Burst, Burst, Burst (Volume Kaboom, Number Blam)

• Some good news in the universe:  Via Washington Monthly, "Ohio 'Voter Purge' Policy Has Been Ruled Illegal."  (Cleveland Scene)  
• Don't ignore the disabled.  (There may be disabled libertarians, but I'd bet not many.)
• Monday's debate is not reality TV.  (Spocko's Brain)

  In the distant past, the metric for success by the journalist moderator were good questions that let people see the knowledge, competence and character of the candidates so voters can decide. I think the last time we saw that was when the League of Women Voters were in charge. If we have a moderator who sees the job like that, then Hillary will nail the debate with knowledge and competence.
  
  If that is how Holt approaches the debate, Trump will try to move to be light and funny. He’ll kick the policy details down the road. If Holt then doesn’t ask for more detail or accepts vagaries, Trump wins because Holt has let Trump set the rules.
  
  Hillary understands Debate Theater, she knows how to play the zinger game. Zingers actually can be very powerful. I hope someone is writing some new ones for her. She’s come up with a few good ones in the past. “A man who can be baited by a tweet” and “Delete your account.”
  
  Here’s the deal, we need the media that shows up to hold each candidate to the same, “Millions of lives are in the balance” standard.

  [Emphasis in original.]
  
• Mark Evanier lists some possible rationalizations for Trump's embrace of untruth. Links to New York Times article detailing a week's worth of false or misleading statements. Even the NYTimes called them "whoppers."
• Riotogenesis, long term.  (Comrade Misfit for the win.)
• I should stop now while I'm ahead.
• Jurassicpork on the photographic evidence (death of Keith L. Scott).  The Charlotte police have made the dash cam video public, but there are still questions.
• Zandar:

  This is a major, major story folks, and it far outweighs any silly conspiracy stories about Clinton's pneumonia or a simple email server. This is international pay-for-play, Trump style.

• Rolling Stone:

  Donald Trump, who had three times as many statements fact-checked by PolitiFact, fared only slightly better than Carson: 76 percent of his remarks were rated either mostly or completely false. A whopping 16 Trump statements (22 percent) were called "pants on fire." And, like Carson, not a single one of Trump's assertions was judged to be true.

  (Article is from December 2015, and includes people no longer in the race.)
• Joe Altschule, Visalia Times-Delta:

  Lying is the Trump default position. He lies whenever it suits him. Politico reviewed hours of his speeches and concluded that he actually lied every five minutes.