A lot of conservatives are hoping for a wave election this November. They still hold out hope that a GOP majority will halt the decay and mark the turnaround. This story from The Hill says otherwise.

It wasn’t part of the jobs message he planned to pitch, but Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that immigration reform would help boost the economy.

“Immigration reform will help our economy, but you’ve got to secure the border first,” the Ohio Republican said after a speech at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. “We’ve got a mess and everyone knows we’ve got a mess.

“Our legal system is broken, our border isn’t secure, and we’ve got the problem of those who are here without documents,” the Speaker continued. “It needs to be fixed. We’re a nation of immigrants, the sooner we do it, the better off the country would be.”

His immigration comments, in response to an audience question, weren’t part of his prepared remarks. They followed a 20-minute-speech in which Boehner laid out his five-point plan to jump-start America’s economy.

As everyone knows, flooding the nation with new workers will drive up wages and make everyone richer. All of that twaddle about supply and demand is just nonsense.

It is well known that Boehner has a well paid landing spot lined up. He needs to seal the deal with an amnesty bill. He tried to do it over the summer, but the idiot in the White House screwed it up with the Children’s Crusade at the border. They thought that was a winner, but the backlash made passing amnesty an act of suicide. After the election, during the lame duck session, Boehner will bring up an amnesty bill and it will pass.

Game over.

At lunch the other day, the conversation turned to the topic of Britain. I brought up the grotesque story of Pakistani pimps grooming young British girls and the fact no one willing to do anything about it. The question of whether it could happen here was in some dispute. I suspect not, but I don’t know. The culture seems to be collapsing quickly. In the 1960’s, cops in northern cities regularly busted up homosexual bars. These bars were run by the Mafia and the cops would use the fact they were servicing homosexual men, as it were, as an excuse to bust the places up. The Stonewall Riots were in response to this common police tactic. Today, you can lose your job and be thrown into destitution for saying a bad word about homosexuals.

The point is, what was laughably unimaginable just a generation ago is now orthodoxy. Around the same time as the Stonewall Riots, conservatives were warning against the dangers of universal health care. Today we are all tangled in the bizarro land web of government mandated health insurance. The defense of the culture can give away quickly. You can win battle after battle, lose one and the ratchet clicks. Another round and the ratchet clicks again. It does not take long before the war is lost. Cultures go bankrupt like anything else, slowly then all of a sudden.

Anyway, it got me thinking about the next big assault on civilization from the Left. The cycle by now is familiar. The Cult comes up with some way to clamp down on the populace, but then fumbles around for a way to sell it. It goes through a few versions until they finally figure out a plan to get what they want by making it look like a holy cause. That’s the key. Once a Progressive goal becomes a moral crusade, they run over the opposition on their way to victory. The “Gay marriage” of 2025 is now just a policy paper at a liberal wish tank or crackpot legislation from a back bencher.

My candidate is press freedom. The Obama administration has been using the tools it has to bully and harass the press. They tried to boycott Fox News and they still treat the network as a pariah. They had the DOJ spying on unfriendly reporters with the obvious intent of using whatever they found as extortion. Of course, they have the IRS targeting conservative media as well as conservative activists. All of these things are against the law and should be enough to put Obama in a cage, but it just shows how far the assault of the media has progressed.

The preferred method is to undermine the First Amendment so the Feds can control the press like we see in Europe. That’s tough to do so the Cult is looking for backdoor ways to do it. One is to give the regulators control of the Internet under the guise of “Net Neutrality.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to give federal regulators sweeping new powers over Internet access.

The move is necessary, she said Monday, to save net neutrality and protect Internet users. But Republicans and business groups warn that applying utility-style regulations to the Internet would strangle economic growth and ultimately mean worse Internet service.

“I oppose special Internet fast lanes, only open to those firms large enough to pay big money or fraught enough to give up big stakes in their company,” the California Democrat wrote in a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, urging him to classify broadband as a “telecommunications service” under Title II of the Communications Act.

Pelosi is the latest—and highest-ranking—Democrat to back the controversial regulatory maneuver. Her position puts more political pressure on Wheeler and the other commission Democrats to invoke the powers.

Supporters argue that using Title II is the only way to enact net-neutrality rules that can hold up in court. In January, a federal court struck down the old net-neutrality rules, which were based on weaker authority under Title I of the law.

Net neutrality is the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. Wheeler prompted a major backlash earlier this year by proposing new rules that would allow broadband providers to charge websites for faster service in certain cases.

As soon as you tell providers that they cannot discriminate as to who they allow on their networks, the Feds can start telling them who they can allow on their networks. The Left can hoot and holler all they like about equal access, but what they seek is something like the Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. Regulators can then tax speech they don’t like by telling ISP’s they have too much or too little of certain content.

Virtually all Democrats support net neutrality, but only some of them have explicitly called for the FCC to reclassify Internet providers. So far, 14 senators and 37 House members have backed the controversial option.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to defend the agency’s rules, but he hasn’t taken a position on which regulatory provision the agency should use. President Obama has said he opposes Internet fast lanes, but has also been silent on Title II.

Republicans and broadband providers, however, have promised to do everything they can to stop the FCC from using its Title II powers on the Internet. In a May letter to the FCC, House GOP leaders warned that applying “antiquated regulation on the Internet” would “needlessly inhibit the creation of American private-sector jobs, limit economic freedom and innovation, and threaten to derail one of our economy’s most vibrant sectors.”

You see the classic recipe for a break of the walls. All of the Democrats are for it and the Republicans are mounting a disorganized defense. That’s probably why the Cult is feeling cocky enough to offer up an amendment to the Constitution that repeals the First Amendment.

Section 1. To advance democratic self-government and political
equality, and to protect the integrity of government and the electoral
process, Congress and the States may regulate and set reasonable limits
on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to
influence elections.

The Citizen’s United case has sent the Cult bonkers because it breaks their lock on campaign financing. If you look at the big money operations in politics, they tilt Left. A little math shows they get 72% of the money from the top-10 donors. The Democrats have been the party of plutocrats for decades, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Citizens United lets the GOP target rich individuals and corporations to try and even the playing field, which is why the Left is going crazy trying to repeal the First Amendment.

Section 2. Congress and the States shall have power to implement
and enforce this article by appropriate legislation, and may
distinguish between natural persons and corporations or other
artificial entities created by law, including by prohibiting such
entities from spending money to influence elections.

The last part, “influence elections” is where the real mischief lies. Limiting how much a candidate can spend or how much someone can give to a candidate is odious, but not lethal. Once you allow the regulation of influence, you have a licensing regime for political participation. Since just about anyone could influence an election, everyone will need permission from the state to participate in politics. This would extend to the media, even though they say it does not.

Section 3. Nothing in this article shall be construed to grant
Congress or the States the power to abridge the freedom of the
press.

News companies are corporations and the people who work there are natural persons. If you can pass a law banning corporations from influencing elections, then you have effectively banned the New York Times from editorializing about campaign or endorsing candidates. Since I’m a human and this blog is written by me, Harry Reid could ban me from blogging about the campaigns. If you don’t think that’s how it works, just consider how the court has pretended the health care mandate is a tax.

The fascist Harry Reid will not live to see this pass, but that does not mean it will die with him. This time it will fail but they will come back with something else. They will keep trying until they find some way to get greater control political speech. Today it sounds absurd, but a generation ago it was absurd to think bakers would be forced at gun point to make cakes for homosexuals. Yet, here we are.

I’ve often framed the war on football as a part of the larger war on normal. To use a  Sailerism, World War N. The Cult scans the horizon for anything popular with normal people. When they spot something, they begin working to destroy it. The Blue-Gray Line is also a Progressive-Normal line. Mocking Walmart in public becomes an act of piety. Wringing your hands on TV about concussions in football (American football for my UK readers) shows the rest of the Cult that you are one of them. The recent over-the-top hysterics about domestic violence amongst football players is like catnip and it is another entry point into the war on normal.

As is often the case with culture issues, there are many layers. The Fake Nerd fad seems like a way for white beta males to have a place at the table. Traditional white males are racists and crude. Black males are sacred. In between lies the land of the white beta male and his brown skinned companion, the Hindu beta male. You can sprinkle some Jewish dorks on top like jimmies on a sundae. The cast of Big Bang Theory is what the Cult wishes America looked like.

I’ll just note there are no black people on that show or Mexicans. Racists!

Anyway, the trendy, beta male hipster has a bit of problem when it comes to sports. The point of entry has been the fake data driven journalism, but no one really cares about that. If you really follow the data, you end up sleeping on John Derbyshire’s couch. There’s only so many metrics and scatter plots you can do before people get bored. I suspect that’s why the Cult seems to favor soccer and basketball over hockey, football and baseball. Basketball is a sport for a tiny fraction of the human population – outlandishly tall black people. Soccer is a sport anyone can play, even beta males. The players even look like silly urban hipsters.

The point I’m ham-handedly trying to make is that a component of the war on normal is a war on the traditional male. Hollywood no longer casts male leads in action films, it seems. Instead, we get pixie stick women in Lycra body suits manhandling, as it were, the male toughs. The male toughs are always hairy steroidal white guys or steroidal black guys. It’s why the schools are pumping boys full of drugs so they sit there and pay attention. It’s why colleges want to throw horny frat boys in prison for banging drunk chicks.

The war on football is, of course, an easy insertion point for the dimmer members of the sporting press to get in on the act.

One of the saddest and most revealing details about the Adrian Peterson child abuse allegations/indictment is this reported text exchange with the mother of one of the children who was whipped.

“… toughest of the bunch,” Peterson wrote. “He got about five more pops than normal. He didn’t drop one tear! So that was another indicator I’ll have to try another system with him. SMH he’s tough as nails …”

The mother replied: “Well you can’t hit him til he cries! That’s just mean. He’s trying to be strong for you. He’s afraid of you. He’s 4, he’s not playing mind games with you …”

Peterson was trying to make his child into a man before the boy can even form and express complete thoughts. He’s even excited about the challenge, as if facing down a would-be tackler. The child is trying to prove his own mettle, probably because he wants his dad to be proud of him. It’s the same thing Peterson did with his own father, as a child and into his college years, when he dazzled the football world with his toughness as his dad sat in jail.

Adrian Peterson scored a 16 on his Wonderlic. This is a test I’ve taken many times and administered many times. It is not a valid IQ test for a number of reasons, but it is a decent approximation for people who have attended college. Peterson probably has an IQ of around 90. Employers using the Wonderlic are told that a 20 is the minimum for a job stocking shelves in a warehouse. In other words, Adrian Peterson is probably too dumb to understand any of this.

Peterson’s greatest on-field accomplishment was in 2012, when he returned from two knee ligament tears to win MVP honors. It’s understandable how Peterson saw the connection between enduring his dad’s punishment and withstanding football’s agony. He said he would never stop “whupping” his kids, “because I know how being spanked has helped me in my life.”

The current NFL crisis, just like most of the league’s past crises, lies not in who did what or who knew what when, but in a warped and conflicted definition of manhood. It’s an issue that affects all of society – not just the NFL.

“We need to look at what it means to be a man,” said Tony Porter, co-founder of “A Call to Men.”

“What are we teaching our sons?”

More often than not, we are teaching our sons to exert control – over tears and emotions, then girls, then households and careers. Peterson’s son was trying to keep control, and Peterson himself was trying to keep control over his son. That kind of control, no matter how good the intentions, can spiral into abuse of power. That’s what happened in Peterson’s case, and that can certainly happen in domestic violence situations.

“When you see people hit each other as a kid, or when you get hit as a kid, it’s about power and control,” said former NFL player Jimmy Stewart, who says he was abused as a child. “You want power and control over people.”

The madhouse logic here is too much for me to pass up. Take any human activity to an extreme and you get a bad result. Putting that aside, note that the author thinks normal male behavior is a problem. The unwritten assertion is that the modern man needs to be a cheerful lesbian with a dick.

That desire for control is hard to unlearn. Stewart, who is now a licensed professional counselor who works with athletes at Colorado State, says it took him many years to handle the rage he felt from getting hit.

A “licensed professional counselor” is someone with a permit to charge people to talk to him. One of the more amazing facts of modern times is we still subscribe to the quackery of talk therapy. Imagine if your oncologist suggested he talk your cancer out of killing you. Yet, we think you can talk people out of mental illness.

A man who feels a loss of control often feels like his worth is being challenged. Statistics show domestic violence can turn into homicide when an abuser feels his wife or girlfriend has decided to leave. “That’s when they have pretty much lost control,” Porter said.

The punishment of Ray Rice, Greg Hardy and Peterson may feel cathartic, but it doesn’t get at the root of the problem. Nor does the social media mob that was after Richie Incognito last year, who was accused of bullying a teammate in his efforts to control his environment – the Miami Dolphins’ locker room. Hazing is another example of domination of a deemed lesser person in the guise of shaping them or subduing them. Sometimes that too becomes violent. Incognito didn’t quite understand why what he was doing was wrong because it was out of love for a teammate. That sounds a lot like Peterson’s reasoning for whipping his child: I was making him into a man.

Biology tells us that a key trait of male humans is the ability, willingness and desire to dominate other males. We have ritualized it since settlement. It is a part of the culture. It is now a bad thing and must be stamped out. I guess 50,000 years of evolution will yield to the latest fads.

“I’ve been with just about every team in the NFL,” Porter said. “We have this discussion on manhood. What would it take to create a world where all men and boys are respectful and all women and girls are valued and safe?”

The problem is the generational cycle. The definition of manhood is passed on starting at a very young age. Boys take after their fathers, and if there are no fathers present, they often take after their older teammates or coaches. Sometimes those teammates and coaches reinforce this outdated version of manhood that football tends to recycle.

Actually, the problem is that most of the players in the NFL are black. That means they grew up without fathers. Many of them have a bunch of little of bastards by random women.

The coaches who have been put on the spot during this crisis, such as John Harbaugh and Ron Rivera, were football players. They grew up in a football world and they never left. They scream and stomp when something goes wrong, just like their coaches did. They see themselves as builders of men, just like their coaches did. One of the most tone-deaf voices during this period has been Hall of Famer Mike Ditka, who said about Rice, “His earning power is destroyed.”

But that’s the point, isn’t it? The beta male revolution is all about putting the eloi on top the and the morlocks on the bottom. Eric Adelson wants a world where his kind is seen by the females as the high status males. That can only happen if the toughs are cast as low status. Losing your ability to earn money is a good way to put a guy at the bottom of the social order. As long as crude violent men like Ditka succeed, guys like Eric Adelson remain at the bottom.

I’m not sure where this ends. Maybe we are heading to a time when being a high status males means being an effeminate pansie like Eric Adelson staying home and playing mother, while their wife works. I’ve been on this earth for a long time now and I have run into a few guys like this. A professional woman married to a stay- at-home dad has always been easy pickings when on a business trip, if you get my drift. Those guys who were sure their beta male lifestyle was the winner always turned out to be wrong. It’s hard fighting biology.

But, maybe things are different now.

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For reasons that remain a mystery to me, members of Conservative Inc are fans of bitter, demented lesbian, Sally Kohn. Lesbianism, up until very recent, was assumed to be a mental disorder, even if male homosexuality was, in fact, biological. The reason is male homosexuality makes some sense evolutionarily. All of the normal traits are there, but pointing in the wrong direction. The male urge is to copulate with as many mates as possible to increase his odds of passing on his DNA. Bad wiring or brain damage could easily explain why those traits point south when they should point north.

Female homosexuality makes no sense, which is why genetics was ruled out long before the question for the “gay gene” came up short. When you rule out genetics, you’re left with some unpleasing options, one of which is mental illness. Five minutes watching Rachel Maddow leads one to think mental illness is the winner. Her weird array of ticks are familiar to anyone who has been around the mentally ill. Greg Cochran’s “gay germ” theory could very well be correct, but that’s all speculation. The current orthodoxy demands we say it is biology and go no further.

As I’m typing this, it occurs to me that the most popular professional lesbians are little Jewish girls. Maybe it is a form of “Shiksa Fever.” I don’t know. I do know that no one would give a damn about Sally Kohn if she did not look like the guy who sealed my driveway. If she looked like any of the news bunnies on TV, she would be doing production work at CNN hoping to bag a husband. Instead she plays the flannel and comfortable shoes bit into a prominent place in the Cult of Modern Liberalism. She even gave a TED Talk!

Anyway, Jonah Goldberg tweeted this out.

Suddenly, Republicans like birth control. Or at least that’s the conclusion they would like you to draw based on a recent spate of GOP candidates announcing their support for making birth control pills available over the counter. But the truth is Republicans remain as committed as ever to restricting the reproductive freedom of poor and middle-class women while advancing the freedom of corporations.

Maybe it is deliberate craziness, but it is a whole lot of crazy packed into the first paragraph. First off, no one cares about free birth control pills. They are so cheap they may as well be free. The hand full of crotch warriors making a fuss this election cycle just seem like old perverts to most people. The last sentence is the sort of thing you would expect from someone who just took a blow to the head. The phrase “reproductive freedom” is nonsensical. No one is being forced to bear children or even encouraged to do so. That’s why fertility rates have plummeted.

In recent elections, Republican political candidates have of course been hurt by their own extremist stances on opposing the contraception mandate in Obamacare, restricting abortion, and generally perpetuating the war on women. The rhetoric of recent candidates like Todd Akin hasn’t exactly helped, either.

But now, a few GOPers have advanced a clever counter-narrative. Recently, four Republican candidates in tough Senate races—Cory Garner in Colorado, Ed Gillespie in Virginia, Mike McFadden in Minnesota, and Thom Tillis in North Carolina—in effect tried to declare to voters, “We support birth control so much we want women to be able to get it over-the-counter!” Sounds great. Especially coming from Republicans. If only it were true.

This is the sort of paranoid ranting that leads me back to the mental health explanation. Lesbians have extraordinarily high rates of substance abuse. In order to write the above paragraphs, you have to be either drunk, high or crazy. The Lunatics demanding I buy rubbers for upper middle-class coeds wanted an excuse to justify the deeply unpopular health care plan passed by their cult. It was never serious and no one ever thought it was serious. Rubbers and birth control pills are so cheap they may as well be free.

Reproductive health advocates agree that making birth control available over the counter is a good idea if paired with other essential reforms such as ensuring that insurance plans will cover birth control without a prescription. Without these reforms, say advocates, the reality is that access to contraception wouldn’t really expand and in fact would likely be reduced.

Sally Kohn is nutty as a fruitcake, but the error above is common with her cult. Insurance covers unexpected financial calamities. What Kohn and The Cult describe is lay-a-way. You pay a little each month for some known expense in the future. That’s not insurance and it is why covering rubbers is more than a bit kooky.

It also reveals something else about The Cult. They have a mythology that would rival what the Nazis cooked up about the Aryan race. The Cult is convinced health care is an unlimited resource. The insurance companies and government (all controlled by The Cult) guard that resource like a dragon guarding its lair. If only the brave warriors of The Cult can slay the dragons, the people will be bathed in all the health care they need!

It’s an amazing bit of madness. Maybe that’s why Erik Rush called her an obnoxious maladjusted lesbian.

As I remarked here and elsewhere, the Scottish vote was not close. There are two main reasons for it. One is the staggeringly high welfare class in Scotland. It’s not Camden in Kilts, but it is close. The only way that block was going for independence is if it meant bigger welfare checks. The very word “independence” is frightening to the dependency class. Welfare types are not very bright, but they are clever. They know how the system works better than the foolish tax payers, busy pulling the wagon. I’m sure in the welfare underground the math of this had been worked out long ago.

Even if I’m exaggerating the size of the loafer class, there was never a compelling reason to leave. All the romantic crap about Braveheart is moving to some people, but most people want to live lives of quiet desperation. That’s the bit Thoreau never understood. Most men do not want “to live deliberately and confront the essential facts of life.” Most men like things the way they are. It’s why the Left is winning the war on civilization. Once they push through some toppling of a stone. people get used to it. Rousing the people to put the stone back is impossible.

This vote also provides a nice reminder of the dishonestly of polling. The polling companies need close races that appear to go back and forth. The press wants polls showing closes races. All of the incentives are pointing in one direction. Polling is not science. It is barely statistics. It’s how Research 2000 was able to sell fake polls to the Daily Kos so easily. The lunatics at Kos want to believe so strongly, they lost the ability to see when they were being conned.

This vote was never close. The result is pretty much what early polling suggested. The press and the polling outfits wished otherwise and the inevitable momentum slowly collapsed the polls until we had a deadlock. By the standards of modern elections, this was a blowout. For the next week, the pollsters will spin the result focusing on what changed in the final days and how the winning side won and the losing side lost. Throw in a few conspiracy theories about rigged votes and the polling gets forgotten.

Nice racket.

Looks like one of their icons is a serial fabulist:

Religious fanatics have an odd habit of overreacting when people have the audacity to question their fanaticism. In Iraq, radical Islamic jihadists are systemically murdering and beheading Christians, Jews, and even Muslims who do not pledge fealty to ISIS’s religious tenets. Hundreds of years ago, church authorities and Aristotelian acolytes imprisoned Galileo for having the audacity to reject geocentrism in favor of heliocentrism. The bible recounts how Christians were persecuted and stoned, and Jesus himself was crucified for contradicting the religious dogma of the day.

You will bow to the religious zealots, or you will pay the price.

I wrote the other day about the purging of the Clintons. You never know how these things will go as we’re dealing with humans who are prone to error. Antony was sure he had the upper hand on Octavius. Crassus thought he was the superior man to Pompey who thought he was the superior man to Caesar. Closer to home, the DLC crowd thought they were about to run the liberal crazies out of the Democrat Party in 1992, but in 1994 the Lunatics were poised to take over the party.

This story in the Hill lays out how the Moonbats are plotting against Cankles.

Emails sent by liberal activists and obtained by The Hill reveal significant dissatisfaction with Hillary Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016.

The critical messages about the former first lady show that she has a long way to go to assuage skepticism from influential voices on the left.

The Hill reviewed hundreds of emails from a progressive members only Google group called the “Gamechanger Salon,” a forum where nearly 1,500 activists, strategists and journalists debate issues and craft messaging campaigns.

The group includes prominent Democrats, Sierra Club officials, journalists who work for The Huffington Post and The Nation magazine, senior union representatives, leaders at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and the president of NARAL.

In the emails spanning over a year — starting in June 2013 through July of this year — frustration with Clinton is evident.

Clinton’s too much of a hawk, too cozy with Wall Street, hasn’t spoken out enough on climate change, and will be subject to personal questions and criticisms, members of the group stated in the emails.

The existence of the group was reported earlier this year by the conservative outlet MediaTrackers.org, but this is the first time the emails have become public.

I’ll just note that the Left is becoming less concerned about their private machinations going public. There was a time when these Jacobin Clubs were held so close no one could be sure they existed. Lately, they turn up frequently and the Left does not panic or even deny it. I’m not sure what that means, but it could be sloppiness and ineptitude.

“[A] Clinton presidency undos [sic] all our progress and returns the financial interests to even more prominence than they currently have,” Melissa Byrne, an activist with the Occupy Wall Street movement, said in a November 2013 email.

The progressives expressed an appetite for an alternative to Clinton to teach her — and those from the centrist wing of the party — a lesson.

Liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has repeatedly said she won’t run for president, but some on the left aren’t convinced.

“The establishment Dems need to be punished, and the best way for that to happen is for Warren to beat Hillary in the primary on a populist message,” Carl Gibson, a progressive activist and writer for Occupy.com, wrote in one email.

Even though months have passed since the emails were sent, the sentiment remains.

Mike Lux, a prominent strategist and an active member of the group, told The Hill that the concerns haven’t changed and operatives “are probably more worried at this point rather than less.”

Conversations with a half-dozen of the members of Gamechanger Salon this week confirm that the angst within parts of the progressive movement has only grown.

“There’s good reason to believe the discontent remains the same,” Neil Sroka, spokesman for Democracy for America and another group member, told The Hill.

Much of the exasperation with Clinton hinged on the former New York senator’s vote for the Iraq War, which is still toxic for many progressives. Clinton has since said her vote was a mistake.

Charles Lenchner, a progressive operative and executive director of Organizing 2.0, said Clinton — and anyone else who voted for the Iraq War — is “tainted.”

“And personally, I would like to see a Democratic Party where folks who enabled George Bush to drag the country into a permanent war are punished at the ballot box,” he said in an interview.

Ryan Clayton, a left-leaning commentator and strategist, wrote in a July 2013 email, “The more Progressives I talk to, the more people tell me that they’ll never forgive her for voting for the Iraq War… and won’t even vote for her in the general.”

Another area of irritation is the economic policies instituted by her husband, former President Clinton, that some progressives say contributed to the financial collapse. Lux, a former Clinton administration aide, wrote in an email that while he didn’t think she was involved in crafting economic policy as first lady, he’s concerned about her relationship with Wall Street.

“I also came to know how close she was to the pro-Wall Street forces inside the administration and out, and the downsides on foreign policy are all very real. So I will hesitate for a long time before jumping into her campaign,” Lux wrote in a group email.

Byrne, the Occupy activist, later declared in an email this year: “I have little respect for decisions Sec. Clinton has made in her career and I have a different value set from her.”

One of Clinton’s biggest critics among the group is Guy Saperstein, a major Democratic donor and part owner of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.

In emails, Saperstein called a report out in December of last year that Clinton offered a “reassuring” message to Goldman Sachs executives “horrific,” and slammed her for “ducking a lot of issues, like the Keystone pipeline.”

He also raised questions about her leadership at the State Department and referenced “the type of intimidation the Clintons want to quietly promote [in the velvet glove, of course].”

Saperstein expressed concerns that voters would begin to speculate over her personal life and relationship with her husband.

“None of that would be helpful to her candidacy,” he wrote.

Saperstein did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

New members of the group have to be sponsored by a current member. Participants were put on notice in a document outlining the rules of the group: While “you are not allowed to forward emails without permission of their author … on a list with 1,000+ people, it’s a good policy not to write things on the list that you wouldn’t feel comfortable saying publicly.”

The email messages show how intensely leaders in the progressive movement want Warren to run. Lux, who has called Warren a friend and offered effusive praise of the freshman senator, was nevertheless a consistent voice warning against the effort.

“She represents most of what I have been looking for in a Presidential candidate for my entire career in politics and who is besides a dear friend. I am not expecting her to decide to make the race, though- she certainly hasn’t given me much indication she is considering it,” he said in an August 2013 email.

I’m praying Fake Indian decides to run. I’ll have more material than I can handle. She is the Kathleen Kennedy Townsend of this cycle. The Left was sure, a few decades ago, that KKT was their future savior. They failed to notice what I noticed back in the 80’s when I worked with her. The woman is dumber than a post. Warren suffers the same defect.

Others raised flags about Warren’s focus on environmental issues.

“I love Elizabeth Warren. She’s great on holding Wall Street accountable and many pocketbook issues I care about, but she hasn’t talked about climate change publicly since she was elected,” Marc Weiss, a climate activist and lobbyist, wrote in an email from the group.

But still, the “Warren wing” of the party pressed on. The emails reveal an adamant conviction that, essentially, if they built the movement, she would come.

Billy Wimsatt, the founder of the group, stated in a September 2013 email, “I’m ready for something better and Warren is the only person on the radar who might be significantly better. Warren doesn’t need to appreciate it. Leadership isn’t fun. She doesn’t get to tell people that we can’t want something better.”

Gibson, of Occupy.com, in an email from December of last year, lauded Warren’s “ovaries of steel.”

And Lenchner, of Organizing 2.0, told The Hill this week that the other potential candidates in the race don’t have the “symbolism of Warren.”

Wimsatt, along with dozens of others in the group, declined to comment for this article. But a few talked with The Hill about their thoughts on Clinton.

In interviews and emails, members of the group expressed a near-universal concern — that still prevails — that if Clinton doesn’t take steps to appease the progressive wing of the party, it could be damaging to her chances in 2016.

Gibson wrote in an email, “another establishment pick from a political dynasty family will drive folks to the green party.”

Clayton suggested in an email from January of this year that without a more liberal alternative to Clinton, the party would splinter: “if we have no Progressive candidate with legitimate street cred about taking effective bold action to face the vital issues we’re confronting as a country today (which is pretty much Warren and … cricket, cricket…) in the race for Presidency, that means the abandonment of the Democratic Party by the reemerging and resurgent Left in America.”

Even as Clinton is dipping her toe in the 2016 waters with a return to Iowa this past weekend, Lux told The Hill that if she doesn’t take steps to assuage some of the angst on the left, “there’s a danger of progressives tuning out” if she wins the nomination.

Indeed, Gibson said in an interview that might be the plan.

“They’ll either vote for the Green Party of just sit out. That’s a really big aspect of progressive voters’ strategy” to have their voices heard, he said.

Let’s hope.

I’ve been reading Steve Sailer for a long time now. I enjoy his writing and usually his choice of topics. I don’t always agree with him, but he makes his case without a bunch of chanting and religious posturing. I think his posts on crime and demographics are some of the best you can find. Unlike anyone in the paid media, he actually supplies data. That’s also why he is no longer paid media. You’re only permitted to use data in support of the current narrative.

All that said, Steve Sailer is perfectly able to hold some nutty ideas. We all are. His post over at Takimag on Scottish Independence finishes with what I would call a very wrong opinion.

The Scottish independence movement inevitably inspires the question of secession in America. As John Derbyshire has pointed out, the United States represents a vast expanse of territory, and people from distant regions increasingly get on each other’s nerves. In an era of free trade zones and military alliances, wouldn’t it be simplest for the U.S. to break up like the SNP wants the U.K. to end?

I don’t think so, however. The big difference is that that the U.K. is primarily a north-south country, while the U.S. is an east-west country. Latitude divides people more than longitude. In America, the most important political divide is distance from deep water, such as oceans or the Great Lakes: what I call the Dirt Gap. San Francisco and Manhattan, for example, are 2900 miles apart, but are similarly liberal because family formation is equally unaffordable due to both being similarly constrained from expansion by water. Hence, the “family values” party is less relevant where family formation is prohibitively expensive.

Anyone who has spent time up and down the east coast of America knows this is hilariously wrong. People in Maine have one thing in common with the people of South Carolina. They both speak a version of American English. That’s where it ends. The great divide in America, if one wants to declare one, is north and south as in Blue and Gray as in Union versus Confederacy. It is what drives our politics and what animates much of the Cult of Modern Liberalism. It is the divide John Derbyshire calls the Cold Civil War.

But, he is correct to note there is a divide between the coasts and the interior and the two coasts themselves. I’ve been to the West Coast many times, but I know nothing about it, at least not in the way I know the east coast. The people all seem weird to me, except the Mexicans, who are pretty much like Mexicans everywhere. The whites are all a little odd as I’m sure I would seem odd to them. Even Southerners find the west coast aloofness strange and off-putting. To northeastern types, it’s positively kooky.

Having been around the country quite a bit, I can make the case for all sorts of regional divides. American is a big country with a lot of different types of people. Local weirdness is everywhere. None of it is like the Blue-Gray line. It is what drives the Cult of Modern Liberalism. Their obsession with race, for example, is tied directly to their mythological role in the Civil Rights Movement. The war on Walmart is a war on Southerners. The absurd reaction to Paula Dean was a visceral reaction to her overt “southerness.” The war on Christianity is really a war on Evangelicals. Northern Catholics think the snake handlers make religion look bad.

I can go issue by issue and tease out a Blue-Gray explanation. You can’t do that with the other ways to divide the country. The Blue-Gray line is not tied to geography. It is a culture line that has jumped its natural boundaries. Look at Texas. Austin is the Progressive enclave in an otherwise populist-conservative region. I know lots of NYC and DC based Progressives who regularly go to Austin. They mock the rest of the state as Red Neck Land. On the other hand, the people in Red Neck Land call Austin the People’s Republic.

That’s why John Derbyshire’s argument does not work. The Blue-Gray line is not based in geography. There’s some of it, but every Gray area has pockets of Blue. On the other side, the Deepest Blue region, which is New England, has a lot of Gray. New Hampshire holds a very popular NASCAR race and Maine is full of white trash Acadians. There’s simply no way to divide up the turf without localized blood baths as one tribe purges the other. Maybe that’s the future, but in a feminized and timid culture, it is not the way to bet. Instead, everyone will voluntarily submit to an increasingly authoritarian custodial state.

I’ve often noted that the reason certain populations struggle to accumulate wealth is the lack of impulse control. Storing away the proceeds of today’s labor requires an ability to say no to yourself. I come into some money and my greedy self wants to spend it on hookers and blow. That would be fun, but that other part of me, the part looking down the road, steps in a says I have to put the money under the mattress. Instead of hookers and blow I get a six pack and rent a movie, the rest of the money stashed away for another time.

Some people, like this person for example, lack the ability to say no to themselves. They get an idea in their head and they act on it. There’s no other self to step in and say no.

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston has been suspended for the first half of Saturday’s game against Clemson after he was seen shouting an obscene sexual phrase on campus Tuesday.

FSU interim president Dr. Garnett S. Stokes and athletic director Stan Wilcox denounced Winston’s “offensive and vulgar” behavior in a statement Wednesday to announce the punishment.

“As the university’s most visible ambassadors, student-athletes at Florida State are expected to uphold at all times high standards of integrity and behavior that reflect well upon themselves, their families, coaches, teammates, the Department of Athletics and Florida State University,” the joint statement said. “Student-athletes are expected to act in a way that reflects dignity and respect for others.”

The joint statement also said Winston would undergo “internal discipline.”

On Tuesday, Florida State students began flooding Twitter as several witnessed the reigning Heisman Trophy winner allegedly stand on a table in or in the immediate vicinity of the student union and yell obscenities, mimicking a popular Internet video. The phrase is of a sexual nature.

Winston apologized for his “selfish” act.

“First of all, I want to apologize to the university, my coaches and to my teammates,” Winston said. “I’m not a ‘me’ person, but in that situation, it was a selfish act, and that’s not how you do things around here.

“I want to apologize to my teammates because I have now made a selfish act for them. That’s all.”

Coach Jimbo Fisher, speaking during Wednesday’s ACC teleconference, also showed his displeasure for what happened.

“It was not a good decision,” Fisher said. “You can’t make certain statements that are derogatory or inflammatory to any person, race or gender. You have to understand that. You have to be very intelligent about what you say, [because] it matters.”

Winston may very well be a sociopath. He was involved in at least one act of sexual aggression. The local police appear to have covered it up because he is famous. There are rumors he was involved in at least one other sexual assault. He walked into  a grocery store and stole frozen crab legs, of all things, similar to how the Gentle Giant of Ferguson stole a box of cigars from a convenience store. Now this.

It’s possible he cannot truly understand right from wrong. The better answer is he lacks self-restraint. He appears to be contrite after the fact so he must know what he is doing is wrong. The lack of any plausible reason for these acts is the tell. In some communities, they have an expression about people from other communities who act in random, self destructive ways. The lack of self-restraint, poor impulse control, leads to unpredictable behavior. That, in turn, is the foundation of low-trust societies, like we see in, say, West Africa.

I’ve regularly said that the Cult of Modern Liberalism is a suicide cult. The evidence is all around us. Everything they touch is made worse or destroyed. The Brits are a generation ahead of us, give or take, in setting fire to their country and culture. Here’s what is coming to America.

A victim of Rotherham’s child sex abuse scandal confronted a man she says groomed her – but was left shocked when she was the one arrested.

The woman was shocked when she saw the man walking through the town’s centre on Friday and decided to challenge him over the allegations.

But she was tackled by two police officers and pushed up against a wall during her ‘thuggish’ arrest, a witness has said.

A damning report released last month detailed how 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the area over a 16-year period.

The Times reported that a woman whose case is being investigated by authorities – but has not yet been interviewed – was arrested after tackling a man she says groomed her when she was 15.

A witness accused the police of ‘acting like insensitive thugs’, telling the paper: ‘A police van came and six male officers piled out.

‘Two of them dragged her away, handcuffed her, put her against a wall and then shoved her into the back of the van.’

South Yorkshire Police told today how they had been hoping to interview the woman in the weeks before the arrest, after they were told of the historic allegations by another organisation.

But they only realised that she was the woman they had been trying to speak to after her arrest, and have now released her on bail.

After her treatment at the hands of officers, the woman has been reluctant to talk to police and her complaint against the man is therefore yet to be officially recorded.

The police force, which has come under fire in the wake of the recent scandal, insists it does take sexual violence seriously and will continue attempts to investigate the woman’s claims.

A spokesman said: ‘Specialist officers from South Yorkshire Police had been making efforts to trace a 28-year-old woman who had made allegations to a partner agency.

‘The allegations related to child sexual exploitation. Efforts to trace the woman were unsuccessful.

‘Later that day, officers from a neighbouring force who were providing support to South Yorkshire Police, were approached by a passerby who made complaints about the behaviour of a woman who they believed had been drinking.

‘The woman was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences.

It is not enough to flood the country with barbarians from Pakistan. Letting them rape the young English girls is not enough. Nope. the fanatics are actively trying to silence the victims on behalf of the barbarians. I guess this part of “rubbing their nose in it.” At this point, a group of Pakistani men could be sodomizing the Queen on the grounds of Buckingham Palace and the Brits would look away, blaming it on bigots.

It is pathetic and disgusting. It will also be coming to American. The suicidal lunatics in charge of America look at Europe as a model. It’s not the architecture they admire or the high culture. Our lunatics hate that as much as European lunatics. What our lunatics admire is the ruthlessness of the European lunatics. Bill Clinton may have been willing to rape a few women when he had time, but he was never willing to arrest them for complaining.

The sad truth is, the Brits would be better off importing millions more from Pakistan and handing them all the weapons they need to finish off the locals. Death is probably too good for the English, but at least it would be over. Look at this pathetic nonsense from what passes for conservative in Britain these days. “Please stay with us”??? A country with any self-respect would be building a wall right now to shut the Scots out. But, that’s long ago and far away.