Tag Archives: Mark Steyn

The Rules Of Unengagement

Posted on June 27th, 2010

What do Gen. McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic Party supporters. Or they were. Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general to be [...]

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Mark Steyn on Obama

Posted on June 20th, 2010

Mark Steyn: NRO Chris Matthews and the other leg-tinglers invented an Obama that doesn’t exist. Unfortunately, they’re stuck with the one that does, and it will be interesting to see whether he’s capable of plugging the leak in his own support. If not, who knows what the tide might wash up? Memo to Secretary Rodham [...]

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Tattered Liberty

Posted on March 23rd, 2010

By:  Mark Steyn Sometimes you do live to see it. In my book America Alone, I point out that, to a five-year-old boy waving his flag as Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee procession marched down the Mall in 1897, it would have been inconceivable that by the time of his 80th birthday the greatest empire the [...]

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When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay

Posted on February 27th, 2010

Welfare always breeds contempt. By: Mark Steyn While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand-new, even-more-unsustainable entitlement at the health-care “summit,” thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen — because they’re part of the same story. [...]

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