SPYING: More Details Emerge Showing The US Government Has No Idea How To Solve A Problem Like Snowden.

MORE PROTEIN IN DIET may lower stroke risk. Well, it’ll tend to keep you thinner, which would do that all by itself.

THE SUBHED SAYS “FIRST CLASS FOR THE 1 PERCENT,” BUT IT’S ACTUALLY MORE LIKE THE .00001 PERCENT. The Jumbo Jets Boeing and Airbus Turn Into Posh Private Planes. It’s actually regular First Class that aims at the 1 percent, that is, people earning in the low six figures.

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Also, markdowns on Stanley Tools.

THE “DAUGHTER EFFECT:” An example of judicial “sensitivity,” or a conflict of interest?

HOPEY-CHANGEY: Record Numbers of Americans Are Renouncing Their U.S. Citizenship.

FREE SPEECH: Appeals court throws out $340,000 online libel ruling.

DESPITE THE “MISSING” EMAILS, NEWS IS STILL COMING OUT: “In fact, the documents showed Lerner wanted to make an example out of someone with charges in order to chill all of the groups in the tea party movement.”

I think it’s fair at this point to assume that the “missing” emails are missing because someone in the White House was behind this.

LUCKILY, THESE DON’T GET COUNTED IN THE “CORE” INFLATION RATE: Price Index for Meats, Poultry, Fish & Eggs Rockets to All-Time High. Hopey-Changey!

Meanwhile, here’s a link to that Strategic Shopping piece.

REVIEW: 2015 Jaguar F-type V-6 S Coupe.

POLITICO: Dana Milbank’s Heritage Disaster. A racist smear that failed because there was video.

Reminds me of this from Drudge:

WITH OVER FOUR THOUSAND DOWNLOADS, my The Second Amendment As Ordinary Constitutional Law is still at #1 on SSRN. Thanks for downloading!

SO LONG AS I DON’T MISS MY FLIGHT: Request An Uber, Get Optimus Prime.

POPE FRANCIS EXPLAINS why he doesn’t use a bulletproof Popemobile.

SCOTT JOHNSON: “In Year Six of the Age of Obama, we are in a great unraveling at home and abroad, with much more to come.”

RICHARD EPSTEIN: In California, A Win For Students.

JUST FIRE EVERYBODY AND SEND THEM TO RE-EDUCATION CAMPS: The Internal Revenue Service says it can’t produce emails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 404.

MARK TAPSCOTT: Two Reasons Why The IRS Scandal Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 23 Ways To Win Your Wedding Registry.

The bloom is on the rose, and weddings are in the air. That means wedding registries are on the Internet. Which in turn means that, I am sorry to say, there are a lot of young, giggly, blushing people running through stores with handheld scanners, preparing to make terrible mistakes about their kitchen equipment.

Please don’t take this the wrong way. There’s no reason that you should be any good at assembling a wedding registry; after all, if all goes well, it is the sort of thing you will do only once in your life. That’s why it struck me that a bit of advice from someone who a) is obsessed with kitchen equipment and b) has already been through the harrowing process of wondering exactly which items were good enough to demand from your friends might be helpful.

Well, not for me, but yeah.

WAPO: Obama’s Iraq Disaster.

In 2011, the situation in Iraq was so good that the Obama administration was actually trying to take credit for it, with Vice President Joe Biden declaring that Iraq “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.”

Now in 2014, as Iraq descends into chaos, Democrats are trying to blame the fiasco on — you guessed it — George W. Bush. “I don’t think this is our responsibility,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, declaring that the unfolding disaster in Iraq “represents the failed policies that took us down this path 10 years ago.”

Sorry, but this is a mess of President Obama’s making.

Yep.

UPDATE: Barack Obama Golfs While Middle East Burns. “Last weekend Barack Obama played his 175th and 176th rounds of golf as president. He played first at Sunnylands, the famously private course on the Rancho Mirage, California estate of the late billionaire Walter Annenberg. Obama next played at Porcupine Creek, the equally private course on the nearby estate of the very-much-alive tech billionaire Larry Ellison.”

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Plus, Bestselling Medical Books. Though some of these don’t look especially medical. . .

UNEXPECTEDLY! Consumer prices rise sharply in May. “Consumer prices last month posted their sharpest increase in 15 months as inflation continued a recent acceleration from unusually low levels. The consumer price index jumped 0.4% after rising 0.3% in April, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Economists had expected a 0.2% increase.”

JAMES TARANTO: The Lois Stretch: It’s reminiscent of Rose Mary Woods’s 18½ minutes of fame.

Vietnam and Watergate have been central to the worldview of a generation of liberal Democrats. For decades, whenever a Republican was in the White House, they eagerly anticipated that every U.S. military intervention would turn into “another Vietnam” and every scandal “another Watergate.”

Be careful what you wish for. As we noted Friday, the Vietnam analogy now seems to fit Iraq, except that it was a Democratic administration that initiated the U.S. involvement in the former conflict, while a Republican one presided over the U.S. withdrawal that left a humanitarian disaster in its wake. The administrations’ parties were reversed in the case of Iraq.

Also on Friday, a new development in the Internal Revenue Service scandal drew comparisons to the Wategate coverup. The IRS informed the House Ways and Means Committee, one of the panels investigating the scandal, “that they have lost Lois Lerner emails from a period of January 2009-April 2011,” Chairman Dave Camp announced. . . .

Camp notes that the IRS decided to “bury” the claim of lost emails “deep in an unrelated letter on a Friday afternoon.” He isn’t kidding. It appears on the 15th page of the document, which is actually the seventh page of the first attachment to an eight-page letter, addressed to Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Orrin Hatch of Utah, respectively chairman and ranking Republican of the Senate Finance Committee.

The IRS asserts that it has “determined that Ms. Lerner’s computer crashed in mid-2011. . . . The data stored on her computer’s hard drive was determined to be ‘unrecoverable’ by the IT [information technology] professionals.” The agency further claims to have “confirmed that back-up tapes from 2011 no longer exist because they have been recycled.”

We’re not the first to hear echoes of the missing 18½ minutes of President Nixon’s Oval Office tapes. The Washington Post recounted the excuse for the destruction of that evidence in its 2005 obituary for Rose Mary Woods.

But not in its coverage of Lois Lerner.