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Carnage and Culture has vivid descriptions of battles (usually a mini-genre that bores me), but it's marred by his insistence that, however noble these black- and brown-skinned savages are, the West was better because, well, just because.

the simple noble heavily armed yeoman farmer...

nordlinger is posting addled, rambling nonsense more than once a day now

If I were Israel, and had to depend on 1) Nebraska, 2) New York, or 3) California to stick by me, in time of peril — I think I’d go with 1).

it's like a koan

if I were Israel... MORE LIKE DEMOCRAPS AMIRITE??

"Hey, Israel, don't count on the U.S.'s two major populations of Jews to . . . wait, waht?"

If I were Israel, and had to depend on 1) Nebraska, 2) New York, or 3) California to stick by me, in time of peril — I think I’d go with 1).

good luck Israel

i noticed theyve made 0 comments on gay suicides

trying to read the tea leaves to say something larger abt conservatism but im not sure what

was wondering if ol' maggie was gonna weigh in on that in her usual thoughtful, sensitive way

she'll blame Facebook for inflicting hot guys like Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake on conflicted young men.

hmm my guess is one of the non-firebreather types, jonah goldberg, say, will come out with something in a couple days, more or less like that dude from the daily caller, not saying anything about the suicide itself, or the kids who invaded his privacy, just "pushing back" against the idea that anyone beyond the kid himself was to blame for his own actions, and that "anti-bullying rhetoric" is part of a "culture of absolute safety" that is anti-liberty.

the new michelle malkin editorial on colbert is just...gah

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/10/01/the-shoes-liberal-celebrities-wont-wear/

lax immigration enforcement might mean cheaper arugula in Manhattan – but it also can cost untold lives across the heartland.

damn now I feel guilty about last night's salad

No, not all illegal aliens are murderers.

phew. she had me worried.

(also i love her manhattan/heartland distinction. nyc has more illegal immigrants than several heartland states combined.)

i get a really strong playing-with-dolls kind of vibe from this guy:

Within Her Very Name
October 4, 2010 3:12 P.M.
By Jay Nordlinger

Of all the mail I have received on the California Senate race, I believe this note is the most imaginative, and charming: “Has it been pointed out yet that Carly Fiorina is an anagram for California — with an extra ‘r’ and ‘y’?” Maybe so, but I haven’t heard about it. “Where’s the ad that says, ‘You can’t spell Carly Fiorina without California’?” Dunno — consider it done, sort of.

well that would be the most retarded ad ever

YOU CAN'T SPELL KENTUCKY WITHOUT THE U IN RAND PAUL

"clarion fairy"

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/248658/pay-spray-fire-department-doing-right-thing-kevin-d-williamson

beep boop i'm afraid putting out this fire would violate laissez-faire principles

this is like a perfect little miniature of jonah's rhetorical style

Oh, and just for the record, “Birth of A Nation” was liberal Democratic icon Woodrow Wilson’s favorite movie, which he screened in the White House for congressmen and justices. But that’s neither here nor there.

That's neither here nor there.

btw Nixon perfected the offhand innuendo ("I am not suggesting that President Johnson is not committed to winning the war against the Communist insurgents in Vietnam....").

Oh, and just for the record, “Birth of A Nation” was liberal Democratic icon Woodrow Wilson’s favorite movie, which he screened in the White House for congressmen and justices. But that’s neither here nor there.
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Monday, October 4, 2010 10:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Wilson- liberal Democratic icon. So sick of all the Wilson worship that goes on among liberals nowadays.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/248935/paladino-implodes-john-derbyshire

man, that asterisk

also Derb is still lusting after Ellen Page i see

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249038/failure-free-market-john-debryshire

the man is amazing. read the whole thing

another thing lost on Jay Nordlinger: irony

Nice guys don’t always finish last. In recent years, the Nobel laureates in literature have been almost a rogues’ gallery — a gallery of anti-Americans, Communists, and other anti-democrats. There have been exceptions — but exceptions that seem, sadly, to prove the rule. Politics, particularly leftism, has seemed more important than literary quality.

A nadir was reached in 2005, I believe, with the selection of Harold Pinter. (That was a very bad year, all around: Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency won the peace prize. David Pryce-Jones and I wrote separate pieces for National Review on these wins: He took Pinter; I took ElBaradei and his agency.) Pinter was virtually drunk on anti-Americanism at the time. Indeed, he devoted his Nobel lecture to a condemnation of the United States, particularly its foreign policy since World War II. This was a lecture given in response to winning a literature prize, mind you. Pinter painted America as a criminal nation: one that had been “constrained, to a certain extent, by the existence of the Soviet Union,” but that was now free to commit its crimes unchecked.

Anyway, the winner this year — we have just heard — is Mario Vargas Llosa: a liberal democrat, even an advocate of a free economy. And, just incidentally — because what does literature matter in the face of almighty politics? — a fine writer. Note, too, that his son Alvaro is one of the most valuable libertarian writers and thinkers in America. He is also one of the clearest foes of Cuban Communism, the Che myth, and the rest of that nonsense.

Um, Pinter was a brilliant writer, wtf.

why are politics so important to you lefties

haha exactly

bet this confused many a cornerite:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/249119/british-try-climb-out-ditch-mona-charen

lol

The nation that built the most far-flung empire in the history of the world — not primarily through conquest, but through trade and colonization

Oh, F.U., Mona Charen.

http://www.nndb.com/people/400/000115055/mona-charen.jpg

"Socialists dislike programs for the poor. "

Huh?

Comments
October 10, 2010 5:24 P.M.
By Rich Lowry

Just a short notice: Comments are finally coming to the Corner, tomorrow if all goes as planned. As always, we welcome your feedback.

ohhhhhhhhhhhh my

super xcited yall

^^^dn/post combo

i applaud them

this is gonna be great!!

it was so good to have comments on the corner at last

i welcomed them

Corner's been tame lately -- this should do it.

It’s Always New to Somebody
October 10, 2010 11:50 P.M.
By Mike Potemra

And finally, on the music beat, congrats to Maureen Tucker. The Velvet Underground drummer is a tea partier, much to the consternation of the Empire of Monothought — so good for her for telling what she believes to be the truth despite the disapproval of the tribe. (I know all political groups, conservatives included, can get caught up in an Empire of Monothought mentality; but it’s especially egregious with leftism in the entertainment world.) I saw Maureen Tucker perform live once — at a tiny club in Washington, D.C., called D.C. Space, with magician/comedian Penn Jillette on bass. There must have been fewer than a hundred people there, and it was a great experience of someone whose music is honest and personal; a “different drummer” indeed, and evidently that goes for her politics too. I know it’s a cliché to think that her old band, the Velvet Underground, was great, and the summit of Cool, but when you’re a musical naïf you can have the luxury of reveling in the fact that some clichés are simply true. I admire the talents of music critics who can explain the why and how; I think it’s also helpful when someone, struck by beauty, just points to something and says, Wow, listen to this.

really working hard to set up the "only 100 people saw mo tucker perform at DC Space with Penn Jillette" jokes there

but every one of them got a grant from the Heritage Foundation

I love how incongruous the "congrats" is as it related to discovering she's a Tea Partier. Like, dude, she didn't get bat mitzvahed or something.

Comments are go! Sic'em, deej.

sic'em, Mordy!