WISCONSIN’S DEEP STATE VS. SCOTT WALKER: More Dirty Tactics in Wisconsin Governor’s Race.

Related: George Will: In Wisconsin, Done In By John Doe.

The early-morning paramilitary-style raids on citizens’ homes were conducted by law enforcement officers, sometimes wearing bulletproof vests and lugging battering rams, pounding on doors and issuing threats. Spouses were separated as the police seized computers, including those of children still in pajamas. Clothes drawers, including the children’s, were ransacked, cellphones were confiscated and the citizens were told that it would be a crime to tell anyone of the raids.

Some raids were precursors of, others were parts of, the nastiest episode of this unlovely political season, an episode that has occurred in an unlikely place. This attempted criminalization of politics to silence people occupying just one portion of the political spectrum has happened in Wisconsin, which often has conducted robust political arguments with Midwestern civility. . . .

Chisholm’s aim — to have a chilling effect on conservative speech — has been achieved by bombarding Walker supporters with raids and subpoenas: Instead of raising money to disseminate their political speech, conservative individuals and groups, harassed and intimidated, have gone into a defensive crouch, raising little money and spending much money on defensive litigation. Liberal groups have not been targeted for their activities that are indistinguishable from those of their conservative counterparts.

Such misbehavior takes a toll on something that already is in short supply: belief in government’s legitimacy. The federal government’s most intrusive and potentially punitive institution, the IRS, unquestionably worked for Barack Obama’s reelection by suppressing activities by conservative groups. Would he have won if the government he heads had not impeded political participation by many opposition groups? We will never know.

An illegitimate government is no better than a band of thieves with superior firepower. If that.

THEY WEREN’T EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Police Say Three Armed Men Invaded Home and Attempted to Gang Rape 19-Year-Old — but They Didn’t Come Prepared for Grandpa.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, EXPLOITED WORKERS WOULD GET THIRD-WORLD WAGES. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour. But hey, the company got a $3,500 fine.

SCIENCE: Rolling, Tumbling Tiny Bots Could Target Tumors.

WAR ON WOMEN: Nikki Haley’s Democratic Opponent: “Escort whore out the door.”

CHANGE: Universities respond to Ebola with travel restrictions, quarantines. Funny, just last week advocating precautions of this sort was racist or something.

BILL MAHER: Michael Brown “Was Not A Gentle Giant,” “He Was Acting Like A Thug.”

TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 534.

THEY ALWAYS SHOW YOU WHAT THEY’RE AFRAID OF, AND WHAT THEY’RE AFRAID OF IS FREE SPEECH: Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns, blogs, Drudge.

In a surprise move late Friday, a key Democrat on the Federal Election Commission called for burdensome new rules on Internet-based campaigning, prompting the Republican chairman to warn that Democrats want to regulate online political sites and even news media like the Drudge Report.

Democratic FEC Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel announced plans to begin the process to win regulations on Internet-based campaigns and videos, currently free from most of the FEC’s rules. “A reexamination of the commission’s approach to the internet and other emerging technologies is long over due,” she said.

Translation: Even near-total control of the legacy media isn’t enough to ensure Democrats’ dominance.

WAIT, WHAT? You Can’t Cure Ebola With Money.

I support government spending on basic research. But I really do not support the wrongheaded idea that medical research is like ordering groceries from Peapod: Just dial up what you want, and if you’re willing to pay the cost, you can have the goodies. In fact, it’s more like a lottery: if you don’t play, you can’t win, but at best, you still lose an awful lot. An Ebola vaccine is entering trials right now, and if it succeeds, that will be incredible news. But it could fail in many ways, and acting as if it’s a guarantee is grossly irresponsible.

Francis Collins is smarter than I am, and he has dedicated his life to furthering the advancement of human knowledge, one of the noblest causes there is. He’s also a Washington bureaucrat, and while he’s wearing that hat, his job is to get more money for his agency. I suspect he let his good judgment get a bit carried away in the zealous pursuit of that mission. Raising unreasonable expectations very likely to be dashed is bad for public policy, and ultimately, bad for the scientific research that Collins has done so much to promote.

That’s putting it kindly.

CHANGE: New York, New Jersey to start high-risk Ebola quarantine.

CHANGE: Ebola case in New York City brings demands for quarantining doctors; doctor was out and about.

AT AMAZON, new deals on Bestselling Products, updated hourly.

Also, coupons galore in Grocery & Gourmet Foods.

INSPECTOR GENERAL: DHS ‘mismanaged’ funds to address Ebola. “A recent inspector general’s audit of DHS purchases shows the agency hasn’t conducted a needs assessment on funds dedicated to plan, train and prepare for a potential pandemic. Therefore ‘we could not determine the basis for DHS’ decisions regarding how much or what types of pandemic supplies to purchase, store or distribute,’ he said.” In the absence of more information, I’m gonna go with graft.

PROGRESSIVE: A “little housewife or a Latino” too dumb to get voter ID. But she’s dumb enough that she thinks an out-of-state driver’s license is proof of residency. . . .

Plus, a glorious MSNBC correction: “*Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that it was not illegal to drive in Texas with a California driver’s license. In fact, it is illegal to drive in Texas on another state’s driver license 90 days after moving into the state.”

VOTER FRAUD: I guess, per @DonnaBrazile, the Washington Post must be “big ass liars.”

TRUE: Pro Due Process Does Not Equate to Pro Rape.

Mr. Miltenberg insists his decision to sue a number of universities on behalf of male students who have been suspended or expelled following sexual assault accusations is not inconsistent with any of the above. He’s already filed four lawsuits—against Vassar College, Columbia University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Drew University—will file several more before month’s end, and is consulting on 20 or so appeals at the college disciplinary level. In each, he is suing the schools for violations of the Title IX gender-parity law of 1972, contractual claims, unfair trade practices, as well as a number of tort claims.

If you feel like you’ve been reading more about campus rape of late, that’s because you have—most recently in a New York magazine cover story in September. The trend has been gathering steam since the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights sent a letter to colleges nationwide on April 4, 2011, mandating policy changes in the way schools handle sexual assault complaints, including a lowering of the burden of proof from “clear and convincing” evidence to a “preponderance” of evidence. Not surprisingly, there has been a marked increase in women coming forward with such complaints.

That doesn’t bother Mr. Miltenberg at all. The man is not pro-rape, for God’s sake. What does bother him is the way that many schools have handled the complaints.

Every single one of the men he’s representing, Mr. Miltenberg argues, has suffered egregious due process violations in closed-door college hearings. (He also believes that his clients are innocent of the charges against them.) And that is how he has found himself in the decidedly impolitic position of not only defending those accused of rape, but also suing on their behalf.

Impolitic, perhaps, but he’s also in good company. Twenty-eight current and retired Harvard Law School professors recently sent a letter to the university asking it to abandon its new sexual misconduct policy, arguing, as Mr. Miltenberg has more generally, that the new rules violate the due process rights of the accused. “This is an issue of political correctness run amok,” Alan Dershowitz, an emeritus professor, told a Boston Globe reporter.

Yes, it is.

IN A BETTER WORLD, THEY’D BE FOCUSED ON TAMPING DOWN EBOLA: NYC Health Officials Work To Tamp Down Ebola Fears.

THIS SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT: Liberals are more likely to unfriend you over politics — online and off.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO SET MEN ON FIRE! A Florida woman set her roommate on fire after he tossed her dinner leftovers in the trash.

JONAH GOLDBERG: The Enduring Power Of A Story:

For much of the summer, large numbers of Americans insisted that the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., was one kind of story. It was a tale of institutional racism in which the police are the villains and young African-American men the innocent victims. This was the storyline many in the media wanted, and it was one they were determined to get.

Now, as a grand jury goes about prying fact from fiction, the story is falling apart as a matter of legal reality. But you can be sure the story will live on for decades to come. That’s in no small part because many decent Americans have locked themselves into the belief that the heroic chapter of the civil-rights movement can never end. The story must go on so they can continue to cast themselves as the heroes.

Conveniently enough, heroes of whom no particular sacrifice is required.

WELL, THEY’D BETTER BE: It turns out millennials are actually really good at saving money.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Supermodel Parenting Advice.

HMM: Vitamin D levels predicted neurologic outcomes after sudden cardiac arrest. What’s amazing is how low the mean Vitamin D level was for the sample. I’d like to see this study repeated, but it’s interesting.