OBAMACARE: SO GREAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT UNTIL IT’S TOO LATE. Obamacare website won’t reveal insurance costs for 2015 until after election; States with key Senate races face double-digit premium hikes.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 523.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Thought Eric Holder Was Bad? Meet Tom Perez.

DAMON ROOT: Today at SCOTUS: Occupational Licensing Abuse on Trial.

RICK PERRY SPEAKS IN LONDON: “The hatreds of unassimilated radicals only draw further attention to anti-Semitism in general. It’s a familiar problem in a new time. In Europe it ranges as in times past from thuggish abuse to desecration to commentaries on Israel that cover crude dislike in the veneer of respectable opinion. There is a way to deal with anti-Semitism, and it’s not by smiling politely and hoping that it goes away.”

Plus: “But to every extremist, it has to be made clear: We will not allow you to exploit our tolerance, so that you can import your intolerance. We will not let you destroy our peace with your violent ideas. If you expect to live among us and yet plan against us to receive the protections and comforts of a free society while showing none of its virtues or graces then you can have our answer now: No, not on our watch! You will live by exactly the standards that the rest of us live by. And if that comes as jarring news then welcome to civilization.”

Standing for civilization against barbarism. What a novel idea.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Ebola And Politics Don’t Mix.

The CDC issued guidance on dealing with Ebola 2.5 months ago, and the hospital seems to have received it, because its staff were asking about African travel; Duncan appears to have lied about his contact with an infected woman. Perhaps the hospital should have assumed that anyone who had been to West Africa had Ebola, but first, I’d like to know whether that is a feasible use of hospital resources; and second, I have no evidence that this is what hospitals in other countries were doing in late September.

There seem to have been clear errors here: The initial intake worker failed to make clear to the team that the patient had been in Africa, and the nurse who caught Ebola likely failed to follow the protective gear protocol. But why assume this wouldn’t happen in a more centralized health care system? “A critical piece of information failed to be communicated effectively” is probably the single most common organizational failure, and no organization, no matter how dedicated or well organized, can say they never experience this problem. (Well, they can say it. But it will be a lie.)

I’m not saying that Texas Presbyterian didn’t make a mistake. In hindsight, the hospital probably should have immediately isolated a patient with a high fever who had just come from Africa, and it, and other hospitals, should learn from that. (In fact, I’d argue that they have). But this is not a problem that a more centralized system would have fixed, because the CDC guidelines do not call for it; they emphasize the danger of contact with the bodily fluids of an Ebola patient, which Duncan denied ever having.

There also appears to have been a failure with the protective gear, though I’m a little less sure of this; CDC seems to be inferring this from the fact that the nurse caught Ebola. But assuming that this is the case, how does a more centralized, egalitarian, government-financed health-care system prevent this?

Even talking about government-run healthcare makes all healthcare discussions political — that’s what government involvement in healthcare is. And, of course, Republicans must be called callous killers-of-children at all times, and under all circumstances.

JEFFREY CARTER: “This market is reminding me a little of 1987.”

LIFE IN OBAMA’S POST-RACIAL AMERICA: New dimensions in racial tensions. “Who’s zoomin’ who? Like a perpetrator following the advice of counsel, the Star Tribune still declines to answer. The Daily Mail must have had the story right. Native born black students are harassing Somali students, and apparently vice versa. . . . If white students were harassing Somali students, I believe that Star Tribune would (rightly) have the story, calling (wrongly) for indoctrination in the glories of ‘diversity.’ Indeed, I think that’s what set me off back in 1997. But why is the Star Tribune so shy? How are we to account for the Star Tribune’s continuing failure to report who is harassing whom at South High School? The Star Tribune is still too ‘tense’ about ‘race’ to get the important story under its nose straight for its readers.”

They’re just a bunch of uptight squares, hung up on outdated notions of propriety.

LIKE EBOLA, BUT HARDER TO CURE: Affirmative consent laws spreading across the US.

This is a dagger aimed at the heart of higher education. Or perhaps a better metaphor would be a poison pill, coated with irresistibly delicious PC candy.

MARK CUBAN: Fix Higher Ed Bubble By Limiting Student Loans.

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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RUNNING A TRUST DEFICIT: My USA Today column for today is on the Secret Service and the CDC.

KANSAS CITY PATIENT being tested for Ebola.

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK: Americans Distrust Government Too Much to Answer Census Questions, So Let’s Threaten ‘Em, Says Official.

Among the problems the Census Bureau faces in getting Americans to answer questions, complained an official in a presentation last week, is that Americans consider nosy questions a threat to their privacy, especially when posed by a government they distrust. The solution? Favor the “stick” above “carrot” when mailing out questionnaires for the American Community Survey. Specifically, the official recommended emphasizing legal consequences for people who don’t cough up desired data.

Tasha Boone, Assistant Division Chief for the American Community Survey, made her points on October 9 to the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations, one of several Census Advisory Committees. That “perceptions of ‘irrelevant’ and ‘unnecessary’ questions raise concerns about privacy” and that “distrust of government is pervasive” were among several hurdles she noted to gathering information from the public.

Jst a thought, but a bit of self-awareness might be lacking in the preference she expressed, among three mail designs for the American Community Survey, for the existing one that threatens in bold, capital letters, “YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW.”

That should settle those privacy and trust issues.

But if Tasha Boone is unclear on the concept of unproductive approaches, she’s correct that “distrust of government is pervasive.”

Well, a government that hires Tasha Boones. . . .

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Highly educated, unemployed and tumbling down the ladder.

In the upside-down, topsy-turvy world of jobs these days, even an advanced degree can’t protect some Americans from tumbling down the economic ladder.

The conventional wisdom that more education bears fruit in the labor market gets turned on its head when it comes to unemployment. For people with masters and even doctoral degrees, long-term unemployment is especially insidious. At best, these formerly high-earning professionals face the prospect of a years-long climb back to their former level of income and stature, while they delay retirement to rebuild their decimated nest eggs.

Others won’t be that lucky. Debt, foreclosure and evaporated savings push them out of the middle class, and some just keep falling.

Who could have seen this coming?

OPPOSE THE ACADEMIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL, get investigated by the campus diversity thugs. Punch back twice as hard.

NICK GILLESPIE: The Upside of Ebola (Yes, There May Actually Be One).

The ineptitude of the official response to Ebola, both here and in Africa, drives home the need the change the ways in which we go about developing new medical interventions. As my Reason colleague Ronald Bailey has written, quick diagnostic tests for Ebola had been developed years ago and promising work was proceeding on a vaccine and other methods of disrupting epidemics, but it all floundered in a regulatory environment that doesn’t move very quickly until it’s too late. Indeed, in August, just as the Ebola epidemic was exploding in Africa, the FDA put a hold on a Canadian company’s treatment program. (The FDA has since reversed the hold.)

I’m sure evil Republican budget cuts forced the FDA to put that hold on.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Siloam Springs Teacher Accused Of Sex With A Student Pleads Not Guilty. “Mary F. McCormick, 32, was arraigned before Circuit Judge Brad Karren on Monday, accused of raping and exchanging explicit photographs with a 13-year-old boy. She was arrested in August and spent a night in the Benton County Jail before being released on a $50,000 bond, authorities said.”

MICHAEL TOTTEN: From Havana to Hanoi.

ASHE SCHOW: Ezra Klein favors extreme ‘yes means yes’ law because of a myth.

Klein, a supposed explanatory journalist, accepts hook, line and sinker that one in five women will be sexually assaulted while in college.

Forget that this statistic was derived from a survey of just two colleges (Klein does note this) and the survey’s own researchers acknowledged that it had a low response rate, Klein assumes this is a solid representation of what life is like on college campuses for women. Glenn Kessler, fact-checker at the Washington Post, even debunked this survey.

But it appears Rahm Emanuel’s idiom that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste” has been adapted to “never let a good myth go to waste,” as Klein bases his support for the California law around one.

Klein dreams of a world where men are afraid they’ll be branded rapists for having any contact with a woman (as I’ve written before, this is already happening).

“That culture of sexual entitlement is built on fear; fear that the word ‘no’ will lead to violence, or that the complaint you bring to the authorities will be be [sic] ignored, or that the hearing will become a venue for your humiliation, as the man who assaulted you details all the ways you were asking for it,” Klein wrote. “‘No Means No’ has created a world where women are afraid. To work, ‘Yes Means Yes’ needs to create a world where men are afraid.”

A quick correction for that paragraph: It is not necessarily “the man who assaulted you,” but rather “the man who allegedly assaulted you.” And it’s not him detailing “all the ways you were asking for it,” but rather “presenting his case that you consented,” something this law doesn’t allow for.

Klein notes the “nightmare scenario” where a false accusation is leveled upon a man for whatever reason, but notes how rare such situations are, even though there is a growing number of young men suing their universities for what they claim are exactly such incidents. And this law will certainly do nothing to reduce those numbers.

“This is, in a way, the definition of what it means to be entitled: the rules are designed to protect you from dangers that barely exist at the expense of exposing others to constant threat,” Klein wrote.

But those “rules” are due process rights being denied for students on a college campus. Rape and sexual assaults are crimes, and college campuses are acting as judge, jury and executioner for these cases — without the expertise needed. So Klein is essentially arguing, along with other supporters of the “yes means yes” law, that it’s okay to disregard an accused person’s defense if they’re being accused of sexual assault on a college campus.

It’s getting harder to see why any young man would want to go to college. Or vote Democrat.

CHANGE: Feds Rethinking Ebola Strategy. “We’re concerned, and unfortunately would not be surprised if we did see additional [Ebola] cases in healthcare workers who also provided care to the index patient.”

EBOLA: Dallas nurse Nina Pham’s boyfriend being monitored.

LONG ON POLITICS, SHORT ON TRUST: My USA Today column is about the Secret Service and the CDC.

MORE ON DRONE LAW.

“THE PORTIONS OF MY RECORD THAT I CHOOSE TO SHARE ARE AN OPEN BOOK:” Grimes doubles down on refusal to talk about Obama vote.