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Given everything that’s going on it isn’t surprising that Hillary is hacking up hairballs. After all she is a cat-ladyYesterday Jason Chaffetz accused Hilz and/or her staff of wiping her private server clean of Emails (aka Federal records) by using Bleachbit (software designed to make data on hard drives unrecoverable) AFTER she was served with a subpoena by Congress. Not that there’s a law against destroying evidence that is subject to a Congressional investigation. Oh wait…there is. Butt it’s Hillary, so those rules don’t apply.Also yesterday, news emerged that there was a coordination of questions between the Hillary camp and...

For the past year as some of you know, Sweden has called for a ban on lobster imports from the United States. Without a shred of proof, they claim that American raised lobster threaten their native lobster in its own habitat. Only two forces seem to be fighting this unjustified and uncalled for ban, Nova Scotia and New England Fisherman, particularly those from my home state of Maine. The ban proposal has already cleared its first hurdles despite new data by European scientists that show that American imports have nothing to do with the increase of North American lobsters in...

I was watching the weather this AM and they had a promo for an upcoming campaign bit. On the picture they showed Trump wearing a white and blue plaid suit, looking like a used car dealer. Did any one else catch this? Have you ever seen Trump wearing a cheap suit?

Writing as if he had an eye on 20th and 21st century America, Charles de Montesquieu in the mid-18th century wrote, “At the birth of societies, the rulers of republics establish institutions; and afterwards the institutions mold the rulers.” The institution of the US Senate has indeed been transformed from the Framers’ intended structure and purposes determined at the federal convention of 1787. There, on May 31st, Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia set forth the first purpose of a senate: to check “the turbulent follies of democracy.” Consider for a moment the nation’s short history and the Framers’ recent experiences...

ELKHART — Goshen Coach, a commercial bus manufacturer, announced it will close its Elkhart facility on Oct. 31 and expects to lay off 159 employees. The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification on Wednesday with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to announce the plan to close the facility at 25161 Leer Drive. It plans to offer "severance benefits and transition programs to affected employees," according to the notice, which does not explain why the plant will be shut down. Company officials could not be reached Wednesday for comment. Goshen Coach, which has manufactured specialty vehicles since 1985,...

Amy Schumer mentions she's willing to move to Spain if Trump wins. It's interesting that these celebrities never mention Mexico when they threaten to leave! From NME: "My act will change because I'll need to learn to speak Spanish because I will move to Spain, or somewhere. It's beyond my comprehension if Trump won. It's too crazy," she said.

Longtime National Public Radio star Garrison Keillor just finished four decades on state-subsidized radio on A Prairie Home Companion. For almost that long, he’s been an easy example of a pretentious liberal snob, precisely the kind who seriously loathes a Donald Trump. If NPR ever wanted to wonder why they haven’t been granted a Trump interview, it’s because he knows NPR is an elite liberal sandbox for people who congratulate themselves on their marvelous taste and mental acuity. So when Keillor penned an acidulous character assassination of Trump for the Chicago Tribune, the liberals were very pleased. At Vox.com, they...

THE MORNING PLUM: A batch of new polls suggests the race is tightening, which means the “Trump can really win” dirge is at full blast this morning. We’ll get to the details in a moment. But first, here are a few simple ways to keep yourself from losing your mind in the race’s home stretch, which we have officially entered, now that Labor Day is behind us: Stick to the polling averages. Surprising poll results can either be outliers, or can reflect statistical noise or short term fluctuations. Fortunately, we have a remedy for this: The polling averages, which have...

America's terrorist shortage may be reaching an end. If Orlando didn't satisfy you and San Bernardino left you wanting more. If you thought, why can't we have more Boston Marathon bombings, Obama has your back, and your front and any other directions that a pressure cooker full of nails can hit you from. The land of Washington, Jefferson and Mohammed Atta has reached a new milestone by taking in Syrian refugee number 10,000. It’s unknown if the TSA will shower him with balloons and confetti once he passes the gate while clutching a Koran and a copy of the Caliphate...

The 2016 stunning rise of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continues to confound political pundits and polling operations. The real estate mogul has erased Hillary Clinton’s lead, which was as high as 8 points in early August to take a 2-point national lead over her in the latest CNN/ORC poll. The shocking numbers come the day before Clinton suffered a four-and-a-half minute coughing fit at a campaign rally raising concerns about her health and suspicious absence from the campaign trail the last ten-days. Doctors throughout the nation have chimed in with concerns about her ability to campaign effectively. The poll...

Donald Trump earned the endorsement of 88 retired generals and admirals in an open letter released Tuesday, as the Republican nominee looks to solidify support in the military community against Hillary Clinton in November. The Republican nominee's campaign unveiled the letter, organized by Major Gen. Sidney Shachnow, a 40-year Army veteran and Holocaust survivor, and Rear Admiral Charles Williams, ahead of a speech on veterans affairs in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Shachnow declared that Trump "has the temperament to commander-in-chief," while Williams called the Republican nominee "more trusted" than Clinton. In the letter, the retired military leaders warned of the "potentially...

Rules and more rules The Constitution says you can’t pass laws or levy taxes without congressional approval. Barack Obama does not see the Constitution as a limit to respect. He sees it as a target to be destroyed, and his directive to the administrative state is to find a way. Find a way to govern as we want, without having to bother with Congress. Do it via regulatory and administrative rulemaking if that’s what it takes. But do it.

Concussion, Coughing, Caskets, Conspiracy, Corruption, Communist, Clinton Hillary Clinton claims she doesn’t understand that the letter C on official government documents means they are classified as confidential. What else could C stand for? C is for cookie, according to Cookie Monster. C is for corruption, something the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation engages in every single day as it accepts anticipatory presidential bribes from far and wide.

Paris Agreement on climate change, Obama did not even go through the motions. He bypassed Congress altogether President Obama has just committed his most flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution to date. He purported to commit the United States to a legally binding treaty without first obtaining consent by two thirds of the Senators present, as required under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. Obama is using the United Nations to end run the Senate with regard to the Paris Agreement on climate change negotiated last December. Last week, Obama submitted an instrument to United Nations Secretary General Ban...

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NBC News is facing harsh criticism from Hillary Clinton's campaign and her supporters for publishing an article on a coughing fit the Democratic presidential nominee experienced on Monday in Cleveland. The five-paragraph story, "Hillary Clinton Fights Back Coughing Attack," noted that Clinton quickly turned the coughing issue into a dig at her GOP rival, Donald Trump. Reporter Andrew Rafferty wrote: "I've been talking so much," Clinton said with a hoarse voice. "Every time I think about Trump, I get allergic." … The frog in Clinton's throat on Monday was one of the most aggressive she's had during her 2016 run...

Goldman Sachs has enacted a set of rules that bans the firm’s top employees from contributing to certain campaigns, including the Trump-Pence ticket. The rules kicked in Sept. 1 and will apply only to partners of the firm. The memo detailing the rule change was first reported by Politico. The firm says the rules were meant to remove any implication of so-called “pay to play.” Four years ago, the bank paid $12 million to settle charges that a former Boston-based banker had picked up bond underwriting business in the state while working for and contributing funds to the campaign of...

The for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute is shutting down all 130 of its U.S. campuses, saying Tuesday it can't survive recent sanctions by the U.S. Department of Education. In a letter to more than 35,000 students, the Indiana-based parent company ITT Educational Services announced that campuses won't open for the fall term that was scheduled to begin Sept. 12 — leaving students scrambling for last-minute options since many U.S. colleges already have started fall classes. ITT also cut more than 8,000 jobs immediately....

During Hillary Clinton’s violent coughing fit yesterday in Cleveland, Ohio, the former Secretary of State can be see actually hacking up something that’s unidentifiable into her glass of water as she took a swig. Take a look at the short clip of the video, compared to the zoomed-out version: