Steyn on the World
Thursday, 08 July 2010
In 1939, Capt. Peter Sanders, serving with the Tochi scouts on the Afghan-Indian border, was blown up by a Waziri booby trap and lost his right arm. Shortly afterwards, he accepted an invitation to lunch from the tribesman who’d planted the bomb. Awfully decent of the chap, and not a...
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Steyn on America
Saturday, 03 July 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...
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Steyn on Britain and Europe
Saturday, 12 June 2010
In contrast to the general directions of Helen ("Go back to Germany and Poland") Thomas, the peace-lovers aboard the Mavi Marmara were more specific:
In response to a radio transmission by the Israeli Navy warning the Gaza flotilla that they are approaching a naval blockade, passengers of the Mavi Marmara respond,...
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Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth
Thursday, 07 January 2010
[UPDATE: M J Murphy of Toronto has also issued his own apology but.... The Miller-Murphy-LawIsCool coalition has collapsed even quicker than Dion-Layton-Duceppe, leaving Law Is Kool Aid as the sole surviving generalissimo of the wannabe junta]
Apparently in Canada you wait almost as long for the "Journalism Doctor" as you do for a...
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