CHANGE: More Asian Than Hispanic Immigrants. “Immigrants from Asia have now replaced immigrants from the Spanish speaking world as the largest source of new immigrants, and the Asians tend to be well educated, well skilled, and when they get here they do very well.”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): 75% of Obamacare Costs Will Fall on Backs of Those Making Less Than $120K a Year. “It’s a big punch in the stomach to middle class families.”

GARY TAUBES: What Really Makes Us Fat. “The trial suggests that among the bad decisions we can make to maintain our weight is exactly what the government and medical organizations like the American Heart Association have been telling us to do: eat low-fat, carbohydrate-rich diets, even if those diets include whole grains and fruits and vegetables.” Can we hold the government and medical organizations liable for this bad advice, the way some would hold pharmaceutical companies liable?

I recommend his book.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): NPR: Buried In Debt, Young People Find Dreams Elusive.

At 30 years old, Holshue exemplifies a key tenet of the American dream: exceeding one’s parents’ education and income.

“My dad never finished high school,” she says. “So in that sense, I am doing better than my parents did.”

Holshue’s father is a school bus driver, and her mother, a teacher. At this early stage in her career, Holshue is already making more money than her parents make after decades of working.

Even so, all her credentials came at a cost. Holshue’s student loans for her bachelor’s and nursing degrees total $140,000.

“I think at last count there was something like 20 different loans,” she says, paging through a thick binder of loan statements.

Holshue says she’s in debt more than her parents ever were when they bought their house. In fact, her monthly student loan payment of $1,100 is nearly as much as her rent.

“The first of the month, I might have $100 to live on for two weeks. Which doesn’t even pay my transportation cost,” Holshue says.

Alas, not that hard to believe.

PREDICTIONS ARE HARD, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE FUTURE: Experts Eat Crow After Healthcare Ruling.

AT AMAZON, up to 55% off on Blu-Ray.

MY SUNDAY WASHINGTON EXAMINER COLUMN: Forget The “Legitimacy” Of The Supreme Court: What About The Other Two Branches?

NICK GILLESPIE: Five Great Gifts To Send Obama In Lieu of Cash Contributions. “In what is arguably a modern low point in political discourse, President Obama’s re-election campaign is exhorting supporters to sacrifice birthday, wedding, graduation, and other personal gifts to the greater cause of…President Obama’s re-election. No kidding. . . . But cash is so impersonal — and Obama has got oodles and oodles of it already: some $260,926,200 of it, in fact, according to the New York Times. So instead of just sending him another dollar he’ll forget to use, why not send him something that you’ve already received as a wedding or bat mitzvah or graduation or gag gift? Or something you’ve always wanted to send someone but never followed through on? Here are five great ideas to gifts to send Barack Obama in lieu of cash.”

ROLL CALL: Congressional Democrats’ Pennsylvania Problem.

As Democrats struggle to net 25 seats and win back the House majority in November, no single state reflects the party’s challenges more than Pennsylvania.

After all, Pennsylvania has gone Democratic in the past five presidential contests, and the apparent movement of the Philadelphia suburbs away from the GOP during the past two decades suggests a fundamental political shift in the state.

But if the southeastern corner of the Keystone State has started to resemble New Jersey and Connecticut, Western Pennsylvania increasingly looks like West Virginia or southeastern Ohio, areas where voters have started to think and behave more like Republicans. This movement of working-class voters toward the GOP has helped offset the partisan trend in the Philadelphia suburbs, keeping Pennsylvania an interesting and competitive state.

Just look at the way many counties voted in this year’s Democratic primary.

THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF REALLY IS DOING FINE: White House Salaries Grow.

PRIVATE MOON MISSIONS MAY USE recycled spaceships.

Space tourists may soon be able to pay their own way to the moon onboard old Russian spacecraft retrofitted by a company based in the British Isles.

The spaceflight firm Excalibur Almaz estimates that it can sell about 30 seats between 2015 and 2025, for $150 million each, aboard moon-bound missions on a Salyut-class space station driven by electric hall-effect thrusters.

Excalibur Almaz founder and chief executive officer Art Dula estimates it will take 24 to 30 months to develop the remaining technology needed and to refurbish the ex-Soviet spacecraft and space stations the company already owns. It bought four 1970s-era Soviet Almaz program three-crew capsules and two Russian Salyut-class 63,800-pound (29,000 kilograms) space station pressure vessels.

Art Dula’s a good guy. I’ve known him since he came to speak about space law at Yale back when I was a student.

FRONTIERS IN pop-art recycling.

SHOCKER: Heated Butter Knife Cuts Butter Like A Hot Knife Through Butter.

HOW WILL OBAMA CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY? With a fundraiser in Paris. Naturellement.

UPDATE: Let me be clear: It’s the Obama Campaign. Obama himself won’t be in Paris.

STACY MCCAIN remains on the Kimberlin case. “Anything that Kimberlin says must be presumed false.”

RASA MALAYSIA: A website featuring easy Chinese recipes.

WELL, ISN’T THAT SPECIAL: Among Swedish Men, Chlamydia Is A Badge Of Honor.

AT AMAZON, BESTSELLERS IN SCIENCE FICTION. Interesting to see Lucifer’s Hammer on the list.

JOHN ROBERTS AND LONG-TERM STRATEGY. Here’s a thought: Perhaps he expects the Court to overturn Section Five of the Voting Rights Act next year, and thought it inexpedient to have that follow a striking-down of ObamaCare.

DAILY CALLER: ‘ATF Needs To F–k These Guys:’ Issa, Grassley release details about Fast and Furious whistleblower retaliation, cover-up.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, AFTER ALL: Cyborg Makes Art Using Seventh Sense.

AT AMAZON, loads of special MP3 deals.

GOOGLE GLASS TEAM: Wearable Computing Will Be The Norm.

We have a pretty powerful processor and a lot of memory in the device. There’s quite a bit of storage on board, so you can store images and video on board, or you can just live stream it out. We have a see-through display, so it shows images and video if you like, and it’s all self-contained. It has a camera that can collect photographs or video. It has a touchpad so it can interact with the system, and it has gyroscope, accelerometers, and compasses for making the system aware in terms of location and direction. It has microphones for collecting sound, it has a small speaker for getting sound back to the person who’s wearing it, and it has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. And GPS.

This is the configuration that most likely will ship to the developers, but it’s not 100 percent sure that this is the configuration that will we ship to the broader consumer market.

Anyone who’s read Rainbows End or Daemon will want them, for sure.

WHEN A UNIVERSITY OFFERS A DEGREE IN “POP CULTURE,” is it “perilously close to child abuse?” Personally, I don’t think that college students are children. But if schools were on the hook for student-loan defaults, how many do you think would offer majors like this?

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Solid state synthetic molecular machine points to advanced nanotechnology.

Canadian chemists have induced a metal-organic framework to self-assemble and function as a molecular wheel on an axle in a solid state material. From a University of Windsor news article “Chemists break new ground in molecular machine research: “A graduate student and his team of researchers have turned the chemistry world on its ear by becoming the first ever to prove that tiny interlocked molecules can function inside solid materials, laying the important groundwork for the future creation of molecular machines.”

Faster, please.