NO. NEXT QUESTION? The Hill: Could A President Hillary Heal A Divided Nation? “The former secretary of State has been a polarizing figure for decades. She is the most unpopular nominee of modern times, with the sole exception of her Republican counterpart, Donald Trump. To many conservatives, she represents everything that is wrong with liberal politics. . . . If Clinton wins, said former Republican Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.), ‘for the first time in our history, we will have a president who more than half the people don’t trust and don’t like. That means that, rather than having the historic honeymoon period — being given the benefit of the doubt for a time — she won’t have that, unless she creates it.'”

I hope I’m wrong, but I suspect that a Hillary presidency will be a case of having learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD: UK could slash corporation tax to 10 percent if EU blocks Brexit trade deal.

“People say we have not got any cards,” the newspaper quoted an unidentified source familiar with the British government’s thinking as saying.

“We have some quite good cards we can play if they start getting difficult with us. If they’re saying no passporting and high trade tariffs we can cut corporation tax to 10 percent,” the newspaper quoted an anonymous source as saying,” the source was quoted as saying.

Cutting corporation tax could attract companies away from the EU to Britain, boosting its economy and challenging Ireland’s preeminence as Europe’s low tax home for large international companies.

Just think of Brexit as a contested divorce between a rich old couple with no prenup.

HUMAN SACRIFICE, DOGS AND CATS LIVING TOGETHER, MASS HYSTERIA: “Who would have thought that you’d find something sensible—extremely sensible—about the environment in Cosmo.”

Related: Claudia Rosett on The UN Commissars of Climate Change.

OUR ALLIES THE TURKS: Turkey Is Bombing Anti-ISIS Fighters in Iraq, Syria.

On Wednesday, Turkey launched one of its biggest airstrikes in decades — bombing 18 positions in northern Syria and killing an estimated 200 fighters.

But the strikes north of Aleppo didn’t involve President Bashar al-Assad’s army, or any of the main groups fighting his government like the Free Syrian Army, the Jihadi militia Jabhat Fatah al Sham, or even ISIS.

Instead, Turkey bombed People’s Protection Units, or YPG — Kurdish militia the U.S. considers the most effective force against ISIS in Syria.

Turkey has sent 2,000 troops into Iraq, where they are watching the massive military operation aimed at recapturing Mosul from the extremists. Baghdad maintains Turkey has violated its sovereignty and on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for an ex-Mosul governor who allegedly “invited” in the troops.

These latest in a series of military moves reveal how the government of President Tayyip Erdogan is reasserting its historic territorial claims while also trying to crush the country’s mortal enemies — Kurdish separatists.

If Erdogan’s aim was to occupy the Syrian- and Iraqi-owned Kurdish territories in order to permanently solve “the Kurdish problem,” what would he be doing any differently?

ANN ALTHOUSE: Robby Mook’s sleight of hand about the Democratic operatives who manufactured violence at Trump rallies. “That doesn’t get the DNC off the hook. Why were these people hired? They did something, and then they were hired. Were they hired because they’d shown what kind of dirty tricks they were capable of?”

Of course they were. The Democrats send people to manufacture violence at Trump rallies, then their operative-with-bylines friends in the media cluck their tongues at how Trump is “manufacturing violence.”

Plus: “Mook sounds so guilty there. He’s mad that any video exists (because it hurts his candidate), and he’s also telling us not to make any inferences about anything that isn’t proved by video. Again, I’m thinking: They did something bad before they were agents of the DNC, so why did the DNC hire them and what did they do?”

Well, he sounds guilty because he is guilty. And he’s angry that the video means that even his allies in the press have to take some notice.

IT DOES SEEM THAT WAY: It’s Time to Rename NSA the National INsecurity Agency.

This debacle is another public black eye for the Agency when it really didn’t need one. In the aftermath of Snowden’s appearance in Moscow, NSA and the whole Intelligence Community swore to fix mistakes and finally get serious about security. The “insider threat” problem was going to be addressed, at last. “This time it’s different,” Agency higher-ups told Congress, asking for a chance to repair a broken counterintelligence system that keeps giving us traitors, defectors, and uncaught moles.

Except they didn’t mean it. Congress was skeptical of NSA promises, and the Martin disaster shows they were right to be. How anybody stole 500 million documents from the Agency across two decades without getting caught needs to be answered—in detail and, for once, with total honesty.

At this point, I expect neither.

THE INTERNET OF POLITICAL THINGS: Amazon Echo now fact-checks politicians.

Duke Reporters’ Lab has introduced an Amazon Echo skill that lets you fact-check any politician scrutinized by PolitFact, FactCheck.org or the Washington Post. If you want to know if Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is telling it straight, you just have to ask your wireless speaker whether or not a claim is true.

It’s not perfect. You have to sit through a lengthy introductory spiel before you can ask your question, and Duke stresses that you should mention major keywords to get the right answer. Still, there’s a certain pleasure to knowing that you can call a would-be leader’s bluff while you’re busy making dinner.

RELATED? Could Facebook’s Algorithm Tip an Election?

THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG: A New Climategate Scandal?

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO WITH VIDEO STRAIGHT OUT OF 1984: Clinton lectured State Dept. staff on cybersecurity in 2010 video.  Now I’m going to have nightmares.

REMEMBER, REMEMBER, IT’S NOT ALL THIS NOVEMBER:  In 2018 Dems Will Be Defending 24 Senate Seats (5 In Red States, 6 More In Purple States), The GOP Will Defend 10. Sorry, Democrats: The GOP isn’t dead yet.

WHAT A REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT: Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife.

OURS WILL PROBABLY NOT IMPRESS FUTURE GENERATIONS, EITHER: The beauty routine of a Victorian woman was anything but glamorous.

WHAT AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE: You don’t suppose she also has some swamp land in Florida she’d sell at a low, low price? Porn star launched sex shop one day before Trump allegations.

DEVIATIONISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED: Tim Burton is Right About Hollywood Media Bias.

CHILDREN’S CHORES NEED DEFENDING? In Defense of Chores.  Though to be fair, I raised my sons according to my principles.  I neither believed they should get paid for nothing, nor did I believe they should do chores without pay.  So instead of an allowance we had a table of prices.  Cheap, because they were unskilled labor (very.) And if one of them had a fat bank account by 10 and the other didn’t, well, that was none of my business.  The lesson seems to have gone home for both of them.  They work hard for what they want.