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some of his best friends are moderate Muslims!!!!!

he was even okay with letting his daughter date a moderate muslim!!!

lol

"When someone at work tells me I'm wrong, I tend to accuse him of misinterpreting me."

"When that sort of thing happens, it tells me two things. Oddly, neither or them are ever 'I might be wrong here.'"

NRO-related LOL in the NYT book review today, an indignant letter to the editor complaining about last week's review of a Norman Podhoretz review identifying him as "an embittererd paranoid old crank" signed by Rich Lowry and other conservatives: "it debases the national discourse." FFS nobody connected w/the Corner can complain about THAT.

review of a Norman Podhoretz biography...

M@ark, I assume you've read Vidal and Hitchens' hilarious reviews of Podhoretz memoirs over the years? Awesome stuff.

By Katrina Trinko

That was the message a spirited, thousand-plus crowd delivered — to New York and D.C. politicians, to imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, and to all those who support building a mosque near Ground Zero — during a three-hour rally today that began near the proposed site for the mosque and ended with a short march to Ground Zero.

The rally, sponsored by the Coalition to Honor Ground Zero, drew a chanting, hollering, flag-waving crowd. Many participants carried signs, their messages ranging from photos of loved ones to “SHARIA” (written in blood-red dripping ink) to pleas for moderation (“If You Want To ‘Bridge The Gap’ Then Show Some Sensitivity And Put A Gap Between This Mosque & Ground Zero”). Protesters included 9/11 families and friends, New York police and firefighters, and bikers who had just completed a trek that began in Shanksville, Pa., and included a stop at the Pentagon.

Speaker after speaker testified to the importance of the Ground Zero site to Americans. “If we want a nation of peace,” said city councilman Dan Halloran, whose cousin died on 9/11, “then peace comes with understanding. And they need to understand that this is sacred ground to New Yorkers.”

A strain of populism was evident among the protestors. Several speakers mentioned the ruling class. One man held a sign bearing these words: “As An Out of Work Union Carpenter, I Rather [Would] Starve Than Earn a Bloody Check From That Trophy To 9/11 Terrorist[s].” Tom Trento, director of the Florida Security Council, mentioned his 87-year-old Teamster father, who had delivered scaffolding to the construction site of the World Trade Center. “[My dad] told me that no self-respecting Teamster in the brotherhood will deliver a bag of cement to that rat’s nest,” said Trento.

The participants’ views on Islam varied. Some seemed to believe that no moderate version of Islam exists. “These people, this Sharia people, are out to get you. They’re out to convert you. . . . They want to have their own law in our country,” warned actor Tony Lo Bianco. “In the Muslim world, a moderate believes that you can take down America without violence,” said Debra Burlingame, co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America. “You can do it by infiltrating their colleges and universities. You can do it by infiltrating the media, government, [and] cultural institutions, and you can bring down the house of the infidel from within.”

Not everyone took such a hard line. Most of the individuals I spoke to were fine with the mosque being built, just as long as it wasn’t in such close proximity to Ground Zero. “We’re not opposed to Islam. We’re not opposed to a mosque, because, obviously, there are mosques within a five-block radius of the World Trade Center,” said Maureen Bosco, whose son Richard died on 9/11. “We just feel it’s too close.”

There was excitement about November 2; several speakers reminded politicians they would be held accountable. The protestors lauded Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.) and former mayor Rudy Giuliani — “rumor has it . . . that if [the imam] is walking down this street and Rudy Giuliani sees him, he’s going to kick his a**,” said Trento, launching the crowd into cheers of “Rudy! Rudy!” — and vigorously bashed President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg...

during a three-hour rally today that began near the proposed site for the mosque and ended with a short march to Ground Zero.

Nice of her to point out that it isn't at Ground Zero.

“If You Want To ‘Bridge The Gap’ Then Show Some Sensitivity And Put A Gap Between This Mosque & Ground Zero”

Then takes all of one sentence to forget.

We’re not opposed to a mosque, because, obviously, there are mosques within a five-block radius of the World Trade Center,” said Maureen Bosco, whose son Richard died on 9/11. “We just feel it’s too close.”

Five blocks good, two blocks bad. What about three or four?

Oh Tony...

http://www.friendsandfamily-themovie.com/headshots_small/_Lo_Bianco2_bwDropShad.jpg

pleas for moderation (“If You Want To ‘Bridge The Gap’ Then Show Some Sensitivity And Put A Gap Between This Mosque & Ground Zero”).

some protest sign slogan moderation would have been nice in the name of concision

Next you'll be asking them to use spell check.

“If we want a nation of peace,” said city councilman Dan Halloran, whose cousin died on 9/11, “then peace comes with understanding. And they need to understand that what idiotic white people want is more important than anything else.”

Also, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwaNRWMN-F4

"And they need to understand that what idiotic white people want is more important than anything else.”

LOL

Breaking Radio Silence

By Jonah Goldberg

I spent the day at Splash Mountain in Ocean City yesterday (for some reason, Ocean City strikes me as a G-Rated Sodom and Gamorrah). While my daughter and I had a grand time, I’m convinced I picked up some sort of bug in the swirling bacteria frappe of insufficiently chlorinated water. But I’ll be on Special Report tonight, loaded with the right drugs. Good times.

Seeing "Sodom & Gamorrah [sic]" and "my daughter and I" next to each other is just . . .

if ever there was a time for creepy wet guy in his car pic...

classic

http://twitter.com/allyzay/status/22030739325

before you enlarge the photo, k-lo's twitter avatar makes her look like jerry garcia

http://www.salon.com/news/islam/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/08/24/goldberg_idiot_bias

this was cute "reporting": The participants’ views on Islam varied. Some seemed to believe that no moderate version of Islam exists. “

what a coincidence that they regurgitated your exact talking point right back to you.

classic

http://twitter.com/allyzay/status/22030739325

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:08 PM (52 minutes ago)

ahhhhhhhh

He's not joking.

How Many Corner Readers
August 28, 2010 12:41 P.M.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
are Restoring Honor today?

Dumb as hell, this Jonah. And a liar:

This time last year, there was a wide and deep consensus that the country needed a second stimulus (President Bush’s first one of $152 billion was thrown down the memory hole). Many Republicans, licking their wounds after successive drubbings at the polls and fearful that prophecies of a generation “in the wilderness” might prove true, were either eager to side with the popular new president or were at least resigned to the fact that they might have to, particularly if Obama was going to honor his commitments to bipartisan governance.

A letter from a concerned father:

Hello Mr. Miller, I have followed your posts for years on NR’s Corner, including putting together lists of conservative books, movies, etc. My daughter is taking an AP U.S. History course at her high school [in Maryland]… One of her assignments is to read and do a report on one of three books (only one of the three and no other). They are: Kerouac’s “On The Road”, Friedan’s “Feminine Mystique”, and Carson’s “Silent Spring”. As you can quickly determine, all books of a nihilist, leftist bent, written during the 50′s and 60′s. While I am not concerned about my daughter being radicalized, as I’ve taught her critical thinking, l am concerned about the limitiing, one-sided approach that is being dictated to students at least at this high school … My problem is that despite growing up during this era, and now teaching college history at the local community college, I cannot think of intellectually challenging books that would offer a counterbalance to these three. During my formative years, I read “Conscience of a Conservative”, “God and Man at Yale”, and other books by, then, contemporary conservative authors. I would like to meet with my daughter’s teacher and suggest three alternate books for him to consider in the future to equlaize this one-sided requirement. If you have any recommendations, I would appreciate them.

"I've taught her critical thinking"

On the road...to serfdom!

Also he has no idea what nihilism means.

His daughter will teach him after reading Hayek.

we believe in nossing!!

Honestly I'd be willing to bet that if the students read conservative texts that are contemporary with Friedan et al they'd prob laugh their asses off at how retrograde they are

Now I'm wracking my brain for semi-respectable books that might apply. The Culture of Narcissism? Not sure Lasch was much of a conservative though

Election Movie Recommendation
September 1, 2010 4:45 P.M.
By Hans A. von Spakovsky

I don’t usually do movie reviews for NRO, but this week I got a chance to preview a movie that will be released on October 15, just two weeks before the general elections. I Want Your Money is a terrific documentary limning the starkly different visions of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. It goes beyond the economic issues suggested by the title and explores the limited-government–vs.–nanny-state differences as well.

The movie mixes interviews, archival footage of speeches, and some very funny animation. The latter includes a segment in which Ronald Reagan teaches an economics lesson to a classroom filled with students such as Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (all of whom would probably get an “F” for the course). This is not your usual (boring) political documentary. It’s engaging and funny, even as it conveys a serious message about economics and politics.

What made seeing it particularly interesting for me was that I was accompanied by my boss, former attorney general Ed Meese. It was quite something to watch Ronald Reagan giving his 1980 inauguration speech and his RNC convention address in 1984 while sitting next to a man who was actually at the capitol or near the podium when the Great Communicator delivered those eminent expositions on liberty, economic freedom, and who we are as a nation.

This documentary dramatically shows the dangers to our nation’s economy and well-being of deficit spending and an unsustainable national debt. It also vividly illustrates how differently two presidents handled economic recessions: one pushing tax cuts, reducing regulations, controlling spending, and limiting the size of government; the other pushing tax hikes, additional regulation, huge deficits, and an exponential increase in the size of government.

As the movie’s flier says, the film is about “mounting government debt and deficits, and why it matters.” Why it matters can be seen in the contrast between the largest peacetime economic expansion in history and continued record unemployment sans recovery.

Hollywood will hate this movie, as will supporters of President Obama, Senator Reid, and Speaker Pelosi. Director Ray Griggs is probably risking his career in Tinseltown. But it’s a movie that needed to be made, and is well worth seeing. I hope lots of Americans do—before November 2.

here is Ray Griggs' career in tinseltown:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2050708/

I don't have any problem with professors assigning Burke, Disraeli, Hayek, or whatever actually.

and that father must realize his daughter will probably get those assigned readings...in a good liberal arts college.

E-mail from a Dad
September 2, 2010 9:32 A.M.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
When my son was in second grade (1987) in public school, my wife came home in tears one day because the school had told her that Matthew had ADD and needed to be medicated for it. Long story short, we took him out and enrolled him in Catholic school.

He is a Marine Corps sniper team leader and a policeman at a local municipality, having graduated number one in his class at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Academy. (and all without Ritalin). Imagine that.

(ducks)

So he was a terror to his Catholic school teachers and fellow students, became asshole fascist as an adult = compassionate conservatism at its best.

ha i dunno, that's not so different from stories of kids getting slapped with an ADD diagnosis and growing up to be professional dancers or something.

a lot of cops present with "symptoms" of ADD (i'm told) cos they have to be good at sitting in a car and staring at every little thing they come across.

Classic Alfred post

ha! The implication of that letter is that liberal psychologists overmedicate their students, no?

I would assume so considering its NRO

medication is for pussies, suck it up etc

i dunno, it seems like a right-wing parody of a well-known hippie trope.

"not everybody is good at boring old school, just because a kid doesn't want to sit still doesn't mean he's sick, he's just talented in other ways... like getting screamed at by nuns and dropping a gangbanger at 400 yards"

K-Lo has never said no to Carrabas meatballs.

i thought the gist was more like "public school administrators are morons" with a dash of "ADD & other learning disorders are just mollycoddling liberal psychology bullshit"

seems like general undirected resentment at basically everyone

public schools, seculars, psychologists, liberals, diseases, the modern world, criminals, enemies foreign and domestic, drugs

Reaching Across the Aisle
September 8, 2010 11:17 A.M.
By Matthew Shaffer

Last night Karl Rove went into the belly of the beast, debating “Resolved: Repeal Obamacare” with the Yale Political Union in the Yale Law School auditorium. Rove was a sensation, quickly disarming and charming a hostile audience. When the chairman of Yale’s Progressive Party, sophomore Jordon Walker, satirically praised Rove’s good looks, the former deputy chief of staff rose, bowed, approached Walker, and placed a gentle kiss on his forehead. “If only you were twenty years older and an attractive woman,” Rove pined.

Walker later described the kiss as “a wet one.”

what the

http://crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2008/06/karl_rove_01.jpg

what the