Why Do White Feminists Hate, Fear Minority Men?

From Glenn Reynolds, at USA Today, "Catcalling a two-way street":

Stop frigid white liberal feminists from criminalizing minority men. From @Instapundit. http://t.co/bNwXFZQWRo

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 3, 2014

Last week there was a bit of a kerfuffle over a video of a woman walking the streets of New York and being catcalled by guys. Most of the catcalls were comparatively tame, though not all were, and the result was a predictable storm of attention on the Internet via Twitter and other social media, exactly as the video's producers — an outfit called ihollaback.org — intended. But then some things departed from the script.

First, Slate's Hanna Rosin noted that pretty much all of the guys pictured were lower-class blacks and Latinos. Where were the white guys? The video's producers said they just weren't able to get much good footage of them, for a variety of reasons. Whether, in the 10 hours of filming it took to produce their two-minute video, there just weren't enough white guys saying offensive stuff, or whether the producers just had bad luck or whether they edited out the white guys, the result was that they released a video about "street harassment" that was also, quite plainly, a video of minority men harassing a white woman. And whether or not it deserves the charges of outright racism and classism, or even comparisons to The Birth of a Nation, that it got from some minority critics, that's indisputably what it is.

This raises two questions in 21st-century America. One involves diversity and multiculturalism: Different cultures and ethnicities have different ideas of what constitutes appropriate intersexual behavioral, and there's no particular reason why the standards of upper-middle-class white feminist women should set the norm for everyone. In the old melting-pot days, it might have been appropriate to say that minorities needed to be assimilated to traditional WASP standards of decorum — "civilized" or "elevated" in the idiom of the day. But we've long since moved past the notion that there is only one legitimate way to behave as an American. (WASPs, in fact, are now often portrayed as unpleasantly frigid, sexless, and over-controlled). And, that being so, it would be astonishing if the only place where WASP standards still continued to rule was in this particular area. Should it be a crime to say hello to a stranger? Are women so delicate that they need patriarchal protection simply to go out and about? And if so, what does that say about women's ability to function independently in the larger world?

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Republicans Showing Serious Swagger Ahead of Election Day

Heh. You gotta love it.

At National Journal, "Republicans aren’t playing the expectation game. They are boldly optimistic with two days to go."

You Can Bet on a Republican Majority

This is from Larry Sabato, et al., guys who've been extremely cautious in their predictions.

A Republican Senate majority is pretty much a done deal now, according to the authors' report at Politico. It's just a matter of how badly the Democrats will be demolished tomorrow.

See, "Bet on a GOP Senate Majority."

Iowa Democrats 'Regret Voting' for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012

Oh boy, a devastating first person report on voter sentiments in Iowa. WSJ's Carol Lee spoke to Democrats at a Bruce Braley rally last week and they said they regretted voting for Obama in 2008 and 2012.

Ernst has the momentum: "She's kind of a natural on the campaign trail."

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PREVIOUSLY: "'Continuing unease about the economy and disappointment in the president remain the strongest head winds for Democrats across the country in Tuesday's election...'"

'Continuing unease about the economy and disappointment in the president remain the strongest head winds for Democrats across the country in Tuesday's election...'

It's an article on Iowa, but this is how it is all over the place.

At LAT, "Unease over economy, Obama may turn Iowans redder — if they vote at all":

Hillary Rodham Clinton had been to town the night before to energize voters, and just that morning another good report on the economy had been released in Washington. But as Jay Johnson emptied cardboard boxes into a trash bin outside Ace Hardware — he's the guy you see about tools — he had little to say about either one.

He'll vote Tuesday. Probably. But if he does, this two-time Obama voter, a Democrat, says he's leaning toward Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst, not her Democratic opponent, Bruce Braley, because "being from here, you can kind of relate to Joni." Beyond that, he doesn't think that anything that occurs Tuesday in the national midterm elections will affect what still matters most to him, six years after the crash: the economy.

"They say it's good — that it has turned around," Johnson said, as he shifted one flattened box after another from a shopping cart into the bin. "I guess most people just don't feel it."

Johnson, 37, recently lost his second job as a carpenter at a nonprofit that helps rehabilitate houses for first-time buyers. Things were good for a while; they were doing 10 to 15 houses a month, but then the group's money dried up. His wife, a foreclosure counselor, is swamped: "She has a lot of job security."

Continuing unease about the economy and disappointment in the president remain the strongest head winds for Democrats across the country in Tuesday's election. Sentiments like Johnson's are why Republicans are within reach of taking over the Senate, possibly even picking up a seat here in the state with an increasingly blue tinge that launched Barack Obama on his path to the White House in 2008, and voted to elect him twice.

Voters in Iowa and other closely contested states like Colorado and Louisiana say trauma from the nation's economic decline is foremost in mind as the election nears. Prosperity has returned for some, but not all, and many live in fear that any gains they achieve will vanish. Undergirding their uncertainty is the discomfiting sense that no one — not the president nor members of Congress — has much control over events around the world.

Each week leading up to the election seemed to bring a new crisis: Islamic militants beheading Americans, a dreaded virus finding its way to American shores, a troubled man scrambling into the White House before being stopped. And there is a palpable distrust of government's ability to handle those situations and keep Americans secure.

But that unease is playing out differently among different groups of voters. Some plan to sit out the election despite the get-out-the-vote armies from the two parties and outside groups deploying across the swing states to coax sporadic voters to the polls.

Crush the bastards!

If Scott Brown Wins It Will Demoralize Them as Hell

It will indeed, at Da Tech Guy's blog.

Also, at the New Hampshire Journal, "Republicans hear strong anti-Obama, anti-Dem rhetoric at Manchester rally."

Added: At National Journal, "How Brown Could Win NH's Nationalized Election."

God, it's going to be a nail-biter tomorrow!

By 2-to-1, Voters Less Likely to Vote for Candidate Who Supports Obama

It makes sense.

Barack Obola's the nation's worst infectious disease.

At IBD, "O-No: Voters More Apt to Oppose Obama Backers by 2-1":

The poll also found that 40% of likely voters say they are less inclined to vote for a candidate who supports Obama, while only 22% are more inclined — nearly a 2-to-1 ratio. Among independents, the ratio is 3-to-1 (37% to 12%).

Many Democrats running for re-election have been shunning Obama or trying to distance themselves from his policies.

It always sucks to be a Democrat, although right now it sucks particularly hard.

Indeed, if you're an Obama backer, you suck Democrat donkey dildos.

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Midterm Calculus: The Economy Elects Presidents. Presidents Elect Congress

A neat little essay, from UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck, at the New York Times:

Instead of rewarding or punishing the incumbent president for his handling of the nation’s economy, in midterm years voters address the president more directly — by penalizing his party members, on average, but also by calibrating that punishment based on how the president is doing his job. Average approval ratings of the way the president is “handling the job” explain more of the variation in seat loss than the economic indicators.

And it appears as if the approval rating is made up of more things than just the economy. Where voters jump on the winning bandwagon in the presidential election years, they put a finger in the wind to measure the political atmosphere in the midterms. The happier people are with how things are going generally, the less likely they are to punish members of the president’s party.

Punish the Treasonous Democrats for Enabling Obama — Crush the Bastards!

Punish the bastards!

Destroy them! Crush their spirits!

Render them outside the realm of acceptable discourse. Obliterate them. Pull the ground from under their feet. Make them beg for mercy, the useless socialist scumbags.

It's going to be epic!

From Michael Goodwin, at the New York Post, "Obama always pointing the finger of blame at someone else":

We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war.

If there is a smidgen of a silver lining, it is that the unraveling, complete with Obama’s shameless attempts to duck responsibility, is playing out on the eve of the midterm elections. Fortunately, voters seem ready to respond by giving Republicans control of both houses of congress.

I second that emotion, and not just because Obama is a failure. For all his narcissism, he didn’t make this mess alone.

He was aided and abetted by every Democrat in Congress. They marched in lockstep with his cockamamie policies, from ObamaCare to open borders. They protected corrupt leaders in numerous federal agencies, from the IRS to the Genera Services Administration. They stymied efforts to find the truth about Benghazi and the Fast and Furious gunrunning debacle.

They ceded their constitutional obligations and allowed Obama to crash the system of checks and balances. The vast majority stood silent while he gutted the military and abandoned our allies, including Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and courted Iran, the most menacing nation on earth.

With painfully few exceptions, Democrats put their loyalty to him above their duty to America.

And now they must be punished. All of them.

Punish the treasonous bastards!

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Don't Forget to Change Your Senator on Tuesday!

Heh, I love this.

Shortest Letter to Editor in history @EdWGillespie @JohnWhitbeck @VA_GOP pic.twitter.com/oGS32JBpRO

— ClarkeGOP (@ClarkeGOP) November 1, 2014

'Hope Remains' for Democrat Senate Chances — Keep Hope Alive!

As we close in on election day, the media storm is honing in on a Republican tidal wave — and increasing Democrat desperation!

Sweep the Democrat f-kers out to sea. Make them castaways for a generation. Let them rot on a remote political island of desolation and decay. Lord knows they have it coming.

At the Washington Post, "Republicans appear set to take control of Senate, but hope remains for Democrats."

Yes, "hope remains." Keep hope alive!

Republicans Have Good Candidates Who Relate to People — And That Just Burns Leftists Like the Fire of a Thousand Suns!

My goodness, the depraved progs tuning into the the psycho MSNBC dunghole must be blowing chunks the seams out of their undergarments!

At the clip, Michael Tomasky's long face --- and I mean it's like his momma just died! --- is da bomb! You can't buy that kind of schadenfreued, I'm telling you lol!!

Joni Ernst Interview with Neil Cavuto (VIDEO)

I just love this lady. She's driving progressives absolutely nuts!

At Fox News Insider, "GOP Candidate Ernst on Key Iowa Race: Momentum, Issues on Our Side."

PREVIOUSLY: "Joni Ernst Takes 7-Point Lead in Des Moines Register's Final Poll Before Tuesday's Election."

Libtard Fear!

I love it!

Discovered, beautifully, on Twitter.

Prince Performs Eight-Minute Jam on Saturday Night Live as Chris Rock Triumphantly Returns as Host

First time I've stayed up to watch SNL in quite some time --- and damn if Lorne Michaels hasn't gone all downtown on us!

At London's Daily Mail:

With Chris Rock returning as host and Prince as the musical guest Saturday Night Live was set to have an attention-grabbing show.

And neither star disappointed, with Prince performing four new songs in an incredible eight-minute jam - and Rock refusing to pull punches as he joked about ISIS, the Boston Marathon bombing and even the Freedom Tower and the 9/11 attacks.

Prince's star-turn had been one of the most eagerly-awaited SNL musical performances in years, and some online fans were soon praising the Purple One for having delivered one of the best musical moments in the show's history.

@BeccaJLower Seems like they're aiming hard for the black demographic, lol. Worse than the Democrats! #SNL

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) November 2, 2014

@BeccaJLower Heh. I'm just tripping on SNL now, how it's like the Soul Train of Saturday Night!

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) November 2, 2014

'Cisneros thought they were dummies and it was a fake scene, but when she walked up to one of the bodies, pushing the hair back to see the face, she realized the girl was real...'

This story makes me sad.

At LAT, "Eyewitnesses to Halloween hit-and-run describe violent collision":

Clarissa Cisneros, 17, who lives on Fairhaven Avenue, was putting up Halloween decorations when she heard a man screaming and then a bang. Bodies flew in the air as a black SUV sped away.

Cisneros thought they were dummies and it was a fake scene, but when she walked up to one of the bodies, pushing the hair back to see the face, she realized the girl was real.

“I knew she was dead. Her eyes were closed. She looked peaceful,” Cisneros said.

Cisneros found some glow sticks and started directing cars away from the bodies. Meanwhile, her brother tended to the victims.

By early afternoon Saturday, about 70 people were gathered at a curbside memorial, leaving candles, bouquets and stuffed toys.

More at CBS News Los Angeles, "Santa Ana Community Grieving Loss of 3 Teens Killed While Trick-or-Treating."

Islamic State Executes Scores of Fellow Sunni Muslims

As I said numerous times over the summer, ISIS just kills everybody. Their program is about death and power. That's it.

At the Los Angeles Times:

Islamic State forces have carried out another mass killing of civilians in western Iraq, officials said Saturday – the systematic executions of at least 50 fellow Sunni Muslim men and women belonging to a tribe that has defied the extremist militants.

Amid a months-long onslaught by the Islamic State, Iraq is growing ever more violent. The United Nations mission in Baghdad reported Saturday that at least 1,273 Iraqis had been killed in October, about two-thirds of them civilians.

In the latest grisly episode, members of the Albu Nimr tribe were lined up by the militants and shot dead late Friday in the village of Ras al-Maaa, in Anbar province, according to Naim Al-Kaood, an Albu Nimr tribal leader. He spoke to the Iraqi broadcaster Al-Sumariyah.

Social media websites were flooded with pictures of the dead, their blood seeping out onto the pavement from apparent close-range shots to the head...

RELATED: At Human Rights Watch, "ISIS Executed Hundreds of Prison Inmates in Iraq."

WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN EZRA KLEIN COMPLAINS ABOUT THE POLITIZATION OF EVERYTHING?

"It means he's losing," says Glenn Reynolds.

Yeah, things aren't going too well for the Vox people, or leftists generally. Tuesday's going to come crashing down. It ain't going to be pretty for the acolytes of The One.

Joni Ernst Takes 7-Point Lead in Des Moines Register's Final Poll Before Tuesday's Election

This is major, for if Ernst takes Iowa, Republicans are practically guaranteed the six seats necessary to take control of the Senate.

At the Des Moines Register, "Iowa Poll: Ernst takes 7-point lead":

Joni Ernst has charged to achieve a 7-point lead over Democrat Bruce Braley in a new Iowa Poll, which buoys the GOP's hope that an Iowa victory will be the tipping point to a Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate.

Ernst, a state senator and military leader, enjoys 51 percent support among likely voters. That's a majority, and it's her biggest lead in the three Iowa Polls conducted this fall. Braley, a congressman and trial lawyer, gets 44 percent, according to The Des Moines Register's final Iowa Poll before Tuesday's election.

"This race looks like it's decided," said J. Ann Selzer, who conducted the poll for the Register. "That said, there are enormous resources being applied to change all that."

The news will thrill Republican activists nationwide, who are counting on Iowa as an anchor for regaining the majority in the U.S. Senate. On Saturday, a progressive group organized a conference call with Majority Leader Harry Reid to urge Iowa Democrats "to double down and save the Senate."

"If we win Iowa, we're going to do just fine," he said. "Iowa is critical, there's no other way to say it."

If Republicans control the Senate, Reid said, "think of what that would mean for our country."

Here's what has shaped Ernst's lead, according to the poll results:

• Although a small plurality of likely voters thinks Braley has more depth on the issues, they like Ernst better than Braley on several character descriptions. They think she better reflects Iowa values, she cares more about people like them, and she's more of a regular, down-to-earth person.

• Voters find Ernst, who has led Iowa troops in war, to be a reassuring presence on security issues, the poll shows. In the wake of news developments on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, increasing aggressiveness of Russia and the rise of the Islamic State in the Middle East, more likely voters see Ernst as better equipped than Braley to show leadership and judgment, by at least 9 points on each issue.

• Independent voters are going Ernst's way, 51 percent to 39 percent.

• The negativity in the race has hurt Braley more than Ernst. Forty-four percent say he has been more negative in campaign ads, compared with 32 percent for Ernst.

• Among several potential mistakes the two candidates have made, the one that stands out is Braley's seemingly condescending remark about Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley. In March, GOP operatives released caught-on-tape remarks Braley made at a private fundraiser in Texas that seemed to question the qualifications of "a farmer from Iowa without a law degree" to become the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

That inflicted a lingering hurt, as did emergence of the news that Braley had missed the majority of his Veterans Affairs Committee hearings, the poll shows.

Negative TV advertising by GOP outside groups relentlessly pushed those two pieces of damage.

Oh my! Ernst holds a 12-point lead among independents?!! The Democrats are going to be castrated like an Iowa hog!!

BONUS: At Legal Insurrection, "Iowa and Colorado – Signs of the Democratic Apocalypse."

Both Parties See Election Tilting to GOP

At the New York Times, "Both Parties See Campaign Tilting to Republicans":

WASHINGTON — Republicans entered the final weekend before the midterm elections clearly holding the better hand to control the Senate and poised to add to their House majority. But a decidedly sour electorate and a sizable number of undecided voters added a measure of suspense.

The final drama surrounded the Senate, which has been a Democratic bulwark for President Obama since his party lost its House majority in 2010. Republicans need to gain six seats to seize the Senate, and officials in both parties believe there is a path for them to win at least that many.

Yet the races for a number of seats that will decide the majority remained close, polls showed, prompting Republicans to pour additional money into get-out-the-vote efforts in Alaska, Georgia and Iowa. Democrats were doing the same in Colorado, where they were concerned because groups that tend to favor Republicans voted early in large numbers, and in Iowa.

While an air of mystery hung over no fewer than nine Senate races, the only question surrounding the House was how many seats Republicans would add. If they gain a dozen seats, it will give them an advantage not seen since 1948 and potentially consign the Democrats to minority status until congressional redistricting in the 2020s...

That's what I'm talking about! Crush the bastards!

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