Via Blake, Sarah Palin’s response to the Obama campaign’s new internet ad attacking her (and Breitbart and Hannity) for their thinly veiled racism — and attack that evidently relies on editing Palin’s comments such that they no longer even share the original referents, much less are used fairly in context. — Which, sorry, but cry me a river, honey. I mean, you know you’re going to be scrutinized, Governor Palin.

criticizes the “right wing pediatrician-industrial complex” for perpetuating the “dubious medical belief” that rectal temperatures are the most accurate indicators of body temp — and in so doing, elevating medicine “at the expense of the dignity” of the child (who, if he happens to be a male child, is being made to feel violated and “shamed” like a “prison bitch”; and if it’s a female child? Well, then it’s none

Or when Thomas Friedman spoke wistfully about how the Chicoms, unemcumbered with representative democracy and a combative two-party system, are able to speed things along and just get stuff done? Remember when conservatives and classical liberals and, hell, most sentient Americans who remain proud of this country’s ostensible fidelity to individual liberty and a government granted its power by the consent of the governed, were appalled by the authoritarian impulses

Once you let the left control the language, they will turn it into a tool of tyranny, because — as I’ve show repeatedly over the years — the very foundations of their ideology inevitably and inexorably move that way, and identity politics is one of the driving forces of just such a move, subsuming the individual into a politicized collective that they either must join, or else risk losing any

— and not as a pseudo-intellectual playground on which to play out their fantasies of rubbing elbows with radicals? It was Beaver Cleaver’s oppressive Eisenhower America. Not like now, where the promise of socialist Utopian transformation has provided us with unprecedented liberty. Provided, that is, we only want shit that is granted us by the State — and provided we embrace the identity narratives assigned us by our self-styled leaders.

Today, from Nancy Keenan of NARAL, who wants me to help with the war against women. Writes Ms Keenan: Dear J, The War on Women is in full swing, and it’s going to take everything we’ve got to end it. That’s why I’m so glad you did your part recently by taking action to stop attacks on birth-control coverage. We need your help to stand up for women — to

That headline can be read in several different ways — all of them perfectly apt, if I do say so myself. Trust me. Or, if you don’t trust me, a violent and fundamentally unserious pseudo-intellectual psychosexual predator and Visigothic purist, unhelpful defamer of all who are good and just and brave and sincere, then here: see for yourselves. Convinced? Good. Told you so. Squishes.

This is a question, I think you’d mostly all agree, you don’t need to be an “insider” to be asking. Evil creeps while the contented man sleeps. Which is something Benjamin Franklin never said. But probably thought a couple of times. And if not Ben Franklin, almost certainly Johnny Cochran. (thanks to Carin)

IDs are for getting on planes or buying beer or driving cars, not for voting or showing proof of citizenship or taking government aid. CNSNews: The U.S. Department of Agriculture-administered food stamp program does not check the Social Security Number (SSNs) of some of its 46.3 million recipients, many of whom are using the numbers of dead people and invalid SSNs to get benefits potentially totaling $1.1 million a month,