RS McCain: The originators and leading advocates of feminism have always seen themselves, and properly so, as part of the Progressive Left. Feminists have therefore contested any and all attempts by conservatives to co-opt and redefine the term “feminism” as something compatible with conservatism. Yet there are many soi-disant conservatives who, desirous of seeming fashionably modern and perhaps insufficiently knowledgeable of feminism’s leftist origins, persist in claiming that conservatives who

A wonderful father, husband, and man — and long a friend to pw and to the family of commenters here — Brian Teixeira, passed away today. Best wishes and prayers from my family and the protein wisdom family go out to his family, whom he loved so very dearly and who so very dearly loved him in return. I’ll update with information on funeral, etc., as I find out more.

Because not everybody wants to talk about how Ann Coulter or some other of our big conservative opinion leaders could possibly pretend Mitt Romney is conservative. Eh, screw it. Maybe the feckless and impotent GOP who stood before us in 2008 and told us the era of Reagan is over were right. And maybe the reason is precisely because that’s what they wanted.

A couple interesting comments from “an erstwhile reader,” Rachel, who in an earlier thread expresses her concern over my support for Bachmann and Santorum, the gist being that my site has evolved from a classical liberal venue to one in which I and many of the regulars here are somehow something else these days. She writes in her second comment: Jeff, thanks for the well-reasoned reply. From what I’ve read

Just popping back in real quick to note that Satch placed 4th in the district tournament today and will go on to the regionals in two weeks. He’d like to thank you all for the birthday wishes — though admittedly he thought it kind of strange that so many people he doesn’t know are interested in his birthday. Next up for us is a pizza and Nerf Gun party this

Go, ruling class! Go Team! Who needs freedom when you can have power? **** update: Besides, as the Romney campaign lectures, the GOP primaries are “not about picking someone even with your own beliefs and principles. This is about picking a person that can beat Barack Obama, period.” Just so you know.

But no worries: should we ever really need to be engaged in two separate theaters at once, we can always just ship over all the new union enforcers and have them set up picket lines — or, in a pinch, let them pull, say, the North Korean president into an alley and truncheon him to death with a blackjack. Problem solved — and with significant savings that can then be

Bill Wilson, ALG: Since Barack Obama assumed office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total population over age 16 has grown by 5.845 million to 240.5 million, and yet, since then, the civilian labor force has actually shrunk by 349,000 — from about 154.2 million to 153.8 million. This is a startling contradiction, and it is at the heart of why the unemployment rate is much higher than

RS McCain asks the question: Conventional wisdom suggests that the social conservative message that fueled Santorum’s surge in the Iowa caucuses, where evangelical Protestants are an influential constituency, will not go over well in New Hampshire. Yet Santorum appears determined to try to prove the conventional wisdom wrong. During an afternoon appearance at a gathering of college students in Manchester, Santorum was challenged on his opposition to same-sex marriage, which

This latest in response to my post detailing how the left will try to smear Santorum. From Sam Seder, who writes: we’d like to invite you to call into the Hipster douche’s show any time you’d like- we’re live 11:30 AMET M-F and take calls generally after 12:10 at 646-257-3920… you can “Ask why, for instance, no one has asked Santorum to respond to this bit of truncated video. Or