Hillary Clinton Ducks Behind Pillar to Keep Press From Filming Her Coughing

When I went to a night club on my 30th birthday I was carded

Apparently being told you look young is now a form of sexism and aggression.
From Instapundit:

WHEN I TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS IN 1991, I WAS TOLD I LOOKED TOO YOUNG TO BE A LAW PROFESSOR. I’m pretty sure that Ralph Hall wasn’t being sexist. But now Florida’s law dean is complaining that people tell her she looks too young to be a law dean. The more complaints I hear along these lines from women and minorities, the more I’m tempted to conclude that our society isn’t ready yet for leaders who aren’t straight, white males. Apparently, the environment is just too crushingly hostile for anyone else.

Why Trump is right about Putin

At the risk of being attacked from every side, can I suggest that it may not be in America’s best interest to make Russia an enemy? I believe that Mitt Romney was right when said that Russia is “without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe.” He was ridiculed by Obama and the press for it. But now it appears that most in the political class has become Romney on steroids, seeking to outdo each other in condemning Russia and Putin. Part of that is reaction to the fact that Putin has been handing Obama defeat after defeat in the geopolitical arena, from Crimea to the Middle East. But while it may make politicians look bold, I don’t think it’s in any one’s interest to start a war with Russia.

The fact is that the U.S. and Russia have foes in common; the Russians have their own Islamic problem. In addition, Russia, despite the fact that it has beaten Obama like a rented mule whenever it saw an opportunity, it’s still a poor nation with a shrinking population and an authoritarian, dictatorial, political system that makes Chicago look clean.

The Russian rulers are no longer ideological communists so we have an opportunity to find common ground, like Nixon in China. If Trump wins there is actually a great opportunity for an opening to Russia that makes even more sense than the opening to China.

So this is the Howard Stern Interview Where Trump is Supposed to have Come Out with a Full Throated Support of Invading Iraq

Democrats are succeeding

Meanwhile ObamaCare, carefully crafted by Democrats to insure all Americans would lose the health insurance they liked and could afford, is imploding.  

Of course that was the intention.  

Just as it was the intention of the Democrats to re-enslave black people, herd them into ghettos and break up family formation; never having forgiven them for breaking the bonds of slavery in 1865. They turned them into dependent paupers 'cause they're easier to please.

Hillary Clinton's Illness Revealed

Campaign shields Hillary Clinton climbing out of van on airport tarmac

Ann Coulter: "EVERY WORD, INCLUDING 'AND' AND 'THE'"

The media's daily slander of Donald Trump is hard to square with their increasingly frenzied assurances that he is going to lose the election. If anyone in the media seriously believed Hillary had this in the bag, this would be a golden opportunity for the media to be fair and get the public to hate them a little less.

Instead, we're getting a never-ending stream of lies about Trump and his supporters. To paraphrase Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman, every word the media utter about Trump is a lie, including "and" and "the.”

We've already covered the media's deliberate lie -- and frantic cover-up of their lie -- about Trump allegedly mocking a disabled man. We've covered the lie about Trump referring to Megyn Kelly's period. We've covered the lie about Trump "attacking a Gold Star dad!" In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! covers a slew of additional media slanders of Trump. ...

As with all things Trump, absolutely nothing you hear about him from our journalist friends is likely to be true. America is being lied to by well-paid media elites, who want cheap nannies and couldn't care less about out-of-work and underpaid Americans. Vote against the media. Vote Trump!

Austin sex assault suspect previously deported five times

Life in Obama's America:  Catch, release, rape, repeat.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said a man accused of serial rape in the Austin area was deported five times before his most recent arrest in August.

Nicodemo Coria-Gonzales faces six charges including aggravated sexual assault and kidnapping.In one case, a victim told police he poured gasoline on her and tried to set her on fire.

Justice Dept. Granted Immunity to Specialist Who Deleted Hillary Clinton’s Emails

Of course they did.

Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, the top Republican on the House oversight committee, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to investigate whether Mrs. Clinton, her lawyers or the specialist obstructed justice when the emails were deleted in March 2015.

Another University Offers Black Students Separate Housing Complex...

My favorite part of the Obama era is all the racial healing.

North Korea conducts fifth nuclear test, claims it has made warheads with ‘high strike power’

Obama can't leave office soon enough.  What would he have done differently if he hated America?

5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired over 2 million phony accounts

If you think that having an account with a large financial institution is a good idea, you may want to reconsider.

On Thursday, federal regulators said Wells Fargo employees secretly created millions of unauthorized bank and credit card accounts -- without their customers knowing it -- since 2011.

The phony accounts earned the bank unwarranted fees and allowed Wells Fargo employees to boost their sales figures and make more money.

"Wells Fargo employees secretly opened unauthorized accounts to hit sales targets and receive bonuses," Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said in a statement.

Wells Fargo confirmed to CNNMoney that it had fired 5,300 employees over the last few years related to the shady behavior. Employees went so far as to create phony PIN numbers and fake email addresses to enroll customers in online banking services, the CFPB said.

The scope of the scandal is shocking. An analysis conducted by a consulting firm hired by Wells Fargo concluded that bank employees opened over 1.5 million deposit accounts that may not have been authorized.

The way it worked was that employees moved funds from customers' existing accounts into newly-created ones without their knowledge or consent, regulators say. The CFPB described this practice as "widespread." Customers were being charged for insufficient funds or overdraft fees -- because there wasn't enough money in their original accounts.

71% DOCTORS SAY HILLARY HEALTH CONCERNS SERIOUS

Well, if I had coughing fits like hers I would be concerned.

Don’t Let Comey Put a Criminal in the White House

Austin Bay calls on FBI Director Comey to come clean that Hillary obstructed justice by deleting e-mails

Recommend indictment for three reasons, Mr. Director. First and foremost recommend she face legal consequences because her actions were criminal. Recommend indictment in order to re-establish the integrity of your agency, whose reputation has been tarnished by your cowardly July decision. You know it. You face internal dissent as well as external criticism, and somewhere in your previously mentioned Washington-shrunken-soul you know the dissent and criticism is righteous, hence your prickly little memo.

Finally, sir, do it for the dead, the Americans who died at Benghazi.

If you lack the character and guts to recommend indictment, then resign, sir. Resign.

Richard Fernandez on the Age of Obama

The Era of Hope and Change has been one prolonged act of suicide. If anyone had said that Obama would manage to alienate Israel and the Philippines, lose Turkey, pay Iran a hundred billion dollars, preside over the loss of a won war in Afghanistan, lose billions of dollars in military equipment to ISIS, watch a consulate burn, restart the Cold War with Russia, cause Japan to re-arm and go the knife's edge with China would you have believed it? If someone had told you in 2008 millions of refugees would be heading for Europe and that the UK would leave the EU after Obama went there to campaign for them to remain would you not have laughed?

He promised "smart diplomacy" and the restoration of American prestige in the world. How did it come to this?

The Flight 93 Election

Great essay deserves to be repeated:

2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die. You may die anyway. You—or the leader of your party—may make it into the cockpit and not know how to fly or land the plane. There are no guarantees.

Except one: if you don’t try, death is certain. To compound the metaphor: a Hillary Clinton presidency is Russian Roulette with a semi-auto. With Trump, at least you can spin the cylinder and take your chances.

To ordinary conservative ears, this sounds histrionic. The stakes can’t be that high because they are never that high—except perhaps in the pages of Gibbon. Conservative intellectuals will insist that there has been no “end of history” and that all human outcomes are still possible. They will even—as Charles Kesler does—admit that America is in “crisis.” But how great is the crisis? Can things really be so bad if eight years of Obama can be followed by eight more of Hillary, and yet Constitutionalist conservatives can still reasonably hope for a restoration of our cherished ideals? Cruz in 2024!

Reply to Bud and his death wish.

Bud Norman writes a blog called Central Standard Times.  I shared some thoughts with him.

Why do some fringe brands of Conservative have a death wish?  I mean that in a figurative sense of course, since this death wish manifests itself only during an election.  But Bud here is a great example.  When I began reading him I found a conventional Republican with a talent for droll humor.  But as the election cycle heated up the inner maniac showed up.  We’re now past he point where Bud’s Hail May passes miss the receiver and he realizes that third party candidates are not going to be the next President.  But we still hear the lonely laments that the Republican does not act like the standard issue M1A1 Republican loser. 

Here’s an outstanding example of the #NeverTrump mindset as it demands that the Republican nominee cut his throat in the town square at high noon. 

“Neither candidate seems at all concerned about the nation’s unaffordable debt, much less expressed a willingness to address the entitlement programs that is driving it…”

Of course that sentence is nonsense on two levels.  No one this side of an insane asylum expects the Democrat to do anything but ignore the national debt – or blame it on Bush as Obama did.  And the Democrat is guaranteed to fatten current entitlement spending and invent new entitlements.  In fact, “free” college education is part of the Democrat platform.  So Bud’s not really being honest with his readers when he talks about “neither candidate.”  He’s talking about Trump.

He’s demanding that Trump run on the Scrooge platform.  He’s demanding that Trump spend the campaign telling people how if he’s elected he’s going to cut Social Security and Medicare and take food out of the mouths of starving orphans and widows.  And lest anyone accuse me of hyperbole, keep in mind that during the 2012 elections the Republican ticket was shown throwing a wheelchair-bound grandmother off a cliff.

There are ways of solving our deficit spending problem; ways of making this country and its people less dependent of government and more independent in every way.  The last time the budget was near balance was because the economy was growing fast enough that tax receipts actually kept up with spending. 

But first you have to get elected.  And you do that by appealing to people’s emotions. 

Republicans have been doing that for decades by promising their constituents fiscal frugality and loosening the bonds of government.  And when they get into office they deliver goodies to the people who bankrolled them while lying to the rubes that they didn’t have to votes to cut spending.

Democrats have an easier path to bribing their voters and supporters: they just tell them right out that they’re going to pass out free stuff from the cornucopia that’s the federal treasury.   How’s this for an appeal to the youth of the nation – and their cash strapped parents?  “Wanna spend four years partying at State College?  Elect us and we’ll pay the bill.”

So this election is not going to be about who’s Scrooge and who’s Santa Claus.  It’s a battle between a sick, corrupt woman who’s expecting to ride into office on the coattails of her husband, and a political novice who’s vanquished the corrupt, lying Republican establishment with the promise of Making America Great Again. 

I think the novice will win.  

Obama Kept His Promise, 83,000 Coal Jobs Lost And 400 Mines Shuttered

This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry.

OBAMA FROZEN OUT: Netanyahu considering offer of talks with Palestinian president in Moscow...

Given Obama's track record, it's probably a good thing to keep him out of any Mid-East peace talks.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to host talks in Moscow between the Israeli leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Netanyahu's office said on Monday.