Mark Steyn's Stack of Stuff

Sorry for the delay in posting this today - I've been watching opening day baseball!

I don't include the links.

Author and cultural commentator Mark Steyn filled in for Rush on Thursday's program. Rush will be back on Monday.

"We're still a 50/50 nation where half the country
doesn't realize the fiscal crisis that faces us." -Steyn
• Reuters: White House: Libyan Defection a "Significant Blow"
• Guardian: Moussa Koussa's Defection Should be Exploited

"The problem with the United States, in a nutshell, is that we still think it's 1950. The Second World War has just ended, we got more money than we know what to do with, and we can afford to pay for other countries to fight wars." -Steyn

• WSJ: Mission: Inscrutable
• NRO: The Triumph of the Green Eyeshade
• WS: Reagan Versus Obama on Jobs

"'Federally funded cowboy poetry.' That phrase has never existed in any language in the entire course of human history. That's an innovation of our time and the fact that that combination of words can be used with all seriousness by the Senate majority leader of the world’s superpower is an indication of the depths we're in." -Steyn

• BW: CAGW Names Senator Harry Reid Porker of the Month
• MSNBC: All Hat and No Cattle? Cowboy Poetry Event Boss Talks Funding

"You don't need federal funds to write cowboy poetry. You just need the back of an envelope." - Steyn

• WN: Locals Join London Cuts Protest

"Anarchists in the good ol' days used to be anti-government. Now they're demanding more!" -Steyn

• HS: Face of Jesus Christ Appears in Three-Cheese Pizza

"How would you like to be in a situation where 20% of your income is just going towards the interest on your credit card? That's the situation the United States is in. The United States will be spending more on debt interest than on the cost of its military." - Steyn

• SS: Obama Inconsistent to OK Offshore Drilling off Brazil, but Not off U.S. Coast

• UPI: Clinton More Popular than Obama, Biden



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