About Those Ultrasounds

The Democrats’ “War on Women” rhetoric argues that the GOP is going after abortion access by adding all sorts of regulations that are meant to act as barriers against women choosing abortion. One of the chief lynchpins in this argument is the regulation of ultrasound procedures, specifically the required use of “transvaginal ultrasound” technology in [...]

Nomentum

The Once got what amounts to a political spanking (x2) last night when he lost 40+% of the Democratic primary vote in Kentucky and Arkansas. Fresh on the heels of West Virginia’s stinging rebuke of just two weeks ago, we’re sure to see the chattering classes use their buzzwords today. You’ll see “poor whites,” “rural [...]

Tin Foil Tuesday: Elizabeth Warren Edition

Things are not getting any easier for Elizabeth Warren regarding the Native American controversy. She recently doubled down on her Native American heritage claim. Legal Insurrection probably has the most complete record of events to date, uncovering this new nugget today (via Breitbart): The Warren Campaign offered reporters an undated article from the Muskogee Phoenix [...]

Motherfucked: Three Stories of #MommyHate

Cross-posted from P&L. Left-feminism is more decadent and depraved than I thought, if the offerings for this mother’s day are any indication. Misogyny is a vicious phenomenon, but no aspect of it is more pervasive or more pernicious than mommy-hate. And that’s exactly what’s being offered this week from the left-feminist-identified blogosphere. Welcome to the [...]

Obama Backs Same-Sex Marriage

This story is just now breaking in the wake of Robin Roberts ABC interview with President Obama this afternoon: President Obama declared for the first time on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country. “At a certain point,” Mr. [...]

Elizabeth Warren & Identity Envy

I feel for Elizabeth Warren. I really do. My family has talked glibly of our Native American ancestry, even pointing to a great-grandmother named Hannah as being “half-Cherokee.” We don’t have any genealogical evidence to back this up–well, at least I don’t. My own grandmother went through the lengthy task of documenting as much as [...]

Harshing the Sexist Mellow

We have a job this year: Harshing the sexist mellow. If you’re not familiar with the phrase “harshing my mellow,” you may be a bit confused by the jargon. Harshing a mellow means to interfere one way or another with the “high” of another person, whether that high is due merely to a good mood, [...]

Late Night is for Night Owls

About to head to bed here in a bit, but thought I’d share this beautiful manufacturing job by TPTB: 04.2012 Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians’ reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program. The trust funds that [...]

Doggone Politics

I’m thinking that if you’re going to spend a couple of weeks pushing a meme about a candidate’s  family dog traveling atop a car for family vacations a few decades ago, you might want to make sure your candidate doesn’t have any doggie bones in his own closet. You know, wouldn’t want to alienate the [...]

Cuomo Aide Stalks Woman Reporter

How’s THAT for tin-foil hat Tuesday? The story broke last night at Buzzfeed, and of course I was up to catch it. You know it’s my job now to track and speak out against injustice against women. Meet Liz Benjamin. She’s a New York journalist who’s been working for a number of years, and now [...]

The Fine Art of Trolling for Women

Earlier today my friend Cynthia and I were discussing her interactions with Maha of Mahablog. I wouldn’t recommend clicking that link unless you’re in firm control of your emotions. Maha is Barbara O’Brien, the About Buddhism writer for About.com. Ironically enough in light of that, she runs Mahablog, which is the one of the stinkiest [...]

More on the Romney-Rosen flap

I really should be in bed right now. I should have completed the lesson plan for that 7:35 a.m. class I have to teach, but I’ve not been able to drag myself away from the total freakshow that is traditional leftist feminism’s response to the Rosen-Romney flap. Luckily I can teach that class with my [...]

Rosen & The Real War on Women

Earlier this week I discussed how the Democrats’ accusation that the Republican Party was waging a “War on Women” was a disingenuous attempt to shore up support among a critical constituency that had abandoned them in droves in the 2010 election. As noted, the GOP erased a 10 point gender gap, no small feat considering [...]

Contraception, Caterpillars & Country Clubs: How Women Leveraged Their Way to More Power

Cross-posted from Peacocks & Lilies. Pretty amazing things are afoot for women this election year. Will we seize the opportunity? Women have been much in the news lately. From the contraception debate to caterpillar analogies to country clubs, it’s obvious the political parties are waging a war for women; that is, for their votes. Why [...]

Women & The Year of Quitting

“The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price… The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.” -Abigail Scott Duniway, suffrage organizer in the Pacific [...]

So, about that war on women…

If you thought the contraception debate was about expanding or protecting women’s existing right to reproductive health care, think again. If you were waiting for the other shoe to fall, congratulations. You are not blinded by your own bias and can see clearly and painfully exactly how much the left, especially the new Democratic constituencies [...]

Reading Roundup: A Few Good Links

Here are a few good links to get you through your Saturday. This is an open thread. Warren Buffett sues America for over-taxation. So much for Mr. “Give me higher taxes, please.” We’ve counter-sued. I hope we win. NetJets Inc., the private-plane company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A), was countersued by the [...]

Sexism & Subtext in the Fluke-Limbaugh Incident

Cross-posted by request. Talking about the events surrounding Sandra Fluke’s experiences on Capitol Hill and Rush Limbaugh’s subsequent disparaging comments and complete mangling of the issues is difficult, indeed. It seems that the original issues–women’s reproductive health and the segregation of it, as well as religious liberty–have been all but forgotten as familiar tribes have [...]

Sarah Palin Suggests Santorum is Neanderthal

Put a fork in him. I’ll enjoy watching his stats plummet. Check it out: I’m apparently late to the game. Thought it was new. Remember this? And just a minute later: (via) Happy Valentine’s Day!

Connecting Dots

So Sunday while I was surfing, I ran across this article at Little Green Footballs. Though I am aware of their work, I don’t normally read LGF, but I was drawn by the headline at Memorandum and clicked it. Here are the essentials: I don’t even know what to say about this any more [sic]. [...]