ROBERT MCMANUS: Ray Kelly’s Vindication: This weekend’s bombings show that the former NYPD commissioner interstate anti-terror strategy was correct.

I’M GUESSING THAT HE USED IT FOR THAT PRECISE REASON: Donald Trump Jr.’s Skittles Comparison Used to Be a Feminist Meme About Men and Rapists.

CURTIS HANSON DIES: OSCAR-WINNING L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, 8 MILE FILMMAKER WAS 71.

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FORGOTTEN?: If it isn’t discussed at the first presidential debate, then the debate is a sham. The Clinton State-Foundation is a national disgrace.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Ireland And World War II.

MY LATEST NEW YORK OBSERVER COLUMN: The Election’s Core Issue Since Clinton Declared Candidacy in 1808 (bumped)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Exposure to bright light – similar to daylight – boosts levels of the male hormone testosterone and can triple sexual satisfaction, the research found.

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MEDIA BASED CHILD ABUSE:

On September 14, The Washington Post published what can only be described as a public display of child abuse. In an article entitled “My teen boys are blind to rape culture,” feminist writer Jody Allard chastises her sons for questioning the propaganda she feeds them. . . .

And The Washington Post gave her the space to do so.

That’s not even the worst of it. This same author, Ms. Jodi Allard, wrote an article back in February, also for The Washington Post, about one of her sons—who’s suicidal.

Yes, you read that right. One of Allard’s sons, the 16-year-old, is a known suicide risk—known to Allard and known to The Washington Post editors. And still they publically shamed him.

There’s more. Allard’s article has since been reprinted at the Chicago Tribune, at The Denver Post, at Bangor Daily News, and at the Charlotte Observer.

Now that is vile.

She’s a lousy mother and a rotten person.

DON’T NEED MUCH SLEEP? Science Says You’re Wrong.

MANIPULATING U.S. ELECTIONS: 10 Ways Voting Is Being Hacked by the Left, as charted by J. Christian Adams.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Properly Wear A Samurai Sword.

THE REDSHIFT EDITION: Over at VodkaPundit, I have the latest installment of Wargaming the Electoral College.

The map has changed so much in just two weeks, that I interrupted a lovely vacation just to fill you in.

DEFENDING FREE ENTERPRISE: A review of Edward Conrad’s The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class. I like this phrase: “an accessible yet learned rebuke to arguments we often hear from left-leaning economists and pundits…”

IT’S BETTER THAN THE ONES WHO GO 10MPH ON A 2-LANE ROAD DURING RUSH HOUR: Woman Breaks World Speed Record by Riding a Bicycle at 147 MPH.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Would Trump nominate Peter Thiel to the Supreme Court?

LESSONS FROM THE NEW YORK BOMBING: “That easy availability of bomb-making information is believed to be a factor in the New York and New Jersey events. Authorities have noted that in the Chelsea incidents, the bomb that exploded and the one found unexploded nearby were both pressure-cooker devices, quite similar to the IED used in the Boston Marathon attack in 2013. Manuals for building pressure-cooker bombs have appeared on websites associated with many extremist groups, including ISIS and Al Qaeda. The devices are little more than an ordinary pressure cooker packed with explosives and shrapnel, such as metal screws, and a means of detonating the device remotely. Typical remote detonators are cellphones, garage-door openers, or simply a long pair of twisted wires.”

SOMETHING THAT CAN’T GO ON FOREVER, WON’T: Blockbuster NYT Report Exposes Public Pension Charade. “America’s public pension funds, which manage trillions of dollars in retirement assets for millions of civil servants, are systematically deceiving taxpayers, the politicians, and municipal bond investors with elaborate accounting sleight-of-hand. The ‘official’ numbers show that public pension funds are struggling; the accurate ones show that the looming fiscal time bomb is so explosive that it may be impossible to defuse.”

I feel pretty confident that any proposed fix will involve taking money from me and giving it to Democratic constituencies.

HILLARY SAYS TRUMP GIVES AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY: Oh what a presidential election this is. Sensational charge after sensational charge, by both candidates. Does Hillary provide evidence of Trump’s aid and comfort? No, not really, but she leveled the charge. However, there is very good reason to suspect Hillary’s rogue email server system gave American enemies access to classified national security information. That’s aiding enemies — enemies plural.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Hillary Hates You. “You’re deplorable. You’re irredeemable. With a wave of her limp, clammy hand, this sick old woman dismisses you from the company of those whose opinions have value, whose interests matter, who have any moral claim to participation in self-governance. You are less than nothing. You are vermin to be, at best, driven from society. Will Hillary Clinton ever be your president? No, and she makes no excuses and offers no denials that a Hillary Clinton presidency means the division of the country into those people she considers worthy and those people she does not.”

I have his new book, People’s Republic, which kind of takes up where my Coups paper left off. . . . I haven’t started it yet, but it’s already #15 #6 on the Amazon bestseller list for Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense.

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PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● WaPo op-ed ponders, ‘when did we start wondering if the candidates were healthy?’

—Jazz Shaw, Hot Air, yesterday.

● Hillary’s Health Was Fair Game For The Washington Post Before She Ran Against Trump.

—Peter Hasson, the DC Caller, September 7th.

● Is McCain’s Age Showing? Tongues Wag Over Flubs.

—Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post, July 23rd, 2008.

● Questions Linger About McCain’s Prognosis After Skin Cancer.

—David Brown, the Washington Post, October 18, 2008.

And then of course, there were all of the whispering campaigns against Bob Dole in ’96, and Reagan in ’80 and ’84.

Exit Question: When is a Cough Not Just a Cough?

DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: “Remember how liberals exploded when Ari Fleischer said that ‘Americans need to watch what they say’ in response to a question about an idiotic comment by a Republican congressman about how he’d react to a man who ‘wore a diaper on his head’ and Bill Maher’s calling members of the military cowards. Liberal writers responded as if Fleischer were getting ready to lock critics of President Bush up in internment camps. Well, I bet we won’t see any similar response to Hillary Clinton’s words today accusing Trump of inspiring ISIS.”

Related: Hillary on Manhattan bombing: Trump’s rhetoric is giving “aid and comfort” to the enemy.

(Classical reference in headline.)

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM?  David Simon, Creator of HBO’s The Wire, under fire for using the N-word to mock Sean Hannity’s upcoming town hall on race with Donald Trump.

HBO’s parent company is one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest donors.

Perhaps Simon, a far left former journalist before striking gold with Time-Warner-CNN-HBO, is auditioning to be the next publisher of the Village Voice.