The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“About half the global economy is living beyond not only its means but its diminished number of children's means. Instead of addressing… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are… — 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
Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some… — 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
“Somewhere along the way these countries [EU] redefined the relationship between government and citizen into something closer to pusher and addict. And,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“The business of America is business," said Calvin Coolidge. Now the business of America is regulation. It is necessary for once free… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“I'm an immigrant to this great land. For fellows like me, this is where the bus terminates. There's nowhere else to go.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Popular sovereignty may be fine in theory but not when the citizenry are so obviously in need of "re-education" by their betters.… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“...a final word to "the children": do you want to get suckered like your big brothers and sisters? Those saps who spent… — 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
“Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea--of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“As every economist knows, third-party transactions are always more expensive, whether the third party is an insurer or the government...Third-party transactions are… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Americans tote guns because they're assertive citizens, not docile subjects of a permanent governing class. They love their military because they think… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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