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Sorry, Newt. Only the debt ceiling will reach the moon.
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GOP not so 'Grand'
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VIDEO: The Republican primary process hasn't left Mark Steyn filled with hope for the near future. Find out why in this interview with Michael Coren on The Arena.
Ron Paul beckons GOP to Fortress America
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In the 2010 election the New Hampshire Republican Party took 298 out of 400 House seats, 19 out of 24 state Senate seats, and all five seats on the Executive Council. A little over a year later, in the state's presidential primary, the same (more or less) electorate gave over 56 percent of its votes to a couple of moneyed "moderates," one of whom served in the Obama administration and the other of whom left no trace in office other than the pilot program for Obamacare. Another 23 percent voted for Ron Paul.
Politics trumps Left's empathy
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Lest you doubt that we're headed for the most vicious election year in memory, consider the determined effort, within 10 minutes of his triumph in Iowa, to weirdify Rick Santorum
Our Sick State
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A couple of months back, I was with a friend of mine when she suddenly collapsed and I found myself having to run her to the emergency room. After a fairly harrowing 14 hours, the hospital released her, the doctor writing her a prescription for the still-very-intense pain she was in. So we stopped at her local Kinney Drugs in Vermont. Despite having been called in by the doc, the prescription wasn't ready. Come back in an hour. Heigh-ho. So we left it an hour and a half, and then, not wishing ...
THE COCOON OF DENIAL
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Ring in the same old same old
THE GINGRICH GESTALT
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Newt's world is one of more government, more bureaucracy, more dependency
MORE MORE MORE. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?
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As the SS Spendaholic heads for the abyss, Steyn proposes a new national anthem
MORE, MORE, MORE. HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?
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I see Andrea True died earlier this month. The late disco diva enjoyed a brief moment of global celebrity in 1976 with her ubiquitous glitterball favorite: More, More, More How do you like it? How do you like it? More, More, More How do you like it? How do you like it? In honor of Andrea's passing, I have asked my congressman to propose the adoption of this song as the U.S. national anthem.True, Miss True wrote the number as an autobiographical reflection on her days as a porn movie actress ...
NO MAN'S LAND
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Steyn on Penn State: What's illegal, what's wrong, and what's the difference.
NO MAN'S LAND
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There is a famous if apocryphal tale of a Fleet Street theatre critic covering the first night of a new play in the West End of London. At the end of the evening, he went to a public telephone and dictated his review. The following morning, a furious editor called him and demanded to know why he had neglected to mention that, midway through the Third Act, the theater had caught fire and burned to the ground. The critic sniffily replied that it was not his business to report fires, but that, if ...
AUSTERITY FEVER GRIPS WASHINGTON!
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Have you been following this so-called Supercommittee? They're the new superhero group of Superfriends from the Supercongress who are going to save America from plummeting over the cliff and into the multitrillion-dollar abyss. There's Spender Woman (Patty Murray), Incumbent Boy (Max Baucus), Kept Man (John Kerry) and many other warriors for truth, justice and the American way of debt. The Supercommittee is supposed to report back by the day before Thanksgiving on how to carve out $1.2 trillion ...
AUSTERITY FEVER GRIPS WASHINGTON!
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...from the Superfriends' Supercommittee to the Social Security lifestyle glossy
REVOLUTION KARAOKE
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The grand convergence of the non-productive classes
REVOLUTION KARAOKE
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Way back in 1968, after the riots at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Mayor Daley declared that his forces were there to "preserve disorder." I believe that was one of Hizzoner's famous malapropisms. Forty-three years later Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, and the Oakland city council have made "preserving disorder" the official municipal policy. On Wednesday, the "Occupy Oakland" occupiers rampaged through the city, shutting down the nation's fifth-busiest port, forcing stores to close, ...
DIAPER CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN
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It's Awareness-Raising Day Awareness Day!
DIAPER CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN
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Last Thursday was officially "Diaper Need Awareness Day" in the State of Connecticut. Were you aware of it? There are so many awareness-raising days, it's hard to keep track. Maybe we could have an Awareness-Raising Day Awareness Day. At any rate, the first annual Diaper Need Awareness Day was proclaimed by Dan Malloy, governor of the Nutmeg State, and they had a big old awareness-raising get-together in New Haven. It's not clear yet whether they've got an official ribbon. We're running a bit ...
MOMENTARY MADNESS
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The youth of "Occupy Wall Street" share the same assumptions as their parents and grandparents
BIG SLOTH AND THE AMERICAN AUTUMN
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It's American Autumn ...and you know what comes after that: America's college kids demand more government-funded lethargy
SOFT SELL, HARD CONSEQUENCES
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There was no due diligence on Obama in 2008, and the press has no plans to change that.
IN THE DANGER ZONE
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'It's the end of the world as we know it," sang the popular musical artistes R.E.M. many years ago. And it is. R.E.M. has announced that they're splitting up after almost a third of a century. But these days who isn't? The eurozone, the world's first geriatric boy band, is on the verge of busting apart. Chimerica (Prof. Niall Ferguson's amusing name for the Chinese-American economic partnership that started around the same time R.E.M. did) is going the way of Wham!, with Beijing figuring it's ...
THE "PASS THIS BILL NOW!" BILL
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The president has taken to the campaign trail to promote his American Jobs Act. That's a good name for it: an act. "Pass this bill now!" he declared 24 times at a stop in in Raleigh, North Carolina, and another 18 in Columbus, Ohio, and the act is sufficiently effective that, three years into the Vapidity of Hope, the president can still find crowds of true believers willing to chant along with him: "Pass this bill now!" Not all supporters are content merely to singalong with the ...
THE HOLE AT THE CENTER
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Guest-hosting for Rush on Friday, I mentioned that, for a writer, one of the pleasures of doing the show is that a listener's call will start your mind heading to places it might never have got to if you were just sitting in a room typing away. One example of that occurred last year when I was hosting the show during the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, and my resulting riff attracted a lot of commentary. I subsequently expanded my thoughts in After America, and it seems appropriate to excerpt ...
LIFE, BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT
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That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the "debt ceiling" negotiations the other day: "What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today." It's always good to have things explained in terms we simpletons can understand. After a while, all the stuff about debt-to-GDP ratio and CBO alternative baseline scenarios starts to give you a bit of a headache, so we should be grateful to ...
THE FRAUD OF "YOU'RE NOT ON YOUR OWN" ECONOMICS
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The President of the United States came to Osawatomie, Kansas, last week to deliver a speech of such fascinating awfulness that archeologists of the future, sifting through the rubble of our civilization, will surely doubt whether it could really have been delivered by the chief executive of the global superpower in the year 2011. "This isn't about class warfare," declared President Obama. Really? As his fellow Democrat Dale Bumpers testified at the Clinton impeachment trial, "When you hear ...
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