First, we send our prayers for those caught in the path of Hurricane Helene. The pictures coming out of Asheville, in particular, are shocking and devastating. Please stay safe.
Gerard, a new club member from Illinois, writes:
Mark, I have been listening to you since you used to come on Milt Rosenberg's Extension 720. I totally agree with you about the terrible state of our Justice system. Swift and blind justice seems to be a thing of the past...
Thank you, Gerard. Here at SteynOnline we miss the legendary Dr. Rosenberg and his brilliant long-form interview style. Sadly, his departure was an early harbinger of what was to become of terrestrial talk radio.... with the death of Rush Limbaugh several years later marking the actual end.
(Yes, you can still turn on the radio and hear the ever-entertaining Howie Carr in New England and our old friend and former colleague Bo Snerdley in New York.)
But, sadly, one by one truth-tellers have been forced out. Other purported "conservative" shows have succumbed to the will of their corporate masters in order to keep their paychecks over the last few years. (It will be interesting to see if even these sell-outs can survive the recent Soros takeover...)
There is no danger of that here at SteynOnline. No one owns Mark. And, no one ever will. That is thanks to Gerard and other new and returning members this week from around the world including from: Alaska, Berkshire, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, London, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, New Zealand, North Carolina, Northamptonshire, Norway, Oklahoma, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Singapore, Texas, Utah, Victoria, Virginia, Washington (the state, not the diseased District of Columbia where justice goes to die), West Sussex and Wisconsin (where President Trump's rally has been postponed due to "security reasons"). If you are not yet a member, please join.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark:
~ Steyn's Song of the Week started the week off with a bang with a special audio edition celebrating a one-hundred-year-old hit.
~ On Monday, Mark was Talking Trivia on the Cliff-Edge in our most read piece of the week,
~ Tuesday's column took on the inability to speak the truth about nationhood.
~ Our in-house Jewish godmother/ guest host Laura Rosen Cohen asked Where's the Fluff? in Wednesday's Clubland Q&A.
On Thursday, she rounded up the internet as no one else can in her weekly column: Laura's Links
~ In Friday's Campaign Notebook Mark posited that Democracy Dies In ...Secret Service Headquarters.
Later the much-anticipated link to Mark's talk at Hillsdale became available with the hit title: "The Politicization of American Justice".
~ The weekend marked the return of Mark's new Serenade Radio show, Mark Steyn On the Town, with replay available to club members at SteynOnline.
~ Rick's Flicks rounded out the weekend with a visit to Barcelona - from whence we will launch our next Mark Steyn Cruise.
A new week begins later today at Serenade Radio with Steyn's Song of the Week at 12:30pm North American Eastern Time/ 5:30pm British Summer Time.