The NeoSexist

Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have no clear favorite for the party’s 2012 presidential nominee at this point, with Mike Huckabee (18%), Mitt Romney (16%), and Sarah Palin (16%) in a statistical tie for the lead. They are the only candidates in the crowded field of potential candidates who register double-digit support. Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, [...]

From PoliticsDaily: Harry Reid doesn’t like hookers. But the Senate majority leader’s statement to the Nevada legislature urging that prostitution be made illegal in his home state went over like a lead balloon. “I think the time has come for us to outlaw prostitution,” Reid said Tuesday in an address to a joint legislative session [...]

Althouse: I asked the woman if she thought Scott Walker was like Hitler, and she said “Yes.” So I said, “Are you saying that you think fascism could come to America,” and she said, “It’s what’s happening.” Rhetoric vs. Reality: Liberal Protest of Gov. Walker’s Budget Repair Plan

Wisconsin Democrat Senators have reportedly fled the state to avoid a budget vote that is opposed by various union interests.  Courage.  Law enforcement has been sent to round up the truant donks. Meanwhile, public employees unions are demonstrating their value by taking to the streets and comparing the Republican Governor to Hitler. Read on at [...]

From Megan McArdle, who brings sanity to The Atlantic: So my post on the liberal slant in academia has garnered what I believe to be a record number of comments, many, even most of them, pretty angry.  And as I predicted, the positions are very much reversed from the normal take on such things.  Conservatives [...]

AVClub describes the disturbing details of the world’s most famous [and gross] bachelor’s pad. The Playboy Mansion has definitely lost some of its luster of late, with reports that the sprawling estate has fallen into a crumbling state of disrepair—monkey carcasses floating in the Grotto, every surface blanketed by the fine ash of octogenarian dead [...]

VIA NRONYU accepts resignation of Nir Rosen for his unbelievably callous remarks: Nir Rosen is always provocative, but he crossed the line yesterday with his comments about Lara Logan. I am deeply distressed by what he wrote about Ms. Logan and strongly denounce his comments. They were cruel and insensitive and completely unacceptable. Mr. Rosen [...]

From NewsRealBlog: While the Left celebrates the chaos in Egypt – which began with riots in which 60 women were raped and the Egyptian Museum was looted – rational observers have warned that the fundamentalist Islamist population is not looking for western style democracy. The Left claims that is “Islamophobia” on our part, because the [...]