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- Dialogue with Iran's Monstrous Rulers? - June 21, 2009
- Everything is on the line in Iran, at present -- not only the future of the Iranian regime, but also of the Middle East, and by extension, the most tangible western...
- Who Will Make the Case for America? - June 7, 2009
- When a politician announces, at the beginning of a major speech, that he is going to be entirely honest with you, you should stop trying to protect your wallet. For it...
- What We Fight For - June 4, 2009
- We have two important anniversaries this week: tomorrow is the 20th of the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Saturday will be the 65th of D-Day. Both events retain...
- Impressively Scary - May 31, 2009
- It must be good for any President of the United States, or other freshly-minted leader, to be free of his "first 100 days." For this is the period through which he faces...
- Innocents Abroad - April 12, 2009
- Special envoys were meanwhile in Pakistan to evince deep concern about the trajectory of events there. They were told that Pakistan would not cooperate with the latest...
- Truth and Consequences - April 10, 2009
- "Barack Obama seems determined to repeat every disastrous mistake of the 1930s, at home and abroad. He has already repeated Herbert Hoover's policy of raising taxes on...
- Too Clever by Half - March 21, 2009
- What the polls can't say directly, and thus perhaps the White House can't yet hear, is that the policies themselves are diminishing Mr. Obama's appeal. There are...
- Back to Carter - February 22, 2009
- That he may well be as good as his word, on the "green" issues among others, is an appalling thought, given the present economic fragility.The series of gestures on...
- The Doctrine of Darwin - February 12, 2009
- Unlike most of the celebrated figures in the history of science, Darwin was not a fox. He was a hedgehog. I refer to the ancient epigram of Archilochus, famously...
- Guantanamo - January 25, 2009
- Guantanamo was selected, by the Bush administration, to intern terrorists, because no better solution could be found. The military commissions were created, ditto. Under...
- Carbonations - January 23, 2009
- Both Barack Obama in the U.S., and Stephen Harper up here, are on the cusp of announcing ambitious new "climate" plans founded upon last decade's laughably "settled...
- Exit Bush - January 21, 2009
- Still vaguely remember: the attitudes among such of my elders as did not like or trust him, in the moments immediately before the Great Man took power, and the...
- Gaza & Hamas - January 5, 2009
- What has happened in Gaza is horrible. It is not even necessary to look at the sentimentalized atrocity pictures, which are the specialty of Gaza's freelance...
- Political Lives - October 30, 2008
- I'd rather retract that sentence for a different reason: it did not make my point well enough. My point -- and it is one worth frequent repetition when discussing...
- On Education - October 28, 2008
- Now, paradoxically, the dream of going to Oxford -- specifically, to Magdalen College, to study classics and philosophy -- had been among my more vivid ambitions in...
- Messianic Pretensions - October 25, 2008
- I had doubts about John McCain -- not as a man, but as a presidential candidate -- from the beginning. I preferred George W. Bush in the Republican primaries of 2000,...
- The Longest Political Season Limps to a Close - October 20, 2008
- For, with all but one seat reporting before midnight, the Tories were then elected or leading in 140-plus, and quite unchallengeable. Most of those seats were settled...
- Two Solitudes - October 14, 2008
- The phenomenon we call "Red Toryism" -- that is, the strange combination of snooty, upper-class paternalism with whacky socialist proposals for "reform" -- is ultimately...
- Failure of Nerve in Canada - October 9, 2008
- Stephen Harper, all parties, and all mainstream media agree, that this was a fait accompli. It was nothing of the kind. The alternative was to mount a crash program to...
- Ignoring the People - October 5, 2008
- It is not for a Canadian to lecture Americans on U.S. constitutional niceties, but I'm going to do it anyway. Money bills in that country are supposed to originate in...
- Playing Games - October 2, 2008
- (Most readers won't know this because they are not being told by the mainstream media: but yes, McCain began pleading with the Senate Banking Committee to act on huge...
- Bailout Blues - September 25, 2008
- What did I admire? First, the modesty of these people. No matter how wealthy and powerful, each was incapable of forgetting, for example, the Swatow noodle shop from...
- Cheap & Easy - September 18, 2008
- Let me now tell an anecdote which, I think, bears directly on the market phenomena we are witnessing, and have witnessed so many times before in history.My magazine was...
- Canadian Consensus - September 8, 2008
- Regardless of his political persuasions, I doubt any reader is himself in doubt about the views of McCain and Palin on, say, abortion, or same-sex marriage, or the...
- What I Like About Palin - September 4, 2008
- One begins to understand why women other than Hillary Clinton are seldom considered for such positions. For the American liberal media grant themselves a free pass on...
- The Dark Shadow of Russia's Ambition - September 2, 2008
- In some respects, the invasion only confirmed and completed Russian control (like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979). For Moscow had long since intervened...
- Canada's 'Human Rights' Revolution - August 20, 2008
- Canada's taxpayer-supported "human rights" apparatchiks have decided that it is not yet time to directly challenge freedom of the press. They will bide their time, and...
- Dreams from Obama - July 24, 2008
- The most laughable part of the campaign is the new, first-ever, "I am the world" tour, currently in progress. Obama, realizing he has no credentials in this field, but...
- Nation of Noodles - July 15, 2008
- Possibly that poll was stilted by some organized effort by pro-lifers to write in. I would have expected the "for" number to be a little higher. But my impression was,...
- G-Whiz - July 11, 2008
- Perhaps they surreptitiously shovelled some of their leftovers into a bento box, and had it sent over to the poor African dictators, who had come to the G8 with their...
- Steyn Case Out; Show Trials Must Stop - RealClearPolitics - June 30, 2008
- Deafening Silence in Canada - RealClearPolitics - June 12, 2008
- Canada vs. Mark Steyn: A Show Trial - RealClearPolitics - June 6, 2008
- Politically Correct Advertising Standards - RealClearPolitics - June 1, 2008
- The Trouble in Burma - RealClearPolitics - May 18, 2008
- Israel's Survival is Tied to That of the West - RealClearPolitics - May 15, 2008
- The Boris Johnson Effect - RealClearPolitics - May 12, 2008