Monday, May 26, 2008
Oil exec charade
Mark agrees with me that interviewing the oil execs on prices is a useless operation.
I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress. That was my first mistake. If memory serves, there was lesbian mud wrestling over on Channel 137, and on the whole that’s less rigged.
I wonder how long we are going to let eco-terrorists ruin the Western way of life.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Mark on the little child(ren)
The anti-natalists are back in force this year, and Steyn doesn’t like it.
The birth of a child. On the one hand, what could be more powerless than a newborn babe? On the other, without a newborn babe, man is ultimately powerless. For, without new life, there can be no civilization, no society, no nothing. Even if it’s superstitious mumbo-jumbo, the decision to root Christ’s divinity in the miracle of His birth expresses a profound - and rational - truth about “eternal life” here on Earth.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Happy Dominion Day!
Not all of us like the new Canada Day moniker.
Mark recounts how it’s Year 0 in our “young” nation.
Sunday, April 15, 2007
On the Nappy Heads
Mark weighs in on the Imus non-event that swept across America last week.
I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where a white guy can be fired for racist remarks without his employers having to prostrate themselves before clapped out professional grievance mongers and shakedown artists. But dream on.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Britannia, waive the rules!
Mark’s take on the latest Iran victory.
Instead, as we know, the mullahs were fortunate enough to take hostage 15 Royal Navy sailors and Royal Marines.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Blair turns tail
Mark hits one out of the park with a great column on the West’s inaction on hostage taking, part 2.
On this 25th anniversary of the Falklands War, Tony Blair is looking less like Margaret Thatcher and alarmingly like Jimmy Carter, the embodiment of the soi-disant “superpower” as a smiling eunuch.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Steyn covers Black
Good news...Mark is covering the Black trial.
Mark Steyn covers the Conrad Black trial from opening arguments to final verdict.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
More eco-math
Mark’s crunching the numbers on the so-called eco-holocaust.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Green koolaid anti-dote
Finally, the sage of our day helps relieve some of the global clouding bullshit giving me a rock solid headache.
Indeed. If the science is so solid, maybe they could drag it out to the Arctic for the poor polar bears to live on now that the ice is melting faster than a coed’s heart at an Al Gore lecture.
I’m sorry to hear that the PM has been sipping the kool-aid, in order to secure some of the lemming votes in Central Canada. Guess this is political expediency.
At least Harper is still talking common sense. This is a good sign.
“I think the first realistic step in any such plan will be to try over the next few years to stabilize emissions and obviously over the longer term to reduce them,” he said. “I don’t think realistically we can tell Canadians: Stop driving your car; stop going to work; turn the heat off in the winter. These are not realistic solutions.”
Thursday, November 2, 2006
I hate monopolies
Guess what? You can’t get Mark’s book at any of the old-fashioned book stores in Canada.
Anybody out there seen my book?
You won’t sell my book in Canada? Why, I’m flattered
At least Amazon has it
Monday, September 11, 2006
9-11
Mark isn’t sure the federal bureaucracy can see the obvious danger among us.
And, given that free societies tend naturally toward a Katrina mentality of doing nothing until it happens, one morning we will wake up to another day like the “day that changed everything.” Sept. 11 was less “a failure of imagination” than an ability to see that America’s enemies were hiding in plain sight.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
A cakewalk
Mark comments on the two Foxies caught and released by the Palis...it was an odd case to be sure. His main theme is that the Islamists will have no problem getting us to convert, since we have no real beliefs in the first place. I’d agree that most Westerners worship at the consumer alter, but getting any of us to roll over to Islam is a bit of a stretch. I still think Fox paid off the kidnappers off big time.
Did you see that video of the two Fox journalists announcing they’d converted to Islam? The larger problem, it seems to me, is that much of the rest of the Western media have also converted to Islam, and there seems to be no way to get them to convert back to journalism.
Monday, August 21, 2006
Steyn Down Under
A summary lecture from the great one, touching his familiar themes of depopulation of Western Europe and the great war of our future civilization.
None of these pillars of what we used to regard as conventional society is quite as sturdy as it was, and most of them have collapsed.
Friday, August 4, 2006
War is natural
Mark says that war is in our bones, just not our recent ones.
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Canadians of convenience
Mark on those who are Canadians by passport only. So much for the oath to the Queen.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Professionalization of war is ghettoization of war
Mark explains, like no one else can, why the most powerful military in history hasn’t “won” yet in Iraq.
“What if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests?”
Sunday, July 16, 2006
The Iran virus
Mark explains what exactly is at work in the Middle East Powderkeg.
Why? Because in both cases these territories are now in effect Iran’s land borders with the Zionist Entity. They’re “occupied territories” but it’s not the Jews doing the occupying. So you’ve got a choice between talking with proxies or going to the source: Tehran
It’s clear that the shot to end the latest war needs to be aimed at Tehran. Will we see this shot soon?
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Chief Saudi export
Mark on the Saudis most dangerous export.
What’s nutty is that, half a decade on from Sept. 11, the Saudis are still allowed to bankroll schools and mosques and think tanks and fast-track imam chaplaincy programs in prisons and armed forces around the world. Oil isn’t the principal Saudi export, ideology is; petroleum merely bankrolls it.
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Young Trudeau: Fascist, anti-Semite, and separatist
Finally, some real dirt that those of us who think Trudeau destroyed this country can use.
Update: Steyn weighs in.
Fortunately, Conrad Black is on hand to keep things in proportion. In Pierre, he concludes his appreciation thus:
“I always found him a delightful conversationalist and a gracious host, though perhaps slow to reach for the bill in a restaurant, even when we were there on his invitation.”
Too true. He left us with the bill, in every sense.
Sunday, May 7, 2006
It’s war, not a crime
The farther we get from 9-11, the fewer people realize this is a war, and not a series of crimes.
On the afternoon of Sept. 11, as the Pentagon still burned, Donald Rumsfeld told the president, “This is not a criminal action. This is war.”
That’s still the distinction that matters.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Time to act
Mark says it’s time to act again Iran now, or pay a bigger price later.
That moment of ascendancy is now upon us. Or as the Daily Telegraph in London reported: “Iran’s hardline spiritual leaders have issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies.”
Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Wake up Europe Book Review
Mark reviews the latest crop of “Europe is headed for the falls” books.
Wake up, Europe. It may already be too late.
Why the fall and spring riot seasons in France are signs of the coming apocalypse
Saturday, March 25, 2006
We have our customs
Mark says it’s time to start imposing some of our customs on the countries we are liberating.
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
Monday, March 13, 2006
Know thy neighbor
Mark says it’s time to know your (Muslim) neighbor, before “east meets west on judgment day.”
Sunday, February 26, 2006
History is repeating
Steyn warns that history repeats itself, and it’s doing so right now. Problem is, no-one wants to notice.
This month, there was another murder. Ilan Halimi, also 23, also Jewish, was found by a railway track outside Paris with burns and knife wounds all over his body. He died en route to the hospital, having been held prisoner, hooded and naked, and brutally tortured for almost three weeks by a gang that had demanded half a million dollars from his family. Can you take a wild guess at the particular identity of the gang? During the ransom phone calls, his uncle reported that they were made to listen to Ilan’s screams as he was being burned while his torturers read out verses from the Quran.
Update: Debbie Schlussel has an entry on the subject.