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I don't even

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/315834/move-over-icasablancai-jay-nordlinger

This is exactly the sort of thing Saturday Night Live would do, if SNL weren’t ideologically committed.

By Kevin D. Williamson
September 5, 2012 12:48 P.M.
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So, I’m eavesdropping on the staff of a largish mainstream-media outlet next door (the press working spaces at the DNC are separated by curtains) and got a good earful of liberal asininity.

The pro-lifers are out in force in Charlotte, displaying very graphic images of small human beings cut up in the name of sexual convenience. I find the images difficult to look at, and I am not the only one.

So the geniuses in the tent next door were declaring that these images are somehow fake or exaggerated (what do you think a baby a few months away from birth looks like chopped up), and were complaining that the pro-lifer protesters should not be allowed to bring their children along. Specifically, one lady said, “That’s child abuse!”

It takes a special kind of moral illiteracy to look at that poster of a small person butchered and then to conclude that bringing your kids along to protest that state-sanctioned violence is the child abuse.

in the name of sexual convenience

So women have abortions because they're sluts, okay.

154. Another 17 million people will be pushed into Medicaid.
166. Increasing education spending across the board.
572. Isn’t it time for the oceans to rise again?
611. Because we don’t want to eat our vegetables.

Has this asshat ever been right?

nope, not a thing!

fondatori 13 minutes ago

Its sad to see Clinton rehabilitated in so many people's minds. He really is a moral monster. I remember when Chris Matthews (of all people) was an outspoken Clinton-hating liberal - because of the constant dishonesty and obvious low character of the man and his hangers-on.

He really did invent modern politics though - touchy-feely, crassly emotional, blatantly dishonest. If the character of our people ever recovers sufficiently that some future state patterns itself after the formerly free entity known as the 'United States of America," he will be burned in effigy as one of the destroyers of the Republic.

^^ read in charlton heston voice

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/Screenshotfrom2012-09-06083417.png

^^^^ i read that piece i want those five minutes back

our old friend is at it again. Choice bits:

I saw the hatred — the almost animal hatred — that was directed at George W. Bush for eight years. (What a good and decent man he is.) I saw the hatred — the raw, snarling, truly animal hatred — that was directed at a woman named Sarah Palin. It had almost a physical effect on me, this hatred.

I’ll never forget a friend of mine, with whom I’d never discussed politics — “I hate her,” she said. And she had a look in her eye I had never seen before. My friend is a loving person. But she had a look of wild hatred in her eye. I had never heard my friend say she hated anything: al-Qaeda, Pol Pot, cancer — nothing.

Anyway, I am not in the mood to be lectured by Democrats about hating. Many Republicans have tiptoed around President Obama for four years, not wanting to be branded with the scarlet R (not that it helps them).

and:

About him and his speech last night, I’m going to say very little. I was going to start with a general statement about America’s romance with him — and what that says about the country (nothing good, in my opinion). But I have been down that road before, and will again, I’m sure . . .

Let me praise him! He said “alternative universe,” rather than the new, and wrong, “alternate universe.” When I was managing editor of NR, I tried to get young people to stop writing “alternate universe.” I eventually gave up, I think.

Good for Clinton, for holding the line, linguistically . . .

A Nordlinger twitter feed would be great, we could get these pearls in real time.

The NRO Twitter feeds have been pretty great this week: Jonah tries to be the kid in the back row making jokes, but he ends up just coming off bitter. K-Lo is alternately confused, shocked and really obvious.

The way Democrats talk about Republicans is absolutely bizarre: They portray Mitt Romney et al. as hard-core libertarians who want to strip government down to practically nothing. Do they know they’re lying? Or are they honestly confused?

The other day, I was reading the latest book by Mark Mazower, the British historian. He was talking about the “Third Way” — a way, he said, between statism and “no-government minimalism.” (I believe that’s what he said. I’m going from memory.)

No-government minimalism! You mean, like Reagan? Under him, the U.S. government got bigger and bigger, just at a less fast rate than before.

Basically giving up the fight here.

The way Democrats talk about Republicans is absolutely bizarre: They portray Mitt Romney et al. as hard-core libertarians who want to strip government down to practically nothing. Do they know they’re lying? Or are they honestly confused?

belongs in some Museum of Cluelessness

He was talking about the “Third Way” — a way, he said, between statism and “no-government minimalism.”

scanned this as "between satanism and no gov't minimalism" which sounds like a more interesting binary.

america's greatest living philosopher

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/316459/democrats-god-and-jerusalem-thomas-sowell#

From the beginning, Barack Obama has tried to downplay the threat of a nuclear Iran. At one time he said dismissively that Iran was just “a small country.”

In fact, Iran is physically larger than Japan, and its current population is slightly larger than what the population of Japan was when the Japanese dealt a devastating blow to the United States with its attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

A nuclear Iran can do a lot more damage to Israel than the Japanese did to the United States. Moreover, it is well on its way to being able to produce more than the two bombs that were enough to force Japan to surrender in 1945.

In fact, Iran is physically larger than Japan

are we playing risk here, mr. sowell

haha that reminds me of the story about the trivia-card company that got in trouble during the mccarthy era for saying russia was 'the largest country in the world.'

wait till sowell notices greenland

i'm googling for: obama iran "small country" and finding only right-wing websites hmmmm

wait till sowell notices greenland

...on a Mercator projection

Moreover, it is well on its way to being able to produce more than the two bombs that were enough to force Japan to surrender in 1945.

Where's that Greenwald column with like five years' worth of news items claiming Iran is six months away from a working bomb?

Japan was doing so great before those two A-Bombs

and before Rob Dean left.

here's what Obama actually said:

"Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us."

Iran is a little more than half the population of Russia--kinda weird.

the soviet union was roughly 15 time the size of Iran

times*

Larison has a few words.

"We do, however, have control over our own government’s response to these facts of life. While they are now backtracking under withering criticism, it appears that our embassy in Egypt apologized for the film that apparently incited the attack; that apology came before the attack took place. It was that apology — drawing attention to said film — that encouraged the mob." -- Fred Thompson & wife

these guys have such an amazing feel for the street-level passions of another people on the other side of the fucking earth

Obamedia, Holder Style
By Andrew C. McCarthy

September 19, 2012 11:09 A.M. Comments0

Look, we have a Justice Department in which the attorney general himself — not some middle-management minion but the top federal law enforcement official in the country — attaches himself at the hip to the country’s most notorious race-demagogue, as Eric Holder did with Al Sharpton in agitating for a race-driven, rather than evidence-driven, state murder prosecution of George Zimmerman. Worse, if worse there can be, it is a Justice Department that has adopted a willfully anti-Constitutional, racially discriminatory standard for civil rights enforcement. It is a Justice Department that designs harebrained firearms investigation schemes that inevitably get people killed — including law enforcement officers — and then lawlessly stonewalls congressional efforts to investigate. It is a Justice Department that has pervasively politicized not only enforcement protocols but hiring practices. With this kind of record (and I’ve only scratched the surface), is anyone really surprised that DOJ has pressed the lefty goon squad Media Matters into service as an adjunct of its press operation?

remember when no one but Al Sharpton cared about Trayvon Martin and out of nowhere Eric Holder arrested George Zimmerman?

Senegal’s Senate Abolished in Name of Fiscal Responsibility
By Patrick Brennan
September 23, 2012 8:57 P.M. Comments1

If on January 20, a president Romney were to find himself with a still-Democratic Senate and a Republican house, maybe he’ll be tempted to emulate Senegal’s new president:

Senegalese MPs have voted to abolish the senate as part of moves to help the victims of recent deadly floods.

President Macky Sall has said the money reserved for the upper house – about $15m (£9.5m) – will also go towards preventing further flooding.

But critics say the aim is to weaken the opposition as most of the senators were supporters of the ex-president.

The 100 senators had fought to be retained, but lost the vote in the joint session of parliament.

lolwhut

facetious because it would require a new amendment in the usa, which isn't going to happen, but i would support it. proportional representation now!

(i see that the majority of the senate of senegal was appointed by the president, so it was a totally useless organization anyway.)

What these guys have been reduced to writing about:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328482/turkey-school-lunch-stanley-kurtz#comments

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328642/love-other-mark-krikorian

Enh, that's just dumb.

"but it’s clear that many of Obama’s supporters want him to be a Muslim, want him to have been born in Kenya."

It's clear you are an idiot, sir.

"clear"/"clearly" may be the word of the obama years

what is with the comments, now? have they switched off of disqus (again?)

i wake up every morning praying that our long national nightmare will be over and that the president will turn out to be a muslim who was born in kenya

Fox and Friends
By Mona Charen
September 27, 2012 4:33 P.M.
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I’ll be on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning at 8:15 to talk about press bias.

http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/tmp/cover_121001_toc.jpg

lol

By Kathryn Jean Lopez
September 28, 2012 2:05 P.M.
Kate Trinko has just made clear that President Obama’s transformative work on us has yet to be completed. The reeducating of American thinking, to understand that abortion, contraception, and female sterilization are basic health care has yet to stick. She probably still believes, like the people who the New York Times has polled and the swing voters the Susan B. Anthony List has discovered, that people have the freedom to not cover such things, that their religious freedom includes the right to believe and practice such sick thinking. She does not yet know what is best for all, and the true meaning of freedom: having fertility suppressed, drugged as if it were a disease. Four more years and she might get the hang of it.

It's kinda amazing they still let KLO write for them.

I genuinely worry about what will happen to her if Obama wins re-election.

depends, is she allergic to cats?

lmao

If you got your information from the mainstream media — I wish there were a better term — you would never know Romney is an impressive man. You would never know he has been successful in most everything he has ever done. You would never know he was bright, experienced, or capable. Or warm, decent, and charitable.

You would think he was a moron. And a jerk, to boot.

You remember those “ordinary people” at the Republican convention who told about the extraordinary acts of charity Mitt Romney has performed? If Obama had performed those acts, they would be famous. They would be legends, they would have entered the national lore. Schoolchildren would be instructed to sing about them.