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  • America Sticks Out Its Tush

    12/29/2021 6:20:15 AM PST · by RicocheT · 18 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | December 27, 2021 | Mark Steyn
    America has literally lost the plot. On the last soundstage, all parts are interchangeable: Men become women, and the grizzled butch coaches of college athletics can't wait to put 'em on the ladies' track team. Women become men, and then pregnant men, and then threaten the hospital for the humiliation of having to give birth in a "maternity ward". Warner Bros gives J K Rowling the bum's rush for being so out of it as to think periods are something women have. In the TERF wars, lesbians are transphobic because they don't wish to date women with penises. At dark...
  • House of Windsor Meets House of Wind

    11/08/2021 1:43:50 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 30 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 8 Nov 2021 | Mark Steyn
    I have been reluctant to comment on certain well-aired rumors about Joe Biden at international meetings, mainly because a lot of them seem to originate on Chinese "social media", which, hard to believe, is slightly more tightly controlled than American social media. However, this latest incident was big news over the weekend - and we do seem to have a witness, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall:An informed source has told The Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden break wind as they made polite small talk at the global climate change gathering in Glasgow last week.'It...
  • Power and Office

    11/01/2021 4:31:58 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 10 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 1 Nov2021 | Mark Steyn
    Tuesday is what less evolved societies than Virginia still quaintly call "Election Day". The Democrat candidate, the unlovely Clinton bagman Terry McAuliffe, claims that "we are substantially leading on the early vote". In the fullness of time he will also be substantially leading on the late vote, if he isn't already. That leaves the votes on Voting Day up for grabs. The Republican candidate, Mr Youngkin, is a squish of no fixed beliefs who will govern as Mitt did in Massachusetts or Pataki did in New York. But he has been handed a winning issue that he would probably not...
  • A Hinge Moment of History

    09/19/2021 9:11:47 AM PDT · by billorites · 11 replies
    The Gatestone Institute ^ | September 19, 2021 | Mark Steyn
    It was certainly the weirdest year. It began with a supremely weird decision by the entire world, except China and Sweden, to tank the global economy.No one has ever done that before. The only major economic power to grow last year was China whose GDP is up by, I think, about 2.5 percent compared to declines everywhere else, including some actually catastrophic ones, such as 11% in the UK.This decision to tank the entire global economy is something that strengthened China, the creator of the virus, and the exporter of the virus, and weakened any opposition to China -- and...
  • Performance Art with No Performers

    08/29/2021 5:20:41 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 3 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 27 Aug 2021 | Mark Steyn
    On the day that twelve US Marines and some 150 civilians were blown apart by suicide bombers, it was heartening to learn what real heroism is.Until January 6th, the highlight of Michael Byrd's "law-enforcement" career was leaving his loaded Glock in a congressional men's room and paying no price. He "serves" with the grotesquely misnamed "Capitol Police", which is not a police department but a praetorian guard - a personal security team for the praetors of Congress. Lieutenant Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, a 5'2" unarmed woman, because "she was posing a threat to the US House of Representatives".All...
  • Meltdown of a Superpower

    08/22/2021 12:48:10 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 55 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | August 22, 2021 | Mark Steyn
    A week after the Fall of Kabul, the flailing hegemon continues to embarrass itself: America's official deadline for total withdrawal from Afghanistan is August 31st, so half the remaining time has already elapsed, and in that time, according to the Department of Defense, it has evacuated just 2,500 Americans - or about 350 per day. That seems an under-performance - or, as The New York Post's front-page headline distills it, "DUMKIRK". The soi-disant "superpower" now resembles one of those stories you see from time to time on Eyewitness News: the 700-lb bedridden guy unable to get up, even to go...
  • Corpsing with the Taliban

    08/18/2021 12:03:16 PM PDT · by Twotone · 19 replies
    Steyn On-line ^ | August 18, 2021 | Mark Steyn
    With respect to Afghanistan, the puppeteers waggling the dead husk that is Joe Biden have made a political calculation - that, on the home front, the fact of departure will count for more than the manner of departure. Joe's not a ubiquitous figure in the news cycle the way Trump was, so he can sit in the basement for a few more days - and, in electoral terms, America's total humiliation in its umpteenth unwon war in some krappistan no one can find on a map will ultimately work for the Dems. The Taliban, for their part, seem happy to...
  • The Scale of Humiliation

    08/15/2021 6:46:16 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 26 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 15 Aug 2021 | Mark Steyn
    To reprise a line from a decade-old column of mine:Afghanistan is about Afghanistan – if you're Afghan or Pakistani. But, if you're Russian or Chinese or Iranian or European, Afghanistan is about America.That's the point to remember: if you're an Afghan schoolgirl, today is the fall of Kabul; elsewhere, in the chancelleries of allies and enemies alike, it's the fall of America. Even by their usual wretched standards, the world's most somnolent media are struggling to stay up to speed on the story. Here's the scoop from USA Today:Taliban's Afghanistan Advance Tests Biden's 'America Is Back' Foreign Policy PromiseYou don't...
  • Beam Me Up, Louis

    08/14/2021 10:50:08 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 9 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 12 Aug 2021 | Mark Steyn
    A month from now, America will be marking the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted here, because it's too sad: we've lost the war, as the present recreation of the Saigon embassy evacuation in Kabul reminds us, somewhat crudely and obviously. Instead, ahead of that grim date, I thought we'd revisit August 2001 with a few columns of mine from that last summer. As a scene-setter, we began a week ago with the summer of sharks. Here, from The Sunday Telegraph of August 6th 2001, is a column on Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam -...
  • Mark Steyn mocks Hunter Biden art...

    07/11/2021 11:28:59 AM PDT · by Pining_4_TX · 29 replies
    Mark Steyn mocks Hunter's "valuable" art works. This is the funniest thing you will see all week!
  • Caving In

    06/12/2021 11:21:41 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 7 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 7 June 2021 | Mark Steyn
    We are in a literally Orwellian world now. Until a couple of days ago the headline on this Washington Post story from February 2020 read:Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked. Now it reads:Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.Democracy dies in darkness, but stealth editing thrives there. That's Orwell 101 - although one assumes whichever of Bezos's woeful hacks was ordered to do it was unaware of his literary antecedents, or self-respect would have required him to seek alternative, less pitiful employment. Nevertheless, as you'll know if you heard...
  • Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization

    05/28/2021 1:35:30 PM PDT · by Twotone · 20 replies
    Hillsdale College-Imprimus ^ | April/May 2021 | Mark Steyn
    I live about 20 minutes south of the Canadian border, which used to be called the longest undefended frontier in the world. People moved freely back and forth across it all day every day. But now it’s been closed for over a year. At one point my daughter asked me to drive her up there, because there was a 30-minute opportunity for people on one side to talk to their friends on the other. “Sad!” as President Trump would say. It was like Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during the Cold War, except that both sides are now like East Berlin....
  • When the Base Doesn't Know Its Place

    05/10/2021 8:14:49 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 13 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 10 May 2021 | MArk Steyn
    A couple of weeks back on Fox News I did a little round-up of the state Easter crackdown across Christendom... The above was such a hit with viewers that we invited Calgary pastor Artur Pawloski onto the following night's show to give his own account of the pitiful constabulary's shameful invasion of his church.... That too was quite the ratings hit, and made Artur Pawlowski a hero to millions of Americans - and made the Calgary Police an object of total and deserved contempt. Over the weekend, they decided to do something about it. They waited till Artur had left...
  • Whom the Bin Tolls

    05/03/2021 1:07:12 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 6 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 3 May 2021 | Mark Steyn
    It is ten years - May 2nd 2011 - since Osama bin Laden went to his virgins. Observances of the anniversary are muted - either because the once most famous man on the planet is now entirely forgotten, or because the Afghan withdrawal renders the whole subject too depressing. At any rate, many of the psychoses noted a decade ago have now spread far beyond anything so narrow as America's longest unwon war. Here is what I wrote about Osama's dispatch in my syndicated column that week: As my old friends at The Spectator in London pointed out on Monday...
  • Duking It Out HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, 1921-2021

    04/09/2021 1:38:46 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 19 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 9 Apr 2021 | Mark Steyn
    that HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the longest-serving Royal consort in history, died in the early hours of the morning, just a few weeks before his hundredth birthday. There will be many of the Queen's subjects who will believe that he did not make his century because of the vile conduct of his wretched grandson and the in-law from hell - and I would not disagree with that, God rot both of them.Here's what I wrote four years ago upon the occasion of his retirement from official Royal engagements around the Commonwealth in the autumn of 2017. He was ninety-six,...
  • The Passion Of The Christ

    04/03/2021 4:43:59 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 30 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 3 Apr 2021 | Mak Steyn
    It's Easter and Passover at SteynOnline. We started on Good Friday with a little muscular Christianity and the sublime heights of western art on the Easter edition of The Mark Steyn Show... But, as has become traditional for our motion-picture department at this time of year, we present Mel Gibson's big blockbuster from seventeen Easters ago. Mel has spent the last decade getting a little crazier with every year that passes - and I note, sympathetically, that he and I have had the same third-rate shyster tormentor for much of that period. Surprisingly, there have been no attempts to follow...
  • Testicles Still on Hold

    03/19/2021 1:46:18 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 20 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 18 Mar 2021 | Mark Steyn
    In this first anniversary of the Fifteen Days to Flatten the Curve, I looked back to what SteynOnline was leading with one year ago:Is there nothing this virus can't do?'Deerfield Testicle Festival On Hold'The entire western world's testicular fortitude has been on hold ever since. Also from SteynOnline a year ago:A national tragedy is unfolding in Italy. Meanwhile, China has no new domestic infections and has re-opened Wuhan. Having successfully exported it to every other country, they're now the only nation without it. Hmm, that couldn't have gone any better had they planned it...~With all this bad news, we could...
  • The Very Model of a Modish Loser General Staff

    03/16/2021 9:22:38 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 20 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 15 Mar 2021 | Mark Steyn
    Having failed to get anywhere with the Taliban, the Pentagon is now going after Tucker Carlson. Who ought, in theory, to be an easier target. It began last week when Tucker noted that Joe Biden had emerged from his basement for "International Women's Day" and held a White House event touting the US military's recent achievements on that particular front - including such brilliant innovations as better maternity flight suits for pregnant pilots. (Do the growing numbers of pregnant males get paternity suits - or is that still just a courthouse thing?) Given that the brass no longer even try...
  • The Indispensible Man - (Mark Steyn tribute to Rush)

    02/18/2021 5:42:29 AM PST · by Texas Eagle · 10 replies
    SteynOnline.com ^ | Feb. 17, 2021 | Mark Steyn
    Usually, in this line of work, if you're lucky, you get a moment - a year or two when you're the in-thing - and you hope to hold enough of that moment as it slowly fades away to keep you going till retirement. Rush did something unprecedented in the history of TV and radio. Commercial broadcasting began in the United States in 1920: The Rush Limbaugh Show came along two-thirds of a century later, became the Number One program very quickly, and has stayed at the top all the way to today - for a third of the entire history...
  • The Indispensable Man Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021

    02/17/2021 9:52:05 AM PST · by grimalkin · 140 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 2/17/2020 | Mark Steyn
    It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything. Rush died this morning, after a year-long struggle with lung cancer. I was scheduled to guest-host today's show. Instead, as you can hear, his beloved Kathryn will be introducing a special program put together by the EIB team to celebrate a great man's life and legacy. It's a hard thing to do - compressing a glorious third-of-a-century into three hours - but Snerdley, Kraig, Mike, Allie and...