POLITICO: GOP targets blue states in battle for Senate.

START A PROGRAM TO HELP MEN’S HEALTH, GET BUSHWHACKED BY ANGRY FEMINISTS: “Movember is divisive, gender normative, [and] racist.”

How is it racist? “Movember reinforces the ‘othering’ of ‘foreigners’ by the generally clean-shaven, white majority.”

Othering? President Hayes is not amused.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: ‘Political Witch Hunt’: ObamaCare Critics Got Their Audit Letters On The Same Day.

NEW IRS NONPROFIT RULES: Open Season On The Tea Party.

ED DRISCOLL: Five Year Plans and New Deals, Wrapped in Golden Chains.

ANSWERING THE STUPID QUESTIONS OF POLITICALLY-CORRECT TWITS: “Is it ever OK to borrow from other cultures?” We’re Americans, dumbass. That’s what we do. It’s our culture to do so.

A HOUSE JUDICIARY HEARING TODAY ON the President’s duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.

WILL OBAMACARE destroy the home health care industry? “The clear conclusion is that saving money is more important to CMS than serving those who are so sick they cannot leave home without assistance. . . . It is obvious that they turned a deaf ear to our pleas on behalf of aged, infirm, disabled, and dying Americans.”

SPIN: Howard Dean says healthcare.gov is ‘apparently functional,’ but he hasn’t even tried the website.

JOEL KOTKIN: The Revolt Against Urban Gentry.

Couched in progressive rhetoric, the gentry urbanists embrace an essentially neo-feudalist view that society is divided between “the creative class” and the rest of us. Liberal analyst Thomas Frank suggests that Florida’s “creative class” is numerically small, unrepresentative and self—referential; he describes them as “members of the professional-managerial class—each of whom harbors a powerful suspicion that he or she is pretty brilliant as well.”

The revolt against this mentality surfaced first in New York perhaps because the gaps there are so extreme. Wall Streeters partied under Bloomberg, but not everyone fared so well. The once proudly egalitarian city has become the most unequal place in the country, worse even than the most racially divided, backward regions of the southeast. In New York, the top 1 percent earn roughly twice as much of the local GDP than is earned in the rest of country. The middle class in the city is rapidly becoming vestigial; according to Brookings its share of the city’s population has fallen from 25 percent in 1970s to barely sixteen percent today. . . .

This new demography—essentially a marriage of rich, young singles and the poor—has created an urban electorate increasingly one-dimensional, and less middle class, not only in economic status, but also, perhaps more importantly, in attitude. This can be seen in the very low participation rates in de Blasio’s victory in New York, where under one quarter of the electorate voted in the election compared to some 57 percent in the 1993 Giuliani vs Dinkins race. Historically, middle class voters were the most reliable voters and their decline has led to record low participation not only in New York, but also in Los Angeles, where new Mayor Eric Garcetti was elected with the lowest turnout, barely twenty percent, in a contested election in recent memory.

The decline in voter participation occurs as cities are becoming ever more one-party constituencies. Two decades ago a large chunk of the top twelve cities were run by Republicans, but today none are. America’s cities have evolved into a political monoculture, with the Democratic share growing by 20 percent or more in most of the largest urban counties.

Under such circumstances the worst miscues by liberals are largely ignored or excused as politics and media take place in a kind of left-wing echo chamber. Even the meltdown of the healthcare law, which has hurt the president’s approval rating in national polls, seems to have not impacted his popularity in urban areas.

It’ll work until they run out of other people’s money.

WORKING TO ESTABLISH MY “ROBO-BURGER” CHAIN NOW: Wage Strikes Planned at Fast-Food Outlets.

FALLEN ANGELS WAS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, RIGHT? RIGHT? And now it’s global COOLING! Return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 29% in a year. “A chilly Arctic summer has left 533,000 more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year – an increase of 29 per cent. The rebound from 2012’s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013. Instead, days before the annual autumn re-freeze is due to begin, an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia’s northern shores.”