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Here’s the video of Mark Steyn forcing the “sock puppets” into finally actually debating him (on live TV!). And yes, though it took till nearly the end, they did generously say that they wouldn’t say Adolf Hitler was representative of Christians. Ah, that notable Christian-gone-wrong, Adolf Hitler…

Anyway, it’s truly hilarious. But he says on his […]

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On a whim, I bought shoes to go with a dress I haven’t bought yet. Yesterday at about 4:00 I placed the order. At about 6:00 I got an email about shipping that I glanced at but didn’t actually read since they all say the same thing. This morning I got an email that had […]

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The Times - Poor Paraguay The new President needs to co-operate with and emulate his Brazilian counterpart

I bring this up because McDonalds has the funniest ad. I flipped on the TV last night, and apparently all the rich people with senses of humour watch Seinfeld reruns at 10 and 10.30. Anyway, it’s not online yet, but […]

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Macleans - Free to speak Human rights commissions are undermining the fundamental Charter rights of all Canadians. Protest while you still can. FROM THE EDITORS

We published that story because we felt it was a compelling perspective on significant world events, from one of Canada’s most interesting and celebrated journalists. Besides Maclean’s, Steyn’s work has […]

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Hmm:

Telegraph - Why Time featured Britian’s violent youth, by Catherine Mayer (London bureau chief of ‘Time’)

Interesting. And explains all the headlines I’ve been seeing.

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I am outraged, outraged! that Disney is using my trade name to market their cheesy merchandise to the Asian market!

Curtsy: Vanderleun (speak of the devil, RC2, and he shall email you!), who just emailed it to me. Because I can’t reply: No, I haven’t seen it.

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Telegraph - Sooner Fed bail-outs than the 1930s revisited, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Most would rather relish the delicious moments of Schadenfreude as the bailiff’s gavel falls on their Gulfstream IVs. Yet we must forbear. It was such sentiments that turned the 1930 recession into a slump. “Liquidationists” prevailed: they insisted with […]

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Top comment on this story about the clever call girl uploading an extra song in the opening hoopla over the gold medal governor:

to Paul in London. the porn industry in the US is protected under our 1st ammendment right to free speach and freedom of expression. […]

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This is hysterical.

Movable Type - A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide, by Anil Dash

…[he goes on and on and on]…Question: How should you greet the onrush of visitors to your site when you get onto the homepage of Digg or Reddit? Answer: Not with a Database Connection Error. …[and on and on]…

Hah! How bout […]

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Telegraph Blogs - Samantha Power’s “monster” slip and America’s pompous journalists, by Iain Martin

US and British journalists can get along in very jolly fashion when thrown together but their industries are based on different assumptions. The Americans, who have a knock-about tradition from the last century which they like to forget, take pride […]

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The Times - Scissors, Paper, Rock Ministers had three options: they reached the least bad result by the worst possible route

The nationalisation of Northern Rock is a colossal indictment of the company’s mangement, the country’s system of financial regulation and the Government’s economic competence. For six months, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have been […]

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The Times - Darling: a menace to Britain Global businesses look at the present Labour Government and think about moving away from London, by William Rees-Mogg

Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, now proposes a new system of taxation for the “non-doms”; these are foreign businessmen who live and work in London but do not have a […]

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Two Mark Steyns in The Corner the other day:

1/26 10:03 AM

Gaza, land of the midday moon And more fun with Big Media propagandists: During a soi-disant Israeli “power cut”, Palestinians are forced to hold a parliamentary session by candlelight. Alas, even with the curtains drawn, the blazing sunlight keeps peeping […]

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This is fascinating:

The Times - No contest for Mr Unpopular LA Notebook: the man who made squillions from the property crisis is not a well-liked man here, by Chris Ayres

In case you’ve never heard of Greene, here are the facts: he is a 53-year-old real-estate investor who lives in a 40,000 sq ft Beverly […]

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This cracked me up:

Wheat & Weeds - Bold Prediction

The Pope’s coming in April and the Vatican Sec. of State says he will stay out of our electoral politics. However, it’s a good bet: • If he preaches about the dignity of human life and the importance of traditional marriage for human […]

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