Mark Steyn has published his latest brief in his protracted court case with discredited climate scientist Michael Mann (who is suing him for libel) and it’s a corker. Here’s a sample: The audacity of the falsehoods in Mann’s court pleadings
On Hugh Hewitt’s Thursday radio show, conservative columnist Mark Steyn gave a sobering assessment of American power in the world as nation’s celebration of Independence Day was about to begin. Steyn explained that other nations are looking at ways to
After years of court battles, an early victim of the politicized Internal Revenue Service finally gets a little satisfaction, as the agency admits wrongdoing and ponies up a settlement for handing confidential information on the National Organization for Marriage over
Conservative commentator Mark Steyn and talk show host Hugh Hewitt had strong criticism for the possibility House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will replace outgoing-Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor as the new House Majority Leader. Hewitt described the thinking
On Tuesday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel, conservative commentator Mark Steyn criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the revelations surrounding her new memoir and the media appearance she has made in promoting it. Steyn mocked
A British geneticist is saying that atheism could face a decline in Europe as Christians continue to experience a growth in population while Europe’s atheist populations decline. Steve Jones, a professor in genetics at University College London’s Galton Laboratory, spoke
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday, conservative commentator Mark Steyn reacted to an interview CNN’s Jake Tapper conducted with White House Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough over the falsified waitlists at Veterans Affairs hospitals that may have resulted in
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” conservative commentator Mark Steyn elaborated on his column from over the weekend headlined “#BringBackOurBalls,” in which he was critical of the foreign policy of the United States having been reduced to a
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday night, conservative commentator Mark Steyn argued that the Obama’s administration’s reasoning for not staging some kind of military response to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, which
On Thursday’s Hugh Hewitt radio show, conservative commentator Mark Steyn reacted to off-the-cuff remarks House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) had made regarding immigration reform at a speech he made in his home district. Hewitt suggested Boehner’s seeming willingness to pursue
Liberal comic Patton Oswalt got a quick lesson in the left’s thought control tactics, and the irony wasn’t lost on him. Oswalt, a prolific character actor and stand-up, retweeted a column by noted conservative Mark Steyn that swatted our P.C.
James is so excited and he just can’t hide it as writer Mark Steyn joins him to talk about his ongoing court case. Just how free-speech-stiflingly bad are America’s libel laws? Do lawyers really run the country? Also, find out
On Hugh Hewitt’s Thursday radio show, conservative commentator Mark Steyn railed against critics of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for his remarks about the generations of people in the “inner cities” not “learning the value and culture of work.” Ryan had
A leading skeptic climatologist has declared himself so sick of being called a “denier” by climate alarmists that he is now going to call them out as “Nazis” in return. Dr Roy Spencer, Principal Scientist at the University of Alabama
More than two thirds of the continental United States is currently covered in snow, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). With 67.4% of the contiguous United States now covered with snow, up from 48.1%
Mark Steyn, the most important figure in the debate over free speech in America today – which, as he might say, isn’t a bad day’s work for a Canadian – makes a crucial point about the impulse to control words
On Thursday’s broadcast of Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, conservative commentator Mark Steyn reacted to philosophy that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accomplished nothing more in her State Department post than to further her ambitions to be the inevitable 2016
Further to yesterday’s point about how a complicated mass of laws can be used to smack down citizens who find themselves in violation of rules they never knew existed, conservative writer Mark Steyn has been embroiled in a years-long legal
On Thursday’s broadcast of Hugh Hewitt’s radio program, National Review columnist Mark Steyn scolded members of Congress, particularly Republican member, that voted the bipartisan budget agreement touted by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Transcript courtesy of the
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Thursday night, National Review columnist Mark Steyn argued that although Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) is more authentic than some politicians, that authenticity won’t matter if he surrounds himself with the same political consulting class
Filling in for conservative talker Rush Limbaugh on Thursday, columnist Mark Steyn reacted to a video released by As-Sahab of government contractor Warren Weinstein pleading for the Obama administration to negotiate for his release.
On Hugh Hewitt’s Thursday radio show, conservative commentator Mark Steyn spoke out against the groups he said were behind the hostile reactions to the remarks made by “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson made to GQ magazine about homosexuality and sin.
National Review columnist Mark Steyn on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show with fill-in host Arthur Brooks discusses ObamaCare’s impact… Partial transcript as follows: STEYN: It certainly will. I mean, this is a huge disruption. I’m not a fan of Ezra Klein,
There have been some interesting attempts to explain the curious psychology of the Obama years, in which an executive office that was already too powerful seized incredible new powers, while conducting an unprecedented semi-nationalization of an entire industry… but the
In response to Banana republic update: cancer patient who complained about ObamaCare gets an IRS audit: Don’t forget C. Steven Tucker, the health insurance broker who helped Bill Elliott, the cancer patient, keep his insurance. Tucker, a Chicago based “health
Hugh Hewitt interviews Mark Steyn
The terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 made me a conservative. Andrew Breitbart convinced me to put on a helmet and join the culture war. My political awakening began under the gimlet eyes of conservatives like Charles Krauthammer, Rush Limbaugh
In response to Is Social Media Breeding Monsters?: Another thought: there’s a passage in Mark Steyn’s most recent book where he muses that H.G. Wells’ Time Traveler, jumping forward from the latter days of the 19th century, would have been astounded
The trillion dollar coin is now apparently being taken seriously as an alternative way for the Obama administration to cover the gap between borrowing and spending by simply adding to the resources of the U.S. Treasury, and without convincing Congress
FOX NEWS: Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade sat down with best-selling author and columnist Mark Steyn to discuss the bill that was passed last night to avoid the fiscal cliff’s across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts. President Obama applauded the
Greg Gutfeld has had more than his fair share of liberal “tolerance.” It’s not enough to put scare quotes around a word used by progressives to both tar their enemies and look the other way when one of their own
As the campaign heats up, the narrative that David Axelrod and others are trying to string together is this: Mitt Romney is a mega-millionaire who only wishes to cut taxes for his wealthy buddies while his arch-conservative running mate Paul
BBC Chief Mark Thompson admitted openly that his network “got it wrong” in its initial dearth of coverage of the mass murder in the West Bank of a Jewish family, killed by Palestinians. When the massacre of five members of
Conservative columnist Mark Steyn is weighing in on a certain celebrity-obsessed president. Fans of the brilliant commentator, who frequently fills in for Rush Limbaugh on the radio star’s syndicated show, will find just what they expect given the subject matter.
Mark Steyn’s column over the weekend discussed Breitbart News’ release of a 1991 booklet from Acton & Dystel, Barack Obama’s literary agency, which contained a bio of Obama labeling him “born in Kenya.” Steyn analyzes the story: When it comes
Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt question whether John Boehner should remain as the Speaker of the house in light of the recent payroll tax showdown with President Obama.
“Iran-Contra didn’t rack of that kind of body count. Watergate didn’t rack up that kind of body count. Sarah Palin’s daughter’s boyfriend’s mother, or whatever stupid story they were chasing around Wasilla for months, that didn’t rack up a body
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