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"Flagrantly Islamophobic"
THE CANADIAN
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America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It
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Steyn Today

Saturday, 04 July 2009

TO ALL OUR AMERICAN READERS
Happy Independence Day!
MISTER SQUARESVILLE
What's new about this stuff?
plus
INDEPENDENCE
Who's got it, who hasn't
and
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
A song for the season

THE PALIN RESIGNATION
CUTTING BAIT
She won't be back

WIMBLEDON WEEKEND
NEW BALLS
Mark's jokes get knocked out on opening day

STEYNPOSTS
THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF SALMAN HOSSAIN
What's in a name?

Steyn This Week

FRIDAY	STATIST FAT CATS vs BLAZING CAT FUR CANADA vs HUMAN RIGHTS: Canada's Chief Censor complains that she's being censored
THURSDAY	THE PASSING PARADE THE HUGH HEWITT SHOW: Michael Jackson, the media ...and a distant war
WEDNESDAY	HE HAUNTS US STILL, UNFORTUNATELY DOMINION DAY: Mourning in Trudeaupia
TUESDAY	ICE AGE STEYN ON SCREEN: Off on the road to a personal growth experience
MONDAY	DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE SONG OF THE WEEK: Leonard Cohen and three-and-a-half rhymes
SUNDAY	THE BOYS IN THE BUBBLE STEYN ON AMERICA: Government by creeps and misfits

Politics & war

THE BOYS IN THE BUBBLE

In a lousy week, Mark Sanford had one stroke of luck: Michael Jackson chose the day after the governor's news conference to moonwalk into eternity, and thus gave the media's pop therapists a more rewarding subject to feast on – or at any rate one of the few stories whose...

Arts & culture

THE STATE DESPOTIC

Driving north out of New York the other day, I heard a caller to Mark Levin’s show discuss his excellent book Liberty and Tyranny. The word she kept using was “inevitable”: The republic felt exhausted, and there was an “inevitability” to what was happening. A quarter-millennium of liberty seemed to...

Greatest hits

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Things have slipped somewhat on the old independence front since I wrote the words below - for the first Glorious Fourth post-9/11 - and "independence" seems an endangered species under Good King Barack the Stimulator's government behemoth. This excerpt is from The Face Of The Tiger: July 4th 2002 To celebrate America’s...