PRAGER UNIVERSITY ON separation of church and state.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Laptop U.: Is the future of college moving online?

FASTER, PLEASE: Human Immune-Boosting Cancer Drugs Seen Extending Lives.

BARGAINS GALORE at the Amazon Summer Pet Supplies Deal Event.

Also, the Movie Deal of the Week: The Bourne Trilogy on DVD & Blu-Ray.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN FOR TOMORROW: Mother should I trust the government? Politics over principle, and over public safety.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS NAMES NAMES: Meet the IRS Team in Charge of Exempt Organization Reviews.

Related: Attorney for Tea Party group: IRS told me a year ago about ‘secret working group.’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Mastering The Art Of The Motorcycle Slide.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How To Tell If College Presidents Are Overpaid.

The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.7 percent in 2011-12 to more than $440,000 a year. This increase vastly outpaced the rate of inflation, as well as the earnings of the typical worker in the U.S. economy. Perhaps, most relevant for this community, it also surpassed the compensation growth for university professors.

Moreover, the median statistic masks that several presidents earned more than double that amount. Pennsylvania State University’s Graham Spanier, best known for presiding over the worst athletic scandal in collegiate history, topped the list, earning $2,906,721 in total compensation. (He was forced to resign in November 2011 and was indicted in November 2012 on charges related to the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal.)

Spanier’s package will get the attention. But the outrage should be spread around. University presidents are becoming ever more plutocratic even as the students find it harder and harder to pay for their studies. University leaders claim institutional poverty as they enrich themselves. A perennial leader of the highest-paid list, Gordon Gee of Ohio State University (more than $1.8 million last year), paid $532 for a shower curtain for the presidential mansion.

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KURT SCHLICHTER: Dems Shoot Themselves in the Foot Again On Guns. “Despite suffering the most humiliating rejection of his presidency, President Obama and the liberal establishment are determined to revive their failed gun control scheme. That’s a good thing. The Republicans should remember Napoleon’s warning that you should never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake. This mistake will cost the Democrats dearly in 2014.”

ED DRISCOLL: Joe Klein’s Cry For Help.

SPIN: Unpacking The New JournoList spin on the IRS. “That’s funny. Two different articles, one in Mother Jones, one in the WaPo, yet they’re running the exact same explanation as to why the IRS targeted conservative groups filing for tax exemptions. . . . Justify, justify, justify. This one must have a multi-tiered thread in the New Journolist listserv.”

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE SPYING ON JOURNALISTS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe. “The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a ‘massive and unprecedented intrusion’ into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.”

They can’t afford any leaks, in this Administration. Too much stuff going on that can’t stand the light of day.

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS AS “RECREATIONAL OVERLORDING.”

BREAKING: Three First Degree Murder Convictions, One Manslaughter Conviction For Kermit Gosnell.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN FOR TOMORROW IS UP EARLY: Mother should I trust the government? Politics over principle, and over public safety.

SCIENCE: “By sticking a little $8 lens to an iPhone with a piece of double-sided tape, a Canadian doctor has produced a microscope that works reasonably well at diagnosing intestinal worms in children.”

CAROLYN JONES: The Perils of Toy Shopping With a Feminist Mom.

PLASTIC GUN MAKER REBUKES NANNY STATE: “Laughing at death, laughing at the government, it’s 3D-printed-gun designer Cody Wilson — who’s also a law student (at the University of Texas).”

EVENING THINGS UP: Getcher own camera equipped drone right here.

A TABLET COMPUTER FOR SURVIVALISTS? “Android tablets are mostly dull; Asus, Samsung, Sony, and the rest are typically just pumping out versions of the same platform. Earl, from a startup called Sqigle (sic), is quite a bit different: it’s designed top to bottom for use in the wild. To that end, it starts off with an electrophoretic display, an exceedingly low-power technology that’s used in the black-and-white ebook readers like the Kindle and Nook. A tablet’s screen drains the most battery, by far, so using a low-power screen like this is a great way to extend the battery life. Of course, that means you also get extremely low refresh rates and no color, so you can pretty much forget about watching video on this thing, but as a wilderness guide? That’s not nearly as important as battery life.”

VIDEO: David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.

MATT LEWIS: The IRS admits to ‘targeting’ conservative groups, but were they also ‘leaking’?

REMINDER: Obama joked about auditing enemies in 2009.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Empty chair.