NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

When K-Lo broke up with Duran Duran, she sold the Renoir but kept the TV set.

Katharine Hepburn said that Ginger Rogers gave Fred Astaire sex appeal. Iowa has restored the glow to Rick Santorum.

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour),

Iowa is the blacklight that has let Santorum shine.

Richard Cordray & the Use and Abuse of Executive Power
By John Yoo

when will these Potter copycats stop

lol good catch matt

The comments on that post are amazing, as usual.

"Did you ever watch 24?"

^^ harbinger of great things to come

"Did you ever watch 24?"

the bin laden thumbs up of corner comments

xpost lol

Meanwhile Maggie Gallagher rallies behind Rick.

Did the Wrong Side Win?
By Peter Robinson
January 9, 2012 9:03 A.M.

Andrew Roberts discusses the challenges faced by German soldiers during WWII.

O_O

"challenges"

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287599/resetoutreach-rip-victor-davis-hanson

this one paragraph is just casually insane

A new Asian direction is loudly announced, but by what means and for what purposes are left unsaid — as is the reality that a broke and unraveling EU, an ever more impotent NATO, and growing German pride and regional fear of German pride, make the original American postwar commitment there more important than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

anti-neo-cons like to joke that "it's always 1939 with these guys" but holy shit.

Larison has a pungent response.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxl9ciQssT1qas8z9o1_500.jpg

KLo fetish site

is 'sweater vest' a euphemism for 'sheep skin'

The Iron Lady and the Jews
By Jonah Goldberg

lol nope

Did people catch the K-Lo post from a few days ago that started something like "I was stuck in a stairwell for the first half of the debate"?

I passed over it in awed silence.

I love Rick Perry for annoying Jonah Goldberg so much.

Also, knowing how much Klo loves Rick Perry I would love to see her and Jonah get into a slap fight over this.

But she loves Santorum more, for whose stake she got stuck in a stairwell for the first half of a debate.

Stuck in a stairwell for Santorum needs to be used as a porn title.

Wait, Santorum's a vampire hunter?

Sequel to Trapped in the Closet?

That would be epic.

Is Rick Perry Rufus?

"I was stuck in a stairwell for the first half of the debate"

You've got to
Get yourself together
You got stuck in a stairwell
And you can't get out of it
Don't say you
Missed the first half of the debate
You got stuck in a stairwell
And you can't get out of it

Concern trolling writ large!

http://www.redstate.com/thomas/2012/01/11/to-our-friends-at-the-national-review/

Christ, Ned, that was painful.

It's like being stuck in a stairwell -- oh wait.

Hahah.

thanks to that article for this hilarious link, which i dunno if we talked about before but where we get to watch what happens when the wretches the gop's been bribing with homophobia and religion for forty years get an eentsy bit annoyed that the people "enjoying the growing wealth created by free markets" and the people feeling "the pain, uncertainty and risk that they involve" (these quotes from this handy re-explanation of capitalism) are not necessarily the same people: the Champions Of Regular Folks immediately flip out. out come the claws:

Over and over, Romney defends and explains capitalism. And he’s supposed to be the RINO and squish in the race? That’s what I read in the conservative blogosphere, every day. What do you have to do to be a “real conservative”? Speak bad English and belch?

They have no appetite to defend capitalism, to persuade people, to encourage them not to fall for the old socialist and populist crap.

:(

WHY ARE THE RUBES MAD AT US

(Subsequent posts will be cooler, maybe even like Jamaican breezes in springtime.)

This guy is both the uncle with the clown nose and a moron.

in come the trade winds:

Remember when “wealthiest one percent” was a buzz-phrase in our politics? Incredibly annoying.

In the off-season (as you say), conservatives are interested in economic winning, and so the mechanisms of capitalism are more welcome. But in political season, they're interested in political winning, and sometimes that consists of appeasing the economic losers. Perhaps a conservative can do so with his hand holding his nose, regretting that it must be done. But it's depressing to see that so many don't even notice the smell.

the real problem is that NRO is no longer smart enough to trick dumb ppl into doing what they want

Rush and Red State are sniping at NRO today, it is fun.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287933/santorum-even-after-new-hampshire-lisa-schiffren

amazing and very very sad

Did the Wrong Side Win?
By Peter Robinson
January 9, 2012 9:03 A.M.

Andrew Roberts discusses the challenges faced by German soldiers during WWII.

no fucking way, you made this up

Santorum does not believe that the categories associated with “class” are useful in discussing how well the American economy is working. Economically, he is correct, since income is fluid. Socially, culturally, it’s a different matter. In our time, I’ve seen precious few cases of gentlemanly Episcopalians with august family trees, significant inherited wealth, and the expectation of political success who really grasp the degree to which life is a fight, and politics is war, let alone at the elemental level where that instinct needs to be lodged. The Bushes never got it. Their twin, Mitt, though technically not old school WASP by dint of being Mormon, doesn’t get it either. How do I know this? Even after prolonged exposure to the media, and other adversaries, from Kennedy to his GOP competitors, he expects to be treated with respect. That’s charming. But it’s a weakness.

i mean, shit

god help me i've listened to those conversations with andrew roberts. 'uncommon knowledge' my eye, the bracing insights are like entry level ww2 fandom. the german generals were really smart? german equipment was better than everyone else's? the americans didn't lose as many people as everyone else, but threw lots of money at their allies? hitler and stalin made stupid decisions based on their ideology? 4 out of 5 dead germans was killed by a russian? you're really blowing my mind here duder.

or else the guests imply that the Germans and Soviets won great victories thanks to their authoritarian regimes whereas the West was soft and democratic.

eh i think if anything he shades in the opposite direction: what the democratic allies did was a standup proper war while the axis and stalin were engaged in crazed mindlessness

He's losing his grip then

tbh I haven't listened. difficult listening hour is the fan. I gave up last year after leaving the office to vomit on seeing another reaction shot of Peter Robinson in open-mouthed faux dismay.

Mr. McCarthy:

I happen to think the Supremes are going to uphold Obamacare — not that they should, but that they will (for the reasons outlined in the aforementioned column). That won’t mean Obamacare is good policy; it is disastrous policy. It will just mean that Obamacare is one of the many suicidal things our Constitution allows a free people to do to itself. But when the Court’s ruling comes down, the GOP will have done nothing to lay the groundwork for what should be the far more consequential political battle to repeal Obamacare — indeed, by doing nothing and nominating Mitt, the GOP will be saying, implicitly, that it is fine with most of Obamacare, perhaps with a few Washington-style modifications. The Supreme Court decision will thus hit in July — the campaign stretch-run — and, if it comes out the way I think it will come out, it will be a crackling political victory for the Obama campaign.

I mean tbf SCOTUS probably will uphold ACA and it probably will be good news for Obama; this McCarthy dude knows the GOP have a limited amount of time to try to kill ACA because once the exchange provisions kick in in 2014 it will start becoming popular because hey, more people will be insured.

ACA is already popular with me, I get to stay on my parent's insurance until I'm 26!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/288218/let-freedom-ring-mark-krikorian

5 comments so far, all killer, sure to be a hit

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.
Comments
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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.

That's got to be Nordlinger.

Did you hear that Obama tithed 10 percent to his church? We must build a statue so that future eras may know.

Schoolchildren would be instructed to sing about them.

I bet he chuckled as he typed. "Can't wait for Rich and Kat to read this!"

Pareene's last take on Klo rings true; that she seems a deeply sad person who's only happy or fulfilled when attending Mass and that's about it.

Should we close this one, mods? It's election season!

let's send it out on top, then:

Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood — the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum and it’s no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their “safe house” in Benghazi.

ah, yes, finally someone has made clear the straight line between Sesame Street and being the victim of a ghastly murder.

there were no murder victims prior to sesame street, fyi.

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