Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion and political opponent of Putin: Mr. Putin can no longer pretend to be a democratic leader, so his goal is to drag everyone else down to his level — and he is doing it with Mr. Trump’s help. A democracy is as strong as its people believe it to be. It cannot be destroyed from the outside, only from within.

House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of investigations of Clinton.... If Republicans retain control of the House, something that GOP-friendly maps make possible even in the event of a Trump loss, Clinton will become the first president since George H.W. Bush to immediately face a House Oversight Committee controlled by the opposition party......

Relax, it won't affect Russian Intelligence Wikileaks "ability to carry out its journalistic activities."

One week before the state’s deadline to register to vote, state police raided the Indianapolis office of the Indiana Voter Registration Project, seizing computers, cellphones and records....A spokesman for the state police said "at least 10” applications were confirmed to be fraudulent...45,000 people, most of them African Americans, might be unable to vote. BTW, a fraudulent voter registration application are often things like signing John I.

Three Syrian refugees in Germany overpowered a bomb suspect who gave elite commandos the slip and sparked a two-day manhunt, police have revealed....Although aware of who he was, the man took the suspect back to his flat in the Paunsdorf area of north-eastern Leipzig where he and his flatmates overpowered him.

Current and former professional athletes have spoken out after Donald Trump defended his comments on using fame to grope women without their consent as “locker room” talk during Sunday’s presidential debate.“As an athlete, I’ve been in locker rooms my entire adult life and uh, that’s not locker room talk,” Oakland Athletics pitcher Sean Doolittle wrote on Twitter. Many others echoed his sentiments...

"Conservative US blogger Matt Drudge has kicked up a storm by suggesting that the warnings over Hurricane Matthew are a government conspiracy to make "an exaggerated point on climate" change."

"We were speeding, trying to get back to Detroit. And we got pulled over in Ohio. I knew I was going to Jail due to a petty warrant. The police called Wayne county and they refused to come get me because of the distance. I explained to the officer that my sister had died and that I needed to get to my mother asap. I broke down crying and he saw the sincerity in my cry. He REACHES OVER AND BEGAN PRAYING OVER ME AND MY FAMILY. He offered to bring me 100 miles further to Detroit because they towed the vehicle. Everybody knows how much I dislike Cops but I am truly Greatful for this Guy.

Tom Toles: When you try and unpack the ‘off the charts’ Hillary unfavorables, you find yourself rummaging in a box of Styrofoam peanuts and not a lot else. The big gun of charges against Hillary, which people love to unload as conclusive and unassailable is the “I don’t trust her!” line.... The GOP trusts Hillary about 100% to work against THEIR agenda. Why do you think they hate her so much?

The out-to-lunch Libertarian presidential candidate said Sunday he was glad “nobody got hurt” in a New York City bombing and Minnesota stabbing that left dozens of people injured.

Stop the transgender rape at NCAA bathrooms! Not that any have ever happened! North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said "NCAA's action sends a message to every female athlete and female fan attending their events that their privacy and security in a bathroom, shower or locker room isn't worth the price of a ticket to a ballgame." He then lumps the NCAA and NBA IN WITH...HOLLYWOOD!

On Monday, Donald Trump said that Janet Yellen is keeping interest rates low so that the stock market won’t crash — and that she should be “ashamed of herself” for doing so.

Brady Campaign to Congress: 'While You Were Out, 4,500 People Died From Gun Violence'... While Congress enjoyed nearly two months of sun and fun, the American people paid the ultimate price for Congress' inaction, with 4,500 shot and killed during August recess alone....

Bernie's 'Our Revolution' is supposed to be a 504c organization to help elect progressives, but key staff quit as they are mad at Bernie, don't like the Director, are afraid of getting money from billionaires, Bernie is doing it all wrong..etc etc. "The group’s entire organizing department quit this week, along with people working in digital and data positions." The Revolution sputtering out before the current election? What about the midterms? Hello?