THIS MAY SINK SEN. JON TESTER’S RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN: The American Spectator’s David Catron reports that “Libertarian Rick Breckenridge decided to endorse Republican Matt Rosendale. The Libertarian has been pulling enough support in the polls to enable Tester to slither back to the swamp again.”

It worked for Tester in 2012 and appeared to be working again in 2018, but then somebody pulled some dirty tricks and it appears the senator is taking the brunt of the resulting blowback.

NO SUCH THING AS VOTER FRAUD? THINK AGAIN: Jason Snead, writing on The Daily Signal, demolishes the Left’s familiar claim that voting fraud is a myth in America. Reports Snead: “Simply put, the full scope of fraud in U.S. elections is unknown, and many states do not have in place the policies and procedures to detect and deter voter fraud.”

Enough is known, however, for Heritage to maintain a database on voter fraud, which you can view here. And trust me, considering how intensely the Left pours vituperation on any effort to expose and eradicate voter fraud, that tells you how serious the problem must actually be.

OBAMA’S DOJ PREDICTED FAMILY MIGRATION EXPLOSION, DID NOTHING: Lawyers for the federal government told a federal judge in 2015 that failing to allow U.S. immigration officials some leeway in how they implement the infamous Flores settlement would prompt an explosion of immigrant families – real and otherwise – trying to enter the country.

The judge refused, Obama did nothing to prepare for the onslaught and here we are today having to dispatch 5,200 U.S. troops to back up the 2,000 National Guardsmen and thousands of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers already at the border preparing for the next caravan. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby has the story.

BESIDES TRUMP, IT’S ALSO THE FAULT OF FOX NEWS, RIGHT-WING RADIO: Leave it to Michael Moore to reveal the deepest of secrets. This time it’s that “angry right-wing men” are responsible for political violence in America, thanks to Fox News and conservative Talk Radio.

If you don’t believe it, just watch ABC, NBC, CBS, MSDNC and CNN for, oh, maybe five minutes and you will surely hear the best and brightest among us reinforcing Moore’s rant, uh, analysis. Just think how much simpler everything is when the smart people do all of our thinking for us!

FIVE DEMS WHO DON’T HAVE A CLUE ON THE CARAVAN: I know this will come as a shock to many of you but there are some major Democratic national leaders who really could use some tutoring on the national security aspects of the migrant march headed our way. If you see one of them on the street, please give them a hand.

SIX REASONS REPUBLICANS SHOULD STILL WORRY ABOUT MIDTERMS: Things are definitely looking up with two weeks left before the 2018 midterms, but LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby points to some continuing realities.

Then go read Byron York’s excellent analysis for the Washington Examiner of the reconciliation of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. And finally check out Jim Antle’s lengthy look, also at WEX, at whether the president can seal the deal and save the GOP majorities come election day.

SAUDI MEDIA SAYS KHASHOGGI ACCIDENTALLY RAN INTO A FAST-MOVING FIST: He died when a conversation he was having with 15 Saudi visitors to the country’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, unaccountably became heated. Words were said, punches were thrown, fists went flying and, ooops!, we killed him.

SHE’S BACK! WELL, MAYBE. AIDE HINTS HILLARY IS SPOILING FOR REMATCH: And here are just three of the many reasons why this is a really bad idea for everybody concerned, including especially Hillary. Well, Bill might like it since they still have interns at the White House.

TRUMP THREATENS TO CLOSE BORDER WITH MEXICO: The president is tweeting this morning, saying he will send the military and close the southern U.S. border if the latest caravan of migrants from Honduras and Guatemala is allowed to continue unimpeded through Mexico. There is a faint odor of genuine national crisis in this.

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN THIS KID? He’s 11-years-old and you gotta hear his critique of Einstein and Hawking.

WHAT ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON SMOKING? It turns out that a big majority of Americans — 65 percent of the respondents to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey — think mandatory random drug testing is a great idea for politicians.

TRUMP FALLING BEHIND IN FILLING EMPTY FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS: Yes, President Donald Trump has put two new conservative justices on the Supreme Court and appointed a record number of appellate judges as well.

“The president has offered up more nominees for district and appellate judgeships than any other president at this point in his first term since Bill Clinton. Trump’s 113 total nominations are nearly twice as many as former President Barack Obama at the same point of his presidency,” LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby reports.

But there were 104 vacancies when Trump took the oath of office and today there are 118, according to the federal judiciary’s Administrative Office. Democrats have slowed the confirmation process dramatically, even without the filibuster, but there are additional factors involved. Go here for Kirby’s explanation.

IT TOOK 1,279 DAYS BUT HILLARY CLINTON FINALLY LOST HER SECURITY CLEARANCE: Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed Friday that Hillary asked that her security clearance be withdrawn, according to a September 21 letter from the Department of State.

And if you believe she voluntarily did this, I have some incredible ocean beachfront lots in Oklahoma that are available at prices you won’t believe … Go here for the rest of the story.

NOW RADICAL LEFT IS TURNING ON WHITE WOMEN: Tamika Mallory, the radical lefty who was seen at a Louis Farrakhan rally earlier this year, has a Huffpo oped up today, the title of which says it all: “White Women, Stop Waiting for Black Women to Save You.”

LifeZette’s Deirdre Reilly notes that Mallory also issued a tweet touting the oped, saying “We need white women to get comfortable with discomfort, to check their fellow white women when they prop up white supremacy and white male patriarchy.” In other words, being a white woman makes you as much a beneficiary of “white privilege” as being an angry white male.

And then there’s this from Mallory, according to Reilly: “In November, we will replace rape apologists with the women the march inspired to run against them. In January 2019, we’re coming back with an agenda to end rape culture, white supremacy and patriarchy in America.”

Does this tell us that when the radical Left has to choose between gender and race, race will win? And should a reasonable person then conclude that the goal of radical left activists like Mallory isn’t racial reconciliation but racial weaponization on behalf of political power?

HERE’S THE CASE THAT COULD END ABORTION: There being nothing in the 1973 decision defining how an abortion must be performed, it seems logical to assume the newly installed conservative majority on the Supreme Court could find one of those constitutional “penumbra” thingies to do the job.

At least, that’s the view of the legal experts LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby talked to about a certain Alabama law — the Alabama Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Act of 2016 — that banned slicing the unborn child into pieces that are then suctioned out of the uterus.

Actually, they don’t talk about penumbras. They’re all about precedents and law stuff like that. I just said it because I thought it might be worth a chuckle. And we all need a chuckle in the morning these days, right?

UH OH – BAD NEWS FOR FOLKS COUNTING ON A BLUE WAVE: Rasmussen Reports surveyed 1,000 people earlier this week and found Republicans are significantly madder than Democrats about the treatment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation and the GOPers are also more likely to vote as a result.

Rasmussen also says its latest generic ballot survey shows voters split evenly, 45-45, on which party’s candidates they plan to support on election day. Remember, Rasmussen only talks to likely voters, who are routinely better barometers for election day than folks who are only registered voters.

Go here for the rest of the story, he says modestly.

THREE OF THE WEAKEST PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENTS YOU WILL HEAR, OVER AND OVER AND … With Justice Brett Kavanaugh now sworn-in as a member of the nation’s highest court, look for the pro-abortion side to turn up the heat on every front, especially if a case involving the issue gets on the schedule.

And when they do, argues Pastor Ryan Day  on LifeZette, here are three arguments that you are likely to hear repeated ad nauseam even though they are only slightly less weak than Sen. Cory Booker’s claim to deserve comparison to a certain Roman slave who had a bunch of loyal buddies with the same name.

WANT TO GET RICH? BE A PROFESSIONAL LEFTIST PROTESTER! Like Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), the screeching girl who cornered Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in that Senate elevator last week.

You may already know that Archila makes a big salary, but did you know about the other seven CPD big-wigs who are making annual total compensation that is two and in at least one case more than three times the U.S. average median household income? Go here for more, much more, my friends.

KAVANAUGH WILL DRIVE WOMEN AWAY FROM THE GOP, RIGHT? DATA SAYS NOT LIKELY: Leave it to that pesky darn data to put the lie to yet another Unchallenged Truth (AKA the “conventional liberal wisdom”). This time it’s LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby who took a look at the survey results and came away concluding:

“For all the confident pronouncements of the conventional wisdom, though, there is surprisingly little objective evidence to back it up. Polling reveals little evidence of a gender gap on Kavanaugh (pictured above) after accounting for political affiliation.”

KELLYANNE CONWAY REVEALS SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, TOO: The White House senior adviser to President Donald Trump shares a painful truth with CNN’s Jake Tapper. This is a MUST-READ by LifeZette’s Deirdre Reilly.

ACTUALLY, CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD HAS A LOT TO GAIN: Just for starters, there’s the fact Anita Hill’s $1 million book advance after her 1991 Clarence Thomas “high-tech lynching” would be worth at least $1.8 million, and quite possibly a lot more than that. I may catch holy hell for pointing these things out, but there’s also potentially immensely lucrative speaking fees and don’t forget the likelihood of a Hollywood movie rights deal.

SEXUAL ASSAULT WAS A MISDEMEANOR UNDER 1982 MARYLAND LAW: Worse yet, for Christine Blasey Ford, there was a one-year statute of limitations for filing a complaint against Brett Kavanaugh, who, she now claims, sexually assaulted her sometime in the early 1980s during a high schoolers’ party at a house somewhere in Maryland’s Washington, D.C. suburbs. The local police chief and state’s attorney also say the location of the alleged crime must be known.

But here’s the good news for Ford: Local Democrat officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the alleged assault occurred, don’t think their law enforcement officials should worry about minor details like the fact Ford hasn’t filed a complaint as the victim.

Prediction: Next, these Democrats will clamor for ignoring the Constitution’s ban on ex post facto actions so that Kavanaugh can be charged under present law, which classifies sexual assault as a felony. And then they’ll say why bother with formal charges, just “arrest” Kavanaugh and throw him in the slammer for the rest of his life. After all, survivors must be believed, right?

SURPRISED? FORD ALREADY REJECTS ONE-WEEK CAP ON FBI PROBE: The sun was not yet set before Christine Blasey Ford issued a statement through one of her lawyers saying she opposes any “artificial limits as to time or scope.”

In other words, Sen. Jeff Flake’s deal Friday morning to delay Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process one week was worthless, as surely all of his Republican colleagues on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary knew it was when they agreed to it.

FOUR WAYS GOP COULD HAVE AVOIDED KAVANAUGH DEBACLE: Hoo-boy, what a circus Democrats have staged in the Senate Committee on the Judiciary against Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby points to four things GOP Senate leaders could have done differently to short-circuit Spartacus and  the Nine Cohorts.

UH-OH. BOTH SIDES NOW QUESTION YALE 22M ILLEGALS STUDY: That data-driven study by three Yale professors that found 22 million illegal aliens in the U.S. — double the traditionally accepted 11 million total — is getting heavy flack from both sides of the immigration debate, according to LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby.

When you’re getting incoming from the pro and con people simultaneously, it might be time to re-think your methodology, conclusions or both.