Request of the Week
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Mark,
What with all the Iraq nostalgia this week I wonder if you’d reprint your hilarious column about the looting of the museum in Baghdad from 2003. It seems like the anti-war left took that as an omen of the conflagration to come, but they didn’t know the half of...
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Seasons of Steyn
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
A Song for the Season
by Ernest Ball, Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr
Happy St Patrick's Day to all our Irish readers. This essay is adapted from Mark's book A Song For The Season:
If you’re Irish, come into the parlor....
But, if you do, you’ll probably notice that most...
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Ten Years Ago
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Hard to believe it's only ten years since Secretary of State Clinton's first political campaign. In that time, she's gone from presidential spouse to senator to president-presumptive to Obama roadkill to State Department honcho and Falkland Islands policy improviser. But, with hindsight, a lot of her subsequent presidential campaign style was visible in...
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Topical Take
Monday, 15 March 2010
The death at the age of 100 of my fellow New Hampshirite and sometime Senate candidate Granny D reminds me of one of the curious features of the 2000 presidential campaign: roadside grannies. With hindsight, their preoccupations were a portent of what was to come. Here's what I wrote in National Review:...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Half a decade back, something rather unusual happened. For just a moment, the true nature of the Irish Republican Army briefly swam into focus in Washington:
Happy St Patrick’s Day to my fellow hyphenated Irishmen. And the good news about this St Paddy’s Day is that for the first time...
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One Year Ago
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
I've written about the Geert Wilders trial in the current issue of Maclean's in Canada, but in fact the wheels of what passes for Dutch justice have been turning for a year now. This column is from National Review:
The other day I found myself wondering when the conversion rate...
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