"It is, of course, true that Clinton has not yet been found guilty of any crime. That certainly shouldn't inhibit rational people from having an opinion about her actions. Richard Nixon was never found guilty of a crime, either. We have an abundance of evidence regarding her emails and foundation that point to corruption. Most of us don't have the power to right what we believe are injustices.

"The president, however, does. And if he truly believes that the FBI operates through innuendo and leaks rather than evidence, doesn't he have an obligation to fire the person in charge? If he truly believes the FBI is compromised and partisan in its investigation of Hillary Clinton -- which is still open and ongoing -- doesn't he have an obligation to call for a special prosecutor to make sure Hillary is given a fair shake?

"I look forward to someone with access asking him these questions, because it would be a dereliction of the president's duty to allow the nation's top law enforcement agencies to undermine justice."

"Because of Democratic and media furor over Director Comey's reopening of the Clinton e-mails investigation last week, the FBI is now under enormous pressure to review tens of thousands of e-mails stored on the laptop shared by Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner. The point is to hound the bureau into announcing before Election Day (seven days from now) whether any new classified e-mails have been found. If none are found, this outcome will be spun as yet another 'exoneration' of Hillary Clinton.

"Here, however, is the real outrage: Beneath all this noise, Loretta Lynch's Justice Department is blocking the FBI from examining Clinton e-mails in connection with its investigation of the Clinton Foundation -- an investigation that is every bit as serious.

"Were it not for the Clinton Foundation, there probably would not be a Clinton e-mail scandal. Mrs. Clinton's home-brew communications system was designed to conceal the degree to which the State Department was put in the service of Foundation donors who transformed the 'dead broke' Clintons into hundred-millionaires.

"At this point, the reopened classified-information investigation is a distraction: Under the Comey/DOJ 'insufficient intent evidence' rationale, there would be no charges even if previously undiscovered classified e-mails were found on the Abedin/Weiner computer. Instead, what is actually essential is that the FBI's Clinton Foundation investigators get access to all the thousands of Clinton e-mails, including those recovered from the Mills and Samuelson laptops. The agents must also have the time they need to piece together all the Clinton e-mails (from whatever source), follow up leads, and make their case."

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"Collate the FBI reopened investigation, WikiLeaks Podesta trove, revelations about the Clinton Foundation, the e-mail-server scandal, the DNC disclosures, and the various off-the-cuff campaign remarks of Bill and Hillary Clinton, and one then ponders what was the point of the Clinton shakedowns, the loss of reputation, the crude lawbreaking, as they neared their seventh decade. To paraphrase Barack Obama, in his progressive sermonizing on making enough money, did the two ever think they had enough money, enough honors, enough power already?

"The Hillary/Bill fortune -- generated by pay-for-play influence peddling on the proposition that Bill would return to the White House under Hillary's aegis and reward friends while punishing enemies -- hit a reported $150 million some time ago, a fortune built not on farming, mining, insurance, finance, high-tech, or manufacturing, but on skimming off money. The Clintons are simply grifters whose insider access to government gave them the power to make rich people richer."

"The surprise disclosure that agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation are taking a new look at Hillary Clinton's email use lays bare, just days before the election, tensions inside the bureau and the Justice Department over how to investigate the Democratic presidential nominee. ...

"Early this year, four FBI field offices -- New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Little Rock, Ark. -- were collecting information about the Clinton Foundation to see if there was evidence of financial crimes or influence-peddling, according to people familiar with the matter.

"Los Angeles agents had picked up information about the Clinton Foundation from an unrelated public-corruption case and had issued some subpoenas for bank records related to the foundation, these people said."

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"In an election season that has been full of surprises, let's hope the electorate understands that there is at least one thing of which it can be certain: A Hillary Clinton presidency will be built, from the ground up, on self-dealing, crony favors, and an utter disregard for the law.

"This isn't a guess. It is spelled out, in black and white, in the latest bombshell revelation from WikiLeaks. It comes in the form of a memo written in 2011 by longtime Clinton errand boy Doug Band, who for years worked simultaneously at the Clinton Foundation and at the head of his lucrative consulting business, Teneo.

"It is astonishingly detailed proof that the Clintons do not draw any lines between their 'charitable' work, their political activity, their government jobs or (and most important) their personal enrichment. Every other American is expected to keep these pursuits separate, as required by tax law, anticorruption law and campaign-finance law. For the Clintons, it is all one and the same -- the rules be damned."

"With the news that Obamacare premiums will go up by an average of 22 percent next year, the Democrats and their media cheerleaders have engaged in Olympic-caliber hand-waving and misdirection, anything to avoid admitting the obvious: that the program is poorly designed, incompetently executed, and based on false assumptions about what actually ails the U.S. health-care system.

"The case for replacing the law entirely has never been stronger....

"The litany of lies and disappointments delivered by the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, and their media enablers is too long to repeat here, but the highlights should be familiar: 'If you like your plan, you can keep your plan' was an outright lie with malice aforethought; 'doesn't add one dime to the deficit' was, at best, wishful thinking; the promise of saving the average family $2,500 a year in insurance premiums was economic illiteracy. ...

"There were deep and serious problems with the U.S. health-care system before Obamacare. Obamacare has made those problems worse -- that much is impossible to deny. If a 22 percent hike in premiums isn't enough to get Americans interested in consumer-driven, market-based alternatives, do not despair: It is going to get worse."

"From start to finish, it is obvious that the FBI gave Clinton special treatment. The failure to empanel a grand jury and issue subpoenas, the granting of five immunity deals to her aides, and the agreement to destroy potential evidence all lead to the conclusion that Comey bent the rules to make sure Clinton was cleared.

"Rabid Clinton supporters comfort themselves by insisting that those who do not denounce Donald Trump are unpatriotic or worse. But you don't have to be a Trump supporter to fear that Clinton's election would be tantamount to approving her chronic dishonesty in public office, and would open the door to an era of corruption unprecedented in modern times.

"If that's progress, then Richard Nixon got a raw deal."

"Obamacare premiums will soar in 2017, the administration acknowledged Monday, with the price of the most popular benchmark plans jumping an average of 22 percent as the law continues to rely on older, sicker customers than its backers had envisioned.

"The number of insurers offering plans on the federally run exchange will also plummet as companies tap out, saying they can't figure out a way to make the economics work -- and raising the risk of lower competition and worse premium increases.

"Roughly one in five customers will have only a single insurer as an option next year after major players such as UnitedHealth Group and Aetna withdrew from most states and nearly all of Obamacare's co-op plans failed.

"That's particularly rough news for President Obama, who is trying to boost his legacy in his final months in office, and for Hillary Clinton, his would-be Democratic successor, who has defended the law."

"Donald Trump often describes President Obama's response to foreign threats as a 'disaster' and has vowed to restore America's military deterrence. So does Hillary Clinton. 'We need to respond to evolving threats from states like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea,' she said in August at the American Legion in Cincinnati. 'We need a military that is ready and agile so it can meet the full range of threats and operate on short notice across every domain,' she added.

"After eight years of retreat, that may prove a tall order. ...

"The next president must demonstrate that there's a new sheriff in town, starting by significantly upping military budgets. Climbing out from the hole we put ourselves in may exact a high cost, but without it, America -- and the rest of the world -- may find things sharply change for the worse."

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"Iran's leaders, according to the nation's state-run press, now expect 'billions of dollars' in exchange for US hostages they're holding in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

"Proving, yet again, the problem with ransoming hostages. ...

"Iran's hostage-taking habit is just one more mess the next president will have to clean up."