Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 06 February 2010
This column from Canada's National Post is a reminder of just how long the collectivist left has been pushing punitive liberalism in the cause of "the environment". The predictions re entitlements down south and further general Canadianization seem pertinent, too:
On Wednesday night, slumped in front of The National, I watched...
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Request of the Week
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Mark,
John Edwards is back in the news these days. You were the very first high-profile columnist to recognize Edwards for the phony he is. ( Correct me if I'm wrong). Your readers might enjoy a look your very first column on "the subject". I know I would.
If I'm...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 30 January 2010
With Mrs Clinton protesting attacks on America's response to Haiti, and the reprimitivization fantasies spurred by the film Avatar, this column from half-a-decade back seems timely:
I find myself thinking of Kenya’s tsunami victim. That’s right: victim, singular, no “s” on the end. He was Samuel Njoroge, a car mechanic...
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Seasons of Steyn
Sunday, 17 January 2010
KING - THE MUSICAL
from Broadway Babies Say Goodnight
It couldn't have happened to a nicer show. The British composer had been an admirer of Martin Luther King since his schooldays; he went to Detroit to study gospel music; he spent months of Sundays in the Ebenezer Baptist Church; he took a non-violence...
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One Year Ago
Saturday, 16 January 2010
We're approaching the first anniversary of the Hopeychanger's accession to the throne. And, strangely enough, he came in the way he's gone on - with a platitudinous snoozeroo of a speech. Here's what I thought of the silver-tongued orator's leaden-tongue inaugural address:
How dazzling is President Obama? So dazzling that he didn't...
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Topical Take
Thursday, 04 February 2010
Elvis Presley would have been 75 years old today. He was born January 8th 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, and we've been marking his three-quarter-century all this week at SteynOnline, with a look at his earliest record producer, his biggest hit record, and the house songwriter for the middle of his...
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