DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY: Democrats Frustrated by Unions’ Cash Freeze Over ‘Fast Track.’

One of Democrats’ best team players on the campaign finance front is playing hardball this cycle, withholding campaign cash over a package of trade bills being debated in Congress.

The AFL-CIO, along with some public sector unions, announced a campaign finance freeze in March. Unions hoped the threat of withholding contributions would scare Democratic lawmakers out of supporting President Barack Obama’s Trade Promotion Authority, or “fast track,” to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a trade agreement labor groups say would hurt manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

But instead, the freeze is frustrating and alienating plenty of House Democrats, many of whom say they are being punished even though they have been critical of the issue.

“I could understand withholding money from people who are on the fence — sure, great,” said one House Democratic chief of staff who asked not to be identified. “But for the people who are with them who also really need the help, I just don’t know that’s a smart strategy. I think that there’s plenty of people who they trust to be with them who could really use their help in deterring an opponent by showing some strength at this point in the cycle, and they’re not helping with that.”

Other Democrats are beginning to lose trust in unions coming through with campaign contributions at all, as House Democrats look to make inroads into a historic House majority.

Perhaps the AFL-CIO thinks those inroads are looking unlikely anyway.

Related: Voting Case May Put House Further Out of Reach for Dems.

WHO SUFFERS MOST FROM PC CRAZINESS IN THE ACADEMY? The Lowest-Paid And Least Secure: Adjuncts. “For tenured faculty like Kipnis or myself, these kinds of PC inquisitions are energy-draining and infuriating, but not career-killing. But most people teaching on college campuses are not tenured. Tenure-track faculty feel highly vulnerable to bad student evaluations, and adjunct faculty actually are highly vulnerable to student criticism.”

As with all lefty initiatives, there’s a lot of talk about fairness and equality, while the actual system oppresses the weak for the benefit of the well-connected.

THIS WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE CHINESE TO FIGURE OUT WHO TO BLACKMAIL: 4 million fed workers victimized by hack.

Roughly 4 million current and former federal employees have had their data exposed by a hack, the Obama administration said Thursday.

The notification from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was short on details, but it appears troves of sensitive information had been pilfered.

Separate media reports cited China as being behind the massive hack.

“Protecting our Federal employee data from malicious cyber incidents is of the highest priority at OPM,” said OPM Director Katherine Archuleta. “We take very seriously our responsibility to secure the information stored in our systems.”

Really, Katherine? Because you don’t seem to be doing a very good job.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Former Heights student teacher charged with unlawful sexual relations. “The incident reportedly happened in February while Moore ‘was a teacher in authority at a school and victim was a student enrolled in that school,’ the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office said.”

HEY, KIDS — LET’S CELEBRATE DIVERSITY BY HATING PEOPLE WHO ARE DIFFERENT FROM US: Students protest Greek life at ‘check your privilege party.’

Hundreds of students at the University of Washington held a rally on campus last weekend to protest the Greek system, accusing members of fraternities and sororities of being exclusive, racist, misogynistic and violent.

The Facebook page called the event, “Check Your Privilege Block Party,” and has been flooded with posts and comments from students who feel marginalized by the Greek community, as well as pushback from fraternity and sorority members.

The event description calls on the “rebels and rejects of society” to “take over and claim space on Greek row,” and accuses fraternity members of physical and verbal abuse towards other students.

“They have said black lives don’t matter, they have raped us and then called us sluts and liars,” the description reads.

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ASHE SCHOW: We’re in the midst of a college revolution — and liberals are leading it.

For years, conservatives have railed against the suppression of free speech and increasing authoritarianism on college campuses — and they’ve been largely written off by the liberal establishment in academia.

But now, the culture that has been cultivated by liberal ideologues has turned against them, and they’re fighting back. . . .

At this point I have to ask: Where has Schlosser been the past year? He talks about the erosion of professors’ abilities to teach their students topics that may challenge their worldview. But how has he missed that liberal politicians have already adopted the position that an accusation is all the evidence one needs?

California passed “yes means yes” last year, a law that makes it far easier to accuse someone of sexual assault and provides no due process rights to those accused. States across the country have introduced similar bills. U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill are pushing for a national law that also erodes due process rights.

And the same people pushing for trigger warnings and safe spaces are pushing the “terrifying” policy that accusations equal guilt.

It’s great that Schlosser and others have finally realized the problems on college campuses, but they still have a lot to learn.

They bred the Red Guards. And you know who the Red Guards go after eventually.

JIM TREACHER: Obama To Peasants On Climate Change: Sacrifices For Thee, Not For Me. Climate worrier Eric Holthaus is baffled about why President Obama would fly someone halfway around the world just for a friendly personal chat. Treacher explains things: “Barack Obama is the President of the United States, and he can do whatever he wants. If he wants to increase Sir David Attenborough’s carbon footprint by summoning him for a face-to-face about the environment, then it’s not hypocrisy because he’s the one doing it. Phone? Skype? Gchat? All that stuff is for the little people. Y’know, the ones who are actually funding Obama’s various whims.”

BRINGING ROTHERHAM TO AMERICA: CAIR’s Orlando Regional Coordinator Busted Trying to Have Sex With 12-Year-Old.

More here:

Orlando community activist Ahmad Saleem drove to a Clermont-area house intending to meet a 12-year-old girl he had been chatting with online for sex in a vehicle with a specialty “Invest in Children” license plate, authorities said Tuesday.

But when the door opened, there were no children in sight. Instead, detectives quickly brought Saleem to the ground and arrested him. Saleem, founder of the Saleem Academy, an organization dedicated to empowering Muslim youths globally, was one of the 101 people arrested in an undercover cybercrime prostitution and child-sex sting by the Lake and Polk county sheriff’s offices. . . .

A Polk County sheriff’s detective posed as a girl online and talked with Saleem, who said he wanted to have sex with the girl and then traveled to Lake County for an expected meeting, authorities said.

Saleem was also the Orlando regional coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging stereotypes of Islam and Muslims and defending civil liberties.

Well, he didn’t do much to challenge the stereotype of Muslims as kiddie-diddlers, did he?

INTERVIEW: John Cusack Talks ‘Love & Mercy,’ Drug Trips, and the Ways Obama Is ‘Worse Than Bush.’ That would be most of them.

EVEN CHUCK TODD is complaining about Hillary’s stilted, inaccessible, phony campaign.

CATHY YOUNG: Did ‘Mattress Girl’ Tell the Truth? Not Very Likely. “Sulkowicz has demonstrable credibility problems.”

MOVING THE OVERTON WINDOW: Georgia man can legally carry AR-15 rifle in Atlanta airport terminal: ‘It should be no cause for concern for anybody.’ This is what lefties have done for decades, and it works.

HEALTHCARE: Smuggling a Beer for My Hospital Patient. When my mom gave birth at Boston Lying-In, she says they brought beer around on a cart to help women start lactating.

TRANSGENDER TROOPS NEXT?: The NYT editorial board, “Let Transgender Troops Serve Openly.” Magic 8-Ball says, “Reply hazy. Try again.”

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: Furor Erupts Over Female Cal-Tech Science Prof’s Advice To Post-Doc: ‘Put Up With’ Adviser Looking Down Her Shirt. We’ve already seen that men don’t want to mentor women. Soon, women won’t want to mentor women either.

HOW FAIR: Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby seeks to block release of Freddie Gray autopsy report. Smells like her narrative of murderous cops isn’t holding up as the evidence comes in.

GLEN CASADA: Obamacare a national disaster, but it’s Congress’ mess.

ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: IRS sends Congress unsigned form letter to brush off demands for Clinton Foundation investigation.

WELL, HE’S BORING, OUT OF TOUCH, AND UNTRUSTWORTHY. SO WHY LISTEN? National Journal: Barack Obama’s Base Has Tuned Him Out.

A NATION OF MEN, AND NOT LAW: To be precise, a nation of one man/person, the President. A Hillary Clinton presidency would be more of the same. Daniel Henninger nails it in his latest column:

To the list of questions Hillary Clinton will never answer, add one more: Would a second Clinton presidency continue and expand Barack Obama’s revision of the American system of government that existed from 1789 until 2009?

The central feature of Mr. Obama’s rewrite of what one might call the Founding Fathers’ original vision has been to abolish Congress. Yes, the 535 men and women elected to Congress still show up at the old Capitol building, as they have since November 1800. But once past passage of ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank, the 44th president effectively retired Congress from its historic function. If you put the president behind the wheel of a car in front of the White House to visit Congress, he’d probably get lost. . . .

Barack Obama, channeling decades of theory, says constantly that the traditional system has failed. He said it in his 2011 Osawatomie, Kan., speech: “It doesn’t work. It has never worked.” He has attacked Congress repeatedly as a failed institution, teeing it up for mass revulsion just as he did the 1%.

With Congress rendered moribund, the new branch of the American political system is the federal enforcement bureaucracy. The Department of Health and Human Services’ auto-revisions of the Affordable Care Act are the most famous expressions of the new governing philosophy. But historians of the new system will cite the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights’ 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter on sexual harassment as the watershed event.

This letter—not even a formal regulation—forced creation of quasi-judicial systems of sexual-abuse surveillance on every campus in America. The universities complied for fear of lawsuits from enforcers at the Departments of Education and Justice.

Yep. It’s not just about a “power grab” from a “do nothing” Congress. It’s about a fundamental transformation of a constitutional republic into a progressive’s wet dream of government-by-bureaucracy.

A NEW KICKSTARTER PROJECT FROM RAND SIMBERG: Clearing The Roadblock To Mars. I donated.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: FDA Advisers Consider Flibanserin, Pill Known as ‘Female Viagra.’

Witness after witness stepped up Thursday to beg the Food and Drug Administration to approve a “little pink pill” that promises to restore sexual desire to women who have lost it.

“My desire for sex has left the building like Elvis’s blue suede shoes,” Amanda Parrish, a mother of four from Nashville who’s been an outspoken supporter of the drug, told a meeting of FDA advisers who are considering approval.

The pill, known by its generic name, flibanserin, is commonly called the female Viagra. But unlike Viagra, it works on the brain. Viagra affects blood flow to the genitals.

Parrish says flibanserin helped her when she tried it. “As if a light switch had been turned on, so was I,” she said.

Feminists are torn, since the drug helps women reclaim their sexuality, but on the downside might also get men laid more.

UPDATE: FDA Advisory Committee recommends approval.

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers discover key to maintaining muscle strength while we age.

“We know we can turn on the AMPK pathway with intense exercise and commonly-used Type 2 diabetes medications,” said Steinberg. “By knowing that AMPK is vital for maintaining muscle mass with aging, we can now try to adapt exercise regimes and existing drugs to switch on AMPK in muscle more effectively. The development of new selective activators of the AMPK pathway in muscle may also be effective to prevent muscle loss with aging.”

Like I said, faster, please.

WELL, YEAH: Chimpanzees Would Cook if Given the Chance, Research Says. “Whether or not chimpanzees could operate a real oven on their own — Dr. Rosati thinks they probably could — the research leaves no doubt that they have the cognitive ability to take advantage of a restaurant.”