In preparation for President Obama’s controversial commencement address at the University of Notre Dame, where he will no doubt speak at length about the virtues of killing newborns, anti-abortion protesters have converged on the University of Notre Dame campus. Some of them are simply rolling around vacant strollers (representing the never-born) or crafting signs reading “I Regret My Abortion”—bush league.

Only one dude is shaming our abortionist president the right way: with a small plane that tows “a banner depicting the remains of an aborted fetus and the words ‘10 Week Abortion.’”

Pwned.

Catholic Universities: respecting the lives of women since probably never.

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Wanda Sykes, personal hero of mine, headlined the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday. We can get Wanda in the White House, but when will we get Pootie Tang into a Washington, D.C. Blockbuster store? I’m still waiting.

“There was never a nipple portrait of Lincoln, I’m sorry.”

“I tell my kids: If two cars pull up, and one of them has a stranger, and the other one has Dick Cheney, you get in the one with the stranger.”

In the Washington Post, Kathleen Parker writes on the Notre Dame Barack Obama abortionist love-fest speaker scandal:

Abortion, after all, is settled law, and Obama is the duly elected president. Clearly, the American people have moved on.

Or have they? And should we? Is there really ever a time when we should be comfortable with the ratification of abortion? It has always seemed to me that the truest form of feminism, as in the earliest days of suffrage, would be to hold abhorrent the state-sanctioned destruction of women’s unique life-bearing gifts. Out of material expedience, we’ve somehow managed to convince ourselves that life is a mistake. [Emphasis all mine].

Oh yeah, the “truest form of feminism” must be wherever feminism was ONE HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS AGO. Now that women have the vote, what more do they want—the capacity to murder babies at will?

I, too, wish we could go back to the good ‘ol days of feminism, when women were forced to provide their “unique life-bearing gifts” on demand instead of, you know, if and when they chose to give the fucking gift. I WANT ALL GIFTS ALL THE TIME! MORE GIFTS! MORE MORE MORE!

[via Pukeimmediately].

The cover of Washingtonian’s “26 Reasons to Love Living Here” edition features a shirtless Barack Obama as “Reason #2: Our New Neighbor Is Hot.” Wow, #1 must be at least barely endurable to beat out file photos of Barack Obama’s muscles. Really makes you wonder what the other 25 Reasons to Tolerate This Place And Also Pick Up This Magazine could be? Only subscribers know for sure.

Political-royalty-turned-blogger Meghan McCain has launched a new campaign to usher gay rights into her hip, young Republican fold—but the gay media is not biting.

In the Daily Beast this week, McCain calls gay rights “one of the [causes] closest to my heart,” and insists that “if the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric.” Later this week, McCain is slated to address the Log Cabin Republicans at their annual convention, and she works hard on the Beast to build up the the gay conservative group’s inclusiveness as a part of its “core Republican values,” while dissing the Democrats for being the party that’s really anti-gay.

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Palin “shocked” at Obama Special Olympics bowling comment, returns money he had allocated for Alaskan special education.

PALIN RESPONDS to Barry Obama’s quip that he bowls like he belongs in the Special Olympics.

“This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world,” said Palin, whose son Trig has Down syndrome. “These athletes overcome more challenges, discrimination and adversity than most of us ever will.”

Kolan McConiughey, a 35-year-old Special Olympics bowler “who has bowled five perfect games since 2005,” was more forgiving: “He’s a cool guy. He’s an awesome President and he has a very nice wife.”

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Hey! Liberals protesting Obama’s White House! The George Washington University’s Allied in Pride chapter assumed the cause of sophomore Todd Belok on Saturday, leading 60 students to protest in front of 1600 Penn. Last semester, Belok was dismissed from the G.W. Navy ROTC program after two fellow ROTC members witnessed Belok kissing another man in a fraternity basement and reported the homosexual act to superiors. A more sizeable national rally protesting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is planned for March 15.

Okay, Cloon. First, you don’t show at Milano. Then, you hit the Newseum without so much as a text message. Now, I have to learn from TMZ, of all places, that you’ve been coming to Washington to hang with Barack Obama? Ditch the loser, Clooney. My twin-sized second-hand Ikea mattress—luxuriously situated directly on the floor of my group house, underneath a generous pile of dirty clothing—is always open.

As President Obama prepared to assume office earlier this month, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Dr. Mark R. Dybul—a W. appointee—circulated a memo saying that the president-elect’s transition team had asked him to stay on “temporarily.” On Jan. 22, Dybul found out what “temporary” meant—a little under two weeks. Last week, the scene at Dybul’s office was an “emotional goodbye” after what Hillary Clinton’s staff deemed a “resignation”; by the next day, rumors were circling about who would replace Dybul—and the real reason for his unceremonious exit. Today’s New York Times piece on the speculation behind the employment scuffle, by Donald G. McNeil Jr., is worth reading in full, free from the oppressive summarizing of this blog aggregation.

In a major bummer, feminist centrist President Barack Obama has personally asked Democrats in Congress to drop the family planning provision in the proposed stimulus bill, the Associated Press reports. The speculation is that Obama is looking to crack down on the bill in order to fulfill his campaign promise to look out for the interests of the Republicans who did not vote for him instead of the women who did.

Let’s unpack this very uniter-not-divider decision on Obama’s part:

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