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ERIC S. RAYMOND: Press silence, black privilege, and unintended consequences. “What the press is teaching Americans to assume, story after story, is that if ‘youths’ commit public violence and they are not specified to be white, or hispanic, or asian — then it’s yet another black street gang on a wilding. . . . I don’t like where I think the well-meant suppressio veri is taking us. I think it’s bound to empower people who are genuinely and viciously bigoted by giving them an exclusive on truthful reporting. I don’t think it’s good for anyone of any color for bigots to have that power.”

JIM TREACHER: The Democrats’ Appeal Is Becoming More Selective. “The Democratic Party is held in worse regard than at any point in the past 30 years, according to a new poll. . . . Don’t worry, Dems. You’ve got almost 3 weeks until the election. You can still fire up the base. Do any other Republicans have horrible injuries you can exploit? Do they have more money than you? Did they ever put their pets on top of their cars? Come on, let’s get brainstormin’!”

NEVER ASK THAT QUESTION UNDER OBAMA: Roger Simon: Could It Possibly Get Any Worse?

Well, I predicted that 2014 under Obama would be worse than 2013. And, for that matter, that a second Obama term would be worse than the first.

UCLA’S Angela Davis tribute. Communists are just Nazis with better PR. UCLA is doing some of that PR.

WE NEED A FOREIGN LEGION: Westerners volunteer to take on the Islamic State.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: The great washer debate: Are front-loaders really better? We bought a front-loader in 2005, replaced it with a top-loader when it expensively broke just after the warranty expired.

MORE CHEERY NEWS: New Texas nurse with Ebola had slight fever on airliner. “Frieden said Vinson had been monitoring herself for symptoms of Ebola and failed to report that her temperature had risen to 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit (37.5 degrees Celsius) before she left for Dallas. Even so, Frieden, who has come under pressure for apparent lapses in U.S. preparedness to fight Ebola, said the risk to other passengers was ‘very low’ because she did not vomit on the flight and was not bleeding.”

You know, a doctor from my area self-quarantined after treating Ebola patients. That wouldn’t have been a bad idea for people who treated Thomas Duncan — especially after one of them had already become ill.

UPDATE: Amber Vinson Isn’t To Blame For Flying With Ebola: The CDC Is.

Plus: Ebola Patient Contacted CDC Before Flight, Agency Says.

The federal government spokesman who spoke with NBC News said that Vinson called the CDC on Monday before flying from Cleveland back to DFW on Frontier Airlines Flight 1143, and she reported that she had a temperature of 99.5 degrees.

According to the government spokesperson, when Vinson called in, the staff she talked with looked on the CDC website for guidance. At the time, the category for “uncertain risk” had guidance saying that a person could fly commercially if they did not meet the threshold of a temperature of 100.4.

CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden had said earlier Wednesday on a phone press briefing that Vinson “should not have traveled on a commercial aircraft.”

The country’s in the very best of hands.

MESSAGING: Wendy Davis no longer accusing wheelchair-bound opponent of trying to ‘kick’ ladder from victims.

THIS IS ACTUALLY QUITE COOL: Guy Lets His Artist Wife Doodle With Sharpie Pen On His Nissan Skyline GTR.

DO TELL: CDC: Second Ebola-infected nurse ‘should not have’ traveled.

SCIENCE: In Interrogations, Teenagers Are Too Young to Know Better.

Even when police interrogators left the room, cameras kept recording the teenage suspects. Some paced. Several curled up and slept. One sobbed loudly, hitting his head against the wall, berating himself. Two boys, left alone together, discussed their offense, joking.

What none did, however, was exercise his constitutional rights. It was not clear whether the youths even understood them.

Therefore none had a lawyer at his side. None left, though all were free to do so, and none remained silent. Some 37 percent made full confessions, and 31 percent made incriminating statements.

These were among the observations in a recent study of 57 videotaped interrogations of teenagers, ages 13 to 17, from 17 police departments around the country. The research, published in Law and Human Behavior, adds to accumulating evidence that teenagers are psychologically vulnerable at the gateway to the criminal justice system. Youths, some researchers say, merit special protections.

Hmm.

HMM: The Next Big Thing You Missed: The Space Race Will Breed a New Wave of Data Startups.

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UNLOCKING THE LAW: A Symposium On The Works Of Larry Ribstein.

TEST-DRIVING THE 2015 BMW M4 DCT Automatic.

IN OUTSIDE MAGAZINE, a Mark Rippetoe interview. I have mixed feelings about this. I’m glad to see his approach — which has worked for me — getting more attention. On the other hand, it’ll just get harder to find a squat rack at the gym.

RATS ON THE WEST SIDE, bedbugs uptown. “Recently, a team of pathogen hunters at Columbia University went on an expedition closer to home. They conducted a survey of the viruses and bacteria in Manhattan’s rats, the first attempt to use DNA to catalog pathogens in any animal species in New York City. . . . On Tuesday, Dr. Lipkin and his colleagues published their initial results in the journal mBio. Although the scientists examined just 133 rats, they found plenty of pathogens. Some caused food-borne illnesses. Others, like Seoul hantavirus, had never before been found in New York. Others were altogether new to science.”

Takeaway: “I think people are going to have to start paying attention to this. But that’s Bill de Blasio’s problem. I’m just doing the science.” Yeah, I’m confident that de Blasio will do a great job on this.

NOT A PROBLEM FOR THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION: The Surprising Problem of Too Much Talent: A new finding from sports could have implications in business and elsewhere.

SOME GOOD 21ST CENTURY NEWS: Lockheed Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details: Lockheed Martin aims to develop compact reactor prototype in five years, production unit in 10. Faster, please.

WELL, THIS IS COMFORTING: Ebola nightmare continues in Texas: Amber Vinson identified by family as second Dallas nurse with virus, was on plane day before diagnosis. So if you’ve recently treated an Ebola patient, how about not flying? Especially if one of your co-workers is already sick? Er, and maybe someone from the CDC should have been telling healthcare workers this. . . .

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 524.

HARVARD LAW PROFESSORS go after Harvard’s new sex Kangaroo Courts.