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Mark Steyn
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: December 8
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Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.
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We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.
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How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?
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The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
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Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
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I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks.
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The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
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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.
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It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.
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If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.
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We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.
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America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
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Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.
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One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.
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Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?
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The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.
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LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.
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Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days.
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture
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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.
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