ELIANA JOHNSON: Jeb’s Fight with Rubio Gets Personal.

THIS COMPLICATES THE NARRATIVE: ‘You’re going to see God’: Oregon shooter asked hostages if they were Christians, witnesses say. So crazed gunmen target Christians, and Obama’s answer is to support disarmament. Uh huh.

I WISH I THOUGHT THIS WERE TRUE: Putin, The Indispensable Man? But just because Obama is incompetent or worse doesn’t mean that Putin is doing good, for Western civilization or even for Russia.

WAR ON MEN: Media ignores accusation of sexual harassment in Congress.

Normally, an accusation of sexual harassment — especially harassment from a boss to an employee in our nation’s capital — would garner massive news coverage.

That is, unless the accuser is a young man and the accused is female superior.

So far Roll Call is the only major media outlet to report the case, focusing on a male accuser alleging harassment from his female chief of staff. The man, an anonymous user of the Capitol Hill social media app The Cloakroom, identifies himself as a 26-year-old male staffer and claims to have been harassed by his 40-year-old female chief of staff.

“She has slapped my ass, talked about her vibrator, and has asked me sexual questions,” the male user posted on the app. “I have ignored them but I am thinking about going to the member” — i.e., his boss.

The male accuser had shared his story on a day when several other users posted questions asking what to do if they were being sexually harassed. The male accuser was the only one that provided specific details of harassment. There were at least 30 responses in the thread, which were provided to the Washington Examiner by another user of the app. Many suggested the accusers document the harassment and report it to an appropriate ethics committee.

One user warned that if the harassment were reported the accusers would “need to accept that your career on the Hill will be over.” One user said they were also working in a “toxic office.” Another user made a comment suggesting the male accuser should be happy about being hit on by an older woman.

#Rapeculture.

PROMISE MEETS EXPIRATION DATE: Barack Obama in 2008:

“I just want to be absolutely clear. Alright, So I don’t want any misunderstanding when you all go home and you are talking to your buddies and you say, ah ‘He wants to take your guns away.’ You’ve heard it here, I’m on television so everybody knows it. I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.”

Barack Obama today:

President Obama delivered an angry statement on the Thursday shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, OR. “Each time we see one of these mass shootings,” he said from the White House briefing room podium, “our thoughts and prayers are not enough.

In a 15-minute statement, Obama stressed that the US is “the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every couple of months.” He praised the gun control efforts in Australia, a nation that conducted a mass confiscation of firearms from its citizenry.

As Ben Shapiro adds, “President Obama was having a bad political day on Thursday:”

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin had humiliated him in Syria, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had excoriated his Iran deal before the United Nations, and his Secret Service had been caught leaking information about a Republican congressperson.

Then the clouds parted for the deeply cynical president — the same president who routinely ignores shootings in inner cities across the country, or attributes them to generalized American racism. News broke of a mass shooting at a community college in Oregon. And before waiting to find out all the facts, he leapt directly into political controversy, redirecting the national conversation once again toward useless gun control measures.

And the palace guard MSM are all too happy to play along.

CARLY FIORINA has feminists on the defensive. Once you realize that most of what’s marketed as feminism in the United States is just Democratic Party agitprop, this all makes sense. So does the New York Times’ lopsided 4-against-1 debate format.

IN 2012, HILLARY CLINTON ALSO BASHED ROMNEY’S WARNING ABOUT RUSSIA.

As legendary Russian ambassador Alexi de Sadesky would say, her source was the New York Times.

NEW FRONTIERS IN THE WAR ON WOMEN: Is It Sexual Assault to Force a Woman to Shower Alongside the Transgendered?

CHARLES C.W. COOKE OFFERS A NECESSARY CORRECTIVE TO THE USUAL GUN-RELATED IDIOCY AT THE ATLANTIC. Saul Cornell got a lot of money from anti-gun folks. By the left’s standards, this makes anything he says ignorable.

CODE NAME: LIBERAL.

OBAMA’S SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY IN AFGHANISTAN: “World events in the last few years have a habit of making President Obama look foolish,” Eli Lake writes at the Bloomberg View, in perhaps the understatement of the century.

FALLEN ANGELS WAS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, RIGHT GUYS? RIGHT? GUYS? Global Cooling Discovery May Scupper Paris Climate Talks.

THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG GENERATES PUSHBACK: Dem economists attack Elizabeth Warren over Brookings firing.

Five top Democratic economists are criticizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and the left-leaning Brookings Institution for forcing one of its nonresident economic fellows to resign.

Warren raised concerns earlier this week that Robert Litan, a nonresident and unpaid economics fellow at the think tank, was using Brookings to peddle an industry-backed study that was critical of a financial advice regulatory pitch championed by Warren and the White House.

In a letter to Brookings earlier this week, Warren questioned the independence of the study, which Litan openly notes in the text “was supported by the Capital Group, one of the largest mutual fund asset managers in the United States.”

Hours later, Litan was forced to resign.

The Democratic economists say they’re “concerned” about Litan’s treatment.

They said Warren’s approach and Brookings’ “complicity with it threatens ad hominem attack on any author who may be associated with an industry or interest whose views are contrary to hers.”

“Those who differ with Litan instead should offer a substantive rebuttal to the paper in question, which would do much more to clarify the issue than implicitly depicting him as being inherently corrupted by the sponsorship of his work,” the economists wrote in a letter submitted to The Washington Post but first obtained by The Hill.

The letter was signed by former Clinton economic advisers W. Bowman Cutter and Everett Ehrlich; Harvard University international trade and investment professor Robert Z. Lawrence; former Clinton chief budget economist Joseph Minarik; and former Clinton economic adviser Hal Singer, who co-authored the report in question with Litan.

Warren was thuggish. Brookings was cowardly. Neither is a huge surprise.

CORRECTING THE NEW YORK TIMES’ ABSURD VISION OF THE MODERN MAN.

Related: James Lileks responds:

We seem to have a new genre: humorless humor. I mean, this New York Times piece on the Modern Man and What He Does – it can’t be serious. I think it’s supposed to be that gentle sort of inside humor that produces the general impression of humor, but contains no actual, measureable, discernible humor.

Ace has the best phrase for the Times’ article: “Hatebait” — “hatebait, because it’s written to be mocked, but linked each time it’s mocked.”

Apparently, the modern man in Pinch’s world has no shame — which makes sense, because as Alec Baldwin, the very definition of the modern man boasted about another a few years ago, “Anthony Weiner Is a Modern Human Being.”

IT’S LIKE SPORTS CENTER, BUT LESS POLITICAL: Republican Candidate Power Rankings #2, as calculated by Roger Simon at his Diary of a Mad Voter site.

MICROBIOME NEWS: ‘Good bacteria’ key to stopping asthma.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I TELL YOU:  Sanders’s vision would boost federal largesse — and control.  No, really, this is my shocked face.  Look how shocked I am.

THIS HOLDS NO TERRORS:  I’ve already been rated one of the world’s worst people, in a dispute over a plastic rocket and the meaning of good science fiction.  BUT isn’t it a nightmarish idea? Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not.

QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES: Senators want EPA workers fired over mine spill.

MINORITY REPORT: Beria would be envious.

IRAN IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE MEANING OF “WOMEN”: Iranian Women’s Soccer Team a Manly Bunch . . . BUT did they identify as women at the time?

AND THIS IS WHY THEY HATE IT: This Is Why We Have the Internet.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED I TELL YOU: Planned Parenthood: Salaries Up, Cancer Screenings Down.It’s almost like this whole “Woman’s health” thing is a barely there cover up.

HOW SYMBOLIC: Out with the old, in with the new.

JUST WHAT WE NEEDED NOW: Syria Shapes Up As Another Immigration Debacle.