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
Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the… — 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
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
How do you 'invest in the future'? By borrowing $188 million every hour. That's what the Government of the United States is… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United… — 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
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the… — 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
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
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels -… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you… — 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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