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

well they probably think that the correct, traditional view was usurped or whatever so there's always a rider that you should be a good burkean except for when correcting the errors of history is concerned

Rationalization is a helluva drug.

it helps u be cool w voting for the iraq war tho yay values

Guess who's back and on the political beat!

President Trump was there with the First Lady and his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, now both administration officials, among others, including the Secretary of State. After meeting with the pontiff, the president could be heard saying: “I won’t forget what you said.” Both he and his wife appeared to be moved by the visit — it would be hard not to be.

Watching early in the morning U.S. times – the cable channels and EWTN, the Catholic channel were covering it live – it all seemed quite respectful, quite warm, quite human. One can imagine for a president who does appear somewhat in over his head, the encounter with a holy man, while official, could have also been a respite. (After all, is it possible that the most used word last week — especially in the media, but also in private conversations by non-politicos “impeachment”?)

Some of the photos seem to suggest as much.

Headlines and commentaries in the past — and today — suggest the two opponents. Taking the pope at his word, he wanted to hear the president out. Taking the president and the First Lady at their word — and tweets — there was something more about this day than other days.

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

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 9h9 hours ago

Honor of a lifetime to meet His Holiness Pope Francis. I leave the Vatican more determined than ever to pursue PEACE in our world.

truly, we have never seen a tweet of this caliber from this president before. perhaps there is something more about this day than other days.

ok then

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/447991/cook-poem

Jonah!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448092/alien-covenant-review-androids

this bit is...otm?

And speaking of androids, Michael Fassbender, who reprises his robot role from Prometheus and as a second, outwardly identical, robot is really very good. But I would much rather Ridley Scott had made a My Dinner with Andre–style movie with the two robots just talking to each other for 90 minutes. That’s clearly where Scott’s heart is.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448092/alien-covenant-review-androids

Not jokes, just touched by this tribute to the late mailroom guy

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/448515/alex-batey-rip

Belongs on the rolling obit thread imo

Ladies and gents...Victor Davis Hanson.

by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON June 29, 2017 11:12 AM @VDHANSON

Just when the media take-out of Trump has backfired and exposed an endemic absence of journalistic ethics and chronic malpractice, Trump goes on another crass and extraneous Twitter attack against the increasing irrelevant MSNBC morning hosts (who have in turn often unprofessionally attacked him).

The point is not to suggest another “watch your tweets” warning to Trump, but rather a reminder that lots of hoi polloi Trump base supporters are slowly growing tired of the distractions. For them the point is not just “acting presidential” (we are, after all, in the post-Obama age of televised presidential Final Four picks, tough-guy attacks on Sean Hannity, GloZell, To Pimp a Butterfly, and ankle bracelets going off in the White House) but rather distractions from the agenda.l

he can't even hate the president without swiping at Obama and...Kendrick Lamar.

wow a whole universe of Obama scandals I was unaware of.

ankle bracelets!

I remember that time my Obama phone interfered with my ankle bracelet and I wound up teleported into the dumbest bill and ted's bogus presidency elevator pitch ever.

I remember when I signed up for Obamacare and was automatically registered as a member of the Gangster Disciples

LOLwry is disappointed

This guy.

Kind of staggered that out of "America First" / "enemies of the people" / "cosmopolitan" / "globalist", it's the first that he calls anti-semitic.

NRO-adjacent J. Pod tweet, but look at the actual list that he calls "sheer PC."

The sheer PCness of this list is suffocating. https://t.co/qkDH5Kf6D0

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) August 11, 2017

i mean i get it. too much munro.

I'm fine with him being suffocated tbh

the sheer PC-ness of Tolstoy

MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN, BY MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

great pick - read this last year. fantastic book.

ok i think calling a book list PC sucks but let's at least be honest - he's not talking about moby dick or tolstoy being PC. he's talking about nora ephron.

but let's be honest, he's talking about a book list featuring women and people of colour. and that's his problem.

right, exactly. ding him on what he's saying (that a list of women and people of color is PC) and not on what he's not (that a conventional canonical best books list is PC).

But it's not a list of women and black people and Native Americans. It's a list that includes SOME women and black people and Native Americans. It is the very heart of modern conservatism to see a group of people that's 70% white and say "what is up with this PC list of people of color"

also, that list is extremely, extremely, extremely conventional. Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize! So did Alice Munro! Podhoretz's problems isn't that he thinks the conventional Western canon is being thrown aside in favor of no-talent women and black people, it's that he thinks the women and black people in the conventional Western canon are there by mistake!

i just counted it and it's 63 / 80 non-white male. i think it's great - i don't need to read another list of every canonical male white author. but calling that 70% white (even tho it might be true bc it has a lot of white ladies on it) misrepresents that it is definitely not a canonical list.

you didn't scroll down enough imo

All you wingnuts mad because someone might make you bake a cake for gay people can now shut the fuck up forever https://t.co/dCN2E6LjgC

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 15, 2017

Well! http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450469/campus-conservative-organizations-alt-right-platform-free-speech-milo-yiannopoulos-charlottesville-terrorist-attack

Later that year, Stanford’s conservative publication, the Stanford Review, considered hosting an appearance by Yiannopoulos. A lone graduate student had invited him, but needed to find a student group to sponsor the event. I, an editor at the time, was present in the meetings. “Someone should sponsor his lecture — it’s a matter of free speech,” argued a confused fellow editor. But soon other editors made different arguments: “This will create a huge stir,” said one. “It will drive the social-justice warriors crazy,” offered another.

This was certainly true, and a point worth considering. Campus leftists would definitely have protested the event, and might even have tried to shut it down. As one influential editor put it: “Best-case scenario is that the SJWs freak out and we get another Berkeley.” We all knew what he meant: Inviting Yiannopoulos could bait the Left to do something silly and destructive, drawing media coverage that would allow us to act as martyrs for free speech on campus. That is, the left-wing riots were not the price or downside of inviting Yiannopoulos — they were the attraction.

I rather enjoyed the bit about him confessing that campus conservative organizations have no money and that everyone ignores them anyway.

That is, the left-wing riots were not the price or downside of inviting Yiannopoulos — they were the attraction.

http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Wizard-of-Oz-Scarecrow.jpeg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHhZ4tpXkAEQVps.jpg:small

fighting nazis is a good thing, but

nope, not gonna read any further

Ladies and gents, Armond White.

Refute the Obama revolution that “transformed” America into an elitist state of empowered celebrities.

Huh.

spot the difference

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJIn5z9W0AAhHJb.jpg:small

he sure can amuse himself, this one:

In 1989, there was a movie title: “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” Some people noted that this codified, or at least illustrated, a slip in language: It was not “I Shrank the Kids” but “I Shrunk.” I thought of this when looking at our homepage, which tells us “How ‘Fake but Accurate’ Stories Sunk Liberal Journalism.”

English is a funny language (in addition to a great one). We have “sing,” “sang,” and “sung” — I sing it, I sang it, I’ve sung it (or I’d sung it). We have “shrink,” “shrank,” and “shrunk” (still). We have “sink,” “sank,” and “sunk” (still). We have “drink,” “drank,” and “drunk.” (“Drunken” throws a curveball.) But only “swing” and “swung.” Have you noticed that little kids say “I swang at it”? Why shouldn’t they?

I’ve often said, I have no idea how foreigners learn English. So much is so random, or random-seeming.

P.S. People thought that something important occurred in 1975, when ABC launched a show called “Good Morning America.” Where was the comma? It wasn’t there. A lot of people thought that that stank. Or stunk?

P.P.S. Reagan, talking once about something on his nose, said, “I squoze it.” I loved that. Sounded like Mark Twain, and Reagan’s native Illinois. P.P.P.S. How do you feel about “sneaked” and “snuck”? Can you say that you snuck into the theater? Sure. One could go on …

Everyone always thinks their own language is so fucking strange and unique.

Steven Pinker has written like umpteen million books about this and I'm sure they have each other's phone numbers.

Charles C.W. Cooke gets his civil rights history wrong:

And what of the protestors who have raised the president’s ire? Irrespective of the merits of their cause — and, for what it’s worth, I think they’re confusing some genuinely terrible incidents for a “structure” or a “trend” — it strikes me that they, too, are going about this in precisely the wrong way. The most successful movements in American history have elected to laud America and its ideals, and then to complain about exclusion or hypocrisy or a failure to consummate vows. This, eventually, was the course Frederick Douglass took. It was the course that MLK took, with his soaring talk of a defaulted-upon “promissory note.” It was the course taken by the suffragettes. To appeal to America at the outset of an indictment is to ensure that skeptical listener hears the subsequent criticism as “we want in” rather than “we want out.” In taking the opposite path, Kapaernick and co. have made a serious tactical mistake — a mistake that will stunt any growth they hope to enjoy. Before the details of their charge were ever known, they were seen disparaging the core symbols of the nation — symbols for which many have died and bled, and which are often taken as proxies for the Constitution, the family, and even for God — and, in some cases, they were seen praising the dictator of a perennial American foe.

https://out.reddit.com/t3_72a34m?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ff03nphrq5vnz.png&token=AQAA5ybJWeg7QwmCyyl4RmGhOlq_kWoatly72UZutCxRLTjY1yDL&app_name=mweb2x

Related to this NYT op-ed from Sept 1st:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/opinion/civil-rights-protest-resistance.html

OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
Waiting for a Perfect Protest?

By MICHAEL MCBRIDE, TRACI BLACKMON, FRANK REID and BARBARA WILLIAMS SKINNER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

is Rich Lowry in bad health? He looked cadaverous on Meet The Press yesterday w/one eye severely bloodshot. of course he spewed flag-wrapped "patriotic" nonsense about the NFL protests

and, in some cases, they were seen praising the dictator of a perennial American foe

Like, say, V. Poutine?

is Rich Lowry in bad health? He looked cadaverous on Meet The Press yesterday w/one eye severely bloodshot. of course he spewed flag-wrapped "patriotic" nonsense about the NFL protests

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double bourbons at Peggy Noonan's brunch