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

how witty! watch your back, jay nordlinger! just kiddin' there's room for both

in HELL

Every time he has some spectacular screw-up, which seems to be about once a quarter, he pronounces himself outraged, as though he had not failed us but had been failed himself.

wow it's almost like authority figures are not omniscient superheroes.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/thats_kind_of_racist050539.php

Discussing Williamson's description of African-Americans and all single women

remarkably risk-averse compared to traditional conservative constituencies such as white men and business owners.
remarkably risk-averse compared to traditional conservative constituencies such as white men and business owners.

He's so clueless. Plus I guess he doesn't have an editor (or the editor is just as tone-deaf and insulated regarding how such phrasing looks. He really thinks he's gonna win over support with that line comparing all black people and all single women to folks who call a psychic hotline!)

George Will on Friday became the latest conservative pundit to attempt to debunk sexual assault statistics, arguing that universities' efforts to address campus rape have made "victimhood a coveted status."

In a column for the Washington Post, Will argues that universities are basing their definition of sexual assault on a "Washington" education, which is leading to inflated statistics.

“They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous ('micro-aggressions,' often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate," he wrote.

Will offers an anecdote from a student at Swarthmore College, in which a woman reported a rape after a former sexual partner wouldn't take no for an answer. Will implies that because the incident occurred "with a guy with whom she’d been hooking up for three months," she wasn't sexually assaulted.

"I just kind of laid there and didn’t do anything — I had already said no. I was just tired and wanted to go to bed. I let him finish. I pulled my panties back on and went to sleep," the woman wrote about the encounter.

"Six weeks later, the woman reported that she had been raped," Will wrote about the Swarthmore student. "Now the Obama administration is riding to the rescue of 'sexual assault' victims. It vows to excavate equities from the ambiguities of the hookup culture, this cocktail of hormones, alcohol and the faux sophistication of today’s prolonged adolescence of especially privileged young adults."

first against the wall etc.

as opposed to this cocktail of cocktails, reprehensible right wing ideology, and faux sophistication of today's prolonged senescence of especially especially especially privileged old assholes.

Bartender! Two of those, please!

I am glad someone is finally taking a stand against rape victims.

camille paglia covered this pretty exhaustively already

i suppose if anybody should be able to think they can recognize barely trying

What a piece of shit. I have to say, i thought Ross Douthat's column a few weeks ago on this topic was quite good. Not sure it makes up for that "have more babies, white people!" column, but he clearly put some thought into it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/douthat-rape-and-the-college-brand.html

this guy is always worth reading

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380024/goes-mosul-kevin-d-williamson

Conor Friedersdorf in George F. Will's defense:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/rage-against-the-outrage-machine/373069/

Also:

Sweet Diversity
By Jay Nordlinger
June 25, 2014 9:06 AM

Sometimes I think that we on the right are the only defenders of diversity.

i was thinking about polling diversity V. redistribution earlier today. he's right tho that diversity was a right-wing hijacking of policy.

Comments on comments, so glad these people have jobs. Really contributing a lot to make the world a better place.

So, when are you] going to sign up for the National Review 2014 Post-Election Caribbean Cruise? We’ve got nearly 270 cabins booked for what is going to be the conservative event of the year (scheduled for November 9th to the 16th). Ya snooze, ya looze — don’t let that happen to you. Get complete information about the trip — learn about who the 40-plus great speakers are, the wonderful Allure of the Seas, affordable and luxurious staterooms, NR’s exclusive programs of seminars, receptions, “Night Owls,” and smokers, and so much more — at www.nrcruise.com.​

don't be a loozer

Anybody been following the "Postmodern Conservative" blog that relocated to NRO?

Armond's movie column?

NR’s exclusive programs of seminars, receptions, “Night Owls,” and smokers
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I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one

Get ready for some laffs, guys

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383807/left-cool-king-jonah-goldberg

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What justification can there be for this? Well, we could talk in general terms about whether “catharsis” or “shock-tactics” might provide one, but the bottom-line is that there can be no justification for “Masters of War” unless the historicist or Leninist theories about war are true .

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Mona, count me a churl, but I would not read much into Hillary Clinton’s praise of George W. Bush. She praised him on one ground: his AIDS relief in Africa. That is the one thing Democrats give W. credit for. Sort of like when WFB died, and a lot of people acted like the only thing he had ever done in his whole, long, magnificent life was support the legalization of pot. They thought that was cool.

Two springs ago, I wrote about the dedication ceremony of the GWB Center at SMU. All the former presidents were there, plus the incumbent. And each of the Democrats — Obama, Clinton, and Carter — heaped praise on W. for his policy on Africa. Carter actually said, “Mr. President, let me say that I’m filled with admiration for you and deep gratitude for you,” because of “the great contributions you’ve made to the most needy people on earth.”

Clinton and Obama made the same sounds. Better than nothing, I suppose. But I could get excited if a Democrat praised, say, W.’s stance against “partial-birth abortion.”

(Mona, please feel free to set me straight either here online or in our next podcast. My current mood is decidedly churlish. It seems not to be in a hurry to pass . . .)

when will one of the crazed lefties these ppl always complain about messily murder them

your mood, Dan, is decidedly churlish.

what else did WFB do besides inspire faux-intellectualism on the right.

Well, this is just a gem: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/384081/smarter-thou-charles-c-w-cooke

Going from angry bitter nerd rant against Fake Nerds to angry bitter nerd rant against the left

*clicks* not

Woe, that National Review comments section is some ninth circle of hell. Never again...

Years ago, I worked for a man who was a fairly high-flying lawyer. He went to three storied schools: Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard (in that order, I believe). One day, I got to asking him where he was from. West Virginia, he said. The family was poor. I don’t think there was a father. I believe it was a no-electricity, no-running-water situation. I believe he did not have a proper pair of shoes until 14 or something.

What I remember specifically is this: There were no books in the house, of course. But there was one guy in town who was well off — he was the banker, maybe — and he had books. He let Michael read pretty much all of them.

I remember thinking, “To much of the world, Michael is just another ‘privileged white male.’ Yet if he were of a different color — or even of the other sex — he would be hailed as a great bootstraps story.”

This brings me to Maine: and the governor, Paul LePage. He was born in Lewiston — no garden spot — in 1948. He was the first of 18 children. The family was Franco-American, and French-speaking. Paul’s father was a mill worker and drunk. A violent drunk. He beat the hell out of Paul, who escaped home at age eleven. Paul lived on the streets for two years — sleeping in stables and strip joints and the like. Eventually, a couple of families kept an eye on him. When he got to college age, he could not get in, because his English wasn’t good enough: He spoke French. But he finessed that — there’s a French word — and he worked his way up.

Okay, my point is this: LePage is a conservative Republican — and fantastically, sometimes thrillingly unpolished — but he if were a liberal Democrat, he would be a national celebrity as Horatio Alger incarnate. There’d be movies and songs and poems about him.

Am I expressing conservative paranoia and self-pity about the media and “the culture”? Or am I simply acquainted with reality?

By the way: If Clarence Thomas were a liberal Democrat, instead of a conservative Republican, his story would be taught to every child in the land, and his poster would be ubiquitous on kids’ walls. Hell, he might be on a coin already.

Imagine a world where our children all had posters of Clarence Thomas instead of Sonya Sotomayor.

if ifs and ands were pots and pans...

If Clarence Thomas were a liberal Democrat, instead of a conservative Republican, his story would be taught to every child in the land, and his poster would be ubiquitous on kids’ walls. Hell, he might be on a coin already.

or a Coke can ;-)

The Monster Maims without Mercy
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
August 11, 2014 3:09 PM
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I just googled Christians in Iraq and a photo of President Obama playing golf was the first news item that came up.

I’m sorry, but that’s our problem. We act as if everything is the same old political bickering until someone gets hurt. We notice a difference when we are attacked — but here at home. That stops us, obviously.

We pay attention when Ted Cruz or Rand Paul take to the floor of the Senate and read the phone book or otherwise talk until we’re sick of them and/or the news coverage. We notice a difference when Eric Cantor loses when few saw it coming. But everything’s pretty much same-old otherwise. Cynical, yawning, back to our hardened sides or indifference.

But when people are suffering and dying how can we be so comfortable ignoring it – whether they be innocent unborn children or elderly in the hospital or clinic closest to us or families hoping for a better life or Christians refusing to surrender to intolerance or militant Islamic tyranny?

Is this who we are?

News flash: K Lopez contemplates becoming Mother Theresa long enough to write a column. Later drops the idea as likely to interfere with her current compassionate lifestyle of pointing our attention at innocent unborn children, elderly in the hospital or clinic closest to us, families hoping for a better life, and Christians refusing to surrender to intolerance or militant Islamic tyranny.

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kevin d. williamson's latest anti-illinois article begins "Hey, hey craaaaaacka!"

Nordlinger has a post about the knockout game and Jonah has a post about bringing back the Vatican army

the primate thing you could maybe get away with, maybe, but 3/5 ffs

they can't help but be 'clever' in their straight-up racist shit-eating assholedom

In Impromptus today — the first part of a “Salzburg Journal” — I say something about the word Polizei: which has a stigma for me. The German word for police sounds more sinister than words for police in other languages — to me. This is a personal thing, though I bet others share it.

You remember the Volkspolizei in East Germany, abbreviated to VoPo. You did not want to be caught in the snares of the VoPo, any more than you wanted to be caught in the snares of the KGB (or the Gestapo).

Here in the Corner, I thought I’d mention some other German words: schnell, raus. These words always remind me of Hogan’s Heroes, so help me (though schnell is a fairly common marking in music).

How about Führer, an innocent word, or formerly innocent word, meaning “leader”? You will find it and related words throughout the Bible, as in “er führet mich auf rechter Strasse” — “he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.”

Are these words to be . . . verboten (speaking of German)? It’s all in the ear, and probably the age and the nationality, of the listener.

Is 'Fuhrer' used as a known in modern German Bibles? Honestly curious.

This is an absolute masterwork, from the URL to the final period.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/386539/holders-bank-america-heist-funds-lefts-community-organizer-shock-troops-andrew-c

first sentence in
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Just a little over a month after being fired for at least 41 instances of plagiarism, former BuzzFeed viral politics editor Benny Johnson has been hired as The National Review’s first-ever social-media director.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/benny-johnson-hired-by-national-review.html