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Former President Bill Clinton criticized the Affordable Care Act as a "crazy system" during a presidential campaign stop in Flint, Mich., for his wife Hillary Clinton. During the rally Monday, the former president said Obamacare is causing premiums to rise because of the exchange markets. "It doesn't make any sense. The insurance model doesn't work here," Clinton said.

A federal judge dismissed Ferguson, Mo., rioters’ $40 million civil rights that claimed police used excessive force against them Monday. U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey ruled in favor of the Missouri law enforcement, reports WWMT. The nine plaintiffs, “have completely failed to present any credible evidence that any of the actions taken by these individuals were taken with malice or were committed in bad faith,” Autrey wrote in his ruling.

Samir Kapuria from Symantec gives a demonstration about how someone could hack an electronic voting machine to provide extra votes for candidates.

Research conducted on behalf of SportsBusiness Daily has found unprecedented double-digit audience declines for NFL games so far this season. According to research firm CivicScience, NBC’s Sunday Night Football — the highest rated prime-time program for the last five years — has seen its average audience drop 10 percent so far this year after four games. Viewership of the NFL’s widely dispersed Thursday night games has dropped 15 percent. And ESPN’s Monday Night Football is down 19 percent. It’s not fringe science — culling Nielsen data, Sports Media Watch has the NFL’s ratings pretty much down across the board through...

A law enforcement group is charging CNN edited video of the racially charged police shooting of a Charlotte, N.C., man to make officers look bad. Blue Lives Matter, an organization comprised of active or retired law enforcement officers, claims the cable news network edited video of the Sept. 20 fatal shooting of Keith Scott to cut out police ordering him to “drop the gun,” fueling claims Scott, a black man, was unarmed when he was shot by Officer Brentley Vinson. Although Vinson is black, the incident was the latest police shooting around the nation to spur violent protests and rioting....

"Winning the presidential election this year is more important than it was in 2008 or 2012," Obama said in a fundraising email to supporters late Monday evening. "Now, that may sound incredible. After all, I'm the guy who had the honor of winning those races." "But as much as I may have disagreed with the men I ran against four and eight years ago, I didn't question whether they were fundamentally capable of serving as president," Obama said. "I didn't have to worry that our very democracy would be endangered if they won."

Bumbling Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson wandered onto national television Tuesday to finally admit, with pride, that he does not study trivial things like world leaders and foreign nations. “If that’s a disqualifier, so be it,” Johnson hollered on CNN, echoing a line he coughed up last month after he failed to recognize Syria’s largest city. Johnson — baring bedhead hair and yelling nearly every time he opened his mouth — ostensibly appeared to defend his month of stunning ignorance about world affairs. In recent live TV appearances, Johnson didn’t know what Aleppo is and said “nobody got hurt” in...

A reader writes: I’m a Colombian living in the States who is an avid reader of your blog! Yesterday Colombia had a plebiscite regarding the peace agreement with the Marxist guerrillas and, incredibly, the No won… It’s is hard to explain all the reasons why this happened (even those who opposed the plebiscite “knew” it was going to be approved)… Political leaders in some areas did not push their constituents into voting (they didn’t have anything to lose). The Caribbean coast, for example, is known for its corruption and how local leaders literally buy votes. However this time, there was...

Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) is predicting that congressional Republicans will be more willing to work with Hillary Clinton than they have been with President Obama, should she be elected president. "She is a known commodity, and I think there’ll be more camaraderie in terms of working together, than there might have been in the early days of Obama," Isakson told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Isakson, who is running for reelection and has endorsed GOP nominee Donald Trump, added, "I don’t think it will be like the post-Obama election at all." Isakson's comments come as Clinton has narrowly trailed Trump in...

Shortened title. Full title: The Government Of Iran Declares War On Christianity, And Arrests Twenty Five Christians For Preaching The Gospel The government of Iran has declared war on Christianity. Just recently it arrested twenty five Christians for expressing their Christian Faith, as we read in one report:  At least 25 Christians have been arrested in the Islamic Republic of Iran solely because of their faith in Jesus Christ, it has been reported. According to the National Council of Resistance in Iran, Iranian human rights outlets are reporting that over two dozen Christians were recently arrested during a raid...

A new project allows black people to write their own obituaries, with most envisioning the writer dying unarmed at the hands of police officers. Ja’han Elliot Jones wrote a single piece about his own death to create the Black Obituary Project, reports the Grio. Jones felt that he could likely be fatally shot by the police and decided to write his own obituary. “Ja’han Elliot Jones, 24, was unarmed when shot and killed in conflict with local police officers,”

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lead this series of commentaries on the nine initiatives to be decided. It’s A Terrible Idea Last year, when Amendment 69 was validated for the ballot, I heard anecdotal stories about how the proponents gathered signatures by asking people if they wanted to opt-out of Obamacare. Because Obamacare is loathed by all except progressive partisans, that seemed like an attractive alternative. Sadly, this was a misdirection because while Amendment 69 would be made possible through an Affordable Care Act waiver, it is opting out of a bad system in favor of a worse system. If passed, Amendment 69 would be...

The enactment of US legislation on 9/11 weakening sovereign immunity will affect all countries, including the United States, the Saudi Cabinet said Monday. It said the law contributes to the weakening of the principle of sovereign immunity, which has governed international relations for hundreds of years, in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA. This it said, will have a “negative impact” on all nations, including the United States. The cabinet also said Saudi Arabia hoped the US Congress would take necessary steps to avoid the ‘dangerous fallouts’ from the law, The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act...

The most popular flavor of ice cream in America is vanilla. (Most surveys suggest it clocks in at 29 percent.) But I doubt many people choose to eat it plain. I know I'd rather eat the chocolate chip cookie dough — a pint of it, actually, while watching Netflix. Vanilla is our choice to serve as a complement, often mellowing a too-rich dessert. That's how I view the VP candidates this time around. A La Mode.

Snitching for the feds can be dangerous work, but it also can be pretty lucrative. One South Florida man who has been working undercover as a confidential informant for 31 years has been paid about $1.5 million for his efforts, according to court records and testimony that shed some light on the usually shadowy world of informants. The payments, which appear to have started during President Ronald Reagan's second term in office, average out to more than $48,000 per year. The Drug Enforcement Administration won't say who he is or why he does what he does, but some information about...

Hurricane Matthew-- a Category 4 storm-- made landfall in western Haiti on Tuesday morning as towns and villages in the country braced for life-threatening winds, rains and a storm surge. The dangerous storm was also dropping heavy rains on other parts of Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest country where many people live in flimsy shacks in areas prone to flooding.

A Moscow court on Monday fined a prominent blogger for inciting hatred after he called on President Vladimir Putin to “wipe Syria off the map.” Russia has conducted a year-long bombing campaign in Syria to bolster long-time ally President Bashar Assad, and is currently supporting a brutal offensive by government troops to capture the rebel-held part of Aleppo. Blogger Anton Nossik, a familiar face at rare opposition rallies, was slapped with a 500,000-ruble fine ($8,000) by a Moscow court for welcoming Russia’s bombing campaign and calling on the Kremlin strongman to destroy Syria in a blog post, court spokeswoman Anastasia...

It had all the trappings of a typical beauty contest: Contestants in evening gowns strutting before the judges, a talent portion, and of course, a sparkly tiara for the winning lady. But the third annual Y+ Beauty pageant held in Kampala, Uganda, this past weekend also had some unusual features. All of the more than 150 competitors were HIV positive — the Y+ stands for "young person living with HIV/AIDS."

PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI - A Washtenaw County township that denied plans for an Islamic school has reached settlements in separate lawsuits filed by the U.S. Justice Department and Council on American-Islamic Relations. The Michigan Islamic Academy and its attorneys at CAIR-MI say the settlement is a victory, while the township continues to deny wrongdoing. The Justice Department filed a Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Person Act (RLUIPA) lawsuit in U.S. District Court in October. It alleges Pittsfield Township placed undue burden on the Michigan Islamic Academy by denying its request to rezone a 26-acre parcel at the Golfside and Ellsworth...