LOAD OF MANURE DUMPED AT DEMOCRAT OHIO HQ: Second time it’s happened. This time a camera caught the perp in the act. Good. Arrest him/her and prosecute him/her. And speaking of cameras, James O’Keefe caught a violent political thug on camera, too. The arrogant thug, thinking himself immune from media and law enforcement scrutiny, admitted to his crookedness. Heck, he was proud of it. See, he was damaging Republicans. Hah hah hah. It appears the Ohio manure crime is an in-state crime. O’Keefe’s videos indicate the big time Dem thug’s crimes were inter-state. The inter-state political thug is Democrat operative Robert Creamer. Creamer should also be investigated, arrested and prosecuted. By the FBI.

WEINER COOPERATING WITH FBI: A Bret Baier tweet broke the story. Is Weiner using the emails to cop a plea? Seems logical. More here. Baier has two sources. According to the article, Weiner’s cooperation explains why the FBI didn’t need a warrant to access the computer.

FLOOD MYTHS, RISING SEAS, LOST CONTINENTS AND DROWNED WORLDS: A fun Sunday read, interweaving deluge myths, fantasy and science fiction with archeology. “In 1954, the American science fiction writer L Sprague de Camp said that the number of novels and stories about lost continents was ‘beyond count’.” Yup. But Doggerland did exist. So did Sundaland and Beringia. (The areas still exist, underwater. But they once had human inhabitants.)

SOCIAL SECURITY’S COMPLEX TRADE-OFFS: From CNBC — a short report on Social Security’s funding problems — its serious funding problems. The article mentions a couple of ways the “long term shortfall” might be solved. It also addresses how the annual cost of living adjustment is determined.

THIS IS A VERY BAD SIGN: The State Dept has decided that the threat of terror attack on US citizens is so high that it must withdraw the families of staff working at the consulate in Istanbul. Istanbul is a tourist destination. Or it was.

I’LL BET SHE DIDN’T: Attorney General Loretta Lynch didn’t want FBI Director Comey to announce he was reopening the Hillary classified info investigation. We don’t yet know what information was found in the emails discovered on the Abedin-Weiner devices. Everyone suspects the new evidence has to be very significant for Comey to do a one-eighty. As I wrote yesterday when this story broke, I think Comey is in derriere protection mode. The FBI’s reputation has been impugned and its integrity compromised. It’s what happens when you sell out the rule of law. Comey’s decided to repair the FBI’s reputation and take some tarnish off of his own. Lynch said Comey’s decision to announce he was reopening the investigation would damage Hillary’s reputation “even though there’s no finding by a court.” Heh. Comey shielded Lynch from taking the responsibility to decide if Hillary should be indicted. Stay tuned.

ROBERT CREAMER, DEMOCRAT THUG: StepGreen linked to this PJMedia report earlier today, but it rates a bump. Heck, Creamer’s a special kind of thug; he’s a Democrat thug who practices political terror.

WILL THE FBI REOPEN ITS INVESTIGATION OF HILLARY?: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) seems to think so. Chaffetz says the FBI Director (that would be Jim Comey) has told him the Bureau “…has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” My guess is Comey is covering his derriere. Comey had better get moving right now. He’s got a lot to investigate. Hillary’s crimes entwine.

60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION: Recalling Hungary’s courageous Cold War revolt against Communism.

IT BEARS REPEATING–IT DEMANDS INVESTIGATION: Robert Creamer, the man in charge of inciting violence at Republican political rallies on behalf of the Democratic Party, met in the White House with President Obama at least 45 times.

THE AK-47’S PHOTO DEBUT: It occurred in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution in October 1956. The photos accompanying this informative article are classics. My Creators Syndicate column this week is a quick history of that failed revolt against Communism. I’ll link to it later.

SHAVING BEARDS IN MOSUL: AFP reports that Islamic State fighters in Mosul are trimming their beards and changing their clothing. Obviously they don’t want to be identified as Islamic State fighters. The article speculates that some of them may intend to make a break for Syria.

YES, A PIECE OF FOSSILIZED DINOSAUR BRAIN: The actual discovery was made in 2004 by an amateur paleontologist in Great Britain. New analysis confirmed the small fossil chunk is a piece of dinosaur brain tissue.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: My latest NY Observer essay. In the 2016 presidential campaign there’s evidence that Team Clinton approves of violent and violence-inciting political tactics.

COUNTERFEIT ALCOHOL IN UKRAINE KILLS OVER 50 PEOPLE: Ugly story. Bootleg alcohol.

SUN TZU SAYS: The best strategy is to attack your enemy’s strategy. The Dems’ strategy is to divide us into ethnic (read: racist) and special interest (read: Goldman Sachs) camps. Instead, Donald Trump calls for a “new deal” for black Americans.

“My deal is grounded in three promises: safe communities, great education, and high-paying jobs,” Trump said, speaking off what appeared to be scripted remarks. “Whether you vote for me or not, I will be your greatest champion. We live in a very divided country and I will be your greatest champion…African-American citizens have sacrificed so much for our nation. They fought and died in every war since the Revolution and from the pews and the picket lines, they’ve lifted up the conscience of our country in the long march for civil rights. Yet too many African-Americans have been left behind.”

OK. “Scripted remarks” is a giveaway we’re dealing with a bigoted reporter. Who’s more scripted than Hillary? But dig the Sun Tzu: Trump’s New Deal is a direct challenge to the crooked Democrats’ evil (hey, it is evil) and racist strategy of division and ritual hate. (Institutionalized hatred is evil — and that’s part of their game.) Challenging this scheme of hate and division is long over due. The Democrats’ strategy has damaged American politics.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: My latest New York Observer essay.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Total ugly. Team Hillary is racist and sexist. “The brown and women pundits.”

One of Hillary Clinton’s top allies wrote in 2015 that they should consider deploying “the brown and women pundits” to pressure the New York Times into giving them friendlier coverage, according to a series of private emails published by the hacking group WikiLeaks.

The Clinton campaign was particularly unhappy with the Times during the summer of 2015 as the paper reported at length on the federal investigation of Clinton’s use of an unauthorized and unsecured private email server when she worked at the State Department.

ISIS RESISTANCE STIFFENS SOUTH OF MOSUL: That was expected. ISIS has also launched a couple of spoiling attacks.

WE’VE BEEN BUSSING IN PEOPLE FOR 50 YEARS AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO STOP NOW: Yes, bussing in illegal voters to vote illegally is one way the Democrats rig an election.

TO FUEL OR NOT TO FUEL, THAT WAS THE QUESTION: Spain won’t have to decide. Moscow has withdrawn its request. “Spain had been coming under pressure from Nato allies not to allow the refuelling of Russian warships bound for Syria.”

HER INSTINCTS CAN BE TERRIBLE: No kidding, Washington Post? So why not investigate her crimes? They’re terrible, too- they’ve compromised the FBI.

Oh dear. What have we here?

“I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that,” Tanden wrote in an August 2015 note to Podesta. “But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty).”

Tanden is Neera Tanden, a Hillary loyalist of the highest stench. But she admits the “email thing” isn’t on the level. Wow. And Neera’s not a Republican.

Another quote from the WaPo quoting the hacked Podesta emails:

We’ve taken on a lot of water that won’t be easy to pump out of the boat,” Podesta wrote to Tanden in September 2015, at a time when Clinton’s campaign feared that Vice President Biden was about to enter the race for the Democratic nomination. “Most of that has to do with terrible decisions made pre-campaign, but a lot has to do with her instincts.”

Tanden responded, “Almost no one knows better [than] me that her instincts can be terrible.”

And an email nugget. Quoting John Podesta, “Laughing too hard,” he wrote, “is her authentic weirdness.”

John, for the good of our nation, she needs to express her authentic weirdness in prison.

WHERE’S THE MEDIA OUTRAGE?: Democrat operative Robert Creamer ran a political terror operation — with the goal of influencing the 2016 election.

AFGHANISTAN RETROSPECTIVE: This detailed, three-part study of diplomatic and security operations in Afghanistan appeared on realcleardefense. The series focuses on the Kajaki Dam but the larger issue is rebuilding and modernizing Afghanistan. Part 1: Context. Part 2: Counter-Insurgency. And Part 3: Consequence. Jeff Goodson, a retired State Dept foreign service officer, wrote the articles. I went to high school with Jeff. This past summer I spoke with him for the first time in 47 years. He mentioned he was writing about his experience in Afghanistan.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY “CONSULTANT” ROBERT CREAMER RAN A DOMESTIC POLITICAL TERROR AND PROPAGANDA OPERATION