The White House prefers to reassure rather than tell about all the risks

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/6/bruce-containing-the-facts-about-ebola/

Delivering platitudes and patronizing reassurances about life-and-death issues reveals a systemic culture that prefers to treat the average citizen as an infant, and certainly not worth treating as an equal.

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Obama's priority: Not protecting Americans

http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/obamas-priority-not-protecting-americans/

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is both a danger in itself and a wake-up call for Americans – about President Obama, about the institutions of this country and, most important, about ourselves.

There was a time when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring virtually unanimous agreement that our top priority should be to keep it overseas. Yet Barack Obama has refused to bar entry to the United States by people from countries where the Ebola epidemic rages, as Britain has done.