Steyn on America
Saturday, 15 November 2008
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
"Live free or die!"
What's that? Oh, don't mind me. I'm just trying out slogans for the 2012 campaign and seeing which one would get the biggest laughs.
My Republican friends are now saying, oh, not to worry, look at the exit polls, this is...
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Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth
Thursday, 13 November 2008
One of the consistent tactics of the post-modern transnational utopian left is to co-opt the national inheritance to undermine that inheritance. On this 90th anniversary of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, Jennifer Lynch, Queen's Counsel, the hack bureaucrat who presides over my tormentors at the Canadian Human Rights...
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Steyn on the World
Friday, 14 November 2008
‘Someone wins, someone doesn’t win, that’s life,” Nancy Kopp, Maryland’s treasurer, told the Washington Post. “But women don’t want to be totally dissed.” She was talking about her political candidate, Hillary Clinton. Democratic women are feeling metaphorically battered by the Obama campaign. “Healing The Wounds Of Democrats’ Sexism,” as the...
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Steyn on Britain and Europe
Friday, 14 November 2008
HAPPY WARRIOR
from National Review
The other day I got an email from a British reader passing on a low-key press release announcing that the Department of Work and Pensions had ruled that polygamous men were entitle to receive spousal welfare benefits for each of their wives. My correspondent then wondered...
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