CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Clinton Aide Discussed ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Deal with FBI to Reclassify Emails.

TAX FOUNDATION: Trump’s Estate Tax Plan Would Raise GDP, Incomes By 1%; Clinton’s Would Shrink GDP, Incomes By 1%.

HILLARY LIED: indeed. She’s named after Sir Edmund Hillary and she was shot at by snipers in Bosnia..

THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES AND YOU WON’T GO FAR WRONG: Why do women’s groups treat Bill Clinton and Donald Trump differently?

At least three women – Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey – accused Clinton of unwanted sexual advances. Another five, including White House intern Monica Lewinsky, said they had had consensual affairs with him. Clinton was impeached on charges of lying about the Lewinsky affair before a grand jury and of obstruction of justice, but was acquitted and served his full presidential term.

Women’s groups largely stayed supportive.

“Feminists have, all along, muffled, disguised, excused and denied the worst aspects of the president’s behavior with women,” said a lengthy Vanity Fair article from 1998.

“Feminism sort of died in that period,” New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd told Yahoo recently. “Because the feminists had to come along with Bill Clinton’s retrogressive behavior with women in order to protect the progressive policies for women that Bill Clinton had as president.”

It died, but its reanimated corpse is still useful.

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A DEEPLY WORRISOME LABOR STRIKE IN A STRATEGICALLY VITAL INDUSTRY: Workers strike at two Kentucky distilleries. The reporter employs…spirited language: “The walkout soured what has been an era of smooth relations between management and labor in Kentucky’s whiskey industry, which has ridden a wave of renewed popularity in recent years.” Indeed. Once smooth whiskey relations soured.

For the record, I am pro-bourbon, pro-scotch and pro-rye.

FALLEN WOMEN: Were Victorian Prostitutes Really Fallen?

QUESTION ASKED: Where Is Sidney Blumenthal’s 16th “Missing” Email?

BACK FROM THE ARLINGTON GUITAR SHOW. Here are a couple of quick photos, from the Fuller’s Guitar booth, which is just a small sample of what was on display there. (If you want to stop by tomorrow, the show is still going on through Sunday.) The other photo is of Christian Kidd, one of Fuller’s reps, who I’ve seen at numerous guitar shows in Dallas and Arlington, and finally went up to say hi and compliment him on his staggeringly awesome coiffure.

Also, it was great to meet an Insta-reader who recognized me and said hi. If you’re at all interested in the instrument, these shows are lots of fun. Watch for a much longer write-up at the PJ Lifestyle section soon, with an emphasis on some of the more offbeat instruments for sale there.

MY PAPER ON AMERICAN COUPS IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE TIMELY: “If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it.”

US BUILDS A MILITARY BASE IN THE SAHARA DESERT: Construction has started on a base in Agadez, Niger. Camel caravans from Bilma still occasionally stop in Agadez. The air base has been billed as a “drone base.” Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, “drones”) will operate from the base. But this is more than a drone base. Agadez will support US, host nation and US allies intelligence and logistical operations. The base could support multi-national peacekeeping efforts in the region (think Mali). Key quote from Jim Dunnigan’s detailed analysis of the politics, the security issues and the technology: “Agadez is closer to Chad, southern Libya and Nigeria, where American aerial surveillance is more in demand by the local governments. Agadez will also apparently support armed UAVs as well. The U.S. will continue to supply intelligence obtained by the Niger-based UAVs with Niger and other nations in the area that have intelligence sharing agreements.”

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: One of the physicists behind the Higgs boson has made an algorithm to replace the pill: It’s up to 99.5% effective at stopping pregnancy.

It’s not the first fertility app out there, but Berglund’s app works so well that it’s been shown to help women avoid pregnancy with 99.5 percent reliability – an efficacy that puts it right up there with the pill and condoms.

Best of all, the app doesn’t have any side effects, and just requires women to input their temperature daily to map their fertility throughout the month. . . .

Using a woman’s natural fertility cycle to help her avoid getting pregnant isn’t a new idea – it stems from something called the rhythm method, which is a form of contraceptive that claims to work just by having women avoid unprotected sex on fertile days each month.

In theory, that should work quite well. After all, there’s only a roughly nine-day window during which a woman can get pregnant each month. But the rhythm method is pretty unreliable, seeing as all women have slightly different cycles, and in real life, it only has a success rate of around 75 percent.

But Berglund’s algorithm is different – it uses the same advanced statistical methods she used at CERN, and is based on a woman’s daily temperature rather than simply the day of her cycle.

That’s because after ovulation, women see a spike in progesterone, which makes their bodies up to 0.45 degrees Celsius warmer.

So by entering your temperature in the app daily, and comparing the results with a broader dataset, the app lets you know when you can have unprotected sex (a green day) and when to use contraception, such as condoms (a red day).

There have been two trials so far, and the second one analysed data on more than 4,000 women aged 20 to 35 using the app.

Over the course of one year, there were 143 unplanned pregnancies in the cohort, 10 of which were conceived on green days, giving the app a 99.5 percent reliability rating. (The rest of the unplanned pregnancies were the result of women not using the app properly.)

To put that into perspective, condoms are 98 percent effective, and IUD devices are 99 percent reliable, as is the pill, when taken at the same time every day.

Of course, most birth control is much less reliable in practice than when used perfectly.

OH, GOODY: CDC: Nearly 4,000 cases of Zika in the United States.

2016, MAN: Liberal Student Rejects Science Because it Discriminates Against Witchcraft.

HILLARY GOT PAID $675,000 FOR THESE THREE SPEECHES: Zerohedge discusses juicy excerpts from Hillary’s Goldman Sachs speeches, including a discussion of Wikileaks. The post has links to transcripts of all three speeches.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Russia’s UN ambassador: Tensions with US are probably worst since 1973.

THE SCION FR-S SURVIVES as the Toyota 86. One of the trainers at our gym drives the Scion, and it’s a really attractive little car, especially for the price.

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RED MEAT FROM AN UNEXPECTED SOURCE: Mark Zuckerberg, hunting aficionado?

WILL ISIS SELL OUT THE APOCALYPSE? Background on the looming battle for the Syrian town of Dabiq. More here.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Will Jeff Bezos win the space race? Blue Origin is on schedule to send tourists into orbit in 2018. “Speaking at the ISPCS event, Mr Meyerson also told attendees that the the number of employees at Blue Origin had doubled in the past year – from 400 to 800 – and they were recruiting at a fast pace.”

THE NORMAN CONQUEST IN RETROSPECT: Daniel Hannan says 1066 was a bad year for England.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM AND SEXISM? Is Silicon Valley Discriminating Against Men and Asians?

IN SOVIET AMERICA, COMEDIAN HECKLES YOU! Another Second City Cast Member Quits After Offensive Audiences, blames Trump: “I really think he gave people carte blanche to act and behave hateful,” 33-year-old Peter Kim tells Chicago media.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: The Fear Of Having A Son: “The common wisdom, as research verifies, is that most men want sons. That’s starting to shift. Some men, like me, fear becoming fathers to sons.” I’m not sure these are men, exactly.