Mark Steyn is back and warmer than ever

It's good to see that there is a new Mark Steyn column available. As always, Mark Steyn is on target, noticing that Lefties want everything to evolve, except nature.

Does the impending extinction of the Japanese and Russians not distress anyone? How about the Italians? They gave us the Sistine Chapel, the Mona Lisa, Gina Lollobrigida, linguine, tagliatelle, fusilli. If you're in your scuba suit down on the ice shelf dining with the krill and you say you'd like your algae al dente in a carbonara sauce, they'll give you a blank look. Billions of years on Earth and all they've got is the same set menu they started out with. But try and rouse the progressive mind to a "Save the Italians" campaign and you'll get nowhere. Luigi isn't as important as algae, even though he, too, is a victim of profound environmental changes: globally warmed by Euro-welfare, he no longer feels the need to breed.

Fortunately for the United States, America has the option of accepting young immigrants, which might prevent a European style demographic time bomb from exploding and destroying its economy. America is an idea as well as a country. Even the Irish and Italians figured out how to be Americans after decades of trying (I am half Irish and half Italian). So, America reinvents itself every generation or so with the energy of new attitudes and new immigrants. Europe seems to have failed, for some reason, in the technique of assimilating immigrants. Here's more from Steyn's column....

Even Chesterton, who observed that once man has ceased to believe in God he'll believe in anything, might have marvelled at how swift the decay from post-Christian to post-evolutionary. Like the old song says: What's it all about – algae?