FREE AT LAST, Democrats finally come out of the Socialist closet.

[Y]es, the candidates sounded like hard-Left, pie-in-the-sky, free-ice-cream-for-everyone, Socialist pander bears. But they do so because that is what the Democratic Party’s primary voters demand. Don’t blame them; blame the party rank-and-file that craves these promises, rhetoric, and worldview.

There are kindergarten classes with more realistic assessments of cost-benefit tradeoffs than the crowd watching this debate at the Wynn Las Vegas.

But they’re still a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

THE FAA SCREWS UP AGAIN:

Federal Aviation Administration misses deadline for creating drone regulations.

Federal Aviation Administration estimates around one million drones could be given as presents over the holidays this year.

Nothing like coming to the party late and unprepared....

TRASH HAULING ROBOTS: do we really need them? My suspicion is that the solution is fewer regulations, not more robots.

SEATTLE TRIES to unionize Uber drivers.

Or, as Jeff Jacoby has put it, "The power to regulate is the power to destroy."

THE DEEPER SIGNIFICANCE of Hillary’s ‘enemies’ gaffe.

THE SMART(ER) GRID: Let's build a global power grid. So an earthquake in California can turn the lights out in New Zealand....

A 'smart' grid is one where power is generated where it is consumed,

HILLARY CLINTON’S STAFF: moonlighting becomes them. Hmm. Isn't that because she only pays the female staffers 72% of what she pays the male staffers?

AT CNN, a double standard for Democrat, Republican debates:

Before the Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library Sept. 16, CNN promised to stage what it called "actual debating."

"Is one of the goals for you … to spur more actual debating?" CNN's Brian Stelter asked debate moderator Jake Tapper a few days before the event.... Tapper said ... "[W]hat the team and I have been doing is trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other, specific candidates on the stage, on issues where they disagree, whether it's policy or politics or leadership. Let's actually have them discuss and debate."

That was then. Now, another CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, will be moderating a debate, this time among Democrats, and he says there will be none of that raucous "actual debating" this time around.

"I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote some sort of a faceoff," Cooper told Stelter Sunday. "I think these are all serious people. This is a serious debate. They want to talk about the issues."

Leave the slugfest to the Republicans. The Democratic debate will be a serious discussion of the issues.

The Republicans got hardball; the Democrats, slow-pitch softball.

DID YOU KNOW? There are more than 1.6 million ATMs in the world. There is even one in Antarctica. Friday is the most popular day at the ATM. The average amount withdrawn from an ATM is $80.

CARLY FIORINA'S powerful new friend (8/31) doesn't appear to be enough as her poll numbers are drifting back into the single digits. Pity; in my estimation, she's the cream of the Republican crop for 2016.

REP. JIM JORDAN (R-OH): Republicans 'forfeit before the ref blows the whistle'.

The "number one thing we have to do" is "elevate the debate and take the argument to the other side."

Correct.

A PLEASANT THOUGHT,

but it's best not to drink.

GUN CONTROL NONSENSE: inventively, invectively rebuffed.

HILLARY'S WORST NIGHTMARE:

Another eclipse.

SURPRISED? Putin 'targeting our forces'.

Obama probably is; I'm not.

STOPLIGHT: A 5th-grader explains it all. But, of course, progressives aren't listening.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Fake False but accurate right.

The Washington Post's fact checker team is standing by its decision to rule Carly Fiorina's oft-repeated claim that she rose from secretary to CEO as mostly untrue, even though it concedes the Republican presidential candidate's story is factually accurate.

Spin, spin, spinning...

WHAT IS STIRRING INSIDE SATURN? Strange spiralling ripples in gas giant's rings are revealing the planet's internal structure.

The pictures are spectacular.

UNEXPECTEDLY, AND ON OUR NICKEL: Just another billion dollar boondoggle.

THEY NEVER QUIT: A backdoor ban on all private gun sales.

And just how many criminals are going to be deterred by this piece of Democrat insanity?

Consider this scenario for a moment: criminal buys gun from unsuspecting private seller; uses weapon in armed robbery; is caught and convicted; then sues seller, claiming essentially that "You should have known I was going to use the gun for an armed robbery." If you think that can't happen, you're as nuts as Sen. Tim Kaine (for whom I did not vote).

THEY'RE SMARTER THAN WE ARE: Why did oil-rich Arab countries abandon Muslim refugees?

RELATED: The Migrants and the Elites: A humanitarian crisis threatens the future of Western institutions. (For the complete article, google 'The Migrants and the Elites'; then follow the link.)