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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.

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don't be a loozer

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

Armond's movie column?

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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

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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

fits the profile

Benny made a terrible mistake. But he has owned up to it and learned from it," said National Review editor Rich Lowry. "He's a talented journalist, with obviously a lot to contribute. He knows he's joining a storied institution at NR, and we look forward to his helping us carry on our mission across all platforms."

Kevin Williamson has words for those vermin who participated in yesterday's climate change rally:

The streets of Manhattan are teeming with hippie filth this afternoon as the People’s Climate March (and Rally Against Personal Hygiene on General Principles) rolls through town like an addled occupation force. One particularly loopy-looking couple of well-seasoned veterans of the protest circuit, little signs reading “Divest from Fossil Fuels” pinned to their shirts, were desperately trying to hail a taxi. New York City taxis, as everybody knows, run on magic. I offered them a ride in my invisible solar-powered unicorn chariot; they did not take me up on it. I assume Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore shared a unicycle to get here.

But Grover and Moonbeam were far from the strangest or most ironic sight in the city today. Across town, the section of Park Avenue fronting the Waldorf was a sea of Communist banners, as if that kid from Rolling Stone had finally had all his dreams come true. It was some sort of China rally. The Chinese have good cause to be proud of their civilization, but not of that flag, and the government it represents, the so-called People’s Republic.

People’s March. People’s Republic. Listen to the Left, and they’ll always tell you who they really are.

"teeming with hippie filth"!!!!

That reads like he wrote it using a Mad Libs pad.

^This guy knows the power of sarcasm to sway the unreflective mind.

xp

"hippie filth"? haha the protestors I saw were mostly well-scrubbed college kids. kw channeling spiro agnew or rabid hippie-baiting TV host joe pyne

ludicrous, crusty, Morton Downey Jr-esque dullardry is the only kind of machismo these feebs can even slightly convincingly approximate.

right wing journos' MO is always to go to a protest and search for the weirdest outliers, then say "The left reveals itself!"

our favorite NRO denizen loved it:

I would like to add something quick to Kevin’s post. (I’m too nervous to watch every pitch of the Tigers versus the Royals.) I spent some time near the crowd today — and that crowd was more like a mob, in my view. Swarms of zealots, screaming — literally screaming — against a devil they call “fossil fuels.” These people did not seem to me democrats assembling in support of a cause (however misguided). They struck me as ideologues, people in the grip of a negative passion, the kind of mob that would be wowed by Hugo Chávez.

I hope I do them an injustice. (But I doubt it.)

P.S. I have never much liked the recent expression “on steroids” — that got old within a year of its regular use, to me. But Manhattan today has been Ann Arbor on steroids. (Some readers know that Ann Arbor is my hometown and a frequent punching bag of mine.)

P.P.S. If only people felt as passionately against dictatorship and human-rights abuses — in China, Cuba, the Arab world, and elsewhere — as they do against fossil fuels. There are real enemies in the world, but oil and natural gas aren’t one of them (or two of them). And against what is the people’s fury directed? Against what do the schoolteachers preach? Of course.

Those of us who have been working against various mandates imposed by the Affordable Care Act are as a matter of fact attempting to extricate ourselves from involvement in Lena Dunham’s sex life, the details of which we would gratefully leave to her own idiosyncratic management. It is the so-called Affordable Care Act that has involved us in subsidizing birth control, abortifacients, surgical abortions, and who knows what else, for the strong, powerful, self-actualized American woman who cannot figure out how to walk into Walgreens, lay down the price of a latte, and walk out with her own birth-control pills, no federal intervention necessary. The very conservative editors of this magazine are in fact trying to make it easier for them to do so with over-the-counter birth control. I suspect that Miss Dunham does not know very many conservatives, so allow me to pass along the message: We really, truly, sincerely do not wish to be involved in your sex life.

...which is why i wrote this paragraph.

nothing like kevin williamson straight up lying about what justice RBG said about abortion and non-rich women. and then the next day saying women who've had an abortion should be hanged.

Okay, I mean, she knows, right?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/390235/me-corner-maggie-gallagher

the comments are hilarious

I wonder if that one son of hers just kinda shrugs at the drunk texts at 2 am.