By Thursday, the targets of the mailed pipe bombs had risen to nine: George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Maxine Waters, John Brennan, Eric Holder, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Biden and Robert De Niro.

That list contains four of the highest-ranking officials of Barack Obama's administration: the president himself, his vice president, his secretary of state and his attorney general.

Yet, by Thursday morning, there was heartening news.

Not one of the mailed bombs had reached its target. Not one handler of a mailed bomb had been injured. Not one bomb had exploded.

Several of the bombs were said to be deficient. While they contained elements of pipe bombs, with shards of glass and powder, there was no trigger to ignite an explosion.

Were these devices simply poorly made, or did the bomber intend not to wound or kill, but simply to cause a panic?

As of this writing, we don't know. Moreover there is this oddity: All of the bombs had the same return address—that of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who was ousted as leader of the DNC when hacked DNC emails revealed she had tilted the party machinery to defeat Hillary Clinton's principal rival in the primaries, Bernie Sanders.

See, earlier: The Resistance In The Department Of Justice—Lawyers Who REFUSE To Sue Sanctuary Cities

The New York Times recently published a snippy attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, portraying him as a single-minded zealot pursuing crackpot ideas that were putting the Trump administration "on track to lose in court and prompting high-level departures."

The Times' sources were "current and former career department lawyers." [Justice Dept. Rank-and-File Tell of Discontent Over Sessions’s Approach, by Katie Benner,  October 19, 2018] In other words, Trump-hating Democratic zealots weeks away from their book contracts.

One attorney who left the Department of Justice during its descent into madness under Sessions was Stephen J. Buckingham. (Why not "Astor" or "Carnegie"?)

As at any federal agency, 99 percent of "career" attorneys at DOJ are left-wing. Social activists move effortlessly from the ACLU, the Democratic Socialists of America and the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force to government jobs. Thus, one entry on Buckingham's resume is that he "created a program to amend the immigration status of unaccompanied Sudanese refugee minors."

During Democratic administrations, these selfless career employees sell guns to Mexican drug cartels and run around the country making sure local police forces can't do their jobs. During Republican administrations, they spend their time quietly, relentlessly sabotaging the administration they allegedly serve.

SO HUMBLED by every single Torontonian who put his vote behind The People’s candidate!
To our volunteers: YOUR sacrifice drives me to serve in all that I do.
I love you all!
We had higher energy & worked harder than the others, placing on the podium.
This is the beginning...

— Faith J Goldy (@FaithGoldy) October 23, 2018

“This is the beginning” said Faith Goldy last night after the end of her inspiring run for mayoralty of Toronto, Canada. Goldy finished in third place despite being locked out of the mayoral debates, having media conglomerates refuse to run her advertising, and generally being the subject of an unprecedented smear campaign. [Faith Goldy Finished Third In The Toronto Mayoral Election And Says This Is Just The Beginning, by Alissa Heidman, Narcity, October 23, 2018] Predictably, Main Stream Media outlets have reacted with clickbait articles featuring showy declarations of shock and horror that Goldy did so well, with some people on Twitter even calling for her to be imprisoned. [Toronto reacts to controversial mayoral candidate Faith Goldy coming in third, Daily Hive, October 22, 2018] If what happened to Goldy had happened in Russia, reporters would scoff at calling such elections “free and fair.” Unfortunately, her suppression by massive Establishment opposition is likely the future of patriotic election campaigns in the West.

Goldy was not even allowed to buy political advertising with a major media company. [Major Canadian media company refuses to run Toronto mayoral candidate’s campaign ads, by James Risdon, LifeSiteNews, October 1, 2018] Despite polls showing she was easily in third place, Goldy was not allowed to participate during the mayoral debates last month, leading to a memorable scene when she walked on stage and was manhandled by police during the first one. [Faith Goldy storms the stage at Toronto mayoral debate, gets escorted off by police, Global News, September 24, 2018]

Former President Selfie Stick is back in action, firing up Democrats before the midterms with his signature rallying cries:

I, I, I, I! Me, me, me! My, my, my!

According to a tally by The American Mirror's Kyle Olson, Barack Obama's campaign speech Monday for Nevada Senate Democratic candidate Jacky Rosen referred to himself 92 times in 38 minutes—or an average self-allusion every 24.7 seconds.

When he wasn't "I"-ing, the former narcissist-in-chief was lying.

"Unlike some, I actually try to state facts," Obama snarked passive-aggressively in a swipe at President Donald Trump. "I don't believe in just making stuff up. I think you should actually say to people what's true."

Sit down, Mister "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."

Thanks to you, my husband, children and I lost not one, not two, not three but four private individual market health plans killed directly by Obamacare. Reminder: When the health insurance cancellation notice tsunami hit in 2013, liberal Mother Jones magazine sneered that the phenomenon was "phony." But after 4 million American families received cancellation letters at the end of 2013, Obama's health care prevarication was finally deemed the "Lie of the Year" by left-leaning PolitiFact.

And five years after promising Americans they could "keep their doctor" along with their health plan "no matter what," Obama belatedly 'fessed up that "the average person" would be forced "to have to make some choices, and they might end up having to switch doctors."

Facts, schmacts.