TITLES OF NOBILITY: Senator introduces new legislation to further reduce student loans for government workers.

WHY I LOVE THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Liberal Politicians Can’t Stop Killing Innocent Creatures: NYC mayor slaughters lovable groundhog in brutal death smash. “Yet another defenseless creature was slaughtered by a left-wing politician, the New York Post revealed on Thursday. Adorable groundhog Staten Island Chuck was “chucked” to his death during an appearance with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a raging liberal, back in February. Officials sought to cover up the creature’s demise, so as not to fuel public outrage over the disturbing trend of liberal politicians murdering cute animals. They even lied about the true identity of the victim. . . . As horrific as de Blasio’s crime was, it pales in comparison to the carnage President Obama routinely inflicts upon the animal kingdom. His victims include: bald eagles, golden eagles, kit foxes, baby tortoises, and baby bats. Obama’s preferred methods of killing are significantly more brutal, including decapitation via wind turbine and incineration via solar panel heat laser. The mainstream media has done its best to ignore this trend, but it’s only a matter of time before the American people wake up and demand an end to the butchery.”

AWKWARD: Pres. Obama Has Bombed Seven Countries Since Accepting Nobel Peace Prize.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE (CONT’D): Female Teacher Admits To Having Sex With Students. “She teaches 9th grade algebra, and faces four counts of criminal sexual misconduct. Court documents show that the sexual contact happened in alleys, parks and in a parked car.”

IT’S COME TO THIS: At The University of Michigan, Sexual Violence Includes ‘Discounting Feelings,’ ‘Withholding Sex.’

All the more reason to check out the alternatives to traditional education.

And if I were a male student at Michigan, I’d keep this definition in mind if I had girlfriend trouble . . . .

INDEED: Sharyl Attkisson: Multiple Controversies Plagued Eric Holder Prior to Resignation.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Ex-GSA Executive Jeff Neely Indicted for Fraud. “Jeff Neely, the General Services Administration executive viewed as the ringleader of the lavish spending on a 2010 training conference in Las Vegas, was indicted on five counts of fraud on Thursday by a federal grand jury in San Francisco. The 59-year-old former head of region nine of the Public Building Service faces charges of making fraudulent reimbursement claims and false statements, according to an announcement from United States Attorney Melinda Haag of Northern California and GSA Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge David House.”

Flashback: Inspector General had referred charges to DOJ over two years ago.

BECAUSE ALL HIS PREDICTIONS CAME TRUE? Why We’re Talking About Mitt Romney.

Because his decency and competence stand in stark contrast to the current President? That said, I don’t think he should run in 2016. But I think he should be slamming Obama — and the press, and Hillary — with I-told-you-sos that remind people how things went before. And, in the case of the press, how it shamefully prostituted itself to support and protect a candidacy that, deep down, it had to know was unworthy.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Dem Candidate’s Film Studio Failed to Pay Taxes While Taking Subsidies to Make a Movie Criticizing Farm Subsidies.

KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, QUOTA QUEEN: Gillibrand: Make Congress 51 percent women.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Does this mean that she’s endorsing Joni Ernst, Terri Lynn Land, Monica Webhy, Susan Collins, Shelley Moore Capito?” Of course not. Republican women aren’t real women.

SUGGEST THAT WOMEN SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR BEHAVIOR, get fired from Forbes. You’re dead to me, Forbes.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Audio: Iraq War critic says Iraq withdrawal may have been the worst strategic mistake of all. “Dexter Filkins has long been a skeptic and critic of the Iraq war, from his tenure at the New York Times to his current assignment at the New Yorker. Still, that hasn’t kept Filkins from reporting honestly on developments in the theater; in 2008, while at the NYT, he wrote extensively about the success of the surge just a few months before the presidential election. A month later, Filkins wrote again about the “literally unrecognizable” and peaceful Iraq produced by the surge. Six years later, Filkins was among the skeptics reminding people that the Iraqis’ insistence on negotiating the immunity clause for American troops was more of a welcome excuse for Obama to choose total withdrawal — and claim credit for it until this year — rather than the deal-breaker Obama now declares that it was. Yesterday, Filkins told Hugh Hewitt that while one can argue whether the 2003 invasion was ill-advised, the total withdrawal in 2011 was the worst strategic mistake made by the US.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: NFL’s Got Problems? 325 Cases Of Sexual Misconduct By Teachers Since Start Of 2014.

SO UNDER TENNESSEE’S NEW, LIBERALIZED KNIFE LAW, you can carry a fixed-blade knife of any length. This has raised questions for me: Do I go traditional, do I go full-Kukri, or do I strap on a rapier? I suppose in time the fashions will settle.

UPDATE: Contrary to the suggestions in the comments, I think something like this is a bit much.

ANOTHER UPDATE: No, I’m not entirely kidding here. Under the new Tennessee law, you can carry a knife of any length in a lot of places where you can’t carry a gun.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Report: Department Of Justice Expert Witnesses Abused Funds. “Expert witnesses often ran up their hotel bills far over the prescribed limit, and not only did expert witnesses maneuver around the requirements, but DOJ officials purposefully paid $1.2 million for legal proceedings completely outside the U.S. judicial system.”

SHOCKER: Radicalised British Muslims More Likely to Be Rich, Depressed and Born in UK.

WISCONSIN: “Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke stumbled Thursday when asked to define plagiarism and said she had not violated her principles with a jobs plan that includes nearly word-for-word sections that also appear in other candidates’ plans.”

LEFTISM IS A POSITIONAL GOOD, SO UNDERMINE IT WITH MOCKERY: “Exactly – mock them, make them a laughing stock. To paraphrase a great man – ‘We shall mock them on the seas and oceans, we shall ridicule them with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our our values, whatever the cost may be, we shall taunt them on the beaches, we shall parody them on the landing grounds, we shall jeer at them in the fields and in the streets, we shall caricature them in the hills; we shall never surrender!'”

VIDEO: Congressman John Lewis says progressive policies are helping African Americans in cities like Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. But see him backpedal when Michelle Fields presses him on the facts.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: How Sen. Kay Hagan’s (D-NC) Husband Profited Off Of Stimulus Cash.

SO GLOBAL NON-WARMING IS NOW OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE: Happy 18th Birthday No Global Warming! After Nearly Two Decades, We’re Still Waiting for the Climate to Change.

21ST CENTURY EMPLOYMENT: Belle Knox Docu-Series: ‘Porn Is Like Any Other Job, It’s Labor.’

AT AMAZON, Fall Deals on Kids’ Clothing and Shoes.

Plus, Fall Deals in Men’s Clothing.

SOMETIMES IT TAKES A GAY MAN TO REALLY STICK IT TO FEMINIST DRAMA: The UN’s Risible #HeForShe Campaign: Pointless Self-Flagellation for Sex-Starved Beta Males.

It’s a patronising, gendered, borderline sexist campaign that reduces men to cheerleaders for the fairer sex. What ever happened to equality? Reading the #HeForShe website, it’s clear: equity and fairness is no longer the mission. Bullying and bias are issues strictly and exclusively affecting “women and girls,” while the responsibility for policing society is of course up to all of us.

The campaign has captured the imagination of the technology industry in particular, which, despite being one of the most welcoming places for women to work, never misses an opportunity to beat itself up with bogus statistics about how terribly, awfully, tragically oppressed women are in its heteropatriarchal landscape. . . .

I hate to be crude, but is it possible the Harry Potter star wears those ten-thousand dollar outfits, with jackets cut perfectly to accentuate every curve of her body, her hair snipped and tousled by the most exclusive stylists in the world, because she in fact really rather likes, and financially profits from, the idea of men waving their wands at her?

And I mean, for God’s sake, what’s wrong with a woman’s body being sexual? Of course it’s sexual. So is a man’s, only, it’s alright to sexualise men these days, and luridly obsess over the private parts of male celebrities, but don’t you dare suggest that a woman who makes a living by being hot ought to be careful what she does with nude photographs of herself.

It’s all so bonkers, isn’t it, this “white knight” phenomenon. Men who feel as though they need to come to the rescue of women by insulting and badgering other men for the crime of having a sex drive. Men who agree with absurd statements such as, “unwanted attention is sexual harassment.” Are we going to start locking up every man who ever gets turned down in a bar or nightclub? I’d be on my third consecutive life sentence by now…

I’m sure it’s entirely coincidental that these hen-pecked half-wits are unlucky in love. Because it can’t possibly be, can it, that men who call themselves “feminists” (the thought of it!) are really just currying favour with an opposite sex that has rejected them. It works both ways, of course. I mean: when was the last time you saw a really hot radical feminist? But no, I should change the subject, before I get into too much trouble.

To her credit, Watson in her speech identified modern third-wave feminists as man-haters. That’s exactly what they are.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: From the comments: “If Miss Watson wants to do something about oppressed women, she can start with her countrywomen in Rotherham.”

RICH LOWRY: The Incredibly Insipid War On Women 2.0.