How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise. Mark Steyn More Quotes by Mark Steyn More Quotes From Mark Steyn It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional. Mark Steyn constitution judging matter General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary. Mark Steyn home retirement two We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office. Mark Steyn infantry-division office children So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats. Mark Steyn white men past 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. Mark Steyn relax country america While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe. Mark Steyn two america fall For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population. Mark Steyn population black looks In Britain, everything is policed except crime. Mark Steyn britain crime America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level. Mark Steyn levels land america “Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff. Mark Steyn iran ems monday 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. Mark Steyn widows three people In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? Mark Steyn welfare europe way Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path. Mark Steyn stupid path sometimes Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him. Mark Steyn government giving long At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth. Mark Steyn oakland government long Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely. Mark Steyn absolutes welfare The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole. Mark Steyn occupy-movement government real But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . . Mark Steyn how-short-life-is short-life dies A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us? Mark Steyn islam dying civilization "Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism. Mark Steyn schwarzenegger republican social
