By MacIver Institute

It was a fitting start to Halloween season and a fitting end to one of the scariest spectacles in American political history: As Brett Kavanaugh was being sworn in as an Associate Justice, a crowd of protesters screamed outside and clawed like zombies at the doors of the Supreme Court building.

Just hours earlier, the Senate vote to confirm Kavanaugh was interrupted several times by banshee-like screams from the gallery. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), who had announced in a passionate speech the previous day that she would be the deciding “aye” vote, faced an angry mob outside of her office.

The contrast couldn’t have been clearer, as one side did the business of government in a Constitutional Republic on the Senate floor and then in the chambers of the Supreme Court, while the other side amassed an angry mob to intimidate them. FULL STORY....HERE

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement? Even party chairman Tom Perez concedes that there are “no moderate Democrats left,” and lately the rantings of Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez confirm that diagnosis.

FULL STORY....HERE

By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement? Even party chairman Tom Perez concedes that there are “no moderate Democrats left,” and lately the rantings of Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez confirm that diagnosis.

FULL STORY....HERE

By Alex Swoyer

President Trump is smashing the record for appointing judges to the powerful federal appeals courts with 29 picks confirmed, helping him put his stamp on the judiciary well beyond the Supreme Court.

He has had less of an impact on the lower district courts, where he ranks near the middle with his predecessors of the past few decades. He also has had two Supreme Court nominations confirmed.

For conservatives, the pace of action is a major victory, particularly in the face of overwhelming opposition from liberal activists and Senate Democrats, who have used extreme delaying tactics to try to limit Mr. Trump’s influence on the shape of the courts. FULL STORY....HERE

Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor

• U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.7 percent from 2016 levels, according to the EPA.
• Emissions on a per-capita basis hit a 67-year low last year, federal data shows, and supporters are touting EPA’s data as proof Trump’s agenda is working.
• EPA’s new data comes on news that, globally, greenhouse gas emissions are set to rise to historic highs by the end of the year, despite nearly 200 countries signing the Paris climate accord. FULL STORY....HERE

By Ed Straker

Politico had a nice summary of all the things the Democrats are promising to do if elected.  It was the usual mix of authoritarian-socialism.
FULL STORY....HERE

A very easy, effective way to "do your part" is to put up yard signs. You have more influence than you know.

Pick up your signs at Headquarters

Varada Bhat

The pharmacy-chain owner Walgreens Boots Alliance announced Thursday that it will make investments of about $150 million to boost mainly its in-store wages in fiscal 2019 in wake of  President Donald Trump's tax reforms. Full Story....HERE

by John Carney

When the Trump administration announced its tariffs on steel and aluminum, critics said the policy would result in job losses in metals using businesses.

That has not happened yet. Four months after the tariffs kicked-in, jobs data shows that metals using businesses have continued to add jobs.

Full Story....HERE