HOW MANY DIVISIONS CAN COMPROMISE FIELD? Navy Chief Pushes for‘Compromise’ to Stop ‘Problematic’ Actions in South China Sea. I bet Compromise will make our enemies quake in their boots.

COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A MORE DESERVING CANDIDATE: Trump uses Saul Alinsky tactics against Alinsky acolyte Clinton.

NY TIMES PUBLISHES ILLEGALLY OBTAINED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT: NY Times received copy of Trump’s 1995 tax returns.

EWWWWWWWWW: Mental Floss Fuel. Massages, red wine, and other secrets from a Bill Clinton intern.  Just wait till he’s the First Lad.  Coming soon to a White House near you.  (If this comes to pass the next president should have the place fumigated.)

YEAH, CLINTON DID HAVE ACCESS TO MORE INTEL THAN TRUMP: Sorry, Trump opposed the Iraq War before Clinton.

COVERUP? IT’S A MATCHING SET OF DUVET AND PILLOWCASES: The FBI’s Hillary email probe is looking even more like a coverup.

FROM WILLIAM LEHMAN: Keeping the Faith.

MONEY WORRIED ON A LIBERAL OBSESSION?  SAY IT AIN’T SO: Schools Learn Expensive Lesson on Class Size.

DON’T WORRY MILENIALS, SHE’LL STILL RESPECT YOU THE MORNING AFTER THE ELECTION: I mean, why would you doubt anything Hillary says? Clinton camp promises she respects young Sanders voters after leaked audio.

YOU COULD KNOCK ME DOWN WITH A FEATHER: Better internet access won’t pull people out of poverty.

LIFE IMITATES THE ONION: Spike in Creepy Clown Sightings, With More Arrests Across U.S.  Also Increased security around some St. Louis-area schools amid creepy clown concerns.  2016, not believable, not even plausible.

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HMM: Cause of Crohn’s disease: Gut fungus now suspected.

GEORGE KORDA WONDERS if the UT Law College is becoming too PC.

INDUSTRY, OLD AND NEW: Michigan May Warm to Google, But Tesla Relationship Is Still Chilly.

I SUPPOSE THIS WAS INEVITABLE: Colorado brewery trying to bring ‘cannabis-infused beer’ to all 50 states.

HOW TO SPEED WITHOUT GETTING A TICKET? Drive A Full-Sized Pickup. “I think there’s also a certain assumption on the part of police that people buy sports cars to speed, which is a sort of pre-planned intentional breaking of the law. Speeding in a work truck? Well, nobody buys a Ram 2500 to speed, do they? Of course not. The driver must be in a hurry to get to the job site. Let him go and wait for the next Boxster or BRZ to come down the pike.”

HILLARY’S TWO GREAT FRAUDS ARE TIED AT THE HIP…AND CANKLES (Bumped.)

OBAMACARE PROBLEMS ARE A CAMPAIGN ISSUE: Small businesses are screaming about reporting requirements as well as rising costs. At the end of this month individual voters will start screaming when they see next year’s premiums. The linked article quotes some “fix it” advocates. OK, “fix it” is an option — of sorts. However, the mess that is ObamaCare is a Democrat mess, so fixing it starts with Democrats “fixing” the bitter partisan divisions they created. Republicans offered legislative fixes when ObamaCare was proposed. Democrats and their media allies harshly ridiculed Republican proposals. Moreover, the ridicule became very personal. Over time, media denied that there were any Republican alternatives. So, if you’re in the “fix it” crowd, demand Democrats take responsibility for the following: (1) the flawed legislation; (2) the “Gruber experts” that lied about the flawed legislation — lied to Congress and the media; (3) the completely pig-headed Democrat political maneuvers that jammed the idiocy through Congress; and (4) the program’s flawed implementation (which continues). Democrats should also apologize, profusely, for the vicious propaganda attacks they and their proxies made on critics of ObamaCare. Turns out the critics cared more about quality medical insurance for the American people than Obama and Congressional Democrats.

HOW MUCH DOES DONALD TRUMP REALLY WANT TO BE PRESIDENT?

MORE TROUBLE IN COLOMBIA? Voters rejected the peace deal but the ceasefire between the government and FARC is holding. This interesting essay examines how drug gangs and guerrilla groups not associated with FARC could take advantage of the ceasefire.

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Blue Origin is likely to blow up its rocket Wednesday.

Blue Origin has launched and landed its New Shepard booster four times, but the reusable rocket party may come to an end Wednesday morning (Note: Poor weather in West Texas forced the company to delay the test for one day). That’s because the company plans an in-flight test of its launch abort system and will intentionally trigger it about 45 seconds after launch at an altitude of 16,000 feet. Such systems are designed to fire quickly and separate the crew capsule from the booster during an emergency.

“The high-acceleration portion of the escape lasts less than two seconds, but by then the capsule will be hundreds of feet away and diverging quickly,” Bezos wrote last month. “It will traverse twice through transonic velocities—the most difficult control region—during the acceleration burn and subsequent deceleration. The capsule will then coast, stabilized by reaction control thrusters, until it starts descending.”

But the booster will likely not be so lucky. The propulsion module, powered by a single BE-3 engine, was not designed to survive an in-flight escape, as it will be slammed with 70,000 pounds of off-axis force and hot exhaust. At Max-Q, it is not clear whether the propulsion module will break apart. If it somehow survives, the booster will likely be placed in a museum. If not, it’s expected to produce some fireworks upon impact with the Texas desert floor.

That promises to be quite a show.

EVERYONE’S SAYING THIS TO THEIR CANDIDATE THIS ELECTION CYCLE: Dear Gary Johnson: Please Stop Fucking Up.

CHRISTIAN ADAMS: YES VIRGINIA, ALIENS ARE REGISTERED OR VOTING… AND IN PENNSYLVANIA, BY THE THOUSANDS.

Adams will be on Fox Business with Lou Dobbs tonight at 7:45 eastern to discuss the story.

SHA NA NA TOVA: Happy New Year from a doo-wop singer who opened for Jimi at Woodstock, then became a biblical scholar.

Related: From 2015, In Memoriam: University of Dayton School of Law Professor Dennis Greene, “who was also a former Columbia Pictures vice president of production and founding member of gold-record selling group, Sha Na Na.”