Mark Steyn writes:

It’s interesting that many of the readers who send me links to analyses arguing that the GOP vote reflects the electoral math of 1972 and hasn’t taken into account the vast demographic changes since then are the same people who insist the far more dramatic demographic changes underway in Europe will have no consequences whatsoever.
 

I tell the tale at my new post at NewsRealBlog.

This just in via email:

Bruce Bawer (author of the new book Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom) to speak at the National Archives Theater

September 14, 2009 – 7PM

Tickets available now at The Ottawa Folklore Center
1111 Bank St. Ottawa and at the door

$15.00

My latest post at NewsRealBlog.com looks at Chris Matthews (and his African-American “expert” panelist), who insist that the cop who arrested Gates was “projecting” his own “Irish-American” prejudices about “black jive talk” onto the professor.

Too bad about that video, huh guys?

Mark Steyn writes:

A Canadian cabinet minister chipped in just before we took down the shingle at midnight, but didn’t quite make the cut, constrained (one would like to think) by the parsimonious salary offered to Ministers of the Crown. At any rate, he was outspent by the private sector.

At my latest NewsRealBlog post, I look at the latest reporter to go from hack to flack: Newsweek‘s Daren Briscoe.

Mark Steyn writes:

In the dying moments of our Socktastic Sockquidation Socktacular, I’d like to thank all the folks who swung by in these past 23-plus hours to buy a book, CD, mug or T-shirt and help support Ezra Levant, a great fighter for freedom. Fittingly enough, our biggest-selling item today was the SteynOnline Free Speech Special, containing three books – my own Lights Out, Ezra’s Shakedown, and Kathy Shaidle & Pete Vere’s Tyranny Of Nice – that the state censorship lobby doesn’t want you to read.

I’ve been immensely heartened by the support for Ezra from all corners of the globe, from Finland to the Philippines, from Sydney to Sao Paulo, from Monte Carlo to Moose Jaw.

Tomorrow we’ll announce the winners of our special prizes…

America’s angriest columnist writes:

Obama and his White House employees are going on one of those stupid “retreats” they have at big corporations.

You know what I mean: everybody at the office has to drag themselves out to some fancy place in the woods, and draw crayon pictures and “bond” and “share” with each other and basically act like kindergarten kids!

I tell you: the most terrifying words in the English language aren’t, “We interrupt this program” or even “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you.” They’re “And now we’re all going to break up into small groups…”

I’ve posted Ann Coulter’s new column about Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at my Ann Coulter page.

Ed Morrissey writes:

James Crowley sounds like an outstanding officer, but arresting someone on their own property for yelling at the police sounds a little strange.  (…)

Had Gates stuck to just those facts, he would have provided a teaching moment and a lesson on civil liberty and the right, at times, to yell at the representatives of our government when they appear to trample on the rights of citizens — even when the citizens are wrong in assuming the motivations involved.

As I was saying…

But Bruce Maiman asks the really important question:

…when I read this story, my first thought was, “Does the Manhattan Borough President really need a deputy press secretary?”