Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Jacob Goldbergis an American conservative syndicated columnist, author and commentator. Goldberg writes about politics and culture for National Review, where he is a Senior Editor. He is the author of Liberal Fascismand The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 March 1969
CountryUnited States of America
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Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.
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in many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.
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Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.
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But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.
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Most conservatives, I think, want Bush to succeed and would be eager to mend fences with a new nominee.
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Meryl Streep once testified famously before Congress, saying that she was there to represent the uninformed. Now, that sums it up pretty well when it comes to these celebrity issues.
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You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.
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Fox simply has an immunity to a lot of criticism, ... The base who's watching has already signed up; they're loyal. And the only place they're going to hear about criticism of Fox News is on Fox News.
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Liberty has turned into licentiousness, and tolerance for dissenters has become little more than rank relativism and nihilism. All perspectives are equally valid, which means no perspective is truly valid.
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Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it
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I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims there is no conflict between his/her love of country and his/her desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: 'You're mistaken.'
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You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.
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Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question 'enlightened' dogma. ... Cliches begin arguments, they don't settle them.
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It's the nature of all relationships, really: The straw that breaks the camel's back is rarely the most obvious thing, ... meets the dictionary definition of a crony.