Thursday Miscellany!

[maxomai]

• The campaign against ISIS will cost $1.5 billion a month. If we devoted those kind of resources to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, we could save millions of lives, and prevent possible spread to other regions....but that (unlike war) would require Congressional approval.


• A smidgen of good news as Ebola has been contained in Nigeria and Senegal through swift, early action. Also, an Ebola vaccine appears to be safe for use. The bigger questions are whether it will work and for how long.


• FiveThirtyEight released their ratings of well-known pollsters. Not a shock: Zogby got an "F." Shock: they're the only F-rated pollster to NOT be banned by FiveThirtyEight. By the way, Survey USA earned an A rating, whereas PPP earned a B-.


• The conservative case for peace, here and here. Read carefully, friends!


• For those of you who hadn't heard, Oregon State Hospital
  psychiatrist Dr. Stephen Fritz, husband of Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, died yesterday morning in a violent car accident in Salem. Most Portlanders, Burners and art car fanatics know him as the man who drove the zebra-striped Nissan "Zentra," which he was driving when someone jumped the median and hit him head-on.