Speaking of Ben Carson, it's odd that such a smart guy has a crackpot religion

It was Mormonism's turn in 2012, now it's on to Seventh Day Adventism.

Ben Carson's Seventh Day Adventism keeps the Sabbath on Saturdays, believes in the investigative judgment of professed Christians, ongoing somewhere in heaven since 1844, and considers the scores of revelations of the visionary Ellen G. White authoritative, placing the group outside the beliefs of the world's 600 million Evangelical Christians.

But hey, it's a free country, right?

Ben Carson advocated fingerprint locks on guns as recently as October 2014

Fingerprint locks would incapacitate a weapon to everyone save the owner, which pretty much means the Second Amendment is reduced to a self-defense amendment instead of a militia amendment, i. e. an anti-tyranny amendment. Fallen soldiers' weapons would be useless to others.

It's not helpful that the Supreme Court has ruled the right to keep and bear arms an individual right, which plays into the hands of those seeking constitutionality for fingerprint locks.

Can fingerprint condoms be far behind?

Audio of Carson here.

Rush Limbaugh expresses astonishment that Germany will accept 500,000 refugees annually

Limbaugh said in the last half hour that he looked into it and discovered Germany's birthrate is so low they're happy to have the refugees as future workers.

How long will it take this doofus to figure out that our declining labor force is the result of retirees who aren't being replaced because our birthrates were also too low for too long?

The Baby Boom between 1946 and 1966 produced 83.1 million births. Unfortunately Baby Boomers produced just 72.6 million births from 1967 to 1987, a shortfall of 10.5 million or 12.6%.

What it means is there are 500,000 fewer replacements every year on average for retiring Baby Boomers, about 85% of whom more or less survive to retirement age.

Arrogant hair flippers separated at birth

Rush Limbaugh leads with 94 million not working myth, debunks Syrian toddler drowning story in opener

The irony.

John Kasich says the county clerk in Kentucky has to comply with the gay marriage law

What law? Did the Supreme Court pass a law? Since when did the Supreme Court make laws?

John Kasich, here.

Trump in first with 27.8% in Real Clear Politics GOP presidential nomination poll average, 14.3 ahead of Ben Carson

Government under Obama routinely ignores immigration and drug laws, but the only one going to jail is a county clerk in Kentucky

David Harsanyi, here:

"In this country, people who are here illegally can march in the streets to protest their station without any genuine fear of being rounded up and expelled. They are celebrated. Moreover, we have cities across this country that ignore immigration laws they don't like and create sanctuaries from law. We have cities that ignore federal drug laws because they find them oppressive. Yet no one finds himself in jail. ... [I]f we're going to be rigid about the rule of law, let's throw all officials who ignore it into cells. We can start with the president and work our way down." 

Average of five polls puts Trump in first at 27.2, 14 ahead of number two Carson, 18 ahead of number three Bush, Graham no longer registers

If Trump decides to sign a Republican pledge . . .

. . . he should add a signing statement stating he disagrees with it and has no intention of abiding by it.

Syriza youth wing declines to support Alexis Tsipras and Syriza in upcoming election

That could well signal it's already curtains for Syriza with less than three weeks to go to new elections.

From the story here at the Greek Reporter:

"On Monday, his speech writer Theodoros Kollias resigned stating that SYRIZA has lost its founding ideals. On Tuesday, the SYRIZA Youth issued a statement saying they withdraw their support to the party in the upcoming elections. Also, the same day, another part of the SYRIZA coalition, the Communist Drift, left the party and will join new SYRIZA offshoot Popular Unity. ...

"In social networks the party and its leader are ridiculed for the 180-degree turn from militant leftists to a more conservative, pro-euro political entity. The 20-24 percent the party gets in opinion polls is nothing compared to the 45-plus percentages they were getting just three months ago."

Obama's red line in Syria washes up on shore in Turkey

The refugee crisis in the Mediterranean is the direct result of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton policies to destabilize Libya, Egypt, Syria and more.

Everything they have touched has turned to death for thousands upon thousands of innocents.

Best news yet from Donald John Trump: tells libertarians "no way"!

Bret Stephens imagines the American creed is a sonnet lately written and adorning the Statue of Liberty from 1903

Here:

'[W]e may soon have a conservative movement in which the American creed of “give us your tired, your poor” could yield to the Trumpian creed that America must not become a “dumping ground” to poor immigrants from Latin America, as if these millions of hardworking and God-fearing people are a specimen of garbage.'

The Trumpian creed is that we must not become a dumping ground for illegal immigrants or the world's criminals. But for admirers of French statues and exploiters of cheap foreign labor like Stephens and The Wall Street Journal it is necessary to erect straw men the more easily to knock them down.

Jorge Ramos sends his kids to an elite private school in Miami, not the public schools illegal immigrants are stuck with

Story here.

Grand Rapids, MI, had average temperature in August 2015 1.2 degrees F BELOW normal

The string of negative temperature anomalies continues in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in August 2015 with average temperature 1.2 degrees F below normal.

That brings the cumulative anomaly for 2015 from -21.4 degrees F last month to -22.6 through August.  

Trump firmly in first in latest Real Clear Politics poll average with 26.5% , 17 points ahead of Bush who's now calling Trump a jerk

That's what Trump gets for calling Jeb "low energy". Sounds fair to me, for a loser.  Story here.

Hillary for Prison 2016 signs reported stolen in The Hamptons

Souvenirs? Story here.

Since Obama was elected in 2008, wise investors in firearms have become fabulously wealthy

$100K invested in Sturm Ruger & Co. has become $979K, in Smith & Wesson $787K.

Way to go Brownie!

up 879%

up 687%

Trump in first with 25.7 in latest Real Clear Politics GOP presidential poll average, 14.7 ahead of Carson, 16 ahead of Jeb