Politics & Current Affairs
State Funeral For A Glacier
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In this week's Laura's Links: Iceland mourns a glacier, anti-Semitic Leftist ice queens continue to make hay out of a travel ban from Israel, and a transgender cricket player melts away real women's chances of victory.
Stop Yer Lyin' or Yer Not Comin' to Zion
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From Ramadan raps to a cross-country granny, the latest Laura's Links
Shaving Away Profits
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Gillette's woke gamble cost the company eight billion dollars. But maybe they can go get degrees in Marijuana Studies instead?
Steyn's Back on Tucker Carlson Tonight
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After a short summer break, Mark returns to "Tucker Carlson Tonight"...
That's One Angry Flower Girl
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From a creepily cute wedding photobomb to Donald Trump's continuous Twitter victories, here are the top stories you may-have-seen-but-probably-missed, courtesy of Laura Rosen Cohen...
Berrying Boris
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Until his car passed through the gates of Buckingham Palace en route to the kissing of hands, I didn't quite believe Boris Johnson would actually make it to the premiership. That's partly because many years ago he arrived late at a Spectator lunch, told us he'd just realized he was going to be prime minister, and we all laughed...
Can't Get Into That
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After the Special Counsel's flop performance before Congress, Mark revisits his interview with Mueller victim George Papadopoulos
The Taming of the Jew-Hating Shrew
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Laura Rosen Cohen takes us 20,000 links under the sea in her latest roundup of the insane, infuriating and indigestible
The Cancelling of Lindsay Shepherd
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From Lindsay Shepherd's virtual vaporization by Big Tech to daddy-daughter wardrobe sessions, Laura Rosen Cohen returns with the latest instalment of her weekly round-up of specially curated stories from across the globe.
Wokers of the World Utd
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After much acclaim for her first SteynOnline contribution, Australian Mark Steyn Club member Kate Smyth returns with this take on the wokeification of the western workplace.
Wokeness at Warp Speed
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The difference between "Bush Derangement Syndrome" and "Trump Derangement Syndrome" was that the former was largely contained to a visceral loathing for the President himself, whereas the latter has been extended to anyone who voted for him...
Rip Van Woken in a Land of Non-Binary Oreos
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The Age of Woke is one of accelerating obsolescence
The Empire Wokes Back
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In Democrat identity politics it helps to be a British subject
Is it Hot in Here or is it Just Me?
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Laura Rosen Cohen links around the world, from California grooming to Continental bathing
Contempt is the New Tax Evasion
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It's not illegal to be a bigoted, racist, Islamophobe as Tommy Robinson's critics allege he is. So the government got him on contempt of court and a parking ticket instead.
Milkshakes Come in Vanilla, Chocolate and Concrete
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Laura Rosen Cohen once again takes us 20,000 links under the sea in her weekly round-up of content from around the globe ranging from the cute to the infuriating.
Portlantifa
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Muelling About
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Robert Mueller is testifying before congress. Here's a look back at some of the swamp's leading men throughout the Russia investigation.
That'll Be One Palestinian Piranha Pedicure, Please
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Laura Rosen Cohen once again brings you more links than you'd find on a PGA tour as she trawls the internet for the stories you might have missed...
Cis-ters Are Doin' It For Themselves
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Kate Smyth on how the victim culture is undoing the work of many women's rights trailblazers
When Normal is Insufficient
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My old boss Boris Johnson has been fortunate, as Donald Trump was in 2016, in his enemies.
Where's That Vatican Border Wall?
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Laura Rosen Cohen takes us around the world in 80 clicks, from an Ohio bakery to the Vatican with stops in Michiganistahn and deep state dumpsters.
The Man on the Escalator
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Trump, Bernie, and a Steyn I-told-you-so moment
Do the Wokestapo Wear Hermes Scarves?
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Laura Rosen Cohen links around the world
Brexit for Cokeheads
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O tempora, O Tories
Steyn Appears Before the House of Commons Justice Committee
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JUST Desserts
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Useless Tories on either side of the Atlantic, a Wolf gets sheepish, and Armenians for Lulu
The Base Gets Itself a New Elite
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The return of Farage, and the repudiation of May ...and Corbyn
He Fought the Law - and He Won, Eventually
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Conrad Black's long overdue pardon and America's disgraceful and corrupt federal "justice" system
It Takes a Village Idiot
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Mark on "the village idiots of Brexit", the dark corruption at the heart of the FBI, and a comedian whose biggest laugh was a newspaper headline...
Alyssistrata
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Mark and Tucker on Alyssa Milano and Bette Midler's sex strike in the cause of abortion:
A Hard Sell
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Treachery and incompetence: The Tories' winning combination
The Best of All Possible Government Ministries
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The Ministry of Possibilities, Justin practices feng sushi, the "far right" moves nearer, and the judenrein New York Times
Taqiyya for Easter
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The media's determination to present an Islamic massacre of Christians as anything but
Fire and Faith
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The sorry state of French Christendom
The Gay Blade
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Woke razors, gay rugger, and Theresa's tyranny
The Craven Pile-On of Hollow Conservatives
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Distancing yourself into the distance
Ministry of All the Fools
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Brexit thwarters, Privy Council enforcers and Tongan reverts
The Fanmaid's Tale
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New Zealand takes virtue-signaling to the next level
Deep-State Dumpster Fire
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After two years, Robert Mueller folds
Exit Brexit
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Parliament rises up against the people
Bush Whacks
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Steyn on Winston's biographer and Dubya's dinner companion, criminalizing movie reviews, and betraying Brexit
Calling Out Around the World
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All jihad is local, but all "Islamophobia" is global...
The GOP's Next Hill Not to Die On?
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From bigshot Democrats to moderate conservatives, "reparations" catches on
Two-Mile Tailbacks at Jew-Hate Junction
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Everyone meets at Jew-Hate Junction: excitable young Mohammedans, secular polytechnic Euro-lefties, anti-globalist conspiracy theorists...
Trudeaupia on the Waterfront
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Perversion of justice in Ottawa and Melbourne - and Steyn remembers the comic timing of a great conductor
Sousaphoning It In
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Voiceless sound men, womanless women's sports, and Sousa seizures
Steyn in for Rush Today!
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Steyn on the air, Dennis on stage, dust in the wind, Anne in the water...
Chasing Butts Across the Commonwealth
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Gropers in Sydney, plotters in Ottawa
Watching Bricks Get Laid
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Mark joins Kat, Tyrus and his fellow Torontonian Dr Debra Soh on "The Greg Gutfeld Show"
The Future They're Planning for Us
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Steyn on two contrasting approaches to population growth - and the hereditary nobility of Michigan
Accessories and Crimes
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Trump Derangement vs Bush Derangement; the crime of Tweet liking; and the Wodehousian stage of social protest
The Drumbeat of the Mob
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Conservative Inc disgraces itself
Pure Barry. Or Not.
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Steyn on the air and in Wilkes-Barre, and Howard Dean in full voice and in Canada
Change and Decay in All Around
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Social justice paedo-chic
The Real Crisis
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Trump, the Democrats, and the border
A Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Se'nnight of Steyn, 2018
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In case you missed it, here's how the last twelve months looked to Mark
A Forest of Bare Branches
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The politburo and the press catch up to Steyn's thesis on China
The American Media, Suckered Again
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Time's Man of the Year and a Steyn I-told-you-so moment
Lone But Motley
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A "lone wolf" doesn't want for company
Campaign 2020 Update
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Another hundred million bucks out the window
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— Seth Barron (@SethBarronNYC) December 31, 2018
The Man, the Myth, the Pussycat
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Ashley Webster interviews Mark on politics, comedy, music and more
Steyn in for Rush Today!
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Wombles, cockwombles, and courtroom cockwombles
Sapphic Sharia Same-Sex Slavers in Secaucus!
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The Taqiya branch of the rainbow coalition
The New Christmas Tradition
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"Life must go on" means sudden, bloody, murderous death must go on
Among the Cockwombles
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French protesters, Russian bots, Greek moppets and the first American cockwomble
Last Call
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Steyn on Somalia with chip shops, golf with Sinatra, and a world without CRTV
All I Want for Christmas Is More Bollards
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Festive Terrablocks and a Hokey-Cokey Brexit
Turki Leftovers
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Steyn on a deep-cover Saudi spook and his princely patron plus an urbane BBC survivor and SteynOnline's sixteenth birthday
Welcome to the Hotel Brexifornia
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Steyn on Theresa May's betrayal of Brexit, and a possible replacement for her
A Tale of Two Migrants
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An immigrant dream ends in a jihadist nightmare on the streets of Melbourne
The Morning After
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Notes on the blue wave that wasn't, and a red trickle in the Senate
Monsieur le Pseudo-Président
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Bernard Landry, the separatist who couldn't separate
Finding Wisdom as the Branches Shrivel
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Real slaughter in Pittsburgh, a fake Seminole in Florida, and a new Muslim in Ireland
Rationalizing Our Surrender
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Creeping Sharia watch: Just because a bloke has sex with a nine-year-old doesn't mean he's a pedophile...
Bombs A-Weighed
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The answer to more violence is never less speech - as even Mitt Romney should know
The Man who Put the Saud in Saudi Arabia
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A mail bomber on the loose - and the perfidious Sauds
Smiley's People
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Fighting for Kandahar while surrendering Paris - plus when Sargey gets blue, and not feline so groovy
Perfumes of Arabia
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Saudi consular services, Canada's coercive tolerance, and Dennis Miller's sketch aversion
For Whom the Dog Tolls
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Nova Scotian canines, media know-nothings, Gosnell grosses - and whatever happened to Peggy-Sue?
Man, I Feel Like a Womxn
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A squirrel can be a service animal, a white man can be a person of color, but a woman can no longer be a woman
Taking a Mile So They'll Move an Inch
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Steyn and Trump then and now, Gosnell the movie, and Bachman-Bachmann Overdrive
The Turning Point
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Brett Kavanaugh de-Borks himself, with precious little help from the Republicans
The Majority as Identity Group
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A remarkable election in Quebec, and its wider implications
It's Here, It's There, It's Everywhere
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Steyn on sexual inquisition, self-awareness and subversion
The Folding Stuff
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Mark's Monday Notebook to start the week: Steyn on GOP spines, second-rate schools, fourth-rate senates, a new political party in Canada, and touching shiny baubles...
The Word That Can't Be Questioned
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The state religion and its heretics
Infame and Great Place
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Anyone for tennis?
Odd Couples of the Obituaries Page
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Steyn on John McCain and Neil Simon
The Spiller Spilled
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Here comes another Aussie PM: Steyn on the rise and fall of backstabber Malcolm Turnbull
The Priorities of US Justice
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Deported Nazis, murderous aliens, and flipped minions
A Nation for All Except Its Nationals
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Contempt for the citizenry grows ever more open
The "Leaders of Violence" Smashing the Past
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America, Britain and Canada opt to live in Pol Pot's Year Zero
The Surrender of the Public Square
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Steyn on street smarts and Smuts-shaming
Back in the Saddle (with One Stirrup)
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Simcoe Day in Toronto, French tricolors on Chinese eyeballs, and Gibraltarian composers on the road to LA
The Dissolution of the People
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Bertolt Brecht's advice, as taken up by the new Germany, and France, and Britain...
Sea Change
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Italy resists the Age of Aquarius
Soliloquies for Dummies
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Steyn on a highbrow De Niro, a lowbrow Trudeau, and a brow-beaten Britain
Swimming with the Tide
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There she goes, Miss America
As I Was Saying...
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The day after tomorrow, twelve years on:
"Tommy this, an' Tommy that ...an' Tommy go away"
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The British state would rather shoot the messenger
Tinker, Tailor, Clapper, Carter, Downer, Halper, Spy
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The investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election
"We Don't Know Who We Are"
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Dispatching Bernard, matching Harry, and hatching a subversive play
Friendly Neighborhood Schneiderman
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The unusual alter-ego of Samantha Bee's superhero
The Process is the Punishment (As Always)
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Investigation without end
Life Belongs Only to the Strong..?
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Steyn on Alfie Evans, Stephen Foster, and Big Climate's biggest scam
Mark Levin and His "Great Patriot"
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When a "great patriot" sues his own "wonderful network"
Pictures From an Exhibitionist
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Comedy gold from Mitt Romney, Justin Trudeau, and a defender of scofflaw deadbeats CRTV
Rivers of Blood and the Tides of History
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Enoch Powell and a political speech that echoes down the decades
Typhoid and Tambourines
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Steyn on a portent of the future; immigration and free speech; why the GOP base despises its leaders; and "Hey, Jude" vs "What a Wonderful World"
The Nation as Insoluble Problem
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Mark's Weekend Notebook - on Syria and Germany, on Germany and Hungary, on Paul Ryan's long goodbye and George Jonas' enduring wisdom
Only in America?
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A telling moment in Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony
Flacks and Flicks
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A trio of Harvard men to start the week: Ted, Tom and Zuck
Diversity unto Death - Literally
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Steyn on murder in London and New York, Easter at NBC and NPR, and Islamo-leftie outsourcing to women and children
Stormwatch Update
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Media double standards - and a song for Anderson Cooper
The Grand Convergence
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The first mass shooter motivated by YouTube "de-monetization" policies
Chivalry and Suicide
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Steyn on heroism, depravity and passivity in a dying France
Of the remenant nedeth nat enquere
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Telford and the cuckold state
Speakers Cornered
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The British state as appeaser and enabler of its enemies
Inclusion Riders of the Showbiz Apocalypse
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At the Oscars: no show, no politics, no nothin'...
Everything Must Go! Massive Nationwide Clearance
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Steyn on a re-assassinated president, a dress-up prime minister, and a truly brave scientist
A Total Failure of the State
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The appalling conduct of Sheriff Scott Israel and his Broward County deputies
The State Submits
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European officialdom smooths the path for Islam
Provocations and Transgressions
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Terror trials and climate trials - and Steyn talks to The National Post:
Green-Eyed About Brown Eyes
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Self-deporting dreamers, canine glass ceilings, and trial by ordeal
An Absence of Mind in the Hindu Kush
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Steyn on control-freak "social media", a re-Talibanized Afghanistan, and an unvetted cabinet minister
Un-Candid in Camera
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Steyn on the memo - and what it means
The Constitutional Right to a Long Goodbye
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The State of the Union: the speech - and what Trump's up against...
The Grammy Hall of Lame
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Steyn riffles through a potpourri of headlines, from the FISA memo to sharia courtesy of Australian taxpayers
Hump Day
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Snapshots of a changing world, from Araby to England
Captain the Illiterate!
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Mark with Monday Mohammeds, transatlantic posteriors, and more
Of Sellouts, Sepoys and Superheroes
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There was almost too much news these last 24 hours. Mark takes a tour of the headlines...
The Endless Night of the Long Knives
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Steyn on stabbings, from Vermont to Ireland
Welcome to the New Year, Same as the Old
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Happy New Year to you. On the Eighth Day of Christmas the multiculti fetishists gave to us...
A Three-Hundred-and-Sixty-Se'nnight of Steyn, 2017
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Happy New Year! In case you missed it, here's how the last twelve months looked to Mark...
We Are the Bollards
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An "Australian citizen" mows down pedestrians ...but don't worry, it's "not terror-related"
The Co-Dependents of the "Independent" Counsel
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Ten quick thoughts on the hideously corrupted "Russia investigation"
O tempora O Moores
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Steyn's post-mortem on a bizarre Alabama senate race
A Land of Mini-Coups
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Steyn on the "Russia investigation"
Many Happy Returns
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Steyn on nuptials, taxes, demography, downfalls, and a Congressional thug
The Mood Music of Mohammed
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Getting used to it - in Spain and Finland and Belgium ...and Buckingham Palace
The Transfiguration of Diana
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Steyn on one of the most bizarre weeks in modern British history
Dual to the Death!
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Here is a news story that will make no sense whatsoever to anyone who is not Australian - and, indeed, shouldn't really make any sense even if you are Australian...
Jihad on the Bike Path
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We're gonna need more Diversity Bollards...
How to Steele an Election
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The amazing persistence of a worthless dossier
The Rubber Hits the Road
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Robert Mugabe, Goodwill Ambassador?
What Happens in Vegas Doesn't Stay in Reno
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In the wake of police bungling in Nevada, the conspiracy theories spread...
Best Not to Mention It
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One of the most agreeable features of Common Law used to be its lack of interest in so-called group rights. What mattered was the individual, equal before the law. But that was then and this is now...
Go Big or Go Home
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Heading for the exits in England, East Germany, and Catalonia...
The Empty Paddock
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I had thought by last night we would know more about Stephen Craig Paddock. By now the usual social-media non-paper trail and petty-crime police records and mental-health issues should have emerged. Instead, nothing has - except some bizarrely distinctive details...
Alternative Reality
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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 - and that AfD would do better than expected...
When Opposite World Moves In Next Door
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The internal contradictions of the rainbow coalition
The Language of Losing
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Sixteen years after 9/11, a Mad Dog and his insufficient bark
Dreams, Delusions and Duplicity
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He's no Dreamer: Mark on the sentimentalization of public policy
The Coming Terror
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The respectable classes and their fetish for thuggery
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