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Amusing write-up of that vid: http://wonkette.com/426842/conservative-nerd-gets-revenge-on-conservative-nerd-girlfriend-on-c-span

holy shit that video

‘The Trojan Pragmatist’
October 29, 2010 10:18 A.M.
By Mary Eberstadt

Kathryn’s thorough and informative interview with Stanley Kurtz about his new book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, is must reading. As one of a few people who read the manuscript before its publication last week, I know that this interview is the best preview yet of what’s inside — and that anybody reading it will end up wanting to read the whole book.

And no wonder. Radical-in-Chief compellingly lays out as never before the firm ideological chain running through the president’s political life. It joins Obama’s earliest radical mentors to his college Marxism-Leninism to his attendance at Socialist Scholars Conferences in the early 1980s to his years spent collaborating with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and other radicals to his steady rise in the world of socialist politics in Chicago and beyond. It also connects the dots between those decades of thought and work and associations — and current White House policy.

It’s a product of extraordinary research; see just for starters pages 392-393, where scores of libraries and librarians across the country are thanked for allowing the author access to archives that anyone else could have found too — but only Stanley Kurtz did. Frankly, reading the manuscript almost made me feel sorry for our president. He has something far more dangerous on his trail than the right-wing noise machine. He has as his political biographer a former Harvard anthropologist who learned how to research and handle evidence at some of the best universities in the world, and who’s won coveted teaching awards at Harvard and elsewhere for his ability to explain complicated issues clearly and persuasively. How scary is that? For a politician who’s depended on passing himself off as a post-ideological pragmatist, plenty.

She is also the author of numerous influential essays, including "Why Ritalin Rules," "Home-Alone America," "Eminem is Right," "How the West Really Lost God," and "Is Food the New Sex?" (Policy Review), and "The Vindication of Humanae Vitae," "How Pedophilia Lost its Cool," and "Christianity Lite (First Things)."

," "How Pedophilia Lost its Cool,

Imagine the furor had Allen Ginsberg written this article.

How scary is that?
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this isn't just some bullshit like the rest of the books we talk about. it has real footnotes! from a library!

just check out the libraries this guys thanks. pretty extraordinary if you ask me

archives that anyone else could have found too — but only Stanley Kurtz did.

Does she get how pathetic this sounds?

He has as his political biographer a former Harvard anthropologist who learned how to research and handle evidence at some of the best universities in the world, and who’s won coveted teaching awards at Harvard and elsewhere for his ability to explain complicated issues clearly and persuasively

and THIS

i wonder how she'd score on the "how elite are you" test

Gawker has some fun with Goldberg, Goldberg responds about as you'd expect.

love how all of a sudden Harvard's prestigious for these guys instead of OH NO HARVARD

actually that's what I respect about them; it's not the means, it's the ends.

And if he thinks I need to be punched in the face, I invite him to give it a whirl himself. If memory serves, it could lead to a fun few minutes for me.

^^ gets it

If As*ange is placing United States citizens and soldiers in peril in a time of war, then, in my view, he is fair game to be taken out as any other legitimate military target. Because this danger is more than just As*ange, if we have other methods to shut the operation down -- using our friends in Europe and their domestic agencies to crush Wikileaks -- then that may be more effective. If, however, assassination of an American enemy will have a chilling effect on the rest of Wikileaks, much like the bombing of his family had on Gaddafi, let's roll.

apparently these guys think "As*ange" is a cute moniker.

last sentence is pure internet tough guy. so pathetic.

lol at Goldberg calling Assange a "hipster"

the jonah goldberg column formula:

1) state calibrated "outrageous" and/or "counter-intuitve" position

2) insist that liberals are guilty of the same or far worse crimes

3) back-track like mad - OF COURSE I don't really mean assassinate

4) then sneak in a hateful kicker - but if the guy dies who the fuck cares

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/251916/voting-jay-nordlinger

he just keeps rambling on and on, it's amazing

They just keeps rambling on and on, it's amazing.

btw, people, listen up: this is the first election cycle since 2004 during which we'll see a giddy K-Lo.

I filled out this strange form, where you blackened ovals. Was I taking the SAT? You then shoved the form into a computer. There were different lines for these activities. It all seemed kind of . . . involved. And I really miss pulling levers. “Pulling the lever” will always be my expression for voting, no matter where technology takes us. We still call certain golf clubs “irons,” though they haven’t been made of iron in generations. We still speak of “dialing the phone” — do we?

Does “Don’t touch that dial” still have any meaning?

http://freelance-zone.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/andy_rooney.jpg

This one posted early this morning is a real pearl:

My Annual Complaint

November 2, 2010 8:02 A.M.

By Fred Schwarz

My annual complaint is that our most important right, the right to vote, depends upon the dedication and vigilance of poll workers who were too dull to get a job at Kmart. They seem honest and well-meant, and are usually polite, but not exactly quick thinkers. When I arrived at my polling place, I was directed to a man who barely spoke English and spent several minutes attempting to look up my election district (which I already knew). Then I went through my yearly ordeal of making repeated attempts to explain how my last name is spelled, even though I had written it out on a card in advance.

We were all lined up, and a professor walked by — very left-wing (obviously). And from Texas. Therefore, triply left-wing.

?!

I always assume that Jay has some kind of addiction, either drinking or painkillers. He comes up with such flakey ideas, I see no other reason explanation for his randomness.

i'm trying to think of the right descriptor for him. clearly an intellectual lightweight, daffy and clueless in a blueblood kind of way, no self awareness, convinced he's a genius because he's had success within the bubble-world of conservative opinionizing. i dunno, a bimbo?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/251830/world-obama-glossary-victor-davis-hanson

the incisive wit that landed VDH his plum Fresno State University gig

Honesty
November 2, 2010 3:52 P.M.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez

A Republican friend e-mails: “All the Dems I’m talking to are very depressed. I think that is a good sign.”

Hey, we’ve been on the other side. Republicans, be friends to your Dem friends tomorrow . .

Another E-mail to Treasure
November 3, 2010 1:52 A.M.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez

Good Evening Kathryn,

We are watching all this unfold from the USS RONALD REAGAN. I am going to remember this.

Obama, the Unappreciated Centrist?
November 4, 2010 11:09 A.M.
By Victor Davis Hanson

One good question that has arisen from disappointed Obama supporters is: Why didn’t the president tout his few bipartisan and moderate accomplishments? Keeping open Guantanamo, increasing border arrests, escalating in Afghanistan, and keeping the entire Bush anti-terrorism protocols — these might have helped dispel the impression of extremism.

^ bipartisan and moderate achievements we can all get behind (morbs to thread)

That is A+ trolling right there, Victor Davis Hanson.

this is interest probably only to me, but media matters (soros!!!) is running a series of articles by a lt. colonel and military historian basically saying VDH is a hack and a liar. here's the latest one.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200711050002

hanson has some pissy one-line-at-a-time responses up somewhere too.

haha I love shit like that. helps that i'm currently reading about the punic wars

Hanson went after "gay marriage" as a coastal liberal phenomenon again. Is sodomy only okay for the Greeks and Romans that he adores?

Brownie, have you heard any of Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" stuff? I know he did several shows on the Punic wars, and his series on "Ghosts of the Ostfront" was excellent

^no, don't have cable. Miss it sometimes.

Reading "Ghosts of Cannae" right now and, ahem, playing Hannibal:Rome vs Carthage on the computer. The best strategy game I've ever played.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/388/details/Hannibal:.Rome.and.Carthage.in.the.Second.Punic.War

it's a podcast:

http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive

What a brave guy.

One Brave Professor Urges His Colleagues to Speak Up for Marriage
November 10, 2010 11:54 A.M.
By Maggie Gallagher

At Eastern Kentucky University, a professor named Todd Hartch braved the climate of chilled speech to speak up on his view that domestic partnerships threaten marriage. In the backlash that followed, he felt at first alone and unprotected, but he persevered and soon found many others who shared his concerns among faculty and students. Essentially, he single-handedly sparked a campus-wide discussion of the nature of marriage.

Today in the Public Discourse, he urges his fellow professors to have the courage of their convictions: Breaking through the academy’s PC silence is necessary and, ultimately, rewarding.

the oppression of white conservatives continues

hahahahahahahaha

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252969/cigarette-warning-labels-now-more-pictures-corpses-daniel-foster

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it's wrong that I think this one is kind of awesome, right

If only the Corner came with that warning.

I’ve been an on-and-off smoker since college, but recently quit cold turkey and haven’t had a drag in a month. Now I’m thinking about starting up again.

you show 'em

if only all of the corner's bs moral stands came with the risk of cancer

between this and Rush's "vegetables are a liberal plot" stance, conservatives appear to be enemies not only to liberals and moderates but also themselves

don't forget condoms

that works both ways; it's high-risk for disease but also helps them profligate