OH: Red Cross Warns of ‘Dehumanizing’ Rhetoric in ISIS Fight.

The organization is concerned about rhetoric that “dehumanizes” and “demonizes” the enemy or suggests that a particular adversary is “outside the bounds of humanity” and can be treated “as if humanitarian law doesn’t apply,” the group’s deputy director for the Middle East, Patrick Hamilton, told reporters via a telephone conference call.

Language that could appear to justify or encourage war crimes and illegal treatment of detainees has become more common on all sides of the sprawling conflicts in Syria and Iraq, Mr. Hamilton said, to the point that the Red Cross felt it necessary to remind all combatants that international law requires due process and humane treatment of detainees “with no exceptions.”

It isn’t so much that the Red Cross is wrong, but that it’s probably impossible for civilized people of any religion to share a planet with the genocidal likes of ISIS.

THEY SHOULD BE GETTING SOME SCALPS, TOO, BUT NO SUCH LUCK SO FAR: Tea Party groups to get “substantial” payout over IRS scandal, lawyer says.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S PROBABLY HER LONGTERM GOAL FOR EVERYONE: Sen. McCaskill Wants To Strip American Indian Tribes of Sovereign Immunity.

DEMS ARE MISSING A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THEY USED TO CALL HITLER: Dems Yearn For Days of GOP Deficit Hawks.

Well, if they hadn’t used extralegal means to kill off the Tea Party, they still might be around.

ROLL LEFT AND DIE: Positive views of NFL down 18 points since 2013.

Today, 46 percent of voters have a positive view of the N.F.L. while 41 percent view it negatively. Four years ago (the last time the question was asked), 64 percent had a positive view of the league and 19 percent were critical.

“If the NFL were a political candidate, alarm bells would be going off in campaign headquarters,” says Democratic Pollster Chris Anderson who conducts the Fox News Poll with Republican Pollster Daron Shaw.

The downward shift on favorability comes mainly from Republicans (-37 points), whites (-23 points), men (-23 points), and independents (-14 points).

White men weren’t racist in 2013, but have become increasingly racist over the last four years.

RELATED: ESPN bracing for another round of widespread layoffs.

ERICK ERICKSON: I AGREE WITH JONAH GOLDBERG ABOUT ROY MOORE AND I WANT ROY MOORE TO WIN.

If Donald Trump is a symptom of a disease, Mitch McConnell is what the virus looks like under the microscope. Much of what ails the GOP right now is because of the repeated betrayals by McConnell and his apologists in conservative media blaming everyone else but him.

So now they get what they deserve — Roy Moore. They could have learned their lesson with Trump. But many of the very same people now horrified by the advance of Roy Moore were in bed with Trump to stop Ted Cruz.

If they won’t learn, they can and should have Moore.

Read the whole thing.

GOOD QUESTION: Why don’t more women come forward when they experience sexual harassment and even assault in the workplace?

Ed Morrissey:

Women have a tough time figuring out who their friends will be if and when they blow the whistle. The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove reported earlier today that Ronan Farrow got a lot of attention from attorney Lisa Bloom when he began digging into Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual assaults and harassment. At first, Bloom tried diverting his efforts into an esoteric look at non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), but changed tactics when Farrow resisted. Instead, Bloom — who claims to be a feminist activist — allegedly warned that she had dirt on actress Rose McGowan, one of Farrow’s sources, specifically about her sexual history.

For the record, Bloom denies this, telling the Daily Mail (via Stephen Green), “Attorneys must maintain confidentiality even when awful, untrue things are said about us.”

If it’s true, it’s despicable. Bloom didn’t disclose her connections with Weinstein to Farrow until later in their interactions, according to Grove, but Farrow had already suspected it. Bloom had represented Weinstein, and also had a development deal in place for a limited-run series based on the Trayvon Martin case. Her representation of Weinstein was not a recent development, either. Grove’s sources tell him that Bloom, the daughter of feminist legal activist Gloria Allred, had been on Weinstein’s team since last year, and had helped bury a New York magazine piece on the Hollywood mogul.

When Farrow confided in Bloom about the direction of the story, the high-pressure onslaught began.

Men on many college campuses are presumed guilty of rape by those in power. Women in many entertainment workplaces are presumed to be sexual playthings by those in power. Both industries are dominated by the Professional Left, who also presume to lecture the rest of us about lawlessness.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: An Inside Look At Wayne State’s Push To Fire Five Underperforming Tenured Professors.

FASTER, PLEASE: We Need an Investigation of the Entire Justice Department Now, Roger Simon writes.

(Bumped.)

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WELL, OKAY THEN: Kellogg’s to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes following Twitter call out.

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WEIRD, I THOUGHT IT WAS CAUSED BY MY SUV: Study links rapid ice sheet melting with distant volcanic eruptions.

HEY, REMEMBER WHEN THE PRESS JUMPED ALL OVER TODD AKIN FOR SAYING UN-PC THINGS ABOUT RAPE?

OFFICIALS WARN ABOUT MARIJUANA EDIBLES BEING GIVEN OUT AS HALLOWEEN CANDY TREATS.

News you can use – especially if you’re Maureen Dowd.

JOURNALISM: So here’s the headline: “Nearly 40 percent of tanning salons ignore state laws governing teen use.”

But read way, way down into the story and you get this: “This was a telephone survey, and not a single business contacted actually allowed a teenager to use UV tanning services without parental consent or violated any law.”

SPACE: India announces plan to land on moon in 2018. “The spacecraft is the Chandrayaan 2 and it consists of an orbiter, lander and rover configuration ‘to perform mineralogical and elemental studies of the lunar surface,’ the ISRO said. ISRO Chairman AS Kiran Kumar told PTI that the space organization is already in the process of getting the spacecraft ready for an expected launch during the first quarter of next year.”

SUZANNE VENKER: When It Comes to Sexual Harassment, Women (and Men) Have Options.

FINALLY: “IRS Commissioner John Koskinen will leave in November as President Donald Trump announced a new leader,” Legal Insurrection co-blogger Mary Chastain writes in a post titled “IRS Apologizes for Targeting Conservative Groups.”

Related: “The head of the Tax Exempt Division through most of these shenanigans was Lois Lerner, who walked away from it all with a $129,000 bonus and a pension.” Lerner claimed that the threat to her life outweighs the public’s right to hear her testimony, Ian Tuttle noted at the NRO Corner in May.

(MOSTLY BAD) ADVICE ON DELAYING AGING.

OR AT LEAST THE FORMER: Ted Cruz Calls on Colleagues To ‘Shut Up and Do Your Job.’

TO PARAPHRASE BRECHT, WOULDN’T IT BE EASIER FOR THE DNC-MSM TO DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE AND ELECT ANOTHER?

● Shot: “Hearing more reports of some journalists — an embittered minority — giving up on the public. ‘If they don’t believe us, nothing we can do.’”

—Tweet today by leftwing NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen.

● Chaser: San Francisco Columnist Writes Justification for Death Threats to Trump Cabinet Official — Writer says death threats to EPA’s Scott Pruitt ‘make a warped sort of sense.’

—Headline at the Washington Free Beacon today.

● Reminder: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

(Headline inspired by Ben Domench.)

TO BE FAIR, SUPPLY HAS ALWAYS EXCEEDED DEMAND: “There is zero appetite for the ‘Never Trump’ movement in the Republican Party of today.”