This close to his comments is quite good. He says he’s been changed by his campaigning, noting also it’s about what he said in 2005.

Finally, his emphasis on the perilous times we live in:

“. . . Let’s be honest. We’re living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we’re facing today. We are losing our jobs, we’re less safe than we were eight years ago and Washington is totally broken.

Hillary Clinton and her kind have run our country into the ground.

I’ve said some foolish things but there’s a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday,” Trump concluded.

More to come, for sure.

CNN promotes.

CNN’s KFile has uncovered two more Playboy videos in which Donald Trump makes an appearance, including one in which he is depicted photographing fully clothed models and conducting an interview with a potential Playmate.

Trump’s tame appearance in a 2000 Playboy video came to light late last week after he attacked a former beauty queen for her alleged “sex tape” past.

Wait. CNN doesn’t know he ran beauty contests? He photos fully clothed models, has a tame appearance in a video, and it’s something to connect with the Ms. Universe lady?

Slow news day, maybe? But we haven’t had one of those for quite a while, I’d say.

. . . as in this page of state-rep endorsements

Read the rest of it here, if you have a Wall St. Journal read-for-pay arrangement.

This year’s presidential campaign has caused journalists to lose all perspective, we keep thinking, and they keep proving us wrong by losing even more perspective. The latest example is a breathless Wednesday-afternoon tweet from Dylan Byers, who covers the media for CNN: “just got off the phone with @JeffreyGoldberg, who draf ted The Atlantic’s historic endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Full story TK…”

“TK” is journalese for “to come,” and the story kame as promised a few minutes later, with “Historic” in the headline:

Driven by its staunch opposition to Donald Trump, The Atlantic has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States, marking just the third time in the magazine’s 160-year history that it has made a presidential endorsement.

Labeling the Republican presidential nominee “a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar,” The Atlantic’s editors encouraged their readers to “act in defense of American democracy and elect his opponent.”

So the editorial is “historic” only in the sense that the magazine has been around for a long time. (A headline last year from Scientific American read “Atlantic Circulation Weakens Compared with Last Thousand Years.”)

Etc. etc. etc. from witty, head-screwed-on-straight fellow . . .

She second-thoughted herself.

CHICAGO — As her face was being smashed into the pavement by a suspect Wednesday, a Chicago Police officer thought about using her gun to stop the man. Instead she was knocked out. She had been too worried about what people would think if she had used her weapon, she said.

The attack happened Wednesday. Officers on patrol were responding to a car crash in Austin when a man who had been in the crash attacked them, police said. Three officers were injured, one of them seriously, and they were taken to area hospitals for treatment.

Think of the young men in crime-filled ‘hoods, said Hillary in the debate.

Source: Officer Didn’t Shoot Attacker Because She Feared Backlash, Top Cop Says – Austin – DNAinfo Chicago

. . . as described by Episcopal priest-poet-essayist Chad Walsh, whom we — loving wife and baby Angela — visited in the early ‘seventies at Beloit (Wis.) College, where he taught.

Nice man, good man. I still have his God at Large (Seabury), then newly published, which opens with a very contemporary, “Brother, can you spare a joint?”

He had solid notions about our national origins, as in this from the excellent Liberty Tree quotation site.

“From the utopian viewpoint, the United States constitution is a singularly hard-bitten and cautious document, for it breathes the spirit of skepticism about human altruism and incorporates a complex system of checks, balances and restrictions, so that everybody is holding the reins on everybody else.”

Source: Chad Walsh Quote – Liberty Quotes Blog

It looks like big banks and corporations agreed to donate to the Democrats a certain percentage of the allocated TARP funds.

Source: Guccifer 2.0 Hacked Clinton Foundation. It looks like big banks and corporations agreed to donate to the Democrats a certain percentage of the allocated TARP funds.

The total link site for the news and information junkie: Libertarianism. Property Rights. Government Corruption. Chicago Mob. Struggle Against Socialism. Union Corruption. Pension Meltdown. Blacked Out History. New York Mob. Higher Education rip-offs. Housing Crash. Rent-seeking. Obama-Chicago Democratic Machine. Gun Control Monopolists. The Ron Paul Revolution. Organized Crime…Other Politically Incorrect matters of interest.

Source: Instapundit Glenn Reynolds on his Twitter Suspension, Online Free Speech, & His Presidential Vote

In fact, he’s a former president with a wife who is going for the same golden crown.

Still Crazy After All These Years

An ObamaCare October surprise.

By James Taranto

Five weeks before the presidential election, a campaign surrogate is declaring war on ObamaCare, as the Washington Times reports.

“You’ve got this crazy system where all o f 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,” the surrogate said in Flint, Mich., Monday. “It’s the craziest thing in the world.” Also: “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.”

Having said all this, why aren’t Donald Trump ahead by 50 points? you might ask. Maybe because the quote above doesn’t come from one of Trump’s surrogates but from one of Hillary Clinton’s—and not just any surrogate but Bill Clinton, to whom Mrs. Clinton is officially married.

It’s something of an October surprise, and Mr. Clinton isn’t the only unlikely critic of ObamaCare to emerge in recent days. In yesterday’s New York Times, reporter Robert Pear described ObamaCare as a failure while studiously avoiding the F-word: “[President] Obama’s signature domestic achievement will almost certainly have to change to survive.”

Since ObamaCare is not a living organism, the “survival” metaphor obscures more than it illuminates. Just how much change could the law take and still be deemed to have “survived,” as opposed to having been replaced by a new scheme? We’re not sure how to answer that other than purely subjectively. There are more maddening metaphors, too:

Dr. John W. Rowe, who was the chief executive of Aetna from 2000 to 2006 and the president of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York before that, predicted that “the insurance market will stabilize in two or three years.”

“We are not in a death spiral,” Dr. Rowe said. “If this were a patient, I would say that he’s not in intensive care, but he’s still in the hospital and requires careful monitoring.”

But that does not mean the act will heal on its own, said Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health law and policy at George Washington University. . . . .

For the rest of the column, follow the link .. .

Neck and neck

The latest Rasmussen Reports White House Watch national telephone and online survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows Clinton with 42% support and Trump with 41%. . . . .

Yesterday, it was Clinton 43%, Trump 40%. Factoring in our +/- 2.5 margin of error, both candidates continue to hover around the 40% mark as they have for weeks now, looking for a breakaway moment to put some distance between them and their opponent.

Some saw Clinton’s debate performance as that moment, and it did move her slightly ahead after trailing by five points the week before.

But the race appears to be tightening again.Eighty-three percent (83%) of voters now say they are certain how they will vote, and Clinton has a statistically insignificant 48% to 47% lead among this group.

Among the voters who still may change their minds, it’s Trump 31%, Clinton 27%, Johnson 32% and Stein 10%.

Source: White House Watch – Rasmussen Reports™