About as close to calling the Administration anti-American by intent as one is likely to find from a Congressman. CNS: [Rep Chris] Smith noted that independent reviewers found the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to be one of the most experienced experts on human trafficking. From 2006 to 2011, the USCCB received HHS grants to help 2,271 victims, many of them girls as young as 12 years old, through

You know, the ones where you didn’t have to pen responses to Wall Street Journal op-eds calling for an American Great Leap Forward modeled after the Chi-Com’s centrally-controlled and planned police state? The pies were plumper back then — and the cars more muscular and less likely to be confused for oversized earrings with wheels… (h/t Sean Hackberth)

left: communists, anarcho-communists center-left: New Left Democrats / socialists / “progressives” center: left-liberal Democrats center-right: “No Labels” liberals, independents, liberaltarians right: GOP establishment, Rovian “compassionate con-servatives,” JFK Democrats, neocons far right: constitutionalists, legal conservatives, libertarians, Reagan Democrats fringe extremists: Birchers, militia-types, anti-government terrorists, Reagan conservatives, TEA Party so far right they move back left: Paulistas (who share George McGovern’s foreign policy of appeasement), Buchananites (who shared with the Kerry campaign

From Jim Pethokoukis. The takeaway (for me, at least): the Administration is going to do it’s damndest to cook the books leading up to the 2012 election. It’s goal is to then argue that things are going in the right direction — that steady improvement is being made as we recover from the Bush mess — and that therefore it would be both dangerous (and a bit racist, too, naturally)

…mainstream DC “conservatism” — which I’m going to christen, here and now, as you all watch semi-live, “con-servatism” — has outlived its sell-by date. Ponnuru: Even though nobody has yet cast a vote in the primaries, Republicans are increasingly resigned to Gov. Mitt Romney’s winning the party’s presidential nomination. Every week he gets a few more endorsements from Republican officeholders. He has never had a commanding lead in the polls,

Decline and fall, America. Decline and fall.

Military to repeal ban on sodomy. And of course, bestiality. — Which, I guess at least potentially and legally, Rudolph’s nose might not be the only red thing the poor dear is toting around come the end of December. (Yeah. I went there.)

Turns out Cain himself is responsible for 17 texts, almost always in response to messages from Ms White. Not that such a disproportionate arrangement proves anything, but it certainly suggestive — particularly given Ms White’s documented history of stalking. Which is why I’ve been willing — still, because it’s what we should be doing as conservatives with conservatives under these kinds of circumstances — to give Cain the benefit of

Nick Shultz, AEI, writing in the LATimes: Occupy Wall Street supporters are claiming credit for at least one political accomplishment: elevating the issue of income inequality to the top of the national conversation. The Occupiers are right about American incomes: They’ve definitely grown more unequal. But this fact presents three inconvenient truths for the Occupy Wall Street movement. First, let’s look at the top end of the income ladder. It’s

Me, I’m with him on this one. — Unless Paul were to name Sarah Palin as his running mate, and maybe Herman Cain his Secretary of Stopping Illegal Immigration. In which case, save me a seat on that fucking bullet train to awesome! (thanks to RS McCain, who has more)