Paging Mark Steyn

Christian evangelists arrested for "disorderly conduct" in Michigan for handing out gospel pamphlets to Muslims.

If there is not more to this story, the arresting officers should be terminated from their employ with the state. I believe the first amendment has been incorporated for the states, guys. Sharia law has not been.

Update: What is going on with Michigan cops?

Mark Steyn Remembers Rachel

Corrie. Just not the way the playwrites remember her.

Weekend Steyn

The decay of England (and the West) continued....

Depressingly spot-on. Via Daniel Hannan's blog. (He's this guy.)

Weekly Steyn

On the Australian Anglican Church wishing there were fewer celebrating Mother's day.

The Decay of England (cont.)

Election signs banned and improper doubleplusungood thoughts about homosexuality prosecuted.

Paging Mark Steyn

If Muslims in San Francisco Gay Bash...Do they make a sound?

Weekly Steyn

"It's all Greek to me", says California.

Update: It's all Greek to NYC too!

Steyn Weekend Round-Up

Obama's war on...something ill-defined.

Harry Reid's latest race-laced remarks.

On Massachusetts' feline jury pool.

On the decay of England.

Robert Gibbs...scientific genius.

Mark Steyn

On the powerful speaking truth to power.

If you watch one series of Canadian parliamentary testimony videos in your life

Watch this Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn joint performance.

Your Semi-Weekly Steyn

Are we at some sort of fork in the road in America?

Remembering Ted Kennedy

Selectively.

Weekly Steyn

A society of children.

Weekly Steyn

It's a good 'un.

Weekly Steyn

Live free or die.

via Instapundit, my dad, 5 or 6 of my friends, et al.

Steyn on Frank

"The only time Barney Frank has intersected with any profitable private enterprise it turned out to being run without his knowledge from his own apartment." -- Mark Steyn


via Rushlimbaugh.com

All of us chickenhawk neocon wingnuts

Love Mark Steyn's writings on the GWOT, but his pieces on theater and music may be even better. Like this one, about national anthems and "Waltzing Matilda."

The same rules of standard songwriting apply to patriotic music. First, be specific. “The Star-Spangled Banner” meets that test. So too, in fairness, does “La Marseillaise”. But, if you sit down to write a purpose-built national anthem, you wind up with something that sounds like it won second prize in a Write A National Anthem For Anywheristan competition. And there’s nothing that sounds like a first-prize winner.

With Australia, it’s especially unfair, as the country has one of the best catalogues of folk songs of anywhere on the planet. I’m always surprised at how many I learned from afar as a child: it’s not just that Oz occupied a particular place in the imperial imagination, but that that place had a very specific musical character, too.

Read the whole thing.