Liberal darling and free-birth-control advocate Sandra Fluke is her own biggest donor in her state Senate race, according to official California campaign finance reports.

◼ Fluke donated $12,000 to her campaign and $4,826.27 in non-monetary contributions. While $16,826.27 may not sound like a lot, Fluke also loaned her campaign $100,000. - Ashe Schow/Washington Examiner

Where does a 2012 law school grad working as a social justice attorney get a loan that size? Her campaign never responded to a Washington Examiner inquiry, so we’re left to speculate.

Perhaps the loan was in part secured by the family of Fluke’s husband, Adam Mutterperl. In 2012, Fluke married Mutterperl, an amateur stand-up comic and son of big-time Democratic donor William Mutterperl.

Ignore Fluke’s Scaremongering on Hobby Lobby Decision

◼ In a Washington Post op-ed published Monday, activist Sandra Fluke argues that the Supreme Court decision to allow Hobby Lobby to not offer four potentially abortion-inducing drugs and devices mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services means that potentially any company with any religious objections to any health-care treatment could win an exemption. - The Daily Signal

But let’s look at the facts. First, these drugs and devices are not “an uncontroversial form of care.” The four drugs that the Green and Hahn families objected to can end a new human being’s life. And there’s no question that abortion and potentially abortion-inducing drugs and devices is controversial....

The O'Reilly Factor with Megyn Kelly

◼ Megyn Kelly Stops By The ‘O’Reilly Factor’ To Destroy Sandra Fluke’s Hobby Lobby Argument - IJ Review

Megyn Kelly takes about 90 seconds to set Fluke straight on a common misunderstanding about the court ruling, explaining that birth control pills are still mandated, while emergency contraceptives (abortifacients) are not.

This Week's Sunday Funnies: Video Version

◼ New SooperVideo! Obama’s Facebook ‘Look Back’ Video!! - SooperMexican



◼ Sandra Fluke's Facebook 'Look Back' Video - The People's Cube

Sandra Fluke goes with plan B

◼ Sandra Fluke decides against congressional run, goes with plan B - Daily Caller

Contraception activist Sandra Fluke has decided she will not be running for California Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman’s soon-to-be vacated congressional seat.

◼ Sandra Fluke forgoes congressional bid to run for state Senate - LA Times
◼ Fluke opts for Plan B; ditches Congress bid for Calif. state Senate run - Washington Times
◼ Sandra Fluke Passes on U.S. House Bid, Aims for California State Senate - Mediaite

Because it’s not really about Sandra Fluke’s birth control.

◼ ObamaCare Doubles Premiums for Young Women - Daniel Greenfield/Front Page Magazine
◼ Young Women O-Care Premiums To Increase 200%

Healthy young women will see their premiums rise by an average of almost 200 percent under Obamacare, with increases occurring in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new study.

◼ Young people are considered vital to the success of the Affordable Care Act, with the administration setting a goal of 2.7 million 18 to 35 year olds signing up by 2014. - Washington Free Beacon

The Rush Limbaugh Program is considering ending its affiliation agreement with Cumulus Media at the end of this year, a move that would bring about one of the biggest shakeups in talk radio history

◼ According to the source, Limbaugh is considering the move because Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey has blamed the company's advertising losses on Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student. - Politico

...The source close to the show described Dickey's remarks about advertising revenue as unjustified, and said such "criticism" of Limbaugh had resulted in the consideration to leave the company.

“It’s a very serious discussion, because Dickey keeps blaming Rush for his own revenue problems," the source close to the show told POLITICO. "Dickey’s talk stations underperform talk stations owned by other operators in generating revenue by a substantial margin. It’s not a single show issue... it’s a failure of the entire station. And trying to blame Rush for that is not much of a business partnership."

◼ Michael Savage wins landmark case in federal court
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/michael-savage-wins-landmark-case-in-federal-court/#h6XTTfD645IKUaiM.99 - WND

Likened to historic lawsuit that led to baseball free agency - In a ruling that is being compared to the case that led to free agency in baseball, a federal judge in California upheld an arbitration panel’s decision to release talk-radio host Michael Savage from a contract with his former syndicator, Talk Radio Network.

Savage’s lawyer, Dan Horowitz, called it a landmark case for talk radio.

“Michael is to talk radio what Curt Flood was to Major League Baseball,” Horowitz told WND, referring to the player who challenged baseball’s reserve clause, which kept a player bound to his team even after fulfillment of his contract.

“This should give all of us faith in the legal system,” Savage said, “where there is increasing distrust and cynicism about government in general. In this case, an Obama-appointed judge followed the law without bias.”

Savage said the case cost him $1 million in legal fees “and many lost days and nights.”

...The decision enabled Savage to sign with Cumulus Media Networks in October, which now airs “The Savage Nation” from 9 p.m. to midnight Eastern, Monday through Friday. Cumulus Media calls itself the largest pure-play radio broadcaster in the United States, with approximately 525 stations in 110 markets.

Contraception mandate: Obama administration turns its back on the Sandra Fluke crowd

◼ Young liberal women helped deliver this election to President Obama. After hearing about the Obama administration’s proposed rule regarding the contraception mandate, some of these voters are not happy campers. - Twitchy

Bless their hearts. They voted for birth control pills and instead they’re getting War on Women™.

After phony #WarOnWoman (election tool) HHS backs off of contraception mandate for religious institutions. #Obamacare

— pinecohen (@pinecohen) February 1, 2013

Cowardly. Just absolutely cowardly. Women depended on you, President Obama, and you let us down.

— riz. (@Rizzz) February 1, 2013

Actually, the exemption applies only if your employer happens to be a religious organization, such as a church. Hobby Lobby and other businesses don’t get to opt out.

Hobby Lobby atty reaction to HHS:“Today’s proposed rule does nothing to protect the religious liberty of millions of Americans."

— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) February 1, 2013

DEGENERATION: TIME HONORS SANDRA FLUKE AS 'PERSON OF THE YEAR' FINALIST

◼ Just when you think Time magazine can’t make any more of a mockery of itself, they nominate Sandra Fluke, contraception advocate extraordinaire, as a candidate in their Person of the Year 2012 poll: - Ben Shapiro/Breitbart

LESS THAN DOZEN SHOW FOR SANDRA FLUKE'S OBAMA 'RALLY' IN RENO

◼ Sandra Fluke, the woman at the center of a media firestorm earlier this year after Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut,” spoke Saturday in front of about 10 people at the Sak ‘N Save in north Reno. The speech was part of a daylong effort by Democrats to get Northern Nevadans to the polls on the first day of early voting. (Video) - Breitbart News

◼ Fluke, OFA fail in pics: If you hold a rally and no one shows up, does it make a sound? - Twitchy

It took Mr. Obama two years to destroy this potential, with an agenda that forced his party to field vote after debilitating vote—stimulus, ObamaCare, spending, climate change. The public backlash, combined with the president's mismanagement of the economy, has reversed Democrats' electoral gains and left a party smaller than at any time since the mid-1990s.

◼ The Party that Obama Un-Built - Kimberley Strassel/Wall St. Journal

...Of the 21 Blue Dogs elected since 2006, five remain in office. The caucus is on the verge of extinction, as members have retired, been defeated in primaries waged by liberal activists, or face impossible re-elections. The GOP is set to take Senate seats in North Dakota and Nebraska, and maybe to overturn Democratic toeholds in states from Montana to Virginia. There is today a GOP senator in Massachusetts. Republicans claim 29 governorships and may gain two to four more this year.

As for the presidential race, Republicans are in sight of taking back Virginia and North Carolina and are competitive in supposedly new Democratic strongholds like Colorado and New Mexico. The GOP is also making unexpected inroads in Wisconsin and Iowa. The real story of the Obama presidency is the degree to which he has pushed his party back toward its coastal and urban strongholds.

All this was vividly on display in Charlotte this week. While the party's most vulnerable members aren't in outright mutiny against Mr. Obama, more than two dozen didn't risk attending the convention. In contrast to last week's GOP celebration of reformist GOP governors, the Charlotte podium was largely dominated by activists (Sandra Fluke, Lilly Ledbetter), the liberal congressional faithful (Mrs. Pelosi, Harry Reid), and urban mayors from failing states (Los Angeles's Antonio Villaraigosa, Chicago's Rahm Emanuel).

While the GOP has feted its upcoming stars—including minority governors like New Mexico's Susana Martinez and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal—the president has done little to nurture his down-ballot partners. Where is the next generation of Democrats?

Maybe Dennis Miller should represent the RNC for all future MSNBC interviews

◼ On Twitter earlier Michelle asked rhetorically if Dennis Miller could fill in for Reince Priebus during any subsequent MSNBC interviews. The reason was the way Miller hit back during his appearance on the Tonight Show when Leno started carrying the “war on women” water for the Dems. - Doug Powers/Michelle Malkin

The Sandra Flukes of this country have begun a campaign to condemn Paul Ryan. They are bringing out all the “War on Women” phantom artillery. But they will lose, mostly because they seem so ludicrous doing so.

◼ You see, American women are smart. And they have their homes, their families, and their businesses on their minds. Not contraception. - Dr. Susan Berry/Breitbart's Big Government

Video: Obama supporters stumped on why government should pay for birth control

◼ Revealing Politics.com sent a cameraman out to meet women voters at Obama’s Colorado rally Wednesday, where he was introduced by the country’s most famous adult woman incapable of making a run to the CVS, Sandra Fluke. Enjoy.

Rachel didn’t get a call from the President

◼ The Rachels built America. The Sandras just feed off of it. - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

The Obama administration's idea about women isn't that their families would benefit from more efficient performance of government's constitutional concerns for public prosperity and safety. The administration's idea is that women ought to vote for Barack Obama.

◼ Hence, the failed and embarrassing attempt to ridicule Ann Romney. Better to ridicule her, perhaps, than to explain why the economy, after 39 months of Barack Obama's attentions, is firing on six out of eight cylinders. - Bill Murchison/Townhall

Obama’s Demagoguery

◼ The president has a bad habit of wading uninformed into local controversies. - Victor Davis Hanson/National Review

...the president waded into an ongoing investigation, in which the facts of the case remain murky and in dispute. And instead of playing down the racial component of the tragedy in polarized times, he seemed instead deliberately to have emphasized it.

...a disturbing pattern has developed in his editorializing, which is aimed exclusively at those whose policies and language he implies lead to horrific acts like the shooting of African-American teenagers, the smearing of young feminists, the shooting of Democratic congresswomen, or the jailing of African-American professors. Yet in every case, further evidence, more information, and subsequent events suggested that the president had offered either incomplete or misleading commentary to the nation, predicated not on a desire for healing or truth, but on a wish to gain partisan advantage. Today's MUST READ

◼ Inconvenient narratives in the Martin case - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?

◼ Bristol to Prez: Have a Sister Souljah Moment - The Anchoress

Bristol Palin, starts ◼ her new blog with a bang. She’s challenging the president to take on his own Sister Souljah Moment, but this time against the misogynist left:

Your $1,000,000 donor Bill Maher has said reprehensible things about my family. He’s made fun of my brother because of his Down’s Syndrome. He’s said I was “f—-d so hard a baby fell out.” (In a classy move, he did this while his producers put up the cover of my book, which tells about the forgiveness and redemption I’ve found in God after my past – very public — mistakes.)

If Maher talked about Malia and Sasha that way, you’d return his dirty money and the Secret Service would probably have to restrain you. After all, I’ve always felt you understood my plight more than most because your mom was a teenager. That’s why you stood up for me when you were campaigning against Sen. McCain and my mom — you said vicious attacks on me should be off limits.

Yet I wonder if the Presidency has changed you. Now that you’re in office, it seems you’re only willing to defend certain women. You’re only willing to take a moral stand when you know your liberal supporters will stand behind you.

But…

What if you did something radical and wildly unpopular with your base and took a stand against the denigration of all women… even if they’re just single moms? Even if they’re Republicans?

◼ America's Real War on Women - Some men think they can get away with vulgarity because they're on the 'correct' side on social issues; others tire of being bullied by the language - Peggy Noonan/Wall St. Journal
◼ The Left’s Long-Time War on Women - Rand Simberg/PJM
◼ Bristol Palin to President Obama: I look forward to your call, sir - Jim Treacher/Daily Caller
◼ RNC Goes For Jugular In New ‘Obama’s War On Women’ Ad - Mediaite

◼ Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call? - Bristol Palin

Is the President asking TAXPAYERS to pay for FREE contraceptives for others?

◼ Will this end the controversy? - Gretawire

Transparency is a buzzword. How about we insist that it be an operating principle instead? If the president wishes to shut Catholic and other religious Americans out of the public square because he thinks believers are troglodytes not to be tolerated in polite company, then he should say so.

◼ Miserable ‘Women’ - Kathryn Jean Lopez/National Review Online