From a longtime email buddy of mine:

Jonah,
This election marks the four year anniversary of my coming to NRO practically every day. A friend (and one of the few open conservatives at my first job out of lawschool) told me about you guys in 2000 when I was trying to locate the place that had the best and generally the fastest updates on Gore’s sad and pathetic efforts to steal the election. It was the first I ever heard of you, KLo, Lowry or probably National Review. I can honestly say my life is the better for it, though not my news addiction. Being both black and a conservative republican, its a near daily grind defending my views (and blackness) from my friends and family. NRO provided me with links to otherwise not well pubicized articles and lots of facts with which to better blow huge holes through my liberal friends usually overly emotional/ low on facts/history “arguments”- not that it was difficult before but more ammo never hurts. The Corner is an absolutely indispensible tool, I only wish it were around or I knew about it when i was in college/grad school. Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard is that if you want to be succesful hang around with people you think are smarter than you. Almost anything written by Ramesh and often by other NRO contributors keeps me on my toes and of course, expanding my book collection to keep up with some of the really nosebleed inducing debates/theories. I say to the newbies, enjoy the volcano laser lancing, the why dogs are soooo better than cats, Star Trek and Hobbit stories, and other stories, stick around for the chance to learn a lot about 14th century japanese poetry, brain-imploding math problems, proper english prose, why the constitution doesn’t mean anything the NYT thinks is a good idea this week. Looking forward to the next 4 years, regardless of who wins the election. GO BUSH.