| Mark Steyn: The One-Man Global Content Provider |
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July 8, 2009 |
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 Author and cultural commentator Mark Steyn filled in on
Hump Day while Rush was off the air. Rush returns on Monday.
"You were probably so stimulated by the first stimulus you can't possibly believe there would ever be a need for a second stimulus, but apparently there is. We didn't stimulate enough." -- Mark Steyn
• FOX: States Using Stimulus Money for Short-Term Needs, Audit Shows
"Once you get a taste for shoveling all that money down into one big hole and blowing it on nothing, it's so easy to do again, isn't it? Sort of like Vegas." -- Mark Steyn
• Politico: Economist Declares ''Train Wreck''
"What this cap-and-trade legislation is doing is saying, 'You cannot escape regulation no matter what you do.' The government can reach inside your property and regulate every aspect of your life." -- Mark Steyn
• WSJ: White House Presses Cap and Trade to Senate • WP: Obama's Iceberg
"If you want to stimulate regulation -- if you want to stimulate government bureaucracy and government control -- this is a great way to do it. But if you want to get the economy moving again, cap and trade is a disaster." -- Mark Steyn
• Mark Steyn in National Review: Obama is Behind the Times
"The action required to change the core economic dynamic in America at the moment and prevent us from tipping into the post-prosperity era -- which is where we're heading if this keeps up -- is changes in corporate tax rates. America has the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world and the Obama administrations' plan is to increase them." -- Mark Steyn
• WP: Clashes Subside as Troops Arrive in Chinese Region
• WSJ: Hu Cancels G8 Summit Attendance On Xinjiang Riot
• USAToday: Obama's Day: G-8'ing in Italy
"Russia is a dying society. Yet Barack Obama gave this country -- whose decline poses some severe challenges to the United States -- the upgrade to full superpower status in this bizarre summit." -- Mark Steyn
• WP: Obama, Medvedev Sign Nuclear Understanding
"If Obama had his way, there would have been no end to the Cold War. He is the last person who should be going to Moscow and underplaying the role of rare men of real political courage in ending it." -- Mark Steyn
• WT: Obama: Putin is ''Practical,'' Not ''Soul'' Mate
• WT: Obama Rejects Russians' Invite to Light Up
"Obama's visit was a huge public relations coup for Putin, because it looked to the world like an old-time Cold War summit, as if the two superpowers were meeting as equals on equal terms. I think that's deeply dangerous." -- Mark Steyn
• NRO: Obama: Student Radical
"In the end it's not about health care. It's about the government annexation of life." -- Mark Steyn
Welcome to Socialized Health Care...
• DM: Man Pulls Out 13 of His Own Teeth With Pliers ''Because He Couldn't Find an NHS Dentist'
• DM: Dentist Shortage Leads Man to Superglue Own Tooth
• GM: Head of Toronto Paramedics' Union Faces Theft and Mischief Charges |
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