Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 04 July 2009
If the singular media preoccupation of the Jackstream Media this last week-and-a-half has taken its toll, well, they've done it before. Ten years ago, in July 1999, the press was in full Camelot one-brief-shining-moment mode for the death of John F Kennedy Jr - and his wife and sister-in-law - while...
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Seasons of Steyn
Friday, 03 July 2009
Things have slipped somewhat on the old independence front since I wrote the words below - for the first Glorious Fourth post-9/11 - and "independence" seems an endangered species under Good King Barack the Stimulator's government behemoth. This excerpt is from The Face Of The Tiger:
July 4th 2002
To celebrate America’s...
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Request of the Week
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
Dear Mark,
The coverage of Michael Jackson's death reminded me about a column you wrote a long time ago about Aaliyah. Could we see it again? I don't think you've ever reprinted it.
Ellen Dean
MARK SAYS: No, you're right. It appeared a week before 9/11, and afterwards the columnar...
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One Year Ago
Saturday, 27 June 2009
The Obama presidency already seems as if it's been around forever. But, in fact, it's only a year since he wrapped up, barely, the Democratic nomination. The operative line in the column below is "If you behave like a star, you'll get treated as one":
The short version of the Democratic...
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Five Years Ago
Saturday, 06 June 2009
Ronald Reagan died five years ago - June 5th 2004. This appreciation is from Mark Steyn's Passing Parade:
All weekend long, across the networks, media grandees who’d voted for Carter and Mondale, just like all their friends did, tried to explain the appeal of Ronald Reagan. He was “the Great Communicator”, he had...
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Topical Take
Thursday, 02 July 2009
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was born in the Hague one hundred years ago - April 30th 1909. To mark her centenary, here's what I had to say about the occasion of her passing, five years ago. This obituary comes fromMark Steyn's Passing Parade:
Even before the tireless efforts of Larry King, Kitty...
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