**Written by Doug Powers With just over a week to go before the election, we can call what's going on anything but “boring.” Here's our weekly open thread for anything on your mind. First off, a few fire starters… I wrote Friday that James Comey was re-opening (or extending, depending on how you look at it) the Hillary Clinton investigation in light of “new information” that involves one of Huma Abedin's laptops that was used by Anthony Weiner. After that I spent several hours in a delousing ten...

**Written by Doug Powers Early Friday afternoon, FBI Director James “she didn't intend to do it” Comey sent this letter notifying Congress that the Clinton investigation has been reopened: What's that all about? Well, the thought-to-be-closed investigation into Hillary's shady email practices has collided with the investigation into the perverted husband of Clinton's top aide to form one, giant, super slimy investigation: Federal law enforcement officials said Friday that the new emails uncov...

**Written by Doug Powers Here's proof-positive that Hillary Clinton is as authentic and sincere as time and money can buy: Hillary Clinton began conducting focus groups and polling swing state voters as early as December 2014 to figure out how to brand herself and find a “rationale” for running for president. Nearly two years before the election, Clinton's team circulated a timeline of research objectives for which the nascent campaign would spend $2 million on focus groups and surveys, accordin...

**Written by Doug Powers Probably the funniest part of the video below is CNN's Carol Costello asking scam artist-for-hire Jonathan Gruber how to go about “fixing” a disaster of his own creation. Naturally, Gruber disagreed that anything needs “fixing,” but he did recommend one tweak because apparently not enough Americans have been separated from their money yet: “The law's working as designed” — in other words, it was supposed to collapse? Well, at least he's more honest than the rest. And ...

Hillary's climate of hate by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2016 Who are the haters? Who are the autocrats? Who are the serial abusers of power? Only one presidential candidate has wielded the sledgehammer of government against personal enemies. Only one presidential candidate has exploited a spouse's public office to exact revenge on political dissenters. Only one presidential candidate has a quarter-century track record of taxpayer-subsidized demagoguery and class warfare. And as...

**Written by Doug Powers Around the time Colin Powell expressed frustration at Hillary's attempts to throw him under the bus as being the inspiration for her email shadiness, this came out showing the former Bush secretary of state highlighting Bill Clinton's favorite pastime: In spite of the references to Bill Clinton's “dicking bimbos” proclivities as well as Hillary being “greedy,” this isn't really a surprise: Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday he'll vote for D...

**Written by Doug Powers Well, well, well… A top Hillary Clinton aide expressed alarm in early 2015 that President Barack Obama claimed he was unaware of Clinton's private email server until he learned about it in the news. “We need to clean this up – he has emails from her – they do not say state.gov,” said Clinton adviser Cheryl Mills in a hacked email posted Tuesday on WikiLeaks. Here are two emails that seem especially relevant for a reason I'll get to in a second: Add it all up and get ...

**Written by Doug Powers Remember this? Good times: If this was the result of a private sector company's sales push that was billed as “Affordable” its execs would by now have been hauled before the Senate for a verbal waterboarding from Elizabeth Warren: Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama's health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That's sure to stoke another “Obamacare” controversy days before...

**Written by Doug Powers Another total coincidence: The political organization of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat with longstanding ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, gave nearly $500,000 to the election campaign of the wife of an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton's email use. Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe's political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign o...

**Written by Doug Powers Sunday open thread time, and away we go… First off, Oprah Winfrey let her minions know that it's OK not to “like” Hillary Clinton as long as they still vote for her: Oprah Winfrey's message for undecided voters is simple: There's only one choice, and you don't have to like her. […] “But there really is no choice, people. All the people sitting around talking about they can't decide. This is what I what I wanna say — wait a minute,” she said, silencing Jakes to make her p...

**Written by Doug Powers Remember when Obama made this promise about Obamacare? That same president has pledged to do something similar for air travel: Somebody's about to get sued for copyright infringement by the Travelocity gnome. Book your flights now, because if past performance is an indicator of future results, plane tickets are about to quadruple in price and we'll be lucky if our flights don't get canceled when we're halfway to our destinations: He's from the government that's ...

**Written by Doug Powers Obamacare has gone from “It's the law so deal with it, rubes” to “We're all in this together so help us make this work”: The Obama White House and congressional Dems are leaning against the rails of a sinking ship and imploring those who have scrambled into the life boats: “Come back! We need you!” Obviously this administration's definition of “working together” involves one of the parties holding a gun to the head of the other. Mandated “cooperation,” for the children...

**Written by Doug Powers At Wednesday night's debate, Hillary Clinton was “horrified” that Donald Trump took the “rigged election” path: “That is the way Donald thinks. And it's funny, but it's also really troubling. That is not the way our democracy works. We've been around for 240 years, we've had free and fair elections, we've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them, and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage in a general election. […] He is denigrati...

**Written by Doug Powers OK, one more to go! The University of Nevada-Las Vegas is the site of the final presidential debate, so here's a place to talk about it. As for the candidates' guests, Donald Trump invited Malik Obama, the president's half brother, and Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Among the Clintons' guests will be Meg Whitman, Mark Cuban, and probably a couple of Bill's girlfriends in the general vicinity ...

Debate Depressive Disorder by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2016 How many more broadcast bust-ups will it take before America finally decides to make its presidential election debates tolerable again? I can't take it anymore. Can you? For the past three cycles — 2008, 2012, and 2016 — I've chronicled the depressing, systemic bias of left-leaning partisans whom the Commission on Presidential Debates routinely installs as “moderators.” It would be one thing if these activists posing ...

**Written by Doug Powers Our media betters are always prepared to lecture us about what's right and wrong, but sometimes they can serve as catalysts for some important civics lessons. At issue Tuesday: Trump saying there should be a constitutional amendment imposing congressional term limits. CNN's Brooke Baldwin laughed it off as something that already exists, until it quietly backfired: Baldwin's lucky she had a “friendly” covering for her or that could have been much more hilarious than i...

Trump's claim is as “unprecedented” as this administration is the most transparent and accountable in history. Obama's obviously decided to try and leave America laughing (and scrambling to find new insurance plans). **Written by Doug Powers Twitter **Written by Doug Powers During a press conference today with the Italian prime minister, President Obama added to his legacy of a comical lack of self-awareness: Speaking of the tradition of a peaceful transfer of power after presidentia...

**Written by Doug Powers Remember Hillary Clinton's pledge at the Democratic Convention? Hillary and her fellow hypocrites from Hollywood ponied up big time yesterday to try and get money out of politics: Hillary Clinton's campaign raised at least $2 million Monday night from a star-studded Broadway event in New York City that included performances by Julia Roberts, Sarah Jessica Parker, Neil Patrick Harris and “Hamilton” creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda. The evening's host was comedian Billy Crys...

**Written by Doug Powers The James Comey “investigation” (and subsequent exoneration) of Hillary Clinton has always reeked to high heaven, and another skunk just fell into the mix: A senior State Department official sought to shield Hillary Clinton last year by pressuring the FBI to drop its insistence that an email on the private server she used while secretary of state contained classified information, according to records of interviews with FBI officials released on Monday. The accusation a...

**Written by Doug Powers The Department of Homeland Security wants the American people to know that they're totally on top of the tens of thousands of refugees the Obama administration is rushing through the turnstile (a rate that Hillary Clinton has pledge to accelerate): I'm sold! Well, maybe not: Just last month: At least 858 people from countries that are of concern to the United States' national security were able to avoid deportation orders — and actually received citizenship — due to ...