TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 56.

HAPPY FOURTH: President Reagan’s Address to the Nation on Independence Day – 7/4/86.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mammoth 2-Year College to Lose Accreditation. “City College of San Francisco will lose its accreditation in one year and be shut down, its regional accreditor announced on Wednesday, unless the college can prevail in a review or appeal process with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The two-year college, which enrolls 85,000 students, would be the largest institution ever to lose its accreditation. Without regional accreditation it would no longer receive state funding and would certainly close its doors. One year ago the commission, part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, slapped a ‘show cause’ sanction on City College for a wide range of identified problems, including dangerous budget deficits, a balky governance system and a failure to track student outcomes. A subsequent report from a state agency reinforced concerns about the two-year college’s fiscal health, including that it only had enough cash reserves on hand to cover three days of operation.”

UPDATE: Interim Chancellor Gets Big Bucks: ” Scott-Skillman will earn the same annual salary as Fisher, $276,000. Her annual pension from four decades of jobs in public colleges is $95,041 from the Public Employees Retirement System and $74,076 from the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, for a total annual compensation of $445,117. As it did for Fisher, City College will give Scott-Skillman housing and car allowances.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader who requests anonymity emails: “My grandson just finished high school and lives within walking distance of City College of San Francisco. He intends to do his first two years at a community college but refuses to attend City College, preferring a school in the next county. His reasons? Excessive political correctness, idiotic curriculum, and, frankly, anti-white animus. Why does the do those characteristics seem to be regularly associated with corruption and incompetency?” Racists are usually not very bright.

JAMES TARANTO: The Face of Extremism: The pro-abortion left lionizes a foe of mild regulation.

As Powers notes, the bill Davis blocked “would have made it illegal for mothers to abort babies past 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in the case of severe fetal abnormalities or to protect the life or health of the mother.” That “health of the mother” is a huge loophole, but probably necessary for the bill to withstand judicial scrutiny under the Casey regime. But to Gillespie’s point, a partial ban on abortion after 20 weeks–more than halfway through the second trimester–is precisely the sort of moderate restriction that Gillespie claims to approve of most Americans’ supporting (even if he himself does not).

The bill would also establish “regulations on abortion clinics similar to what was passed in Pennsylvania in 2011 after the Gosnell horror,” Powers writes. That is, they would be regulated as ambulatory (outpatient) surgical centers. Over at Slate, feminist caricature Amanda Marcotte, describes such regulations as “an attempt by the religious right to impose their faith-based views on the rest of us.”

So tell us, Amanda, does the injunction to regulate ambulatory surgical centers appear in the Old Testament or the New?

I’m pro-choice, but it’s ridiculous to hear people talking about restrictions on 24-week abortions as “Republicans coming to take control of your vagina.”

UPDATE: Reader Robert Crawford writes: “Wendy Davis is the new Cindy Sheehan.”

JONATHAN TURLEY: Perjury By Permission: Clapper Apologizes For False Testimony And The Congress Remains Silent.

ANN ALTHOUSE: Is Facebook instigating racial discord in anticipation of a Zimmerman acquittal? Since they helped Obama with his election and with the NSA spying, I basically see them as an arm of the Administration. So I can only conclude that, if so, the Administration must want to see racial discord in the event of a Zimmerman acquittal.

But before I concluded that this is what the Administration wants, I’d want better sourcing than InfoWars, you know?

“GALES OF LAUGHTER are the only possible response to this White House memo extolling the virtues of Obama consiglieri Valerie Jarrett. The memo contains talking points to be used by White House staffers who were instructed to praise Jarrett in advance of a New York Times profile that appeared in September 2012. It was leaked to Mark Leibovich and will appear in his forthcoming book, This Town. The memo is hilariously titled ‘The Magic of Valerie.'”

THEY’RE TOO BUSY HELPING O.J. LOOK FOR THE REAL KILLERS: FBI Has Yet To Contact IRS-Targeted Tea Party Groups. “On May 14, the FBI claimed they launched an investigation into the IRS fiasco. FBI Director Robert Mueller was famously told Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio on June 13 that he didn’t know the name of the lead investigator at the Bureau spearheading the effort. That’s almost a month into the alleged investigation. This is a national story. It’s a major scandal – and you don’t know who the point guy, or gal, that’s tasked with getting to the bottom of this debacle? Joe Schoffstall at CNS News reported on July 2 a disturbing development in this case. There’s virtually no FBI investigation. In fact, the FBI has yet to contact any of the groups targeted by the IRS.”

THE HILL: GOP Questions Obama’s Power To Delay ObamaCare Mandate.

Related: Obama allies downplay decision to delay employer mandate for one year. It’s no big deal. We’re just putting off this unpopular trainwreck of a bill so that its full trainwreckiness won’t be clear until after the election that we really need to win.

WELL, THAT SEEMS TO FIT WITH THE ZIMMERMAN STORY: Poll: More Americans View Blacks As Racist Than Whites, Hispanics. (Warning: Annoying autoplay video at link.)

IT’S COME TO THIS: Real Satanists Want Nothing To Do With Abortion Supporters.

THOUGHTS ON the failure of henpecking. I dunno, the Democrats seem to have adopted it as a political strategy with some success.

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VICIOUS STEREOTYPES IN POLITE SOCIETY: Hollywood Still Seeking the Great Right (Terrorist) Hope. “Hollywood is making another pathetic attempt to manufacture villains out of real Americans in its latest loud, dumb and explodey retread, White House Down. Surprise! The bad guys are, again, our military. Yet, bucking the trend, another big-budget film – the zombie apocalypse epic World War Z – not only depicts our American warriors as the heroes they are but even gives props to the Israeli Defense Force. I know – it’s easier to believe in zombies than in a major Hollywood movie where American and Israeli fighters aren’t the bad guys.”

LAWS ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE (CONT’D): Inspector General: IRS Does Not Comply With the Law in 30% of Seizures of Taxpayers’ Property.

TWEET OF THE DAY: “On Egypt, Obama should strive for irrelevance. It’s the best he is going to do.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Best Burger Recipe Ever.

REMINDER: In 2009, Obama “joked” about having the IRS audit his enemies.

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THE SELF-MADE TRIATHLETE:

Brett Miller never set out to become a hardcore triathlete who thinks nothing of swimming two miles, then riding 112 and finishing the day with a marathon. He just wanted to lose weight.

The 35-year-old operations manager started training for his first triathlon six years ago after packing on the pounds. He’d been making the most of San Francisco’s nightlife, hitting the bars with friends until the wee hours. He was smoking, he was drinking and he was giving zero thought to his health, and it was catching up to him fast.

“Someone took a photo of me and I didn’t recognize myself,” Miller recalls.

Oops.

SPOTTING STRUGGLING STUDENTS with facial-analysis software.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestselling multitools.

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A PHENOMENON OF NATURE: Elle ‘The Body’ Macpherson Repeats Playboy Cover Pose At 49.

EGYPT’S PRESIDENT MORSI has been deposed. I imagine the Muslim Brotherhood is pretty pissed.

UPDATE: Yep. Islamists Freaking Out After Morsi Ouster.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Anti-Obama Sentiment Widespread. What’s interesting is that the banners are anti-Obama, not anti-America.

DISASTER UPDATE: Utilities caused post-Sandy fires that decimated Breezy Point and turned it into ‘war zone,’ 120 residents say in suit.

An aside: “Decimate” is not a synonym for “devastate.” That is all.