudinal distinction was more or less exported to the New World: in North America, a quarter-millennium of broadly peaceful democratic evolution; in South or "Latin" America, presidents-for-life, police chiefs with reflector shades, and opposition politicians accidentally falling out of aeroplanes.

[Rummyfan]

[Regulator]

“Historically, lack of corruption has been a largely north-western European phenomenon. It all gets a bit iffy if you go as far south as France, never mind Italy or Greece. That latitudinal distinction was more or less exported to the New World: in North America, a quarter-millennium of broadly peaceful democratic evolution; in South or “Latin” America, presidents-for-life, police chiefs with reflector shades, and opposition politicians accidentally falling out of aeroplanes”

And this point precisely is why we should have never, ever let more then 1 or 2% of our population be composed of said peoples of the Southerly latitudes.

It will be and has been the death of our once noble Republic.

[Rummyfan]

On Monday Tim Walz announced he would not seek a third term as governor. The day before he had a meeting with Senator Klobuchar at which they supposedly agreed that she would get a clear run at the gubernatorial nomination to succeed him and, after victory, would appoint Jazz-Hands to succeed her in the Senate.

That's how you "do business" in America. No need for "rambling and incoherent" conspiracies.

[Reily]

Particularly when you have a complaint predictable electorate you can rely on!

[cgbg]

Walz and Klobuchar were meeting to discuss their grandchildren.

Lol.

[Rummyfan]

LOL indeed! Just like Clinton and Loretta Lynch.....

[RightOnTheBorder]

Don’t Rod Blagojevich go to jail for that in Chicago?

[marktwain]

Yes, but the had him on tape.