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Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online,and the author of the forthcoming book The Tyranny of Clichés. You can reach him via Twitter @JonahNRO.
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Jonah Goldberg (May 23, 2012)
"This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about," President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The "this" in question is Mitt Romney's tenure... more
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Jonah Goldberg (May 18, 2012)
This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people... more
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Jonah Goldberg (May 16, 2012)
Perhaps Mitt Romney played it right when he was meek and contrite in response to the Washington Post's front-page allegations that he bullied a kid half a century ago in high... more
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Jonah Goldberg (May 11, 2012)
For most of 2012, President Obama has been running in the Democratic primary. I know that seems odd given that he's essentially running unopposed. Though don't... more
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Jonah Goldberg (May 09, 2012)
"If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the... more
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Jonah Goldberg (May 03, 2012)
"They do that because they were born that way."
If you say that about homosexuals, you are tolerant and realistic. If you say it about blacks, you are racist (unless... more
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Jonah Goldberg (May 02, 2012)
Washington is full of nerds. I know. I speak nerd, not fluently mind you, at least not anymore. But I certainly know more than a few phrases memorized from a Berlitz... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 27, 2012)
With the Supreme Court taking up Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law, we're once again thrust into a useful debate over the role of the government and the... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 25, 2012)
Jon Corzine left Goldman Sachs with a net worth far exceeding even that of Mitt Romney today. Many accounts of his tenure at Goldman suggest he "failed up" the corporate... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 20, 2012)
It's going to be bait and switch for as far as the eye can see.
That's how it looks now that the smoke has cleared after the recent "Mommy War" skirmish over... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 18, 2012)
"The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 13, 2012)
President Obama's re-election largely hinges on his ability to play young voters for suckers -- again -- and whether Mitt Romney will let him.
In 2008, Obama won... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 11, 2012)
In his Wisconsin victory speech last Tuesday, Mitt Romney said, "Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business."
This to me is a more... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 06, 2012)
In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Apr 04, 2012)
It looks as if it's going to be Mitt Romney after all. With Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush endorsing the former Massachusetts governor last week, there aren't any white... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 30, 2012)
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 28, 2012)
"White Hispanic." That's how the New York Times, Reuters and other media outlets have opted to describe George Zimmerman, a man who would simply be Hispanic if he hadn't shot... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 23, 2012)
There's a great old "Fawlty Towers" scene (if you're unfamiliar with the 1970s British sitcom, hie thyself to YouTube!) in which Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), an innkeeper,... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 21, 2012)
The bleating about broken government and partisanship continues. "Why can't those boobs in Washington agree on anything?" We're constantly told that the way to fix the... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 16, 2012)
Warning: What you are about to read is a deeply cynical view of the 2012 election. If you're looking for puppies and rainbows, check back with me another... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 14, 2012)
As gasoline prices climb, President Obama's poll numbers plummet. In February, a Washington Post/ABC poll had Obama up 6 points against Mitt Romney. Monday's poll has him... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 09, 2012)
There's a great scene in the movie "The Right Stuff" where the original Mercury astronauts are checking out the capsule for their first trips to space. They're horrified to... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 07, 2012)
In 1984, Mario Cuomo pioneered the argument that one may be "personally opposed" to abortion, while supporting abortion rights.
Ever since, this convenient locution has... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Mar 02, 2012)
Andrew Breitbart's heart was too big to fail, but it did anyway.
If you don't know who Breitbart was, you haven't been paying attention. A conservative activist,... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 24, 2012)
There's no disputing that Republicans are surly these days.
With the exception of South Carolina, turnout among GOP voters has been tepid. Hordes of commentators,... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 22, 2012)
"If we could just take a little bit from each of them."
I've lost track of how many people I have heard say some version of this in the last couple of months. The "each... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 17, 2012)
"My rival in this race," President Obama announced early in 2007, "is not other candidates. It's cynicism."
It's now clear that what he meant by this was other people's... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 14, 2012)
If you're not with us, you're against us. President Bush popularized this expression after 9/11 to describe his foreign policy doctrine: Countries couldn't support or indulge... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 10, 2012)
OK, I give up.
About a week ago, I wrote a column making a case for Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee. My argument was aimed at fellow conservatives who just can't get their... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 08, 2012)
The governments in Russia and China very much want to uphold the principle that every now and then the state must crush people who want freedom. That is why they worked... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 03, 2012)
Years ago a friend told me a story from her days living in South America. The movie "Wayne's World" had come out, and she went to see it. She spoke English, but it was... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Feb 01, 2012)
Jesse Jackson is right.
In response to the face-off in Arizona between President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last week, Jackson said, "Even George Wallace did not... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Jan 27, 2012)
President Obama's State of the Union address was disgusting.
The president began with a moving tribute to the armed forces and their accomplishments.... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Jan 25, 2012)
Newtzilla is back.
Six weeks ago, during the last Newt Gingrich surge, I wrote here that "conventional weapons are useless against Newtzilla. ... Everything bad about... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Jan 20, 2012)
"In the Treasury we do not speak of tons of silver. Our unit is the troy ounce."
That was the response from some bureaucrat when Leslie Groves, the man who oversaw the... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Jan 18, 2012)
"Corporations are people, my friend," Mitt Romney declared in a testy back-and-forth with hecklers last summer in Iowa.
It was among the first of what appears to be a... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Jan 13, 2012)
One thing is clear: At best, Mitt Romney is a work in progress.
Romney is under attack for being a hugely successful private equity banker at Bain Capital. Bain identified... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Jan 11, 2012)
Mitt Romney is the most improbable of presidential candidates: a weak juggernaut.
He is poised to sweep every primary contest -- a first for a non-incumbent. And yet, in... more
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Jonah Goldberg (Jan 06, 2012)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a... more