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My 9/11 Awakening

Ten years ago at this exact time I was standing in my pajamas in my living room with tears streaming down my face, my hair a wreck. I was a 21-year-old newlywed and mother. My months-old infant sat in a

Ten Years Later: Remembering 9/11

Ten years ago at this exact time I was standing in my pajamas in my living room with tears streaming down my face, my hair a wreck. I was a 21-year-old newlywed and mother. My months-old infant sat in a

The English-Speaking Cyrano: Mark Steyn

No, he doesn’t improvise in rhyming couplets but one feels he could if it might provoke a laugh at the foolish world’s expense. One doesn’t want to be at the end of his verbal rapier. He’s already skewered the Obama

Are the Arts Gay Enough?

You know the problem with the arts these days? In case you didn’t know, Philip Kennicott will be happy to tell you. The problem with the arts, he says, is that they’re homophobic. Quit laughing. In a recent Washington Post

The Aristophallic Tragedy of Anthony Weiner

Please, before you even read this article, gaze at and ponder Mark’s classically Steynian “Weiner’s Twitter Tweak“. Laughter, for myself at any rate, does not become, as they say, “side-splitting” unless there’s some metaphorical and breathtakingly abrupt fall from heaven

Dick Morris: "This Administration Is Pathetic"

This week, pundit, strategist and author Dick Morris– together with his wife and collaborator Eileen McGann– received the Center for Security Policy’s Mightier Pen Award. The Mightier Pen Award was inaugurated in 2001 in recognition of individuals who have, through

Ricochet Podcast #38: The Heavy Hitters

By popular demand, it’s our heavy hitter edition of the podcast with guests Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg. We cover the surprising Noble Prize selection, one last look at the view from France, the sorry states of New York and

Ricochet Podcast #15: A White Coat Hypertension

Mark Steyn joins us late and Peter Robinson leaves early in this guest packed episode. Author Drew Klavan joins us for a fascinating discussion of being a conservative and working Hollywood and pop culture in general. Then John Dennis the

Ricochet Podcast #14: Raising Arizona

We’re all about the headlines this week as we’ve got Mark Steyn calling in from Arizona at the white hot center of the immigration debate, author John O’Hara discusses his new book “A New American Tea Party” and his recent

Is Paul Rahe Right?

This is the question that Rush Limbaugh posed to his listeners on Monday: Is Paul Rahe right? And it is, alas, an all-too-open question. Rush was responding to a piece, entitled “A New Birth of Freedom,” posted on BigGovernment.com early

Ricochet Podcast #9: Stand and Fight

It’s a health care-palooza on the podcast this week. With Rob Long MIA deep in the San Fernando valley, Peter Robinson and Mark Steyn ably carry on and talk to Victor Davis Hanson and Indiana Governor (and possible presidential candidate

A New Birth of Freedom

Back in November, when Peter Robinson interviewed me for Uncommon Knowledge, he waited until the last segment to throw down the gauntlet, asking me bluntly why I was so much more sanguine regarding the future than was the estimable Mark

Ricochet Podcast: A Tri-Partisan Three Way

“A Tri-Partisan Three-Way” A March Madness super-size edition of the podcast and why not? It’s the return of Mark Steyn and we greet him with three amazing guests: Ricochet contributors Heather Higgins on heath care and the huge price she

Capitalism and Health Care

It’s time for your weekly dose of Coffee and Markets, featuring The New Ledger’s Francis Cianfrocca, a podcast brought to you by the fine folks at Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com and LibertyPundits.com, your home for conservative podcasts. In this week’s edition,

Ricochet Podcast 6: A Good Ricochet Point

“A Good Ricochet Point“ The Ricochet parade of governors continues as we are joined this week by Mississippi Governor (and Chairman of the Republican Governors Association) Haley Barbour as well as by John Hinderaker of the Powerline Blog, sitting in

Talk Radio = Hate Speech?

I have been accused of promoting hate speech more than once as a talk radio programmer. In fact, I’ve been accused of it for over 25 years. Who defines hate speech? Many who accuse talk radio of promoting hate want

Coming Out To A Whole New World

I almost used the title: “Sappy Singer-Songwriter Sends Self into Career Epilogue“, to save some of you a lot of time… Hi. Writing a first post has been very difficult, because there’s no going back after this. Six years ago