...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
Mark SteynAmerica's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.
Mark SteynIt is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.
Mark SteynSometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
Mark SteynMost mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichรฉs, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today heโd most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an โArms are for Huggingโ sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.
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