MARK RIPPETOE: Strength Training For Women. “Another obvious implication is just lying there, waiting to piss people off. The role of women in infantry combat positions in the military is controversial, and it shouldn’t be. If there is a way to quantitatively evaluate the role of strength and power in the physical demands of combat, and the preparation of soldiers for combat readiness, the differences between male and female physical potential cannot be ignored. As unpopular as this may be politically, the fact remains that the reality of human sexual dimorphism must be dealt with.”

ASHE SCHOW: The Campus Sexual Assault Movement Is Racist: All about giving wealthy white people their own justice system that poor minorities aren’t privy to.

One major and negative narrative about the justice system is that wealthy and well-connected people get to live by different rules than the rest of us. One can find examples both reinforcing and undermining this, but the prevailing narrative remains.

If one wanted to find a blatant example of wealthy, privileged people getting their own justice system they can bend to their will, look no further than the anti-campus sexual assault movement. Born of false statistics and exaggerated (or wholly made up) victimhood, the movement has created (and seeks to maintain) a separate court system for those who can afford college.

What we’re left with is a movement that seeks “easy justice for me, but not for thee.” It’s a slap in the face to the millions of Americans who are at a higher risk for sexual assault and who cannot afford college, many of them poor, minority women.

This elitist view was confirmed by Connecticut State Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, who plans to re-introduce an extreme campus sexual assault bill (which had previously failed) in the legislature. Flexer defended the separate justice system against accusations that laws were being created that treated college students differently than the general population.

“Flexer countered that colleges and universities are privileged environments that demand a higher set of standards,” the Connecticut Mirror reported. “She said state law is integral to protecting students on campus, and encourages colleges and universities to create better policy.”

Privileged people getting privileged justice — how progressive.

That’s how progressivism works.

NEW FILM ‘CAN WE TAKE A JOKE?’ TO MAKE WORLD PREMIERE AT NYC DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL – I am psyched to announce that Can We Take a Joke?, a FIRE-supported feature documentary about the threats outrage culture poses to comedy and free speech, will be premiering next month at DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival. The world premiere will take place on Nov. 13 at NYC’s IFC Center, with an additional screening on Monday, Nov. 16. As FIRE announced:

In Can We Take A Joke?, comedians Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Lisa Lampanelli, Jim Norton, Adam Carolla, Heather McDonald, Karith Foster, and more come together with narrator Christina Pazsitzky to explore what happens when comedy, censorship, and outrage culture collide. […]

Also featured in the film are So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed author Jon Ronson, free speech expert and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Jonathan Rauch, and First Amendment attorneys Bob Corn-Revere and Ron Collins, who together in 2003 successfully petitioned the governor of New York to posthumously pardon Lenny Bruce of his 1964 New York state obscenity conviction.

Can We Take A Joke? is directed by Ted Balaker of Korchula Productions in partnership with the DKT Liberty Project and in association with Reason TV. To learn more about Can We Take a Joke?, visit the film’s Facebook page, follow its Twitter account, and sign up for email updates at its website. And, to purchase tickets to the premiere, visit DOC NYC’s website.

I hope you can be there! It’s going to be a fun night.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 889.

ELIOT COHEN: OBAMA WON’T LISTEN TO HIS OWN ADVISORS:

Criticize the Administration’s Syria policy without providing alternative recommendations, and the President will dismiss you for mere carping. Argue, say, for a no-fly zone, however, and you will be dismissed for lacking the information and advice that only the President can have. Either way, in his view, you are a dummy, or, as he so artfully said of his previous Secretary of State, a peddler of “mumbo jumbo.”

This pervasive contempt for the views of others is one of the President’s greatest weaknesses and least attractive traits. Inevitably, it percolates throughout his Administration and prevails in particular at the White House. Yet it seems not to deter those on the outside—apolitical experts, some Democrats, and not a few veterans of Republican Administrations—from attempting, in all sincerity, to devise and argue for alternative approaches.

Not only are their efforts pointless—if Obama is his own strategist, why should he listen to you, foolish or wicked veterans of the Bush Administration?—they are misguided. One can only judge a policy on its implementation, and although a no-fly zone conceived by a tough-minded Commander in Chief and implemented by Bob Gates might be just the thing, a no-fly zone put into place by the President who brought you vanishing red lines, a botched withdrawal from Iraq, the reset with Russia that wasn’t, repeated groveling apologies for the inevitable accidents of war, and much else, could be a debacle.

Well, bear in mind that what Obama’s advisors consider a debacle might be okay from his perspective.

Related: Confirmation of Cohen’s argument.

TO BE FAIR, IF PRAISING MILITARY HEROISM SERVED THE CURRENT DEMOCRATIC NARRATIVE, KEN VOGEL WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL OVER IT: Politico Reporter Sneers At Jim Webb For Mentioning His Combat Record.

UPDATE: Webb’s son: People are criticizing my dad, Jim Webb, for killing a man. Here’s what they’re missing. People? Well, stupid people. “In fact, seeing the reaction to my father’s story in recent days has highlighted for me the almost stunning level of ignorance that the general public has about war. CNN introduced him as a ‘war hero,’ and yet people were surprised and even uncomfortable when they were given a glimpse of what that might have entailed. . . . This country has been at war for almost 15 years, and as I think about the ridicule leveled at my father in the past 24 hours, I can’t help but imagine what these same people must think about the service of my own generation. In their eyes, did we simply spend some kind of twisted ‘semester abroad’ in a place with plenty of sand, but no ocean? Or conversely, do they ignorantly dismiss our experiences, as they have my father, as those of cold callous killers?”

They voted for Obama. Does that answer your question?

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: The Atlantic: If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy: As government agencies and tech companies develop more and more intrusive means of watching and influencing people, how can we live free lives?

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AFTERBURNER: It’s the Steel: Bill Whittle’s Solution to Gun Control.

VICE: Why You Actually Should Care About Hillary Clinton’s Damn Emails.

Related: Hillary’s sysadmin left VNC, RDP exposed to the internet – report: Presidential candidate’s email server wasn’t very private after all.

ASHE SCHOW: Are Democrats Back-Benching The War On Women?

Women’s issues took a back seat at Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate, and attacks against Republicans for waging a supposed “war on women” were kept to a minimum. In fact, the phrase was never uttered — a sharp departure from the tactic employed by Democrats in 2012 and 2014.

Hillary Clinton was the only candidate even to mention Planned Parenthood or allude to abortion (Democrats rarely use the word since it doesn’t poll well; they say instead, as Clinton did, “a woman’s right to choose”). Debate moderator Anderson Cooper didn’t ask a single question about the devastating videos that appeared to show Planned Parenthood administrators haggling over reimbursement rates for fetal tissue donated to medical science or altering abortion procedures to secure better tissue. There was no question about the recent announcement by the organization that it would no longer collect reimbursements.

Clinton’s only mention of the organization came when she suggested Republicans are for Big Government when it works for them. . . .

As for the gender pay gap, which is mostly a product of the different choices men and women make in their careers and not of discrimination, was mentioned in passing only twice.

Campus sexual assault, which has gained national prominence in the past year thanks to bogus statistics and questionable or false accusations, didn’t get a single mention. This, despite Clinton’s acceptance of the myth that we’re in the midst of an “epidemic.”

There was also no mention of birth control.

How about that?

TEAM BOEHNER: Debt Ceiling Deal Possible.

EVEN THOUGH ALL THEIR CANDIDATES ARE OLD WHITE PEOPLE: DNC chief defends party’s diversity.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is defending the diversity of the Democratic Party following its first presidential debate, which featured four white men and a white woman.

The topic came up during an interview with Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos, who this summer confronted GOP front-runner Donald Trump about his comments regarding Hispanics. Ramos noted Tuesday night he did not “see a Latino or an African-American or an Asian” on the Democratic debate stage.

“We have Latinos and African-Americans — first of all, our president of the United States, who is a Democrat, is African-American,” Wasserman Schultz, a Florida representative, responded. “Certainly, we have an absolute, demonstrated commitment to diversity, because our party nominated the first African-American, and then Americans elected him not once, but twice.”

She said the Democratic presidential field is not representative of the overall diversity of the party.

Well, that says something about the process, doesn’t it?

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Something’s Awesome in the State of Denmark.

Bernie Sanders’s Denmark love is another reminder that our Democratic friends, who imagine themselves to be worldly cosmopolitans more at ease with sophisticated European ways, don’t actually know a damned thing about what’s going on overseas. For those of you who are keeping score, the Heritage Foundation, which literally keeps score, rates Denmark’s economy as slightly more free – slightly more capitalistic — than that of the United States. Denmark is in a rough spot just lately, but it has been undergoing a series of deep and intelligent reforms to its welfare state (as have many of the other Northern European countries) to counteract the ill effects of earlier excesses. Its corporate-income tax is much lower than that of the United States. Its regulatory environment is in many ways more free. It is very free-trade oriented. What Denmark does have — what all the Nordic countries have — is relatively high taxes on the middle class, which gets double-whammied with income taxes and a value-added tax. Is that what Sanders et al. are proposing for the United States, to make it more Danish? A big, heavy tax increase on the middle class? Maybe it should be — the Danes have a big welfare state and they pay for it – but no Democrat walking this Earth has the intellectual honesty to say as much. Strong property rights, low corruption, openness to trade and investment, low public debt: Bring it on.

Like all the Democrats, Sanders seems to think it’s still 1973.

EVEN MADE FOR TV DRAMAS GOT IN THE ACT: Blame GamerGate’s Bad Rep on Smears and Shoddy Journalism.

SO, SHAKESPEARE DIDN’T WRITE IT: Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says.

And speaking of Shakespeare:

In recent years, scholars have chipped away at the idea of Shakespeare’s plays as the product of an isolated genius, emphasizing instead the intensely collaborative nature of Elizabethan theater. Professor Miller said that the origins of the other great monument of 17th-century English literature is due for a similar reconsideration.

Yeah, I’m as impressed with this as I am with the idea that Shakespeare was a woman, which loony feminists came up with.  It’s amazing how for some people creation has to be a group work!

OUR REVOLTING ADMINISTRATION: Obama Admin Accuses Israel of ‘Terrorism’ As More Jews Murdered.

FOR THE LOVE OF ARUGULA: Report: Kids Continue to Leave the Lunch Line Due to Michelle Obama’s Rules.

FASTER PLEASE: How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop.

BECAUSE ALL WE NEED IS MRS. CORRUPTION IN OFFICE: Why You Actually Should Care About Hillary Clinton’s Damn Emails.

SHE SHOULD AT LEAST WASH HER HANDS: “Truth,” according to Mary Mapes.

OF COURSE. THEY’RE ‘HONORED GUESTS’ OF THE HAPPY PEOPLE OF BRUTOPIA: State Dept.: Kerry ‘Simply Misspeaking’ by Calling Americans Detained by Iran ‘Hostages’.

GOOD: Guns ‘n’ Moses: Why more Jews are packing heat.

THE STUPIDEST THING YOU’LL READ ALL WEEK: Famous quotes, the way a woman would have to say them during a meeting.