Mark Steyn on the U. N. Gee, he has a way with words...

Hillsdale College offers a great publication for free, Imprimis. The main article is usually taken from a speech given by some honored guest or another, and the February 2006 issue features Mark Steyn, who spoke at Hillsdale's sixth annual Churchill Dinner.

His topic was "America and the United Nations," and one of his points is that the U. N. is a mixed bag of countries. Here's just one line...

"It’s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice cream and a quart of dog mess and mix ’em together, the result will taste more like dog mess than ice cream. That’s the problem with the UN."

A little later in the article he has a nice tie-in to Batman, Paris Hilton, and Australia's Alexander Downer. A good read.

Hillsdale, btw, has an interesting history.

"One of only 119 American colleges awarding four-year liberal arts degrees in 1850, Hillsdale was the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex. That is, Hillsdale was the first American college to be chartered on the principle of nondiscrimination. Hillsdale's Founders shared a devotion to the principle of equality with the Founders of America who had declared in 1776 that 'all men are created equal.'"

And they don't accept any federal money.