Tag: Kevin Williamson
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To: The Entire American Media
To: The Media From: Mitch Berg, Peasant Re: Journalistic “Standards” Dear Media Katie Couric lied to the viewing public by maliciously editing her piece on “Gun Violence” to show a group of human rights activists as speechless when asked a fairly elementary question about gun control (when, in fact, they had several minutes of on-point,…
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Pageantry Hit List
Kevin Williamson is right.
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Two Americas, Redux
As you may recall, I had the great pleasure of hobnobbing with Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Mike Gallagher and Dennis Prager last week. And we were regaled with Hugh’s optimism…on many fronts. He’s an optimistic guy. He also just landed a drive-time network talk show contract with; I’d be pretty sunny too. But one of…
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In Praise Of Anti-Democratic Elites
As Kevin Williamson points out in the NR, much of what made this nation great and exceptional in the first place was the fact that we tempered democracy with many un-democratic, and even some anti-democratic, features – the filibuster, checks and balances, and of course, the most anti-democratic notion of all, “inalienable rights endowed to us…
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“We Want Change!”
Barack Obama got swept into office on a wave of people seeking “hope” and demanding “change”. Few could articulate the change they were hoping for – or, rather, there were tens of millions of different changes being hoped for – but by jinky, they were gonna get it. It’s hardly arguable that most of the…
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Urban Liberal Privilege
For all the talk about “White Privilege”, there is a much bigger, much more powerful form of privilege in our society; the privilege of belonging to the urban liberal establishment. Kevin Williamson has a dossier on the slice (and it’s a large, non-diet-friendly slice) of that sector that works for government, and government academia. There’s…
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They Wanted A Fight?
Kevin Williamson on the Democrats’ contempt for the rule of law, to say nothing of the First and Second Amendment: If the Democrats want to do away with the Second Amendment, let them begin the amendment process and see how far they get. We should challenge them to do so at every opportunity. In reality,…
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“There Are Certain Sections Of New York, Major, I Wouldn’t Advise You To Invade”
ISIS – or someone claiming to speak for them, anyway – released a list of American cities they plan to attack. The ostensible “list” has, in some cases, the parents of something that was compiled by throwing darts at a map. And when I saw the list, I couldn’t help but remember this scene, from…
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Crawling From The Wreckage
By every rational measure, Obamacare is a complete failure – a fraternity-rush-week of terrible assumptions and economic ignorance that have turned a sixth of this nation’s economy into a hapless dumpster fire. Kevin Williamson takes stock of the failures – and, in this notable passage, breaks down the “why” of how we got here: The architects…
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On Celebrity
Kevin Williamson, the most essential writer in American conservatism today, on the celebrity cult that dominates not only, well, celebrity, but increasingly public life: As a fairly committed theater-goer, I like actors as much as the next guy, but I also endorse the traditional social ranking of them alongside prostitutes and tinkers, a few degrees…
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Our Idiot Elite, Part CXXXIX
Kevin Williamson: There’s a great deal of talk about elitism in American politics lately, most of which misses the point: The problem isn’t that our media and our policy debates are dominated by elites—of course they are; that’s what elites do—it’s that our elites aren’t very good. Our elites do not effectively perform the social…
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Heads? Disaster. Tails? Catastrophe
As we noted earlier in the week, the left is just dying to get the NRA out of its way. And they have been since I started following this issue – in probably 1980. It seems that lately, the left has taken to a three-tiered strategy for fighting the Second Amendment Human Rights movement: Lie About Everything.…
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The Vortex
The GOP is about to embark on a bruising battle over who’ll succeed John Boehner as Speaker of the House. Kevin Williamson notes that it really might not matter that much, because Congress at the moment is little but a speed bump (emphasis added): As [Conservative speaker candidate Louis] Gohmert notes without quite saying so, these…
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Amazing American Grace
The conclusion of Kevin Williamson’s piece on what the Fourth of July really means: To be an American is to know a blessing that none of us has earned or merited, to have liberty not because we deserve it but because of who we are — endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights. None…
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I Heard It On The NARN
The Declaration of Independence. Give it a read. Here’s my bit linking to Kevin Williamson’s piece on Greece.
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Ghost Of Crisis Future
“Progressives” the world over are pretty much all the same. Kevin Williamson on the Greek crisis: When Greece’s sham economy went ass over teakettle, it agreed to a bailout package, finalized in 2010. That deal is now widely blamed by the Left for exacerbating Greece’s economic crisis with excessive “austerity.” The problem with that line…
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Title Of The Day
What? Donald Trump running for President again? Good lord, who the hell cares? Well, Kevin Williamson does, if only long enough to write the title of the day for yesterday: “Witless Ape Rides Escalator“ Oh, yeah -and an article worthy of the title. Enough is enough.
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Our Lazy Biased Media Overlords
Last week, the MSM and its greek chorus in the lefty noise machine were all a’-chortle over Marco Rubio’s driving records. Such as they were; two dismissed tickets and two trivial moving violations in 18 years. No innocent women drowned; he apparently paid the fines, unlike a certain sitting celebrity Minnesota congressman. And how did…
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Quote Of The Day: Minimum Wage Edition
Kevin Williamson on the stupid futility of raising the minimum wage: Dollars are just a method of keeping count, and mandating higher wages for work that has not changed at all is, in the long run, like measuring yourself in centimeters instead of inches in order to make yourself taller, or tracking your weight in…
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Everything You Need To Know…
…not only about the shootout (not “riot”) between rival outlaw biker gangs in Waco over the weekend, but about the idiot left’s race-baiting response? Yep – Kevin Williamson already has it, in this piece from NRO. I’ll let you read the whole thing. With Williamson, it’s always worth it; he bludgeons the incendiary mythmongering of…
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There Is No Such Thing As “Too Conservative”
Eleven seconds after Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for President, the left and media (ptr) declared he couldn’t possibly win because he was “too conservative”. Of course, any conservative – especially the ones that provide a legitimate threat to the Democrats, or are endorsed at any rate – will be labelled “too conservative”. Sturdevanted: The…
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Deigning
Kevin Williamson came out with an excellent piece this past week, comparing transit policy to “progressive” policy on education (and, for that matter, firearms, although Williamson doesn’t connect the Second Amendment to his thesis. Which is fine – that’s what I’m here for). Our current school and transit systems are largely designed by the “haves”…
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Stewart
There are many reasons to read Kevin Williamson’s piece about the departure of Jon Stewart from The Daily Show. It may be the best single thing I’ve read about Stewart. But I’ll leave you with this bit: There are funny conservatives and funny liberals, but they tend to be amusing in different ways, which is why…