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Mark Steyn: The Imperial Presidency
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | August 20, 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/20/2011 9:24:39 AM PDT by neverdem

Edited on 08/20/2011 9:32:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

European royals make do with a less lavish lifestyle than the supposed citizen-executive of a so-called republic.

This will be grand news to Schylar Capo, eleven years old, of Virginia, who made the mistake of rescuing a woodpecker from the jaws of a cat and nursing him back to health for a couple of days, and for her pains, was visited by a federal Fish & Wildlife gauleiter (with accompanying state troopers) who charged her with illegal transportation of a protected species and issued her a $535 fine. If the federal child-abuser has that much time on his hands, he should have charged the cat, who was illegally transporting the protected species from his gullet to his intestine.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: grifter; marksteyn; obama
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To: RoosterRedux

Yet he did not go into one black neighborhood and Maxine has called him out on it. Blacks have to be waking up to his game.


21 posted on 08/20/2011 10:24:57 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: neverdem

my wife says obama will come to Christ.


22 posted on 08/20/2011 10:28:51 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: ken21
Federal Fish & Wildlife gauleiter

PRICELESS!

23 posted on 08/20/2011 10:32:02 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving politicians more tax money is like giving addicts free drugs to cure their addiction)
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To: Albion Wilde
I remember when I was a kid in the 50’s no one bothered you, except when you screwed up generally a neighbor. Then I was exiled from Idaho to Mass and people started bothering me for no reason leading to a life long hatred of the Rat party.

I retired to a very small NH town, people no longer bother me, they might if I didn't pay my government rent.

24 posted on 08/20/2011 10:42:37 AM PDT by Little Bill (Sorry)
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To: marktwain
Yes, he really is!
25 posted on 08/20/2011 10:45:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: marktwain

“Mark Steyn is a treasure of the world!”

Indeed he is. This column is definitely a keeper.


26 posted on 08/20/2011 11:19:31 AM PDT by Grandma Pam
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To: ken21

“my wife says obama will come to Christ.”

Except in Obama’s case, he would expect Christ to come to him. In his mind, he is divine, not Christ.


27 posted on 08/20/2011 11:22:12 AM PDT by Grandma Pam
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To: neverdem

LBJ polled at 43% in 1967-68, and so, chose not to run. Although this rings a familiar bell, now, we should not assume that BO will also choose not to run- his ego is far bigger than, even, LBJ’s. Besides, the members of the “committee” don’t want to be run out of the WH, not when they are pushing so much of their socialist agenda through.


28 posted on 08/20/2011 11:39:17 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
No one picks communists and pedophiles for roles, doesn’t even bother to fake going to church, celebrates ramadan & etc. if they plan a 2nd term.

Sure you do, once you realize that 20% of the voters are hard core leftists and another 40% are brain dead sheeple who only care about their little bubble of a world. Then add in the almost total allegiance of the media along with the first ever added bonus of a presidential race card.

He's going to lose, but not by much, IMHO.

29 posted on 08/20/2011 11:43:15 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: ken21; Grandma Pam
my wife says obama will come to Christ.

Sooner or later every knee will bow before the Lord (rom 14:11). So yes, your wife is 100% correct, he will come to Christ at some point.

30 posted on 08/20/2011 11:58:34 AM PDT by 1forall (America - my home, my land, my country.)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

UMMMM.... You are not trolling are YOU? I think everyone should note this post.


31 posted on 08/20/2011 12:19:02 PM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: neverdem

The king on the way to his tee time.

32 posted on 08/20/2011 12:37:38 PM PDT by hattend (The SEALs got Osama. The only thing Obama killed was our childrens future - NoLibZone)
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To: neverdem

33 posted on 08/20/2011 1:09:11 PM PDT by hattend (The SEALs got Osama. The only thing Obama killed was our childrens future - NoLibZone)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

IIRC, LBJ had a pair of beagles, named “Him” and “Her”.


34 posted on 08/20/2011 1:12:08 PM PDT by motor_racer (Pete, do you ever get tired, of the driving?)
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To: neverdem

WORST! PRESIDENT! EVER!


35 posted on 08/20/2011 1:38:59 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Safetgiver

Huh?


36 posted on 08/20/2011 4:16:53 PM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: Little Bill
Then I was exiled from Idaho to Mass and people started bothering me for no reason leading to a life long hatred of the Rat party.

Yankees -- the Hurons and Narragansetts learned to hate them, Virginians and Carolinians learned to hate them. Now it's everyone else's turn. Even their cousins are like that back in Norfolk, England -- dour and pushy and judgmental and officious.

Someday my wise prescription will leak out from FR to the rest of the Union, and the People of the United States will kick New England out of the Union -- and downstate New York and Longgk Guyland right behind them ('cept for Staten Island).

Give 'em the heave, and see how much better the rest of America becomes overnight. I promise, it'll be like opening a window and turning off a noisy commercial.

37 posted on 08/20/2011 5:36:43 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX; trisham

That picture does look remarkably like Mussolini posing for a photo.


38 posted on 08/20/2011 11:46:57 PM PDT by Pelham ("Resist we much!" - Al 'Jiffypop' Sharpton)
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