FASTER, PLEASE: This new immunotherapy technique could prevent all kinds of food allergies.

SAN FRANCISCO BART JANITOR GROSSED $270K IN PAY AND BENEFITS LAST YEAR.

I’m so old, I can remember when Bay Area leftists were obsessed with the concept of “sustainability.”

2016, MAN. Confirmed: Liberal Internet Nerds Who Infest Blogs Have Never Played Sports In Their Life Nor Felt the Warmth of a Woman’s Touch. “My favorite part of the Mediaite KKK facepalm is how the author disappeared his byline in the update.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s how the impending ObamaCare disaster affects you.

Insured through work? The law forces employers to provide a one-size-fits-all benefits package costing much more than pre-ObamaCare coverage. The law also imposes a slew of new taxes. No surprise, employers are offsetting these costs by raising deductibles and reducing family coverage. In 2017, many companies will eliminate insurance for spouses.

Working part-time? Hundreds of thousands of workers have had their hours cut because ObamaCare requires employers to cover full-time employees, meaning those working 30 hours a week or more. Ironically, colleges, where Democrats outnumber Republicans, are major culprits, slashing hours for adjuncts and student workers to evade providing insurance.

Job-hunting? ObamaCare dampens the job market. In New York, 17 percent of service companies and 21 percent of manufacturers are reducing their workforces to stay below 50 full-time workers and dodge the employer mandate, according to the New York Federal Reserve.

Sixty-five or older? ObamaCare awards bonus points to hospitals that spend the least per senior. Researchers found that at 231 hospitals getting bonuses for low spending, seniors died needlessly because of inadequate care. For example, seniors having heart attacks were forced to wait too long for angioplasties and died before they could get the procedure.

More at the link.

JOE PAPPALARDO: The Dallas IRS Office That’s Quietly Determining the Fate of the Clinton Foundation.

Instead of money changing hands, the IRS is looking to see if the Clintons traded money for preferential treatment. The IRS rules lay out what qualifies as inurement:

“Any transaction between an organization and a private individual in which the individual appears to receive a disproportionate share of the benefits of the exchange relative to the charity served presents an inurement issue. Such transactions may include assignments of income, compensation arrangements, sales or exchanges of property, commissions, rental arrangements, gifts with retained interests, and contracts to provide goods or services to the organization.”

Given this language, citing “gifts” and “quid pro quo benefits” in emails is a pretty bad move for anyone involved in a nonprofit group. Another bad move: When senior Clinton advisers like Doug Bland call the intersection of the foundation fundraising and the former president’s personal activities “Bill Clinton Inc.”

Indeed.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Printable Electronics That Self Heal Before Your Eyes.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:

Proof that Hillary got the exact question after it was stolen for her by Donna Brazile. #PodestaEmails27 pic.twitter.com/JAyEGAidqJ

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 3, 2016

How out of it is a candidate who requires a heads-up on a softball “explain to us your wonderful position” question?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: After Indiana Tech, How Many More Law Schools Will Close? 20? 80? Will A Top 25 School Be Among Them?

It’s a long way from Indiana Tech to the Top 25. But on the other hand, some Top 25 schools are running huge deficits. How long will their universities carry them? Even if they don’t close, they may face serious cutbacks.

GOOD LORD: Parents Charged With Injecting Children With ‘Feel Good’ Heroin to Help Them Sleep.

NONSENSE, VOTER FRAUD IS A MYTH: ‘Voter fraud’? California man finds dozens of ballots stacked outside home. “The 83 ballots, each unused, were addressed to different people, all supposedly living in his elderly neighbor’s two-bedroom apartment.”

SPACE: The James Webb Space Telescope Is Complete.

WHAT CLINTONWORLD THINKS ABOUT THE LATEST ABEDIN-WEINER SCANDAL: “If Weiner hadn’t taken pictures of his weiner, we wouldn’t be in this thing.”

More:

Despite her absence on the trail, Clinton is unlikely to abandon Abedin, who separated from Weiner earlier this year after his most recent sexting scandal erupted. “She’s clearly a daughter to Hillary,” the top adviser told me, before continuing, “Don’t trust anyone who tells you they know what’s going on in Huma’s head or about her relationship to the campaign. I have no doubt she is very much pivotal to Hillary and pivotal to the campaign. She is still very close to Hillary, and in in many ways she is a victim, too. You can say she had a lack of judgment, but she’s a victim, too.”

“Bottom line to the whole discussion,” he said, is that the Clinton camp views “Anthony as a very sick, disturbed person, and people are absolutely fed up with the drama and the headache and the sloppiness.”

Long before Abedin hitched her wagon to the Weiner Sexting Machine, the Democrats hitched theirs to the Clinton Scandal Machine.

MAYBE HE’S MAD NOW THAT WIKILEAKS HAS MADE CLEAR THAT THE WHOLE THING WAS RIGGED: Bernie Sanders Abandons Clinton in Final Week.

JILL STEIN: Hillary Clinton Is ‘Queen of Corruption.’

HOW “CONVENIENT.” Sources: 99 percent chance foreign intel agencies breached Clinton server.

The revelation led House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul to describe Clinton’s handling of her email system during her tenure as secretary of state as “treason.”

“She exposed [information] to our enemies,” McCaul said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning. “Our adversaries have this very sensitive information. … In my opinion, quite frankly, it’s treason.”

McCaul, R-Texas, said that FBI Director James Comey told him previously that foreign adversaries likely had gotten into her server. When Comey publicly discussed the Clinton email case back in July, he also said that while there was no evidence hostile actors breached the server, it was “possible” they had gained access.

I’m no “source,” but I’ve been saying the same thing since the middle of 2015.

TENNESSEE SYMPOSIUM: Professional Leadership In Legal Education.

BLOXIT UPDATE FROM MICHAEL WALSH:

The Ruling Class does not take lightly any challenge to its dictatorial authority. As long as peasants can amuse themselves with the trappings of democracy, but don’t do any real damage to the “European Project,” it’s content. But let the unwashed chuck a spanner in the works, then look out.

The same could be said of the Hopenchange Project.

UPDATE: Sorry, forgot the link — fixed!

OBAMACARE’S CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1274: Koskinen Says It Is Time To ‘Move Beyond’ The Scandal And Restore The IRS’s Budget. How can we “move beyond” this scandal when nobody’s been punished?

HECKUVA JOB, BARRY: US Productivity Prints Consecutive YoY Declines For First Time In 23 Years.

ROGER SIMON: Nixon II, the Sequel — It’s Not Just a Movie.

In Hollywood they say if you’re going to make a successful sequel, you have to push things just a little further, take maybe a few more risks, than the original. It doesn’t always work, but when it does, it’s gangbusters (cf. the more violent, yet more sophisticated, The Godfather Part II).

But have no fear, coming soon to a theater near you if (Heaven forbid and it may) Hillary Clinton is elected is Nixon II—the blockbuster of all time. The logline reads: And you thought Watergate was big!

Don’t take my word for it. Take Bob Woodward’s, Mr. Watergate himself, who recently declared: “The Clinton Foundation is corrupt. It’s a scandal.”

Corrupt indeed. It dwarfs Watergate by a stratospheric amount.

But she’s a Democrat, so can it really be boffo?

SCOTT ADAMS THINKS HILLARY’S “WOMAN CARD” STRATEGY WON’T WORK, BECAUSE SHE’S TOO SCARY:

Once the contest became Trump versus Clinton, Trump had the early fear advantage because Clinton was talking about her policies and experiences while Trump was talking about rapists, terrorists, and ISIS drowning people in cages. If that matchup had stayed the same, Trump would have coasted to victory. We saw him briefly pull ahead earlier in the summer.

Then Clinton went “full fear” in her messaging, cleverly framing Trump himself as the biggest risk to humanity. While Trump was scaring the public about crimes and atrocities that might affect some of us, Clinton was talking about Trump’s “temperament” leading to nuclear war, and his “dog whistles” leading to a new American racism. That would affect all of us. You can’t top that kind of fear message. And so we saw Clinton’s poll number zoom ahead of Trump’s later in the summer.

Then came the Wikileaks. And Project Veritas. And the FBI’s latest announcement about the emails on Weiner’s computer. We watched Clinton physically collapse in public. Individually, none of that news was big enough to make a difference. But collectively it framed Clinton as a drinker in dubious health, who hired bullies to start violence at Trump rallies, and runs a Mafia-like shadow-government called The Clinton Foundation, funded in part by companies that benefit from war. Add that to Clinton’s confrontational language about Russia, and suddenly Clinton looks as dangerous as Trump. The fear persuasion was approaching a tie.

Then the Access Hollywood tape dropped. Our brains forgot about fear for awhile and concentrated on the appalling things Trump said and – according to several women – actually did. Voters abandoned Trump and put his poll numbers in a big hole.

But here’s the catch. You might be disgusted by Trump’s interactions with women. You might think he is a terrible role model. You might think it is an insult to the women you know and love to even consider such a person for President of the United States. You might think a dozen different bad things about Trump. But – and here is the important part – you probably are not afraid he will try to kiss you personally, or grab your p*ssy. And given his busy schedule, there is not much chance he will get around to acting inappropriate with anyone you know. Fear-wise, Trump’s interactions with women don’t have much impact on you as an individual. Your brain took a vacation from “Trump has a bad temperament and might destroy the Earth” to “Trump is a p*ssy-grabber.” The new frame is the less scary version of Trump, albeit icky.

Quite by accident, the Access Hollywood tape took the scare off of Trump. It made you think of Trump as an ordinary flawed human and not Hitler planning the Holocaust. . . . Clinton’s new messaging this week is focused on Trump’s views on women. She wants you to think a President Trump would take the country backwards in terms of how men treat women. Her persuaders are doing a good job of piecing together evidence and producing ads. But there is one problem.

It doesn’t scare anyone.

Also, it reminds people of Bill’s worse problems, which she enabled.

QUESTION ASKED: Where Did the Obama Coalition Go?

Democrats always knew the day they faced the voters without Barack Obama at the top of a presidential ticket would be a difficult one. With only a week to go before that day arrives, the problem is just as bad as they feared it might be. Though Hillary Clinton still retains a built-in advantage in the Electoral College, the growing demographic edge among minorities that was the Democratic Party’s ace in the hole in the last two presidential elections may not be as great as they were hoping. Reports detailing a decline in African-American early voter turnout in battleground states is alarming news for the Clinton campaign.

If the trend holds up, the marked downturn in black turnout, especially in North Carolina and Florida, calls into question a lot of assumptions about the presidential race.

I’ve been keeping an eye on Minnesota for the last week, and new numbers out this morning show a tightening race in Michigan, too.

ELI LAKE: The FBI Wants to Make America Great Again.

Comey’s letter to Congress has gotten a lot of attention. But his initial blunder was breaking with precedent and explaining to the public his decision not to recommend prosecution of Clinton for her use of the private e-mail server when she was secretary of state.

“When Comey did his press conference in July, I nearly fell off my chair,” Steven Pomerantz, a retired assistant director for the FBI, told me. “I don’t think the FBI should ever make a prosecution recommendation. I believe Comey was honestly motivated, but I just don’t think process- and procedure-wise it was the right thing to do. And it all got compounded when he testified before Congress.”

Victoria Toensing, a former deputy assistant attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and a Trump supporter, told me much of this goes back to the decision not to impanel a grand jury in either the Clinton Foundation or e-mail investigation. “Comey fumbled the ball in the beginning by not demanding a grand jury,” she said. “And now he’s trying to make it up because he was caught between a rock and a hard place.”

In this case, the rock for Comey is the perception that he is influencing the election by informing Congress about Weiner’s computer. The hard place is his pledge to Republicans in Congress to keep them informed of any developments about Clinton’s e-mails.

Comey appears to have done his best to stay out of the election, but he is in the middle of it now.

Left unsaid? That Attorney General Loretta Lynch forced Comey’s hand. Let’s set the Wayback Machine to July 1:

Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over the federal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director made about whether to bring charges in the case.

Ms. Lynch said she had decided this spring to defer to the recommendations of her staff and the F.B.I. because her status as a political appointee sitting in judgment on a politically charged case would raise questions of a conflict of interest.

So, yes, Comey “broke precedent,” but only after his boss forced him to.

At the end of his column, Lake implies that the FBI may have “rigged” the election against Hillary Clinton. If so, it would seem to be the almost-inevitable result of events set into motion by Bill Clinton and the head of Barack Obama’s Justice Department.