TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 38.

IN MS. MAGAZINE: My Month With a Gun: Week One. “Yes, I bought a handgun and will carry it everywhere I go over the next 30 days. I have four rules: Carry it with me at all times, follow the laws of my state, only do what is minimally required for permits, licensing, purchasing and carrying, and finally be prepared to use it for protecting myself at home or in public. . . . Tony told me a Glock doesn’t have an external safety feature, so when I got home and opened the box and saw the magazine in the gun I freaked. I was too scared to try and eject it as thoughts flooded my mind of me accidentally shooting the gun and a bullet hitting my son in the house or rupturing the gas tank of my car, followed by an earth-shaking explosion. This was the first time my hands shook from the adrenaline surge and the first time I questioned the wisdom of this 30-day experiment. I needed help. I drove to where a police officer had pulled over another driver. Now, writing this, I realize that rolling up on an on-duty cop with a handgun in tow might not have been fully thought through.”

Read the whole thing.

JESSE WALKER: NSA Scandal: What It Would Take to Stop the Spying: Lessons from the 1970s. Before we even consider a Church Committee for the NSA, we need a Church Committee for the IRS.

REPEALING THE HOLLYWOOD TAX CUTS, CONNECTICUT EDITION: Connecticut Pulls Films’ Tax Benefits. “Connecticut, confronting budget difficulties and competition from other states—including New York—is putting the tax-credit program on a two-year hiatus.”

Some background here.

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CHARLIE MARTIN: Four Weight Loss Myths.

AL GORE: NSA Surveillance “Violates The Constitution.” “The former vice president also pushed President Obama and Congress to revisit the laws underlying the NSA program. Gore’s stance on the constitutionality of the data collection is not dissimilar to statements made by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in the last week, particularly regarding the senator’s proposed Fourth Amendment Restoration Act.”

RALPH KINNEY BENNETT: What A Father Taught Me.

SARAH PALIN GENTLY CORRECTS JEB BUSH: “As someone who’s kinda fertile myself.”

IN THE BALTIMORE SUN: Why The IRS Scandal Is Worse Than The Others.

STONEWALL: The Hill: House Republicans see long slog ahead for probes of IRS targeting. “Bipartisan investigators from House Oversight and House Ways and Means into the IRS have already interviewed IRS officials from both Washington and the Cincinnati office that deals with tax-exempt applications. According to a source close to the investigation, House investigators sat down on Friday with Carter Hull, a Washington-based lawyer for the IRS who an Ohio staffer said was heavily involved in dealing with Tea Party applications. . . . Top GOP lawmakers say anger at the IRS remains strong, both from voters and members who believe that former agency officials were less than forthcoming with Congress in their public testimony. Republicans are also frustrated that the IRS has missed deadlines for requested documents.”

SCIENCE: A new study on the impact of calorie information at fast food and chain restaurants raises more questions than it answers.

TAR. FEATHERS. 14-year-old facing a year in jail for wearing an NRA t-shirt.

Suspended and arrested after refusing to change his NRA shirt. Today, 14-year-old Jared Marcum appeared before a judge and was officially charged with obstructing an officer.

A $500 fine and up to a year in jail, that’s the penalty that Jared could face, now that a judge has allowed the prosecution to move forward with it’s obstructing an officer charge against him.

“Me, I’m more of a fighter and so is Jared and eventually we’re going to get through this,” Jared’s father Allen Lardieri said. “I don’t think it should have ever gotten this far.”

The Logan County Police Department initially claimed that the at-the-time 8th grade Logan Middle School student was arrested for disturbing the education process, obstructing an officer and Lardieri says that officers even went as far as threatening to charge Jared with making terroristic threats.

“In my view of the facts, Jared didn’t do anything wrong,” Ben White, Jared’s attorney said. “I think officer Adkins could have done something differently.”

Prosecuting attorney Michael White refused to respond to any questions, as did Logan Police.

I hope that prosecuting attorney Michael White, as well as the school board, hear from a lot of people.

HAND ME MY BROADSWORD, AND POLISH MY VAMBRACE: Weirdest Scandal Ever: Foreign Knights Invade America.

I’m actually happy to see the Titles Of Nobility clause doing some work, though in my own opinion it should do a lot more.

MEGAN MCARDLE: When Work Disappears: What do we do with people whose livelihoods are destroyed? This phenomenon is appearing all over. My colleague Ben Barton is working on a very interesting book about the future of the legal profession that catalogues all the ways technology and market forces are chewing up lawyers. When I finished his (surprisingly sunny) conclusion, I emailed him this quote from Arthur Allen Leff:

The radically unknown is always frightening (at least to those making out all right as is), especially considering how many lives can be lashed to pieces as a new distributional curve flails about, desperately seeking a new equilibrium.

There’s a lot of flailing going on, and there has for years been insufficient concern about what all the folks on the left half of the bell curve are going to do with their lives — only now it’s looking like the left 2/3 or maybe 3/4. I’m not sure what to do either. Here are my thoughts from a decade ago. I note that when the economy picked up, we heard less of that talk for a while. But I do think there’s something structural going on, not just an economic cycle.

The interesting thing, too, is that Paul Krugman, in the column Megan is responding to, flat-out admits that sending people to college doesn’t help much. In fact, it can hurt. For the book I’m working on now (basically a combination and substantial expansion of The Higher Education Bubble and The K-12 Implosion) I’ve been looking at research finding that students going in to college with identical “predictors” in terms of grades and test scores have very different trajectories coming out based on family income. The “strivers” with good scores but poor family backgrounds may actually do worse than if they hadn’t gone to college at all, as they often get distracted into partying and graduate with low grades and an overhang of student debt, winding up in jobs that they could have gotten without “investing” in college at all. One student’s father is quoted as comparing colleges’ sales pitches to TV infomercials. . . .

Of course, it’s not just technology that’s killing jobs. Regulation is killing jobs, too:

About 40% of Mr. Puzder’s employees are part-time and therefore exempt from ObamaCare’s coverage mandates. “That percentage of employees will probably go up. Everybody is hiring more part-time employees,” he says, though he is quick to add that “we’re not firing anyone to hire” part-time workers. “Through attrition, three full-time employees go away and you hire four part-time employees who basically have the same hours.”

Mr. Puzder also expects fast-food restaurants to deal with ObamaCare by replacing workers with kiosks. “You’re going to go into a fast-food restaurant and order on an iPad or tablet instead of talking to a person because we don’t have to pay benefits for any of those things.”

Krugman doesn’t seem focused on this problem.

JUSTIN KATZ: “It’s difficult not to have a surreal feeling watching the world go by in the shadow of the growing monolith of Obama Administration scandals. Some of the government actions that have come to light would have been universally understood as signs of encroaching tyranny just a few years ago.”

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THE MORALITY OF THE UNIVERSITY SECTOR: NYU tells Chinese dissident that he has two weeks to move out. “The move-out mandate comes as Chen plans a trip to Taiwan later this month, and grapples with worries that members of his family in China are being beaten and denied urgent medical care by authorities. NYU’s extension of its out-by-June-30 eviction notice comes on heels of an exclusive Post report that the university, which is building a new Shanghai campus, was ousting Chen under pressure from China.”

ASKING THE QUESTIONS NO ONE ELSE DARES TO RAISE: Who Are The Spiciest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models?

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SAD: Meet The Girl Behind One Of Tumblr’s Biggest Self-Harm Blogs.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: 4,500 U.S. troops near Syrian border.

I’LL BET HE WISHES HE HAD A FENCE: Open borders mob descends on home of Kansas Secretary of State. “In a scene reminiscent of the SEIU’s siege of a Bank of America executive’s home in 2010, a mob of around 300 open borders protesters from across the country today descended on the home of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.”

You know, as far as I’m concerned it’s fine if Tea Party groups show up at the homes of IRS officials now.

BRITISH GIRLS IN THE EARLY THIRD REICH: “To them, it was the perfect time. Maybe they saw the SS marching on the street, but basically they enjoyed themselves.” Chicks dig jerks.

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