Man Un-Makyth MannersFor whatever reason, the Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars engaged in a game of American football at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played, and two dozen players dropped to the ground and "took a knee". Then "God Save The Queen" was played, and all the Americans got off their knees and remained standing for the duration. What are we to make of this? At this point, judging from most of the ludicrous commentary on this issue, one is supposed to say something about the players exercising their First Amendment rights, and how one has to respect that, etc. Except they don't have a First Amendment in the United Kingdom, so presumably the authorities would have been entitled to release the hounds ... |
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Steyn on EuropeAlternative Reality
On Saturday night, at the end of a speech on immigration, I was asked by a lady in the audience about Sunday's impending election in Germany. She had met a young Teutonic chappie who said he was voting for Angela Merkel, and she couldn't understand why. And I said that Frau Merkel was certain to win the election, but what would be important to watch would be the respective strengths of the losing parties: my questioner's chum was voting Merkel because he feared the rise of the "far right" - ie, AfD, Alternative für Deutschland - but I suggested that AfD would do better than expected. That was a rather boring and cautious prediction, but the post-Nazi complex proportional-representation electoral system was designed by the Allies ... SteynPostsThe Matter that MattersIn this brand new SteynPost, Mark takes as his starting point the contrasting treatments of the Hillary Clinton "investigation" and the Trump "Russia' investigation, and argues that the alleged "foreign interference with US elections" is, in fact, a far more disturbing case of domestic interference with US elections. Click below to watch: SteynPosts and The Mark Steyn Show are made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club, for which we... On the AirSteyn on Stage, Screen, Radio, the Printed Page ...and More
Yesterday was a busy day for me on TV - talking Dreamers with Ash Webster, banana-republic secret police with Neil Cavuto, and finally Congressional approval ratings with Lou Dobbs. ~Today I spent three hours on the radio guest-hosting America's Number One radio broadcast. You can find a few moments from the show here. Somewhere along the way I mentioned Kim Jong-Un denouncing Donald Trump as a "dotard". And, after a couple of Shakespearean references, I trilled: High on a hill was a lonely dotard... Mar Dukes emails to correct: Tell Mark in The Sound of Music they sing of a goatherd, not a dotard. There are days I feel I'm ten years overdue for retirement. We also talked about rugby, and I mentioned the New Zealand team, the All Blacks. ... On the AirThe Lies of James ClapperTomorrow, Friday, Mark rounds out the week guest-hosting for Rush on America's Number One radio show, starting at 12 noon Eastern/9am Pacific. We hope you'll tune in, either on one of over 600 radio stations across America or via iHeartMedia livestream. Meanwhile, here's what he had to say with Neil Cavuto earlier today re James Clapper's remarks on the outgoing Obama Administration's surveillance of the incoming Trump Administration. Click below to watch: Mark will have more to say about the "Russia investigation"... On the AirThe Inability to Uni-Task
Mark started the day with a full hour on one of his favorite shows, "Varney & Co" on Fox Business. Ashley Webster was guest-hosting for Stuart, and the topics included North Korea, tax reform, Dreamers, and the sentimentalization of public policy... On the AirThe Decadence of DemocratsOn Wednesday night Mark kept his midweek date with Tucker Carlson on Fox News. The subject was the increasingly extremist rhetoric from Nancy Pelosi, Keith Ellison and other leading Democrats: As always, Mark Steyn Club members who dissent from... Steyn on CultureStatue of Limitations
Sixteen years into the "war on terror", we're fighting over the wrong turf, and with the wrong weapons Steyn on EuropeWhen Opposite World Moves In Next Door
The internal contradictions of the rainbow coalition On the AirTerror and Twaddle
Mark talks bucket bombs in London, and a ratings bomb at the Emmys Defend Free Speech!The Vertigo at the Top of the Stick
In a couple of months, Michael E Mann's defamation suit against me will enter its sixth year in the constipated bowels of DC justice... |
Steyn's Song of the WeekAt Last/Serenade in Blue
As I was saying just seven days ago, exactly three-quarters of a century back - September 1942 - an entirely forgettable film opened that left us three unforgettable songs. Which isn't bad for a movie with George Montgomery and Ann Rutherford and Cesar Romero and Carole Landis, none of whom are where you go to look for great hit numbers. In fact, Harry Warren and Mack Gordon wrote a quintet of songs for Orchestra Wives, and the two that haven't lasted would have sounded pretty good in most circumstances. Had the United States Government not considered it unhelpful to the war effort, "That's Sabotage", in particular, might have taken off: it's kinda cute and super-catchy, and one I used to enjoy playing when I was a teenager. But the three big songs from the film are on another scale. Last week, we featured the splashy production number, "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo", so today we're going with the two ballads. One of them - thanks to an assist from Etta James and then Barack Obama - is bigger today than it's ever been... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, September 18-24
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark Mark at the MoviesLA Confidential
For our Saturday movie date this week, we're marking the twentieth anniversary of LA Confidential, which opened in September 1997, with a belated tip of the hat to its director, Curtis Hanson, who died last year... The Mark Steyn ClubThe Pest in the Street
Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent The Mark Steyn ClubWaterloo Sunset
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In Episode Seventeen of Mark's audio adaptation of The Secret Agent, Winnie Verloc faces what she has done, and dreads the price she will pay for it... Steyn's Song of the WeekThe Glory of LoveIf you saw singer/pianist Carol Welsman do "As Time Goes By" as our Sunday song a few weeks back, you'll know that she can freshen up the most familiar standard. So we're thrilled to have Carol back live, accompanied by the Steyn house band: Steyn's Song of the WeekAt Long Last LoveAnother live-performance edition, with Robert Davi singing Cole Porter: The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowBig Mac en roseMichael Keaton's biopic of the man behind McDonald's; a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore; and Canada's disco diva Patsy Gallant recalls Édith Piaf: Mann vs SteynFootball and HockeyThe Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
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