NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

I don’t think liberals appreciate how much conservatives laugh at this stuff.

well, that's definitely true

there are like seven threads i could put this on

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312618/suburbs-hidden-key-obama-stanley-kurtz

My new book, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, will be published on August 2. There I show how the suburbs are the target of Obama’s redistributive plans. Obama blames the suburbs for the plight of the cities. And while he took this view from his radical mentors, we are talking about a live issue. Although the public knows little about it, Obama actively coordinates his administration’s urban/suburban policy with his old community organizing mentors and colleagues.

Their plans for America are breathtakingly ambitious, and Obama has already laid the groundwork for a far-reaching social transformation in his second term. Should the president be reelected, the heretofore quiet alliance between Obama and his community organizing buddies is set to usher in a new phase of divisive class warfare between America’s suburbs and cities.

omg

ilx: the book

iatee did the illustrations

a culture war we can all get behind

http://www.amazon.com/Spreading-Wealth-Robbing-Suburbs-Cities/dp/1595230920/

"Their goal: to increase the influence of America’s cities over their suburban neighbors so that even­tually suburban independence will vanish...

Over time, cities would effectively swallow up their surround­ing municipalities, with merged school dis­tricts and forced redistribution of public spending killing the appeal of the suburbs."

can't wait!

Oh man, "merged school districts", nothing at all going on there

There are so many losers that write anti-Obama books and do well with them, I can't even. Morbs, you are missing out on some easy money.

BAM! How Barack Obama Kicked the Bush War Machine Up a Notch by Dr. Morbius with Dennis Perrin

Cruise time!

Our stellar line-up of speakers (they’ll be participating in nine scintillating panel sessions, dining with our contingent, and joining us at our many swell social events) includes Islam scholar Bernard Lewis, historian Victor Davis Hanson, pollster Scott Rasmussen, former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, political guru Ralph Reed, European Parliament conservative Daniel Hannan, columnists Cal Thomas, James Lileks, and Mona Charen, military expert Bing West, foreign-affairs experts Elliott Abrams and Anne Bayefsky, Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson, legal scholars Andy McCarthy, John Yoo and Ed Whelan, economics experts James Pethokoukis, Alan Reynolds, Kevin Hassett, and Andrew Stuttaford, City Journal editor Brian Anderson, The New Criterion editor Roger Kimball, immigration expert Mark Krikorian, author Michael Walsh, NRO editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg, NR editor Rich Lowry, political correspondent John Fund, former NR editor John O’Sullivan, “Long View” columnist Rob Long, senior editors Jay Nordlinger and Ramesh Ponnuru, NRO “Exchequer” blogger Kevin Williamson, NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Jean Lopez, ace political reporter Robert Costa, NRO “Campaign Spot” blogger Jim Geraghty, national correspondent John J. Miller, and, as a special treat, former U.S. Senator, federal judge, and Reagan-administration official James L. Buckley.

No corpse of Breitbart?

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/titanic.jpg

"My Neo-Conservatism Will Go On"

If any cruise ship deserved a norovirus outbreak...

And who will draw K Lo like one of their French girls

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313291/nazis-and-heavy-metal-robert-verbruggen

I can define terms like “grindcore.” And yet my brushes with neo-Nazi bands have been few and far between.

The comments are so outraged!

Mr. VerBruggen, might I suggest that your interst in "metal" would be cause for concern in a teenager, and downright frightening in an adult.

Here is another gem:

An NRO columnist is an expert in the minutiae of what may be the most degraded, pidgin, artless and counteraesthetic cultural product of all of Western Civilization's millenia of artistry.

God help us, Derbyshire was right. We Are Doomed.

" The theme of the National Socialist murderer's bands and music have sado-masochistic themes just as Fifty Shades of Grey does, not to mention a TV drama sponsored by Oprah Winfrey. .As commentators have noted, it can be argued that Page does not fit the charge of domestic terrorism, since it is hard to immediately discern any political objective."

To hell with you people!

Awesome, with headlines like that, Jonah really is turning into T Herman Zwiebel.

Also, I'm glad that the idea of "e.coli conservatism" has finally reached elected officials with mics.

What's Oprah's S&M TV drama?

The Color Black and Blue

very nice

K-Lo is thinking about quitting twitter

:(

In a blaze of glory, I hope.

Romney/Ryan: A Religious Milestone

By Michael Potemra

Four years ago, we Americans did something that not many decades earlier had been considered unthinkable, in electing an African-American to the presidency. That was a milestone, one that even those of us who voted for John McCain could, as I said that very night, take pride in. This year, a ticket with a Mormon and a Catholic on it could make it to the White House. The Mormons and Catholics who were targets of religious bigotry and violence back in the 19th century made a bet on America — that someday America would be truer to its founding principles of tolerance and liberty. They were right: It gets better.

This is the guy who's pilloried regularly for liking liberal books and movies.

looooool trying to appropriate "it gets better" is some super radioactive asshole behavior

a catholic veep? only in america

someday America would be truer to its founding principles of tolerance and liberty

pretty sure michael chose 'truer' over 'true' here to leave a lil wiggle room for future decisionmaking

https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/313504/boss

I can't read the rest of this but it sounds like Williamson is applying evo-psych to Obama and Romney lmao

boo, they've gone disqus!!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313882/white-brain-victor-davis-hanson

Racism: It's Obama's Fault

I couldn't even make it past the first page of that

The Corner's been an odd place the last few days. Euphoric but also...restrained? It's like they don't want their delight with the Ryan pick to squelch their suspicion that Romney will still lose.

went to see what an old favourite is up to lately and

John Derbyshire Considers His Future As A Zek In Cultural Marxist America

Derbs otm

so not googling "zek"

it's ok- basically gulag prisoner i think

which is disappointing, i'll admit

check out this sick insight guys

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314270/klein-white-house-woos-hillary-robert-costa#more

KLEIN: Number one, she felt that if she were on the ticket with Obama and he lost, she would be tarred as a loser when she tried to run in 2016. On the other hand, if she was on the ticket and he won, and he continued his far, left-wing socialistic policies, she would have to defend those policies when she ran in 2016.

how self-aware are these ppl? i mean there's obviously something to be said for trying to manipulate the media narrative in your direction by saying your opponent is reeling, etc. when cornerites do this is it gamesmanship or belief?

I think if you start going down that rabbit hole in order to answer that question you may not know what is up or down before long.

I think I said it on an earlier version of this thread but so much of modern conservatism in its contemporary media guise seems to call that whole distinction between belief and riling up liberals into question. It's almost an ideology that's implicitly or unconsciously knows how bankrupt it is.

tbf, i don't think k-lo is faking anything