JACK DUNPHY: SWAT Tragedy that Burned an Infant Could Have Been Avoided. “It’s the duty of all police officers to minimize the risks to innocents.”

HMM: TrueCrypt Is Back, But Should It Be? Can you trust any encryption product that you don’t completely understand and control?

THE HILL: Democrats’ New Coal Headache.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule on carbon pollution is the latest headache for Democrats trying to defend a fragile Senate majority.

With many vulnerable Democrats coming from energy-producing states, Republicans argued the Obama administration’s call for power plants to cut their carbon emissions 30 percent by 2030 would cost local jobs and increase energy prices. Democratic candidates in coal-rich West Virginia and Kentucky were among the first to try to distance themselves from the president after the changes were unveiled Monday.

In West Virginia, Senate nominee Natalie Tennant promised she would “stand up to President Obama, [EPA Administrator] Gina McCarthy, and anyone else who tries to undermine our coal jobs.”

Democrats’ path to keeping their six-seat Senate majority depends on protecting seats in red states like West Virginia, where the coal industry is one of the state’s primary job providers. There, Tennant is already at a disadvantage in the open seat contest against GOP Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, largely because of Obama’s dismal approval numbers.

In the much more competitive Kentucky Senate Race, Democratic nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes also slammed the rule.

But obviously they didn’t have the clout to block it.

MICKEY KAUS: I Sense A Pattern. “Twice now–on deportation policy and on admitting young illegal immigrants into the military — the Obama administration has set in motion concessions to immigrant activist groups only to put those changes hold in order to not inflame Republicans who might, left uninflamed, pass an immigration bill.”

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Obama: “When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.”

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: VA Scandal Exposes Greedy Socialism.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor of the Year: ‘If You Don’t Give Me Any of Your Shitty Papers, You Get an A.’

JAKE TAPPER: Hillary ‘Definitely’ Should Be Questioned on Bergdahl.

TAM: What’s the area code for 1994?

GALLERY: The Internet’s Hidden Infrastructure.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Beam me up: Scientists say human teleportation is ‘possible’ as they transfer atoms three metres in groundbreaking experiment.

ABC NEWS: Vets Accuse Bowe Bergdahl of Walking Away. Boy, when even outlets like NPR and ABC are reporting this story, it’s bad news for the White House.

SHOCKINGLY, “SLUT-SHAMING” IS PRETTY MUCH ALL ABOUT INTER-FEMALE COMPETITION: What Women Mean When We Call Each Other “Sluts” And “Whores.”

Interestingly, young women from a lower class background who were trying to socialize with higher-status groups were more likely to be labeled “sluts,” the study found. Armstrong explained that lower-class women risked being called out and humiliated by the higher-class women for their clothes or behavior, which signaled they weren’t welcome in the group. (And not surprisingly further cemented their reputation for being stuck up.) Also interesting, as Double X reports, is how higher-status women were less concerned with how many men that lower-status women had slept with but whether the men themselves were lower status. Higher-class women, it seems, are highly attuned to the subtleties of status-by-association. Yet higher-class women were also (frustratingly) less concerned with what the lower-class women thought of them.

So the problem is having sex with low-status men. Got it.

CHARGING SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES WITH UNDERMINING MARRIAGE:

Note how even when talking about women deliberately creating fatherless children in the most undeniable sense, the only moral judgement is on the man who donated the sperm. They aren’t objecting to the cultural idea that a woman would deliberately create a fatherless child, but to the cultural idea that the man should not have to pay her large sums of money as a reward for her making this awful choice. The inability to see women as responsible for their very deliberate choices regarding marriage and motherhood is a tremendous blind spot in our culture.

Also note that the solution to unwed motherhood isn’t to send a moral message that unwed motherhood deprives children of fathers. The solution is to bolster unwed motherhood by making sure our new family model is consistently followed.

Yeah, I see a lot of that kind of man-bashing among social-con types. I think there’s a strong desire to judge somebody, but since in our culture it’s not permissible to judge women for these kinds of choices, it all falls on men, because that’s easy and safe.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: After College: Debt, Unemployment, & Mom’s Basement.

HMM: Sources: Intelligence community investigated Bergdahl’s conduct. “Many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy.”

These worries even made NPR this afternoon. Plus “Many officials in the Executive Branch are ‘quite baffled’ by the White House’s decision to allow the president to stand alongside Bergdahl’s father this past weekend, given the father’s history of controversial statements, emails and online posts.”

IT’S NOT JUST SURVEILLANCE. THERE’S ALSO THE PROBLEM OF REMOTE CONTROL. Self-Driving Cars Will Turn Surveillance Woes Into a Mainstream Worry.

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CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: “Rule of Thumb” not actually about wife-beating, despite bad history to the contrary. It’s an urban legend that has passed into feminist faux-history. “The problem with a lot of research on women is not so much that the authors make mistakes — we all make mistakes — the problem is that the mistakes are impervious to criticism.”

WHAT’S WORSE THAN BEING BULLIED? Being ignored. I dunno, I never minded being ignored, but I have a rich inner life.

I FIND YOUR FRINGE IDEAS INTRIGUING, AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER: Success Of Fringe Parties In European Parliament Raises New Obstacle To TAFTA/TTIP’s Progress. Good, as all evidence suggests that this — largely secret — agreement is a corporate-control giveaway.

PAYBACK TIME: First patent troll ordered to pay “extraordinary case” fees.

FLEET WEEK: Touring The USS Oak Hill.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cold, Hard Facts About Freezers.