NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

this guy is an intellectual, people

what was the last big American engineering project? (plz don't say The Big Dig)

http://www.worldslargestthings.com/minnesota/mntwineSubheader2.jpg

apollo program?

New Orleans levies lol

democracy in the middle east

it's like if you buy a book, novel, record, or painting from an independent artist you are buying thousands of hours of failure; but when you buy a book from jonah goldberg you are supporting the values that led to thousands of hours of failure. maybe he'll also buy a new belt because i swear in some pictures he seems to be holding his pants up with a fucking extension cord.

what was the last big American engineering project? (plz don't say The Big Dig)

Jonah Goldberg squatting in the bathroom of a Taco Bell in Milwaukee.

Chicken Out
By John J. Miller

July 26, 2012 11:04 A.M. Comments0

Several years ago, I ventured into the evil heart of the Chick-fil-A empire and wrote a profile of its founder, the sinister S. Truett Cathy. He had just won a major award for his philanthropic agenda, which involves helping children in foster care, providing college scholarships, and other nefarious goals. No wonder the good liberals of Boston and Chicago want nothing to do him or his company.

But by golly, those peach shakes Chick-fil-A is selling this summer sure are tasty.

andy mccarthy's attacks on huma abedin have summoned the ugliest (tho unsurprising) nro comments since gay marriage passed in nys

confirming my opinion that nobody reads the corner except a handful of bigoted jerks, a few liberal trolls and (coughs) us

that's why I no longer link to them

I'm sure Johnny feels the same way about George Soros' philanthropy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312387/chicken-sista-souljah-totalitarianism-oh-my-jonah-goldberg

nope

hell no

ha we're reaching a point where this thread is going to be links we're never going to read and comments that we're never going to read them

i skimmed it, it's really insane

"oh my jonah goldberg"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sW65ilskOC8/SnDSeirAm7I/AAAAAAAAY9k/FEqUPL1gHjs/s400/JonahGoldberginCar.jpg

"whatddup ladiez. Hit me up if you want a big waffle fry."

Raaaaaaacists!
By Jonah Goldberg
July 27, 2012 1:57 P.M. Comments0

Dan’s post on Jonathan Chait’s entry into the “if it’s bad for Obama, it’s racist” games is a keeper. What I love about this stuff is that liberals tend to insist how racism is not only repugnant to them, but alien to them. And yet, they continually demonstrate a sensitivity and acuity for spotting it that even real racists seem to lack. They’re like people who claim to be nose deaf (if you prefer, anosmic) who nonetheless insist they can pick up an exotic scent from miles away (“A lactose intolerant armadillo has grown flatulent over by the old Miller farm . . .”).

I don’t think liberals appreciate how much conservatives laugh at this stuff. We’re constantly being told we’re racists and that conservatism is full of racist codes and dog whistles aimed at conservatives. And yet the only people who consistently decipher these codes or hear these dog whistles are liberals themselves. Most of the time it’s a form of projection of course. Liberals see themselves as sinless and heroic on matters racial, so their opposite numbers in politics must be sinful and villainous on matters of race. It’s a form of lazy categorical thinking that completely fails to take account of reality in order to sustain a self-serving narrative.

It’s a form of lazy categorical thinking that completely fails to take account of reality in order to sustain a self-serving narrative.

wow. this is like the "this is not a pipe" of clueless political commentating.

But enough philosophy, let’s talk politics. Our buddy Mark Hemingway makes the case that Obama should defend Chick-fil-A in what he describes as an opportunity for a “Sista Souljah moment.” He makes a very strong case, listing numerous ways Obama would reassure voters concerned about Obama’s stance on religious freedom (under Obamacare), his ties to Chicago sleaze, etc.

loooooooool at these guys bizarre racist fantasy lives

"as racists, we are in fact the ones most qualified to identify racism"

or

"our racist signaling is identified by liberals, and thus you see they are the true racists"

whoever smelt it, dealt it

Save these pearls

oh god

It's always fun when these guys tip their hand and go on about how they don't think actual racism exists, or that they're incapable of it. Since so much of their existence is denigration of the out-group and every principle must be applied to that, they figure progressive folks only use racism as a cudgel to attack the other, and don't actually care at all.

I don’t think liberals appreciate how much conservatives laugh at this stuff.

well, that's definitely true

there are like seven threads i could put this on

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/312618/suburbs-hidden-key-obama-stanley-kurtz

My new book, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, will be published on August 2. There I show how the suburbs are the target of Obama’s redistributive plans. Obama blames the suburbs for the plight of the cities. And while he took this view from his radical mentors, we are talking about a live issue. Although the public knows little about it, Obama actively coordinates his administration’s urban/suburban policy with his old community organizing mentors and colleagues.

Their plans for America are breathtakingly ambitious, and Obama has already laid the groundwork for a far-reaching social transformation in his second term. Should the president be reelected, the heretofore quiet alliance between Obama and his community organizing buddies is set to usher in a new phase of divisive class warfare between America’s suburbs and cities.

omg

ilx: the book

iatee did the illustrations

a culture war we can all get behind

http://www.amazon.com/Spreading-Wealth-Robbing-Suburbs-Cities/dp/1595230920/

"Their goal: to increase the influence of America’s cities over their suburban neighbors so that even­tually suburban independence will vanish...

Over time, cities would effectively swallow up their surround­ing municipalities, with merged school dis­tricts and forced redistribution of public spending killing the appeal of the suburbs."

can't wait!

Oh man, "merged school districts", nothing at all going on there

There are so many losers that write anti-Obama books and do well with them, I can't even. Morbs, you are missing out on some easy money.

BAM! How Barack Obama Kicked the Bush War Machine Up a Notch by Dr. Morbius with Dennis Perrin

Cruise time!

Our stellar line-up of speakers (they’ll be participating in nine scintillating panel sessions, dining with our contingent, and joining us at our many swell social events) includes Islam scholar Bernard Lewis, historian Victor Davis Hanson, pollster Scott Rasmussen, former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, political guru Ralph Reed, European Parliament conservative Daniel Hannan, columnists Cal Thomas, James Lileks, and Mona Charen, military expert Bing West, foreign-affairs experts Elliott Abrams and Anne Bayefsky, Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson, legal scholars Andy McCarthy, John Yoo and Ed Whelan, economics experts James Pethokoukis, Alan Reynolds, Kevin Hassett, and Andrew Stuttaford, City Journal editor Brian Anderson, The New Criterion editor Roger Kimball, immigration expert Mark Krikorian, author Michael Walsh, NRO editor-at-large Jonah Goldberg, NR editor Rich Lowry, political correspondent John Fund, former NR editor John O’Sullivan, “Long View” columnist Rob Long, senior editors Jay Nordlinger and Ramesh Ponnuru, NRO “Exchequer” blogger Kevin Williamson, NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Jean Lopez, ace political reporter Robert Costa, NRO “Campaign Spot” blogger Jim Geraghty, national correspondent John J. Miller, and, as a special treat, former U.S. Senator, federal judge, and Reagan-administration official James L. Buckley.

No corpse of Breitbart?

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/titanic.jpg

"My Neo-Conservatism Will Go On"

If any cruise ship deserved a norovirus outbreak...

And who will draw K Lo like one of their French girls

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313291/nazis-and-heavy-metal-robert-verbruggen

I can define terms like “grindcore.” And yet my brushes with neo-Nazi bands have been few and far between.

The comments are so outraged!

Mr. VerBruggen, might I suggest that your interst in "metal" would be cause for concern in a teenager, and downright frightening in an adult.

Here is another gem:

An NRO columnist is an expert in the minutiae of what may be the most degraded, pidgin, artless and counteraesthetic cultural product of all of Western Civilization's millenia of artistry.

God help us, Derbyshire was right. We Are Doomed.

" The theme of the National Socialist murderer's bands and music have sado-masochistic themes just as Fifty Shades of Grey does, not to mention a TV drama sponsored by Oprah Winfrey. .As commentators have noted, it can be argued that Page does not fit the charge of domestic terrorism, since it is hard to immediately discern any political objective."

To hell with you people!

Awesome, with headlines like that, Jonah really is turning into T Herman Zwiebel.

Also, I'm glad that the idea of "e.coli conservatism" has finally reached elected officials with mics.