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

still it's a weird argument to lean on that this is insulting to the executive

how is this weird. it's insulting to the executive.

Bc the executive should have less power not possibly made up new powers

i mean, that's the whole point of it, to be insulting to the executive

The fact that the State Dept. was not consulted or even notified until the invitation had been accepted can't be construed as anything but an insult to the executive. The Congress may be a separate and equal branch, but it is all supposed to be the same government and its parts should be expected to work together.

it's a bit of a tempest in a teapot the whole thing

it's a bit of a tempest in a teapot the whole thing

Agreed. By the logic of "insult" here, one could argue Obama has a few times "insulted" Congress as well.

One of the more boring, to me, discussions in politics is whether and how members of one party have "insulted" a POTUS of the other party. IMO that just tends to be a rhetorical distraction from the issues.

Edit to: One of the more boring, to me, discussions in politics is whether and how members (or POTUS) of one party have "insulted" members (or POTUS) of the other party.

I hadn't read one of these classic posts in a while.

has there been a horror movie yet about war memorial statues coming to live and hoisting children on their shoulders?

National Treasure?

I don't even get what he's saying. He comes down on the finger-wagging side, so that means he doesn't think kids should climb on the statue? But the dead embronzed nurse would actually WANT the kid to climb on her so...?

Also, has this guy really never frolicked in a graveyard? I feel like people constantly frolic in graveyards.

Graveyards were meant to be frolicked in; people useta have picnics in them alla time

uh

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416078/sick-and-twisted-culture-jay-nordlinger

And I believe I got a whiff — just a tiny whiff — of Nuremberg in Avery Fisher Hall tonight.

i have that cologne

it has nothing of the aroma or piquancy of my good friend Rush.

ie flopsweat and cheesypuffs

Obviously, John Adams knows nothing about Rush Limbaugh. It’s a good bet he has never listened to Rush’s show or read an article by him. The same must be true of the audience members who applauded.

They never him.

And this dude is one of their smarter writers.

One of the reasons Netflix’s House of Cards is so popular is that Francis Underwood, the fictional president played by Kevin Spacey, makes for a juicy villain, one utterly drenched in his own cynicism. But most people know the show is a fantasy. “No one can possibly be that amoral and rise to the highest levels of government,” one of my Michigan relatives told me. “Thank goodness.” But Harry Reid, who announced his retirement from politics last Friday, sure comes close.

Obviously, John Adams knows nothing about Rush Limbaugh.

well, obviously.

imagine his distress.

munich iirc

classic post coming:

What a miserable week. Most miserable? That at a time when Christians are dying for the freedom to love God completely, we’re rolling back rights under a tyrannical abuse of the word tolerance. Miserable that many reasonable people have no idea what’s actually going on there. Miserable that reasonable people think this is about bigotry. Also miserable: the targeting of Memories Pizza.

2. This poll, from just before all hell broke loose in Indiana, deserves more attention: Fifty-four percent of respondents to a Marist Poll survey, commissioned by Catholic News Agency, support or strongly support First Amendment religious liberty protections or exemptions for faith-based organizations and individuals, “even when it conflicts with government law.” About 65 percent of Marist Poll respondents opposed or strongly opposed penalties or fines for individuals who refuse to provide wedding-related services to same-sex couples “even if their refusal is based on their religious beliefs.” Only 31 percent supported or strongly supported such penalties. The results of the poll were released in mid-March. In the days that followed, religious liberty became a heated issue, particularly surrounding the March 26 signing of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The state’s governor, Mike Pence, said that despite media hype, the law is not based on anti-gay discrimination, but on a 20-year legal precedent of protecting the rights of religious individuals and charitable organizations.

3. Ed Meese and Ryan Anderson.

which particular christians are dying for the freedom to love god completely?

3. Ed Meese and Ryan Anderson.

which particular christians are dying for the freedom to love god completely?

I think it's the Jehovah's Witness who wasn't allowed to use Medicaid to get a bloodless liver transfusion in another state. But I didn't know NRO thought Jehovah's Witnesses were Christians.

3. Ed Meese and Ryan Anderson.

DON: Well, yeah.

Do you guys think this strategy will be attempted at the federal level? Giving national corporations the religious right to ignore gov't laws sounds like a bad idea.

Nah.

only for arts & crafts stores

and wherever K-Lo does her Bible shopping.

The targeting of Memories Pizza. Memories of the targeting pizza. Pizza targeting memories.

Misty target-covered memories of the pizzas we were

and this from one of the more reasonable people:

We who are appalled by the perverse reaction to the Indiana law are not exactly defending the free exercise right; we are in a sense opposing a violation of the prohibition on religious establishment. The point is not that running a flower shop is a way of practicing one’s religion. The point is that, if reasonably possible, people should not be compelled as the price of entry to the public square to honor as true what their understanding of their religious obligations compels them to judge false.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416421/church-left-yuval-levi

The point is that, if reasonably possible, people should not be compelled as the price of entry to the public square to honor as true what their understanding of their religious obligations compels them to judge false.

this sentence

which particular christians are dying for the freedom to love god completely?

― mookieproof, Thursday, April 2, 2015 8:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p sure he means in egypt, syria and iraq

Jonah has written about the jokes Obama told last night. I’d like to add a word.

Commenting on his relationship with Joe Biden, he said, “We’ve gotten so close that some places in Indiana won’t serve us pizza anymore.”

I realize it’s just a joke. A joke told on a jokey evening. It’s a good joke, too. Funny. “Lighten up,” right?

But still: That pizzeria, Memories, did not refuse to serve gays. They’re happy to serve gays. The owner and his daughter said they would not cater a gay wedding (not that a pizzeria has ever been asked to cater a wedding, to my knowledge). Does it matter? Yeah, a little, even on a jokey evening. (Sounds like the title of a Frost poem, almost.)\

lots of pizza for thought there

guess who

nerdlinger

so the Kraut wrote a column calling for the release of captive whales. Mona Charen responds:

I admire Charles Krauthammer extravagantly (doesn’t everyone?) and agree that keeping Orcas confined for our entertainment is probably cruel. But he asks a question that has a much more obvious answer. It’s simple: abortion. Here’s my take on that subject today.

abort the whales

A question a child might ask, but not a childish question. And the answer is abortion.

oh man:

In Part II of today’s “Macedonia Journal,” I speak of George Soros, who is a big deal here in America — but who is a far bigger deal in that little Balkan country. One local conservative told me, “Soros came into Macedonia like a Trojan horse, and now he is an octopus.” The Hungarian-born billionaire pushes a sharply Left agenda through a host of NGOs and activists. The activists are called “Sorosoids” — by conservatives, that is. It is not a flattering term.

When the weather’s nice, I see Sorosoids all over the streets of New York. They have clipboards and stop people to enlist them in various Left causes. The pickings should be fairly easy for them in this city. Worse luck in Provo?

We the American taxpayer contribute to Soros in Macedonia, in that we give to his principal foundation through USAID. Why does Soros need our bucks, in light of his own? A good question, to which I don’t have a ready answer. I believe our officials think we are contributing to the democratic process, not to a particular side (namely, the “post-Communist” one).

The Soros foundation’s activities in Macedonia are multifarious, but one of them has been to translate Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Just what a country struggling to emerge from Communism needs, right? And this got me to thinking about Saul and Rules right here at home. Our current president has an Alinskyite past; and so does our next potential president, HRC. If she gets in, maybe she’ll include Rules for Radicals in a national Common Core? Maybe we should give it to the chillen in the cradle, in lieu of The Cat in the Hat and whatnot?

What people in Macedonia, the United States, and elsewhere should be exposed to is the U.S. Constitution. President Obama used to speak highly of it, or at least respectfully. (Wasn’t he supposed to have taught it?) He said, for example, that the Constitution forbade him to amnesty illegal aliens, all by himself. He was not an emperor, you know.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner

Hitting ALL the notes

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418273/university-report-room-full-white-people-microaggression-katherine-timpf

^^^ satire they call it

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416919/there-huge-wage-gap-and-its-because-conservative-men-hate-women-katherine-timp

not found?

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416919/there-huge-wage-gap-and-its-because-conservative-men-hate-women-katherine-timpf

okay, these are ALL one note explicitly sarcastic "articles" from the same writer from the past year alone.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/416919/there-huge-wage-gap-and-its-because-conservative-men-hate-women-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396565/ten-ways-men-oppress-women-their-everyday-behavior-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/413666/colleges-non-offensive-party-theme-ideas-are-actually-so-offensive-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/398868/yes-lets-cancel-olympics-forever-because-they-hurt-environment-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415012/putting-woman-20-bill-does-not-go-far-enough-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415256/study-being-nice-women-sign-sexism-katherine-timpf
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417313/real-problem-rotc-heels-march-its-insult-trans-community-katherine-timpf

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