Steyn on America
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Four score and seven years ago … No, wait, my mistake. Two score and seven or eight days ago, Barack Obama gave the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address, or FDR's First Inaugural, or JFK's religion speech, or (if, like Garry Wills in The New York Review of Books, you...
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Steyn on Canada and the Commonwealth
Saturday, 10 May 2008
A couple of years ago, an Australian reader wrote to say he was beginning to feel as Robert Frost did in "A Minor Bird":
I have wished a bird would fly away
And not sing by my house all day.
My correspondent's unceasingly cheeping bird was Islam. He was fed up waking...
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Steyn on the World
Monday, 05 May 2008
HAPPY WARRIOR
from National Review
Last month, during the Vatican’s Easter vigil, Magdi Allam, the deputy editor of Corriere della Sera, converted from Islam to Catholicism. And not for the first time I was reminded of an old joke I modified for America Alone:
A ten-dollar bill is in the center of...
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