His rhetoric, which has included denunciations of those who have served in the military (while he dodged the draft five times with a limp excuse about bone spurs) ought to disgust all but those who are in complete denial of the danger he would pose to the Constitution and the country should he be re-elected president.

Please step aside while time remains. And thanks again.

About 20% of the homeless living on the streets of America suffer with severe mental illness, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. And with psychiatric hospitals no longer an automatic option, they fill the prisons.

I don’t blame the MAGA crowd for being embarrassed by their standard-bearer. But, Democrats can’t afford to get too comfortable about GOP misfortunes. Disarray seldom stays in just one party for long.

On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives missed an opportunity. Big time. It was an opportunity for moderates in both parties to coalesce around what has become an alien notion in the House: Working together for the betterment of the country.

With pictures showing — and border patrol agents confirming — that tens of thousands of migrants are crossing into the U.S. every day without authorization, it is a lie to say the border is secure.

I speculated early last month that the resale inventory picture could turn in the fall. The data that has come in since then give me more confidence in that hunch.

In August, Dollar General lowered its full year net sales and same store sales forecast in part because of an “approximately $100 million of additional shrink headwind.”

America’s land border disaster is costly. Unfortunately, America’s shorelines, territorial waters and offshore Exclusive Economic Zones are also vulnerable to piracy, smuggling, terrorism (to include environmental terrorism) and enemy attack in war.

If a government shutdown occurs on Oct. 1, both parties will share the blame this time. Democrats usually force the issue, but now a few House Republicans are refusing (so far) to agree to appropriations bills unless they get their way on spending cuts.