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Mark Steyn is a conservative Canadian author and 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 politically conservative shows such as those of Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.

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LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

Accomplish, Detroit, Lbj, Society

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Doe, Government, Nobody, State, Too Much, Trouble

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

Culture, Enfeebles, Erodes, Europe, Self, State

For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

Taken, Past, Museums, Care, Imperialists, Living

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 bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

Friday, Hanging, Jobs, Real, Thing, Years

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

Comfort, Vote, Moments, Hold, Appeasement, Tense

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

Ambition, Long, Poverty, Powers, Slump, Slumps

The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.

Government, Years, Essence, Under, Operations, Waiting

The United Auto Workers is AARP in an Edsel: It has three times as many retirees and widows as 'workers' (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people.

Employees, People, Three, United, Widows, Workers

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Base, Camp, Camps, Grab, Next, Power

In a way, both the U. S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs — not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom.

Book, Federally, Monumentally, Self, Thought, Two

When the family dies, the nation follows.

Dies, Nations, Family, Follows, Nation

CNN? Oh, that's that network with Larry King, who, like the Son of Sam, is a native of Brooklyn. Used to be owned by Ted Turner, who, like the Cincinnati Strangler, is a native of Cincinnati. Now part of Time Warner, founded by the Warner Brothers, the oldest of whom, Harry Warner, like many Auschwitz guards, was a native of Poland.

Brooklyn, Brother, King, Kings, Native, Son

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.

Differences, Heavens, Imperialists, Norway, School, Thinking

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 planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.

Celebrities, Fake, Fundraising, People, Shakespeare

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

Mean, Doe, Body, Interest, Elite, Criteria

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Equation, Half, History, Meant, Morbid, Warts

No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.

Pain, Add, Ransom, Return, Ones

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

Certain, Europe, Except, Nothing, Way, Welfare

America is the brokest country in history. We owe more money than anyone has ever owed anyone. And Obama and Reid say relax, that's no reason not to spend more - because the world hasn't yet concluded we have no intention of paying it back. When they do, the dollar will collapse.

America, Concluded, Country, Relax, World

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