Sasha, Malia, brave women everywhere under siege by misogynist marauders waging war against them hardest hit. Reached for comment, Sandra Fluke reiterated that she won’t let such slurs silence her. Provided they are uttered by people who, you know, vote wrong. Otherwise, she’s content to keep her yap shut. (h/t Mark Levin)

Unfortunately, it appears that in Ms Fluke’s case, neither will being mind-numbingly wrong. So it’s kind of a wash, really. (h/t Guy Benson)

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: Not exactly shocking news for those exposed to them for years, but the respected Pew Research Center has determined that political liberals are far less tolerant of opposing views than regular Americans. In a new study, the Pew Center for the Internet and American Life Project confirmed what most intelligent Americans had long sensed. That is, whenever they are challenged or confronted on the hollow falsity of

Point of order: does that make the PR firm sluts or whores for the Democrat Party? I need to know so’s at my next book club meeting I don’t make any embarrassing or hurtful pronouncements that, when taken out of context, could be construed as “dehumanizing” toward women. Because it turns out my book club is absolutely glutted with chicks. *

Sure, you need a picture ID to get on a plane or rent a car or get rid of nasal congestion — but then, plane boarding or car rentals or relief from nasal congestion isn’t going to vote illegally on behalf of Democrats, is it? So. Q.E.D. (h/t TerryH)

National Journal: More Americans trust President Obama than congressional Republicans to make the right decisions to bring down the price of gasoline, according to a new poll, although neither side commands a majority. What’s more, as prices continue to rise and the specter of $5-per-gallon gas for the summer driving season looms over the political landscape, the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll shows the public slightly more supportive

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