Taranto Logic -

Scheiber’s argument regarding Ebola, however, fails even the test of expediency. It amounts to asserting that public officials have to lie to us so that we can trust them when they say there’s nothing to worry about. Incompetence alone is corrosive enough to public trust. If people in authority tell outright lies with the aim of soothing the public, then every reassuring official statement is cause for alarm.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/best-of-the-web-today-honesty-and-policy-1414440460

So Loopy on So Many Levels

Best of the Web Today...

Cartographers Call This ‘Projection’ “Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Democrats Are ‘Expanding the Map’ ”—headline, Breitbart.com, Oct. 23

When either Taranto or one of his readers spring (metaphor alert!) such marvelous juxtapostions such as this, it's like Ed McMahon with Carnac the Magnificent: you know somethings are coming in this segment (or column) that will collide multiple transitive connotations into a verbal Campaign Spot train-wreck video requiring rewind and replay, click the play again button on the YouTube collision, or reread cartography, projection, DWS, expand, map... 

(No, "DWS" is not enough, it is necessary to repeatedly reread cartography, projection, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, expand, map...)

Kevin Williamson explores the VA cloud at NRO.