The Dangers of Early Voting

Andy Schlafly / Townhall Columnist

When FBI Director James Comey announced on Friday afternoon that his agents are reviewing 650,000 emails on a computer belonging to Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, political pundits immediately speculated about how this “October surprise” would affect the election. But the shocking news came too late for many Americans, because they’ve already voted.

The day after Comey’s announcement, the New York Times reported that 22 million Americans have already voted in this year’s presidential election. That’s more than one-sixth of the expected turnout.

To put that number in perspective, 22 million is more than the margin of victory in every presidential election in American history. President Obama’s 2008 margin of victory was only 10 million votes, and even Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” landslide was only 15 million votes.

Early voting began when a few states stopped requiring voters to provide a good excuse for obtaining an absentee ballot. Then a few more states began to set up special polling places for no-excuse early voting. In several states, most ballots are returned by mail long before Election Day.

U.S. admitted 13,210 Syrian refugees so far in 2016; up 675% from 2015; 99.1% are Muslims
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

“When the civil war began in March 2011, an estimated 74 percent of the Syrian population was Sunni Muslim and an estimated 10 percent was Christian. Therefore if the U.S. admitted Christian Syrian refugees in proportion to the population, roughly 1,260 Christians would have been resettled in the United States in FY2016. Just 68 were.” […]
 
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Trump Promises Special Congressional Session to End Obamacare

By Sandy Fitzgerald / NEWSMAX

Donald Trump promised Tuesday to begin working right away if he is elected president to repeal and replace Obamacare.

The Republican presidential candidate told a crowd of supporters in Valley Forge, Pa., he will ask Congress for a special session to immediately end the reform law.

"When we win on Nov. 8, and elect a Republican Congress, we will be able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare," he said. "We have to do it. I will ask Congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace, and it will be such an honor for me, for you, and for everybody in this country because Obamacare has to be replaced, and we will do it, and we will do it very, very quickly. It's a catastrophe."

President Barack Obama had said if people like their plans and their doctors, they can keep them, Trump continued, and that "may go down as one of the great political lies of the century."

 

Trump Campaign Unveils New Policy: Will Ask Justice Department to Probe Anti-Israel Intimidation on US College Campuses

Pamela Geller / THE GELLER REPORT

Finally.
This. is. great.

Trump Campaign Unveils New Policy: Will Ask Justice Department to Probe Anti-Israel Intimidation on US College, by Barney Breen-Portnoy, Algemeiner, November 1, 2016:

A Donald Trump administration would ask the Justice Department to investigate coordinated attempts to intimidate Israel-supporters on US campuses, a senior adviser to the Republican presidential candidate revealed to The Algemeiner on Monday in a new policy announcement.

“Colleges are generally being far too lenient in allowing the pro-Palestinian community to deprive those in the pro-Israel camp of their First Amendment right to free speech,” said attorney David Friedman — with whom Trump regularly consults on matters related to the Jewish...

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‘Special Prosecutor’ No Guarantee Hillary will be Toppled

by David Codrea / Oathkeepers

 

 

If there’s one thing Hillary excels at, it’s escaping justice by attacking others.

“Hillary to Be Arrested?” a Saturday post on LewRockwell.com asks. It’s talking about a reported rebellion at the FBI by fed-up agents, forcing Director James Comey to go into self-preservation mode before his own people target him for investigation. The speculation is that Comey and Obama are being given an opportunity to save face.

A report earlier today by ABC News partially corroborates speculation about Obama looking out for Number One.  The president has said he doesn’t believe Comey introduced information involving emails on Anthony Weiner’s device in order to influence the upcoming election, which is a notable departure from accusations being leveled by top Democrats.  Instead, the White House says it will “remain neutral.”

What that leaves us with – assuming anything happens at all (as opposed to Hillary slithering out from under yet another criminal scandal ) – is the mechanism for investigating her.  Donald Trump, among others, has “said that, if he’s elected president, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton.”

Sponsored Links by Still Think Hillary Clinton Is a Role Model for Your Daughter?  

by Dennis Prager / The National Review

 

Democrats have traded a sense of national identity for allegiance to race, class, and gender identity.

 

Three months ago, I wrote a column refuting the claim repeatedly made by supporters of Hillary Clinton that having a woman president — specifically, Hillary Clinton — would be a terrific thing for girls and young women. In light of how much more we now know about Clinton’s activities while secretary of state, and given the FBI’s renewal of its investigation of her private e-mail server as well as the revelation, denied months ago by Clinton, that the FBI is also investigating her family-run charities, the notion of Clinton as a role model is a topic worth revisiting. Good and decent men and women who are Democrats ought to stop thinking this way, for America’s sake and for their daughters’ sake. Only those in willful denial can continue to reject the overwhelming evidence that Mrs. Clinton is essentially a crook, a person prone to chronic lying, and, worst of all, one who betrayed America’s best interests for petty personal gain. There is nothing I can say to those people. 

 

But to those Democrats who will vote for Mrs. Clinton but who are nevertheless able to acknowledge Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary ethical defects, I make the following appeal: Do not believe that having her as president, if she is elected, will be a good thing for your daughters. Quite the contrary.

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