Columnist and author Mark Steyn appeared on the Hugh Hewitt Show and found great irony in the fact that NBC News would feature Joe McGinniss to discuss his discredited book about Sarah Palin, but won’t offer an interview to him
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets091411.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Mark Steyn, author of After America, to discuss whether a dystopian future is really upon us
My recent observations on Christopher Hitchens received impressively varied responses. Most, however, or most of those I’ve read so far, acknowledge the vitally important test of a human being’s honesty: the presence or absence of hypocrisy. I attribute the vitality
Ten years ago at this exact time I was standing in my pajamas in my living room with tears streaming down my face, my hair a wreck. I was a 21-year-old newlywed and mother. My months-old infant sat in a
Ten years ago at this exact time I was standing in my pajamas in my living room with tears streaming down my face, my hair a wreck. I was a 21-year-old newlywed and mother. My months-old infant sat in a
No, he doesn’t improvise in rhyming couplets but one feels he could if it might provoke a laugh at the foolish world’s expense. One doesn’t want to be at the end of his verbal rapier. He’s already skewered the Obama
Humanity has always been violent. Criminal acts and atrocious crimes are the not the sole property of any one group, as anyone doing even a cursory review of European history (especially in the 20th Century) can attest. What happened in
You know the problem with the arts these days? In case you didn’t know, Philip Kennicott will be happy to tell you. The problem with the arts, he says, is that they’re homophobic. Quit laughing. In a recent Washington Post
Mark Steyn provides a dissection of President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan and explains the President’s statement that America must “begin nation building here at home.”
It takes a lot to bring hoards of peace-loving Canadians out to the streets to riot. A speech at the local college by Ann Coulter? Maybe. A book highlighting the threat posed by Shariah law to Western Civilization by Mark
Please, before you even read this article, gaze at and ponder Mark’s classically Steynian “Weiner’s Twitter Tweak“. Laughter, for myself at any rate, does not become, as they say, “side-splitting” unless there’s some metaphorical and breathtakingly abrupt fall from heaven
Oh, brother. Reminds me of when non-Muslim US servicemen at Gitmo would handle inmates’ korans, they’d use gloves. This was, of course, because the Muslims consider kuffar hands unclean. And, as Mark Steyn pointed out in America Alone, it’s one
The way our system of governance is set up, the President is given lots of discretion in foreign policy. Which in Obama’s case means a license to mess up. Compounding matters, Obama’s Republican opposition is focused on repairing the damage
It was as if someone was trying to send me a message. It seemed as though every radio talk show, every commentary, each political debate during the past twenty-four hours centered on the issue of individual power vs. collectivism in
This week, pundit, strategist and author Dick Morris– together with his wife and collaborator Eileen McGann– received the Center for Security Policy’s Mightier Pen Award. The Mightier Pen Award was inaugurated in 2001 in recognition of individuals who have, through
By popular demand, it’s our heavy hitter edition of the podcast with guests Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg. We cover the surprising Noble Prize selection, one last look at the view from France, the sorry states of New York and
In a recent column I wrote for Irish Examiner USA, I mentioned an email I received that was politically correct but that I thought was very funny. I debated including it in the column but decided against it for the
Mark Steyn joins us late and Peter Robinson leaves early in this guest packed episode. Author Drew Klavan joins us for a fascinating discussion of being a conservative and working Hollywood and pop culture in general. Then John Dennis the
The debate over Arizona’s immigration law is a topic du jour in the United States, but immigration and other demographic phenomena may have already sealed a terrible fate for Europe. Mark Steyn discusses everything from Lady Gaga to the astonishing
We’re all about the headlines this week as we’ve got Mark Steyn calling in from Arizona at the white hot center of the immigration debate, author John O’Hara discusses his new book “A New American Tea Party” and his recent
Gloominess and despair are not uncommon traits among supporters of limited government – and with good reason. Government has grown rapidly in recent years and it is expected to get much bigger in the future. To make matters worse, it
This is the question that Rush Limbaugh posed to his listeners on Monday: Is Paul Rahe right? And it is, alas, an all-too-open question. Rush was responding to a piece, entitled “A New Birth of Freedom,” posted on BigGovernment.com early
It’s a health care-palooza on the podcast this week. With Rob Long MIA deep in the San Fernando valley, Peter Robinson and Mark Steyn ably carry on and talk to Victor Davis Hanson and Indiana Governor (and possible presidential candidate
Back in November, when Peter Robinson interviewed me for Uncommon Knowledge, he waited until the last segment to throw down the gauntlet, asking me bluntly why I was so much more sanguine regarding the future than was the estimable Mark
Mark Steyn, at NRO, has this to say about Ann Coulter‘s recent Kafkaesque experience in Canada: A couple of days ago, I mentioned François Houle, the leftist apparatchik and provost of the University of Ottawa who threatened Ann Coulter with
