The Blaze reports: If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in November, the American way of life — at least politically speaking — is over. That is, according to former Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann. “I don’t want to be melodramatic, but I do want to be truthful. I believe without a shadow of a doubt this is …

The Columbus Dispatch reports: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was scheduled to speak at Capital University in Bexley at noon today but it looks like she’s running a little late. That’s because instead of flying into Columbus, she accidentally went to Cincinnati instead, according to the Capital University Greens Student Organization who is sponsoring the event. Yes. You read …

Via press release from the Ali Forney Center: The Ali Forney Center (AFC), the nation’s largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth, announces that it is organizing a demonstration to protest ATLAH Church’s plan to burn the rainbow flag. Yesterday, Rev. James Manning posted a sign indicating his intent to burn the rainbow flag as a “victory …

You may not have known his name, but you’ve seen him in hundreds of movies and TV shows over the last 40 years. Via the New York Daily News: Actor Jon Polito, who was best known for his roles in Coen brother films like “The Big Lebowski,” “Miller’s Crossing” and “Barton Fink,” has died. He was 65. Film director John …

The Trump campaign’s ground game in Florida doesn’t have ground OR game. Via the Tampa Bay Times: On Aug. 8, the Donald Trump campaign said its first two dozen campaign field offices would open across Florida within two weeks. Since then, not a single new Trump office has opened in America’s biggest battleground state, but Hillary Clinton’s campaign added another …

AL.com reports: Alabama’s process for punishing judges needs to be changed, the Alabama Republican Party’s executive committee says in a resolution aimed at what led to the suspension of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. The resolution asks that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of state government enact law for the election of all nine of the Judicial Inquiry Commission …

Last week Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway declared that her boss “never hurl personal insults.” Later that day when presented with evidence of several hundred personal insults, Conway said Trump was just using the Pee-wee Herman defense. Which brings us to today. Via Mediaite: It’s not entirely clear why Trump added that Joe Scarborough was a mess, considering it was …

ABC News reports: The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the names of the moderators of the four showdowns that are scheduled in the coming months. The first presidential debate will be moderated by NBC’s “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt. That will be held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Monday, Sept. 26. The next debate will be the …

On Wednesday night the person running the Twitter account for Breitbart called me a “normie” and although I track right wing sites all day, that term was new to me. As it turns out, the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer has a lengthy post titled A Normie’s Guide To The Alt-Right. And there we find this definition: “Normie” is a term …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: David Duke and other white nationalists loved the speech Donald Trump delivered about immigration and the former KKK leader continued to shower praise on the GOP presidential nominee on his radio show today. And who better to discuss it with than Andrew Anglin, the editor of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer and …

Politico reports: Eric Trump expressed incredulity Friday in reaction to the disavowal of two of the campaign’s Hispanic surrogates in the wake of Donald Trump’s immigration speech this week, suggesting that the campaign would try to reach back out to them and clarify his father’s position on the issue. Both Jacob Monty, a member of Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, …

Bloomberg reports: Vladimir Putin said the hacking of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails and documents was a service to the public, but denied U.S. accusations that Russia’s government had anything to do with it. “Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?’’ Putin said in an interview at the Pacific port city of Vladivostok on Thursday. “The important …

Via Business Insider: The founder of the group “Latinos for Trump” made an unconventional argument for Donald Trump’s immigration plan during an appearance on MSNBC Thursday night. Marco Gutierrez, in an interview with host Joy Reid, described Latino culture as “imposing” and “dominant,” and suggested that without the GOP presidential nominee’s 10-point plan to overhaul the United States’ immigration policies, …

Variety reports: Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, filed a libel lawsuit on Thursday against a Maryland blogger and the parent company of the Daily Mail over reports that she was once an “escort.” Trump’s attorney, Charles Harder, said in a statement that the defendants “made several statements about Mrs. Trump that are 100% false and …

We’ll stand by for Sarah Palin’s outrage. Via Mediaite: Ann Coulter is keeping up her In Trump We Trust book tour, and when she’s not giving Donald Trump rave reviews, she’s using it to go up to bat for him over his most controversial moments. During the conservative columnist’s appearance on With All Due Respect, John Heilemann asked Coulter about …

The Hill recaps: Sen. John McCain promises to be a check on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a new campaign video but doesn’t mention Donald Trump, his party’s nominee for president, even once. The Arizona Republican, who survived a tough primary this week, will face Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in the general election. Election handicappers say Democrats have a …

Via Right Wing Watch: Confident of Donald Trump’s imminent victory, Alex Jones speculated wildly yesterday about “October Surprise false flags” meant to dislodge Trump and put Hillary Clinton in the White House. Jerome Corsi, a right-wing author and vocal promoter of the birther conspiracy theory, warned that “there’s going to be some unexpected wars, there’s going to be another terrorist …

#ThanksTrump. Politico reports: Hillary Clinton raised $143 million in August, a total that includes her own campaign’s collections as well as money for joint fundraising committees with the national and state parties. Her campaign hailed the monthly fundraising haul Thursday as its best of the campaign cycle. The Democratic nominee has more than $68 million on hand, and its average …

Business Insider reports: Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday called out Donald Trump on Twitter, insisting that his country will “never” pay for the Republican nominee’s proposed massive wall along the US-Mexico border. Peña Nieto was responding to a tweet from Trump earlier Thursday claiming that “Mexico will pay for the wall!” “I’ll repeat what I told you personally, …

Deadline reports: Before the debates get underway, NBC News’ Today co-anchor Matt Lauer will moderate the first joint candidate event of the 2016 general election. The NBC News/MSNBC Commander-in-Chief Forum on Wednesday, September 7, 2016 at New York’s Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. The one-hour event will simulcast live at 8 PM ET on the NBC broadcast network and …