Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Let’s not roll

Mark isn’t happy at all with the memorial to the heroes of Flight 93.

At 9.58am Eastern time, Tuesday September 11th 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.

Why?

As UPI’s Jim Bennett wrote, “The Era of Osama lasted about an hour and a half or so, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty.”

Sunday, September 11, 2005

We’re winning half the war

Mark says we’re winning the war overseas, but losing it at home.

Sept. 11, 2005—the fourth anniversary of the start of the war. That is, if you believe it’s a ‘’war’’ A lot of people didn’t want to, even in those first days.

Thursday, September 8, 2005

Welcome to the Shemale nation

Mark rips out a gem on how the new insignificant Dominion probably won’t last past a few more generations.

Sunday, September 4, 2005

Nothing’s changed much

Billions later, and Mark doesn’t see much change in the federal agencies set up to protect America.

The comparison with Sept. 11 isn’t exact, but it’s fair to this extent: Katrina was the biggest disaster on American soil since that day provoked the total overhaul of the system and the devotion of billions of dollars and the finest minds in the nation to the prioritizing of homeland security. It was, thus, the first major test of the post-9/11 structures. Happy with the results?

Thursday, September 1, 2005

Mark on Katrina

Mark is interviewed on the result of the hurricane, and once again, the incredible failing of government.

And you think to yourself, this was really the first big test of Homeland Security since September 11th. Imagine, for example, that Osama bin Laden had had a plan to blow a hole in one of these levees, and flood New Orleans.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Fund them to death

I remember seeing a follow up doc on CBC news a month of so ago on the plight of the Indians in a new government build town.  It was hard to believe what an utter failure this was, and how the story never really made any mainstream press.  I missed Mark’s take on the issue last year - as usual, it’s bang on.

Consider the sums of money involved: $152 million for 700 people. That’s $217,142.85 for each man, woman or child. I’ve got a wife and three kids, so, had we been in Davis Inlet, that would have been $1,085,714.20 just for us. Imagine what you could do with that. Build a new house. Start a company. Hire some people. Invest in business opportunities. Get the kid an Ivy League education.

Sunday, July 31, 2005

Muslims vs.

Mark says the West has got to stop providing luxury accommodations for the terrorists, and start realizing that this is a worldwide war.

And whatever one’s opinion of the various local conflicts around the world—Muslims vs. Buddhists in Thailand, Muslims vs. Hindus in Kashmir, Muslims vs. Jews in the Holy Land, Muslims vs. Russians in Chechnya, Muslims vs. Christians in Africa—the fact is the jihad has held out a long time against very tough enemies. If you’re not shy about taking on the Israelis and Russians, why wouldn’t you fancy your chances against the Belgians and Spaniards?

Friday, July 22, 2005

Health care review

Mark has some words on the latest judicial activists ruling on private health care, and another gem following it on the Conserative party’s complete dropping of the ball on the issue.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Hand them the knife

More stating the obvious from our solo crusader - the Limousine Liberals will take the multicult road to the very (dead) end.

It has been sobering this past week watching some of my “woollier” colleagues (in Vicki Woods’s self-designation) gradually awake to the realisation that the real suicide bomb is “multiculturalism”.

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

What needs to be done

Steyn explains what needs to be done if we are to ever stop the “martyrs” from blowing us up.

But the coaxing is what counts - wooing moderate Muslims into reclaiming their religion. We can take steps to prevent Islamic terrorists killing us, most of the time. But Islamic terrorists will only stop trying to kill us when their culture reviles them rather than celebrates them.

Thursday, July 7, 2005

The beatings will continue

Quick off the press, Mark writes that it’s the free radicals, home-grown, that will threaten the West.  The scary thing is they hide under the guise of multi-culturalism.  That’s a cloak no modern western liberal would ever dare raise.  Therein lies the crux of the problem.

Thanks to “Islamophobia” and other pseudo-crises, the political class will be under pressure to take refuge in pointless gestures (ie, ID cards) that inconvenience the citizenry and serve only as bureaucratic distractions from the real war effort.

Monday, July 4, 2005

The problem with Live8

I knew there was something annoying about Live8 and all the other rock against the G8 events.  I knew Mark Steyn would be able to speak for me, too.  Once again, a brilliant column.

To sneer at such events,” cautioned The Sunday Telegraph apropos Live8, “demeans the generosity which they embody”.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

He Speaketh

You can’t ever get enough of Mark Steyn - here’s his latest interview with a fellower worshipper.

Once again, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to interview the man I consider to be the best columnist in the business, Mark Steyn.

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Hate speech gone wild

Heard the one about the cop on the gay horse?  Let Mark fill you in.

Sunday, June 12, 2005

21st century belongs to the Anglos

Just when one might think, by looking at all that is made in China, that China is the future, Mark sets us straight with a reality check.

The 21st century will be an Anglosphere century, with America, India and Australia leading the way

Beat yourself

The brilliant Steyn on Gitmo, the leftest Western media’s latest self flagellation point.

Guantanamo will be remembered not as a byword for torture but for self-torture, a Western fetish the jihad’s spin doctors understand all too well.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Master’s take on Belindagate

Mark offers a rare instacomment on the affairs of Canada.

And for the country to come first the Liberal Party must come first, now and always.

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Keeping an eye

Think millions of cameras will help cut crime?  Mark says think again.

Sunday, May 15, 2005

Where the money went

Mark on where your tsunami money is now, Paul Martin, and Bolton - tied together in a way only Mark can do.

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Mark on the Pope

Mark says, as usual, the media doesn’t get the Pope.

Monday, March 28, 2005

Steyn on Shiavo

Perhaps the last word on the topic from my favorite wordsmith.

Michael Schiavo is living in a common-law relationship with another woman, by whom he has fathered children. I make no judgment on that. Who of us can say how we would react in his circumstances? Maybe I’d pull my hat down over my face and slink off to the cathouse on the other side of town once a week. Maybe I’d embark on a discreet companionship with a lonely widow. But if I take on a new wife (in all but name) and make a new family, I would think it not unreasonable to forfeit any right of life or death over my previous wife.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Birth dearth and the West’s future

Mark thinks abortion and social issues should be on the West’s election agenda - ironic since the Canadian Conservatives are basically told to shut up about these issues by their leader if they want to run again.

I happen to believe a lot of what we call “late-term abortion” is in reality early-term infanticide, but, if you don’t accept that that’s a human life that’s being destroyed, my deeply personal passionate beliefs aren’t likely to sway you one way or another.

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

The facts of life are conservative

Steyn rips out a brilliant view of the future of the West, ie. Europe and Canada.

So what about Europe? Canadians are, at least psychologically, an honorary member of the EU: we take the “progressive” Euro-view on Kyoto, cradle-to-grave welfare, abortion, a bloated “public sector” workforce, confiscatory taxation, joke prison sentences, and just about everything else.

Apparently we have a chance at survival if we watch the collapse of the EU closely.

A damning view of secularism:

Religious societies have a much greater sense of both past and future, as we did a century ago, when we spoke of death as joining “the great majority” in “the unseen world.” But if secularism’s starting point is that this is all there is, it’s no surprise that, consciously or not, they invest the here and now with far greater powers of endurance than it’s ever had.

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Mr. Dithers misses again

Steyn summarizes the latest big changes in the Middle East, including a comment from our own clueless PM.

The only world leader who didn’t get the memo was Paul Martin. Who? Well, OK, he’s not exactly a world leader, but he is prime minister of Canada, and asked the other day about the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon he replied thus: “It’s clear if the Syrians are in Lebanon, it’s because peace has to be maintained.” I’m sure Assad is grateful for the endorsement. That and a dime’ll get you a cup of coffee in Winnipeg.

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Let Freedom Reign

Mark says the Arab Berlin Wall has fallen.

“It’s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq.

He also hates to say that he told you so.