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MICHELLE FIELDS INTERVIEWS RICHARD VEDDER: Failure Penalty: Should Colleges Have Skin in the Student Loan Game? I certainly think so.

WE CAN PHOTOSHOP IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE: What a scam! Student boasts to friends about trekking through Asia, visiting stunning beaches, tasting local cuisine and meeting Buddhist monks – using FAKE photos taken in her home town.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Build A Blowgun From Playing Cards.

READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Jodi Adler, Auntie Jodi’s Helpful Hints.

NOW OUT: The Tennessee Law Review’s new Second Amendment symposium issue. The issue as a whole isn’t online, but you can read my Foreword, The Second Amendment As Ordinary Constitutional Law, on SSRN. And Josh Blackman has rounded up links to all the articles’ online versions.

GUN HERO OF THE DAY.

INTERESTING: Nevada’s $1.2 billion deal for Tesla Gigafactory lets EV company sell direct; Movie Tax Breaks, Insurance Companies Losing Out.

WHY POLICE SHOULD WEAR BODY CAMERAS: Oakland Firefighter Plays Victim Card Until Police Release Video.

DEREK LOWE: Thiola, Retrophin, Martin Shkrell, Reddit, and More.

Well, it was not a dull evening around the In the Pipeline headquarters last night. I submitted a link to Reddit for my post yesterday about Retrophin and Thiola, and that blew up onto that site’s front page. The Corante server melted under the impact, which isn’t too surprising, since it’s struggling at the best of times. (A site move really is coming, and no, I can’t wait, either, at this point.)

But then, to my great surprise, Martin Shkreli (CEO of Retrophin) showed up in the Reddit thread, doing an impromptu AMA (Ask Me Anything), which I have to say takes quite a bit of aplomb (or perhaps foolhardiness – I don’t think too many other CEOs of any publicly traded corporations would have done it). But not too long after that, the entire thread vanished off the front page, and off of r/News, the subreddit where I’d submitted it.

Then I got a message from one of the moderators of r/News, saying that I’d been banned from it, and going on to say that I would likely be banned from the site as a whole. After having been on Reddit for seven years, that took me by surprise. As best I can figure, the thread itself was reported to r/Spam by someone, and the automated system took over from there. Over the years, I’ve submitted links to my blog posts, and Reddit, or some parts of it, anyway, has been notoriously touchy about that. The last time I submitted such a link, though, was back in February (and before that, August of 2013), so I’m not exactly a human spam-bot. We’ll see what happens. Update: I was banned for some hours, but I’ve been reinstated.

Lately, Reddit seems bigger at banning people and taking things down at the behest of the powerful. Here’s the original post, entitled The Most Unconscionable Drug Price Hike I Have Yet Seen.

Plus: “Businesses can, though, charge what they think the market will bear, and Retrophin’s contribution to cystinuria therapy so far is to have realized that the market will bear a lot more than people had realized. But in an actual market, it would be easier for someone else to come in and compete on price. What Retrophin is planning is to use regulatory loopholes to keep anyone else from doing so, with no time limit until someone at the FDA does something about it.”

PAUL RAHE: Is Obama a War Criminal? “Is killing people via bombing strikes a war crime if it serves no larger strategic purpose, if it is a feckless act apt only to enrage against us those Sunnis who desperately fear the Shia, if it is a cynical maneuver aimed solely at improving the President’s standing in the polls? It is, after all, one thing to seek victory and another to engage in aimless mayhem.”

Plus: “The war in Iraq and Syria really is a war of Barack Obama’s making. Had he kept a body of troops in Iraq to encourage Maliki to honor the arrangements he had worked out with the Kurds and the Sunni, Al Q’aeda in an even more malevolent form would not have made a comeback. Had he vigorously backed the secular reformers in Syria, Bashar al-Assad would have been ousted some time ago, and ISIS would never have secured a foothold. His fecklessness in the past is now, however, going to be compounded by his fecklessness in the present.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Japanese woman is first recipient of next-generation stem cells: Surgeons implanted retinal tissue created after reverting the patient’s own cells to ‘pluripotent’ state.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 492.

HMM: Sarah Palin: I owe America an apology because John McCain should be president. See, I don’t think so. McCain polled his highest — the only time he was ahead of Obama — after the Palin pick. He lost his lead when the financial crisis struck at a crucial time, and when he pulled that idiotic “campaign suspended” stunt.

LOUDER WITH CROWDER: Is Moderate Islam A Myth?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Report: Sen. Landrieu took nine more ‘suspicious’ flights.

Louisiana U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu took nine charter flights — costing taxpayers nearly $15,000 — that coincided with campaign events where she raised over $130,000, in possible violation of federal law.

The nine flights are in addition to several others that were discovered last month.

On Friday, the Republican National Committee released records of the flights, which Landrieu expensed to her Senate office — and ultimately to taxpayers — between 2000 and 2008.

All of the flights coincided with fundraisers she held in Louisiana.

On May 31, 2000, for example, Landrieu expensed $1,531 for a flight from New Orleans to Alexandria, La. On the same day, according to records published by the RNC, she raised $28,150 from Alexandria-area businessmen.

The rest of the records are similar, with flights ranging in cost from $950 to $2,379.

If Landrieu did indeed use her Senate office account to pay for the chartered flights, that would be in violation of federal law and Senate rules, which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars from paying for campaign activities.

If she were a Republican, the Eric Holder Justice Department would probably be moving to indict.

HMM: Larry Klayman is suing Facebook for enabling terrorism.

SO HOW’S THAT GOING FOR YOU NOW, CHAMP? Read this 2008 op-ed by candidate Obama on Iraq. Then laugh, or cry.