[foreshadowed at waco]

In the newsrooms of America, they celebrate diversity of race, diversity of gender, diversity of orientation, diversity of everything except the only diversity that matters: diversity of thought.

Sounds like an extension of the college classroom.

[segis]

Mark Steyn Bump.

The last paragraph is especially point on. I almost never use the word liberal when I headbutt with them lefties - and God knows how many skirmishes I get myself into. They are NOT liberals - not classical, neo, paleo, wholeo, etc, etc - They are lefties, socialists, Democrats and whatnot.

[beckett]

This is somewhat cruder, as befits Da Liddle Guy's style of government, but is in line with the general trend -- different tactics but the same aim: to rule certain issues beyond debate, and thus render the conservative position if not illegal than at any rate unmentionable.

Is this a usage error by Steyn? Has one of the top two or three most accomplished wordsmiths writing today made a mistake? Seems to me the word should be "then."

Steyn is such a virtuoso with words that, for me, a minor error like this sticks out because it is such a rarity.

[Twodees]

The role of the conservative movement in all this is totally irrelevant, though from time to time some obscure western backbencher will sportingly offer some off-the-cuff soundbite enabling him to be denounced as a homophobic cross-burning Holocaust denier.

Seems there's little difference between some aspects of Canadian politics and that of the US. Steyn does have a way of making me start chuckling under my breath at the start of one of these sentences. I'm usually well into a full belly laugh as I read the final words.

Steyn's a genius.