"TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Department of State last week asked federal prosecutors to investigate dates that were changed on official state election documents, the first voting 'irregularities' it has flagged in the wake of the 2018 elections.

"The concerns, which the department says can be tied to the Florida Democratic Party, center around date changes on forms used to fix vote-by-mail ballots sent with incorrect or missing information. Known as 'cure affidavits,' those documents used to fix mail ballots were due no later than 5 p.m. on Nov. 5 -- the day before the election. But affidavits released on Tuesday by the DOS show that documents from four different counties said the ballots could be returned by 5 p.m. on Thursday, which is not accurate. ...

"DOS officials have repeatedly told the media that the monitors they sent to Broward County saw no election fraud. It wasn't until Tuesday that the office revealed publicly that it had turned over information to federal prosecutors."

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"The courts have become revolutionary. They now routinely overturn popular referenda, presidential executive orders, and legislative statutes, mostly on the principle that better-educated, more moral and experienced judges answer to a higher, more progressive calling and know what in the long run is best for the uneducated rabble. From now on out, every Republican-nominated Supreme Court nominee will probably result in a Kavanaugh-like circus, in which protestors in the gallery, disruptive senators themselves, and mobs in the street will attempt to create so much chaos that the wearied public will cave and just wish that conservatives would not nominate such controversial constructionists. ...

"The mob is becoming in some ways as powerful as the French rabble who cheered on the guillotine, or the adolescent crowds that spoiled affluent kids such as Bill Ayers and Jane Fonda once used as demonstration fodder. Instead, it is vast and global -- and linked by instant communications on social media and the Internet, and it remains often anonymous. Post or say one wrong word, and the electronic turba comes out of the shadows, swarming to demand career-ending confessions, or offering amnesty on promises of correct reeducation. One's entire life can be accessed in nanoseconds to root out past thought crimes and counterrevolutionary speech. Be deemed a right-wing obstructionist or activist, and everything -- from one's cell-phone number and email address to private residence and office -- can become known to 7 billion. ...

"Almost everything we have seen in just the last three months -- the Kavanaugh chaos, the 'caravan,' the ongoing Mueller octopus, recounting election results until they are deemed 'correct,' the Beto and Gillum neo-socialism craziness, the swarming of a Fox News anchor's home, driving public officials out of restaurants, the media circus at presidential press conferences -- are symptoms of revolutionary America. In this conflict, one side believes it is not only not fair but also not allowable that it lacks the necessary power to make us all equal -- but equal only in the eyes of a self-anointed elite."

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"Conspiracy theories are bad for civic life.

"So are conspiracies.

"I wonder if there is one mentally normal adult walking these fruited plains -- even the most craven, abject, brain-dead partisan Democrat -- who believes that what has been going on in Broward County, Fla., is anything other than a brazen attempt to reverse the Republican victories in the state's Senate, gubernatorial, and (not to be overlooked) agriculture commissioner's races. I cannot imagine that there is, but it is really quite something to see partisan Democrats -- the same people who pretend to believe that the 2016 presidential election was invalid because Boris and Natasha posted something on Facebook -- watch not only utterly contented but with joy in their hearts as the rolling crime wave that is Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes and her coconspirators try to actually steal an election or three.

"Boxes of ballots magically showing up in the trunks of rental cars in the Fort Lauderdale airport -- cars last rented by Democratic operatives? What is this, a Coen Brothers movie? At least Saddam Hussein had the good taste to be amusing when he was stuffing the ballot boxes.

"That voting fraud that our Democratic friends insist never happens happens quite a lot under Snipes's watch. She has allowed disenfranchised felons and illegal aliens to vote; sent out mail-in ballots in which a proposed constitutional amendment was simply omitted; secretly opened ballots to thwart oversight. Her team doesn't seem to be able to add up votes very quick -- except when they add them up too quickly: In one truly banana-republic shenanigan, her office posted a final vote tally while the polls were still open. Rick Scott's team has detailed much of this in its legal complaint against her."

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"The United States of America remains the land of the free because we are still the home of the brave. The men and women who've served in our armed forces are those brave, and today all of us should do our part to honor their service and appreciate their sacrifice.

"So on this 100th Veterans' Day, I encourage every American to thank a veteran. Outside the grocery store, at your place of worship, or maybe over the backyard fence, I urge you to extend your hand, look them in the eye, and say those words that every veteran deserves to hear: 'Thank you for your service.'

"To all of those who've worn the uniform, on behalf of a grateful nation, Happy Veterans Day."

"The Florida Senate race is rapidly becoming a clown show. It's been over two days and Broward County, the largest Democratic bastion in the state, is still counting ballots. Counties slammed by Hurricane Michael last month have all tallied their votes. Broward seems unable to do so, or say how many are left outstanding. Broward Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes seems to struggle answering basic questions about this process, even ones required by law. So far, there have been no regular updates. Instead, they're dumping vote totals by the thousands, which has chipped away at Republican Gov. Rick Scott's lead over incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. ...

"As of now, we're heading into recount territory, with Scott leading by less than half of one percent, but Broward's vote counting irregularities pose questions about whether Democrats are trying to steal this election. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) certainly feels this way, going on lengthy spats on Twitter railing this process. In one polling location, provisional ballots were just left, with no chain of custody. A schoolteacher discovered them after they were never picked up. We don't know how long they were there, and they might be unverifiable at this point. Now, Gov. Scott and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have had enough; they're suing Broward County. Palm Beach County, another Democratic stronghold, is another one where sketchy vote counting is occurring. Scott has already declared victory, but he's also mobilizing his legal team, as Democratic lawyers begin to pour into the state ..."

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"President Trump and the Republican Party intended to pass new tax measures to provide relief to middle-class Americans, but now that Democrats control the House of Representatives -- that legislation is likely dead on arrival.

"'I can't see anything happening on taxes,' Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org, told FOX Business.

"When asked about the future of tax cuts during a press conference on Wednesday, Trump said the prospects depend on cooperation from Democrats.

"Even though Republicans pushed three separate tax packages through the House in September, Edwards said he didn't expect them to be approved anyway -- noting the only way that could've happened under Republican control was if the GOP used the fast-track process known as reconciliation."

"The three-plus years since Donald Trump came down that escalator and changed American politics forever have been so melodramatic that everybody expected the first midterm election of the Trump presidency would be equally so.

"Turns out the melodrama on election night was basically that there was no melodrama.

"What we could have predicted the night after the 2016 election appears to be the story of 2018.

"Republicans knew on Nov. 9, 2016, that they were going to have a good national map when it came to the Senate two years later -- and indeed they improved on their position in the upper chamber.

"Similarly, Democrats had every reason to believe on that bitter morning that the common rules governing midterms would secure them the 23 seats necessary to take control of the House of Representatives in 2018 -- and it appears they have done so.

"What didn't happen in this election was something that would make everybody go WOW."

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"Just as soon as they get the dead carried out we can dispense with the last rites and continue the election that counts most. Ready or not, like it or not, the 2020 presidential election campaign begins this morning."

"Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor, is opening an investigation into the state's Democratic Party for allegedly attempting to hack the state's voter registration system.

"Kemp's office made the announcement in a Sunday morning news release but did not provide any details on why it is investigating the Democratic Party for the failed hacking. The party is being probed for engaging in a possible cyber-crime.

"'While we cannot comment on the specifics of an ongoing investigation, I can confirm that the Democratic Party of Georgia is under investigation for possible cyber-crimes,' press secretary Candice Broce said in the release. She also said the secretary of state's office alerted both the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

"Kemp's Democratic opponent, Stacey Abrams, told CNN Sunday that the investigation is an attempt to distract voters two days before the election. Kemp is leading Abrams -- 49 to 47 percent -- in the most recent RealClearPolitics poll."

"President Trump said Thursday that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's threat to weaponize committee subpoena power if Democrats win Congress is illegal and grounds for the administration to fight any subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court.

"'Pelosi says she's going to mechanize the speakership and use it as a great negotiation with the president. That's an illegal statement,' Mr. Trump said in an exclusive interview with The Washington Times.

"The president remained optimistic about Republicans retaining their House majority, but he fumed about Mrs. Pelosi's subpoena threat should her party prevail in the midterm elections Tuesday.

"He said the threat begged a lengthy court battle.

"'That alone takes two years to get it to the Supreme Court -- that statement -- before you do anything,' he said, becoming animated with indignation. 'You heard her the other night.'

"Mrs. Pelosi made the remark last week at CNN's campaign forum.

"'Subpoena power is interesting, to use it or not to use it,' Mrs. Pelosi said in an interview with Dana Bash. 'It's a great arrow to have in your quiver in terms of negotiating on other subjects.'"

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