WE’RE GOING TO INCREASE EXPORTS WITH A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR? What did Hillary mean by that?

OPEN THREAD: Talk about the debates in the comments here.

I LOVE THAT TRUMP AND HILLARY ARE STANDING IN FRONT OF “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Is it time yet?

HILLARY: “Equal pay for women’s work.” What’s “women’s work?”

STEVE GREEN IS DRUNKBLOGGING THE TRUMP-HILLARY DEBATE AT PJM.

Center yourself, find your happy personal space, crack open a bottle or ten of Trump rosé and join him!

ONE MAN WITH COURAGE MAKES A MAJORITY: Hofstra Student Supports Trump in Hostile Territory.

DON’T FORGET THAT TONIGHT STEPHEN GREEN WILL BE DRUNKBLOGGING THE DEBATE at the PJ Media Homepage.

HOW IS SOCIAL MEDIA REACTING TO THE TRUMP-HILLARY DEBATE? Tyler O’Neil is liveblogging the alternately manic and depressed reaction here.

Steve Green will be drunkblogging tonight’s debate as well. Watch for that post to go up in just a bit.

FLAVOR TRIPPING: Miraculous Miracle Berries. From Sara Ellis’s 52 Things, 52 Weeks blog.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Clinton confidant’s immunity deal looms over debate. It certainly should.

THOUGHTS ON DEBATE FACT-CHECKING FROM DAVID BYRNE.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Hofstra University Provides ‘Trigger Warning’ for Presidential Debate.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: The Gathering Nuclear Storm.

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Democrats Are Worried. I love it that they’re fundraising over Nate Silver’s predictions of doom.

So there were basically two big GOP arguments against Trump. One was that he’s a horrible human being and unfit to be President, and if you believed that a few months ago then there really isn’t much reason to change your mind. But the other was that he would lose like a GOP Dukakis, and hand the House and Senate over to the Dems. This is looking much less likely.

CHANGE: Michelle Alexander Resigns From Ohio State Law Faculty For Seminary, Valuing ‘Publicly Accessible Writing Over Academic Careerism’; Law Without ‘A Moral Or Spiritual Awakening’ Cannot Bring About Justice.

GLOBAL BABY BUST BEGINS TO BITE: Out: One-Child Policy. In: Chinese City Urges Comrades to Do Their Part and Reproduce.

Howls of amazement and resentment followed in Chinese news outlets and on social media. Here are some reactions attached to one of many articles circulating online, this one from Sina.com:

“In those years you fined everywhere. You beat people, tore down homes, confiscated livestock, and forced people to abort. Today you want to force people to have a second child.” — Muranxuanxie lihua, Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

“If the state gives me a million, I’ll have a child.” — Sichiyuan, Jinchang, Gansu Province

“If housing prices fall by half, talk to me then about having a second child.” — Xiaolong V8, Beijing

“The government wants to manage a couple’s bed affairs, that’s really messed up.” — Zhijing louzhu, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province

Several days after it was published on the Yichang government website with the red stamps of a clutch of departments indicating wide local support, the letter disappeared, a sign it was politically sensitive. The appeal for more children could be seen as implicit criticism of Beijing’s population policies of the previous 36 years.

Well, that’s because those policies were stupid. And I love the pushback, which is something you wouldn’t have seen in China very long ago.

WELL, THAT’S COMFORTING: 1.4 Million Chryslers, Dodges, and Jeeps Have Airbags That Might Not Deploy in a Crash. “Unfortunately, there is no repair available at this time.”

21ST CENTURY CRIME: California driver used mannequin to drive in carpool lane.

Robots will make this kind of thing easier to get away with.

HMM: Democratic hopes of winning Senate fade as Trump proves less toxic for Republicans.

WHY UBER IS SAFER THAN A TAXI: “Uber now requires that drivers periodically take a selfie that will then be compared to an image on file. The selfie requirement is part of Uber’s Real-Time ID Check that utilizes Microsoft Cognitive Services to ensure riders know exactly who their driver is. Before going online and sporadically in between their work hours, Uber drivers will be asked to take a selfie. Verification, Uber claims, only takes a few seconds. If the image doesn’t match the one on file, the Uber driver’s account will be temporarily blocked.”

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IS DONALD TRUMP QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT?

The bar was set (read: lowered to the floor) in 2008. Does Trump have equal or more executive experience than a failed community organizer who launched his political career in the living room of a man who bombed the Pentagon? Will he receive a plurality of the vote? Then the answer, by the left’s own standards, is a resounding yes.

And note this lede by Hillary/Obama sycophant Glenn Thrush of the Politico:

H.L. Mencken declared there was only one way to look at a politician — “down.”

Says the man who described Hillary’s email server, which broke government rules, as “badass.”

NICK GILLESPIE: Four Reasons Why Gary Johnson Should Be In Tonight’s Debate.

GLOBAL WARMING: IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN’T DO?

Shot: Hillary Clinton & Leftists: Urban Riots Caused by Environmental Racism.

Chaser: Zika Reminds Us That Climate Change Is a Women’s Rights Issue.

Hangover: As Americans Tire of Eco-Panic, Hillary Quietly Drops ‘Climate Change’ Rhetoric.

That’s odd – just a couple of years ago, the former Secretary of State, who flew 956,733 miles during her stint at Foggy Bottom  in part to allegedly fight terrorism, claimed in 2014, “Climate change is the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face.”

WELL, THAT’S A RATHER SIGNIFICANT CORRECTION: Tennessee: Five — not 105 — accidental gunshot deaths in 2014. “A publicized report that Tennessee had 105 accidental gunshot deaths during 2014 — more than any state in the nation — was wrong and there were actually just five such fatalities, according to the state Department of Health. The Safe Tennessee Project, an organization that focuses on gun violence, initially reported the 105 deaths earlier this month, saying the surprisingly-high figure had been verified at the time by both the federal Center for and Disease Control and the Department of Health.”