CROOKED HILLARY: Wikileaks releases an internal campaign document examining “her vulnerabilities.”

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “disregarded ethics guidelines” to raise more than $72 million for the U.S. Pavilion at the World’s Fair in Shanghai in 2010, taking money from big-name contributors who later “received favorable treatment” from her State Department and also contributed to her namesake foundation, according to a 2015 internal Clinton research document revealed Sunday by WikiLeaks.

“Her vulnerabilities” as a candidate will be vulnerabilities if she’s president. Except they’ll become national vulnerabilities.

OBAMACARE VICTIMS REVOLT: From Breitbart.com. The American middle class has been victimized by legislation conceived, passed and implemented by the Democratic Party. ObamaCare did not get a single Republican vote. Now we have a disaster. The chickens have come home to roost is another way of putting it. (bumped)

SPACEX FALCON-9 ROCKET EXPLOSION UPDATE: Solid oxygen may be the culprit. Yes, solid oxygen.

YOUNG COLLEGE-EDUCATED WOMEN WHO ARE VOTING FOR TRUMP SPEAK OUT: Good article from McClatchy’s DC bureau.

…interviews with about two dozen (young women) this weekend revealed a range of reasons as well as resentment that they should be expected to vote one way because of their age and gender. They say the election has celebrated young women and political engagement, but only if “it’s supporting liberal policies and Hillary,” Jackson said. Just because she’s a woman doesn’t mean we have to vote for her. Amanda Rider, 19-year-old student in York, Pa. “The legacy of having a woman president doesn’t need to be Hillary Clinton,” said Amanda Rider, an 19-year-old student from Harrisburg, Pa., interviewed at a Trump rally Friday in Hershey, Pa. “If I’m sexist because I don’t vote for you because you’re a woman, then fine, I’m sexist.”

OBAMACARE IS A MAJOR CAMPAIGN ISSUE: Yes, ObamaCare’s chickens have come home to roost. It’s the subject of my latest NY Observer column in “The War On Honesty” series so this is a bump. Obama needs to be held accountable for his lies, ie, you can keep your doctor and keep your policy. But mainstream media aren’t holding him accountable.

THE 2016 ELECTION MARKS THE DEATH OF ELITISM: I doubt it. America’s elite political class is taking a licking but it remains powerful. Salena Zito, however, thinks the 2016 pounding will prove fatal. Key argument: “…the power of elites to persuade us has evaporated.”

More:

…the governing class has failed us miserably, from wars in the Middle East that never end, to a healthcare bill that erodes our income to the politicization of the once trustworthy institutions of the Pentagon, NASA and the Justice Department.To them, the system is genuinely rigged, and the divide between the Ivy League educated and the state or trade school educated, between the haves and the have-nots, has become so deep that there is no bridge long or sturdy enough to connect them.

AN ATTACK ON RAQQA DEVELOPING?: A US-supported Syrian force claimed it has begun an offensive operation to drive the Islamic State from Raqqa. ISIS calls the Syrian town its capital.

TRUMP HUSTLED OFF THE STAGE BY SECRET SERVICE: Yes, the news of the night, as well it should be. But why be surprised? Project Veritas provided credible evidence that Democrat operative Robert Creamer used terror tactics earlier this year to disrupt Trump rallies. Will the mainstream media now demand that Hillary disavow violence? Will the mainstream media demand she disavow Creamer the terrorist and his accomplice, The Hideous Scott Foval?

(Bumped, by Glenn).

DETHRONE THE HOUSE OF CLINTON: Deroy Murdock with a full broadside tirade.

Sample:

While Clinton apologists call the foundation a font of beneficence, its 2014 IRS filings show that it spent a whopping 5.76 percent of its funds on actual charitable activities — far below the 65 percent that the Better Business Bureau calls kosher. That paltry figure also mocks Hillary’s Las Vegas lie, uttered at the final presidential debate on October 19: “We at the Clinton Foundation spend 90 percent — 90 percent of all the money that is donated on behalf of programs of people around the world and in our own country.” The Clinton Slush Fund . . . uh . . . Foundation seems to be mainly a travel and full-employment program for Hillary’s government in waiting. It’s also a bribe pump that sucks in money and spews out favors.

MORE ON MOSUL: An AP report. Islamic State fighters are conducting local counter-attacks and using “human shields” (hostages) to stall or stop Iraqi Army probes and advances.

…Iraqi Cpt. Naqib Jaff, who was covered in dust after helping to hold positions east of Mosul overnight, said the air support “hasn’t been enough” and that the coalition was only striking suicide car bombs. He said that in previous operations against IS-held towns and cities, civilians would be moved away from the front lines, allowing forces to advance. But he said in Mosul, his men have been ordered to keep families inside their homes. “We’ve never been in such a situation before. We would be fighting and there would be a family right next to us,” he said.

SUPREME COURT AND FEDERAL COURT VOTING RIGHTS DECISIONS UPDATE: Saturday reverses Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday restored a Republican-supported Arizona law that makes it a crime for get-out-the-vote operatives to collect and deliver absentee ballots filled out by voters.

The court’s action was one of two notable election law matters Saturday in which the GOP prevailed. A federal judge in New Jersey, ruling on a complaint brought by the Democratic National Committee, declined to find that the Republican National Committee had violated a longstanding legal settlement barring it from engaging in certain poll monitoring and ballot security activities.

As for the link: I went through a search engine and did not encounter a paywall. That noted, last time I used a search engine to access a Journal article for a blog post, a few readers reported they hit the wall anyway. If you can reach the article, read the whole thing.

BARRICADED STREETS IN MOSUL: Via the BBC. The photos show some of the Islamic State’s defensive preparations — barricades, cleared fields of fire.

VOICE OF AMERICA’S NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT JIM MALONE: Mr. Malone says character is a “center stage” 2016 campaign issue. Well, yes. Malone employs a “trust versus temperament” frame. OK, but trust is a pulled punch. A frame I used in a recent essay, “her crimes, his words” doesn’t pull the punch.

GANGSTA RAP MEETS GANGSTER GOVERNMENT: Trump is having a field day with Jay Z’s obscenities. Rapper “Jay Z repeatedly used the n-word and dropped f-bombs while rapping for a get out the vote effort Friday night in Ohio.”

Yup, helping Hillary get out the vote. Hillary was there. (Note the linked NBC report does not mention Jay Z’s language.)

Today, Trump told a campaign crowd in Florida:

…then Hillary said, ‘I did not like Donald Trump’s lewd language.’ My lewd language! I’ll tell you what: I’ve never said what he (Jay Z) said in my life! But that shows you the phoniness of politicians and the phoniness of the whole system, folks.”

Where’s the media outrage? Oh, there isn’t any. What Trump said in 2005 was indefensibly foul, but he thought he was having a private conversation with Billy Bush, then of Access Hollywood. Jay Z’s gangsta rap at Hillary’s campaign rally gave Trump an opportunity to slam both Hillary’s and the mainstream media’s hypocrisy. Gangsta meets gangster.

IN 2011 LAWYERS WARNED CLINTONS THAT THE CLINTON FOUNDATION WAS “MORE LIKE A POLITICAL OPERATION” THAN PHILANTHROPY:

A third-party review of the Clinton Foundation found the charity operated “more like a political operation” than a philanthropy in Nov. 2011 — just a few months before the end of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.

The revelation was included in a “confidential” memo prepared by Kumiki Gibson, then a lawyer at Williams & Connolly, the firm that has represented Clinton throughout her email controversy. That memo was published Saturday by WikiLeaks, along with hundreds of other emails taken from the inbox of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

“The Foundation (as opposed to its initiatives, which I have not reviewed) operates more like a political operation focused on immediate situations, tasks, and events, as opposed to a professional, strategic, and sustainable corporation committed to advancing its overall mission,” the review stated.

ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION: Scientists pinpoint when a woman’s sex drive declines.

Except: “It’s worth noting that the study relies on self-reporting…”

SOUTH KOREA: Pressure to resign increases on President Park Geun-hye. Demonstrators use a couple of phrases Americans might need in a Hillary Administration: “Step down, criminal,” and “Treason by a secret government.”

Park’s close friend, Choi Soon-sil, and two former Park aides allegedly “pressured businesses into giving $70 million to two foundations Choi controlled.”

Shades of a Clinton Foundation shakedown?

Mishandling of classified information is another allegation:

There are also allegations that Choi, despite having no government job, regularly received classified information and meddled in various state affairs, including the appointment of ministers and policy decisions.

South Koreans are rejecting gangster government.

AS THE CAMPAIGN ENDS: Hillary’s spewing last-minute promises, left and left and did I say left.

I’m waiting for the mainstream media to confess she has public and private positions.

…I know. I’ll be waiting to 3037, when the Chicago Cubs beat Alpha Centauri Bb in the All Habitable Worlds Series…

GUAM’S MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM: Check out the video.

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IF HILLARY IS ELECTED?

Donald Trump on the campaign trail:

If Clinton wins the election, Trump told his supporters at a rally near the Massachusetts border, “it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. What a mess.” Referring to the continuing investigation of emails to and from Clinton during her time as secretary of state, Trump asserted, “She’s likely to be under investigation for a long trial, concluding in a criminal trial. … America deserves a government that can go to work on Day 1.”

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: My latest NY Observer column, ObamaCare’s Chickens Come Home to Roost.

HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION 60 YEARS ON: RealClearHistory has posted several good articles on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Here’s a 2016 essay examining contemporary news coverage of the revolt. In 2006 The Guardian essayed the rebellion’s bitter legacy. Still a good read. Last week my Creators Syndicate column was a retrospective on the revolt.

KNOWN LIAR BRIAN WILLIAMS COMPLAINS THAT MARK HALPERIN GAVE DONALD TRUMP FAVORABLE COVERAGE: No, that’s not the headline. But it is accurate.

AN AMERICAN VOLUNTEER SERVING WITH THE KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ: He’s David Shumock, a 62-year-old Floridian who served with USAF pararescue. That’s an elite group. The article says he participates in combat patrols and also serves as a medic. The video interview with Shumock is informative.

BIG MONEY IN ASTEROIDS: Asteroid mining, that is.

The reality is that the Earth’s crust is saddled with uneconomic materials, while certain types of asteroids are almost pure metal. X-type asteroids, for example, are thought to be the remnants of large asteroids that were pulverized in collisions in which their dense, metallic cores got separated from the mantle. There is one such X-type asteroid near earth that is believed to hold more platinum than ever mined in human history. Asteroid mining companies such as Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries are the first-movers in the sector, and they’ve already started to identify prospective targets to boldly mine where no man has mined before.