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#WARONMEN: Hard-Hitting NBC Reporter Arrested For Beating Her Husband.

TRACY QUAN ON SEX AND EGYPT: “When Shereen El Feki’s father was a 9-year-old boy in Cairo, he would sneak onto a tram that ran through the city’s official brothel quarter. Clinging to the side to catch ‘a boy’s-eye view of the action on Clot Bey Street,’ he saw change overtake a historic red-light district. The closing of those licensed bordellos as he came of age would be part of a much longer story about hypocrisy and political power in Egypt.”

BRIDGET JOHNSON: Proposed 28th Amendment Would Make Congress Join Obamacare Exchanges.

OUCH: “Sen. Obama warned about Patriot Act abuses. President Obama proved him right.”

IOWAHAWK: “So the CIA is giving agents lie detector tests to make sure agents aren’t telling the truth. MIND=BLOWN.”

OUCH: “I thought Obama said Al Qaeda was dead and Detroit was alive, now we have a travel warning and a bankruptcy. Wrong again.”

REMEMBERING THE NEW DEAL WITCH HUNT:

Watergate has become the default historical template for the Obama scandals, as charges about enemies lists, executive-agency politicization, and high-handed federal snooping dominate the discussion. But those hunting for historical analogies would do well to consider the even closer parallels between these events and occurrences during the New Deal and Fair Deal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt routinely audited the income taxes of such critics as Representative Hamilton Fish, a Republican who represented the president’s hometown of Hyde Park, N.Y. Democrats of that era not only found creative ways to intimidate conservative and libertarian organizations, but also, like their modern counterparts, eventually attracted charges of witch-hunting.

The modern Tea Party, however, has yet to find a more effective symbol of defiance than Edward A. Rumely. Though he is largely forgotten today, the publisher’s appearance in June 1950 before a special House committee to investigate lobbying was a defining moment.

When Rumely showed up to testify, nobody was quite sure what he would say. For the most part, he answered the committee’s questions, but he stood his ground on one issue: He refused to name the Americans who had purchased a book critical of the New Deal. Pointing to the First Amendment, he asserted that the committee had “no power to go into a newspaper publisher and say, ‘Give me your subscription list.’ And you have no power to come to us.” If the House wanted to cite him for contempt, then he promised to give it “an education on the Bill of Rights.” Chairman Frank Buchanan warned that the unfriendly witness risked a contempt resolution, and vowed not to “divert this hearing into an argument over constitutional rights.” . . .

Rumely had the last laugh in his legal case. In 1953, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the contempt-of-Congress resolution. In a concurring opinion, the Court’s most liberal members, William O. Douglas and Hugo Black, endorsed Rumely’s free-speech and privacy rights in no uncertain terms. They described the Buchanan committee’s demands as “the beginning of surveillance of the press.”

Somebody should write a book on this kind of thing.

UPDATE: Response? Tea Partiers should visit the homes of government officials and leave copies of the Constitution.

FLASHBACK: Jake Tapper: I Dated Monica Lewinsky. “Right off, Monica was different from the standard D.C. date: not a salad-picker, she joined me in appetizers and an actual entree of her own. She had a beer or two, while I drank bourbon. She even offered to pay for her share, a fairly rare offer I rejected but appreciated.”

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SOMEBODY IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS PROBABLY WONDERING JUST THAT: “Jake Tapper reveals classified information about CIA in Benghazi – should his sources go to prison? Should he?”

Meanwhile, scapegoated filmmaker Nakoula is still in jail.

Related: Remember when Rand Paul asked Hillary about gun running in Libya? Yeah, that nutty conspiracy theorist. . . .

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, A GENERATION’S DREAMS WOULD DIE WHILE FATCATS PROSPERED. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Study: Record Number 21 Million Young Adults Living With Parents. Though in light of the student loan angle, maybe this should be tagged Higher Education Bubble Update, too. . . .

SHOCKER: NPR: Tea Party Groups Faced Much Tougher IRS Scrutiny. “Recall that back in May, President Obama – who has not been implicated in the scandal – called the IRS’ behavior ‘intolerable and inexcusable.’ More recently – last week – he called it a ‘phony scandal.'”

CONTROVERSIAL ELEMENT OF REPUBLICAN “WAR ON WOMEN” OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTED BY WOMEN: Q-poll: Women back late-term abortion ban by narrow 35-point margin. Most people see late-term abortion as different, and worse. That’s why the Dems always try to omit the “late term” part.

READER PAUL JACKSON WRITES: “I think every Dem that appears on a show of any kind should be asked if they are in favor of bailing out Detroit, like for the next nine months to a year.”

NICK GILLESPIE: Five Myths About Libertarians.

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WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: For $300, You Can Buy a Stunning 3-D Printed Version of Yourself.

THE NEW YORK SUN seems to have gotten under Paul Krugman’s skin. “Let us just say that the Nobel laureate is absolutely right that the Sun is a marginal publication with strong gold bug tendencies (it beats us why he keeps quoting the Sun), but that’s the only accurate statement in his entire column. The Sun doesn’t have any problem with Governor Yellen’s gender. We haven’t even opposed her elevation to Fed chairman. What we have done is express bemusement — in an editorial called ‘The Female Dollar’ — that with all the problems in the American economy, the issue the New York Times has been focusing on is the fact that one of the leading candidates for the job is a woman.”

REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS COMPLAINED ABOUT “MCJOBS?” WELL: “We Have Become a Nation of Hamburger Flippers”: Dan Alpert Breaks Down the Jobs Report. “The growth of low-wage jobs helps explain why the majority of Americans continue to believe the economy is in recession, despite a falling unemployment rate – now down to a four-year low of 7.4% – a record-setting stock market rally and a rebound in the housing market.” Because for them, it is.

DETROIT: We Don’t Need Monet: We Need Money.

Gentry liberals—university profs, cutting edge art mavens, foundation executives—like to think of themselves as the key, leading members in the blue coalition. But as the money runs out and the civil war heats up, there’s a tendency to throw the gentry liberals under the bus. This has been happening for years now when it comes to the battles over university education in states, as funds for higher ed keep getting cut back. The fight over paying pensions versus hanging on to Van Goghs brings this tendency to the fore.

Yes. What’s ironic is that the social-welfare programs and public-employee unions that these gentry liberals generally support in flush times wind up having a lot more political muscle than they do when times get tough. Hence, the underbusing.

YOUR HELP IS HURTING: How Church Foreign Aid Programs Make Things Worse.

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TRANSPARENCY: IRS fails to release political groups’ financial filings: Agency won’t say why it’s withholding normally accessible 527 group disclosures.

RACISM, CONVERSATIONS, and the sound of one hand clapping. “If it is acceptable for the President of the United States or the Attorney General to regale us with a remembered litany of racial slights, why is it racist and wrong for Victor Davis Hanson to share memories that left an imprint upon him? Why is it racist and wrong for me to do the same?” Because shut up.