Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn
Mark Steynis a Canadian author, writer, and conservative political commentator. He has written five books, including America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller. He is published in newspapers and magazines, and appears on shows such as those of Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, and Sean Hannity...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 December 1959
CountryCanada
real class accomplishment
Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
queens war past
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
mysterious problem source
We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
europe people liberty
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.
thinking government citizens
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
abortion mind voters
Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.
school thinking differences
We're told the old-school imperialists were racists, that they thought of the wogs as inferior. But, if so, they at least considered them capable of improvement. The multiculturalists are just as racist. The only difference is that they think the wogs can never reform: Good heavens, you can't expect a Muslim in Norway not to go about raping the womenfolk! Much better just to get used to it.
fighting men texas
What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.
guy tennis cultural-relativism
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
fate bystanders government
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.
bovine flatulence taxes
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.
short-life how-short-life-is dies
But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .
republican schwarzenegger social
"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.
self government needs
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.