But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The United States, for its part, downgraded from low-level to complete withdrawal, much to the regret of other delegates such as the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
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… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share
The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
