| Even in Houston, Texas, You Will Be Made to Care |
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Houston, TX is not thought of as a bastion of liberalism, but it has gone quite rapidly off the deep end.
Earlier this year, Houston's City Council voted on non-discrimination legislation that provides equal protection to the entire swath of the BLTGCZQDLMAO alphabet silliness. In short, if a guy decides he's a girl and wants to go hang out in the girl's bathroom, it is a-okay in Houston, or it would be except the law will not be enforced pending a court challenge.
And that gets us to the craziness. The Mayor of Houston and her legal eagles have decided to subpoena pastors and other religious leaders who have spoken out against the insanity. The subpoenas demand the pastors turn over ""all speeches, presentations, or sermons related to [the legislation, the Petition [to repeal it], Mayor Annise Parker, homosexuality, or gender identity prepared by, delivered by, revised by, or approved by you or in your possession." |
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| Does Andrea Mitchell think Greg Abbott fakes his disability? |
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| If you're politically tuned in and following the Texas gubernatorial race, you're probably aware of Wendy Davis' recent "Wheelchair" ad, which accuses Greg Abbott, a paraplegic, of not caring for other people with disabilities. It's been called a "historic low" for political advertising, a field with plenty of deplorable entries, but Wendy Davis hasn't back down from it. Instead, she's doubled down on it. She recently spoke with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell to defend the ad. As one might expect, Mitchell quickly let her left-wing bias show, but in this particular instance, she did it by descending to a level one would associate with conspiracy theorists and the grossly uncharitable. |
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| Ebola and the Stench of Democrat Desperation |
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| One of the most fascinating things to me during this election season has been the media's studious obliviousness to the obvious stench of desperation surrounding Democrat campaigns. By comparison to the Republican disaster of 2006, the Democrats are showing an equally obvious amount of fleeing the Democrat brand ID, the Democrat President, and Democrat policies, and an equally obvious amount of fetid desperation in their attack ads. |
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| ISIS and the mystery of the jihadi brides |
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Since prehistoric times, man has sought a meaning in his life beyond daily sustenance. This yearning has been the source of some mischief but it has also seen the development of arts, the humanities, and even the science that declares this yearning is a mere delusion. Post-Christian and, mostly post-nationalistic Europe has little to attract disaffected young people seeking meaning to their lives. These young people aren't being lured to Syria and Iraq by "terrorism." They are being lured there by Islam. That it is impolitic to state the obvious lest Ben Affleck wet himself in distress essentially disarms the West in its fight against Islamic fundamentalism and the indiscriminate terror that it advocates.
One might well ask why young European women would be attracted to a lifestyle that views them as little more that chattel. I would offer that in current Western culture, for all its talk of feminism, that women are seen as little more than a life support system for sex organs. A quick look at the ads in Cosmo, an MTV music video, or the latest hit on HBO shows that feminism has become a by-word for promiscuity. The easy availability of divorce has shattered what was previously the cornerstone of society: the family. That young women who reject that culture might look for a belief system that offers them security and value, even if that value is based on childbearing, is hardly surprising.
One of the most significant disservices done to the nation by President Bush after 9/11 was his refusal to name our enemy for what it is. While all of Islam isn't necessarily violent it is inherently intolerant (Deerborn, Michigan, outlawed evangelists distributing Christian literature at a public festival; Malaysia has banned Christian from using the name Allah for God, Islamic theology notwithstanding). More to the point the violent part of Islam, as even Bill Maher has figured out, is not some rogue, outlying, heresy. The religious view that has manifested itself in al Qaeda and ISIS is how Islam is understood and practiced on the Arabian Peninsula and throughout the Maghreb. |
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| Despite the Campaign E-Mails, the DSCC has Left Allison Grimes Behind in Kentucky |
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| If you look at the Democratic Party's campaign e-mails (including those of the DSCC and DCCC) , you'll see that they are becoming increasingly desperate to stave off a Republican wave this November. Part of that desperation includes finding the most optimistic possible polls for their side in close races. In particular, they've singled out the Kentucky Senate race for attention... |
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| Mark Pryor's Dumb, Job-Killing Legislation |
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| As a former resident of Arkansas, I have followed the career of Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) pretty closely over the years. During all that time, Pryor's M.O. has not really changed - "Aw shucks" + "Jesus" + southern accent = wins. Pryor has long avoided the Republican whitewash of Arkansas by being relatively low key about the way that he almost always votes with Democrats on controversial issues while loudly trumpeting the fake populist things he does that supposedly benefit the poor people of Arkansas. It's thus pretty fair that Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is basically running against Obama because agreeing (quietly) with Obama is virtually the only thing of substance Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) has ever done. |
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| John Fund Braced for Voter Fraud in Colorado, I'm Braced for a Win |
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Last year Colorado passed a large overhaul of its voting regulations, creating an all mail ballot election with same day voter registration without a photo ID requirement. I, along with nearly every other Republican in the state, saw this as an attempt by the Democratic party to destroy the sanctity of the vote and open the door to massive voter fraud.
Just weeks away from the end of this election cycle, I can't say that I am really concerned about rampant fraud. The biggest reason why I am not all that concerned is two fold. First, Gardner is extending his lead beyond the margin of fraud. Second, I have seen the process at work. |
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| Scalia, Lawrence v. Texas, and the legitimizing of incest |
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| After finding a constitutional right to kill your baby in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court found it had not done sufficient damage to the Republic. In 2003, it raised the unrestrained libido to the level of constitutionally protected behavior in Lawrence v. Texas. What is notable is that both activities, abortion and buggery, were capital offenses under English Common Law and retained that status throughout the 18th century. This is not to advocate the reinstatement of capital punishment for these acts (though I'm open to being convinced) but to point out how, in an amazingly short period of time, we've gone from treating some activities as felonies to making it a felony to interfere with the activities. |
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| Republicans Appropriated More for the CDC This Year Than Obama Requested |
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Democrats, like drug addicts, are convinced that just one more hit of tax dollars will give them the fix they need. Every Democratic response to any situation is to demand government spend more and blame Republicans for not spending as much as they should.
The latest Democratic attack is pretty straightforward in its insanity. Because the GOP won't let the Democrats spend more money, people are getting Ebola. The Democrats would have you believe that the very same government that could not build an Obamacare website with hundreds of millions of dollars could somehow cure Ebola yesterday with more money.
There is just one problem: facts. |
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| Meet the Incredibly Awful Democrats Behind the Push to Blame Ebola on the GOP |
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This morning RedState received an email from the group responsible for this reprehensible ad. In the email Erica Payne, the President of Agenda Project Action Fund - which I will get to in a moment, lays out her team's strategy to win the election through fear mongering.
Payne described this new effort as "a multi-pronged blitzkrieg attack that lays blame for the Ebola crisis exactly where it belongs- at the feet of the Republican lawmakers." She went on to call Republicans rabid dogs before this gem of fear mongering - "Yesterday, a health worker tested positive for the virus- now, the effects of the GOP's fanatical hatred for our government may finally be exposed." |
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| President Obama Declares War - On the Clintons |
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He won't send ground troops to fight ISIS, but the war between Barack Obama and the Clintons is heating up.
The other night at Gwyneth Paltrow's house, most of America ridiculed the teenage stalker-ish crush Paltrow admitted she had on the President. But we should examine what the President said too. One of the things he said that is getting overlooked is this |
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| Obama's ISIS strategy enters Chernobyl phase |
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When Barack Obama decided to abandon US involvement in Iraq, he may not have set off the current crisis but he certainly made it possible. Now, as the situation worsens day by day, the options available to the administration become fewer and less pleasant. The silver bullet the administration has sought has been an indigenous ground force in Syria that can fight al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Assad.
To be blunt this is not going to happen. |
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| Fat Lesbians Got All the Ebola Dollars, But Blame the GOP |
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| Democrats have rushed out of the gate with an attack ad against Republicans claiming if only we had spent more money, we would be able to solve the Ebola situation. It's a defensive ad that reeks of desperation. At a time when more and more Americans, including millennials, are concluding government just doesn't work, it probably won't be effective. And Republicans can respond in kind. For example, instead of studying Ebola, the National Institutes of Health were studying the propensity of lesbians to be fat. |
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| Foreign aid and the spread of Ebola |
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As the Ebola crisis continues, many in the public health community have expressed a belief that this current outbreak is driven by an "evolution" of the virus that makes it easier to spread.
That does not seem to be the case. While numerous mutations have occurred in the virus there is no evidence that either its method of transmission or general mode of infection have changed at all. In fact, the current variety shows less variation from the past than do the changes in the flu virus from year to year. A recent study on changes in the Ebola virus since the current epidemic broke out found the virus is not evolving. |
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| The New Republic Stumps for Republicans |
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| Things have gotten pretty bad for the Democrats when the The New Republic writes an article like this arguing that Republicans should take control of the Senate. Of course, the piece is written as a scare piece for Democrats trying to encourage them to get out and vote to avoid a parade of horribles that will occur if Republicans take over. Unfortunately, TNR misses two important points: 1. That Republicans don't have veto-proof support for a single one of these measures, and 2. Almost all of them are overwhelmingly popular with the American public. |
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| Iraq requests US troops. Maybe. |
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| The Telegraph is running a wonderfully intriguing but frustratingly un-sourced story claiming that the Iraq government has requested US troops to stem the advance of ISIS |
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| The Vine |
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| Beginning today, close to 3,000 people will be online learning how to perform abortions according to WORLD News Group (WNG). The class, which is being offered by the University of California, San Francisco, is the first of its kind and hopes that the free education will lead to greater accessibility of abortions. Of course, as the WNG post points out, lack of education isn't the reason why abortion rates have been declining. In fact, "although 97 percent of OBGYNs had encountered a woman who desired an abortion, only 14 percent agreed to carry out the procedure." Doctors understand that there are two lives at stake and, having taken an oath to protect lives, are understandably not willing to kill one for the convenience of the other. Additionally, the majority of Americans do not support unrestricted abortions no matter how many people take an online course to perform them. The realty is that doctors and the public are already educated and that is why the pro-abortion movement is getting so desperate. |
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| I Have a Question |
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I think the President of the United States owes the American public an answer now.
I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in his role as Command-in-Chief, but not now.
In Dallas, TX, a health care worker who came into contact with the Ebola patient has contracted Ebola. The health care worker was a trained professional wearing protective clothing. But that trained professional in protective clothing now has Ebola.
There is always a risk. There was always going to be a risk.
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| CDC Dialing for Dollars with Ebola |
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Yesterday, CDC director Thomas Frieden made this assessment of the current Ebola epidemic:
"The only thing like this has been AIDS. And we have to work now so that this is not the world's next AIDS."
Frieden isn't a stupid man but this statement is either a blatant appeal for money or one of the more bizarre statements ever made by anyone in CDC, and that covers a lot of waterfront.
The statement flies in the face of everything known about Ebola, including the information Frieden, himself, has put out over the past couple of weeks and the comparison to AIDS, in any way other than a calculated attempt to headline-whore, is dishonest. |
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| People who wanted privacy didn't use Snapchat |
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A service called Snapchat has been around a while, purporting to let its users share images, without the recipient being able to save them. Except well, it never was possible to prevent that, and that's been known all along. Snapchat's answers was to try to warn the sender if the photo was saved but. they weren't that great at that.
So now a bunch of nude Snapchat photos may come out but, seriously, if you were sending nude photos around in this way, you didn't really care about your privacy anyway. |
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| Adam Laxalt Prosecuted Terrorists in Iraq. Gets Accused of Paper Pushing by His Opponent. |
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Adam Laxalt is running for Attorney General of Nevada. On Friday night, he debated his Democrat opponent, Ross Miller. You can see the whole debate here, but the most unbelievable moment comes at the 38:30 mark.
Laxalt is a veteran who served as a Navy JAG officer in Iraq handling the prosecution of terrorists, Saddam Hussein thugs, and others. During the Surge in Iraq, Laxalt's team had responsibility for more than 20,000 detainees in Iraq. For his service, he was awarded the Joint Service Commendation medal.
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| Bruce Braley denies Michael Bloomberg once. .So far. |
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| Basically, Bruce Braley claimed on Saturday that he has never even met Michael Bloomberg; a claim that is undercut by stuff on Braley's own website. Twitchy notes that the Braley campaign is trying to spin now that Bruce Braley was lying in the 2010 press release*, not in his 2014 debate comments, which is. about the best that they could hope to do, I suppose. The fundamental problem here is that in 2010 it looked like a good idea for Bruce Braley to cozy up to Bloomberg: but in 2014 it's not even remotely smart for a candidate for statewide office in Iowa to do that. To say nothing of the entire 'No Labels' thing, which has not aged well at all, at all. |
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| Raising the Diversity Shield in the Carl DeMaio Race |
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There have been disturbing allegations against Carl DeMaio for a while. Those include all sorts of things including sexual harassment against another guy.
Here's the truth about all this. The NRCC vetted the guy and these allegations were there for a while. They have merit behind them. Were DeMaio a straight guy, the NRCC would have worked overtime to force him out. Republicans all over would be denouncing the guy. |
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| World Health Organization Can't Wait to Tax You |
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| Next week, the World Health Organization (WHO), a group of incompetent nanny-statist bureaucrats who failed miserably to prevent the Ebola crisis from getting out of hand in West Africa (something that falls into the category of "WHO's primary mission"), plans to double down on a failed scheme it first tried to put into place a couple years ago. |
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| Gotham |
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Along with Arrow, I have been excited for the Flash to premiere. The CW gets the DC series well. I find it fascinating that as well as Marvel does Movies where DC fails, DC does well at television shows, or at least has on the CW.
Fox has taken on Gotham, a series from the DC comic universe of Batman's city, before Batman exists. The series starts with Dr. & Mrs. Wayne being gun downed. It is, for all intents and purposes, a police procedural.
I have eagerly anticipated this series since I first heard buzz of its creation last year. Batman is the best comic book super hero and Gotham's story in and of itself should provide a lot of material.
Having watched all the episodes now out, I am impressed by the show's potential, generally entertained by what I have seen, but left with a few concerns. |
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| RedState Weekly Briefing |
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| This week on the RedState Weekly Briefing Thomas LaDuke, Joe Cunningham, Caleb Howe, and I discuss Horse Race Politics, EBOLA(!!??), Hookers, Mark "Uterus" Udall, how Wendy Davis hates cripples, and more. |
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| Mayor Annise Parker Needs a Bible. Will You Send Her One? |
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The mayor of Houston, TX, has subpoenaed the sermons of local pastors and the speeches of local religious leaders to see what they have to say about homosexuality.
I fear Annise Parker has never read the Bible. If she wanted some sermons so bad, she could go to church, but I don't know that she will. So I think we should help her out. You can get a copy of the NIV version on Amazon.com for \$4.05.
Annise Parker's address is:
Mayor Annise D. Parker
City of Houston
P.O. Box 1562
Houston, TX 77251
I kindly suggest you all send Ms. Parker a Bible. Maybe she might be tempted to read it. |
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| The President Who Cried Wolf |
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ISIS was just a group of amateurs. They were the junior varsity team. Now they are overrunning Iraq. But the President told us that.
We could keep our doctor if we wanted to. The President told us that.
Insurance rates would not go up and no one would lose their insurance. The President told us that too.
He also said the Syrian rebels were too rag-tag and unprofessional to fight ISIS, then armed them to fight ISIS.
The President told us Ebola would not show up here, then that there would not be an outbreak here, and now that there will not be a serious outbreak here. |
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| Liberal Website Deadspin Pushes Out a Democrat Lie Against Cory Gardner. Blows Itself Up. |
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Look, this is just the latest bit of desperation sweat to drip from the Colorado Democrats' sulfuric pores. The blind partisans at Deadspin crafted a nice narrative but didn't bother to fact check it. Predictably, every Democrat partisan hack in the state dutifully jumped on the issue and promoted it as if it were their October surprise. Seriously, you can go look at the #cosen tag on twitter and see their gleeful tweets. Then a sudden silence.
Then Gardner decided the only way to be sure was to nuke the site from orbit. |
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| NIH uses Ebola to hide mismanagement and increase funding |
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Compare and contrast the Ebola vaccine budget with the NIH budget.
What is obvious is a couple of things. First and foremost, even during times of high funding, the Ebola vaccine received little attention. The budget estimated for Fiscal Year 2014 would be over \$13 million in 2003. So the claim that more money would have solved the Ebola vaccine problem is, to be kind and charitable, bogus. (As a side note, the surge in spending in various years reflects how contracts and grants are administered, not a sudden interest in Ebola.) The budget is so small that one wonders why they even bothered.
Secondly, NIH does not have a money problem. |
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| The Georgia Senate Polling |
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No, Michelle Nunn is not suddenly ahead of David Perdue.
Truth be told, polling in Georgia is terrible. The bulk of the polling has been done by political consulting shops that are trying to diversify and have suddenly become pollsters. Most all the polling has been bad. |
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| World Health Organization Priority is Taxes, not Ebola Crisis |
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I wrote last week about the WHO's plan to push for a massive, de facto global tobacco tax at a big confab in Moscow (because, obviously, there's nothing more pressing - cough, cough, EBOLA, cough, cough - that the WHO should be focusing on than people smoking).
Well, from Russia comes word that at the conference, that plan was passed, after members of the public, INTERPOL, people representing poor farmers who would be adversely impacted by the plan, and of course the media, were chucked out so that the global tax initiative could be given a big thumbs up in (almost) secret. |
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| John Boehner and Mitch McConnell Need to Lead on Ebola |
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Barack Obama and his administration are refusing to impose a travel ban from West Africa into the United States. Meanwhile, the CDC is freaking out because a nurse who now has Ebola flew on a commercial jet.
A solid majority of Americans want a travel ban from West African countries. There are, in fact, direct flights from those countries to the United States.
If Barack Obama won't do it, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) should force his hand. They should be calling for Congress to head back to Washington to vote on this travel ban. Before the election, make the Democrats take a position. |
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| Obama Has An Ebola Czar. She Re-Directed Federal Research Money to a Democrat Donor |
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You may be wondering why Barack Obama, with his propensity to name "czars" for every problem that ails us, has not named an Ebola Czar.
The reason is because he has, in fact, named an Ebola Czar. So why are we constantly seeing Dr. Tom Frieden of the CDC embarrass himself in press conferences instead of our Ebola Czar? Mollie Hemingway has the details. It turns out Dr. Nicole Lurie, the czar in charge of potential infectious disease catastrophes, has made the most of her time by funneling federal dollars to Democratic donors. |
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| Thomas R. Frieden Should Resign From the CDC. And We Need a Travel Ban. |
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Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is the Director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the past few weeks, the American people have seen him flail about spectacularly.
He has tried to instill calm in the public and instead made the situation worse. Under Frieden's leadership, hospitals across America are confused about Ebola protocols, a nurse with Ebola and symptoms traveled on a commercial airliner with the CDC's permission, and confusion has set in.
Frieden is in the unfortunate position of being a policy operative who has turned into a politician. He is doing a poor job at both. Prior to the CDC, Frieden came to Democrats' attention as Mayor Mike Bloomberg's healthcare expert intent on ending the scourge of second hand smoke and transfats.
Frieden's resume is impressive. But we are not now dealing with a transfat problem, a diabetes problem, or a second hand smoke problem. Despite his efforts to make a comparison, we are not even dealing with an HIV/AIDS equivalent situation. Were we dealing with any one of those situations, Frieden's expertise could no doubt shine.
No one expected Ebola would ever make it to the United States. Just a few weeks ago President Obama told the American public it would not make it here. It is here now and Dr. Frieden is not cut out for the job of calming a public and doing his job as CDC Director. It is not his fault. Events have gotten away from him and away from the administration he serves.
But Frieden needs to resign or be removed by the President as a first step in restoring calm by placing the CDC in more capable hands. |
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| David Perdue and a Georgia Runoff |
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A few weeks ago, Republican Senate candidate David Perdue had a Senate win within his reach with no runoff. Now, it seems the best he can hope for is an overtime victory. Reporters nationally, since the 1970's, have warned of a demographic tide building, making it more difficult for Republicans to win. Pollsters, statisticians, and others claim that is happening now in Georgia. That is not actually true, despite how much so many invested in the "demographics as destiny" meme want it to be so.
Demographics may hand Georgia back to the Democrats within the decade, but David Perdue's slipping poll numbers have more to do with other easily understood factors. |
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| Mr. Frieden's disastrous testimony |
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To call CDC Director Thomas Frieden's performance in front of yesterday's hearing of Rep. Fred Upton's House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations disastrous would be like saying the Titanic had a leak. It was epic in its incompetence,
One of the most hotly debated topics was that of a travel ban. Since the first patient presented at a Dallas hospital suffering from Ebola symptoms, a disease he acquired while in Liberia, the obvious question has been why do we allow travel to the US, especially air travel, from any nation with an active Ebola epidemic when we have the mechanisms to prevent that from happening. We can't. Because racism.
So no effort was spent to trace the unfortunate Mr. Duncan's fellow passengers but now we are running down those who flew with the second Dallas nurse to develop Ebola. |
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| ISIS and the mystery of the jihadi brides |
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Since prehistoric times, man has sought a meaning in his life beyond daily sustenance. This yearning has been the source of some mischief but it has also seen the development of arts, the humanities, and even the science that declares this yearning is a mere delusion. Post-Christian and, mostly post-nationalistic Europe has little to attract disaffected young people seeking meaning to their lives. These young people aren't being lured to Syria and Iraq by "terrorism." They are being lured there by Islam. That it is impolitic to state the obvious lest Ben Affleck wet himself in distress essentially disarms the West in its fight against Islamic fundamentalism and the indiscriminate terror that it advocates.
One might well ask why young European women would be attracted to a lifestyle that views them as little more that chattel. I would offer that in current Western culture, for all its talk of feminism, that women are seen as little more than a life support system for sex organs. A quick look at the ads in Cosmo, an MTV music video, or the latest hit on HBO shows that feminism has become a by-word for promiscuity. The easy availability of divorce has shattered what was previously the cornerstone of society: the family. That young women who reject that culture might look for a belief system that offers them security and value, even if that value is based on childbearing, is hardly surprising.
One of the most significant disservices done to the nation by President Bush after 9/11 was his refusal to name our enemy for what it is. While all of Islam isn't necessarily violent it is inherently intolerant (Deerborn, Michigan, outlawed evangelists distributing Christian literature at a public festival; Malaysia has banned Christian from using the name Allah for God, Islamic theology notwithstanding). More to the point the violent part of Islam, as even Bill Maher has figured out, is not some rogue, outlying, heresy. The religious view that has manifested itself in al Qaeda and ISIS is how Islam is understood and practiced on the Arabian Peninsula and throughout the Maghreb. |
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| How biomedical research fails the nation why no one cares |
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| Yesterday I detailed how the claim by NIH director, Dr. Francis Collins, that with more money an Ebola vaccine would have been developed was patently nonsense. In an annual budget of nearly $30 billion, a paltry $12 million a year, which is roughly equivalent to what Lindsay Lohan spends on blow, was earmarked for Ebola vaccine development. While the comment by Collins was ass-covering hyperbole and a fairly transparent attempt to turn an institutional failure into a financial windfall, it is important to understand how a situation like this comes to pass. |
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| Sarah Palin: Prophet |
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We are approaching an anniversary of sorts and while I will concede this is, to a degree, trolling the foreign policy big brains who belittled Sarah Palin it is also offering you, loyal RedState readers, a second helping of schadenfreude.
Yesterday, you recall, we saw a stake finally driven through the crotch of the Bush Lied meme that the left used to try to defeat Bush electorally in 2004. There were, in fact, chemical weapons in Iraq and as my friend, Jim Lacey, writes in National Review, virtually every other allegation about Iraq's weapons was actually substantiated by the invasion.
On October 21, 2008, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave a speech in Reno, NV. |
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| Charlie Crist, Troll |
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| So in case you missed it last night, at the beginning of the Charlie Crist/Rick Scott debate, one of the most bizarre moments in recent political history unfolded when Florida Governor Rick Scott refused to take the stage because of controversy over a fan. Here is video of Fangate in all its cringing, awkward glory |
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| Can You Spare a Bible? |
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The mayor of Houston, TX, has subpoenaed the sermons of local pastors and the speeches of local religious leaders to see what they have to say about homosexuality.
I fear Annise Parker has never read the Bible. If she wanted some sermons so bad, she could go to church, but I don't know that she will. So I think we should help her out. You can get a copy of the NIV version on Amazon.com for $4.05.
Annise Parker's address is:
Mayor Annise D. Parker
City of Houston
P.O. Box 1562
Houston, TX 77251
I kindly suggest you all send Ms. Parker a Bible. Maybe she might be tempted to read it. |
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