BOEHNER: Judge Congress On How Many Laws It Repeals.

Well, I have proposed a third house of Congress dedicated to only repealing laws. Maybe we’re making some progress!

SALENA ZITO: Divide And Conquer. “Washington’s media class spends much of its energy inciting political divisions or writing about them, dedicating great gobs of print, airtime and social media to chopping up Americans by race, political party, culture or religion.”

MAYBE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS ON “UNITY DAY:” Nursing Student Objects To Use Of Spanish In Classroom, Is Punished, Sues.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S PHILOSOPHY: “My background is in the Navy, and it is good to hang an admiral once in a while as an example to the others.”

That was Voltaire’s sardonic comment on the Byng execution, now echoed by a high-ranked Administration official. Duly noted.

Related, according to the ‘bots at the NYT website: In General’s Court-Martial, Selection Begins for a Jury of High-Ranking Peers.

THE HILL: Poll: Obama’s approval rating drops for second straight quarter. Maybe divisiveness, spying, and racebaiting amid a stagnant economy isn’t a formula for success?

WALTER OLSON: Keep prosecuting until they get the result they want?

DETROIT’S COLLAPSE: The Result Of Going “The Full Sharpton.”

WARREN BUFFETT IS NOT AMUSED: The Wealth Tax Revisited.

WELL, WE’VE RAISED A GENERATION TO THINK THAT IF THEY’RE OFFENDED, THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN VIOLATED: Fewer Americans Wave First Amendment Banner. “More than a third of Americans say the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees, according to a new survey.”

THE HEADLINE OF THIS ARTICLE IS WHY MEN NEED WOMEN. But in fact, the behavioral changes described here — basically, becoming more generous — don’t actually seem to redound to the men’s benefit. Maybe a better title should be Why Women Are Good At Getting Men To Give Away Their Stuff. But the notion of women as softening up those brutish, beastly men seems kind of . . . old-fashioned, doesn’t it?

Fortunately, though, this political incorrectness is offset, as the piece by Adam Grant adheres slavishly to the Althouse Rule on writing about gender, which is that you can report anything so long as you do so in a way that portrays women as superior.

Meanwhile, I’m thinking evolution: Why would men become more generous when they have female dependents, but not when they have sons? We know that in primates, females — much more than males — build elaborate relationship networks and jockey for position in part, it is thought, to ensure that they’ll have someone to help with their babies, or maybe even look after them if they die. (I even read, I think in Sex At Dawn, a hypothesis that this is why women’s sexuality is more fluid: perhaps someone who’s shared a fling would be more likely to share her breast milk).

Men with sons tend to become less generous, we’re told, instead conserving resources within the family: Someday, son, this will be all yours! So if men with female dependents are more likely to be generous — buying allies as female primates do? — is it because they feel, subliminally, that female offspring won’t be able to make it without help? And does that mean that evolution is telling us that women can’t make it on their own? Clearly not, as that would violate the Althouse Rule.

Of course, this can be recast in a way that makes women appear superior, but that, as the old mathematics textbooks used to say, is left as an exercise for the reader.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Christian Science Monitor: Detroit bankruptcy: Is it a warning sign for America?

RULE OF LAW: DOJ Declines to Prosecute Officials Involved in Tax Record Scandal.

MISDIRECTION: Obama Stirs Trayvon Pot to Distract from IRS, NSA, DOJ and Benghazi Scandals.

JONATHAN MOSELEY: The IRS Intervened In Tea Party Elections. “It turns out that state government criminal investigators can directly — though illegally — access IRS records through a ‘back door.’ Along with O’Donnell, at least four other political candidates and four conservative donors have been identified so far as victims of this abuse.”

DID ELECTION FRAUD help win the Civil War?

C.L. BRYANT: Why I Left The NAACP: The NAACP has stopped advancing colored people and started advancing colored progressives. “The organization’s attempted manipulation of Martin’s tragic death for its own gain – the NAACP even held its 2013 annual convention as close to the media covering Zimmerman’s trial as it could – is just the latest example of a once-great organization gone completely off the rails.”

Yeah, the NAACP used to take the side of the minority guy being lynched. . . .

NOT SO HOT ON OBAMA AT HARPER’S: “Obama, like Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon before him, evidently thinks that his war-making authority (like his power to eavesdrop on emails and phone calls) is somewhere in the vicinity of absolute.”

ALL SHALL CELEBRATE, AND LIKE IT: Secret Service invents new “Unity Day” holiday.

UPDATE: Reader Corey Hall emails:

“Unity Day is an event comprised of various observances and activities designed to enhance cross-cultural awareness, and to encourage and promote interaction, inclusion, understanding, teamwork, harmony, pride and mutual respect within the Secret Service workforce.”

Yeah, but will it include Brazilian prostitutes?

Heh. The Secret service seems to have plenty of that kind of cross-cultural awareness.

PHOTOS: Earth Seen From Saturn.

SNOOPING: Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database.

ROGER L. SIMON: What Do the Microscopic Rallies for Trayvon Mean? “Could it be that the citizenry, including African-Americans, supposedly so greatly injured, have seen through the media hype (what I earlier called media pornography) and themselves realize this case is simply an accidental, anomalous one-off and not that big of a deal? I certainly hope so, because what we have been going through is a form of national nervous breakdown, taking us rapidly backwards on race relations, something that has improved consistently in our country over the last fifty years.”