Mark Steyn

Pat at Kerry Haters introduced me to Mark Steyn (I don't know why I'd never heard of him before). He is an excellent writer and I want to share him with you like Pat did with me:

I remember a couple of days after Sept. 11 writing that weepy candlelight vigils were a cop-out: the issue wasn't whether you were sad about the dead people but whether you wanted to do something about it. Three years on, the two conventions drew the same distinction. If you want passivity and wallowing in victim culture, the Dems will do. If you want to win this thing, Bush is the only guy running.

Read the whole column here.