**Written by Doug Powers Sunday open thread time, with the third presidential debate just a few days away. First off, David Axelrod thinks Hillary Clinton should consider skipping the third presidential debate because of Trump's remark about drug testing: “You have to wonder if @HillaryClinton will/should reconsider next debate, given the depths to which this has sunk,” Axelrod tweeted. Trump floated the idea of a drug test during a campaign rally Saturday in New Hampshire, comparing himself and...

**Written by Doug Powers Check this out: Obama's clarion call for Internet media truth wouldn't be “censorship,” but rather throwing people's opinions in some sort of state-sponsored pen of unreliability to promote the general welfare of Big Government: President Barack Obama on Thursday decried America's “wild, wild west” media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate. Recalling past days when three television channels delivered f...

**Written by Doug Powers Trump costumes alone are sure to send at least a dozen hyperventilating special snowflakes to the hospital this Halloween at the University of Florida: The University of Florida is offering counseling to anyone who gets offended by any costumes worn this coming Halloween. The school wrote in a blog post Monday urging students to “think about your choices of costumes and themes.” “Some Halloween costumes reinforce stereotypes of particular races, genders, cultures, or rel...

**Written by Doug Powers The Most Qualified Presidential Candidate in U.S. History™ had a sudden case of selective memory loss over questions about her email shenanigans: Hillary Clinton said under oath in a court filing Thursday that she can't recall key details about her use of a private email server or she refused to answer questions about it posed by a conservative legal group. Clinton lawyer David Kendall provided the Democratic presidential nominee's sworn responses to 25 written question...

**Written by Doug Powers In a speech Thursday, Michelle Obama really went after Donald Trump: First lady Michelle Obama delivered Thursday an impassioned denunciation of Donald Trump, calling the recently unearthed comments by the Republican presidential nominee “shocking” and “demeaning,” and below “basic standards of human decency.” Speaking at a rally for Hillary Clinton in Manchester, New Hampshire, Obama lit into Trump over a video that surfaced last week in which he can be heard talking ab...

**Written by Doug Powers If there's been a more believable “anonymously sourced” story in the last few weeks I have yet to see it: The decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information has roiled the FBI and Department of Justice, with one person closely involved in the year-long probe telling FoxNews.com that career agents and attorneys on the case unanimously believed the Democratic presidential nominee should have been charged. The source, who spoke to FoxNew...

**Written by Doug Powers I haven't spent any time talking about third party candidates so far in this election cycle, so let's check in with one of the proposals of Green Party nominee Jill Stein: What she said was “Green New Deal.” What I heard was “a couple thousand more Solyndras.” But hey, using an attack that killed over 2,400 that triggered a war with millions of casualties as the blueprint for a “green economy” makes total sense… in various mental institutions and progressive think-tank...

Obama lied. My THIRD health plan just died. by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2016 Once was a shock. Twice was an outrage. Thrice is a nightmare that won't end. Over the past three years, my family's private, individual health insurance plan — a high-deductible Preferred Provider Organization — has been canceled three times. Our first death notice, from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, arrived in the fall of 2013. Our second, from Rocky Mountain Health Plans, came last August. Three w...

**Written by Doug Powers Southern Florida authorities are bracing for a spike in reports of clown sightings: Former Vice President Al Gore will hit the campaign trail Tuesday for Hillary Clinton, appearing with the Democratic presidential nominee at an event in Miami focused on combatting climate change, according to a Clinton campaign official. The aide said Gore and Clinton will “lay out what's at stake in this election by highlighting the urgent threat of climate change” which the campaign sa...

**Written by Doug Powers House Speaker Paul Ryan's first “deal” with a president from the opposing party was to the tune of $1.1 trillion, so I'd hate to see what his definition of “blank check” would be: The nation's most powerful Republican told his party Monday he now is focusing on ensuring Hillary Clinton doesn't get a blank check as president with a Democratic-controlled Congress, suggesting he doesn't believe Donald Trump can win the election. House Speaker Paul Ryan's office quickly said...

**Written by Doug Powers There's a good reason Hillary Clinton's always imploring the MSM to “fact check” her, because she knows she'll end up getting defenses like this one: That kind of willful ignorance might get somebody a high ranking gig in a potential Hillary administration. Other NBC News debate “fact checks” to look for: The Claim: Hillary Clinton's “crooked.”The Truth: NOPE — Clinton stood up perfectly straight for the entirety of the debate. The Claim: Under Hillary, there was an i...

**Written by Doug Powers Sunday open thread time! Some starter topics… Well, you've no doubt heard about the Trump recording from 1995, and so has Joe Biden: I'm not defending Trump, but an “abuse of power” lecture from somebody who voted to excuse Bill Clinton and is currently campaigning for his wife can be tossed right into the trash next to Hillary's smashed Blackberrys. And besides… ***** After the recording leaked and many Republicans rescinded their endorsements and/or called on him ...

**Written by Doug Powers …Finding out that she actually delivered some speeches in return for those checks: In lucrative paid speeches that Hillary Clinton delivered to elite financial firms but refused to disclose to the public, she displayed an easy comfort with titans of business, embraced unfettered international trade and praised a budget-balancing plan that would have required cuts to Social Security, according to documents posted online Friday by WikiLeaks. Remember at Dem debates when Cl...

**Written by Doug Powers Yesterday, President Obama appeared in the WH Rose Garden to remind everybody that perhaps his greatest legacy is backing a “turning point for our planet” by signing the Paris Agreement (who has time for congressional approval when the Earth is in such immediate peril?). When choosing a legacy, Obama decided, for obvious reasons, to focus on something completely unquantifiable. Obama patting himself on the back for the Paris Agreement helped prove one thing: He hasn't s...

**Written by Doug Powers It seems that Hillary Clinton's having some trouble connecting with “millennials”: In order to bring more young people on board, Team Hillary's been trying to convince Al Gore to put his millennial heartthrob cred on the line in order to campaign for Hillary Clinton even though she's nearly a half-year older than he is, and it looks like the Goracle has agreed: Former Vice President Al Gore is hitting the campaign trail, and will try and use his favorite issue to convi...

**Written by Doug Powers This week, Bill Clinton made a campaign trail confession that small business owners and the middle class are “getting killed” by the ironically named Affordable Care Act. Ezekiel Emanuel, who is credited (or discredited as it were) with being the architect of Obamacare, really dialed the weasel amp up to eleven for his defense of the imploding disaster. Instead of apologizing to America and agreeing to banish himself forever to a remote atoll in the South Pacific, Emanue...

**Written by Doug Powers This story kind of rings some bells, except for the “got arrested and might go to jail” part: A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his house and car, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested by the FBI in August after authorities say he admitted to having taken government secrets. A defens...

Will illegal foreign voters steal the election? by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2016 “It could all come down to Colorado.” That's the latest conventional wisdom from presidential poll watchers. But it may not be legal American citizens in my adopted home state who choose the next commander in chief. Instead, it could very well be foreign noncitizens voting illegally in the Rocky Mountains — and in other crucial swing states — who seal our country's fate. Former Colorado Secretary...

**Written by Doug Powers Open thread for VP debate discussion — or the Orioles/Blue Jays wild card game if you prefer. Tuesday night's debate is between the No. 2's — but it will be all about the No. 1's. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will share the biggest and most hazardous stage of their careers when they face off in Farmville, Va., for the season's only vice-presidential debate, and it is ­expected to center on the two figures atop the tickets. Pence and Kaine are p...

**Written by Doug Powers Progressive celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio are so eager to engage in debate that they don't want those who aren't in lock-step with Al Gore to even be allowed on the ballot for political office: Monday's panel at the White House “South by South Lawn” festival preceded the U.S. premiere of DiCaprio's climate change documentary, “Before the Flood,” which will air on the National Geographic channel later this month. The Oscar winner opened the panel by explaining that he p...