Quotes from Mark Steyn

The drug cartels weren't Muslim last time I checked, but decapitation isn't just for jihadists anymore: if you want to get ahead, get a head.

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I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it.

The interpretation of the observational science has been consistently over-egged to produce alarm.

America did not teach men the idea of freedom; she taught them how to practice it.

have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got", how did the IPCC know it's hotter than it's been for a thousand years?

Why did the IPCC so quickly and uncritically accept the Mann et al hockey stick analysis when it first appeared? I cannot help but conclude that it's because they wanted to believe it.

if you take away one single thing from Climategate, it's that the global warm-mongers have wholly corrupted the "peer-review" process.

the beauty of the climate-change circus is that you never need to ask "Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?" Mann peer-reviewed Jones, and Jones peer-reviewed Mann, and anyone who questioned their views got exiled to the unwarmed wastes of Siberia.

Professor Brown said that Mann's reconstructed planetary "average" is "possibly representative of no climate state that actually ever existed".

Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of America because you were born in it?

MICHAEL E MANN is the bristlecone pine of scientists. Just as removing the bristlecones makes his hockey stick collapse, so removing Mann from the climate conversation would make a lot of the drama and hysteria and sheer unpleasantness disappear.

Mann has the most closed mind in the scientific community.

the fact that the climate models do not reliably model the real climate.

We remember the famous curve in the shape of a hockey stick… However, no serious scientist still gives it the least credit.

Contemporary Big Government is like a widget factory that no longer makes widgets but holds sensitivity training sessions all day long.

I don't think they are scientifically inadequate or stupid. I think they are dishonest and members of a club that has much to gain by practicing and perpetuating global warming scare tactics.

the global climate models (whether downscaled to regions or not) have failed to predict changes in the statistics of regional climate…

There are People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but sadly no Animals for the Ethical Treatment of People.

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?

Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by the United States people assume the Chinese are buying, no they don't want any more American debt. Ron Paul has a point there.

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.

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.