Mark Steyn on Afghanistan

Mark Steyn explains what has gone wrong in Afghanistan. Of all our recent wars, this is the one I totally fail to understand. Let's get the hell out and try to forget about the place!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone. 
Mark Steyn is like a preacher who has a lesson for us.

Mark Steyn on Newt

Mark Steyn: "The idea of Newt as the Republican presidential candidate is, I have to say, extremely dismaying to me."

Byron York also takes a look at Newt. 

Global meltdown

Mark Steyn on Europe's financial meltdown.

UK demographics

Mark Steyn quoting the UK's Office of National Statistics:

In 2010, a quarter of births were to mothers born outside the UK, according to the ONS…
If a quarter of all babies born in England and Wales are to foreign mothers, then we’re experiencing the biggest change in our demographic identity since the Anglo-Saxon invasions of the fifth century. Future historians will regard this as the major development in early 21st-century British history…
Nothing like this has happened before. Please pay no attention next time a Left-wing historian pops up on TV to romanticise the arrival of the Normans, Huguenots, Eastern European Jews etc. These were significant influxes, but Great Britain has never been “a nation of immigrants”. Even cosmopolitan London has witnessed nothing remotely comparable to the population shift recorded by the ONS statistics. More than half of all babies born in the capital in 2010 were to foreign mothers; in the borough of Newham more than three quarters of all new mothers were born abroad.
A lot of people reading Ed West will say: “Well, so what? What’s the problem?” That’s fine if you want to turn some of the oldest nation states on the planet into an ongoing experiment. Maybe the experiment will work out fine, maybe it won’t. But, given that the nations most enthusiastically embarking on it are responsible for 90 per cent of everything the modern world takes for granted, you’d think more people might at least give some thought as to whether the gamble is worth it.

Mark Steyn on the imperial presidency

Mark Steyn on the "Imperial Presidency." He has a number of good quotes.

Rick Perry: “I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.”

Steyn: "Why exactly does the president need a 40-car escort to drive past his subjects in Dead Moose Junction? It doesn’t communicate strength, but only waste, and decadence."

"A post-prosperity America that has dug itself into a multi-trillion-dollar hole will eventually have to stop digging. When it does so, the government of the United States will have to learn to do more with less. A good place to start would be restoring the lifestyle of the president to something Calvin Coolidge might recognize."

Mark Steyn predicts that the Democrats will ram through some kind of health reform legislation. They have learned nothing from recent town hall meetings. The long term consequences will be disastrous.