Big Brother government is testing you. President Obama has signed an executive order authorizing federal agencies to conduct behavioral experiments on citizens as a means of advancing administration initiatives.

How does the U.S. Supreme Court differ from Congress? Justice Stephen Breyer told Stephen Colbert: "Of course, we disagree. (But) I have never heard a voice raised in anger. I have never heard one member of our court say something insulting about another. "

The National Press Club in Washington offered this menu of cocktails named to match the contestants in the second Republican debate: The Rubio (Cuba Libre), The Cruz (Canadian Club), The Christie (Boilermaker), The Trump (Corona) and The Carly (Cosmopolitan).

Did Miss South Carolina blow a chance to become Miss America by her answer to a question about a ban on assault weapons? Daja Dial responded: "If we teach people the proper way to use guns, then we will reduce the risk on having gun related accidents."

In Virginia there were guns in evidence at an anti-gun rally attended by Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Te governor, who recently called for more gun control laws, showed up with his armed security detail protecting him.

President Obama's newest adviser is none other than Donald Trump. The Republican frontrunner offered the Democratic president this unsolicited advice: " ...you can make deals on a golf course... He should play with people who can help the country."

Hillary Clinton is about to tie Donald Trump in the polls. She's at 37 percent in a CNN survey while Trump has surged to 32 percent.

Carly Fiorina made it into the main event for the second Republican debate and she might have Donald Trump to thank for it. His sexist insults about her looks and her ability to be president have given her a lot of exposure on the national stage.

"You know why he hasn't read the Bible? Because he's not in it." - Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., jabbing his Republican presidential rival Donald Trump, calling him a "narcissist" and an "egomaniac."

The do-gooders (and a couple of Republican presidential candidates) who favor helping Europe deal with its migrant crisis seem to forget the U.S. already has an immigration crisis on its hands.

A top master of spin, David Axelrod, is hard pressed to name Hillary Clinton's positive attributes in her race for president. Defending her descending favorability ratings, he said, "her numbers were artificially high to start with."

"I always felt that I was in the military at military school." - Donald Trump, who, with deferments, never served in the armed forces. Trump a virtual GI?

Who would have thought a year ago that an avowed Socialist would be leading in the early polls as the top choice for the Democratic nominee for president? Bernie Sanders is nine points ahead of Hillary Clinton, the former presumed shoo-in, in the key state of New Hampshire.
 
Cold Hard Facts
On this Labor Day, a record number of Americans -- 94,031,000 -- were not in the labor force. That figure for August was up 261,000 more than July. And for the third straight month, the labor force participation rate stayed stuck at 62.6 percent, a 38-year low. Under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, the labor force participation rate for women has declined to 58.2 percent and the unemployment rate is higher than white workers for blacks (9.5 percent) and Hispanics (6.6 percent).

One excuse Hillary Clinton and her campaign staffers use to defend her use of a personal computer and server for emails about sensitive national security matters is that all her successors had done it, too. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell put the lie to that in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press. He said he had two machines on his desk: a secure State Department computer for classified material and a laptop for emails.

Hillary Clinton has revealed a new political wrinkle (as opposed to a skin wrinkle) in her run for president: to thank her supporters she's going to send them a "mystery box." But who wants a box of shredded top secret messages?

There he goes again. Rick Perry, whose 2012 bid for president was doomed when he fumbled a debate question about which federal department he would eliminate, dropped this pearl of wisdom in a TV appearance: "You know, a broken clock is right once a day." Perry had been asked about Donald Trump's hint that the former Texas governor was getting out of the 2016 presidential race.

Critics of President Obama's crusade against global warming have suggested he put his policies where the sun doesn't shine. That he did, when he went to the frozen north and promoted solar energy in an Alaskan town that gets less than six hours of sunlight on winter days.

Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin drew a stout defender against attacks by Donald Trump, who burrowed into the former secretary of state's email practices. Trump suggested Abedin might have shared state secrets with her husband, then a congressman. But former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was tarred by an Internet sexting scandal, is not exactly her best character witness.

Despite the disgusting scenes of bargaining over sale of tissue from aborted fetuses, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says they don't persuade enough members of Congress to stand up to President Obama and cut off federal funds going to Planned Parenthood. "That awaits a new president," he said.

How Your Taxes Are Spent
Acording to Independent Institute, a liberal think tank, a federal patent examiner did no work for 18 weeks while getting paid his full salary. Also, a senior policy adviser for the Environmental Protection Agency told his bosses he worked for the CIA and did no work for two and a half years.