The Undocumented Mark Steyn
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New Hampshire, xi–xii, xvi, 24, 69–70, 79, 86–87, 94, 100, 117, 166, 182, 186, 240, 243, 292, 354, 396, 410
New Labour Party, 308
Newsday, 181
New York, xvii, 2, 26, 46, 56, 73–75, 86, 116, 128–29, 134, 161, 171, 182, 235, 237–38, 242, 249–50, 255, 270–71, 343, 356, 400
New York City, NY, 2, 86, 161
New Yorker, The, 195, 255, 400
New York Post, The, 171
New York Sun, The, xvii, 263
New York Times, The, xvii, 29, 31, 42, 62, 73, 129, 201, 203, 232, 250, 296, 349, 378
Nichols, Mike, 336, 341
Nigeria, 46, 217, 232, 295
Nightline, 181
Nineties, the, x, 97, 109, 131, 318, 326, 329, 334, 337, 400
niqabs, 377
Nkomo, Joshua, 294
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), 36, 280
NORAD, 110
Norquist, Grover, 294, 296
North Korea, 109, 112, 151, 382
Nujoma, Sam, 157
O
Obama Administration, 143, 297
Obama, Barack, xi, xiv, 8, 26–27, 30, 45–6, 81, 89, 100, 141, 143–44, 152–54, 160, 170–73, 194–95, 203, 208, 211–13, 225, 263, 290, 293, 297, 304, 314, 351, 362–64, 366–67, 404
Obamacare, 100, 143, 171, 290–91, 293, 304
Obama, Michelle, 154, 203
Obamaphones, 293
Objective: Burma, 11
Oborne, Peter, 415
O’Brien, Soledad, 141
Observer, The, 360, 382
Occupy Wall Street, 263
Ockrent, Mike, 128–33
O’Halloran, Anthony, 412
“Oh! Susanna,” 235–37, 334
Oklahoma, 28, 31, 63, 179
Oklahoma City bombing, 179
“Old Black Joe,” 237
Old Faithful, 88
“Old Folks at Home (Swanee River), The,” 235
Old Labour, 115, 128
Oliver!, 55
“Ol’ Man River,” 235
Olson, Ted, 302–3
Omari Abdul Aziz al-, 108
Omar, Mullah, 183, 191–92, 197
“On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe,” 271
Ontario Human Rights Commission, 229, 352, 355
Opcare, 358, 360
Oregonian, The, 181
Orwell, George, 113–14, 116, 360
Osgoode, William, 399
“Our Day Will Come,” 239
out-of-wedlock births, xiii, 302, 304, 312, 313
P
Pakistan, 138, 181, 184, 208, 226, 232, 254–56
Palmer, Alasdair, 187
paramilitarization of the bureaucracy 91, 117–19
Parker, Sarah Jessica, 172
Parliament (Britain), 102, 199, 397
Parliament (Canada), 102
Parris, Matthew, 187, 189–90, 360
Passion Play, 130
Paul, Rand, 202
PBS, 188
Pearl Harbor, 10, 180, 246
Pelosi, Nancy, 89, 91
Pembroke Academy, 354–55
Peter, Paul, and Mary, 263, 266
Petraeus, David, 198–99, 362, 366
Pet Sounds, 251
Pfizer, 1
Philips, Bilal, 230, 232
Pillow Talk, 336
Pink Shirt Day, 353, 356
Pinter, Harold, 135–36
Pisgah Inn, 87
Podhoretz, John, 193
Poitier, Sidney, 163–64
Poland, Polish, 212, 270, 389
political correctness, 199–201, 358
“Pomp and Circumstance,” 23
“Pooyum Nadakkuthu Pinchum Nadakkuthu,” 254, 256
Porter, Cole, 31, 270, 273, 275, 323–24
potpourri, xvi, 1, 51–54
Powell, Alma, 161
Powell, Charles, 162
Powell, Colin, 158, 160–65, 247
Powers, Austin, 7, 59, 63, 316
Powers, Kirsten, 294
Pow Wow Chow, 28, 30, 31
Prague, 361
Previn, André, 334
Producers, The, 128
progressives, 26, 226, 316, 364
Proust, Marcel, 340
“PS I Love You,” 274
Q
Qaddafi, Muammar, 195
Qatada, Abu, 284
“Quantum of Solace” (Fleming), 124
Quayle, Dan, 314
Quebec, 7, 100, 109, 111, 117–18, 124, 182, 191, 202, 287–88, 292, 373
Queen, the, 31, 96, 101, 140, 153–54, 156, 158, 161, 165–70, 173, 176, 239, 246, 279, 324, 328, 352, 372, 381
Quigley, Bernie, 409–10
Qutb, Sayyid, xviii
R
Radiohead, 279
Radosh, Ron, 263–65
“Rakkamma Kaiya Thattu,” 254
Ramadi, 209–12, 246
Rather, Dan, 42–43
Ravin, Yakob, 392
Reagan, Ronald, 5, 294–95, 389–92
“Reetu Haruma Timi,” 254
Reno, Janet, 96
Renton, Alex, 184
Republican Brain, The, 30
Republican Party, the, xiii, 46, 295, 371. See also GOP, the
republicans, xv, 1, 44, 153–54, 168–70, 294–97, 389
“Return to Me,” 251
“Return of Patriarchy, The,” 316
right, right-wing, xiv, xvi, 2, 30, 81, 141, 146, 296, 304, 412–13
“right to choose, the,” 65, 311, 314–16
Rise of the Planet Apes, 318
Rodham, J. K. (satirical name of invented author), 145–47
Rome, 34, 119, 397
Romney, Mitt, xiii, 207, 294
Ronell, Ann, 235
Rowling, J. K., 145
Royal Family, the, 152, 154, 167, 169
Ruby Ridge, 92, 94
Rumsfeld, Don, 189, 247
Running Down Broadway (Ockrent), 129
Rushdie, Salman, 134–40, 366–67
Rush Limbaugh Show, The, 15, 410
Rutba, 200, 209–12
Rutkowski, Alan, 411
Ryan, Paul, 44, 47
Ryan’s Daughter, 32
S
Saher, Kazem al-, 254–55
Salem witch trials, 190
same-sex marriage. See gay marriage
Sandwich, England, 1
San Francisco, 179–80, 199
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 318
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 135, 138, 367
Saudi Arabia, 107, 109, 230, 363, 398, 405, 408
Savannah, GA, 270, 272
Saving Private Ryan, 11, 246
Sawyer, Diane, 41, 241
Scandinavians, 302
Schmidt, Helmut, 190, 289
Scott, Ridley, 67, 72
Second Amendment, the, 82
Secret Service, 101–2
Seeger, Pete, 263–66
September 11, 2001, attacks, 105–8, 192–93, 195, 197, 203, 224
Sergeant Pepper, 251
Seventies, the, 32, 55–57, 60, 89, 92, 188–89, 226, 272, 295, 301, 335, 391, 394, 396
Seven Year Itch, The, 343
sexual harassment, 62–64, 66, 227, 342
sexuality, xv, 55–57, 301–4, 310, 381–83
Shaidle, Kathy, 228, 409
Shakespeare, William, 64–65, 287, 396
Sharia law, 134, 217–21, 379
Sharpton, Al, 101, 162
Shelton, Robert, 250
Shepard, Matthew, 225
Sherborne, 279
Shop-A-Sponger Hotline, 282, 284
Siamese twins, 323–27
Sierra Leone, 34
Silva, Daniel, 112, 114, 115
Simmonds, Rita, 68
Sinatra, Frank, 58–59, 170, 209, 249, 253, 274, 334, 336
Singapore, 158
Sixties, the, 12, 40, 55, 58, 60, 97, 163, 189, 219, 226, 249–50, 253, 256, 302, 398, 404
Slate, 180
slavery, 156, 163, 316, 397–400
Slovak National Pa
rty, 258–59
Slovenia, 80, 389
Smith, Andreas Whittam, 140
Smith, Ben, 142
social liberalism, 304
social mobility, 281, 303
Social Security, 26, 293
Society of St. James, 358
sodomy, xiii, 156
Somalia, 195, 369, 371
Sopranos, The, 251
South Bank Show, The, 136
South Park, 329, 364
Soviet national anthems, xvi, 267–69
Soviet Union, the, 10, 43, 93, 124, 197, 261, 267, 293, 357, 389, 393, 395
Spain, 118, 176, 261, 374
Speaking Truth to Power, 64
Spectator, The, 58, 62, 91, 160, 186, 190, 369, 405, 407, 414, 417–18
“Spring, Spring, Spring,” 272–73
Springsteen, Bruce, 251, 263
Spy Who Loved Me, The, 124
Starbucks, 2, 6, 8
Stark (old POW camp), 186
Starobin, Paul, 410
Steinem, Gloria, 12, 62–66
Stevens, Chris, 207–8
Stevens, Scott, 91–92, 96–97
Stewart, Dave, 251
Stewart, Martha, 52
Stewart, Rod, 192, 250
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The, 315
Stone, Oliver, 245
Stott, Codie, 359
Streisand, Barbra, 132, 171, 307, 312
Stroman, Susan, 128
Studio 54, 55–56
Styne, Jule, 391
“Summer Wind,” 273
Summit of the Americas, 191, 193
Sun, The, 282
Sunday Telegraph, The, 40, 92, 182, 309, 417
Sunnis, 209–13
Sunni Triangle, the, 209, 211
Supreme Court, the, xiii, 100, 144, 202, 302–3, 363, 412
Surgery News, 348–49
Swarthmore College, 9, 370, 374
SWAT, 102, 119
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, 11
Syria, 151, 173, 210–12
T
Taliban, the, xviii, 180, 184, 189, 191–92, 224, 226, 283–4
Talk Show with Clive James, The, 136
Tancredo, Tom, xiii
tax rates, 394
Taylor, Alastair, 282
Tebbit, Norman, 135, 137–39
Telegraph Group, the, 407
Telemundo, 208
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 258
Te’o, Manti, 44
terror, terrorism, 106–8, 189, 203, 203–4, 223, 283–84, 301, 314, 405–6
Terry (son of Doris Day), 336–37
Thapa, Arun, 254
Thatcher, Margaret, 132, 134–38, 162, 393–96, 414
Thatcher, Mark, 414
Third Reich, 30, 118, 139
third sector, the, 280
Third Way, the, 285
Third World, the, 190, 197
Thirumalai Chandran, 254
This Day, 217
Thompson, Fred, 9–11
Thompson, Tommy, xiii
Thomson, Alice, 187–88
Three Cups of Tea, 142, 198–99
“Times They Are A-Changin’, The,” 251
Tobaccoville, NC, 410
Toledo Blade, The, 392
Tom Brown’s Schooldays, 351
Tora Bora, 192
Toronto Star, The, 228, 286
torture, 126, 141, 189, 199
totalitarian, totalitarianism, 140, 180, 261, 264, 347, 355, 357
traditional marriage, 301–3
traffic signs, 79–83
Trebil border, 209, 211
Trenton, Ontario, 152
trillion-dollar coin, the, 44–46
Trippin’, 33
Trudeau, Pierre, 190, 289
True Finns party, 258
Truman, Harry S., 170, 173, 265
TSA, the, 79, 119
Turner, Anthea, 67
U
U2, 251
U-571, 11
Ukraine, Ukrainian, 91, 385, 392
UN 2002 Arab Development Report, 226
Unicef, 181
Union Jack, the, 10
Union of Patriotic Forces, 259
United Kingdom, the, 67, 71, 112–13, 151, 165, 260, 262, 358, 295, 417
United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP), 262
United Nations (UN), 37, 183–84, 192, 19, 198, 219, 226, 259, 374
United States, U.S., 4, 23, 34, 20, 109, 198, 207–8, 281, 295, 303, 312, 332, 398, 406, 409
crime rates in the, 69–70, 80–81
culture of the, 2–3, 81, 246, 284
economy of the, 44–47, 118–19
government of the, 90–91, 95, 101, 105–6, 111, 117–19, 167, 169, 225, 363
hegemony of the, 196
immigration in the, 105–7, 202, 297
media in the, xi, 40, 42, 44, 194, 411–13
military engagements of the, 62, 181, 184–85, 188–95, 197, 209, 244–45, 247, 362, 395
politicians of the, xii–xiv, 44, 101, 141–43, 152, 160, 172, 174, 225, 342, 362
relationships with other nations, 44, 200, 212, 412, 415
taxes in the, 199
in World War II, 10
University of Minnesota, 250
U.S. border, 7, 100, 108–11, 117, 143, 202, 232, 348
U.S. Congress, 1, 3, 27, 44, 59, 65, 70, 89, 96, 101–2, 203, 393, 409
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 109
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 105, 109, 111
U.S. Immigration office, 297
U.S. News & World Report, 15
USSR, 112, 264
U.S. State Department, 46, 107, 191, 206
Uzbekistan, 184, 255
V
Vaidyanathan, R., xvi
Valley Park Middle School, 228, 231–32, 354
“Vande Mataram,” 254, 256
Vardy, Fiona, 358
Vargas, Elizabeth, 41
Variety, 244
Vermont, xi, 3, 7, 24–25, 81–82, 92–98, 109, 111, 117, 155, 202, 255, 258, 292
Viagra, xvi, 1–5
Vidal, Gore, 309
Vietnam War, 195, 246, 391, 395, 413
Visa Express, 107
Vital Signs, 254
W
Waco, 92, 94, 96–97
Wall Street Journal, The, 1, 55, 366, 417–18
Warren, Elizabeth, 27–31
Washington, DC, 10, 40, 42, 264, 314, 373
Washington Post, The, 10, 40–42, 264, 314, 373
Watergate, 391
“Way You Look Tonight, The,” 235
Weekly Standard, The, 292
Weiner, Anthony, 154, 383
Weisenthal, Joe, 44, 46
Welby, Justin, 301
Weldon, Fay, 135–36
Wendy’s, xii
west, the, xvi, 38, 143, 318, 349, 395, 405
Cold War and, 190
decline of, xvi, 13, 35, 143, 158, 283, 383
Muslims and, 192, 203, 225
western civilization, xviii, 11, 35, 366
Western Standard, The, 285–86, 417–18
West Indies, the, 156, 203, 398
What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution, 55
What Women Want, 58, 60
“When the World Was Young,” 273
“Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,” 263, 266
White Christmas, 245
White Mountain Militia, the, 91–92
“white vote,” 294
Whiting, Margaret, 335
Wilberforce, William, 397–400
Wilders, Geert, 261
Wilkomirski, Binjamin, 142, 144
William III (king). See William and Mary
William and Mary, 399
William, Prince, 152, 170, 229, 354
Williams, Zoe, 280
Wilson, Pete, xiii
Wilson, Woodrow, 296
“Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight),” 263
Windsor, Elizabeth, 42, 167. See also Queen, the
Wintour, Anna,
172
Withington Community Hospital, 358
Wodehouse, P. G., 353
Wolfe Tones, The, 254, 257
Woodsville, NH, 24, 410
Working Woman, 64
World Is Not Enough, The, 398
World Summit, 36
World Trade Center, 105, 108, 179–80
World Trade Center, 245–46
World War II, 196, 201
Worstall, Tim, 280
Worsthorne, Peregrine, 92–93
Y
Yank, The Army Weekly, 245
Yawaru tribe, the, 9, 12
Yemen, 202–3, 206, 231, 290, 352
Yes, (Saudi) Minister! (Algosaibi), 408
Young at Heart, 336
Young, Michael, 154
Z
ZANU-PF, 294
ZAPU-PF, 294
Zimbabwe, 46, 157, 94
Zimmerman, George, 29–30
“Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” 272