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June 22, 2009 |
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 Author and cultural commentator Mark Steyn filled in on
Monday while Rush was off the air. Rush returns on Wednesday.
"I've got a picture on my desk of a demonstration in Tehran. The protestors are holding up signs with my state motto: 'Live Free or Die.' We're lucky in that we don't have to make that decision today in our lives." -- Mark Steyn
• WP: In Tehran, a Moment for Obama to Seize
"Does the Iranian revolt pick up steam? If so, then the Ayatollahs face some tough choices. Do they go the Tiananmen Square route, or do they risk increased momentum for these demonstrations and perhaps some police and security forces breaking with the regime?" -- Mark Steyn
• AP: Iranian Police Use Force to Break Up Protest
"There's talk now that there may be some splits emerging among the clerics in Iran. The world has an interest in ending this regime. The trick is to just apply the pressure subtly." -- Mark Steyn
• Bloomberg: Iran Revolutionary Guards Say They’ll Crush Protests
"It shouldn't be hard to choose between a murderous regime that claims universal jurisdiction, and the people standing against that regime. I wish them every success, and I'd like the president of the United States to step up and take the right side." -- Mark Steyn
• WP: Little Relief for the Uighur Detainees
"I've got Uighur fever now, haven't I? I can't get it out of my head." -- Mark Steyn
• NYT: Obamas Stop for Custard, Bringing Custard Shop to a Stop
• WS: A Real False Choice: War or Ice Cream
"In the age of big government we're going to destroy a health care
system in order to solve a problem that doesn't really exist." -- Mark Steyn
• FOX: Health Care Will End Obama's Honeymoon
• ABC: Public Favors Obama's Health-Care Plan
• NYT: Congress Resumes Health Care Review
"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. That's why Republicans need to resist this in Congress, because if we cross this line we can never go back." -- Mark Steyn
• Bloomberg: Obama to Appeal to Public on Health Care as Senate Struggles
• AP: No Health Care? Expect a Requirement to Get It
• Krugman: Health Care Showdown
"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state --
and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship." -- Mark Steyn
Welcome to Socialized Medicine…
• FOX: Man's Broken Neck Misdiagnosed as Severe Headache
"The essence of a government health care system -- for people who have never lived
under it and don't know -- is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait
for years for operations that are routine in America." -- Mark Steyn
• WE: ACORN Drops Tarnished Name and Moves to Silence Critics
• Samuelson: Welfare in a Bad Way |
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