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Like we did this man:

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Happy Birthday

March 22, 2011 9:38 A.M.

By Shannen Coffin

Let us all take a moment from trying to decipher the United States’ current foreign policy to wish the Corner’s room mother, Kathryn Jean Lopez (or as my kids call her “Auntie Miss K-Lo”), a joyous anniversary of her birth. She celebrates her 25th birthday again today.

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“Auntie Miss K-Lo”

okay what the fuck

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262662/london-journal-part-i-jay-nordlinger?page=2

Nordlinger interrupts his own reminiscences of a dead friend for some prime right-wing resentment

The bit about the honours system favouring Marxists is parallel-universe crazy. "Can’t the country give honors to people who like Britain more than they do Stalin?" Yes, like all the time.

Liz Taylor

March 23, 2011 10:09 A.M.

By Mona Charen

She may have gained a few too many pounds in her later years. And she may have said some silly things. But there are two things worth remembering about Liz Taylor — she was, in the beauty department, a bird of paradise. Second, though she endured a great deal of ridicule for her — was it eight marriages — she explained that she just couldn’t bring herself to have “affairs.” If she was romantically involved with someone, it had “to lead to the altar.” Seems quaint today. She will now enjoy the company of the angels — the only creatures that can match her for looks.

"she mightve been fat, but at least she wasnt a slut"

Mona "Mommy, What's Jet Magazine?" Charen.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263159/human-right-suspend-reality-mark-steyn

Ill-bred proles ruin Mark Steyn's "normally agreeable corner of Mayfair"

http://www.nationalreview.com/right-field

what the world needed

From the Mark Steyn thread:

Rusty_Shackleford

03/29/11 19:38

What I find even more ironic than anarchists protesting in favor of bigger government is that anarchy has an "official" symbol...

Killer point, Rusty.

Love the new cover!

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore

Never_Outraged
03/31/11 18:39
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Actually, every one of those children will be killed by the adherents of leftist American Churches (ELCA, Episcopal, I am talking to YOU) who have adopted the American gay-marriage agenda instead of supporting starving children in other nations.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263767/re-lindsey-graham-and-first-amendment-mark-steyn

Steyn readers love the First Amendment, calling for genocide

I like the quote about falling camels and knives. Islamaphile!

"The Romans once elected a horse to their senate, thereby outdoing the voters of South Carolina, who only sent us half a horse."

One of the funniest things I've ever heard -- my first true LOL! I just got reprimanded by a co-worker. Try explaining to someone in Seattle why that's so funny.

i mean i follow but that's probably because i'm in portland

I thought he was making an enumclaw joke.

Jonah shows his tolerance.

"a writer of Goldberg's talent"

this must be a troll

I agree with the general sentiment, but must disagree on at least one detail. I don't consider the Koran to be holy. I'd be very surprised if Jonah did either, really.

I suspect that referring to it as such was just a PC reflex from spending too little time outside governing class enclaves. I expect a writer of Goldberg's talent to use words correctly and say what he means. Unless he's going to also start referring to things like "The holy city of Charleston South Carolina, (or Kyoto, or Cologne, or Independence, Missouri)" habitually, then he needs to get his thoughts clear on paper and say something like "a book that many consider holy."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263852/canadian-slut-walk-jonah-goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263856/re-canadian-slut-walk-kathryn-jean-lopez
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263866/walk-slut-my-daughter-daniel-foster

can't decide which is worse, Goldberg's frat boy hooting or Steyn inevitably showing up to blame feminism for the Cultural Decline of the West

You don't get to be anti-PC and then use the phrase "cultural confidence."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264799/speaking-truth-power-michael-walsh

Obama is a secret Spartacist or something

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/264796/trump-moment-rich-lowry

Trump's not my first choice, but until someone else steps up and starts SHOUTING the truth from the rooftops, he's got my vote.
Another boring, milk-toast, wonky old-school Republican is a recipe for another loss, and we can't afford to lose again.
I think if he runs he'll win. And he'd fill his Cabinet with tough-minded people, not Poli-Sci majors and limp-wristed diplomats who would perpetuate our country's weakening position in the world.
Desperate times require desperate measures. Are we there yet ?
For those that missed it - Trump actually comported himself pretty well on Hannity the last two nights.
Sorry Rich - usually agree with you, but Trump's no wildman. He's crazy like a fox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQmq2pE19MU

Amy Holmes has managed to find a worse gig than "Corner contributor"

Read these comments. Go on I dare you.

I took the dare and saw this piece of cognitive dissonance

If you want to know where this is heading, just look at Britain (no longer Great). Everyone over there agrees that there health care system is abysmal.

But anyone who tries to change it is immediately kicked out of office.

"a verrrry good looking lead male actor" * giggles *

"australian by the way hubba hubba"

no longer great

"The Romans once elected a horse to their senate, thereby outdoing the voters of South Carolina, who only sent us half a horse."

Er. Sorta nice putdown, but the horse was appointed, not elected. By Caligula. You can look it up.

I'm calling it South Caligula from now on.

High praise from Mark Steyn.

Steady on, Jonah, old bean. I yield to no one in my contempt for the wretched state of depraved contemporary London but tomorrow’s shindig will be one of the least unwholesome gatherings held in the metropolis in recent years.

One Daniel Bellavia should either write pulp novels or skin flicks:

I don’t think there is a veteran who ever held a rifle in harm’s way that isn’t envious of the hero who got to see Osama bin Laden’s face as he confronted American vengeance. I imagine bin Laden hearing the English of infidels before he smelled the cordite from their ammunition. He must have seen the strobes of gunfire in the dark. The tinny pops and whines of rounds echoing throughout his building. Sand-speckled boots shuffling toward his door.

gross

Hooray for redemptive, purifying violence

Hark, the shuffling of sand-speckled boots

May this feeling of victory over evil propel us to continue to destroy the many threats we have yet to face and never forget the valor of those who pull the triggers in our name.

jesus

i wonder if this guy has any vicarious fantasies about hiroshima

don’t think there is a veteran who ever flew a plane in harm’s way that isn’t envious of the hero who got to see those Japs' faces as they confronted American vengeance. I imagine Tojo hearing the English of invaders before he smelled his own burning, rotten flesh as a result of The Bomb. He must have watched the collapse of his home upon his screaming children. The small puffs of smoke as the bodies of his parents were vaporized in an instant. Cloud-covered airplanes whirring and turning out of sight, back to freedom and victory.

hey, he's running for congress! http://bellaviaforny.com/

I don’t think there is a veteran who ever held a rifle in harm’s way that isn’t envious of the hero who got to see Osama bin Laden’s face as he confronted American vengeance. I imagine bin Laden hearing the English of infidels before he smelled the cordite from their ammunition. He must have seen the strobes of gunfire in the dark. The tinny pops and whines of rounds echoing throughout his building. Sand-speckled boots shuffling toward his door.

ps i am wanking as i write this

Kurtz is grateful for this chance to explain Obama's socialism.

Ponnuru Reviews Radical-in-Chief

Thanks for your review of Radical-in-Chief, Ramesh. I appreciate your agreeing that Obama has deceived the American public about his socialist past, and that he has in fact “been trained in the simultaneous advancement and concealment of leftism.” Even if Obama might by some chance have privately repudiated his past socialism, it seems to me he nonetheless ought to openly answer questions regarding these issues.

Let Obama confess that he grievously misled the public when he stood for election in 2008, and let him admit that he has been trained in precisely such deception by his socialist mentors. Then let him argue that, despite all this, he is no longer socialist and no longer practices to deceive. Allow the American public to decide whether Obama can then be believed. He owes us that. If it’s true, as you say, that “the press has not made Obama strain himself” on the matter of his past or present ideological convictions, then it seems to me the press ought to hold Obama to account for the material I’ve dug up in Radical-in-Chief.

If it’s true that I concede a lot by acknowledging that Obama is tactically pragmatic, and that modern socialism is now incremental rather than revolutionary, it’s also true that you concede a great deal by acknowledging that the modern Democratic party now favors policies that will drive us toward European-style socialism. Here is where I think biography does in fact add value. Although some knowledgeable conservatives will recognize the socialist implications of policies favored by the contemporary Democratic party, Democrats themselves will generally not avow this. Knowing the socialist background of a Democratic president — and knowing that he has hidden that background — is an excellent way of educating the public about the true implications of Obamacare, and other Democratic policies as well. Biography may not be the only educational tool, but it is one legitimate tool among others.

And nobody knows more about being a legitimate tool than Stanley Kurtz.

"modern socialism"

Modern Socialism, walks beside me
Modern Socialism, walks on by
Modern Socialism, gets me to the church on time

lol i was gonna put that book review on the right wing thread!

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1822/article_detail.asp

shorter version: "two of my colleagues have written some bullshit"

Love how Ponnoru ties himself in knots trying to avoid that statement.