MORE UNITY: John Kasich Snubs Trump With Write-In Vote for McCain.

McCain?

UNITY: Dem analyst Doug Schoen: ‘As of today, I am not a supporter of’ Clinton.

“I am deeply concerned that we will have a constitutional crisis if she’s elected,” Schoen said during an interview Sunday on Fox News.

“I want to learn more this week, see what we see, but as of today, I am not a supporter of the secretary of State for the nation’s highest office.”

His comments come after the FBI’s decision to review new emails it says are “pertinent” to its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The scope of Clinton’s email problem was evident by the summer of 2015. Where was Schoen then?

SEOUL FEUD: President’s confidante detained.

Prosecutors placed Choi Soon-sil, who has been described as a Rasputin-like character, under “emergency detention” late Monday, Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office tells CNN.

Choi is South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s friend and an informal adviser whose access to confidential government documents has led to noisy demands for Park’s ouster, with thousands taking to the streets last weekend demanding that she step down.

Must be nice.

JUST DON’T CALL IT A DEATH SPIRAL: Inside the Affordable Care Act’s Arizona Meltdown.

A look at what happened in Arizona shows problems with the design and implementation of the ACA, combined with early missteps by insurers. Some priced plans aggressively, angling for market share and betting special programs built into the law would protect them from losses. Those protections didn’t work as expected. Enrollees’ health-care expenses repeatedly overshot the projections of nearly all Arizona’s insurers. The result: a flood of red ink, then withdrawals and premium increases.

“The Arizona market is the poster child for the problems the exchanges are experiencing nationally,” says Tom Snook, a Phoenix-based actuary for consultants Milliman Inc.

Can individuals be mandated to buy a product no one is selling?

“2016, MAN,” MEET FLORIDA MAN: Gun-toting Florida man with six-pack of beer fires at passing cars.

NOBODY TELL HILLARY: There Is a No-Fly Zone in Syria — One Russia Created.

The first thing the Russians did was to bring in and install a massive deployment of the sophisticated and integrated anti-aircraft weapons system called the S-300 at their $3 billion naval base in Tartus The S-300 is, by the way, the same system they are selling and delivering to the Iranians. That move took place on October 3rd. The new S-300 deployment augmented the S-200s that were already in place throughout Syria.

Next, the Russians added a series of very effective short range surface-to-air missiles. The PantsirS1 and the Buk missiles are part of the naval weapons on Russia’s guided missile cruisers which sit anchored off the Syrian coast.

Now, add to that the Integrated Defense System which links all these systems plus others like the most advanced and newest of all missiles, the S-400 missile system which has a range of 350 miles and, voila, a Russian-operated no-fly zone is born.

Neither ISIS nor the Syrian rebels posses any aircraft to shoot down.

QUESTION ASKED: If the world’s biggest economy is really on the upswing, then why are America’s banks stockpiling a record amount of ultrasafe bonds?

SELF-DEFENSE: Pizza Hut employee shot, killed armed robber with own handgun.

The headline doesn’t make it clear, but the employee was carrying his own handgun — and was up against three robbers, at least one of whom was armed.

POLITICO’S GOTTA POLITICO: Trump camp basks in Clinton’s suffering.

To be fair though, Politico has headlined Clinton basking in stuff, too.

MICHAEL LEDEEN: Who’s Putin For?

Putin’s got a lot going with Hillary. His pals donated more than a hundred million dollars to the Clinton Family Foundation while she was secretary of state, and they gained ownership of twenty percent of America’s uranium supply. If Putin were really trying to elect Trump, he’d be leaking the details of that relationship. But no, the big story broke more than a year ago in the New York Times, and isn’t one of the major themes of the WikiLeaks archives.

Ergo, those who think WikiLeaks is part of a Russian deception—and I’m quite prepared to believe that—have to explain why the most devastating information about Hillary comes from the Democrats’ favorite daily newspaper.

Plus, if I were Putin and really wanted Hillary elected, I’d be inclined to openly endorse Trump, on the theory that most U.S. voters would reason “if Putin likes the guy, we’re better off without him.”

Read the whole thing.

My take is that Putin prefers Clinton, but would be happy to take either one so long as they enter the White House mortally wounded.

THEY HARDLY HAD A CHOICE, DID THEY? CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile.

It wasn’t much more than a half hour ago that I asked what CNN would do to restore its reputation — behold, the power of Instapundit!

Somewhat more seriously, discovery should be a hoot if Brazile is foolish enough to file a wrongful termination suit.

CHANGE: Hillary’s unlikability now eclipses Trump’s.

It’s only by two points, but it still shows that this year more than any other has been a race to the bottom.

IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT:

When Trump mentions something from a classified briefing, the media loses their minds.

Now Harry Reid does it. I'm waiting for the outrage. pic.twitter.com/WTL8iTx1Zz

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) October 31, 2016

IT’S FIXERS, ALL THE WAY DOWN: New Email Shows Donna Brazile Also Gave Clinton Questions Before CNN Presidential Debate.

The email sent by Brazile to Clinton chairman John Podesta and communications chief Jennifer Palmieri was headlined unambiguously: “One of the questions directed to HRC tomorrow is from a woman with a rash.” The email was sent March 5, the day before a CNN Democratic presidential debate featuring Clinton and her primary opponent Bernie Sanders.

“Her family has lead poison and she will ask what, if anything, will Hillary do as president to help the ppl of Flint,” Brazile said in the body of the email. Sure enough, one of the questions directed to Clinton during the debate was from a woman who spoke about the Flint water crisis’ effect on her family, asking what Clinton would do in her first hundred days in office.

Further down in the story, this update: “In a second email released Monday, Brazile promised Palmieri and Podesta she would “send a few more” questions before the CNN town hall.”

James Comey is doing his bit to restore the FBI’s reputation. What will the DNC, CNN, or ABC News do to restore theirs?

IT’S COME TO THIS: Parents Plan to Carry Guns on Halloween Amidst Clown Fears.

OUR FRIENDS IN ANKARA: Turkey’s Erdogan seeks to begin executing his enemies.

Jazz Shaw:

We’ve been covering the rise of tyranny in Turkey with considerable dismay ever since the failed coup attempt earlier this year. President Tayyip Erdogan has, without question, used the 24 hours of unrest as an excuse to consolidate his power and eliminate his perceived enemies. While roughly 100,000 people have been “detained” with their whereabouts unknown, the party line thus far has been that they are at least alive, though their condition is in question. But that may be about to take a turn for the worse. Though the death penalty has been officially banned in Turkey for years, Erdogan is pushing to have it revived so he can begin executing those who he views as a threat to his power.

It wasn’t a failed coup; it’s a successful, and soon perhaps deadly purge.

DEEP IMPACT: NASA’s New ‘Intruder Alert’ System Spots An Incoming Asteroid.

A large space rock came fairly close to Earth on Sunday night. Astronomers knew it wasn’t going to hit Earth, thanks in part to a new tool NASA is developing for detecting potentially dangerous asteroids.

The tool is a computer program called Scout, and it’s being tested at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Think of Scout as a celestial intruder alert system. It’s constantly scanning data from telescopes to see if there are any reports of so-called Near Earth Objects. If it finds one, it makes a quick calculation of whether Earth is at risk, and instructs other telescopes to make follow-up observations to see if any risk is real.

NASA pays for several telescopes around the planet to scan the skies on a nightly basis, looking for these objects. “The NASA surveys are finding something like at least five asteroids every night,” says astronomer Paul Chodas of JPL.

But then the trick is to figure out which new objects might hit Earth.

The ability to deflect or destroy them might be nice, too.

UNDERREPORTED STORY OF THE DAY: Did Moscow Botch a Coup in Montenegro?

This is real cloak-and-dagger stuff, Balkan style — worth a read.

HOWARD FINEMAN ON JAMES COMEY: His carefully maintained nonpolitical image is now starting to fray.

Seeking to protect his reputation for impartiality, the FBI director instead revealed his obsession with politics: the politics of his own image.

He sent Congress a vaguely worded letter about how the bureau had come across new information that “appeared to be pertinent” to the “completed” investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails.

It soon became clear what he was talking about: emails, the contents of which the FBI hadn’t seen, on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

The decision for a new investigation, he said in an internal letter that was quickly leaking, was an agonizing one ― though not nearly as agonizing as it was to the presidential campaign of the woman he had put back in his sights.

Hillary Clinton is, as ever, a victim of sinister forces.

David Burge nails it.

FBI finds 650k Hillary State Dept emails on PC of notorious dickpic pervert. Headlines: "Comey Embroiled in Controversy"

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 31, 2016

HUMA ABEDIN: “I Have No Idea How The Emails Got On Weiner’s Computer”

“She says she didn’t know they were there,” a source familiar with the investigation said. This is a sensitive topic for Abedin and the Clinton campaign, because on previous occasions, Huma – under oath – disclosed that all the emails in her possession had been accounted for and handed over to the FBI.

As CNBC adds,”there are a number of scenarios that would explain how the emails got onto the laptop without Abedin’s knowledge, including that they were somehow automatically backed up from the cloud. But investigators will want to know how this happened and if there is any indication that Abedin misled them about the existence of emails.

If Clinton is still going down in history, “Brought down by a top aide’s sexting estranged husband” would make for a first-of-its-kind political epitaph.

ABC/WAPO POLL: 34 percent ‘less likely’ to vote for Clinton after new email revelations.

This morning, RealClearPolitics put Florida back into the Trump column for the first time since September. This week’s “Wargaming the Electoral College” column might have to come early.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: In Syria, the U.S. may need more troops to manage shaky alliance.

U.S. commanders in the Middle East are trying to determine whether 300 U.S. troops on the ground inside Syria will be enough to oust the Islamic State group from its self-proclaimed capital in Raqqa.

It’s not a question of combat power. The U.S. has plenty of local allies willing to fight ISIS there. The challenge is convincing those groups to fight the militants rather than each other.

“The biggest problem with Raqqa will be managing the coalition,” said J. Matthew McInnis, a Middle East security expert with the American Enterprise Institute. “If you get an extra six hundred or an extra one thousand troops, that doesn’t dramatically change the situation from a military standpoint, but it does from a political standpoint. You gain a certain amount of ability to manage the situation when you have a little bit larger number troops there.”

“He got us out of Iraq,” and then into Libya, and Syria, and back into Iraq.

CONSIDER THE SOURCE: Former Attorney General Holder and Other Former DOJ Officials Pen Letter Criticizing Comey.

JOHN PODHORETZ: I Have a Theory About Comey…

The theory is simple: Comey was indeed covering his posterior, but in this case, he was doing so because, if anything came out of the Weiner investigation, he would fry. When called upon to explain himself, he would have to acknowledge he knew the Obama Justice Department dragged its feet and did nothing about it while the husband of someone who owed a Clinton intimate a huge debt of gratitude was running things, and behaving in a manner that can be best described as almost astoundingly cavalier.

Read the whole thing.

TAKE NO PRISONERS: Clinton campaign wages new war against James Comey.

Imagine an incoming President being sworn in, already at “war,” per CNN, with the chief of the nation’s premier investigative agency.