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Where is Everybody? [Jonah Goldberg]

I just loaded up on Theraflu, so I probably won't make it through Obama's whole speech (though I am recording it). In fact, I'm so goofy on cold drugs, I could swear Nancy Pelosi is wearing some kind of puke green San Francisco hippy flophouse hoodie, or maybe a couch cussion cover from the same house. That can't be right, can it?

flophouse?

Take Sides: Kathryn Jean Lopez V. Jennifer Rubin

Maybe Jonah is just a frustrated Mr. Blackwell.

John McCaslin : Vet-Ting Process

vets on dis ting no hype

I also liked K-lo gleefully linking to the story about alcohol raising women's cancer risk. She sort like a nun devoted to Reagan instead of Christ.

i wonder if k-lo's ever been drunk

I'm sure she's never been eaten

oh, you!

OH YOU

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An excellent effort from Tipsy Mothra last night:

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http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTg2MTY4OGQxYjE1NTQ4NTQzNmQ3MWEyMTcxYzk0Yjc=

the post that has it all

Re: It's Always 1964 [John Derbyshire]

Many, many reader responses on this. A couple:

Derb — I live in Georgia, where it is literally a federal case to move a polling place from the old middle school gym to the new middle school gym. As a result, we do have plenty of disenfranchisement going on, because we keep voting in crummy old public buildings with inadequate parking, we don't add more polling places, and we don't redraw our local districts to reflect population changes.

I didn't even live in Georgia in 1964 when the Voting Rights Act was passed (and wasn't even of voting age at the time); if I'm alive in 2031, the earliest possible date the act may finally expire, I'll be 75 years old, and probably still voting in the same gym, because it will be cheaper to keep fixing the roof for another two decades than it will be to go to court and get permission from the Feds to vote someplace else.

[Me] Goodness, it sounds like Obama's South Carolina horror story about a school that was 150 years old. (I.e. 400 years younger than this one, and about 1,250 years younger than this one.) Perhaps the reason for that 150-year-old school being so dilapidated has something to do with the VRA . . .

Mr. Derbyshire — If you're a Southerner, it is always 1964. The only way you win elite approval as a Southerner is to renounce any and all values of the South — see Howell Raines of the NY Times, et al — and vigorously embrace liberal and leftist ideas and programs.

I'm always amused to consider how the elites would feel as the only white person at a black church for a funeral, a circumstance which I have encountered many times in the last 30 years as the people who used to work for my family have died.

taking the piss, right?

I don't understand a single idea from that post. What the hell is he saying?

I'm always amused to consider how the elites would feel as the only white person at a black church for a funeral, a circumstance which I have encountered many times in the last 30 years as the people who used to work for my family have died.

More Health Care Myths [Mark Hemingway]

Why do Democrats push preventative health care as a cost savings measure at every turn? If you want to save the healthcare system money, drop dead of a heart attack at 50. Living to 88 on the other hand — that's expensive.

02/24 09:48 PM

I'll just gorge on the pork the Repubs say the Dems are going to feed us. That'll kill me before I'm fifty.

I just got a Jonah Goldberg tattoo on my ankle. Now the whole world knows my political stance when I'm wearing sandals or flip-flops

Pop Quiz [Cliff May]
So was it Dick Cheney or Richard Perle who said:
Every drop of blood that was shed or is being shed in Afghanistan and Iraq is the responsibility of bin Laden and Zawahiri and their followers.

And was it Mark Steyn or Ezra Levant who wrote:

The number of Muslims whose death and dispossession al-Qaeda has caused in a number of years, in Kenya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Pakistan, and elsewhere, is far greater than the number killed or dispossessed by Israel in Palestine and neighboring countries in 60 years.

And was it Michael Ledeen or Norman Podhoretz who said that “the Muslims’ misfortunes are because of themselves,” not because of America?

The answer is none of the above — but the answer is in my column today.

...and it turns out it's Cliff May!

WHICH MUSLIM HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE? ANSWER AT 11.

she's not corner and this is not really apropos of anything, but fuck ann althouse.

needed saying.

I am dying at the bit E bolded

...and it turns out it's Cliff May! Kevin Spacey

I'm always amused to consider how the elites would feel as the only white person at a black church for a funeral, a circumstance which I have encountered many times in the last 30 years as the people who used to work for my family have died.

It's always such a drag when you try to show some noblesse oblige towards the domestics.

Although I did find out this morning that Conan O'Brien wrote his Harvard senior thesis on Flannery O'Connor thanks to the Corner, so I guess that's their little "The More You Know" good deed for the day.

Meanwhile, over on Baywatch Nights:

TODAY'S CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN, POLITICAL OPINION

Thu Feb 26, 2009

The Cal Ripken President
By Ann Coulter

Are we going to have to hear about this for the next four years? Obama is becoming the Cal Ripken Jr. of presidents, making history every time he suits up for a game. Recently, Obama also became the first African-American president to order a ham sandwich late at night from the White House kitchen! That's going to get old pretty quick. More

Cliff May : Dr. Fadl's Complaint
Bob Burney : Maybe We Are in Oz
Maggie Gallagher : The Actor and the Archbishop
George Will : Bon Appetit
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann : Obama Gambles Boldly ... But Will Likely Lose
Cal Thomas : The President and the Governor
Emmett Tyrrell : The Exhibitionist at the State Department
Larry Elder : Obama Shoots for Mars
Ross Mackenzie : Any Minute Now, We'll Hear the Bugles
Matt Towery : Over One-Third of Americans Believe Nation in a Depression
Steve Chapman : Misstating the Constitution
Hugh Hewitt : Stopping the Destruction of American Health Care
Karin Agness : Gentlemen's Showcase: An Event to Learn From
Michael Reagan : Where's the Beef?
Tony Blankley : Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Michael Medved : America's Teens: Not As Raunchy or Irresponsible as You Think
David Harsanyi : The Right Not To Be Offended?

And to be sure we don't forget him:

Chuck Norris : An 87-Year-Old's Economic Survival Guide

Matt Towery : Over One-Third of Americans Believe Nation in a Depression

jeez, nice job barack

And really, that entire column is a winner:

Of course one would never guess that things could be so dire after they watched Speaker Nancy Pelosi springing from her seat like a jack-in-the-box every 30 seconds during President Obama's appearance in her House chamber.

But since Nancy obviously doesn't comprehend depression -- economic or psychological -- I sought numerous definitions of an economic depression to see if people might be onto something.

There is no one conclusive definition of what constitutes a depression. However, many of the definitions included virtually every major economic hurdle we currently face, absent significant inflation or, in the alternative, deflation...

also:

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Hugh Hewitt : Stopping the Destruction of American Health Care

We have health care?

Michael Medved : America's Teens: Not As Raunchy or Irresponsible as You Think

lololol

american teens: field-tested on medved's moustache

"Seriously! They're not as raunchy or irresponsible as you think!"

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they took 57 headshots and that was the best one

I <3 you Too!

Derbyshire asks why have we allowed carny barkers to run away with the Right?

The fact that he calls out Levin should make for an interesting exchange on the Corner at some point.

Obama's Dishonesty [Rich Lowry]

The guy is a world-class manipulator of words, and just frankly dishonest.

That reads more like a call for the GOP to improve their own manipulation standards.

I am dying at the bit E bolded

several days late (been busy) but that is like the biggest LOL ever

On the Politics of Fear [Jonah Goldberg]

From my column today:

What’s particularly odious about Obama’s scare tactics is that he’s using them for the mother of all bait-and-switches. He justifiably scares people about the magnitude of the financial crisis, but uses that fear not to sell them on a solution to the crisis but to trick them into signing up for a new Great Society. It’s like convincing someone he’s got cancer and then telling him that’s why he needs to buy a new car.

One point I didn't get to flesh out: I don't understand what's so bad about using fear in politics. Doesn't it depend on what you use it for? And, isn't honesty an enormous part of the equation? If I yell "Fire!" in a crowded movie theater and there isn't one, I've done something really bad. If I yell "Fire!" in a movie theater when there is one, maybe I've done something really good. It certainly shouldn't suffice to say that in both circumstances I am a "fearmonger." Al Gore thinks Bush is a bad man because "he played on our fears" of terrorism. Well, doesn't that beg all sorts of questions?

Wait, did he just own himself?

He certainly owned himself in terms of using the phrase "begging the question".

It’s like convincing someone he’s got cancer and then telling him that’s why he needs to buy a new car.

GOOD ANALOGY.

Wait, did he just own himself?

You can almost hear the gears cranking...

wow guy

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Looking for Feminist Racism? [Ramesh Ponnuru]

It's right here.

haha, that notorious racist feminist jon swift

The Lorax and His Lies [John J. Miller]

More Seussiana, from a reader:

Regarding your comments on the Lorax, you are surely correct about the story's intention to malign capitalism. I have, however, found an alternative (and far more palatable) interpretation that I use when reading the story to my son. I also use the example (courtesy one of the bloggers at the Volokh Conspiracy) when lecturing on the tragedy of the commons.

The Once-ler's actions make total sense if it is impossible for him to acquire property rights to the Truffula Trees. Any moderation on his part in cutting them down merely leaves an opportunity for another Thneed-maker. Furthermore, the climactic reveal of the last Truffula seed reinforces this interpretation, as the protagonist is implicitly given those property rights (setting up the potential for responsible Truffula harvesting).

Please withhold my name ... untenured professor in the academy, don't you know.

UPDATE: Joe Coletti says the Lorax's lessons aren't confined to panicky environmentalism.