Request of the Week
Monday, 07 July 2008
Dear Mark,
Can you please republish some of the funniest columns from the late 1990s when Clinton sex jokes were all the rage and you once wrote about Monica’s dress in the witness protection program?
Best wishes,
Tom Hernandez
MARK SAYS: Well, I think we reprised the Monica's dress column...
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Five Years Ago
Monday, 07 July 2008
This seems vaguely appropriate the weekend before the big court date in British Columbia - the legal travails of the happy homemaker, from The Wall Street Journal half a decade ago:
Of all the many thousands of expert commentators on the Martha Stewart indictment, I believe I'm the only one...
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Topical Take
Monday, 07 July 2008
This week at SteynOnline we're marking the centenary of the birth of Ian Fleming. Here's a piece I wrote last year on the passing of Miss Moneypenny and her origins in Fleming's wartime service:
I don't know what a Canadian performer has to do not to get into the Order...
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Seasons of Steyn
Monday, 07 July 2008
A song for the season
by Julia Ward Howe and William Steffe
Memorial Day is here – or Decoration Day, if you’re a real old-timer, a day for decorating the graves of the Civil War dead. The songs many of those soldiers marched to are still known today – “The Yellow...
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Ten Years Ago
Monday, 07 July 2008
Sinatra Song of the Day
by John Kander and Fred Ebb
All this week we've been marking the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra's death by celebrating not only Sinatra the singer but also the Sinatra songbook, beginning on Monday with "It Was A Very Good Year", continuing on Tuesday with "I'll...
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One Year Ago
Monday, 07 July 2008
Everything's difficult, isn't it? In the Democratic presidential candidates' debate, Sen. Barack Obama was asked what he personally was doing to save the environment, and replied that his family was "working on" changing their light bulbs.
Is this the new version of the old joke? How many senators does it...
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