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Programming note: Later today we'll have another entry to Steyn's Sunday Poems. That's immediately after the audio version of Steyn's Song of the Week, which airs on Serenade Radio in the UK at 5.30pm GMT - or 12.30pm North American Eastern/9.30am Pacific.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark:
~The week began with a classic love song for Valentine's Day.
~Mark's Monday Notebook rounded up various aspects of where we stand two years in to the New Normal, include the Trudeau court eunuchs' belief that "freedom" is a racist dog-whistle for "white supremacy": it was our most read piece of the week.
Also on Monday a new week of The Mark Steyn Show began with a partial victory for "freedom" in the Netherlands, the news that you can now get Aids from the government, Mary Dejevsky on Ukraine, and Mark talking Turkey. But we began the show with an Ontario lady who answered the door to find the Provincial Police there to warn her that they were reading her Facebook posts. Click below to watch:
You can see the full show here.
~Tuesday's Mark Steyn Show featured Michele Bachmann on John Durham's return from the dead, the Duke of York's settlement with his accuser, Justin Trudeau as the first totalitarian mammy-singer, and Harvey Proctor on what it's like to have your life ruined by a corrupt Scotland Yard and Crown Prosecution Service:
Afterwards, Snerdley & Steyn got together the old EIB band at New York's legendary radio powerhouse 77 WABC for a further exploration of the Durham Report and the attendant media silence.
~On Wednesday The Mark Steyn Show delved further into Trudeaupian totalitarianism. Jacob Wells, founder of GiveSendGo, joined Mark to reveal that it was an individual with close connections to Canadian intelligence services who hacked into his site, and then made the names of donors to the truckers available to the media for doxing:
You can watch the full show here, including Steyn's old BBC comrade Nigel Rees on the perils of quotation.
~Thursday marked the first anniversary of the death of Rush Limbaugh. Mark returned to the EIB Network to remember Rush, as did Snerdley, Kathryn Limbaugh, David Limbaugh and more. Click below to listen:
~Later The Mark Steyn Show offered a stellar line-up - Maxime Bernier on the state of Canada, Kate Hoey on the state of the Union, and Peter Hitchens on the state of America:
Also on Thursday Laura's Links rounded up the Internet from the Great Honkening to the rare sanity of Ilhan Omar.
~On Friday Mark hosted another Clubland Q&A taking questions from Steyn Club members live around the planet on various aspects on the widening gulf between the rulers and the ruled - including, halfway through the broadcast, the news that our colleague Andrew Lawton had been pepper-sprayed by the Ottawa Police (so thoroughly that he wound up in the hospital overnight). You can listen to the full show here.
~For his Saturday movie date Rick McGinnis picked Steve McQueen as Junior Bonner.
~Our marquee presentation was the conclusion of our latest Tale for Our Time, in celebration of the US Government breezily busting through the $30 trillion debt ceiling: The Million-Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain. You can hear the final episode here.
Tales for Our Time and Clubland Q&A are special productions for The Mark Steyn Club. The Steyn Club is not to everyone's taste, but we do have members in every corner of the world from Virginia to Vanuatu, and, if you have a chum who's partial to classic poems on video or classic fiction in audio, we offer a special gift membership.
A new week at SteynOnline begins later today with the aforementioned Sunday Poem and Steyn's Song of the Week.