RedState Briefing 10/13/2014

I Have a Question

I think the President of the United States owes the American public an answer now. I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in his role as Command-in-Chief, but not now. In Dallas, TX, a health care worker who came into contact with the Ebola patient has contracted Ebola. The health care worker was a trained professional wearing protective clothing. But that trained professional in protective clothing now has Ebola. There is always a risk. There was always going to be a risk. But can the President answer this question

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CDC Dialing for Dollars with Ebola   Yesterday, CDC director Thomas Frieden made this assessment of the current Ebola epidemic: “The only thing like this has been AIDS. And we have to work now so that this is not the world’s next AIDS." Frieden isn’t a stupid man but this statement is either a blatant appeal for money or one of the more bizarre statements ever made by anyone in CDC, and that covers a lot of waterfront. The statement flies in the face of everything known about Ebola, including the information Frieden, himself, has put out over the past couple of weeks and the comparison to AIDS, in any way other than a calculated attempt to headline-whore, is dishonest.   Read More Sponsored The Fed Just Guaranteed \$9 Gas & \$3800 Gold

People who wanted privacy didn’t use Snapchat A service called Snapchat has been around a while, purporting to let its users share images, without the recipient being able to save them. Except well, it never was possible to prevent that, and that’s been known all along. Snapchat’s answers was to try to warn the sender if the photo was saved but… they weren’t that great at that. So now a bunch of nude Snapchat photos may come out but, seriously, if you were sending nude photos around in this way, you didn’t really care about your privacy anyway. Read More

Adam Laxalt Prosecuted Terrorists in Iraq. Gets Accused of Paper Pushing by His Opponent. Adam Laxalt is running for Attorney General of Nevada. On Friday night, he debated his Democrat opponent, Ross Miller. You can see the whole debate here, but the most unbelievable moment comes at the 38:30 mark. Laxalt is a veteran who served as a Navy JAG officer in Iraq handling the prosecution of terrorists, Saddam Hussein thugs, and others. During the Surge in Iraq, Laxalt’s team had responsibility for more than 20,000 detainees in Iraq. For his service, he was awarded the Joint Service Commendation medal. Now here is the fun part. Read More

Sponsored Justice Dep't Seizes Money from Innocent US Citizens FREE BOOK: Rescue Your Money from US Debt Disaster Sudden Target for Gov't Confiscation: Your Savings   Bruce Braley denies Michael Bloomberg once. …So far.   Basically, Bruce Braley claimed on Saturday that he has never even met Michael Bloomberg; a claim that is undercut by stuff on Braley’s own website. Twitchy notes that the Braley campaign is trying to spin now that Bruce Braley was lying in the 2010 press release*, not in his 2014 debate comments, which is… about the best that they could hope to do, I suppose. The fundamental problem here is that in 2010 it looked like a good idea for Bruce Braley to cozy up to Bloomberg: but in 2014 it’s not even remotely smart for a candidate for statewide office in Iowa to do that. To say nothing of the entire ‘No Labels’ thing, which has not aged well at all, at all.   Read More

Raising the Diversity Shield in the Carl DeMaio Race There have been disturbing allegations against Carl DeMaio for a while. Those include all sorts of things including sexual harassment against another guy. Here’s the truth about all this. The NRCC vetted the guy and these allegations were there for a while. They have merit behind them. Were DeMaio a straight guy, the NRCC would have worked overtime to force him out. Republicans all over would be denouncing the guy. Read More

World Health Organization Can’t Wait to Tax You Next week, the World Health Organization (WHO), a group of incompetent nanny-statist bureaucrats who failed miserably to prevent the Ebola crisis from getting out of hand in West Africa (something that falls into the category of “WHO’s primary mission”), plans to double down on a failed scheme it first tried to put into place a couple years ago. Read More

Gotham   Along with Arrow, I have been excited for the Flash to premiere. The CW gets the DC series well. I find it fascinating that as well as Marvel does Movies where DC fails, DC does well at television shows, or at least has on the CW. Fox has taken on Gotham, a series from the DC comic universe of Batman’s city, before Batman exists. The series starts with Dr. & Mrs. Wayne being gun downed. It is, for all intents and purposes, a police procedural. I have eagerly anticipated this series since I first heard buzz of its creation last year. Batman is the best comic book super hero and Gotham’s story in and of itself should provide a lot of material. Having watched all the episodes now out, I am impressed by the show’s potential, generally entertained by what I have seen, but left with a few concerns.   Read More Sponsored Justice Dep't Seizes Money from Innocent US Citizens FREE BOOK: Rescue Your Money from US Debt Disaster Sudden Target for Gov't Confiscation: Your Savings

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Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState