MORE CHEERY NEWS: U.S. Colleges Advised to Tighten Ebola Precautions. I’m so old, I can remember when U.S. colleges didn’t have Ebola precautions.

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FROM THE INSTA-WIFE, A COLUMN: How The Law Punishes Boys Who Are Raped.

CAMP OF THE SAINTS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FICTION: Extraordinary moment Calais security guards turned a fire hose on hundreds of migrants as they stormed a P&O ferry in desperate bid to get to Britain.

The news comes as the mayor of Calais threatened to blockade the port unless Britain pays out to compensate locals for the money spent controlling large and unsanitary immigrant camps in the area.

Natacha Bouchart says locals have been ‘taken hostage’ by about 1,500 migrants who hope to cross into the UK because they see it as ‘an Eldorado’ with a lax attitude towards immigration.

And look what that attitude has done for them.

POLITICS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kay Hagan lose the ‘war on women’ for Democrats. “Every Republican candidate from here to November is perfectly justified in deflecting the silly gotcha questions they will receive from debate moderators about access to contraception by referencing Wasserman Schultz’s belittling of domestic violence.”

UPDATE: Carly Fiorina goes after DWS.

REMINDER: Data Refute Campus “Rape Culture” Claims.

JAMES TARANTO: ISIS and the ‘Bitter Clingers:’ Why Obama can’t understand the threat.

Amid all this incoherence, there is one point on which Obama has been remarkably consistent. In that 2002 speech, he said: “Let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells.”

Last Friday, he struck the same theme, though without bad-mouthing our so-called allies: “We have seen, frankly, in this region, economies that don’t work. So you’ve got tons of young people who see no prospect and no hope for the future and are attracted to some of these ideologies.”

Compare these quotes with candidate Obama’s notorious 2008 remark: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” . . .

It bears emphasis that the problem here is not Obama’s conjectural lack of faith or insincerity. It is, rather, his utter incomprehension of religious sentiment. How does one develop a strategy against an enemy one cannot understand?

Obama can’t imagine people worshipping anything bigger than him.

YEAH, AS IT TURNS OUT NOT SO MUCH, CHAMP: Obama told a friend of mine before he was elected, “Wouldn’t it be great for the world if I were president?” “It could be that O really did believe his election marked a historical turning point in which the diminution of retrograde forces abroad was inevitable. And maybe that’s why a year’s worth of briefings on ISIS didn’t penetrate. Don’t they know they’re going to lose? Haven’t they seen his face?”

PROGRESSIVES’ HEADS EXPLODE: Elizabeth Warren: Destroying ISIS should be ‘No. 1 priority.’

IMMIGRATION: “Not many years ago, the idea of Minnesota as a hotbed of Islamic terrorism would have been laughable. No longer: a mass immigration of Somalis has put Minnesota on the front lines.”

THE ANCHORESS: Do The Rapes of Rotherham Tell a Tale of Conquest? “One of the terrible after-effects of invasion and war has been the subjugation of the women, the rape of wives and daughters, the seed of the conqueror, inserted into a culture and a society — yet another tactic meant to subdue and eradicate. And yet, there has been no old-fashioned ‘invasion’ and no ‘war’ in the southern part of Yorkshire. This conquering was invited, and it was invited throughout Europe, where Rotherham will be discovered to have been replicated. Why wouldn’t it be? Who in Europe would dare to prosecute?”

When you have a ruling class that dislikes the nation it rules, the invitations will be issued, and the prosecutions will be foregone.

Plus: “Look at the bright side. Very soon we may be done dealing with a fake ‘war on women’ and the illusory crisis of free birth control. Let us find our mercies where we may.”

Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition? That’s not Joel Osteen Christianity, but something older. And perhaps newer?

UNAPPROVED POLITICAL SPEECH IS A THREAT TO THE MACHINE: New York’s ‘shut up’ rule.

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FROM THE INSTA-WIFE, A COLUMN: How The Law Punishes Boys Who Are Raped.

ANN ALTHOUSE UNIMPRESSED BY DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ’S LATEST: “That’s really shameless. The violent imagery is despicable, and disrespectful to victims of actual violence. Why bring in women’s hair? It seems mental.”

The lefties always show you who they’re afraid of, and right now they’re obviously afraid of Scott Walker.

I THINK THE VOICE HE’S HEARING IS ACTUALLY MY IMITATION OF MARK RIPPETOE. Ben Barton explores the Slovenian iron-pumping scene. Is most premium workout!

From the comments: “$20 says nobody curls in the squat rack there.”

RADICALIZING THE ROMANCELESS: “Once again, I swear I don’t make up the names of these feminist blogs as some sort of strawmanning strategy. They just happen like that!”

Plus: “When your position commits you to saying ‘Love isn’t important to humans and we should demand people stop caring about whether or not they have it,’ you need to take a really careful look in the mirror – assuming you even show up in one.”

RATS ON THE WESTSIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: Subway bedbug infestations on the rise. What a mess — this town’s in tatters.

FEMINISM: Kate Millett’s Tedious Madness. I’m beginning to think that most lefty movements are just about broken people trying to manipulate the rest of us so they can feel good about their broken selves.

MORE ON THE ROTHERHAM HORROR:

An unhealthy brand of politics “imported” from Pakistan is partly to blame for the cover-up of mass child abuse in Rotherham and other British cities, a campaigning MP has claimed.

Simon Danczuk, who helped expose a pattern of grooming of white teenage girls by men from a Pakistani background in Rochdale, where he is the Labour MP, said a culture of intimidation and closing of ranks within parts of the Asian community had mired politics in towns and cities across northern England for years…

He described it as “a looking after your own” within the Asian community which other politicians had accepted.

“Pressure was applied, that’s what will have happened to Denis MacShane and he went along with it,” he said, referring to comments last week from the disgraced former MP for Rotherham who said he had shied away from the issue because he was a “Guardian reading liberal leftie”.

It’s a cultural sickness.

I HAVE THAT LONG RING FINGER, BUT I THOUGHT IT MADE ME A LESBIAN OR SOMETHING: Men with a long ring finger have bigger testicles, study claims.

IN EUROPE, A CLIMATE CHANGE: Ukraine crisis: France halts warship delivery to Russia.

I SUSPECT THAT THE NSA IS BEHIND THIS, AND GETTING MORE DATA OUT OF IT THAN REPORTED: A Google Site Meant to Protect You Is Helping Hackers Attack You.