NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

Who doesn't read the code phrase and instantly voice the actual word in his head (I say 'his' head because, obviously, I can't guess as to a feminine reaction

http://global.nationalreview.com/images/nro_webathon_061212_blurb.png

smh/the mind reels @ what NRO might be like in gloomy/pessimistic mood

You weren't reading it Oct-Nov '08?

oops i forgot the end of the world as they knew it

NRO has been gloating lately like the election is in the bag for romney now. still the total lack of self-awareness in these people is always shocking. VDH is a doom-sayer even in the best times, i.e. predicting germany's imminent conquest of europe the other day...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VnjyfCUXqUA/S6xdOh5iiJI/AAAAAAAAASg/08wpB7nVgmo/s1600/maeva+(81).jpg

Jay Nordlinger, May 14: Black Panthers were Super Bad Murderers and why do liberals love them so much?

Jay Nordlinger, June 12: Chiang Kai-Shek...a complicated man. But perhaps...a necessary one

Many lovely people in Taipei bow to me, and I bow back — in kind of a sloppy, awkward, half-assed way. Remember how Clinton would give a salute, ridiculously?

i don't, as it happens, you bizarre little slave

Who doesn't read the code phrase and instantly voice the actual word in his head

that is pulled straight from a Louis ck bit fwiw.

well this is p sickening

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/302629/diego-garcia-going-native-patrick-brennan

pretty fertile: The War on Nixon

the word "enjoyed" here -- those blackguards!:

In sum, Bradlee-Woodstein bloodlessly assassinated the president, routinized the criminalization of policy and partisan differences, grievously wounded the institution of the presidency, and enjoyed and profited from doing so.

also lol this comment:

The only difference between Stalins [show trials] and Watergate's was the the body count.

but probably my subtle favorite:

And perhaps the all-time nadir in American presidential-election ethics was achieved in 1968, when Lyndon Johnson tried to salvage the election for his vice president, Hubert Humphrey, with a completely imaginary claim of a peace breakthrough in the Vietnam talks a few days before the election.

since being jailed lord black has taken up the cause of all white-collar convicts

routinized the criminalization!

yet Black's FDR bio is one of the best!

Executive Overreach
By John Yoo

CarolinaJimbo 06/18/12 15:57
If I was Mitt Romney, I would not debate Obama. I would not give the blackguard the opportunity to look presidential. I would state that, however. We would just never be able to find a mutually agreeable format.
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good call there "jimbo" wouldn't want anybody to think the GOP was racist

ok a little bit ago, NR published an article by Matthew Schmitz, an editor at "first things", about how the "anti-sharia" types need to cool it

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302280/fears-creeping-sharia-matthew-schmitz

and a follow-up blog post

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/303135/anti-sharia-laws-are-magic-matthew-schmitz

(great title). that of course let to a bunch of crossing posts from andrew mccarthy and andrew bostom (another one of these sharia experts we have running around now).

but also some by david yerushalmi, which is kind of a blast from the past:

Into the Sewer: the American right wing, 2011

here's his crazy website again:

http://www.saneworks.us/indexnew.php

one of yerushalmi's responses:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/303202/re-anti-sharia-magic-david-yerushalmi

and a comment thereupon:

Mattand
06/19/12 15:13

Oh yeah, one more thing: is it true that Mr. Yerushalmi's group SANEworks espouses the following ideas:

- It shall be a felony punishable by 20 years in prison to knowingly act in furtherance of, or to support the, adherence to Islam.

- The Congress of the United States of America shall declare the US at war with the Muslim Nation or Umma.

- The President of the United States of America shall immediately declare that all non-US citizen Muslims are Alien Enemies under Chapter 3 of Title 50 of the US Code and shall be subject to immediate deportation.

- No Muslim shall be granted an entry visa into the United States of America.

If the above is true, does National Review also support these ideas? Get back to me when you can. No rush.

Enjoy your afternoon!

Loved Schmitz's post. Great title.

Last line from crazpants' retort: But no reasonable man builds an argument in this way if he seeks reasoned debate, unless of course he is a student of Thrasymachus.

Dude is v silly and unreadable to the point of pain.

Did Gun Control Cause the Holocaust?
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June 20, 2012 10:57 A.M.
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This idea, recently propounded by Joe the Plumber...

"propounded" is such an odd verb

that's not from an autogenerator?

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anyone still listening to Joe the Plumber should be super, super embarrassed

Unfortunately he's running for Congress in the district next door to mine so I have to hear about him all the goddamned time. It's a good thing I watch very little broadcast TV during the summer.

oh man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hostess-Rspbry-Zingers.jpg

whoops lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hostess-Rspbry-Zingers.jpg

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/21/k_lo_the_saddest_hack/

This is The Corner as it was: A bubbling brook of inanity punctuated occasionally by particularly vile or bizarre Jonah Goldberg asking readers to write his column for him, then posting their responses. Ramesh Ponnuru carrying on reasonably intelligent dialogues with non-NR contributors. K-Lo posting one-sentence links to news articles and constantly hyping the godforsaken National Review Cruise. John Derbyshire popping in to be odd, at length. Lopez defending raving anti-semite loon Mel Gibson against the charge that he is as bad as Michael Moore.

(To be fair, most political blogging used to be like this, back then. Ninety percent of the political blogosphere in Bush’s first term was bored asshole lawyers posting pictures of their mountain bikes in between urgent calls for the immediate toppling of Saddam Hussein.)

It’s sort of always been apparent that no one she worked with actually had any respect for her. Her joshing around with Jonah Goldberg, the Corner contributor closest to her emotional and intellectual level, was slightly sad.

ha that mountain bikes bit is great

Touré gets his ass handed to him by conservative drone, sez Michael Walsh. The comments, as usual, are a hoot.

I thought Toure wrote record reviews. So he gave a jokey intro to Harry Potter's cousin and then the guy threw out a bunch of talking points.

conservative victory

Uh maybe Walsh should have come up with another phrase instead of "Toure gets owned".

[Approved commenter] Hope E. Changey
06/27/12 09:03

I stand ready to contribute and work towards a "Schriver For..." any office in the land. This kid's got style, poise, and facts. AND a great smile,unlike the smug little twit who is so deluded he doesn't even KNOW he's been "schooled" bigtime.

TO everything...Toure...Toure...Toure....there is a season: And this isn't yours.

This child is worse than Team Breezy fans.

Harry Potter's cousin made spurious arguments anyway. Why does it matter that kids are moving back in with their parents -- how would it make them more conservative? What if their parents are liberals?

Schriver looks so much like the generic platonic republican image in my head

The only thing worth reading in days. As usua though the definitions don't square with how I understand liberalism and conservatism. Do liberals really look for ideas? Do conservatives accept the world as it is?

I have not been reading that regularly but has that writer ever acknowledged who came up with the mandate idea, and then squared it with the current stances? Has he been making strong constitutional arguments re the alleged unconstitutionality of the mandate?

If confronted and responds in good faith he might say that Orrin Hatch et al were wrong to support this liberal aberration in the nineties (doesn't he say something about getting caught up lib/con schema? I'm not going to read it again).

That's probably right. I think Republicans when confronted re economics from Reagan through the Bushes like to say that anything that went wrong was due to aberrations (plus blaming Freddie Mac) from true purist conservatism.

isn't it held up as an example of the bad ideas you come up with while trying to find common ground with the evil dems?

That too.

But it does so at a significant political cost. First, those who dislike the mandate — which includes a majority of U.S. voters — will now have no recourse but to vote for Mitt Romney to repeal it.

Yes, keep telling yourself that.

guys, this is how they win elections! Say BLACK is WHITE over and over until their message gets repeated by media.

Russ Davis 06/28/12 11:07
I wish you were right and hope so, but whoda thunk it that Roberts would vote to uphold & Kennedy strike it! If that can happen, this is a Bizarro world where anything can happen, as Dostoyevsky said about any country that abandons the true God, which of course papists like Roberts have done, even though in this case the others weren't presently affected.

as Dostoyevsky said about any country that abandons the true God, which of course papists like Roberts have done

O_o

I wonder if Russ is going to call Klo a papist to her face on the NRO cruise...

papists!!!