CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors. “The Abedin emails reveal that the longtime Clinton aide apparently served as a conduit between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton while Clinton served as secretary of state. In more than a dozen email exchanges, Abedin provided expedited, direct access to Clinton for donors who had contributed from $25,000 to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. In many instances, Clinton Foundation top executive Doug Band, who worked with the Foundation throughout Hillary Clinton’s tenure at State, coordinated closely with Abedin. In Abedin’s June deposition to Judicial Watch, she conceded that part of her job at the State Department was taking care of ‘Clinton family matters.'”

FASTER, PLEASE. Petition: Send CNN’s Sally Kohn to live in Shariah-based country to teach right-wing a lesson.

Or perhaps even North Korea, which according to breathless CNN reports sounds like an equally swell place to live:

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I Love You, But Our Happiness Doesn’t Fit My Personal Brand’s Narrative Strategy. “My market research shows that nihilism is hot right now. Malcontent millennials tend to share posts significantly more if they contain phrases like ‘I’m dead inside’ or ‘I’m am consumed by despair.’ So, while I do love you and love the life we share together, expressing that joy on social media would undo all the work I’ve put into carefully crafting my personal brand’s ‘voice.’ It’s called strategy for a reason, babe.”

WHY ARE RIO’S FAVELAS SO POOR? Because you can’t get good title to land there. Hernando de Soto scores again.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES:

Shot: How do you handle Donald Trump? Treat him like an 11-year-old girl.

—The London Telegraph, today.

Chaser: Make 7th Graders Great Again! 12-Year-Old Running Trump Campaign Office in Key Colorado County.

—The Jammie Wearing Fools blog today, linking to a story at CBS St. Louis affiliate KMOV’s Website.

Who says the GOP can’t compete for the youth vote these days?

QUESTION ASKED: Joe Biden Will Visit Turkey This Week. Does He Have the Courage to Call Out Autocrat Erdogan?

It is unwise to criticize President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: ‘Veto Gunmageddon’ Wants to Pick Off 7 New California Gun Laws.

Veto Gunmageddon launched separate petition drives against each of the seven laws on Aug. 12. The petitions ask for ballot referendums that would ask voters in November to repeal the laws.

Six of the gun control laws in Bahrami’s sights were signed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) July 1. The seventh was signed July 22. Brown vetoed five others that he felt should be decided by voters.

The new laws that Veto Gunmageddon wants to stop cover assault weapons, ammunition sales and the registration of guns “personally manufactured or assembled,” along with new regulations regarding lost, stolen, or borrowed firearms.

“My goal in signing these bills is to enhance public safety by tightening our existing laws in a responsible and focused manner while protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners,” Gov. Brown wrote in his signing message.

Amanda Wilcox, a lobbyist with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, told the New York Times she especially liked one of the bills. It requires background checks for ammunition purchases.

“It can give us a handle on who has illegal guns in the state, as well as limiting access to ammunition by dangerous people who may have illegal guns,” she said.

Brandon Combs, president of the Firearms Policy Coalition, certainly doesn’t see any of the legislation as being positive.

He described the measures signed by Brown as “constitutionally-illegitimate laws passed by a patently illegitimate government that had the audacity to attack and criminalize millions of its own people in Stalin-esque fashion.”

Read the whole thing.

Absent serious and effective pushback from groups like Veto Gunmageddon, California will soon achieve that Progressive paradise, where everything not compulsory is forbidden.

MEDIA MYTH ALERT: “That myth of the ‘Napalm Girl’ was invoked yesterday in a 900-word profile of [Associated Press photographer, Nick Ut] in the Los Angeles Times. The article referred in its opening paragraph to Kim Phuc, saying she had been ‘scorched by American napalm,’” W. Joseph Campbell writes at his Media Myth Alert blog. “In fact, the aerial napalm attack was carried out by the South Vietnamese Air Force, as news reports at the time made clear.”

Including reports at the LA Times, prior to its fundamental transformation:  “The Los Angeles Times prominently displayed the photograph on its front page of June 9, 1972 (see right), and stated in its caption that the napalm had been ‘dropped accidentally by South Vietnamese planes.’”

But then, as they say in the People’s Republic of Oceania, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

WHEW! How Clinton Reassured Us That She’ll Be a Good President.

But how much reassuring did Matthew Yglesias and the Vox kids really need?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: FBI uncovered tens of thousands more documents in Clinton email probe.

The total — confirmed by the Justice Department — was disclosed by a conservative legal group after the State Department said last week that it would hand over the emails. The number to be released is nearly 50 percent more than the 30,000-plus that Clinton’s lawyers deemed work-related and returned to the department in December 2014.

Lawyers for the State Department and Judicial Watch, the legal group, said in an Aug. 12 court filing that they intended to negotiate a plan for the release, part of a civil public records lawsuit before U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton tweeted Monday morning that the “FBI found almost 15,000 new Clinton documents. When will State release them?”

Maybe these are the long-awaited emails concerning yoga routines and wedding cakes.

In any case, October is always a nice month for surprises.

U.S. POLE VAULTER SAM KENDRICKS STOPS MID-RUN, STANDS AT ATTENTION DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM: ” After several days of stories of the bad boys of the 2016 Olympics, it’s nice to be able to talk about an athlete whose actions you want your kids to emulate.”

WE’RE GOING TO TAKE THINGS AWAY FROM YOU ON BEHALF OF THE COMMON GOOD:

Shot: ‘Like a Furnace’: New Yorkers Sweat It Out as Reports of Hot Subway Cars Rise.

—Headline, the New York Times, yesterday.

Chaser: I don’t need air conditioning, and neither do you.

—Headline, the Washington Post, August 18th.

(Classical reference in headline.)

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1201: Larry Tribe Says ‘IRS Is Engaged In Unconstitutional Discrimination Against Conservative Groups And Must Be Halted’—’Inexcusable Abuse.’

EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Germany to tell people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks.

HOPE: Diverse Millennials Are No Voting Monolith.

Millennials’ disdain for traditional party affiliation means that half describe themselves as independents, according to a 2014 Pew Research report – a near-record level of political disaffiliation. They tend to be liberal on social questions such as gay marriage, abortion and marijuana legalization. Yet they skew slightly conservative on fiscal policy and are more in line with other generations on gun control and foreign affairs.

Trip Nistico, a recent Colorado law school graduate, is a gun rights advocate who visits shooting ranges – but also supports in same-sex marriage. He backed President Barack Obama in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. The 26-year-old is voting for Trump this year.

Still, Trump remains unpopular among millennials and nearly two-thirds of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 believe the Republican nominee is racist, according to GenForward’s poll. Views of Hillary Clinton also were unfavorable, though not to the same extent.

Democrats have been winning big with Millennials on “culture war” issues, but there’s no reason the GOP couldn’t be winning on a message of economic hope and liberty.

NIMBYISM AS A VARIANT OF THE “CURLEY EFFECT:” Study: NIMBYism Makes States More Liberal.

A coalition of left-wing interest groups appears to have killed California Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to cut back on land use regulations so as to allow the state’s housing supply to catch up with surging demand. . . .

Many of the results of this NIMBY victory are predictable: Rents will continue to rise faster than inflation; upper-middle class communities will continue to pull the ladder up for upwardly-mobile young families; and the state’s economy will continue to be artificially suppressed because it is difficult for workers without means to move places where the job market is hot.

But California’s failure to curb its overweening land use regulations might also have another, less obvious, consequence: It could make the state even more homogeneously Democratic than it already is. According to a recent study from Jason Sorens of Dartmouth University (h/t Tyler Cowen), states’ land use regulations don’t just affect their economies; they affect their political complexions as well. In particular, Republicans seem to leave states as they tighten their zoning laws . . . .

Regardless of the precise mechanism, Sorens’ study drives home an important point: Coastal blue state NIMBYs aren’t just exacerbating segregation by income; they are exacerbating segregation by political affiliation as well. These patterns continue in a vicious cycle, and America keeps coming apart.

As Rhett Butler said, there’s as much money to be made in tearing a civilization down as in building one up. Today’s Democrats seem to be putting that to the test.

CONFIDENCE: Clinton campaign not planning to air ads in Virginia, Colorado ahead of Election Day.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign will make their final ad reservations for the fall this week, according to an aide, reserving — in total — $80 millions in ads through Election Day in eight states.

Two states that the Clinton campaign will not air local ads in through September and October: Virginia and Colorado.

With polls showing Clinton up handily over Donald Trump in the two swing states, Clinton’s top aides feel — citing the growth in minority communities and college-educated white voters — confident enough to pull local ads in the two states.

The GOP nominee has won with college-educated white voters in every presidential election going back to 1952.

TRUMP TRIES TO SWAY VIRGINIA, DECLARES CLINTON WAGES ‘WAR ON FARMERS.’

HOUSE OF CARDS: Companies Build Bonds for European Central Bank to Buy.

The European Central Bank’s corporate-bond-buying program has stirred so much action in credit markets that some investment banks and companies are creating new debt especially for the central bank to buy.

In two instances, the ECB has bought bonds directly from European companies through so-called private placements, in which debt is sold to a tight circle of buyers without the formality of a wider auction.

It is a startling example of how banks and companies are quickly adapting to the extremes of monetary policy in what is an already unconventional age. In the past decade, wide-scale purchases of government bonds—a bid to lower the cost of borrowing in the economy and persuade investors to take more risk—have become commonplace. Central banks more recently have moved to negative interest rates, flipping on their head the ancient customs of money lending. Now, they are all but inviting private actors to concoct specific things for them to buy so they can continue pumping money into the financial system.

Something that can’t go on forever, won’t.

IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY. I’m amazed that CNN still hasn’t changed its racist headline equating blacks with felons, though.

DON’T DO STUPID SH*T: Apparent Army Opsec Brief Lists Hillary Clinton, David Petraeus As Examples Of Insider Security Threats.

A leaked Army operational security brief appears to show Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former CIA Director David Petraeus listed as two key examples of potential insider threats.

Admins of the Facebook page “U.S. Army W.T.F! moments” told The Daily Caller News Foundation this is the second time they’ve received a picture of this particular slide in the last six months. They posted the slide to their page Sunday.

Admins said the picture came from a servicemember stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

The brief, marked unclassified, lists servicemembers Nidal Hassan, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and Aaron Alexis as examples of threats.

On the second row, the brief pictures Clinton and Petraeus. The text of “careless or disgruntled employees” echoes FBI Director James Comey’s description, “extremely careless,” of Clinton’s handling of top secret and classified information when she served as Secretary of State.

Ready to be a fully compromised president from day one.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Hillary Clinton As Tribune of the “Working Man.”

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SO IF YOU HATE HILLARY AND TRUMP, WHAT’S THE POINT OF EVAN MCMULLIN? I mean, why not support Gary Johnson & Bill Weld? Yeah, they’re pretty weak tea as Libertarians go, but they’re not crooks and they aren’t tied to Moscow. And Johnson might actually carry Utah, except that McMullin will run strong enough there to make that unlikely.

The only plausible scenario it seems to me is if you think it goes to the House and they can put in McMullin if he’s #3. But how does that look — in an election charged with foreign-intelligence meddling, we wind up with the House installing an ex-CIA guy nobody’s ever hear of in the Presidency?

Or is it all just a scheme to make sure Hillary wins? What am I missing here?