Five real changes (for the better) we should see if the Senate goes Republican

◼ We've been talking so much about the Republicans getting control of the Senate. If it happens, can we expect any real tangible changes right away? Yes we can! - Herman Cain

...Republican control of the Senate means Congress can take real action to address the issues Americans care about the most, and put Obama on the defensive if he insists on maintaining the status quo. Maybe he will simply block everything the GOP Congress tries to do, but I think that will be difficult for him to do.

So yes, we can look forward to real achievements in 2015-2016 if we take the Senate on Tuesday. I know I’m excited about it. You should be too.

Democrats´ Women Problem

◼ A New Poll Proves That The ‘War On Women’ Is Backfiring On Democrats - IJ Review
◼ Democrats´ Women Problem in Colorado - Bloomberg

What do women want? Freud’s question, yet to be fully answered, has roiled the contest for what should have been a safe Senate seat in Colorado....

◼ Democrats Count on Edge With Women to Limit Election Losses - New York Times

Democrats are nervously counting on an enduring edge among female voters in most states to prevent a Republican rout in Tuesday’s elections. Yet so great is the uncertainty that even before the returns are in, some are second-guessing the party’s strategy of focusing more on issues like abortion and birth control than on jobs and the economy.

The danger for Democratic candidates is that their advantage among women could be so reduced by dissatisfaction with President Obama and the country’s course that it is not enough to offset Republicans’ usual edge among the smaller population of male voters. Should that happen, a party pollster, Geoff Garin, acknowledged, “They’ll lose.”

◼ Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama hit by hecklers at separate speeches - Washington Times (D.C)
◼ Bill Clinton plugs Kay Hagan in N.C. - Politico
◼ "Bill Clinton plugs Kay Hagan" This May Be The Most Awkward (And Unintentionally Inappropriate) Political Headline Of The Season - Newsbusters

If you have not already burst out laughing or at least smiled then you must be sorely lacking in the humor department. That was the actual title of a Politico article. To make matters worse, or funnier, the story was accompanied by a photo of Bill Clinton and Kay Hagan with the latter wearing a blue dress. So was this an example of Politico showing a sly sense of humor? Probably not since their bias leans left and would not want to set Kay Hagan (or Bill Clinton) up for mockery at this final stage of the campaign. The fact that it was probably unintentional makes the headline even funnier. To add to the humor is the way the author of the Politico article plugs her story on Twitter but first let us look at some of the amused reactions of the Politico readers in the comments section...

◼ 14 embarrassing things you do when you’re about to lose an election - Washington Post
◼ The spectacular self-immolation of Wendy R. Davis - Michelle Malkin

Wendy Russell Davis is on fire. And I don’t mean that in a good way.

I mean it in a five-alarm, set-her-own-skirt-aflame, billowing-human-torch kind of way. To say that Davis is smokin’ hot is not a compliment. It’s a campaign incineration status update.

The Democratic darling of the Hollywood Left and glamour gal of abortion thought her path to the Texas governor’s mansion would be a pink-sneakered walk in the park. Instead, her single-issue campaign has combusted.

◼ Could Wendy Davis sink Battleground Texas? - Poltico
◼ Harry Reid: If (Joni) Ernst Wins Iowa Senate, Republicans Will Take Majority - Breitbart Big Government/Warner Todd Huston
◼ Women Are the Target On Campaign´s Final Weekend - AP
◼ Twilight of the Froot Loops - Kevin D. Williamson/National Review

Acknowledging the admittedly remote risk that I am giving a hostage to fate by writing these words, I note that the implosion of Wendy Davis’s ugly and vacuous gubernatorial campaign in Texas has been a satisfying spectacle.

SNL Jumps the Shark Tank with ‘Jokes’ About WTC & Boston Marathon Bombings, ISIS Terrorism…

◼ Comedy is tricky. Especially “comedy” that takes on traumatic terrorist events still etched in the American psyche, like the World Trade Center bombings of 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombings. - IJ Review



◼ Chris Rock made jokes about some pretty sacrosanct things on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Dan, for one, thinks it's a good thing he did. - Herman Cain

Christie's controversial Ebola quarantine now embraced by Nobel Prize-winning doctor

◼ After days of blistering criticism from the ACLU, the CDC and even the United Nations secretary general over Gov. Chris Christie’s new, 21-day mandatory quarantine policy for all healthcare workers exposed to Ebola, the New Jersey governor has gotten a much-needed vote of support from a heavyweight name in the medical community: Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical researcher, Dr. Bruce Beutler. - NJ.com

Dr. Beutler, an American medical doctor and researcher, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2011 for his work researching the cellular subsystem of the body’s overall immune system — the part of it that defends the body from infection by other organisms, like Ebola.

He is currently the Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas — the first U.S. city to treat an Ebola patient and also the first to watch one die from the virus. In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Beutler reviewed Christie’s new policy of mandatory quarantine for all health care workers exposed to Ebola, and declared: “I favor it.”

Unfortunately, while the doctor’s support might provide much-needed credibility for Christie as he threatens to quarantine ever more healthcare workers returning from the Ebola fight in West Africa, it also comes with some chilling words.

“I favor it, because it’s not entirely clear that they can’t transmit the disease,” Beutler said, referring to asymptomatic healthcare workers like Kaci Hickox, a Doctors Without Borders nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone who was quarantined in New Jersey for 65 hours before being transported to her home state of Maine on Monday afternoon.

“It may not be absolutely true that those without symptoms can’t transmit the disease, because we don’t have the numbers to back that up,” said Beutler, “It could be people develop significant viremia [where viruses enter the bloodstream and gain access to the rest of the body], and become able to transmit the disease before they have a fever, even. People may have said that without symptoms you can’t transmit Ebola. I’m not sure about that being 100 percent true. There’s a lot of variation with viruses.”

◼ Christie's Ebola quarantine policy questioned by second Nobel laureate as debate intensifies - NJ.com

Professor Peter C. Doherty, an Australian microbiologist, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for his research on how the body's immune cells protect against viruses, like Ebola. Unlike his fellow Nobel Prize winner, American Dr. Bruce Beutler, Doherty doesn’t agree with Christie’s plan to automatically quarantine all returning healthcare workers exposed to Ebola in West Africa.

In an exclusive interview with NJ Advance Media, Doherty said “the evidence-based consensus among the professionals seems to be that this is not necessary” because “people are not infectious early, and anyone who has been in this situation will (as we’ve seen already in Australia) be so aware of the disease that they will report in immediately (if) there is any fever.”

◼ Ebola-Quarantine Objections Are Frivolous - Andrew C. McCarthy/National Review Online
◼ Alarmed by Ebola, Public Isn’t Calmed by ‘Experts Say’ - New York Times
◼ Obama Leaves Maine Without Meeting Defiant Quarantine Nurse - Bridget Johnson/PJ Media
◼ Maine Says Nurse Hickox’s Roommate Had Ebola

Sheila Pinette of the Maine CDC has released information that the roommate of Kaci Hickox, while in West Africa has displayed signs of ebola. Pinette says “The respondents roommate in Africa became infected without knowing how she became infected with Ebola. (Any potential risk to respondent from that incident has passed).” This is one of 35 points Pinette made while filing a verified petition for public health order yesterday with the state.

What did arrogant nurse Kaci Hickox know about her roommate’s Ebola, and when did she know it?

Obama's border policy has FUELED the Enterovirus epidemic, evidence Shows

◼ The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence. - Neil Munro/Daily Caller

...A series of government researchers, health experts and academics refused to comment, or else urged self-censorship, when they were pressed by TheDC for statistical and scientific data that would exonerate Obama and his deputies.

“I would just steer away from that— it is not helpful, so why bring it up,” said Lone Simonsen, a professor at George Washington University’s Department of Global Health and the research director of the university’s Global Epidemiology Program. “A better angle [is] ‘We’re just learning what this outbreak is all about,’” she told TheDC.

Columbia University researcher Rafal Tokarz, one of the nation’s top experts on the EV-D68 virus, declined to comment to TheDC about the impact of Obama’s border policies. “I cannot comment… and at this time it would not be appropriate for me to do so… I would really rather not comment,” he said in email conversations.

The issue is dangerous for scientists because it could spike existing public opposition to the unpopular effort by Obama, Democrats and business-backed Republicans to increase the migration of foreign nationals — including many foreign scientists — into the United States. That inflow is a top priority for the Democratic leaders, who have the power to make life difficult for grant-dependent American scientists who discover politically damaging information.

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