NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Satellite images show activity at North Korea nuclear test site.

THERE’S NOTHING TO IT, OLD NEWS, TIME TO MOVE ON: Two boxes of Clinton emails unaccounted for.

The FBI’s notes on its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server raise questions about two “bankers boxes” of printed emails that went missing in the course of the probe, Fox News reported.

Among the FBI’s lengthy report are its notes from a 2015 interview with an unnamed Office of Information Programs and Services (IPS) employee, which were heavily redacted.
The notes say that IPS officials were told that there were 14 bankers boxes of emails at Clinton’s home, but when they were picked up from her lawyer’s office, there were only 12.

The report also points out that emails dated from early 2009, at the start of her term, were missing. The FBI said it’s not clear if she was using another email address at that time.

“Initially, IPS officials were told there were 14 bankers boxes of former secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails at Clinton’s Friendship Heights office,” the employee told the FBI.
“On or about December 5, 2014, IPS personnel picked up only 12 bankers boxes of Clinton’s emails from Williams & Connolly,” they added, referring to a law firm associated with the Clintons.

If only there were some digital means of storing and transporting emails.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Guards Ran Amazon.com for Prisoners; Sold Them Drugs, Took PayPal.

A three-year investigation by the FBI and Maryland’s U.S. Attorney revealed a sweeping Wednesday indictment against 80 correctional officers, inmates, and accomplices allegedly involved in massive smuggling ring in the state’s largest prison. Correctional officers kept many exchanges cash-free, handing out cell phones and asking inmates to purchase contraband using PayPal, the indictment reported. Other officers allegedly extorted inmates in sex-for-drug trades, and forced them to use contraband knives on inmates who threatened to snitch.

People in the know called contraband “donuts,” the indictment charged. The catch-all codeword encompassed cocaine, heroin, marijuana, a long menu of prescription pills, cell phones, pornography, and knives.

And for inmates on the guards’ good side, the racket meant good money.

Not even prison conditions can stop the power of black markets to deliver weapons, drugs, and porn to those who want them.

There might be a lesson in that.

ANOTHER DAY IN RAHM EMANUEL’S CHICAGO: 6 wounded in city shootings.

IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? Gen. Mike Flynn: Why Hillary’s record on Libya is even worse than you think.

PAYBACK’S A… YOU KNOW: Ryan plans to steamroll Democrats with budget tool.

While GOP leaders have made empty threats to use reconciliation to repeal Obamacare in the past, Ryan is making it clear that this time he plans to use it when it counts. And he would likely have support from a Trump White House. Larry Kudlow, an economic adviser to the GOP presidential nominee, said he is also strongly urging Trump to embrace reconciliation in order to pass sweeping tax cuts.

Ryan peeled back the curtain on his strategy at a news conference last week after a reporter suggested he would struggle to implement his ambitious agenda next year. After all, it was noted, Republicans are certain to lack the 60 votes needed in the Senate to break Democratic filibusters on legislation. So Ryan gave a minitutorial on congressional rules and the bazooka in his pocket for the assembled reporters.

“This is our plan for 2017,” Ryan said, waving a copy of his “Better Way” policy agenda. “Much of this you can do through budget reconciliation.” He explained that key pieces are “fiscal in nature,” meaning they can be moved quickly through a budget maneuver that requires a simple majority in the Senate and House. “This is our game plan for 2017,” Ryan said again to the seemingly unconvinced press.

Democrats and progressive advocates are not so skeptical. Terrified might be a better word.

Well, good.

Democrats opened this door by passing ObamaCare through reconciliation — and then had the chutzpah to insist that what had been done through reconciliation could never be undone through reconciliation.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to make a Manhattan cocktail popsicle.

WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE IOWAHAWK:

A business model based on content from illiterate celebrities & passive-aggressive media dorks might fail? Who knew https://t.co/zSUiG0FxIU

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 6, 2016

OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It’s time for the first post-debate edition of Wargaming the Electoral College.

I GOT THE BLUES: Rolling Stones Announce New Blues Cover Album ‘Blue & Lonesome’

The 12 tracks, recorded in three days at London’s British Grove Studios, all cover songs by classic bluesmen, including Howlin’ Wolf (“Commit a Crime”), Little Walter (“I Gotta Go”) and Jimmy Reed (“Little Rain”). Eric Clapton guests on the group’s cover of Little Johnny Taylor’s “Everybody Knows About My Good Thing” and Otis Rush’s “I Can’t Quit You Baby.” The album doubles as a nod to the band’s formative years, when the band would play covers by their favorite blues artists.

Keith Richards told Rolling Stone in September that the group had been recording in London, cutting several songs in a rapid period. “It was fun – always is,” he said. At the time, he claimed the album would contain “a lot of Chicago blues.”

The band’s last studio album, 2005’s A Bigger Bang, was a big disappointment, but I’m looking forward to this one.

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT: Toronto’s ‘beer thrower’ ID’d as award-winning journalist.

VIDEO: Weather Channel Reporter Says Haitian Kids are Eating Trees and Causing Deforestation.

Can we get a factcheck on this, please?

BUT OF COURSE: Huma Abedin Email Attacked Jewish Group.

Huma Abedin, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, urged former President Bill Clinton in 2009 to reject a speaking invitation before the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC), asking his assistant in an email, do “u really want to consider sending him into that crowd?”

Abedin’s comment about “that crowd” has sparked anger and consternation among Jewish and non-Jewish leaders who consider it hostile to Jews and to the State of Israel. Her comments are raising uncomfortable questions about Abedin’s past and her family’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

“Appalling” is how Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, described the email, adding that it, “shows hostility toward Jews and Israel in light of the fact that ‘that crowd’ gives huge ovations to White House speakers.”

Klein pointed to the Abedin family’s ties to a radical Islamic group, saying, “it makes me think about the allegations about her parents and other family members who were associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.”

In tonight’s performance of The Wilson Administration, the role of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson will be played by Huma Abedin.

A MILLENNIAL SPEAKS: Yes Hillary, Some Of Us Live In Our Parents’ Basements – Because Of Your Failed Policies.

Hillary said “Some are new to politics completely. They’re children of the Great Recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement. They feel they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don’t see much of a future.”

Hillary wants to make this election about anything other than the future. Tax returns from decades ago, beauty pageants, or an old appearance on the Howard Stern show are all topics she’d rather focus our attention on instead of promoting solutions to the issues we face every day.

The real issue of this election is not whether Donald Trump has always said friendly things. He hasn’t. Nor is the real issue of this election whether Hillary Clinton has been friendly with the truth. She isn’t. But this is what we continue to hear day in and day out.

What else does Clinton have to run on? Her seat-warming years in the Senate? The Russian reset? Libya?

Anything?

STRANGERS IN OUR OWN LAND: The non-citizen voter fraud disaster.

Daniel Horowitz writes:

According to Pew, there were over 1 million immigrants in Virginia as of 2014. In 2013, according to the Census, the number of non-citizens in the state was 427,535, but given the fast pace of new immigration to the region, that number has likely grown. If a random sampling from just eight counties showed over 1,000 non-citizens registered to vote, one can easily speculate that thousands more are registered statewide.

This random sampling on non-citizens voting dovetails well with a 2014 study from three prominent political scientists who found that up to 6.4% of all non-citizens participated in the 2008 elections and up to 14.7% voted. Given the population of non-citizens in the state, that is potentially a very impactful number for any close election.

It’s probably nothing. I keep reading that voter fraud is a myth.

STEVEN COHEN: Why Colombia Said No to Peace.

When he first arrived in the Putumayo Department in the early 1990s, Hesmar could still appreciate what the FARC seemed to stand for. “The state didn’t exist here, so they were the ones who served that function,” he says. “They would meet with the communities to share their ideals. Who’s not going to agree with schools and roads and health care?” But then the rebels got deeper and deeper into the drug trade, then deeper and deeper into extortion. Their justice became harsher and less discerning. One afternoon, his wife’s teenage daughter brought a police officer to their house without Hesmar’s knowledge, and the rebels tied him to a tree for two weeks—only sparing his life after his friends came to beg for it. To punish an uncooperative businessman, the guerrillas set fire to his gas station, blowing up an entire neighborhood, along with Hesmar’s cart. Hesmar’s wife was pregnant at the time, and for a while, he wasn’t sure what he would do to sustain his family. “They pretend to be for the people, but it’s always the poor who end up suffering,” he says.

Colombians didn’t say no to peace; they said no to a bad deal with narco-communists.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER WEEK: This Week in Clinton Corruption for October 6, 2016.

TAKE COVER: ‘This storm will kill you,’ FL gov. warns ahead of Hurricane Matthew.

LET’S HOPE SO! SpaceX, Boeing Starting New Space Race?

Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons-like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space-travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less. And Boeing intends to be a key player in the initial push to send humans to Mars, maybe even beating Musk to his long-time goal.

“I’m convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket,” Muilenburg said at the Chicago event on innovation, which was sponsored by the Atlantic magazine.

It might seem presumptuous to say “Faster, please” when we already have two private American firms competing to see who can put humans on Mars first, but…

Faster, please.

AGAIN? Huffington Post Runs The Worst Article Of All Time, Internet Responds Accordingly.

PAY TO PLAY: The Clinton Foundation’s corporate donors lobbied Hillary’s State Department to open Burma to American businesses. They got what they wanted.

Clinton and her team said the country’s gradual shift to democracy — Burma had just held an election, won by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s party — meant it had earned the U.S. investment. Other economic powerhouses, including Australia and the EU, were also moving to loosen their own rules for investment in Burma. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as the Washington Post reported at the time, said the United States needed to keep up.

But, as the Post also noted, human rights leaders predicted Clinton’s decision would set back their cause. At the time, as Foreign Policy reported, Suu Kyi supported a partial easing of the U.S. investment ban, but didn’t want American companies to be able to invest in the country’s energy sector. They argued opening investment to the energy market would fuel economic inequality and only strengthen the country’s repressive military. And they thought it gave the country’s government too much too soon, giving up leverage to push for more reform in the future.

But the Obama administration broke with Suu Kyi and human rights leaders, letting American companies invest in all sectors—including oil and gas.

I’m so old I can remember when Democrats loved Suu Kyi and hated Big Oil.

BREAKING: Explosion outside police station in Turkish city in latest terror attack.

FRAUD AND WASTE: EpiPen maker overcharged taxpayers for years, officials say.

Democratic lawmakers released a letter on Wednesday from Andy Slavitt, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), confirming that EpiPen maker Mylan had misclassified the device — in effect, overcharging taxpayers for its product.

The revelation is the latest turn involving Mylan, which has recently faced outrage from both parties over its 400 percent-plus increase in the price of EpiPens in the past few years.

The letter from Slavitt, released by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), confirms that Mylan has misclassified the EpiPen as a generic drug, as opposed to a brand drug, since 1997. That means Mylan was only giving Medicaid a 13 percent discount on its product, instead of a 23.1 percent discount.

The CMS even noted it had specifically told Mylan that its product was misclassified.

“The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services in CMS has, on multiple occasions, provided guidance to the industry and Mylan on the proper classification of drugs and has expressly told Mylan that the product is incorrectly classified,” Slavitt wrote.

Wouldn’t it be something if the FDA didn’t keep competitors off the market and Medicaid (and consumers) had multiple vendors to choose from?

SHOT: Gary Johnson says he will focus on attacking Hillary Clinton.

CHASER: Gary Johnson’s own VP pick pretty much just endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Say what you will about Gary Johnson or the Libertarian ticket, but if you compare the two-way race poll numbers with the four-way numbers, you’ll see that Johnson-Weld has put serious hurt on Clinton-Kaine.

WHEN IN ROME… Trump to Nevadans: You say Nevada wrong.