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Dear God, We pray you do not allow these godless Marxist/fascist monsters win this coming election where they WILL without a doubt kill off our remaining God-given, constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and will complete Obama's transformation of our divinely inspired free nation into a communist hellhole. We know from your teachings that there's no such thing as a free lunch or a socialist utopia and that able bodied men who refuse to work should not sponge off society. Give a man a fish he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his...

PHILADELPHIA — The 2016 Democratic National Convention is underway, and the factual inaccuracies on the first night focused on income, college tuition and something the Republican ticket had said or done. Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “would cut taxes for the richest Americans at the expense of the middle class.” But all income levels would get some tax relief under Trump’s plan. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy wrongly claimed that Mike Pence, the GOP vice presidential nominee, “signed a law that would have forced women to hold funerals for fetuses.” The law said aborted or miscarried...

A tumultuous first day of the Democratic National Convention is in the books. I watched, tweeted and, candidly, ate and drank. (I mean, it was a long day.) My take on the best and worst of the night that was is below. Winners * Michelle Obama: An absolute home run. Period. It will be difficult for anyone in the next three days to deliver a better speech than the first lady did on Monday night. She used her personal story of raising two young African American girls in the White House to tie her husband's history-making presidency to the history-making...