Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

...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:

http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/creative/TH/TownhallFeb09225x200.jpg

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!"

http://mountaineermusings.com/wp-content/michael_medved_hearts_me_back.jpg

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

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZGNiYWQ1NzA0M2Q2Mjk4OTAzODcxMmYyYzMxOGFiM2I=

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.

is that about captain lorax?

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

Like he's going to be more unique in that regard with time.

"hey i read on nationalreview.com that dave has his own interpretation of the lorax when he reads it to his kid... lets fire his ass!"

What would be great is if he taught at Patrick Henry or something.

I laughed at the Lorax, "You poor stupid guy!
You never can tell what some people will buy."

"I repeat," cried the Lorax,
"I speak for the trees!"

"I'm busy," I told him.
"Shut up, if you please."

Regarding your comments on the Lorax
Regarding your comments on the Lorax
Regarding your comments on the Lorax

More Rushing [Jay Nordlinger]
Readers have made some points about my Rush Limbaugh bit in Impromptus today, and a few of these points, I forgot to make myself. In particular, I should have noted this: One of the creepiest, most disturbing things about the “war on Rush” — particularly as orchestrated from the White House? Limbaugh is a private citizen. A reader wrote, “The same people who gasped because the FBI surveilled John Lennon are more than happy to have government employees — including Emanuel and Gibbs — conduct a campaign to demonize and diminish a radio personality for political purposes.”

Rush is a big boy, and he can handle it. But still . . . There is something creepy about bringing the weight of the government down on a radio host, even if that host is prominent, influential, and brave.

HE'S SO BRAVE.

http://bfgreen.com/photos/limbaugh_415.jpg

Limbaugh's weight on stool >>> bringing the weight of the government down on Limbaugh

can't say i'm thrilled about all the easy layup fatteye jokes that daily show et al have been floating. it's rush limbaugh---making fun of his weight and drug problem is easy, and Sinking To Their Level

idk - it was funny when the daily show was like "does this look like a guy who should be talking about responsibility"

Jonah shows off all the book learnin' he picked up while writing his book:

I enjoy this sort of thing because I hear it so often from liberals who insist that no serious liberal ever used the term "fascist" to describe their political opponents. Anyone who has read my book — or who has even paid attention to politics — over the last 30, 40 or 70 years knows this is simply not true. Off the top of my head, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Charles Rangel, Alan Wolfe, nearly every Hollywood activist one can think of, and — I'm sure if I looked — numerous contributors to the New Yorker have made ad hitlerum arguments about the American right, which (broadly speaking) believes in limited government, free markets and traditional values (tenets loathed by fascists).

(broadly speaking)

Man, fuck this bitch already:

The Right to Vote for Prop. 8 [Maggie Gallagher]

Oral arguments are over. Let me agree with Dale Carpenter's prediction: The California court will vote to uphold Prop. 8 and decline to apply it retrospectively. The 18,000 marriages will stand.

The most fun was watching the justices grill the California state lawyer, poor man, who had to defend Attorney General Jerry Brown's official position: Prop. 8 was an amendment, not a revision, but the court could strike it down anyway because it violated the "inalienable rights" clause of the California constitution. A joy to watch!

Ken Starr is a heckuva lawyer, but he was swimming uphill asking the judges to consider his argument that Prop. 8, on its face, applies to marriages performed prior to its enactment, too.

^MG is a truly repulsive human being

A joy to watch!

this is the most retarded, vile cabal of writers i can possibly imagine

That hateful asshole Mark Hemingway writes:

UPDATE — a reader writes:

"It would be funny if the DVDs Mr Obama gave Mr Brown were Region 1 NTSC and therefore not compatible with the UK where DVDs are region 2 and video format is PAL."

I would love to see someone on Fleet Street ask Brown whether the President gave Gordon brown DVDs that are not playable in England. That could prove amusing.

yeah it could!!!