"No one can explain why the president and Senate Democrats were so obsessed with transferring control of the Internet to a global body. We passed legislation to block the transfer, held hearings, wrote letters and pushed national media to take notice; but in the end, he still gave it away. The damage to free speech will not be felt for a few years, but there is no question that the Internet, as we know, is changing. Now, China, Russia and Iran have the same voice on its future as the United States of America."

"Kaine entered tonight with a reputation as a likeable, even-keeled, mainstream Democrat. He lost it quickly, interrupting with wild abandon and generally coming across as an over-caffeinated jerk, eager to insert canned lines that must have sounded great in rehearsal but generally fell flat or got lost in the cross-talk. For many Americans watching, this was their first real introduction to Kaine. It's hard to believe they came away impressed or feeling warm. Did he seem like a man ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? Or did he seem like your friend's awkward, over-eager younger brother, eager to show off he could keep up with the big kids?"

"Former President Bill Clinton stumped for his wife's campaign on Monday in Michigan by deeming the Affordable Care Act a 'crazy system.'

"President Obama's signature piece of legislation was framed as nonsensical public policy that punishes middle-class Americans by doubling their health-insurance premiums, according to video footage of the event.

"'You've got this crazy system where all of a sudden 25 million more people have health care and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,' Mr. Clinton told voters. 'It'€™s the craziest thing in the world.'...

"'The people that are getting killed in this deal are small businesspeople and individuals who make just a little too much to get any of these subsidies,' the former president added."

"Hillary Clinton keeps bashing the Trump tax plan as 'Trumped up trickle down economics.' This class warfare card has become the standard and tired response to every Republican tax plan reform for 30 years. No wonder we haven't cleaned out the stables of the tax code since the Reagan era. Democrats have no interest.

"Hillary's claim is that the plan will blow a hole in the debt (which is rich coming from someone who worked for an administration that nearly doubled the debt in eight years) and that the benefits all go to the rich. She also says it will cost jobs and could even 'cause a recession.'

"I worked on devising the Trump tax plan with economists Larry Kudlow, Sam Clovis and others, so I know a little bit about the costs and the benefits. It's an amazing ideology which says that letting businesses keep more of their own money will cause the economy to capsize and other horrors, but a $1.5 trillion tax hike on businesses and investors will, as Hillary promises, create jobs. Yes, and injecting Elmer's glue into your veins is a good way to prevent a heart attack."

"As the nation weighs who should next be trusted with the presidency, the current occupant of the White House seems poised to provide yet another reminder of the importance of maintaining checks on executive power. President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services has in recent weeks floated the possibility of the federal government using a backdoor method to funnel money to insurers losing money through Obamacare, even though Congress has twice voted to block such payments. ...

"This comes as the Government Accountability Office issued an opinion on Thursday that concluded the administration didn't have the authority to divert $3.5 billion from the Treasury Department to Obamacare insurers as part of another program within Obamacare.

"The looming and illegal bailout of Obamacare is the latest of many reasons why those Republicans who plan not to vote for Donald Trump should nevertheless vote for Republicans in down-ballot races. It is vital that the GOP retain control of Capitol Hill as a check on the power of the executive branch, that has abused its powers for the past eight years. If low turnout hands the Senate over to Democrats, an Obamacare bailout seems likely to be an early and unwelcome consequence."

"Clinton's diplomatic outreach to Russia, one of her earliest initiatives as Obama's top diplomat, is one of many embarrassing and consequential failures that expose her claims to good judgment and competence as empty. American diplomacy and intelligence alike failed to detect Putin's ambitions until Crimea and eastern Ukraine had already been overrun.

"Throughout and immediately after Clinton's tenure at the State Department, Russia elevated itself from being a minor annoyance to being a leading cause of world instability. Clinton, like the man she hopes to succeed, has no plan to curb Putin's ambitions, which are likely to grow as his nation's economy shrinks."

"A recent Gallup survey found a new low in public trust of the media, with only 32 percent of Americans saying they have a great deal or some trust in newspapers, TV and radio 'to report the news fully, accurately and fairly.' Trust fell eight points in one year alone and is only 14 percent among Republicans.

"In a change election where both candidates have historically high negative ratings, many voters could make their choice for secondary reasons.

"Voting against the other candidate is the most likely option, while voting against the media as a proxy for voting against the establishment is emerging as another.

"In that case, the news media could be more than part of the story. They could be the story."

"The first Clinton-Trump debate was roughly a draw -- which is bad news for her, because she needs to turn this race around, and she failed. ...

"Donald Trump remains the candidate of change; Hillary Clinton, the tribune of the status quo."

"One of several nagging questions about Clinton's emails is that if there's no 'there' there, as the campaign claims, why are so many of the people involved pleading the Fifth before Congress? Why do they need a shield from self-incrimination? ...

"If Clinton is not personally to blame for obstructing justice by spoliating evidence that was under congressional subpoena, someone else must be. Yet somehow, no one is going to be held accountable, perhaps in part because everyone involved has been granted immunity.

"This whole thing absolutely stinks, and we're not the only ones of this opinion. The latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 64 percent of American voters are concerned about Clinton's email scandal. Contrary to team Clinton's protestations, this new revelation should prompt Congress to investigate further, and ask more questions, not fewer."

"Immigration drains the government, sapping as much as $296 billion a year from federal, state and local taxpayers while depressing wages, at least in the short run, according to an authoritative study released Wednesday by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

"The 500-page academic tome is supposed to be the final word about the fiscal and economic effects of mass immigration, and its findings challenge some long-held assumptions of Washington policymakers that immigration is an unqualified benefit.

"The data show that immigrants take more in benefits than they pay in taxes. Although immigrants do boost the size of the economy, the gains are heavily skewed toward the immigrants themselves and to wealthy investors -- not to native-born workers who end up competing with the new arrivals. ...

"The report also concludes that new arrivals aren't assimilating as well as past waves of immigrants. They struggle to learn English and to increase their wages at the rates of immigrants just a few decades ago."