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NICK GILLESPIE: 3 Incredibly Outrageous Evasions by Hillary Clinton About Benghazi.

I MENTIONED THIS LAST NIGHT, BUT THERE’S NEWS: Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show Canceled After Gun-Rights Boycott. That’s what you get for adhering to the enemy.

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS’ ASSOCIATION calls on Mark Zuckerberg to cancel his fundraiser for Chris Christie. Really? I hope he tells them to Zuck on it.

GOOD: Libertarians Launch Ad Campaign to Repeal Gun-Free School Zones. “We have a rare opportunity here. We can make America freer by repealing the tragically failed ‘gun-free’ school zone laws.” If it saves just one child’s life, it’s worth it.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Do Not Try to Recreate This 16th-Century German Cat Bomb at Home.

BOB OWENS: The So-Called Assault Weapons on My Rifle Range. “It may come as a surprise to some to learn that the AR-15 is the best-selling, most common centerfire rifle in the United States.”

FASTER, PLEASE: IBM vastly improves delivery of nanomeds that kill bacteria where antibiotics fail.

PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THEIR OWN SCENTS. “You might not be able to pick your fingerprint out of an inky lineup, but your brain knows what you smell like. For the first time, scientists have shown that people recognize their own scent based on their particular combination of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins, molecules similar to those used by animals to choose their mates. The discovery suggests that humans can also exploit the molecules to differentiate between people.”

Richard Feynman used to do party tricks that demonstrated people have much better senses of smell than they think. He wouldn’t have been surprised by this.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, AFTER ALL: Introducing Another New Asteroid-Mining Company, Deep Space Industries.

CAN TWO GAY MEN RAISE A BABY? Karl Lagerfeld Doesn’t Think So.

AS I’VE SUGGESTED, THIS IS WHY HIGH SCHOOL IS A BAD IDEA: New science on its corrosive, traumatizing effects.

My thoughts here.

CLAIM: America’s Education Not As Bad As You Think. “A eye-opening new paper comparing U.S. students to their international peers by social class finds that the richest Americans are world-class readers, and in math, our disadvantaged kids have improved more than almost any other country.”

BEHAVIORS THAT CAN destroy your financial health.

TRIFECTA: $180 Billion Wasted: Head Start Education Program Has No Lasting Impact.

OBAMA AND THE “ACTING ALONE” FALLACY: “The idea that you’re ‘alone’ unless you’re being directed by the government strikes me as dehumanizing and almost abusive.”

Plus: “To suggest that anyone who’d like to see less heavy-handed government regulation thinks one person can do everything alone is a straw-man argument. It indicates a lack of understanding of how the private-sector economy works and how libertarians or conservatives actually think about economics. The private sector isn’t just a bunch of people ‘acting alone.’ As Matt Welch pointed out in his critique of the speech, making and selling an object as basic as a pencil is such a complex endeavor that it takes lots of different specialists. No one person has the knowledge to accomplish that seemingly simple task; that’s how decentralized knowledge is in society. And with a truly complex product, like a computer or movie, the need for people to work together is even greater still. The private sector isn’t fundamentally about everyone being secluded and isolated from each other; it typically involves many people working together. Government regulation often rules out the options people would otherwise want to pursue that would let them work together more.”

HEY KIDS, WHAT TIME IS IT? Time to Defuse the ‘Food Bomb’ in Farm Policy. “Unless Congress acts, food prices could spike by 40%-100%.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Why America Is Going Broke. “A new paper by Daniel Thornton, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, contains some useful graphs on the causes of our debt crisis. The first graph below illustrates the rise of spending relative to government revenue; the second shows that the lion’s share of increased spending has been on social services, Medicare and Medicaid in particular.”

JAMES TARANTO: ‘What Difference Does It Make?’ Mrs. Clinton finds herself in a familiar, if ironic, role. “As we watched this exchange, it occurred to us that Mrs. Clinton was back in a familiar role, and an ironic one for someone who is supposed to be a feminist icon. Once again, she was helping the most powerful man in the world dodge accountability for scandalous behavior.” That’s why they keep her around.

Oddly, some presumed feminists offer their approval.

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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Convicted felon’s role in FEMA contracts questioned.

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