I WONDER IF THOSE REUSABLE BAGS COULD SPREAD EBOLA? California Outlaws Plastic Bags And Ignores The Scientific Evidence.

ELIANA JOHNSON: Rand Paul’s Non-Isolationism.

NICE POLLS, KID. DON’T GET COCKY. Things are looking better and better for Republicans in Colorado.

The survey of 500 likely Colorado voters shows that 46 percent prefer Gardner, while only 39 percent say they’re going to go for Udall.

“The findings in the state, which President Obama carried in 2008 and 2012, signal an electorate that seems to be tipping toward the GOP. The poll … comes as voting centers opened this week in Colorado and thousands of the state’s distinctive mail-in ballots have been cast,” USA Today reported.

The poll also had good news for GOP members of the Centennial State’s House delegation, especially vulnerable Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo. “Those surveyed now support the Republican candidate for Congress in their district over the Democrat by 51%-39%, doubling the GOP’s advantage in September on the so-called generic congressional ballot and well outside the poll’s margin of error,” the report added.

The survey reveals that many voters in the Centennial State have turned on Udall for supposedly running an ugly and negative campaign.

“Supposedly?” But remember, you have to beat the margin of fraud.

INFECTED BY POLITICS: The public-health profession is more committed to “social justice” than to sound science.

I SUPPOSE AN EMAIL TELLING BLUENOSES TO FUCK OFF IS OUT OF THE QUESTION: University tells students to dress ‘respectfully’ for Halloween festivities.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Whistleblowers say USAID’s IG removed critical details from public reports. “The auditors said the office has increasingly become a defender of the agency under acting inspector general Michael G. Carroll. Some auditors said Carroll did not want to create controversy as he awaited Senate confirmation to become the permanent inspector general.”

PAULA BOLYARD: Why Is President Obama Running Around the Country Kissing Women? Is it too much to ask him to keep his lips to himself at a time like this?

THE HILL: CDC shifts into overdrive on Ebola.

Health officials at the center of nation’s Ebola crisis are moving into overdrive to tame widespread public fears about the disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced three new protocols in the three days as it looks to assert control over the deadly virus that infected two Americans this month.

“The bottom line here is that we have to keep up our guard against Ebola,” Frieden told reporters Wednesday as he announced a three-week mandatory monitoring period for anyone traveling into the United States from West Africa.

The new protocols come after a week of brutal headlines for the CDC, which has been accused of falling down on the job once the first Ebola case was diagnosed in Dallas. The barrage of criticism prompted President Obama to cancel two days of campaign travel and appoint a special Ebola coordinator to direct the federal response.

CDC Director Tom Frieden said last week that the agency’s initial response in Dallas was not strong enough. He said the agency should have kept a closer eye on the nurses who treated that patient instead of letting them self-monitor for symptoms, which allowed them to travel publicly.

He also said the two nurses who became infected in Dallas may have been exposed to the virus because CDC’s protocols for hospital gear initially exposed some skin.

But even as the agency is conceding mistakes, the public storm over the agency’s response appears to be ebbing.

Well, maybe.

ROGER KIMBALL: Dem Panic According to the NY Times.

Remember, you don’t just have to beat them. You have to beat them beyond the margin of fraud.

WHAT WOMEN WANT:

Democrats are running against monsters. They are running to protect American women from the hostile, patriarchal, domineering men of the Republican Party. (Chivalry is not dead!) In the Democrats’ ghoulish caricature, Republicans are not just wrong on the issues that women care about, but are barely above criminals. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, used rhetoric only slightly more florid than the Democratic norm when she said of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, “What Republican Tea Party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back.”

Republicans who think they can avoid women’s issues, or blunt their power by talk of entrepreneurship or free markets, are rewarding the Democrats’ tactics. Silence gives consent. Moreover, they are conveying their fear that the Democrats’ interpretation of women’s wants is correct. They may even believe it more sincerely than Democrats themselves.

They should try looking at the polls.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Substitute teacher ‘had sex with football player student, 17 on her first day during pep rally and he then sent the video to his friends.’

OTTAWA SHOOTER: Son of a jihadist and a Social Justice Warrior:

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the slain 32-year-old suspected killer of a Canadian Forces soldier near Parliament Hill, was a labourer and small-time criminal – a man who had had a religious awakening and seemed to have become mentally unstable.

Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau was born in 1982 and was the son of Bulgasem Zehaf, a Quebec businessman who appears to have fought in 2011 in Libya, and Susan Bibeau, the deputy chairperson of a division of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. The two were divorced in 1999.

That’s a toxic blend.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, UNPOPULAR RELIGIOUS MINORITIES WOULD BE CRUSHED. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Couer d’Alene City Attorney confirms: conservative Christian ministers’ wedding chapel business must provide same-sex marriage ceremonies. “The government can’t require the employees or owners of a for-profit newspaper or motivational speaker service to say the Pledge of Allegiance as a condition of staying in business, just as it can’t require noncommercially minded schoolchildren to say the Pledge. The government can’t require such for-profit businesses to display ‘Live Free or Die’ on their company cars. It can’t require for-profit newspapers to publish things they don’t want to publish. Likewise, it can’t require for-profit officiants of verbal ceremonies (especially religious ceremonies, but secular ones as well) to say things they choose not to say.”

ROGER SIMON: The Great ‘Workplace Violence’ Epidemic.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Homegrown Radicals Like Ottawa Gunman ‘New Face of Terror.’ They should be mocked and shamed like the pathetic, gullible losers that they are.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Coach Megan Mahoney Charged With 30 Counts of Statutory Rape. And didn’t even have to post bail. I doubt a male coach would have received such a courtesy.

THIS TIME, THEY RELEASED THE HOUNDS: Another Man Jumps White House Fence. “Dominic Adesanya, 23, of Bel Air, Md., was arrested tackled and apprehended by security officers about 20 yards past the fence after he entered the lawn at 7:16 p.m., a Secret Service official said. Adesanya was unarmed, and he was taken to a hospital for treatment. Charges are pending. . . . On Sept. 19, Omar Gonzalez, 42, allegedly breached the secure grounds of the White House in an incident that drew criticism to security procedures that led to the resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.”

CHANGE: U.S. tightens Ebola monitoring for West African visitors. “The move announced by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) marked the latest precautions put in place by the U.S. government to stop the spread of the virus, but stopped short of a ban on travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as demanded by some lawmakers. The CDC said that, beginning on Monday, travelers from those countries will be directed to check in with health officials every day and report their temperatures and any Ebola symptoms for 21 days, the period of incubation for the virus.”

ANNALS OF CRONY CAPITALISM: Unplugged: Michigan Governor Signs GM-Supported “Anti-Tesla” Bill Into Law.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Fall Slow-Cooker Recipes.

Also, here’s my recipe for Lamb & Guinness Stew. And here’s the old reliable Insta-Chicken recipe. And a lot of people liked the slow cooker salsa chicken recipe I posted a while back.

Happy Crocktober!

AT AMAZON, get ahead on Christmas shopping with the Holiday Toy List.

Also, Fall Deals on Outdoor Gear.

IN LIGHT OF POPEHAT CLARK’S THOUGHTS ON GAMERGATE, and of this piece, perhaps men’s groups on college campuses should take a lesson: Target donors to colleges. Contact them, tell them that the university is unfairly stigmatizing all men as rapists, encourage them not to donate until that changes. It’s easy to find out who the big donors are — the schools tell you as they brag — and they’re easy enough to get in touch with. They don’t hear from many students, so your message won’t be lost in the shuffle.

You could add some street-theater when prospective freshmen tour the campus by putting up posters and passing out leaflets telling them that the campus is a “rights-free zone” for men or some such, too. And maybe demand that the admissions people warn admitted men that they won’t have due process, and then making a big stink when they won’t.

AS LONG AS THE DOOR STAYS CLOSED, WE WON’T KNOW IF HIS PRESIDENCY IS DEAD OR ALIVE: Aide invokes ‘Heisenberg principle’ on Obama meetings. Plus, this amusing observation in the story: “When it comes to pop culture, Heisenberg is an alias used by Walter White, the teacher-turned-meth-dealer on the television series Breaking Bad.” Trying to tell us something?

MONSTER SOLAR FLARE: First of many? “AR 2192 has been pointing away from Earth, so its outbursts to date have not affected the planet much. But that could change soon; the sunspot is now rotating around toward Earth.”

DODGE CHARGER: A screaming value in dollars-per-horsepower.