EPIC FACEPALM: NPR Reporter Has No Idea What ‘Come And Take It’ Means.

RESET: Russia’s Putin suspends plutonium cleanup accord with U.S. because of ‘unfriendly’ acts.

A Kremlin spokesman said Putin had signed a decree suspending the 2010 agreement under which each side committed to destroy tonnes of weapons-grade material because Washington had not been implementing it and because of current tensions in relations.

The two former Cold War adversaries are at loggerheads over a raft of issues including Ukraine, where Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and supports pro-Moscow separatists, and the conflict in Syria.

The deal, signed in 2000 but which did not come into force until 2010, was being suspended due to “the emergence of a threat to strategic stability and as a result of unfriendly actions by the United States of America towards the Russian Federation”, the preamble to the decree said.

It also said that Washington had failed “to ensure the implementation of its obligations to utilize surplus weapons-grade plutonium”.

The 2010 agreement, signed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called on each side to dispose of 34 tonnes of plutonium by burning in nuclear reactors.

Clinton doesn’t have much good to show for her four years as SecState.

JAMES LILEKS ASKS QUESTIONS: “A charming commercial. Who wants to be that woman? Who wants to be that man? Who feels anything but pity and contempt?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK8BlXIMn3w

And don’t miss James’ take on New York magazine tut-tutting the imaginary “privilege” of men’s cargo shorts!  (Don a pair and watch Lawrence of Arabia on Blu-Ray to really vex ‘em.)

UPDATE: The Anchoress on “Madison Avenue’s Vision of Love.”

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE TO THIS MORNING’S OBAMACARE ITEM:

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— neontaster (@neontaster) October 3, 2016

Was that marker a red line, by any chance?

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1243.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Trump has a winning message but he’s failing to deliver.

Related: If candidate Trump can’t be managed, what makes you think President Trump could be?

Flashback: How Hillary Clinton plans to ‘get under Donald Trump’s skin’ in Monday night’s presidential debate.

Mission accomplished.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “It’s not possible to satirize the reign of political correctness on campus. Today’s satire is tomorrow’s diktat. John Leo takes note of the latest dispatch from the education apocalypse at Princeton and mischievously gets in the spirit.”

Read the whole thing.

WASHINGTON POST: Inside Clinton’s struggle to win over college students in Ohio. “Tyler Hoisington, 24, is one of four full-time, paid staffers focused on registering new voters on the campus of this battleground state’s flagship university, which has 65,000 students. Over more than two hours yesterday, he knocked on every door on both sides of four city blocks, including a few multi-level apartment buildings. Despite his best efforts, he could not get a single person to either register to vote or sign a card committing to support the Democratic nominee for president. It was a stark illustration of apathy and ambivalence five weeks before Election Day. Millennial voters, who were so instrumental in Barack Obama’s victories, are lukewarm at best about Clinton, even four months after she vanquished Bernie Sanders.”

I guess this is what Hillary’s remark about Sanders voters living in their parents’ basements was about.

NEW YORK TIMES: Ailing Obama Health Care Act May Have to Change to Survive.

“May?”

And what are they pitching to save ObamaCare from its inherent contradictions?

“More government, not less,” in the form of single payer, naturally.

P.C. PUSHBACK: University of California President Janet Napolitano: It’s Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom from Speech.

As president of the University of California system, I write to show how far we have moved from freedom of speech on campuses to freedom from speech. If it hurts, if it’s controversial, if it articulates an extreme point of view, then speech has become the new bête noire of the academy. Speakers are disinvited, faculty are vilified, and administrators like me are constantly asked to intervene.

The goal of our university education today should be to prepare students who are thoughtful, well-informed, and resilient. The world needs more critical, creative thinkers, and American higher education does a better job of producing them than any other higher education system in the world. We seek to make the world a better place for the next generation, and teaching the values and responsibilities of free speech is inextricably linked with this goal.

Yes. Plus: “Napolitano’s acknowledgment that American universities are facing a crisis of free speech, and her sharp criticism of illiberal activism, is an important step forward for the movement to save universities from the forces of censorship and intolerance. Let’s hope that a critical mass of students and faculty will back her up.”

ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER.

Shot: LeBron James Endorses Hillary Clinton, Message of ‘Hope and Unity That We Need.’

—The increasingly politicized IMDB*, yesterday.

Chaser: Hillary Clinton Knocks Bernie Sanders’ Young Supporters for ‘Living in Their Parents’ Basement.’

—Heat Street, yesterday.

Hangover: Hillary’s campaign “has canceled joint appearances with former primary opponent Bernie Sanders after he admitted that ‘of course’ it bothered him that Clinton seemed to be talking down to his supporters in hacked audio from a fundraiser.”

—The Washington Examiner, yesterday.

Earlier: The White Working Class — Hillary Clinton’s ‘Deplorables,’ Obama’s ‘Clingers.’

—Victor Davis Hanson, September 26.

* Which is currently living out the Libertarian Party’s ad from the Occupy Wall Street days. Don’t say we didn’t warn you, fellas.

BUT OF COURSE: Obama Admin Strikes ‘Jerusalem’ From Israel.

The Obama administration stripped Jerusalem from being located in Israel in its official communication of the president’s remarks in the ancient city at a memorial service for recently deceased former Israeli president Shimon Peres.

The White House, in a press release, originally sent out a press release attributing Obama’s remarks as taking place in “Jerusalem, Israel.”

Shortly after that statement was sent, the White House reissued the statement with “Israel” crossed out as the location.

Is it January 20, 2017 yet?

ROGER SIMON: From 1987 to Trump, The New York Times Warns of ‘Hack Writers.’

Read the whole thing—the ending is a hoot.

FLASHBACK: AP: You Know Bill Clinton Has A Shell Company That Was Never Disclosed, Right?

CLAIM: ‘Russian planes’ destroy Syria’s Cave Hospital.

GOOD GRIEF: Tennessee’s Cosmetology Board Thinks It Can Regulate a Software Company: Project Belle connects customers with licensed cosmetologists. Competitors have asked state regulators to shut it down. Tennessee has new legislation that’s supposed to limit the reach of these licensing boards. But this makes clear what everyone knew: That they’re about protecting businesses, not customers.

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THE NY TIMES’ TRANSPARENT (AND HYPOCRITICAL) OCTOBER SURPRISE OF TRUMP’S TAX RETURNS.

As Twitchy adds, the Gray Lady “goes full Harry Reid, reports that Donald Trump could have avoided paying tax for 18 years.”

The Trump campaign responds that the Times illegally obtained those tax records. Does the Gray Lady have more Trump tax documents waiting to drop this month? A coy “no comment” is the response from Timeswoman Susanne Craig, Allahpundit notes.

Related: The New York Times Paid No Taxes in 2014.

More: General Electric’s American tax bill? “None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion,” the New York Times reported on GE’s 2010 operating year, back when what the Times described as “the nation’s largest corporation” still owned NBC, CNBC and MSNBC, which are sure to be collectively blasting out the news of Trump’s tax returns 24/7.

NON-LEGAL STRATEGIES: Under Intense Pressure to Silence Wikileaks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Proposed Drone Strike on Julian Assange.

“Can’t we just drone this guy?” Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike, according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, “walking around” freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United States. Clinton was upset about Assange’s previous 2010 records releases, divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan in July and the war in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources said. At that time in 2010, Assange was relatively free and not living cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador in London. Prior to 2010, Assange focused Wikileaks’ efforts on countries outside the United States but now under Clinton and Obama, Assange was hammering America with an unparalleled third sweeping Wikileaks document dump in five months. Clinton was fuming, sources said, as each State Department cable dispatched during the Obama administration was signed by her.

Clinton and other top administration officials knew the compromising materials warehoused in the CableGate stash would provide critics and foreign enemies with a treasure trove of counterintelligence. Bureaucratic fears about the CableGate release ultimately proved to be well founded by Clinton, her inner circle and her boss in the White House.

“Non-legal strategies” was brought up in a 2010 email from State Department Director of Policy Planning Anne-Marie Slaughter, addressed to then Secretary of State Clinton, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jacob Sullivan. Presumably it was sent to Clinton’s private and unsecured email address, and in the hands of foreign intelligence almost immediately.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “THE MEDIA IS COLLECTIVELY DECIDING TO GIVE UP ON AN OBJECTIVITY THAT IT NEVER HAD.”

Walter Cronkite could not be reached for comment, but he definitely concurs.

JED BABBIN: Obama’s Blinkered Generals.

Earlier versions of the NMS have followed the guidance set in Obama’s National Security Strategy and the National Counterterrorism Strategy by avoiding mention of Islamic ideology in an effort to avoid the responsibility of having to plan to defeat it. The 2016 version evidently won’t be any better. It will, for example, use the bowdlerized term “violent extremist organizations” instead of “Islamic terrorist networks.”

(This is more than a semantic exercise. The Department of Homeland Security has defined Violent Extremist as “an individual who supports or commits ideologically-motivated violence to further political goals,” thereby including right wing extremists having no connection to Islamic terrorism.)

Since 9/11 we haven’t defeated any of the terrorist networks in part because we haven’t even attempted to defeat their ideology. President Obama, in July 2009, said that he is uncomfortable using the word “victory” to describe the United States’ goal in Afghanistan. He said the U.S. fight there is against terrorism and not a nation.

Read the whole thing.

I’d add that there doesn’t seem to be much threat of a “victory” in Afghanistan, and that there never was. The war there has been largely a distraction since about mid-2002, and an increasingly expensive distraction since about January, 2009.

I’d also add that Obama has doubled down on Bush’s failures (as described above by Babbin), and purposely squandered Bush’s successes. That’s one hell of “a mess” Obama’s successor will inherit in January.

UNITY: Clinton cancels joint events with Sanders.

IN DEFENSE OF PROFITS — WHY THEY ARE AT LEAST AS MORAL AS WAGES:

Ranger:  I think it’s wrong that you make a profit on public lands

Me:  So you work for free?

Ranger:  Huh?

Me:  If you think it’s wrong to make money on public lands, I assume you must volunteer, else you too would be making money on public lands

Ranger:  No, of course I get paid.

Me:  Well, I know what I make for profit in your District, and I have a good guess what your salary probably is, and I can assure you that you make at least twice as much as me on these public lands.

Ranger:  But that is totally different.

Me:  How?

Read the whole thing.

(Via SDA.)

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: More On Katherine Magbanua’s Arrest In Dan Markel’s Murder.