HANNAH WALLEN: Gamergate: Journalism as a Social Justice War game. “Women control the social order of things, and because they do, that bottom couple of rungs is largely made up of men and boys.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “Glenn is fond of saying that non-leftist billionaires should buy up a few women’s magazines to break the left’s narrative stranglehold in that area. After watching this story unfold, I’m starting to think that gaming websites wouldn’t be a bad area to apply the same principle.” (Bumped).

RAPE CULTURE: Time-Warner-CNN-HBO Employee, Former Timesman Frank Rich Cracks Rape Joke.

ROSS DOUTHAT ON ROTHERHAM:

Interpreted crudely, what happened in Rotherham looks like an ideological mirror image of Roman Catholicism’s sex abuse scandal. The Catholic crisis seemed to vindicate a progressive critique of traditionalism: Here were the wages of blind faith and sexual repression; here was a case study in how a culture of hierarchy and obedience gave criminals free rein.

The crimes in Rotherham, by contrast, seem scripted to vindicate a reactionary critique of liberal multiculturalism: Here are immigrant gangs exploiting a foolish Western tolerance; here are authorities too committed to “diversity” to react appropriately; here is a liberal society so open-minded that both its brain and conscience have fallen out. . . .

Show me what a culture values, prizes, puts on a pedestal, and I’ll tell you who is likely to get away with rape.

In Catholic Boston or Catholic Ireland, that meant men robed in the vestments of the church.

In Joe Paterno’s pigskin-mad Happy Valley, it meant a beloved football coach.

In status-conscious, education-obsessed Manhattan, it meant charismatic teachers at an elite private school.

In Hollywood and the wider culture industry — still the great undiscovered country of sexual exploitation, I suspect — it has often meant the famous and talented, from Roman Polanski to the BBC’s Jimmy Savile, robed in the authority of their celebrity and art.

And in Rotherham, it meant men whose ethnic and religious background made them seem politically untouchable, and whose victims belonged to a class that both liberal and conservative elements in British society regard with condescension or contempt.

Read the whole thing. And then read this.

I PREDICT THEY WILL MOSTLY RESOLVE IT BY DECIDING TO BE LEFTISTS, FIRST: The Dilemma Of The Jewish Leftist. Because that’s usually how it works: “Over the past 15 years, the international Left has consistently expanded its political alliance with Islamists in the West. Among other things, this alliance has required the Left to turn a blind eye to barbaric Islamic practices like female genital mutilation and rape and to defame those who dare to openly oppose these reactionary, obscene behaviors as Islamophobic racists.”

IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON NEWS DUMP: IRS says it has lost emails from 5 more employees.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, SWEATSHOP-STYLE WORKER EXPLOITATION WOULD BE THE ORDER OF THE DAY. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Capitol Tour Guides Say They’ve Lost the Right to Drink Water. “While visitors are allowed to carry water bottles, and can fill them up once they are inside, the guides who spend eight hours a day walking them through the Capitol and talking about Congress complain that their access to water has been severely limited by CVC management.”

But wait, the Capitol tour guides are unionized?

LEGALIZED THEFT: Stop and seize: Aggressive police take hundreds of millions of dollars from motorists not charged with crimes. “A thriving subculture of road officers on the network now competes to see who can seize the most cash and contraband, describing their exploits in the network’s chat rooms and sharing ‘trophy shots’ of money and drugs. Some police advocate highway interdiction as a way of raising revenue for cash-strapped municipalities.”

All money received by law enforcement — via fines, or whatever — should go to the state or federal general fund. Letting them keep it gives them an incentive to act as predators. In my opinion, the corrupting effect is sufficient to be a due process violation in itself.

HOW CAMERAS ruined baseball.

TO AVOID SADDLING THEM WITH DEBT, more parents are footing the bill for MBA degrees. But the ingrates at the business schools still have a complaint:

While financial gifts from mom and dad may free up students to take less lucrative jobs after school, it also can give an extra incentive for helicopter parents to stay involved as their adult children choose among schools, courses and career paths. “It becomes more of a ‘we’ conversation the more parents are footing the bill,” says Marc Zawel, co-founder of AcceptU, a Boston-based admission consulting firm. In the three years that AcceptU has been working with M.B.A. program applicants, Mr. Zawel says he has gone from having almost no parental interactions to regularly hearing from parents with billing questions.

Well, if you don’t want parents involved, try setting tuition at levels where they don’t have to be. Actually, I’d like to see legal changes that remove “privacy” rules that keep paying parents out of the loop. As part of their price-discrimination scheme — “financial aid” is a misnomer — schools want to know everything about a parent’s finances, but parents have no right even to see their kids’ grades. Absurd.

UPDATE: From the comments: “It used to be that colleges were a place of free sex lots of drinking and free choices– as demanded by progressives. Progressive policies have now made colleges as a place to be afraid of sex and where drinking is criminal and parents make all the choices. Come the revolution and we will all be free from the tyranny of choices, comrades.”

THE HILL: Tech’s Frustration With Congress Boils Over. Frankly, a lot of the tech agenda looks kinda protectionist. Then there’s this:

Immigration reform — a key demand for a sector struggling to bring in skilled foreign developers and techies — has died a slow and painful death since the 2012 election, when congressional action seemed imminent.

They should hope nobody cracks down on their abuse of H1 visas as it is. But the new oligarchs need to realize that Congress — much like Obama — is much happier to take your money than it is to do anything in particular on your behalf.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Liberals Eagerly Put Women At Risk Because Of Politics.

FLASHBACK: Obama campaign’s open door to China. “It’s illegal for foreign nationals to contribute to US elections. Yet the Obama campaign practically invites foreigners to give.”

DEMOCRACY, MULTUCULTURALISM, OPEN IMMIGRATION — PICK ANY TWO: Rotherham: As a Pakistani woman, I’d welcome a police force that didn’t rely on imams. ” But, for me, one of the most most striking aspects of the report is its damning description of the inability to address issues within the local Pakistani community, for fear of appearing racist. There’s no escaping the fact that the majority of perpetrators were of Pakistani origin – and that this directly led to insufficient action being taken to identify, and bring them to justice. . . . It’s clear that fear of being branded racist enabled the continuation of human rights abuses. It’s a problem that doesn’t only occur in local communities but also at a national and even international level. It’s no surprise that other crimes, such as female genital mutilation and forced marriage, are also willfully ignored by authorities.”

Related: Years of Rape and ‘Utter Contempt’ in Britain: Life in an English Town Where Abuse of Young Girls Flourished.

IT MUST BE PARTICULARLY FUN FOR MITT ROMNEY, WHOM THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN RIDICULED AS OUT OF TOUCH, TO SAY STUFF LIKE THIS: Romney: Obama ‘out of touch’ on Islamic State, other global threats.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIALIZES: Why Democrats Packed the Court: The new liberal D.C. Circuit intervenes in a big ObamaCare case.

Exactly as President Obama and Senate Democrats planned, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has moved to suppress a major challenge to ObamaCare. The gambit is no less remarkable for its nakedness.

Last week the full D.C. Circuit vacated the July decision that some insurance subsidies violate the law’s plain language and agreed to rehear Halbig v. Burwell en banc. ObamaCare’s text authorizes subsidies only through exchanges “established by the State,” so a three-judge panel ruled that the Internal Revenue Service was dispensing them illegally across the 36 exchanges established by the federal government.

Such straightforward statutory interpretation fails the D.C. Circuit’s own high standards for en banc scrutiny. As Washington attorney Adam White recently explained in these pages, since the 1990s the full D.C. Circuit has chosen to rehear merely one or two—and sometimes zero—of the 500 or so cases heard every year. The court’s standard for en banc hearings has been that a panel has overturned a D.C. Circuit precedent, which Halbig does not, or if a matter of “exceptional importance” is implicated, historically meaning some constitutional principle. Reading a statute does not rise to constitutional review.

The difference now is that Harry Reid last year packed the D.C. Circuit with three of President Obama’s nominees, so liberals now outnumber conservatives by eight to five not counting senior judges. The Senate Majority Leader nuked the filibuster rule for judges, allowing them to be confirmed with 51 instead of 60 votes, precisely so the court would become the garbageman to dispose of unpleasant legal challenges to the President’s regulatory decrees. ObamaCare is Exhibit A.

As Kurt Schlichter warns, Democrats are going to miss the rule of law after they’ve killed it.