Seasons of Steyn
Saturday, 04 September 2010
I wrote this column for The National Post eight Labor Days back, but, at the end of a week in which the Reverend Jesse Jackson's Cadillac Escalade gets stripped while he's at a "green jobs" rally, its central point holds up: The Reverend Jackson, the Reverend Gore, HRH The Prince of...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 03 July 2010
We're approaching the fifth anniversary of the London Tube bombings. It prompted a rare bout of self-examination by the British establishment - which, needless to say, passed quickly:
It has been sobering this past week watching some of my "woollier" colleagues (in Vicki Woods's self-designation) gradually awake to the realisation...
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Request of the Week
Thursday, 01 July 2010
Mark,
Just read your article "When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling". It put me in mind of another one. If you could repost your article right after Reagan's passing, when you recounted how the great man in the twilight of his life encountered a man walking throught the park who thanked...
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One Year Ago
Saturday, 26 June 2010
Twelve months ago, the remaking of America was in full swing, and I found myself musing on the peculiar acceptance of the notion that ordinary life is now some sort of highwire act:
A mere year ago the notion that the government would take over General Motors would have seemed...
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Topical Take
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Ross Perot turns 80 this weekend, which I must say came as a surprise to me, because it would make him 62 when he first ran for president back in '92, and he already seemed like a figure from another age. Here's what I had to say about him in the...
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Ten Years Ago
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Hafez Assad, a murderous old thug, died a decade ago, and Bill Clinton felt he ought to say something nice about him. If this sounds vaguely Obama-esque, I beg to differ. At least with Clinton the teary-eyed claptrap was always undercut by its patent insincerity:
On being informed of the death of...
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