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by John J. Miller May 10, 2016 6:40 PM

David Bowie’s song “Heroes” made NR’s list of the greatest conservative rock songs almost exactly a decade ago. Now it has inspired the title of NR contributor Robert Dean Lurie’s excellent new ebook, We Can Be Heroes: The Radical Individualism of David Bowie. Lurie makes the wise observation (which never had occurred to me) that the song probably was inspired at least in part by the characters Winston and Julia in George Orwell’s 1984. But that’s just a throwaway observation in a relentlessly smart book about Bowie. Here’s the thesis:

David Bowie, quite simply, was the most radically individualistic popular entertainer we have ever seen. He took individualism to a place where he gave himself nearly complete artistic freedom, while still working within the bounds of taste and beauty. We don’t get Howard Roarks in real life. But we did get David Bowie.

Roark is a reference to Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, but don’t worry: Lurie has not written a piece of objectivist propaganda. Instead, he has given us a skillful tribute to a wonderful and beguiling entertainer. If you’re one of those conservatives who, like me, thinks we need to be more engaged with pop culture (because “politics is downstream of culture”), then We Can Be Heroes is for you. It’s also just $2.99. Just buy a copy already.

I HATE IT WHEN THEY EXPLAIN THEIR REFERENCES

the song probably was inspired at least in part

i prefer my critical insights to be couched in cringing prevarications so i'll def check this out

this is good http://www.nationalreview.com/article/214729/housing-bears-are-wrong-again-larry-kudlow

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but Do They Know Its Christmas?

And now, yet another attempt to figure out what the kids of today like. Oh dear.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435404/taking-temperature-american-pop

one for the link bin

Going for the BIG TIME!

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-31/kristol-eyes-conservative-lawyer-for-independent-presidential-run

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45th President of the United States
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January 20, 2017

cf. "Inbreeding"

I'll only vote for him if he changes his name to David Freedom

this joker isn't even going to succeed in siphoning votes away from trump. sad!

kristol should have went with a republican with bipartisan appeal like caitlyn jenner

if this happens you know Trump will seize the hair issue - Bald David French or some shit

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Mrdavidfrench.png

the teeth could be a target too tbh

THis guy is just a face drawn on a balloon, right?

I didn't know curry mustard was his dentifrice of choice.

lol moodles i was struggling to form a version of that joke yesterday, bravo

more French kissing:

Prince died last week, and America overreacted. No, I’m not diminishing Prince’s talent. He was one of pop music’s most gifted songwriters and musicians. As millions shared his more memorable performances, I realized I’d forgotten what a great guitar player and showman he was. He could write hit songs like few others, and he shared his talent freely, “gifting” songs to other artists. In short, he was one of the few pop stars whose fame was fully justified.

But to spend time on the mainstream and left-wing Internet last week — or to listen to some of the web’s more popular podcasts — you would have thought America lost a national hero, and not merely an immensely gifted artist.

FUCK THIS DUDE IN THE EYE

by Kathryn Jean Lopez June 6, 2016 3:23 PM @kathrynlopez

The Liturgy of the Hours is the prayer of the Church that Catholic priests and religious sign up to pray as a vocational matter and many others do as well. It brings a holy order to the day. And today it has me thinking about persecuted Christians in the world today.

The Office of Readings has a letter to the Romans from Saint Ignatius of Antioch. He’s a bishop who was ultimately martyred, something he was clearly as ready for as anyone is ever going to be

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

Now that David French isn’t running for president and Nancy thanked Politico for free marriage advice here, a few things that have been on my mind about a wonderful, fun, good couple and their continued and varied contributions to our country and our culture … After praying for David and Nancy French — knowing the sudden bombardment they were getting last week — I found myself feeling awful as a column I wrote about their book Home and Away getting linked to in all kinds of commentary about their marriage. It felt like complicity in the bombardment.

You may have seen it in the frenzy. When marriage and infidelity was in the news headlines during another election season, I pointed to their book as a help. People need help. Life is tough. Which is why David and Nancy wrote a book about their experiences when David went off to war and Nancy was keeping the home front together.

And by now you’ve heard the controversial bit: A couple working out some working wisdom about what’s healthy for their marriage. At a time when marriage and family is hurting, focusing on one couple’s figuring it out along the way amidst strains and sacrifices and needs, seemed a good thing. Others have different experiences, but if you’re looking for some experiential guidance, that’s all the Frenches claimed to offer, their testimony.
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poor marriage and family

by JAY NORDLINGER June 7, 2016 6:49 AM
@JAYNORDLINGER

“I didn’t leave my party; my party left me.” That’s what Reagan always said, about his break with the Democrats in the early 1960s. Reagan was in his early fifties at the time. I grew up hearing this expression. And I grew a little weary of it, frankly: It seemed too pat.

I never thought it would be relevant to my life. Because when you’re younger, I think, you think things are forever. The Republicans were Reaganites (with a few oddballs, mainly in the Northeast); the Democrats were McGovernites (with a few oddballs, who still hadn’t switched to the GOP). That’s the way it’s supposed to be.

Well, the Democrats are still McGovernites. We can call them Obamites now, or Hillaryites. Berners? But the Republican party is now represented by Donald J. Trump. He is the presidential nominee, or will be. And the presidential nominee is the face — the brand, the spirit — of a party. He is synonymous with the party both at home and abroad.

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a man I greatly respect, a cabinet official in the last Republican administration. I said to him, in sort of a shocked tone, “I’ve left the Republican party.” He shot back, “You didn’t leave it — the party left you.” I was relieved and grateful to hear it.

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

How happy he must feel, that John Ashcroft gave him his blessing.

seems too pat

i know right

i wonder how often that line gets used in divorce court

I wonder how Judge Joe Brown would respond to it

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Congratulations to @baseballcrank on your successful tenure at @RedState. Best of luck in your new endeavor at @NRO.

from Nordlinger's goodbye-to-all-that:

Many years ago, I worked in Washington, D.C., around a bunch of Democrats. They were often dismayed by Marion Barry. I delighted in referring to him as “the four-time mayoral nominee of your party.” I would point out that my party had nominated honorable alternatives, but the voters had always picked their nominee, the Democrat. This bothered them (and shame on me for being mischievous).

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436244/exgop-shock-disaffiliation-leaving-gop

As I see it, or smell it, an odor now attaches to the GOP, and it will linger long past 2016, no matter what happens on Election Day.

I wonder how he'll write about his re-affiliation with those stinking republicans the instant Trump loses?

they should just join the Dem party. neocons were dems originally anyway who bolted in the 60s and hillary is obv a national security hawk / advocate of american exceptionalism, plus i don't really believe most of them gaf about abortion (or gay marriage) to begin w/ but were putting it on for the evangelicals. economically i could see how it would be a betrayal of reagan to support the "tax and spend" liberal but ffs there's plenty of evidence over the last few decades that only the dems are responsible stewards of the economy and if they wanted to be a conservative wing of the dem party there's plenty of space there. i actually kinda think john podhoretz is planning to do this - i wonder if he'll make it explicit or if it'll be formalized later on obv a lot depends on what happens to the rep party after the trump era.

yeah I keep being agog when neocons are like "obviously Secretary Clinton is also unacceptable" b/c they're not gonna get a better excuse than her for returning to the Dem fold. Who do they want, exactly?

A proven lack of vagina.

yet they love thatcher

A fair point - though she went out of her way to dull that. The line from the Fey/Poehler sketch about "I didn't want a woman to be president, I wanted to be president, and I happen to be a woman!" fits her far better than Hillary.

bahaha thatcher had no vagina

xpost

Reagan taxed and spent plenty!

admittedly loose relationship between the historical man + the myth. you know - like jesus!

"there is no such thing as vagina, only individual labia"

Most of the posts have been hateful in a dreary way. This comment made me laugh:

edcottingham • 2 hours ago
I have no experience with the gay club scene but formed a strong impression one day in Borders (RIP). I had to make an emergency dash into what was formerly called "the men's room" and snatched up a convenient newspaper from a shelf in the hall. Turned out to be a local gay paper. On the front was an article promoting the coming weekend. It featured a crowd photo with one gentlemen front and center and the obvious subject of the photo. He was wearing some kind of kimono-type garment left open in the front to expose nothing else except an athletic supporter. (Not sure if it really was rhinestone-incrusted or that was a later embellishment of my fevered imagination.)

What really most disgusts me about male homosexuality is the public flamboyance and promiscuity. I get it. He was advertising a club where instant, anonymous hook-ups were featured on the menu. You can't entirely blame the Islamists for being repulsed. The two lovely guys down the street who keep such a neat home and are polite neighbors are not the total face of the gay scene. Not by a long way.

my fevered imagination

mmhmm

I have no experience with the gay club scene but formed a strong impression one day in Borders (RIP)

what an amazing sentence

later on he formed additional strong impressions in several airport bathrooms and highway rest stops

He clearly is mourning the passing of Borders and its convenient toilets. Let him grieve.

You can't entirely blame the Islamists for being repulsed.

not entirely (clutches pearls, porno mag)

edcottingham • 2 hours ago
I have no experience with the gay club scene but formed a strong impression one day in Borders (RIP). I had to make an emergency dash into what was formerly called "the men's room" and snatched up a convenient newspaper from a shelf in the hall. Turned out to be a local gay paper. On the front was an article promoting the coming weekend. It featured a crowd photo with one gentlemen front and center and the obvious subject of the photo. He was wearing some kind of kimono-type garment left open in the front to expose nothing else except an athletic supporter. (Not sure if it really was rhinestone-incrusted or that was a later embellishment of my fevered imagination.)

What really most disgusts me about male homosexuality is the public flamboyance and promiscuity. I get it. He was advertising a club where instant, anonymous hook-ups were featured on the menu. You can't entirely blame the Islamists for being repulsed. The two lovely guys down the street who keep such a neat home and are polite neighbors are not the total face of the gay scene. Not by a long way.

i get mad

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vibes from that post

The two lovely guys down the street who keep such a neat home and are polite neighbors are not the total face of the gay scene.

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