LYING LIAR WHO LIES: John Kerry Admits ‘We Knew That Assad Had Kept Some’ Chemical Weapons.

But Tehran was on the up-and-up on that nuclear deal, I’m sure.

SCRAPPLEFACE: Egg Board, Dairy Council Sorry About Starting Hurricane.

ROBERT SPENCER: Somali Muslim Cop Who Shot Woman Was Hired AFTER Being Found ‘Unable To Handle Stress’ of Job.

Maybe he self-identified as stable.

THAT’S BECAUSE HE’S AN ECONOMIC ILLITERATE: Turkey’s high inflation is a result of the central bank’s wrong steps and Turkey must lower interest rates, President Tayyip Erdogan said.

High interest rates encourage people to make deposits or buy government bonds, reducing the amount of currency in circulation — which is anti-inflationary. This is basic Econ 101 stuff, which apparently isn’t a required class in Sultan School.

NOW THEY’RE CALLING IT A BLUE TSUNAMI: 4 separate forecasts give House to Democrats.

It’s never too early to donate to — or even better, volunteer for — a vulnerable candidate.

JEFF SANDERS: Soros, Zuckerberg Sink Millions into Ohio Ballot Initiative That Could See Violent Felons Set Free. “Are they using Ohio as a ‘forward operating base’ in the Midwest to push their progressive agenda?”

What did the vast majority of Ohioans who aren’t violent felons ever do to them?

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: ‘Unconstitutional on its Face’: Judge Slaps Down Nearly 100-Year-Old Gun Law in California.

A federal judge in California just struck down a 95-year-old state law that previously banned firearms dealers from using images of handguns on their storefronts or in other outside advertisements.

The law in question did not prohibit firearms dealers from using images of shotguns or rifles in their advertising. Located at California Penal Code §26820, the statute reads, in full:

No handgun or imitation handgun, or placard advertising the sale or other transfer thereof, shall be displayed in any part of the premises where it can readily be seen from the outside.

State lawyers who argued to preserve the ancient law said this distinction was put in place–and should remain in place–in order to deter the impulsive purchase of a handgun for use in a crime or suicide.

U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley was not convinced. In an order granting summary judgment, Nunley described the law as “unconstitutional on its face.” Specifically, Nunley determined that the handgun image ban was a violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

So it isn’t a Second Amendment ruling, but the First has suffered enough injustices over the years, too.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: Bolivia is following Venezuela and Nicaragua – and that’s toward totalitarian rule.

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced last week that he will submit to his country’s Congress – where he enjoys a comfortable majority – a “law against lies,” which would penalize news about his government that he doesn’t like.

In several statements in recent weeks, Morales said he will propose a law to “punish liars” in the media and to “moralize” independent news organizations. The Inter-American Press Association has denounced that the proposed law would impose an all-out censorship on the media.

It’s ironic that Morales does even dare to publicly bring up the issue of lying. He has repeatedly promised to retire after finishing his constitutionally-allowed term, only to circumvent the rule of law to re-elect himself several times.

The silver lining is that a country can weather a comic-opera President for Life much more easily than it can a properly elected socialist.

THE FIX WAS IN: Rep. Jordan Says Thirteen Different FBI Agents Were Working with One Reporter. “If that doesn’t point to some kind of media strategy, leak strategy, I don’t know what does.”

THE CREEPY LINE: Initial Screening in NYC Sold Out.

“An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it. The Creepy Line is a title taken from the words of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when during a 2010 interview he explained Google’s code of conduct: ‘The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.’ However, as Dr. Robert Epstein explains in the film, ‘Google crosses the creepy line every day.’ Containing interviews with Jordan B. Peterson, Peter Schweizer, and others, The Creepy Line offers an explosive look at the meddling and intervening done by Google and Facebook on their supposedly “neutral platforms.”

Here’s the trailer:

Looks good, and in plenty of time to induce those Halloween chills.

WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON, ANYWAY? Facebook Bans Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov on 9/11 – For Posting on How to Prevent Another 9/11. “It’s against Facebook’s ‘community standards’ to try to stop Jihadist attacks on Americans.”

LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Florence, Google and Much, Much More. “Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to a Cat 2 storm but she is still a deadly, life threatening storm. Don’t be a hero and don’t put other people’s lives at risk when they have to come save you. If you’ve been told to evacuate, you should find somewhere safe.”

Indeed.

OH, THOSE WACKY ALGORITHMS: The FB Censorship Army Is In Attack Mode, Just In Time For Midterms.

The Zuck loves to smack us around. Mansplain us. Manhandle us. We’re like the red-headed stepchildren in the social media world, dontchaknow. We’re the scum of the social media family. We’re treated like absolute sh*t, us conservatives.

And we rarely get cover from other women, because meee-OW. Are you kidding me? Feminism be damned. Those hairy-armpitted, third-and-fourth-waved chicks are totally in it for themselves. They’re worse than any liberal man.

Except for Daddy Facebook. I don’t know what it is with that guy and his hatred for freedom and those who love it. Back on September 7th, Ashley wrote a post about Beto O’Rourke renting a VA hall for a rally. And how he wasn’t too pleased with all the American flags around. Of course, like ALL of our posts, she cited the source for the post, which was from Erick Erickson who pulled it originally from the Navasota Examiner, which is the local (online) paper in Navasota, Texas.

We know what this means. This means that we’ve been flagged by Facebook as one of those “oooooh, y’all are slinging fake news around” sites because, bottom line – we’re conservative. Just so you know, that “third-party fact-checker?” That would be Politifact, which makes me laugh out loud so hard I’m getting a migraine. If you look at the actual post itself, there are Actual People who use Actual SNOPES as a third-party fact-checker, too.

Please. For the love of God. Stop doing that.

I’m not sure how, as Glenn has suggested, it’s possible to break up a social networking site. But it certainly seems like something the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division should be looking into.

A REMARKABLY SCANDAL-FREE ADMINISTRATION: Top Counterintelligence Official Claims Obama State Department ‘Indulged In Sexual Favors’ At Moscow Ritz.

If the official’s claims are true, it would not be the first instance of sexual impropriety on foreign soil by government employees during the Obama administration. Nearly two dozen Secret Service and military personnel were fired or otherwise punished for soliciting prostitutes during a presidential visit to Colombia in 2012.

The Washington Post later reported that despite denials, senior White House aides likely knew about the misconduct. According to evidence uncovered by David Nieland, the DHS investigator on the scandal, a White House volunteer was among those who had registered a prostitute to his room during the trip. Nieland claimed that the inspector general told him to “withhold and alter certain information in the report of investigation because it was potentially embarrassing to the administration.”

Weird how this is only coming out now, and that Politico buried it under the bemused-sounding headline, “Tinder Woes, Suspicious Landlords and Snarky Bosses: Young and Russian in D.C.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Read A Pile Of Top Nazis Talking About How They Love Leftist Marxism.

Hitler repeatedly praised Marx privately, stating he had “learned a great deal from Marxism.” The trouble with the Weimar Republic, he said, was that its politicians “had never even read Marx.” He also stated his differences with communists were that they were intellectual types passing out pamphlets, whereas “I have put into practice what these peddlers and pen pushers have timidly begun.”

It wasn’t just privately that Hitler’s fealty for Marx surfaced. In “Mein Kampf,” he states that without his racial insights National Socialism “would really do nothing more than compete with Marxism on its own ground.” Nor did Hitler eschew this sentiment once reaching power. As late as 1941, with the war in bloom, he stated “basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same” in a speech published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Nazi propaganda minister and resident intellectual Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary that the Nazis would install “real socialism” after Russia’s defeat in the East. And Hitler favorite Albert Speer, the Nazi armaments minister whose memoir became an international bestseller, wrote that Hitler viewed Joseph Stalin as a kindred spirit, ensuring his prisoner of war son received good treatment, and even talked of keeping Stalin in power in a puppet government after Germany’s eventual triumph. His views on Great Britain’s Winston Churchill and the United States’s Franklin Delano Roosevelt were decidedly less kind.

Read the whole thing.

THIS ISN’T THE FIRST STUDY WITH NUMBERS LIKE THESE, BUT THEY BEAR REPEATING: Data Shows That Suicide Rate Of Transgender Students Is Breathtakingly High.

The study comes from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which reveals that half of those who say they are transgendered attempt suicide at a rate of near or at 50 percent:

Female to male adolescents reported the highest rate of attempted suicide (50.8%), followed by adolescents who identified as not exclusively male or female (41.8%), male to female adolescents (29.9%), questioning adolescents (27.9%).

Compared to the suicide rate of teens who do not identify as transgendered, this is horrifically high, though any suicide rate is bad. The suicide rate among young women is alarming, even without the trouble of gender dysphoria.

Female adolescents (17.6%), and male adolescents (9.8%). Identifying as nonheterosexual exacerbated the risk for all adolescents except for those who did not exclusively identify as male or female (ie, nonbinary).

This is a shocking find, though not at all surprising. Transgendered individuals tend to suffer a 41 percent suicide rate, and they are more 19 times more likely to commit suicide if they go through with gender reassignment surgery.

Clearly, people permanently altering their bodies isn’t ameliorating their very real personal issues. Perhaps it’s time we showed some genuine concern for our most-troubled citizens, rather than encouraging them to make matters worse in an irrevocable way.

DEPLOYMENT: Marine F-35 aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East after Russia threatened US forces in Syria.

Until recently, the US had no capital ships and just one or two destroyers in the Mediterranean, but the USS Essex, a small, flat-deck aircraft carrier used to launch US Marine Corps F-35B stealth jets that can take off almost vertically, just arrived off the horn of Africa, USNI News reports.

Though the Essex remains on the opposite side of the Suez Canal from Russia’s ships in the Mediterranean, it’s a quick-moving ship. Additionally, the F-35Bs can fly about 550 miles out from the ship in stealth configurations that make them hard to detect for enemy defenses.

The Essex isn’t technically an aircraft carrier, but thanks to the addition of F-35Bs, it projects more air power than most anything this side of a Nimitz.

PATRICK POOLE: Ted Cruz Renews Call to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group. “The call follows U.S. designation of group’s Egyptian terror wings in January.”

BUT OF COURSE: Hillary Clinton Joined Planned Parenthood, Kamala Harris in Spreading Blatant Kavanaugh Birth Control Lie.

HOW CAN WE MISS HIM IF HE WON’T GO AWAY? Only 38% Welcome Obama Back on the Campaign Trail.

FACTS ARE RACIST: ThinkProgress Accuses Facebook of Censorship After Conservative Factchecker Correctly Points Out an Error. “‘Brett Kavanaugh said he would kill Roe v. Wade last week.’ Except he didn’t.”

TYLER O’NEIL: Susan Collins Will Not Cave to $1.1M Leftist ‘Quid Pro Quo Bribe’ to Vote No on Kavanaugh. “This may violate federal law…”

STUCK IN REVERSE: “China’s Tesla” A Dud: Breaks For Trading Below IPO Price.

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Kavanaugh Fight Has Red State Dems Ducking for Cover.

Republicans and an array of conservative groups have zeroed in on the red-state Democrats, calling on them to address their colleagues’ behavior. The National Republican Senatorial Committee has issued challenges to Manchin and Heitkamp demanding to know if they agree with their fellow senators’ tactics. The NRSC released a series emails and online posts aimed at each red-state Democrat, tying them to Schumer and the organized protests that took place inside the hearing room. One such post reads: “Does Joe Manchin agree with his Democrat colleagues’ tactics of throwing tantrums and attempting to drag an incredibly qualified nominee through the mud? Or will he finally speak out and give his support to Judge Kavanaugh?”

In Indiana, Republican challenger Mike Braun’s campaign called on Donnelly to address the “chaos” at the hearings. “Donnelly’s silence is a reminder that the least effective senator in Washington can’t even advocate for a fair Supreme Court hearing for President Trump’s highly qualified nominee,” said spokesman Josh Kelley.

In North Dakota, the GOP sent out an email following the first day of the hearings: “Heidi Heitkamp may be in more trouble than ever before,” it stated. “Senate Judiciary Democrats and 2020 presidential contenders have decided their own national ambitions matter more than saving Heidi Heitkamp’s failing campaign.”

You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh.

ACTUALLY THEY HAVE A VERY GOOD REASON: Drunken British sailors are invading Florida and beating each other up, because why not?