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Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn: Beating Swords Into Ponzi Shares and the Real Cost of Multiculti

October 26, 2011

While Europe slept in and slept around: A nation without a military is no longer a nation. But beyond that, in a more general sense, nations that abandon their militaries tend also to abandon their national interests: Increasingly, instead of policies, they have attitudes. “Global warming” — “saving” the planet — is the perfect preoccupation [...]

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Steyn: Pat down of Obama might provide the “definitive answer” “if he’s got his birth certificate down there”

November 19, 2010

Update: Lt. Col. Terry Laikin refuses service till Obama shows his BC Whether you believe in the ‘birther’ thing or not, the fact that a sitting president had overtly had all his school and other records sealed would never have been accepted from any other president in US history. Something is most definitely rotten in [...]

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Mark Steyn & Liberal Society

November 17, 2010

Mark Steyn Quote: A few months after 9/11, I was strolling along the Boulevard de Maisonneuve in Montréal. Across the street there was an “adult” shop with its window full of very explicit gay sex paraphernalia. Struggling past it, laden with shopping bags, was a Muslim woman covered from head to toe. It’s not hard to figure [...]

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Litigation Jihad: Lawfare Against Truth

October 28, 2010

What we need to learn from from our enemies A message from Pamela Geller: Truth is the new hate-speech The Silence of the Lambs There are lessons that we can learn from the enemy. There is little admirable in the evil machinations of the left’s tactics, but their defense of their own people is one [...]

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Whole Lotta Muzzling Going On

October 25, 2010

Centre refuses to host Steyn lecture on free speech A man who talks about free speech and Islam gets banned from talking at a civic auditorium out of fear of angering muslims. You can’t make this stuff up, I wonder if the irony is lost on the managers of the auditorium or on muslims? Organizers [...]

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Mark Steyn: Bowing to Islam

October 1, 2010

Bowing to Islam’s view (of us) (JWR) While I’ve been talking about free speech in Copenhagen, several free speech issues arose in North America. I was asked about them both at the Sappho Award event and in various interviews, so here’s a few thoughts for what they’re worth: Too many people in the free world [...]

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Free Speech, Then And Now

September 22, 2010

Back in 2005, Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen set the gold standard on defending free speech when, on being approached by perpetually aggrieved Islamic ambassadors hoping for official redress against Jyllands Posten (Cartoon Rage was just kicking in), he refused to hear their plaints, explaining to them and the world that it was not his place, as [...]

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Now what?

September 14, 2010

Did you miss him yet? KRudd to the world Bad news for diplomats and bureaucrats – Kevin Rudd has been named as the next foreign affairs minister. Who would have thought that this insufferable parvenu would be back to do even more damage to the nation? Mark Steyn took a long summer break. Here you can [...]

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