Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

I am here this evening in the capacity of a wet blanket. I am here not to take one side or the other on the topic under debate, but to say that the topic, as written, is based on a false premise, and therefore has no satisfactory answer

lol

Kathleen Parker, Pulitzer winner.

Awarded to Kathleen Parker of The Washington Post for her perceptive, often witty columns on an array of political and moral issues, gracefully sharing the experiences and values that lead her to unpredictable conclusions.

If there is anyone in the world who cannot predict with 100% accuracy what Kathleen Parker's conclusions will be on any given topic, please raise your hand so I can kick you in the face.

We see the same differences in traits that we don't think of as directly physical, what evolutionary psychologists sometimes refer to as the "BIP" traits — behavior, intelligence, and personality. Two of the hardest-to-ignore manifestations here are the extraordinary differentials in criminality between white Americans and African Americans, and the persistent gaps in scores when tests of cognitive ability are given to large population samples.

WOW

"The award is presented in honor of being white."

In honor of being cuckoo bananas.

to be fair, the bit gbx quoted is derbyshire, not k parker

your batshit righwing etc completely loathe parker, fwiw. she had the temerity to not get on the palin train.

Obama's Nukes [Jonah Goldberg]

I'm looking forward to reading John Bolton's piece in the next issue, but so far I have to say I've been on a different page than most of my go-to conservatives on this stuff. It's not that I disagree with Bolton or Krauthammer et al. so much as I think the complaints about the nuke treaty are sort of beside the point. Ultimately, when and how a country uses its nuclear weapons does not depend on treaties. It depends on the Commander-in-Chief. Sure, worries about violating a treaty might — probably would — make using nukes more "costly" in a president's cost-benefit analysis. But at the end of the day, using nukes is such a huge deal that I think most presidents, most human beings, would make the decision based on their core values and instincts. And, suffice it to say, I don't think Barack Obama would ever use nuclear weapons under almost any remotely plausible circumstances. He's even less likely to use nukes than the president in Independence Day, and that Bill Pullman character first needed to mind-meld with one of the aliens to be extra-super-sure that they were evil conquerors. The fact that most of America's — and the world's leading cities — had been obliterated wasn't enough. After all, it could have been a misunderstanding.

Anyway, Obama has long had hang-ups with nuclear weapons. If memory serves, he was in effect a SANE Freeze guy at Columbia (or he wrote an article placing himself in that camp). The fact that he has now committed us to a treaty arrangement that reflects his views — or reflects movement in that direction — is not shocking. But even if we had no missile treaties of any kind, the likelihood that he would ever use nukes remains close to zero. I think pretty much everyone around the world knows that about him. And whether this treaty is ratified or not, that will remain the case until he leaves office.

ok by me

I sure wish we had a president more eager to drop nukes on super-bad aliens.

ok by me rest of the world

Anyway, Obama has long had hang-ups with nuclear weapons

Like he's talking about Obama sleeping with a nightlight.

that derbyshire post is completely 0_0.

i wonder what the audience reaction was.

Aide: (whispering) Sir, a lot of people are stroking guns.
Derbyshire: Also it has been brought to my attention that a number of you are stroking guns. Therefore I will step aside and open up the floor.

omfg the derbyshire bit is so much worse when you actually read it...

blah blah myth of the black athlete blah blah wow those chinese sure are good divers blah blah black americans are just more criminal than white americans hey it's science blah blah individuals have strengths and weaknesses blah blah hey ask my wife i have no rhythm and can't dance but does that bother me no i am laughing about it ha ha

More on Angst over Presidential Golf [Jay Nordlinger]

A historian writes with the following tidbit: that the Birch Society once had a bumper sticker reading, “Nero Fiddled, Ike Golfs.” By the way, I wonder who was better: Nero as a fiddler or Ike as a golfer.

Along those lines: Yesterday, I had lunch with a distinguished writer, and he informed me — I hadn’t known it — that he is a painter. I said, “Like Churchill,” while thinking, “Like Hitler, too.” And the writer said, immediately, “And like Hitler.”

Ah, well. (We don’t hold Hitler against vegetarianism or support for animal rights, and we don’t hold Hitler against painting, either. Saints paint, demons paint. Saints love carrots, demons love carrots . . .)

Jonah hold Hitler against vegetarianism and support for animal rights, tho.

Jonah made Hitler into a liberal.

you know who doesn't love carrots? jonah Goldberg

& cue fat_sack_of_crap_goldberg.jpg

oops! Nordlinger apparently. does not work as well...

Jim Manzi shreds Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny. K-Lo and Andy are aggrieved. Classic K-Lo:

I love debate, as people here know, but to treat Mark Levin as a mere "entertainer" who was just looking for a bestseller is to not know Mark Levin or have taken his book seriously. Besides being entertaining, he's been a laborer on policy, legal, and political battles that have made substantive differences in the battle to preserve liberty from tyranny. There is heart and soul and years of experience in his book — and a heck of a lot more than cut-and-paste Google searching (!). He's heard a lot worse and can handle his own battles, but as one who has followed Mark's career, I found Jim's tone deeply disappointing. Especially at a time when Liberty actually is endangered and Mark Levin is not to blame.

lol @ capital L Liberty

Looks like Jim's contract won't get renewed.

if only because he made k-lo salivate at the thought of "jalapeno-and-oyster flavored ice cream" against her will

mm I bet her hair tastes like jalapenos and oysters.

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Has Marc Ambinder Gone Mad? [Jonah Goldberg]

In a post titled "Have Conservatives Gone Mad" he takes the epistemic closure stuff to shark-jumping heights. He writes:

Can anyone deny that the most trenchant and effective criticism of President Obama today comes not from the right but from the left? Rachel Maddow's grilling of administration economic officials. Keith Olbermann's hectoring Democratic leaders on the public option. Glenn Greenwald's criticisms of Elena Kagan. Ezra Klein and Jonathan Cohn's keepin'-them-honest perspectives on health care, the civil libertarian left on detainees and Gitmo. The Huffington Post on derivatives.

I've always liked Ambinder, but this is just self-serving twaddle. It's as if he's saying "I don't need to read anything produced at National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, National Affairs, The Claremont Review of Books, City Journal, Reason and a thousand blogs and think tanks, because I just find Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Ezra Klein and the Huffington Post's attacks from the left so trenchant."

And the rhetorical question-begging behind "can anyone deny" approaches Pauline Kael-esque bunkerism.

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Groupthink at National Review by David Frum

so much lols

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i really think you have to try to be this stupid

to be honest Greenhouse's column is pretty stupid.

National Review 2010 Post-Election Cruise Bookings at Flank Speed [Jack Fowler]

In just two weeks, over 100 cabins have been reserved. Surely you’ll want to be with us November 14-21, aboard Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam. The itinerary is the Eastern Caribbean — from Ft. Lauderdale we’ll visit Grand Turk, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, and Half Moon Cay. Prices start at only $1,899 a person.

But the real reason you’ll want to come is to meet, intimately dine with, and hear from — in very informative and scintillating panel sessions, or at any of our fun receptions and late-night pool-side smokers (featuring H. Upmann cigars) — the array of all-star speakers who will be on board: political expert Karl Rove, historian Victor Davis Hanson, premier Islam scholar Bernard Lewis, conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly, conservative web guru Andrew Breitbart, media critic Bernie Goldberg, top columnists Tony Blankley and Cal Thomas, Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld, terrorism expert Andrew McCarthy, GOP strategist Vin Weber, conservative economist Alan Reynolds, New Criterion editor Roger Kimball, ace pollster Scott Rasmussen, European Parliament Tory star Daniel Hannan, conservative scholar Peter Schramm; and from National Review: Liberal Fascism author Jonah Goldberg, NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez, NR Institute president Kate O’Beirne, senior editors Jay Nordlinger and Ramesh Ponnuru, “Campaign Spot” blogger Jim Geraghty, former editor John O’Sullivan, and acclaimed artist Roman Genn. Plus we’ve got more outstanding invitations…outstanding.

You can find complete information about the trip, and a secure and immediate way to book your stateroom, at www.postelectioncruise.com. Don’t delay.

Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld

hahahahahahahahaha

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Come...intimately dine with me...

i hope they get a good view of the burning oil spill

Which one – Charlie Crist?

well played

ha that paragraph is missing a hell of a lot of scare quotes

I know it's mean and wrong of me and awful but I giggle every time I read "editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez"

someone wanna post an updated photo?

The results for "acclaimed artist Roman Glenn":

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Roman Genn's acclaimed artwork:

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that's the worst picture of Michelle Malkin I've ever seen

I know it's mean and wrong of me and awful but I giggle every time I read "editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez"

― Anything With Bagpipes (HI DERE), Friday, April 30, 2010 10:19 AM (2 minutes ago)

someone wanna post an updated photo?

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I thought I just did

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nice beard, K-Lo!

"dine INTIMATELY with me"

Can't be posted enough:

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at least you can't see her stache in that one

She looks like she's debating the cruise's menu.

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"No, Jonah. Judge Bork would not like tarragon in his chicken salad, and I suppose shellfish from the Gulf are off the menu."

David Frum tears into Goldberg. According to Goldberg, Richard Nixon was a socialist.