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TRIFECTA: Free To Be Quarantined: Does Ebola Fear Justify Involuntary Detention?

OUR BRAVE “PUBLIC HEALTH” PEOPLE SEEM KINDA SELFISH: Ebola Nurse In Maine Says She Won’t Follow Home Quarantine Rules. Really setting an example there, honey.

Or maybe she’s just following this example: Report: ‘Hero’ Ebola doctor lied to the NYPD; Said he’d ‘self quarantined.’ Putz.

Funny, the public health crowd loves telling others what to do, but doesn’t seem so big on following instructions itself. This does not inspire confidence, and will make it much harder to get ordinary Americans to comply with public health measures in the future.

Meanwhile, such behavior just strengthens the case for mandatory quarantines for everyone entering the country from Ebola areas. We obviously can’t trust their professionalism and willingness to engage in self-sacrifice — at least, unless they’re from Tennessee.

THE HILL: Report: Secret Service prostitution investigator resigns after own incident.

The investigator who led the internal inquiry into the 2012 Secret Service prostitution scandal resigned in August after he was implicated in his own incident involving a prostitute, according to a report from the New York Times.

Local law enforcement in Florida reportedly saw David Nieland, the investigator, going in and out of a building they were surveilling as part of a prostitution investigation. The prostitute later identified Nieland as a client.

Nieland said that the allegations were untrue in a statement to the Times. As of Tuesday, he had not been charged in connection with the incident.

Nieland is said to have resigned after he refused to answer questions from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general’s office. DHS is the supervising agency of the Secret Service.

Nieland was the lead investigator examining charges that several Secret Service agents used prostitutes while in Cartagena, Colombia in advance of a trip to the country by President Obama.

Nieland has said that he was asked to keep information out of his final report to protect the child of a Democratic donor, who was volunteering with the White House advance team on the trip. Some were suspicious that the volunteer had brought a prostitute back to his room.

He says that he was later suspended without pay for two weeks as retaliation. His supervisors have said it was because he circulated around his office images of a female intern’s feet.

So is he being smeared because he leaked? Was he chosen to investigate because he was smearable? Or is everybody at DHS seeing hookers? None of these possibilities look good.

THE RED CROSS GETS BETTER PRESS THAN IT DESERVES: The Red Cross’s Secret Disaster.

The Red Cross botched key elements of its mission after Sandy and Isaac, leaving behind a trail of unmet needs and acrimony, according to an investigation by ProPublica and NPR. The charity’s shortcomings were detailed in confidential reports and internal emails, as well as accounts from current and former disaster relief specialists.

What’s more, Red Cross officials at national headquarters in Washington, D.C. compounded the charity’s inability to provide relief by “diverting assets for public relations purposes,” as one internal report puts it. Distribution of relief supplies, the report said, was “politically driven.”

During Isaac, Red Cross supervisors ordered dozens of trucks usually deployed to deliver aid to be driven around nearly empty instead, “just to be seen,” one of the drivers, Jim Dunham, recalls.

“We were sent way down on the Gulf with nothing to give,” Dunham says. The Red Cross’ relief effort was “worse than the storm.”

During Sandy, emergency vehicles were taken away from relief work and assigned to serve as backdrops for press conferences, angering disaster responders on the ground.

Funny that it’s taken so long for people to report on this. I guess covering it in 2012 would have undercut the triumphalist Obama narrative.

JEB BUSH: Obama ‘incompetent’ on Ebola.

I THINK THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU DON’T VOTE REPUBLICAN NEXT WEEK, YOU’RE A RACIST: Wave Would Mean a Diversity Boost for House GOP. I mean, nothing’s more important than diversity, right?

ONE THAT RESPECTS DUE PROCESS RIGHTS, EVEN: An alternative to Congress’ campus sexual assault bill could be coming.

An anti-domestic violence organization has drafted legislation that would ensure the proper authorities – law enforcement – handle sexual assault accusations and not college administrators.

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, which bills itself as “a victim-advocacy organization working for legal reform,” first drafted its legislation a couple months ago in response to the Obama administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter forcing colleges and universities to implement new rape-prevention measures. The organization has edited their draft since then in response to new federal regulations and feedback from congressional offices.

The latest draft includes mandatory sexual assault prevention training for new students during college orientation, interim protection measures for accusers (such as counseling and changes in classes to remove accusers from situations where they feel threatened) and extra accountability through statistical reporting. . . .

“All allegations of campus criminal sexual assault that are brought to the attention of campus security or the campus disciplinary committee shall be immediately reported and referred by the personnel or committee to local law enforcement officials,” the draft says. “Exclusive jurisdiction for investigation and adjudication of the complaint shall reside with local criminal justice authorities.”

The SOS Act — not to be confused with the SOS Campus Act, which has already been introduced — also requires universities to treat acquitted students with respect and provide confidentiality.

“Absent a criminal plea agreement or verdict of guilt, colleges and universities shall respect and maintain the presumption of innocence with regards to the accused,” the draft says. “The accused shall enjoy the same confidentiality and privacy protections as the identified victim.”

This seems much fairer.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Half of MIT Students Think It’s Possible to “Accidently” Rape Someone (Thanks, Affirmative Consent!)

Media are reporting that one in six female undergraduates at MIT have been sexually assaulted (with this translating in some headlines and social media shares to “one in six have been raped”). But the MIT survey suffers from the same issues that plague previous studies on campus sexual assault.

First, the survey’s methodology: In April, MIT emailed its sexual assault survey to all 10,831 undergraduates and graduate students. Students could then opt to take the survey or not. Ultimately, 35 percent of MIT students did. But whenever you have an opt-in survey, those who self-select to take it are not necessarily representative of a given population. Or, as MIT researchers put it, “response bias is expected in virtually any voluntary survey, particularly one focused on a narrow topic. … the rates based on those who responded to the survey cannot be extrapolated to the MIT student population as a whole.”

It’s also worth noting that the definition of sexual assault—in both the MIT survey and previous campus sexual assault studies—is a broad one, including forced sexual penetration, forced oral sex, and unwanted “sexual touching” or kissing. Of course there are all sorts of levels of sexual assault, and just because something doesn’t approach the level of forced intercourse (i.e., rape) doesn’t mean it’s not a serious violation. But let’s be clear that MIT’s “1 in 6” stat is decidely not about the number of students who are rape victims, nor is the much bandied-about “1 in 5” college women stat.

So!, now that we’ve cleared up what the MIT study did not find, let’s look at what it did, starting with intriguing student attitudes toward sexual assault. Contra the affirmative consent crowd, it doesn’t seem that a lack of respect or enthusiasm for obtaining sexual content is a big problem: 98 percent of females and 96 percent of males agreed or strongly agreed that it’s important to get consent before sexual activity.

But students are confused about how alcohol and intoxication affect consent, which perhaps speaks to increasing progressive activism around the idea that drunk people can’t give consent. Only about three-quarters of respondents said they feel confident in their own ability to judge whether someone is too intoxicated to consent to sex. And more than half agreed that “rape and sexual assault can happen unintentionally, especially if alcohol is involved.”

I just want to repeat that one more time: Half of the MIT students surveyed think it’s possible to “accidently” rape someone. When you consider undergraduates alone, this rises to 67 percent.

This is what we get when people push an idea that rape is really often a matter of consent confusion or a drunken misunderstanding and not something that one person (the rapist) intentionally does to another. This is exactly what those of us opposed to affirmative consent standards mean when we worry about it muddying the waters of consent and confusing the definition of rape.

Good grief.

WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE POOR PEOPLE? Liberal Cities Like L.A. Face Much Higher Housing Prices.

The Democrat-Republican divide often comes down to the difference in how we believe America can best prosper. Democrats say the collective power of the people can protect the financial interests of the everyday worker. Republicans often argue that freedom from government fosters economic well-being.

It turns out the Democrat way of doing things doesn’t seem to help middle class citizens when it comes time to make the biggest purchase of their lives. . . .

L.A. is one of 28 “dark blue” markets in which Democrat Barack Obama trounced Republican Mitt Romney for president by at least 20 percentage points in 2012. Prominent dark blue cities also include New York and San Francisco.

Guess what else they have in common?

Yes—they’re the most unaffordable cities in America when it comes to housing, not only according to Trulia but also according to other reports we’ve highlighted in the past.

The website says that these “blue markets have lower home ownership and greater income inequality than red markets.”

If you assume that people intend the natural and probable consequences of their actions, then Democrats hate poor people and the middle class.

WELL, THAT’S CERTAINLY THE WAY TO BET, ISN’T IT? Is the Washington Press Corps Covering Up Another Obama Administration Fiasco?

JIM TREACHER: Behold! Media Matters Hack (Who Lied About Me When I Got Hit By A Car) Embarrasses Himself Once More.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL CALLS BIBI NETANYAHU A “CHICKENSHIT,” and Ed Driscoll notes the obvious comparison.

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ROCKETS EXPLODE SOMETIMES: NASA-Contracted Rocket Bound for Space Station Suffers ‘Catastrophic Anomaly,’ Explodes.

Of course, using old Russian engines may increase that problem. But, then again, the source may be something entirely different. I’m currently reading Charles Murray & Catherine Cox’s Apollo history and I just got to the part about the fire. So compared to that, this catastrophe appears comparatively mild.

UPDATE: More here.

AS MANY AS THEY CAN: Steven Hayward: How Many Elections Will Democrats Steal Next Week? Despite what we’ve been told, electoral fraud clearly isn’t a myth.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): The young and the disconnected: America’s youth unemployment problem. Note, though, that one thing making the featured protagonist in this story unemployable is a conviction for violating Washington, DC’s absurd gun law, a law which surely has a tremendous disparate impact on young minority males — and, in fact, was designed to.

But it’s not just “disconnected youth” who have a problem in the Obama Economy:

Up until a decade ago, Bird said, it was easier for them to find service jobs. But now they compete against college graduates who can’t find professional work, or adults looking to support their family.

“I know it’s hard,” Hernandez said. “My cousin has a master’s degree and has to look for jobs on Craiglist. Just like me.”

Fundamentally transformed.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: NSF Grant program to support nanotechnology and other infrastructure.

POLICING: 24 Armed Officers And An Armored Vehicle Dispatched To Collect Civil Judgment From 75-year-old Man. Quoth the sheriff: “People may not always understand why, but an armored vehicle is almost a necessity now.”

YEAH, NOT A GREAT START: Amazon sitting on $83 million of unsold Fire Phones.

TODAY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT: California Cops Passed Around Explicit Photos Harvested From Arrestees’ Phones.

DOING JOBS AMERICA WON’T DO: Australia imposes travel ban on Ebola-impacted countries.

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