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

she's so patronizing and nasty it's actually hilarious.

A judge has a constituency of one: the constitution and law.

Isn't that two?

Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four...no... amongst our weapons.... amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.

Speaking of Peggy Noonan, I once came across a really dark, depressed column in which she said people should give up on the pursuit of happiness, it was a fuckin hideous ruse, there is no such thing as happiness. Haven't seen a recent picture, but she was pretty damn cute for a long time, maybe a magnet for conservative attentions which disillusioned her or confirmed this underlying sense of things, maybe she was tampered-with by early Catholic girl school indoctrination, who knows? I felt bad for her, wondering if more of this sort of public venting might help her move past, but didn't see any more. She probably doesn't believe in psychiatry, or if so, what kind (shudder). Occasionally seen this kind of candor from other conservatives----"People are no damn good, " more in sorrow and resignation than anger or smirkage---good subject for a book (anthology?)

recent noonan pic: http://i.imgur.com/JQmC1cX.jpg

this place has kind of turned into the "kevin williamson rolling shitshow" hasn't it. haven't seen anyone else making waves recently.

it's early in the season

I just read (about) that piece.

what a cheap little fuckface

Jonah:

We are now in the crazy stage where people are shouting at me that I (or Charles Krauthammer, or George Will or Erick Ericson or Kevin Williamson) must be a liberal if I don’t support Trump. Never mind that the objective evidence leans overwhelmingly that support for Trump puts your conservative convictions in doubt. Are we really going to go down the insane path of saying that real conservatives must abandon good manners and respect for women to demonstrate their purity? Count me out of that nonsense. And, even if you yourself think Trump’s comments are funny or entertaining or not that big a deal or just a gaffe, at least ponder for a second about whether you think they will help Republicans win the presidential election. Everyone loves Reagan. Everyone says we need a great communicator. Well, the point of being a great communicator is to communicate. That is to say, it is to persuade people. If you think that Trump is the right guy for that project, you’re the one who just doesn’t get it.

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

enjoy the reapening, fuckwits

The comments sections on their Trump threads this morning are great.

this has to be jay nordlinger moonlighting under a pseudonym. or else he has a disciple.

http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/columns/3815082-marilyn-heltzer-dont-try-any-language-unless-you-are-very-fluent

Die, you psychopath

If a couple who are nationals of Egypt enter our country and have a baby while they are here, why is it sensible to presume that child’s allegiance is to the United States rather than Egypt?

just to cite a you know ahem wink/nudge *random* example #terroristbabies

Because they buy Duck Dynasty products?

Currently questioning the allegiance to the United States of someone who wants to throw away its hundreds of years of world status as an immigrant country.

hey fuckos you wanna trade the 14th for the 2nd?

Yet, every person present in the United States is not presumed to have fealty to the United States, which is what “jurisdiction” means in the Fourteenth Amendment.

fealty!

fe·al·ty
ˈfē(ə)ltē/
nounhistorical
a feudal tenant's or vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord.
"they owed fealty to the Earl rather than the King"

But yes land of the free yadda yadda.

clearly we need to have these egyptbabies swear a blood oath of fealty

1) All my life, gays have pleaded for tolerance, understanding, and respect. They have been right to do so. And they have received more and more of those things. Today, others are pleading for those things from them. (I think of florists and bakers, for example.) They seem in no mood to give them. I can understand — but it’s still wrong.

2) The other day in Salzburg, I was listening to a tableful of Americans and others decry and defame the Republican party, and praise and exalt the Democratic party. (Typical day.) One woman said, “Fiorina is dangerous. She’s smart. She’s dangerous.” Honestly, she sounded worried. I thought that was a nice compliment to Carly.

3) Our senior editor Rick Brookhiser came up with a characteristic mot: “National Review was tough on immigration when Donald Trump was still on is first wife.”

4) I once knew a writer who said that he always did something when he wanted to avoid writing: clean his apartment. “I had the cleanest apartment in Chicago,” he said. That was before Twitter — the ultimate writing-avoidance.

5) The maker, or makers, of those Planned Parenthood videos? I think they should win every award under the conservative sun. Under the human sun, actually. They’ve done a tremendous service. Harriet Beecher Stowe, with a novel, rocked the conscience of America. These videos should do something similar, if the American conscience is open to rocking.

https://youtu.be/880cjhasH00?t=39s

Kevin Williamson:

To the feminist writer Marie Shear we owe millions of bumper-stickers and T-shirts reading: “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” But apparently that is to be considered a thing of the past as sex-selective abortionists pull off the metaphysically impressive feat of aborting girls who aren’t people, thus simultaneously performing the Left’s holiest sacrament—abortion—and its one unforgivable sin—discrimination.

I hate the 21st century.

dishonest rhetoric is an NRO specialty of the house

affording florists the right to selectively ignore the rights of others is the civil rights battle of our time

marmaduke-strength characteristic mot also

as sex-selective abortionists pull off the metaphysically impressive feat of aborting girls who aren’t people, thus simultaneously performing the Left’s holiest sacrament—abortion—and its one unforgivable sin—discrimination.

you just know he was really proud of this one.

@NRO
ESPN Owes Curt Schilling, and America, an Apology

holy shit folks, you gotta check this out:

#NRORevolt

i guess Jonah told the neofacha types supporting trump they weren't welcome, and they are taking it pretty well

"I can't believe the nro would alienate white supremacists who think Trump should be president. very short-sighted...cuckservatives"

link?

Never mind -- found it. Ugh. Sorry I asked.

Kathryn Jean Lopez retweeted
Jay Nordlinger ‏@jaynordlinger 17h17 hours ago
@KevinNR P.S. WFB used to tease me by paraphrasing a Bob Hope line from a movie: "He'll have a lemonade -- in a DIRTY glass!"

uh

Kevin D. Williamson ‏@KevinNR 17h17 hours ago
True fact: You can go into the seediest bars in Georgetown and order a "Nordlinger" and they'll bring you a Dr Pepper float. @jaynordlinger

from Road to Utopia

xxp

the tweet that starts that exchange is great

xp lmao yeah that's it. "seediest bar in georgetown" is like "shortest globetrotter" right?

I thought a "Nordlinger" was a punch in the dik

David French:

As we’ve been discussing on the Corner today, Ben Carson is under fire for expressing that he would not support a Muslim candidate for president. My response to the question would be simple: “Which Muslim?” I’ve never in my life voted for a faith. I’ve voted for candidates. And while faith certainly helps form candidates, faith identification can’t even begin to tell their entire political story. I’m Evangelical, but I’d walk over broken glass to vote for my conservative atheist friend and NR colleague Charlie Cooke rather than, say, a progressive Presbyterian – even though he or she shares aspects of my religious tradition. And while I’d never support Abdel Fattah el-Sisi for president for a host of reasons (beginning with the fact that he’s an Egyptian strongman), I prefer his ruthless approach to fighting jihad over our own Christian president’s pattern of half-measures and appeasement. But there’s another virtue in asking “which Muslim?” Searching for the right answer to the question would quickly reveal the lack of prominent Muslim voices who are also articulate defenders of western civilization and American constitutional values. The Left and mainstream media (I’m being redundant) have consistently elevated Muslim critics of American life and values while giving little attention to those Muslim patriots who revere our traditions and have often fled to the United States specifically to reject the dysfunctional cultures that dominate the Middle East and much of the rest of the Muslim world. For the Left, the authentic Muslim is typically the Muslim who hates the West. And those people I wouldn’t want anywhere near the Oval Office – as occupants or even as guests.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/424406/i-scream-you-scream-jay-nordlinger

Ben Carson is under fire for expressing that he would not support a Muslim candidate for president.

stay with me here, but this is not true

hot the heels of his nobel peace prize expose...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fbu6kJhwL.jpg

oh man

Setting himself up for the 2019 revised edition with chapters on Malia and Sasha.

man people are really losing it over this cooke piece on pedophiles huh

do tell!

I am not a practicing Christian, but, as far as I can recall from my instruction as a child, the author is taking precisely the approach that Christians are supposed to take when they find themselves tempted toward sin. I suppose that it is possible that I am seriously mis-remembering the core tenets of the faith, but don’t followers of Jesus believe that everybody is born with impulses that lead them toward unacceptable behavior? And don’t they also believe that they are called to act chastely — that is, to avoid indulging those impulses and instead to seek a way to be freed from them? It was a while ago, I accept, but I cannot recollect any caveats being attached to these rules. Are we now to suppose that it does not apply when the propensity in question is sufficiently egregious? Is there a new-fangled carve-out for instincts that turn our stomach?

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/424373/salons-much-maligned-pedophilia-piece-charles-c-w-cooke

oh i didn't even read it, nor the salon piece. i just saw trails of the argument on twitter. he and other NRO/in the tent conservatives were fighting with the truly weird alt-right types about whether even discussing the issue is some kind of surrender to depravity.

conservatives are really convinced that liberals are trying to normalize pedophilia, it's the craziest thing. there's something about the right that just refuses to understand consent.

Stephen • 20 hours ago

Thank God Jonah chimed in with an article to show that NR is not on the same page as Cooke. I think many conservatives warned, and we see it in the press and now even NRO, that with the cave to judicial supremacy on gay marriage the pedophiles and polygamists would start asking for understanding and rights next.

Mr. Cooke's opinion might fit in better at Salon, Vox, or the Daily Kos.

We can focus on finding a cure for pedophilia (so far the illness doesn't respond to treatment), but must recognize that being born a monster doesn't excuse being a monster. Instead of asking for sympathy, the pedophile should ask for treatment and separation from society. Remember, the homosexual community asked for understanding, asked us to change the definition of marriage, and all of it began with the American Psychological Association dropping homosexuality from being considered an illness (with no scientific consideration). Mark my words - enough movement to the left and pedophiles will be asking for the same rights and acceptance. They won't want to be called "ill" anymore. There's a reason that NAMBLA is a lobbying organization; they believe they will change the future.

Note the timing of this article. A Special Forces leader was removed from the army and also lost an appeal for re-entry. Why? Because he "shoved" an Afghan man under his leadership that had a little boy chained to a bed as a sex slave. The army's position is that we aren't there to judge others. So much for De Oppreso Liber.

i haven't had the stomach to look into the afghan pederasty scandal.

the use of 'cuckservative' is really something

it's like a third-grader who just learned the word 'fart'