NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

Before I click, is it anything like Brooks' column

it's definitely an amusing if inevitable development. at the very least they've finally found the guy capable of filling john simon's shoes.

Please be more direct, editors.

Justice Sotomayor is here arguing in effect that if a constitutional referendum doesn’t go the NAACP’s way, then its effects are invalid. This is not an exaggeration: Justice Soyomayor argues explicitly that Michigan’s voters would have been within their rights to, for example, lobby university authorities to adopt race-neutral admissions standards but that by adopting a constitutional amendment insisting on race neutrality, thereby transferring the decision from the education bureaucrats to the people themselves and their constitution, they “changed the rules in the middle of the game.” Her opinion is legally illiterate and logically indefensible, and the still-young career of this self-described “wise Latina” on the Supreme Court already offers a case study in the moral and legal corrosion that inevitably results from elevating ethnic-identity politics over the law. Justice Sotomayor has revealed herself as a naked and bare-knuckled political activist with barely even a pretense of attending to the law, and the years she has left to subvert the law will be a generation-long reminder of the violence the Obama administration has done to our constitutional order.

the moral and legal corrosion that inevitably results from elevating ethniccorporate-identity politics over the law

fixed it for ya

Wow so much violence give the US a legal bandaid.

ok i'm to the left of sotomayor but i still think her legal reasoning doesn't quite pass the BS detector. the hyperbole and race-baiting surrounding that observation i could do without.

I somehow doubt you are to left of Sotomayor on issues of affirmative action.

Kennedy's reasoning OTOH throws off all kinds of BS alarms. "If we talk about race we're perpetuating the idea of race, but if we ignore it it'll all go away like the fantasy it is."

that's the standard right wing line about affirmative action: that it's the REAL racism

Kevin Williamson continues to embarrass himself.

That was the short version??

think i finally stopped reading this (any future armond reviews aside of course)

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Conservative students have to put up with liberal commencement speakers all the time. Democratic and liberal bigwigs dominate the commencement circuit. Once in a blue moon, liberal students (and faculty) are asked to put up with a conservative speaker. But will they? No. At least not at Rutgers. (See the news here.)

Someone on the Democratic side — perhaps President Obama — should say, “I hate the Republican party and everything they stand for, but this is wrong. This is not right in America.” Is there anyone big enough on the Democratic side to do that?

Personally, I wouldn’t like it if a Democratic former secretary of state were hounded out. There has got to be some Democrat, somewhere, who doesn’t like what has happened at Rutgers.

P.S. If conservatives wanted to try their hand at the Left’s game, they could say, “Rutgers apparently can’t stand the sight or sound of an independent black woman.” They could direct the same gibe at Brandeis (for Hirsi Ali). But that is a dirty game.

P.P.S. What a gracious woman Condoleezza Rice is. She should run for president. But then, in view of 2012, does the American public appreciate graciousness? They chose Obama and Biden, those true gents, over Romney and Ryan.

One of my friends from Standford had Condoleeza Rice as her thesis advisor, I asked if she actually signed her thesis or just stamped it with her cloven hoof.

Recent losing presidential candidates ranked by graciousness (most gracious to least)

1. McCain
2. Kerry
3. Romney
4. Gore (with much justification)

I don't remember the VPs well enough to really rank them on this scale but terrifyingly enough John Edwards might come out on top here? Tempted to go back one more election, my vague memory is that Jack Kemp despite being politically horrifying in many ways seemed like a relatively gracious dude.

he was.

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Kevin Williams:

His demeanor is that of a man who has been diagnosed with cancer who puts on a brave face, gets up every morning, and reiterates his determination to “beat this thing.” (Not that I don’t think the presidency is a cancer, but that’s a point for a different post.)

It’s a remarkable talent he has. When he was getting beat up politically for his association with that goofy racist clergyman, he lectured us on the evils of racism, as though we’d been the ones sitting in on those hateful sermons. Every time he has some spectacular screw-up, which seems to be about once a quarter, he pronounces himself outraged, as though he had not failed us but had been failed himself.

So Barack Obama has sworn that he will not tolerate the incompetence of the Obama administration. I’d like to think that that means he is going to resign, but I don’t think that’s what he meant.

how witty! watch your back, jay nordlinger! just kiddin' there's room for both

in HELL

Every time he has some spectacular screw-up, which seems to be about once a quarter, he pronounces himself outraged, as though he had not failed us but had been failed himself.

wow it's almost like authority figures are not omniscient superheroes.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_05/thats_kind_of_racist050539.php

Discussing Williamson's description of African-Americans and all single women

remarkably risk-averse compared to traditional conservative constituencies such as white men and business owners.
remarkably risk-averse compared to traditional conservative constituencies such as white men and business owners.

He's so clueless. Plus I guess he doesn't have an editor (or the editor is just as tone-deaf and insulated regarding how such phrasing looks. He really thinks he's gonna win over support with that line comparing all black people and all single women to folks who call a psychic hotline!)

George Will on Friday became the latest conservative pundit to attempt to debunk sexual assault statistics, arguing that universities' efforts to address campus rape have made "victimhood a coveted status."

In a column for the Washington Post, Will argues that universities are basing their definition of sexual assault on a "Washington" education, which is leading to inflated statistics.

“They are learning that when they say campus victimizations are ubiquitous ('micro-aggressions,' often not discernible to the untutored eye, are everywhere), and that when they make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate," he wrote.

Will offers an anecdote from a student at Swarthmore College, in which a woman reported a rape after a former sexual partner wouldn't take no for an answer. Will implies that because the incident occurred "with a guy with whom she’d been hooking up for three months," she wasn't sexually assaulted.

"I just kind of laid there and didn’t do anything — I had already said no. I was just tired and wanted to go to bed. I let him finish. I pulled my panties back on and went to sleep," the woman wrote about the encounter.

"Six weeks later, the woman reported that she had been raped," Will wrote about the Swarthmore student. "Now the Obama administration is riding to the rescue of 'sexual assault' victims. It vows to excavate equities from the ambiguities of the hookup culture, this cocktail of hormones, alcohol and the faux sophistication of today’s prolonged adolescence of especially privileged young adults."

first against the wall etc.

as opposed to this cocktail of cocktails, reprehensible right wing ideology, and faux sophistication of today's prolonged senescence of especially especially especially privileged old assholes.

Bartender! Two of those, please!

I am glad someone is finally taking a stand against rape victims.

camille paglia covered this pretty exhaustively already

i suppose if anybody should be able to think they can recognize barely trying

What a piece of shit. I have to say, i thought Ross Douthat's column a few weeks ago on this topic was quite good. Not sure it makes up for that "have more babies, white people!" column, but he clearly put some thought into it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/douthat-rape-and-the-college-brand.html

this guy is always worth reading

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380024/goes-mosul-kevin-d-williamson

Conor Friedersdorf in George F. Will's defense:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/rage-against-the-outrage-machine/373069/

Also:

Sweet Diversity
By Jay Nordlinger
June 25, 2014 9:06 AM

Sometimes I think that we on the right are the only defenders of diversity.

i was thinking about polling diversity V. redistribution earlier today. he's right tho that diversity was a right-wing hijacking of policy.

Comments on comments, so glad these people have jobs. Really contributing a lot to make the world a better place.

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Anybody been following the "Postmodern Conservative" blog that relocated to NRO?

Armond's movie column?

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Get ready for some laffs, guys

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383807/left-cool-king-jonah-goldberg

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What justification can there be for this? Well, we could talk in general terms about whether “catharsis” or “shock-tactics” might provide one, but the bottom-line is that there can be no justification for “Masters of War” unless the historicist or Leninist theories about war are true .

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Mona, count me a churl, but I would not read much into Hillary Clinton’s praise of George W. Bush. She praised him on one ground: his AIDS relief in Africa. That is the one thing Democrats give W. credit for. Sort of like when WFB died, and a lot of people acted like the only thing he had ever done in his whole, long, magnificent life was support the legalization of pot. They thought that was cool.

Two springs ago, I wrote about the dedication ceremony of the GWB Center at SMU. All the former presidents were there, plus the incumbent. And each of the Democrats — Obama, Clinton, and Carter — heaped praise on W. for his policy on Africa. Carter actually said, “Mr. President, let me say that I’m filled with admiration for you and deep gratitude for you,” because of “the great contributions you’ve made to the most needy people on earth.”

Clinton and Obama made the same sounds. Better than nothing, I suppose. But I could get excited if a Democrat praised, say, W.’s stance against “partial-birth abortion.”

(Mona, please feel free to set me straight either here online or in our next podcast. My current mood is decidedly churlish. It seems not to be in a hurry to pass . . .)

when will one of the crazed lefties these ppl always complain about messily murder them

your mood, Dan, is decidedly churlish.