Topical Take
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Canadians go to the polls for an election that Stephen Harper hoped six weeks ago would deliver either a majority Conservative government or at least an improved minority. (As I note below, he's an incrementalist.) It remains to be seen what havoc recent news re the global economy has had on...
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Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 11 October 2008
On the eve of November's potentially historic vote, it seems appropriate to look back a decade when, in the midst of one or two little difficulties, Bill Clinton was proclaimed "the first black president". This column is from The Spectator:
And on it goes: a vote to inquire into impeachment, followed by a...
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One Year Ago
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Oh, it's a long, long while from September to September. This year, the anniversary falls, for the first time, on a Tuesday morning, and perhaps some or other cable network will re-present the events in real time — the first vague breaking news in an otherwise routine morning show, the...
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Request of the Week
Thursday, 02 October 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
Thursday, 02 October 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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Seasons of Steyn
Thursday, 02 October 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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