NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

so the Kraut wrote a column calling for the release of captive whales. Mona Charen responds:

I admire Charles Krauthammer extravagantly (doesn’t everyone?) and agree that keeping Orcas confined for our entertainment is probably cruel. But he asks a question that has a much more obvious answer. It’s simple: abortion. Here’s my take on that subject today.

abort the whales

A question a child might ask, but not a childish question. And the answer is abortion.

oh man:

In Part II of today’s “Macedonia Journal,” I speak of George Soros, who is a big deal here in America — but who is a far bigger deal in that little Balkan country. One local conservative told me, “Soros came into Macedonia like a Trojan horse, and now he is an octopus.” The Hungarian-born billionaire pushes a sharply Left agenda through a host of NGOs and activists. The activists are called “Sorosoids” — by conservatives, that is. It is not a flattering term.

When the weather’s nice, I see Sorosoids all over the streets of New York. They have clipboards and stop people to enlist them in various Left causes. The pickings should be fairly easy for them in this city. Worse luck in Provo?

We the American taxpayer contribute to Soros in Macedonia, in that we give to his principal foundation through USAID. Why does Soros need our bucks, in light of his own? A good question, to which I don’t have a ready answer. I believe our officials think we are contributing to the democratic process, not to a particular side (namely, the “post-Communist” one).

The Soros foundation’s activities in Macedonia are multifarious, but one of them has been to translate Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Just what a country struggling to emerge from Communism needs, right? And this got me to thinking about Saul and Rules right here at home. Our current president has an Alinskyite past; and so does our next potential president, HRC. If she gets in, maybe she’ll include Rules for Radicals in a national Common Core? Maybe we should give it to the chillen in the cradle, in lieu of The Cat in the Hat and whatnot?

What people in Macedonia, the United States, and elsewhere should be exposed to is the U.S. Constitution. President Obama used to speak highly of it, or at least respectfully. (Wasn’t he supposed to have taught it?) He said, for example, that the Constitution forbade him to amnesty illegal aliens, all by himself. He was not an emperor, you know.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

Hitting ALL the notes

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418273/university-report-room-full-white-people-microaggression-katherine-timpf

^^^ satire they call it

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416919/there-huge-wage-gap-and-its-because-conservative-men-hate-women-katherine-timp

not found?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416919/there-huge-wage-gap-and-its-because-conservative-men-hate-women-katherine-timpf

okay, these are ALL one note explicitly sarcastic "articles" from the same writer from the past year alone.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416919/there-huge-wage-gap-and-its-because-conservative-men-hate-women-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396565/ten-ways-men-oppress-women-their-everyday-behavior-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/413666/colleges-non-offensive-party-theme-ideas-are-actually-so-offensive-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/398868/yes-lets-cancel-olympics-forever-because-they-hurt-environment-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415012/putting-woman-20-bill-does-not-go-far-enough-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415256/study-being-nice-women-sign-sexism-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417313/real-problem-rotc-heels-march-its-insult-trans-community-katherine-timpf

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We women are making like 77 or 78 percent less money just because we’re women — and conservative men don’t care because all they want us to make are babies.

oh no she doesn't know the difference between making 77% less money and making 77% of what men make.

Q: Why do you want to go into journalism?
A: Spite!

Um, hell-ooooo-ooooh! First of all, the fact that these women are just candidates for one bill rather than all automatic shoo-ins for their own bills is an outrage. After all, the people of our racist country will just pick one of the white ones — making the women of the other nominated cultures feel inferior. And like some cultures weren’t even nominated at all. There are literally no Native American women on the list, even though there should pretty clearly be at least one from every single tribe. Oh, and by the way, there is not a single handi-capable female included. What a joke.

There must be a gender-fluid bill, a straight female of each race, a lesbian female of each race, a bisexual female of each race, an asexual female of each race, a gender nonconforming person of each race, a handi-capable female of each race, a handi-capable gender nonconforming person of each race, and also a few mixed-race representatives. I think that Gloria Steinem and Lena Dunham should at least be considered too even though they’re obviously a little bit evil because they’re white. I apologize if I am forgetting anyone. I’m aware that my white privilege makes me a terrible person so please forgive me in advance for my ignorance. I didn’t mean to oppress you.

What we actually need to do here is overthrow our entire currency. Not having enough denominations of money to represent all marginalized groups is no excuse to exclude anyone — we just need to add more denominations! I really don’t see what would be wrong with a $1.27 bill, for example. Why not? Isn’t this the most important thing ever in the world?

Also, to make more room we should definitely do away with all of the straight, cisgender white males already on the bills. I mean seriously. I really don’t know why we’re still celebrating these people even though it’s a proven fact that every single problem in the world is all their fault.

Katherine Timpf is a """"""""""""""""""""""""reporter"""""""""""""""""""""""" for National Review Online.

i like that she's clearly unaware that there's sacajawea currency in circulation

That fact conflicts with the strawman party she is throwing herself.

It blows my mind how these are the types of people looking down on the poor and tsk-tsking the lack of work ethic in the lower classes and what do they do for a living? It's basically an adult form of "Nanny-nanny-boo-boo".

But what can we expect from an event titled “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes”? Yes, “her” — as if everyone who wears heels automatically uses that pronoun. Now, this might not seem like a big deal to people who aren’t as culturally aware as I am, but I promise you that it is wildly problematic. It totally ignores the fact that there are many heel-wearing, female-identified people out there who don’t want to be referred to by language associated with the traditional gender binary. What about the “they/them/their/theirs” people out there, huh? Or the “xe/xem/xyr/xyrs”? Of course, I’m also going to mention the pronouns “ne/nem/nir/nirs” and “ve/ver/vis,” as well as the fact that there are people who prefer to invent their own pronouns or to not use any at all, because I’m a wonderful person and superior to those who might forget and leave some people feeling excluded. Sometimes I think about how far we still have to go before we’re living in a truly accepting and loving culture — it’s daunting.

at least interesting to see that tin-eared rancid satire of tumblrspeak is a lane grown bigger than twitter nobodies

I long for the days when it was just about the War On Christmas.

There must be a gender-fluid bill, a straight female of each race, a lesbian female of each race, a bisexual female of each race, an asexual female of each race, a gender nonconforming person of each race, a handi-capable female of each race, a handi-capable gender nonconforming person of each race, and also a few mixed-race representatives.

who writes like this

oh right – a Cornerite.

Emerald Bixby • a month ago

Katherine, I'd never heard of you before, but today is the first time I've been glad that a website had the irritating-as-all-hell "scrolling takes you directly to the next article" interface. I came to see what the Sarah Silverman thing was about, and saw the title for this piece below it -- and I didn't notice (at first) that it was also by you, so I didn't expect it to be sarcastic until I was pleasantly surprised.

Not only is your execution stellar, but your attitude is great. It's inspiring and reassuring to me every single time I see someone like you calling out how fucked the popular oppression narrative is, especially because the stupid nature of the problem means that we need more women piping up. I only became aware a short few years ago that there are other women who reject victim culture, so it still strikes me deeply and means something special every time I see a respectable woman writing credible, interesting work that criticizes the issue. Thanks for writing the piece that started my day with a sense of camaraderie instead of frustration!

five bucks that Emerald Bixby is Mona Charen

who will victimize the victims?

Found this clip from Larry Wilmore's show:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/7trhiv/the-nightly-show-panel---rand-paul-s-presidential-run---keep-it-100

Sen. Bernie Sanders, Baratunde Thurston and Kat Timpf talk about Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign and his efforts to appeal to voters across the political spectrum. (8:12)

"comedian"?

All these people are horrible people, who no doubt are endlessly grateful that Hitler existed, so that by the force of comparison he made being a selfish twat seem less evil in the milder form in which they manifest it.

otoh maybe most people are trying to stay true to values + virtues that they sincerely believe are good and we differ from them wrt which virtues are more/less important, and what is true about reality

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ws

look again

NRO climate change section yet to update since January. IIRC it's an article about a cold day in Detroit.

otoh maybe most people are trying to stay true to values + virtues that they sincerely believe are good and we differ from them wrt which virtues are more/less important, and what is true about reality

Is there a "bump this thread every time some anti-gay pastor/politician shows up on Grindr" thread?

Jesus Fucking Christ: evangelical bigwig opposed gay marriage "because it takes the dirt and danger out of clandestine sex with rent-a-men"

This is a big story, certainly. Hastert was a leader on the national stage less than a decade ago, and remains a lobbyist in Washington, D.C.

Yet one cannot help but observe: Three authors are given a byline for this scoop, and six others are credited with “contributing” to the report. That’s nine Washington Post authors hard at work getting the (legally non-actionable) background to the indictment of a retired congressman.

And it’s not just the Post. ABC News needed six authors to report the same story. The New York Times needed five. Politico needed four.

Would that so much media manpower were devoted to covering current scandal-laden politicians — like, oh, for instance, Hillary Clinton.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/419087/no-time-hillary-scandals-because-every-reporter-everywhere-covering-dennis-hastert

Yet one cannot help but observe:

Yes. The moment I heard about Hastert, my mind went immediately to wondering why these reporters weren't assigned to digging dirt on HRC. Most natural thought in the world.

by Kathryn Jean Lopez June 25, 2015 11:00 AM @kathrynlopez

I’m watching my inbox overflow with reactions to the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling this morning. It reads like a flashback to very long days and late nights in March 2010.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420300/ten-things-caught-my-eye-today-june-25-2015-kathryn-jean-lopez

Even “natural family planning” methods that were the secret knowledge of extra-chaste Catholics and extra-crunchy liberals are now a hot investment in Silicon Valley.

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extra-chaste Catholics and extra-crunchy liberals
extra-chaste Catholics and extra-crunchy liberals
extra-chaste Catholics and extra-crunchy liberals

can I have a side of honey mustard

Once, when Ronald Reagan was running around trying to be president, Mike Deaver went to him and said, “Governor, I think it’s time we had a new speech. We’ve been giving your current speech over and over.” Reagan said, “I like the speech, Mike. You get me new audiences.”

I’m going to tell a story I’ve told over and over — but perhaps there are new readers who haven’t heard or read it yet.

Years ago — it was 2003 — I was at an Upper East Side dinner party. The nice thing about going to these things is that, no matter how painful they are, you have journalistic fodder for a long time to come.

The Supreme Court had just ruled on a Texas sodomy law. Everyone was celebrating the decision. The Court had overturned the law. My hostess asked me what I thought (basically).

I said, “I admire the dissent of Clarence Thomas. He said that the law was dumb, and that, if he were a Texas legislator, he would vote to overturn it. At the same time, he could find nothing in the Constitution that forbade Texas to make the law.”

My hostess did not look at me with disagreement or contempt. She looked at me with confusion and disbelief. Who could hold a view such as mine or Thomas’s?

If you wear the black robe and wield the gavel, you have the powah, baby. And you use your power to do good, as you conceive good. Who would pass up such a chance?

I believe that, for the majority of judges in last week’s gay-marriage ruling, the question was not “Does the Constitution allow states to define marriage?” but “Do you favor gay marriage? Yes or no?” Judging is not for everybody. Judging requires a certain neutrality, which can be annoying. It requires fidelity to constitution and law. A judge has a constituency of one: the constitution and law. Most people, I think, would rather be lawmakers than judges. I myself would rather be a lawmaker. But if I were a judge, I think I’d do my job.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420436/gay-marriage-and-the-nature-of-judging

sit down, Uncle Jay has a story he's told a thousand times.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420765/speed-of-social-change-in-america

there's some interesting stories in the comments from readers about their interactions with real life lesbians

Listen, I have no brief for the Confederate flag, to put it mildly. But I may have less of a brief for the herd mentality, and the kind of social panic that is characteristic of this country.

By the way, there are a helluva lot of Che Guevara T-shirts in the streets. When are they going away? When will they be stigmatized? When will that face be replaced by, say, the face of Armando Valladares, Oscar Biscet, or some other Cuban human-rights hero?

If you live long enough, you realize that today’s right-wing alarmism is tomorrow’s ruthlessly enforced norm. Some years ago, when people were touting civil unions, right-wingers would raise the prospect of marriage — gay marriage — and the civil unionists would say, “You alarmists and scaremongers! No one’s talking about marriage, for heaven’s sake! You would really deny a person the right to visit his loved one in the hospital? Or to leave him his estate? What kind of monster are you?”

oldcodyjr • 10 hours ago

Saw "Field of Dreams" the other day. Remember James Earl Jones great speech? Something about America can change on a dime, but the one constant is baseball. 'Oh, the people will come, Ray."

I wanted to cry.

Because we've ruined, too.

there's some interesting stories in the comments from readers about their interactions with real life lesbians

yeah the one about harassing "queers" at the office really puts the lie to this "how dare you call us bigots because we oppose gay marriage" argument as if anybody bought it in the first place. corner comments on any gay-related post are a sewer but this one takes the wedding cake. surely nordlinger and the nro editors would protest that they can't control the comments but at this point the ssm posts are pure hater bait. and hate-reader bait.

Order66 • 13 hours ago

All of the change you mention requires cooperation, if not complicity, on the part of otherwise normal people. It is until it isn't. Then, snapback.

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dagny Order66 • 13 hours ago

Remember in the 70s when they wanted to make us switch to the metric system? Like that.
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Order66 dagny • 13 hours ago

They're still trying to sell soccer, too. Part of it is that I just like to resist for the sake of resisting. A good chunk of my contempt for soccer and the metric system is due to the fans and champions of soccer and the metric system. Sorta like it works for me RE: Rand Paul.
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Kan2 Order66 • 12 hours ago

I keep think the attempts to make us a soccer country are one and the same as the progressive cause. All the kids are forced to play the dam game, and nobody gets to be crowned the winner.
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Order 66 is among my favorite commenters. I imagine him wearing a Palpatine shroud around the office, proudly.

the famously anti-nationalistic sport of soccer