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

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.

Suckling at the suppurating teat of LRH WFB

"Chosen" is doing a lot of work in the first sentence. https://t.co/2Y5NjEjUB0

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) February 28, 2018

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#maga

lol imagine the dork who gives a fuck about that

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Excuse me what

another maniacal Armond White review, this time "Fahrenheit 9/11"

Hey look kids left school for a while

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 14, 2018

Eat a turd, dickface

kids. either they are our most precious resource, or they're non-entities to be ignored, depending on how your ideology frames them when power or money is at stake.

Progressives such as Elizabeth Warren resurrect the race-based thinking of the antebellum South: ‘One drop’ and you’re a bona fide minority.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has doubled down on her insistence that she is Native American.

In her past incarnations, she probably used that yarn in hopes of helping her win a law professorship at Harvard, which touted her as the law school’s first indigenous-American professor (and others apparently referenced her as Harvard Law’s “first woman of color”). She has refused to back down (and also refused to take a DNA test), even after Native American genealogists disputed her claim.

But what if indeed the pink and blond Warren were found to have 1/32nd or even 1/16th Native American “blood”? Why would that artifact magically make her “Indian,” much less a victim of something or someone, or at least outfitted with a minority cachet?

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/progressives-elizabeth-warren-hillary-clinton-race-based-worldview/

Kevin D. Williamson once tweeted that women who have abortions should be executed, and The Atlantic just hired him https://t.co/sPNZKLih7c

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) March 22, 2018

Again, a reminder: the rules of "civil discourse" are there's almost nothing you can say about poor and black people that will make you unhirable but you're not allowed to tweet "mungo fuck" at Jeffrey Goldberg.

— Official Centrism (@pareene) March 23, 2018

Williamson will claim he's poor and (part) black.

Kevin Williamson wrote an 2012 article accusing liberals of being terrible on race that conflated liberalism and Democrats so egregiously that he's stupid or cynical or both.

"are there's almost nothing you can say about poor and black people that will make you unhirable"

lol what tho no one actually believes this do they?

I think that's essentially correct, providing it's couched in polite enough language. Plenty of examples in the history of these NRO threads. (See also, Megan McArdle)

if you have to couch it in polite language it's not quite "almost nothing you can say"

what if you say something about black ppl using the same kind of language as "mungo fuck"

then you can be president!

You can't say almost anything about black people and poor people and get hired everywhere but you can certainly say hideous stuff about those groups, stuff that's far more dehumanizing than using the language Mordy mentioned regarding black ppl, and keep your job at the National Review.

In her past incarnations, she probably used that yarn in hopes of helping her win a law professorship at Harvard, which touted her as the law school’s first indigenous-American professor (and others apparently referenced her as Harvard Law’s “first woman of color”). She has refused to back down (and also refused to take a DNA test), even after Native American genealogists disputed her claim.

But what if indeed the pink and blond Warren were found to have 1/32nd or even 1/16th Native American “blood”? Why would that artifact magically make her “Indian,” much less a victim of something or someone, or at least outfitted with a minority cachet?

DNA tests don't prove blood quantum aiui? And the whole idea of blood quantum anyway was made up by the government and forced arbitrarily on indigenous people based on who was there to be registered in their "tribal population" on that day, regardless of their actual family relationships or if they had married in or etc. And by now most people are like 1/28 or 1/32 and it's perfectly possible to be blonde and have blue eyes and still meet the blood quantum requirements! It's the opposite of the one drop rule!

Everything is stupid.

Kevin Williamson going from National Review to the Atlantic lowers the average IQ of both magazines.

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 23, 2018

ha

You can't say almost anything about black people and poor people and get hired everywhere but you can certainly say hideous stuff about those groups, stuff that's far more dehumanizing than using the language Mordy mentioned regarding black ppl, and keep your job at the National Review.

NR fired derbyshire and coulter for being dehumanizing/offensive towards minority groups

and then they never worked again

In her past incarnations, she probably used that yarn

the argument from probability is weak to begin with, but he doesn't even argue why it seems probable to him. he simply continues on, as if it were a proved fact. so, this is merely an appeal to prejudice disguised as an argument from probability.

Saturday’s “March for Our Lives” carried the acrid whiff of moral panic. That the driving force behind the display was genuine — the event was planned and led by students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who are passionate advocates of gun control — is beyond doubt. But not all that is earnest is sensible, and this was a not a sensible display. Although it was invoked incessantly, as if part of a catechism, “common sense” was notably lacking from the streets and from the stage.

It is universally acknowledged in America that the death of an innocent person is a tragedy worth our attention. Where we differ is on what can — and should — be done to prevent the next one. That there exists in this country a range of considered and heartfelt opinion as to how a free society should respond to savage mass shootings apparently hasn’t occurred to the march’s participants. Repeatedly, those who disagreed with the ill-considered prescriptions of the speakers were cast as shills or monsters, or as traitors to their country, their faith, and their posterity. The worst of the vitriol was cast at Senator Marco Rubio, a man who has been more open and accommodating than most in the wake of the Parkland shooting, but who has been repaid for his efforts with attacks on his character, his sincerity, and his religious beliefs. He was far from the only target. To listen to the parade of hostility was to be told that to support the Second Amendment is to be a revanchist, an outcast, or a vassal. An exercise in persuasion this was not.

God I hate their house writing style

Name one fucking kid actually used the terms “revanchist” “outcast” or “vassal”

It is universally acknowledged in America that the death of an innocent person is a tragedy worth our attention. Where we differ is on what can — and should — be done to prevent the next one. That there exists in this country a range of considered and heartfelt opinion as to how a free society should respond to savage mass shootings apparently hasn’t occurred to the march’s participants.

compare the billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dead iraqis and afghans, and time spent at airport security we expend keeping people 'safe' from being killed by terrorists vs being killed by guns

Also note how in that first sentence they could've just kept it at "universally acknowledged" but no, they had to specify "in America" because in other countries the death of an innocent person is nbd really.

“common sense” was notably lacking from the streets

lmao

The Teenage Demagogues https://t.co/PCibgIPBPJ

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) March 27, 2018

^ This is so goddamn fucking stupid. It's as if he believes these kids wanted to be involved in a school massacre a month ago, just so they could opportunistically make a grab for power.

that's just our Rich!

In my day when there was a mass shooting at my school the children would bow their heads and say, "Thank you, sir. May I have another?"

[https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-atlantics-bad-reasons-for-hiring-kevin-williamson.html

The Atlantic editor in chief issued a memo to the magazine’s staff this week, explaining his decision to hire conservative writer Kevin Williamson as a columnist for the magazine’s new ideas section. In addition to making the thought leader’s now-familiar case for ideological diversity, Goldberg wrote that he likes to “give people second chances and the opportunity to change.” This is an odd justification for a terrible and high-profile hire at one of the country’s most venerable political magazines.

A longtime correspondent for the National Review, Williamson is, at his best, a right-wing provocateur who writes enjoyable, if slightly retro, prose. At his worst, he’s a verbose and hateful troll. Describing a 2014 visit to the impoverished city of East St. Louis, Illinois, Williamson compared a black child to a “primate” and a “three-fifths-scale Snoop Dogg” before likening his own trip through Illinois to Marlow’s journey up the Congo River in Heart of Darkness, all within the space of a single paragraph. (He later denied, unconvincingly, that the three-fifths reference was a slavery joke.) In a column that same year about Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox, Williamson compared trans people to voodoo doll worshippers. “Regardless of the question of whether he has had his genitals amputated, Cox is not a woman, but an effigy of a woman,” he wrote. He accused Bernie Sanders, a secular Jew, of leading a “nationalist-socialist movement” in a too-cute-by-half bid for rage clicks. And perhaps most notoriously, he once opined on Twitter that women who had abortions should be hanged. “I believe abortion should be treated like any other premeditated homicide,” he later clarified, in case anybody doubted his sincerity. “I’m torn on capital punishment generally; but treating abortion as homicide means what it means.”

Fun thread:

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— Brendan James (@deep_beige) March 28, 2018

k-will knows there's no play for mr. gray

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oh shit williamson is younger than i am

Yeah, scary, ain’t it