The consequences of the Justice Department’s dereliction of duty with respect to the prosecution of the New Black Panthers who stood in doorways with night sticks to intimidate voters in an earlier election is that the progressives understood that they could get away with similar tactics this election without fear of reprisal. It’s who they are. It’s what they do: Court-appointed Republican poll inspectors are being forcibly removed from voting

Milton Friedman on “The Phil Donahue Show,” 1979, promoting Free to Choose:

Ronald Reagan, 1964, “A Time for Choosing”:

Thuggish Strategery. Demoralizing predictions. Don’t let it work.  Vote.  Then shut off your tv and your radio until 9 o’clock pm.  

Start here and then I’ll keep an open thread tomorrow, as well. But since Obama and Romney are going to be “interviewed” by the hyper-liberal Chris Berman at half time of the Saints-Eagles game — Obama’s years of missing intel meetings so he could catch SportsCenter may actually come in handy here, provided no one asks him to throw a baseball — I figure it’s a good place to begin

Breitbart: In an astonishing display of media malpractice, CBS News quietly released proof–two days before the election, far too late to reach the media and the public–that President Barack Obama lied to the public about the Benghazi attack, as well as about his later claim to have called the attack “terrorism” from the beginning. CBS unveiled additional footage from its 60 Minutes interview with President Obama, conducted on Sep. 12 immediately

Well, why not?  After all, Cusack is an intellectual, you see.  A thoughtful heterodox.  A thinking man who even took on the unpopular role of trying to re-imagine Hitler’s basic humanity. So really, after Hitler, Limbaugh was the next logical step for a man so willing to push himself in an effort to understand the often charismatic contours of evil, right? Actor and outspoken liberal John Cusack is developing a

You’ve gone a long way, baby! The U.S. is spending $900,000 to help women start businesses and create jobs–in Peru and El Salvador. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the new Women’s Entrepreneurship Trust Fund last month on visit to the Peruvian capital of Lima. “The United States is making an initial contribution of $900,000 to launch pilot programs here in Peru and in El Salvador,” Clinton said on October

“New Obamacare Tax Form Mandates Americans Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS”: When Obamacare’s individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form. The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer’s personal identifying health information in order to determine compliance with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. As confirmed by IRS testimony to the tax-writing House Committee

44.  Interesting number. Pethokoukis: During the past two years — what should be the fat part of the U.S. economic recovery — job growth has averaged about 150,000 jobs a month. While that is better than nothing and better than losing jobs, the pace of job creation is way too slow given the depressed state of the American labor market. Take into account the following: a) we need roughly 100,000