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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: A story from yesterday I didn't have a chance to get to. Sunday at the Men's Day program hosted at Union Temple Baptist church in Washington, DC, the Nation of Islam grand pooh-bah, Minister Louis Farrakhan, said to President Obama, "Your people are suffering and dying in the streets of Chicago, so you failed to do what should have been done." Farrakhan continued by saying it's time to let Donald Trump do what he wants to, because he's not destroying your legacy. Farrakhan said, "So you Democrats, you been in their party a long time. Answer me,...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Loretta Lynch, the attorney general. When I saw the transcript of this, I said, "This has to be a mistake. This is not Loretta Lynch. This has to be Marilyn Mosby." Does that name ring a bell, Marilyn Mosby? Marilyn Mosby was the state attorney, the district attorney in Baltimore that came out and announced that she was gonna go after those cops for what they did to that nice young man, Freddie Gray. So I read the transcript here what Loretta Lynch said at a press conference at the Department of Justice today, and I literally...

Cornell University Football Coach Roy Istvan apologized to students who were offended by an image he tweeted: an image of two of his players wearing sombreros. Why were they wearing sombreros? Istvan awards the big hat to the player or players who best represented team spirit on the field after a game. This practice has displeased some members of MEChA de Cornell, a Mexican student group. "They're appropriating a culture that isn't theirs and using it as a joke," wrote one student on MEChA's Facebook page, according to Campus Reform. "It's disgusting and I'm ashamed that you can't see that."...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is Bill in Los Angeles. Bill, great to have you with us here on the EIB Network today. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you? RUSH: Just fine, sir. CALLER: I'm one of that 11 to 14%. RUSH: You are one of the 11 to 14% of what? CALLER: The NFL drop. RUSH: Oh! Oh, you are. You've stopped watching. CALLER: Oh, yes. And the games that I did kind of tune in to, I refused to buy any of their products. RUSH: What brought this on, is it the Kaepernick type stuff? CALLER: Absolutely it...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Did you see it has gotten so bad, so desperate in the Hillary campaign, that some of the cast of the old TV show The West Wing are campaigning for her? Did you see that? My friends, do you realize what you have in me? I can't tell how many years ago the left... When that show was on, it was during the Bush presidency, and they really thought Martin Sheen was president! The left engaging in their fantasyland and West Wing was the real government to them. That's how they stayed sane. (chuckles) So now, Hillary...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So grab sound bites 18 and 19. I was at home last night, and I thought I was watching outtakes from a Beyonce video before I realized it was Charlotte, and I get an email from a friend of mine ranking in Republican Party politics of some years ago, not at the present. He said, "You won't believe this. You have got to watch Bill Kristol on Fox. It is hilarious." Well, I didn't have Fox on, and it had already happened. So I wrote back. I said, "Well, what happened? I didn't see it." "Well, go...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So what we're gonna see here, we're gonna see an increased media presence in Charlotte. Even when we reach the time where tensions have subsided a bit, there are planeloads of Drive-Bys even as I speak probably on the way to Charlotte now with their cameras. They can't wait to get there because this is all about black turnout. And in a specific sense it's about winning North Carolina for Hillary. They can't believe it, folks. They can't believe where they are. They can't believe this is happening. They can't believe that Hillary isn't running away with...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So I got an email last night, "You better turn on the TV. You won't believe what you see in Charlotte." So I turned on the TV, and my first thought, I looked and I thought it was an outtake from a Beyonce video. And then I figured out it was more rioting that was going on. Ah, it's just amazing. The thing that amazes me about this is that it's predictable. Like I said yesterday, these are not protests. These are riots. Riots have now become the new norm! We now expect them. With expectation comes...

Hillary Clinton, responding to the knife attack in a St. Cloud, Minnesota mall for which ISIS took credit and the bombing in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood by a gay-hating Afghan-born Islamist who was a naturalized American citizen, warned us about the dangers if radical Islamic terrorism, but of intolerance to Muslim-Americans: “[L]et us remember, there are millions and millions of naturalized citizens in America from all over the world. There are millions of law-abiding peaceful Muslim Americans,” Clinton said. Yes, Hillary, there are a lot of naturalized American citizens, including the 858 from what are euphemistically called “special interest countries”,...

When Donald Trump stepped out on stage at a recent Miami rally, the Les Misérables classic "Do You Hear the People Sing?" boomed from the audio system. The audience – which, let's be honest, probably isn't that into musicals – erupted. Cheers filled the arena as the Manhattan socialite-turned-savior of the outcasts took to the podium, saying, "Welcome to all of you deplorables." In that moment, Trump (or his campaign) found the perfect musical accompaniment to his pugnacious campaign for the presidency. Twisted Sister this wasn't. It was a joyous tribute to the "song of angry men" that underlies Trump's...

Rarely in history has an offer of 13 billion euros been refused by a state or organization. Yet the government of Ireland entered the book of records on September 2, 2016 by not taking the offered gift. Instead, it decided to appeal against the ruling of the European Commission that it had granted Apple undue and illegal tax benefits that allowed the company to pay substantially less tax than other businesses, and that Ireland should recover the illegal aid. The European Commission had no specific concern about the Irish tax system, nor is it anxious to harmonize corporate tax rates...

The principal distinction between the right and the left is that the former is rich and the latter is poor. The principal distinction is that the right is filled with people who work in real jobs that produce valuable goods and services while the left is infested with people who do not work or do useless work, like lawyers, professors, and community organizers. Consider the occupations of the last few nominees of the two parties. The Republicans nominated men who had been war heroes (Dole and McCain and George H. Bush) or businessmen (George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and Trump),...

In a recent column, Bret Stephens recognized that one of the lessons from this past weekend’s terror attacks is that “there is [a]… benefit in the surveillance methods that allowed police in New York and New Jersey to swiftly identify and arrest Mr. Rahimi before his bombing spree took any lives.” A Wall Street Journal editorial that same day noted that “Since 9/11… the NYPD has made great progress in being able to track down terror suspects.” And while the New York and New Jersey police departments deserve high praise for their handling of these attacks and quick apprehension of...

The details on the Charlotte riots and attacks on motorists trapped on the highway and others are in our earlier post.Instapundit (law professor Glenn Reynolds) was suspended from Twitter (then later reinstated) after posting the following tweet as those riots and highway blockades were ongoing:Professor Jacobson has asked me to address whether such an act would be lawful as a justified act of self-defense. I’m on a flight now using airplane WiFi, so I’ll make this quick. (Before I go on, however, I should point out that Professor Reynolds has added some important context to his pithy tweet, and these...

"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." -- Fifth Amendment to the U.S. ConstitutionThe clash in American history between liberty and safety is as old as the republic itself. As far back as 1798, notwithstanding the lofty goals and individualistic values of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the same generation -- in some cases the same human beings -- that wrote in the First Amendment that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts, which punished speech critical of the...

1994 election It was more difficult to find polling prior to the 1994 election, which saw Republicans pick up 54 seats in the House and made the GOP the majority party for the first time since 1952. Three ABC polls in the final weeks of the 1994 election which showed the Democrats ahead by 4 or 5 percentage points: 11/6/94: 47-42 10/31/94: 48-44 10/23/94: 50-45 Gallup found between March and October 1994 that the advantage went back and forth between the two parties, and was close near the end. Twice in the final weeks, it was dead even.

A "never Trump" friend I've known since law school writes: "My former partner is old enough to have voted for Barry Goldwater. And like me, he is pro-choice, pro-gay rights and libertarian, so there are some Neanderthal Republicans out there who are just too distasteful to vote for. So, like me, he often votes Libertarian. He does not see much about Donald Trump that resembles a traditional Republican." For the millionth time, Trump is not a fiscal conservative. He is a populist. And his near-embrace by many evangelicals notwithstanding, New Yorker Trump with "New York values" is likely pro-choice and...

In the modern era, in most of America’s past presidential elections the two major political parties presented a fairly clear distinction on the great issue of war and peace: Republicans opposed America’s entry into World War I, and into World War II until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor; Democrats eventually led the opposition against the Vietnam War, and to the two Persian Gulf wars conducted by the two Republican presidents Bush. However, under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the idea that one party would be the “peace” party and one War Partyparty would be the “war” party has been...

If you wrote the story of this election as fiction two years ago, your publisher would demand it be called a farce. If you had a vision of this election 20 years ago and told anyone about it, you would be institutionalized to this day. Even now, in the midst of it all, much of the 2016 presidential election reads as parody. And the media coverage is the tip of that absurdist spear aiming for the heart of reality. The media loves nothing like it loves itself. With the possible exception of Hollywood, no industry awards itself more for doing...

Invisible Reports on Black-on-White Violence Reflections on the white victims the media never told you about. September 22, 2016 Jack Kerwick An “unarmed” black man, Terence Crutcher, has been fatally shot by police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  In the wake of this event, “anger mounts.” In North Carolina, on Tuesday night, black thugs—“protesters”—besieged Charlotte’s Finest with rocks, bottles, and traffic cones and shut down the interstate after a black police officer shot and killed another “unarmed” black man, Keith Lamont Scott. In spite of its predictability, or perhaps because of it, the response on the part of black activists...