Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

Mark Krikorian is executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies and an NRO contributor. For a sufficiently large contribution to his Center, he’ll be happy to put on Spock ears or a Klingon uniform.

ta-nehisi posted that dunphy bit pointing out the way it attempts to place the responsibility of using lethal force somehow on the victim instead of, you know, the guy with the gun

yeah i don't even want to think about that "jack dunphy" dude too much. an anonymous LAPD cop saying that complaining about your rights is liable to get you shot, you say? must publish, post haste!

does this dude know that spock is a vegetarian?

actually, in tng nobody in the federation even eats actual meat anymore. it all gets generated by those things that picard says, "tea. earl grey. HOT." to.

so immoral.

I like it when they don't even try to distinguish between "militarism" and "patriotism." Yes, it's all a piece of their view of morality is obedience, but it still amuses me sometimes.

stylin' at tha corner

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Retro 60s Buckley, cool and suave and hip, impish and darn good-looking, voila the mug from those glory days when he was launching Firing Line and running for NYC mayor, castigating eschaton immanentizers and just plain setting the world on fire. And now here he is, WFB, looking out at you with twinkling eyes from a 100% pre-shrunk heavy-duty cotton Champion ® tee shirt, in cool black. Get yours for only $17.99, which includes shipping and handling. Sizes are M, L, XL, and XXL.

Wouldn't Buckley just think T-shirts were always tacky?

"WFB, looking out at you with twinkling eyes"
worst personal ad ever

in the back of the T-shirt is Sarah Palin, sending starbursts of joy.

gross

"Comes in special Lowry pre-worn edition"

yeah and wouldn't NRO's general tone these days make him sick to the back teeth?

(real question btw. i got the impression he was more than a little put out with the championing ignorance thing the Right's really into these days)

x-post to Ned's question re: WFB & t-shirts

wouldn't NRO's general tone these days make him sick to the back teeth?

Oh it did. It was increasingly clear that they were stuck with him until the end because if he hadn't founded the darn thing they would have retired him a LONG time back.

"It appears my face is emblazoned on an undergarment."

special edition k-lo size with spaghetti sauce stains

An NR writer snuck on board NRO's cruise a couple of years ago, on WFB's last voyage. Apparently he caught a bunch of younger conservative shaking their heads sadly, making crazy gestures, and yawning loudly when it was WFB's turn to speak.

pat must be spinning in her velvet-padded grave

special edition k-lo size with spaghetti sauce stains

lol

A Woman of Substance [Benjamin Zycher]

...Now, let me be blunt: Michelle Obama, the product of lifelong affirmative-action coddling, is an intellectual lightweight who fancies herself a serious thinker. Just read her Princeton senior thesis, an intermittently coherent stream-of-consciousness pile of leftist jargon, campus pseudo-seriousness, and racial-identity babble. Can there be any doubt that the Princeton administrators accepted it only because of her skin color?...

what a delightful post

charming!

Obama majored in sociology and minored in African American studies and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985. She obtained her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988.

cum laude means "as a black person" in latin

The Corner's been awesome today. On Dick Cheney's book:

Matalin, though miffed about the Post piece, admits it did get one thing right: Cheney’s book will uncloak many new things — just not a vendetta against George W. Bush. Cheney’s sense of humor, for starters, will be on full display. “He has some slap-your-mama funny tales from the around the world,” she says.

On the magazine's editorial:

I don't see any wisdom in taking a shot at Governor Palin at this moment when, finding themselves unable to defend the plan against her indictment, Democrats have backed down and withdrawn their "end-of-life counseling" boards. Palin did a tremendous service here. Opinion elites didn't like what the editors imply is the "hysteria" of her "death panels" charge. Many of those same elites didn't like Ronald Reagan's jarring "evil empire" rhetoric. But "death panels" caught on with the public just like "evil empire" did because, for all their "heat rather than light" tut-tutting, critics could never quite discredit it. ("BusHitler," by contrast, did not catch on with the public because it was so easily refuted.)

The editors implicitly concede that Palin is on to something. Indeed, from an Obamaesque perch, they find themselves admonishing both "Sarah Palin’s fans and her critics." With due respect, there's a right side and a wrong side on this one. Above the fray is not gonna cut it.

Sure, the editors acknowledge, there's lots of reason to be worried that we're speeding down the road toward euthanasia and that Obamacare could make things worse. But it's somehow "to leap across a logical canyon" to suggest that death panels are imminent or that they are what Obama wants.

On the latter, who cares what Obama personally wants? I don't see why we should play into the personality cult that the Left is hoping will overcome the deep substantive flaws in the president's policies. I happen to think that something like death panels is exactly what is desired by Obama — who is an abortion extremist, who supported a form of infanticide when he was an Illinois state legislator, and who has wondered aloud about the value of end-of-life care provided for his own grandmother. But Obama's personal feelings are beside the point. What matters is what's in the bill.

honestly, $100 from my own pocket to whomever sinks the NRO cruise boat

^^^^ terrorist

I wonder if they felt even a tiny bit of cognitive dissonance in writing "who cares" in regard to what our elected president thinks after jacking off to a resigned governor's facebook updates.

On the latter, who cares what Obama personally wants? I don't see why we should play into the personality cult that the Left is hoping will overcome the deep substantive flaws in the president's policies. I happen to think that something like death panels is exactly what is desired by Obama — who is an abortion extremist, who supported a form of infanticide when he was an Illinois state legislator, and who has wondered aloud about the value of end-of-life care provided for his own grandmother. But Obama's personal feelings are beside the point. What matters is what's in the bill.

ok look i have read paradise lost and seriously there are speeches by satan that are constructed exactly like this

I think they got so addicted to hillary bashing that they'll go after Democratic First Ladies from now on.

“He has some slap-your-mama funny tales from the around the world,” she says.

^^ im not a copy editor but i think there should be another dash between "mama" and "funny," unless the tales from cheney's book are all about hitting mothers in different countries

i take it "slap-your-mama" an intensifier for "funny" but, you know what, i have never heard that before

[Peter Wehner]

After all, liberals have the man they viewed as a secular savior, a “sort of God,” in the White House. Democrats control 60 seats in the Senate and a 257–178 advantage in the House. This was supposed to be their time. Yet if you go to the Left’s most important internet outlets and its cable news station of choice, MSNBC, you find anger, rage, and fury. This has become, I think, very nearly a permanent state for many of them. Keith Olbermann, the ESPN-sportscaster-turned-rabid-commentator, embodies this as well as anyone. His show is all about channeling hate. For years it was hate directed against Bush; today it is hate directed at others. It appears to have consumed him and turned him, and the guests who appear on his program, into comic figures. Olbermann’s show is interesting, then, not as a political program but as a sociological and psychological phenomenon. Perpetual anger and dissatisfaction is interesting to watch — for a while. Then it gets boring. And then it gets clinical.

no "clinical" and funny (for a while) is your pathological lack of self-awareness, pete. uh projecting much?

Haha yeah as opposed to the perpetual state of rainbows and unicorns present on right wing pundit's shows, now and in Bush times.

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Obama in the Classroom [John J. Pitney Jr.]

The text of the president’s speech to schoolchildren is largely inoffensive. But it contains at least one political gaffe. If you quit school, he tells the kids, “You’re not just quitting on yourself, you’re quitting on your country.” Among Americans between ages 65 and 74, 20.7 percent quit before finishing high school. For those 75 and older, the figure is 27.4 percent. The latter group includes some who quit in order to enlist in the armed forces after Pearl Harbor. And yet the president seems to be calling them unpatriotic.

^^awesome feat of mental gymnastics - I mean talk about a s-t-r-e-t-c-h

lol at K-Lo's Facebook post.

I am sure all the kids dropping out today are doing it to join the armed forces.

sad thing is that a lot of them probably are! At least they're hiring.

VDH is just really weird. not looking at what is real, like, at all

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Obama's Mad Dash Continues [Victor Davis Hanson]

Obama's problem is more fundamental than his health-care mess. He campaigned on a no more red state/blue state, white/black, rich/poor polarity, and offered a sort of transcendence that was used to make up for his prior dubious relationships with the likes of Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers.

When governing, his supporters liked to think that he would have to rein in extremists like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to gravitate to the center and work in "bipartisan fashion." But that was never in the cards. The problem is that beneath Obama's hope-and-change veneer, his past legislative and vocal record (cf. his Senate partisanship, his statements in his memoirs, his spread-the-wealth, clingers, typical-white-person gaffes, his talk of single-payer health care and reparations, etc) were hard left, left even of Pelosi and Reid. The Van Jones appointment was logical, not an aberration. So to save his presidency, since the hope-and-change hocus-pocus has become old and trite, Obama would have to become an un-Obama, and do a 1995 Clinton switcheroo.

We have elected the most left-wing president in our history, apparently to many an unappreciated fact given the Bush unpopularity, the wars, the so-so McCain candidacy, and the September 2008 meltdown, but one that now, through a variety of minor and major incidents (from the apologies abroad and the cap-and-trade zealotry to the Gates incident to Van Jones), is being revealed to the American people — and they are not comfortable with it.

His supporters can charge "racism" or go back to the "this is our moment" tropes, or try to reexamine the crazies more carefully before appointing them, but the problem remains that the Obama worldview, one that he embraced at an early age and deliberately sought to enhance through his education and work in Chicago, is simply not one that most Americans feel comfortable with.

So we are in a race — will a majority of the American people wake up from their past anger at Bush and subsequent hypnotism by Obama before he pushes through and institutionalizes an agenda to the left of what we see in Europe?

Should be interesting, and tonight should be a preview of more frantic, hurried efforts to come.

09/09 01:30 PMShare

oh wow and i missed this gem!

The Suckers of the World [John Derbyshire]

Mark (Krikorian):

Good post on the lunacies of our refugee policy. As I'm sure you know, the whole business is addled with fraud — see here, for example. Americans don't realize the lengths people in foreign parts will go to for a U.S. immigrant/refugee visa. People with settled lives in non-crisis regions will uproot themselves and move to a refugee camp, just on the rumor that the camp inmates have been marked for resettlement in the U.S.

We are the suckers of the world.

09/09 01:25 PMShare

i mean, wow.

wow

no one anywhere in the world wants to live in a refugee camp, wtf

left even of Pelosi and Reid

farther left than harry reid, the anti-abortion mormon???

the mind boggles!

This is the one morning I desperately want to read what the Corner has to say and it appears to be down (or at least it won't load for me.) Too bad.

Ha, it loads but there is nothing there but a vast void and some numbers.

obama finally broke their branes.

Of all the things Obama can be blamed for, breaking their brains is not one of them. That implies they were functioning properly at some point in their lives.

it's back up, w/k. lo all tut-tutty about rep. wilson. we are not the house of commons!

About Wilson [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

A friend e-mails a sentiment I'm hearing a lot of: "I think back in the old days, 18th and 19th centuries, that sort of stuff was the norm ... I say we go back."

Well, it would beat the "bipartisan," "my friend" nonsense. And would get people watching C-SPAN.

I'm thinking myself this morning. . . let's strip women of the right to vote, just like back in the 18th Century, I mean that stuff was the norm. . .