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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Chris in Pleasanton, California. Hello, sir. CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. I think this lockstep reaction of the media to that question of Trump accepting results is a huge mistake by them and an opportunity for Trump. Here's why. When he speaks about things being rigged there's really two parts to it. One involves possible fraudulent voting, but the other part of that rigged equation is the media being so incredibly dishonest and almost fraudulent. And so with them making an issue of him not accepting results, it almost throws, like you said earlier, it throws a focus...

When was the last time you saw a healthy stretch of media coverage about actual issues pertaining to the presidency? When was the last week that featured detailed national conversations about the issues Donald Trump rode to the Republican nomination? When he became the presumptive nominee in May, I was among the voices claiming that if the election focuses on the issues, he wins. He wins on borders, wins on the Supreme Court, wins on taxes, wins on blasting through the political correctness that threatens our liberty and safety. That race did not happen. It felt like it in...

Not everyone in the Obama family believes that Republican nominee Donald Trump is unfit to be president of the United States.  At tomorrow night's presidential debate in Las Vegas, Trump will be joined by Barack Obama's half-brother Malik Obama, who supports the New York businessman.  Malik, an American citizen who lives in Washington, D.C. when he's not in Kenya, says he will be a guest of Trump.“I’m excited to be at the debate. Trump can make America great again,” Malik told The Post.  “I look very much forward to meeting and being with Malik,” Trump said. “He gets it far better than his...

On October 22 voters tuned into a presidential debate expecting a serious discussion of foreign policy issues. Apparently President Barack Obama didn't understand that fact or didn't care. Or perhaps, he decided to use the show to audition for a new career on Saturday Night Live. Obama responded to a statement by Mitt Romney about the navy being smaller than in 1916 by telling what some considered a joke instead of attempting to explain why he thinks the United States doesn't need a larger navy. "But I think Governor Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military...

# Republican campaign sees chance to capitalise on President's struggles # Set to launch new push in states where Obama had double-digit victory # Election likely to come down to Florida, Virginia and above all Ohio Mitt Romney is to travel to Wisconsin, a state Barack Obama won in a 14-point blowout four years ago, as the Republican candidate's surging campaign seeks to expand the 'chessboard' into previously safe Democratic territory. At the same time, the Romney campaign has bought television advertising in the Boston market, which reaches screens in New Hampshire, a state Obama won by almost 10 points...

The whole time during the last Presidential debate, Mitt Romney looked like the incumbent and Barack Obama looked like a challenger trying to keep it together. More specifically, Barack Obama, when he made eye contact, looked like he was seeing and invisible hand writing “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Parsin” on the wall behind Bob Schieffer. This was a man who knows the gig is almost up. Throughout the debate, Mitt Romney smiled, agreed, and avoided fights. Barack Obama did everything he could to get into fights. That’s not what incumbents in a comfortable lead do. The biggest issue to come out...

From The Washington Post From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Chris Bray "Horse Soldiers" tells the important story of the Special Forces soldiers who first put American boots on the ground in Afghanistan in 2001. Fighting alongside the Northern Alliance, the troops, often riding on horseback, achieved several important victories against the Taliban.

Editor's note: Freelance war correspondent Alex Quade spent nearly 18 months in Iraq and Afghanistan covering U.S. special operations forces on combat missions, including for CNN. Demossville, Kentucky (CNN) -- The U.S. special operations teams that led the American invasion in Afghanistan a decade ago did something that no American military had done since the last century: ride horses into combat. "It was like out of the Old Testament," says Lt. Col. Max Bowers, retired Green Beret, who commanded the three horseback teams. "You expected Cecil B. DeMille to be filming and Charlton Heston to walk out." Bowers spoke while...

This is my first post here. Im not sure of all the formalities of posting in this forum. But below is my opinion on what Romney must accomplish tomorrow: I think there are a few things Romney must make clear in his foreign policy debate tomorrow and also for the closing argument for the last 15 days of the campaign: 1. He must make it abundantly clear that he is not advocating another war with any country in the middle east or elsewhere, unless there is a direct national security thread in terms of the other side doing a blockade...

1.   Fox News' Carl Cameron Said Kerry's Claim To Have Personally Authored 56 Bills "Not Entirely Accurate."  CARL CAMERON:  "That's not entirely accurate. Some of them were bills that he cosponsored or worked with and by putting his name on it.  In legislative parlance, being a cosponsor does not necessarily mean that one is a principal in the writing of the legislation but one who has joined on it." (Fox News' "Special Debate Coverage," 10/13/04) Since Joining The U.S. Senate In 1985, Kerry Has Been The Lead Sponsor On 316 Bills, Only 5 (1.6 Percent) Of Which Became Law.  (Thomas...

With a strong performance in the third debate, President Bush is sitting on a good hand. Senator Kerry is grasping for an inside straight.IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE how Bob Schieffer could have been more pro-Kerry in last night's debate--short of actually wearing a Kerry-Edwards button.Which makes the president's win even more impressive. Despite talking points cueing questions to Kerry on jobs and minimum wage, and intended-to-put-him-on-the-defensive set-ups about "what do you say to the man who lost his job," "assault weapons," and "is sexual orientation a choice" hardballs at Bush's head, the president calmly turned the questions to the...