[to celebrate — or more accurately, to commemorate, because honestly, who would want to do this shit for ten years, right? — protein wisdom‘s decade of life, I’ve decided to pull posts from the archives each day this month as a way to give newer readers a taste of the old pw (and to give longtime readers a nostalgic trip that doesn’t require the ingestion of brown acid, or a

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,