War on Women: 'The View' Promotes Violence Against Sarah Palin

WHY WON’T KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND NAME THE MEN SHE SAYS HARASSED HER? Ann Althouse offers numerous theories — pretty much all unflattering to Gillibrand — but I favor this one:

She wants to protect the men she hasn’t named. They’re her political allies, perhaps quite well-known characters. I think we can assume that they are all Democrats, since we haven’t heard otherwise and she probably would have taken the opportunity to ding Republicans, and since Republicans would be more likely to maintain formal politeness with her and not to assume that they could take liberties.

Of course, there’s also this possibility: “Maybe it didn’t happen. There are no names named because there are no names to name.” She could have just been pulling a Neil deGrasse Tyson.*

“MEANWHILE, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS TURNED INTO PEYTON PLACE.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrats’ War On Women. “If the targets of back-biting were Republican women I have little doubt that the media would hop on the “war on women” bandwagon. Really, why is poor Wasserman Shultz taking blame when the male president is responsible for the party’s bad fortunes? And how [many] of these ‘personal questions’ about Clinton have to do with her age — a sign of sexism in a world in which men grow distinguished and women grow old? (If you think this is pure silliness, you know how Republicans feel when accused of misogyny.)”

Biden to women’s conference: I miss Republicans like Bob Packwood.

 Maine Democratic gubernatorial candidate promotes video with sexual remark about Sen. Susan Collins.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Really Wants Poor People To Stop Having Babies.

ASHE SCHOW: Democrat ‘war on women’: AG office blames victim of rape. “Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, is having a rough year. To add to the problems she caused herself several months ago by quashing a corruption investigation into fellow Democrats in Philadelphia, her office has just gone to court and blamed a woman who was raped in a state prison for what happened to her.”

STALE AND STUPID: The Hill: Democrats’ ‘war on women’ falling flat in Colo. Senate race.

WAR ON MEN: Cindy Boren: Hope Solo and the domestic violence case no one is talking about.

 *New York TImes: It Was Daniel Inouye Who Made Sexist Remark To Kirsten Gillibrand. Plus, some history: “With his deep baritone and courtly manner, Mr. Inouye was revered by his colleagues and was a powerhouse in both Hawaii and the Senate, where he was a reliable supporter of women’s rights. But in an all but forgotten chapter of his career, the senator had been accused of sexual misconduct: In 1992, his hairdresser said that Mr. Inouye had forced her to have sex with him. Her accusations exploded into a campaign issue that year, and one Hawaii state senator announced that she had heard from nine other women who said they had been sexually harassed by Mr. Inouye. But the women did not want to go forward with their claims.”

So, he was a typical Senate Democrat, then.

With Nancy Pelosibatting leadoff

Nancy Pelosi Says Republicans Will End Civilization. On Friday, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that Democrats had to retain control of the Senate. Why? Because “civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.” She then claimed that Democrats were not “fear-mongers,” but instead “messengers of hope.”

TV host Bill Maher listened to this with a straight face.

Pelosi Says Republicans Hate Children. In March 2014, Pelosi stated that Republicans hate kids:

I asked a Republican friend why his party remains so opposed to extending the vital lifelines for struggling families and really hungry children. This colleague’s response was telling in its blunt nature and it’s stunning in its honestly. What he said was to the Republican caucus, these people you are talking about are invisible, and the Republican caucus is indifferent to them. Invisible and indifferent. This is just plain wrong.

There are two lies here: first, that Pelosi has any Republican friends, and second, that Republicans hate kids. Given her ardent advocacy for abortion-until-birth, the opposite would seem to be more likely.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Scott Walker Beats Women. The head of the Democratic National Campaign Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), said last week that Republican Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker “has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that is reality.” Just to clarify that she wasn’t misspeaking, Wasserman Schultz continued: “What Republican Tea Party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch.” She had no comment on Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy.

Harry Reid Calls Tea Partiers Anarchists. The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV), isn’t the only Democrat to attack Tea Parties – for years, high-ranking Democrats all the way up to the White House have suggested that Tea Partiers are racists and terrorists. In September 2013, Reid called conservatives “anarchists” and “fanatics” for opposing Obamacare.

Steve Israel Calls Republicans Racist. Another meme that has been floating around since the election of the nation’s first black president has been the notion that all opposition to Obama’s agenda is based on his race. The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) said back in April that “to a significant extent, the Republican base has elements that are animated by racism, and that’s unfortunate.” His comments followed hard on comments by Nancy Pelosi in which she said Republicans opposed any amnesty because of racism: “I’ve heard them say to the Irish, if it were just you, this would be easy.”

Whe the Donk's are in charge!  A bucn of elderly nuns not wanting to purchase abortificients?  War on women.  Dropping bombs on innocent brown people (as my Donk in-laws called it when Dubya was doin it) NOT war.

War/Not War?: Is John Kerry as Stupid as He Sounds? You Be the Judge

Susan Rice: It's Not a War Because We Don't Have Combat Boots on the Ground  So ... Pearl Harbor wasn't war?

White House Admits 'United States Is at War' with Islamic State . or, the JV, as the POTUS called 'em

REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS WERE SAYING “LISTEN TO THE GENERALS?” Barack Obama silences generals on US ground troops in Iraq.

JON GABRIEL: Obama Can’t Afford To Win In Iraq. “He can’t afford to. If the projection of American military power successfully solved the problem of Islamic terrorism, it would shatter Obama’s entire worldview.”

Even the Left knows it's Obambi's fault: LEON PANETTA: ISIS Flourished Because US Left Iraq Too Soon.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY . . . Joe Biden 2012: If Romney Wins, We’ll Go To War In Syria.

Jacob Sullum Lists 6 Ways Obama Contradicts Himself in Waging War on ISIS

and my FAVORITES: Shep Smith to State Dep’t spokesman: You guys have basically adopted Dick Cheney’s theory of preventive war now, huh?

AWKWARD: Pres. Obama Has Bombed Seven Countries Since Accepting Nobel Peace Prize.

ROLL CALL: Stalled Georgia Judicial Nominee Presents a Dilemma for Senate Democrats.

TPM’s Sahil Kapur writes:

A total of 155 nominations for the executive and judicial branches are pending on the Senate floor, and there’s nowhere near enough time to confirm them all before the next Congress is sworn in. That includes 50 vacancies on district courts and 7 vacancies in appeals courts, and more will open up. 

But the 155 nominations “pending on the Senate floor” do not in fact “include[] 50 vacancies on district courts and 7 vacancies in appeals courts.” As the Senate executive calendar that Kapur links to shows, there are (by my quick count) only seven nominations of district-court judges pending on the Senate floor and zero nominations of federal appellate judges. As Kapur’s second link shows, Obama has not yet nominated anyone to any of the seven pending appellate vacancies, and he has made only 25 nominations to the 50 district-court vacancies. Further, as this more detailed list shows, 15 of those 25 nominations have been made since mid-June.

NOT Archer's spy organization OR the old female TV super-hero.

The JV team ISIS.  Or ISIL.  Or Prince.  Or whatever we're calling them today.

RON FOURNIER: ISIS: Is Obama Leading or Being Led? Fournier offers some reasons why Americans don’t approve of Obama on this issue:

He doesn’t seem to be taking the threat seriously enough.

His assurances are habitually wrong.

He stubbornly clings to his views.

I’d say “bitterly clings,” but that’s just to make a funny.

Obama’s Grotesque Flip-Flops on Congressional Authorization for War

Background: NYT Baghdad bureau chief: The White House lied to Americans for years about what bad shape Iraq was in.

UPDATE: Heh.

Michael Hayden, former director of both the National Security Agency and the CIA, has been offering his wisdom on warfare in Iraq, and it's ... interesting. Hayden told U.S. News & World Report that President Obama's plan to try and bomb ISIS out of Syria instead of sending in ground troops has "all of the attraction of casual sex." 

A ringing endorsement, right? Wrong! Hayden is no fan of the casual sex, and no fan of Obama's plan, which he said "seems to offer gratification but with very little commitment." 

"I guess he's right," quipped Jessica Roy at New York. "Unlike ground troops, drones don't spend the night."

SO HOW’S THAT GOING FOR YOU NOW, CHAMP? Read this 2008 op-ed by candidate Obama on Iraq. Then laugh, or cry.

there's been a strong meme lately about "teaching men not to rape."  I think it might be missing the point.

Woman Charged With Breaking Into Home, Raping Man In Seattle. “The unidentified, 31-year-old man said he awoke at 2 a.m. on June 17, 2013 to Gilman straddling him and having sexual intercourse with him. Police say he told the 240-pound suspect to get off, but she allegedly refused and told him to be quiet. He was able to break free from underneath her and said he pushed her out of the apartment.”

 Lawsuit: Female Nurse Had Sex With Medicated Patient. “A man who was in the ICU on medication and awaiting a heart transplant says a nurse came into his room and had sex with him against his wishes, reports CBS Chicago. . . . The suit accuses the facility of negligence because the nurse had a history of such things.”

Related: Erection Does Not Equal Consent.

 Police: New charges after woman visits alleged rape victim’s school.

Queens teacher accused of sex with students being treated for ‘psychiatric disorder,’ lawyer says.

Teacher at troubled youths center charged with rape.

Female teacher, 25, who ‘abused a teenage student after showing her sexually explicit movie’ takes a plea deal to avoid jail.

Female teacher sentenced for raping 17-year-old student.

also:

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE: Teen Who Made False Abduction Report Faces Felony Charges.

and

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO HIT WOMEN: Report: Keyshia Cole Arrested After Attacking Woman at Birdman’s Condo.

and 

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO HAZE! Lawyer: UNM women’s soccer players forced to strip, drink alcohol, sprayed with urine. 

Then there's just STUPID from the government monopoly: Girl aged 14 raped in school toilets after teachers’ plan to ‘use her as bait’ backfires.

WITH THE RAY RICE STORY BACK, A REMINDER: The New Jersey Judge and DA who let him go want to put single mom Shaneen Allen in jail for 3+ years for a nonviolent regulatory offense.

WHEN JUSTICE IS POLITICAL: Feds Want Prison Time for Dinesh D’Souza; Democrats John Edwards and Jon Corzine couldn’t be reached for comment.

New paper: Fraud, Bias & Public Relations – The 97% ‘Consensus’ And Its Critics

A Guide for Those Perplexed About Global Warming

I've LONG held this view: Op Ed from NYT’s Krugman – “The Warming Cult”

Offshore Wind power: Even Germany Can’t get it Right

Taxpayer-Funded Climate Change Musical Closes Early

Emails Reveal Lois Lerner Thought It Was “Dangerous” for a Top IRS Staffer to Talk to the Treasury Inspector General Alone

Will Orange Be the New Black for IRS Chief Lois Lerner? With five more Computer Crashes, a “pattern of racketeering activity” may be emerging. I very much doubt that she’s the racketeer-in-chief here.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ACCUSED OF POLITICAL ABUSE OF POWER COLLABORATE ON MESSAGING WITH THOSE ON WHOSE BEHALF THE POWER WAS ABUSED: Oops! Wrong Number? Justice Dept. Official Calls Congressional Republicans in IRS Probe.

 INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: DOJ Working With Elijah Cummings To Protect The IRS.

IRS COMMISSIONER: Our Story On The IRS Scandal Isn’t Changing. It’s Just, You Know, Evolving Now And Then.

PHIL HAMBURGER: Audited.

Over at Instapundit, I read yesterday that the IRS defended its Breitbart audit with this statement: “The IRS stresses that audits are based on the information related to tax returns and the underlying tax law — nothing else.”

Glenn aptly writes “And who could hear this without laughing?”

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Koskinen: ‘Hard Drive Crashes Continue As We Speak.’ I’m sure they do.

related: TWEET OF THE DAY: “If only Roger Goodell had used some of his $44 million annual salary to hire Lois Lerner, those tapes would’ve been disappeared months ago.”