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

well look we're talking about the media there's plenty of drooling going on everywhere but those institutions publish thought provoking articles on occasion. nb that i don't "read" any of them as magazines - i just get sent articles a lot and i notice that most of them come from those places.

(not most of all articles i get sent in total obv - most of the interesting right-wing articles i read)

the only conservative intellectuals I think are being honest with themselves are paleo-Catholics who advocate a retreat from the secular world

rod dreher writes for american conservative fwiw

boy does he ever

I read Larison at American Conservative regularly.

Dreher at least practices a little self-scrutiny.

that's a euphemism for guilty masturbation right

As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith....

I always attributed that to them being in DC too long and having the received establishment thinking soak in too deep.

It’s the same kinda thinking and cognitive obsession with balance/centering/moderation/bipartisanship that feeds this delusions, isn’t it? That doesn’t account for changes in the GOP that removed all the Rockefeller/northeastern republicans after the 70s.

uh otm?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453612/roy-moore-washington-post-allegations-saving-moore-isnt-worth-it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOmsoptW0AAUwsF.jpg

"Ladies and gentlemen" always sounded absurd in the context of subway announcements.

Laaadies aaaaaaand Gentlemen! Due to police activity at 14th Street Union Square all uptown 4 and 5 trains are currently delayed.

first they came for 'pocketbooks' and i said nothing

LOLry is happy

wow, he's right, they've accomplished so much great stuff, good job team!

"...we can’t say that we’ve come up empty handed."

Interesting choice of phrasing here.

So of course I have pneumonia. Because that's what everyone comes back from Hawaii with.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 3, 2018

2018 is looking up.

yeah, it must have been hawaii that gave him pneumonia rather than spending years blogging from the front seat of his car as his lungs struggle to process the vehicle’s swampy, cargo-short-tainted air

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_845ywsAF1Oc/R14KltELALI/AAAAAAAAAF0/hG8T6VV0uy4/s320/jonah_goldberg_in_car.jpg

"Waddup, peeps? Any #NeverTrumpers with big knockers looking to cool it behind Wal-Mart, hit me up!!"

I showed this to Lord Sotosyn, who, aghast, asked me to post it here, in honor of his 'delightful' appearance last night on Tucker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbmLIW8PmA

no quotation marks necessary

A dark delight if you will.

https://i.imgur.com/MfH7jJF.png

ladies and gentlemen, righteous christian thinker rod dreher

Jesus fucking Christ on the cross, as it were

That’s so un-Christian it offends me as a Jew

Hey you guys don't know he's not white.

(That's what "Christian" means, right?)

tbf ‘the destructive culture of the poor’ might the whitest phrase ever written

he didn't give me enough of a chance to think about section 8 houseing

"the people who turned their neighborhood into a shithole"

oh. you must mean the slumlord who lives down the block from you.

Remember back during the early Clinton years when the Left made a big push for paid family leave via a federal mandate to employers? Fortunately, that was stopped – but the idea won’t go away. Recently, two AEI scholars advanced the idea of paid family leave, but not through a mandate on employers. Their concept was to tap into Social Security. New parents could collect Social Security for twelve weeks, but to offset that, they would have to wait somewhat longer before becoming eligible for Social Security retirement benefits. Apparently, that idea has found some favor in Republican circles.

In my latest article for Forbes, I argue that this is still a bad idea.

Why? In essence, it’s Obama’s “Life of Julia” stuff with a conservative pedigree, continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs.

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

christ on a fucking crutch that's depressing

america is 20th out of the 21 highest-income countries when it comes to the length of protected maternity leave btw

continuing to promote the notion that the purpose of government is to provide for our needs

^ Longs for the good old days when the purpose of government was to hunt down your escaped slaves and return them to you.

technically that too would be providing for a need, from the point of view of the slave-owning class, so i now have to wonder whether this person wants a government that provides for things we don't need, or one that actively obstructs us from having our needs met, or what.

It's always easy to find evidence of my belief that American conservatives are essentially death cultists who seek to cause the preventable, premature deaths of as many humans as possible

Arm Teachers

by ROBERT VERBRUGGEN February 15, 2018 10:21 AM @RAVERBRUGGEN

I agree with everything my colleague David French wrote this morning about yesterday’s tragedy. We are facing a jarring rise of highly deadly mass shootings — even if such incidents remain a tiny share of our overall homicide problem — and we must remain vigilant in our communities. I further agree with Jim Geraghty that authorities must act on the information they receive. Too often when these things happen, there were warning signs that should have led to action before anyone was killed.

Also, we can make schools more secure.

As Robby Soave notes over at Reason, many schools have already taken numerous steps, such as installing metal detectors; Marjory Stoneman Douglas itself has a resource officer. There are also downsides to putting more cops in schools, such as their growing involvement in what should be mere discipline issues.

But here are two reforms that schools can make at minimal expense. First, if they have unarmed security guards, they can hire armed ones instead. And two, they can pay their teachers a little extra to become trained as armed security guards and carry guns while on the job.

Per the Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com, The amount of training required (to become an armed guard( in each state varies. In Oklahoma, for instance, applicants must complete two phases of unarmed guard training, for a total of 40 hours, and 32 hours of firearms training; Tennessee requires only four hours of unarmed guard training and eight hours of firearms training.

That’s something a teacher could easily accomplish during summer vacation, even if schools insisted on rigorous training. If a few teachers in each school did this, schools would gain a line of defense against shooters without hiring more personnel or introducing more police officers into the school environment.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/456460/florida-school-shooting-arm-teachers

i'm not a teacher but i think if my employer asked me to be ready to murder people as part of my job - even in self-defence - i'd probably have some serious objections even if there was a 'little extra' payment for doing so

honestly just fucking ban schools altogether, they clearly attract gun violence

arm teachers

thats where we are

That's where the NRO is, anyway.

can't imagine the NRO really wants to see armed teachers unions -- probably better just to arm the students

In Oklahoma, for instance,

where they have school four days a week because taxes

tennessee armed security guard regulations are the real scandal

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careful with that metaphor, jonah

New look! https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/

this one's a beauty, demonstrating effortless mastery of the form

https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/corner/donald-trump-russia-policy-tougher-than-obama/

The narrative (God, I’m getting sick of that word) is that Trump is in league with the Russians. There’s no room in that storyline for the Trump administration to be hindering Russia.

The Trump administration is legally obligated to "hinder Russia", based on sanctions that were imposed long after the Reset button pictured from 2009. There is no conflict between the idea that his campaign accepted Russian aid during the election and the idea that his administration now enforces sanctions he is too politically weak to cancel.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/conservatism-decline-not-really/

otm on the URL

Over the weekend, I was covering a concert in Carnegie Hall (the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel). A phrase popped into my mind: “insuperably dull.” How did it get there (apart from the playing)? Well, WFB put it there. Years ago, in conversation with me, he described a particular book as “insuperably dull.”

And that’s dull, baby.

Anyway, I note this in my contribution to the symposium. After I wrote that little contribution, I Googled the phrase (“insuperably dull”). I found that I had used it twice, in music criticism: once in 2007 and then as recently as 2015.

I should pay royalties to some Buckley fund, as much as I borrow from him and adapt him. But then, if we all did that, that fund would be filled to overflowing.