TEST-DRIVING THE 2015 Honda CR-V.

HEH: Go Tell The Spartans.

$1.99 ON KINDLE TODAY: David Halberstam’s The Fifties.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: A Breakthrough In 3D Imaging By EM Alone.

TEN WAYS THE CAR IS BECOMING more than just a vehicle.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 520.

I’M PRETTY SURE A LOT OF PEOPLE PREFER THE PUBLIC TO BE IGNORANT ABOUT SUCH THINGS: The persistence of public ignorance about federal spending. “The Pew poll is consistent with numerous previous studies that reach similar results, consistently showing that the public massively overestimates foreign aid spending, and underestimates spending on big entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare. British voters are misinformed about their own government’s budget in much the same way.”

YOU DON’T ASK QUESTIONS WHEN YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR THE ANSWERS: Secret Service never questioned agent about prostitution scandal. “Secret Service investigators never formally questioned a senior agent whom co-workers say was implicated in a Colombian prostitution scandal that ensnared a dozen other agents.”

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ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Andrew Klavan: What Gender Are You?

#WARONWOMEN: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Why would Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke choose someone once charged with domestic abuse to star in her latest campaign ad?”

GEORGE LEEF: The Canary In The Law School Coal Mine?

In his recent City Journal article Machines v. Lawyers, Northwestern Law School professor John O. McGinnis explained why the demand for lawyers will keep shrinking. “Law is, in effect, an information technology – a code that regulates social life. And as the machinery of information technology grows exponentially in power, the legal profession faces a great disruption not unlike that already experienced by journalism, which has seen employment drop by about a third….”

Throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s, law was a growth industry and a great many people (especially students who had taken “soft” majors in college) figured that earning a JD was an attractive option. Naturally, law schools expanded to accommodate the throngs of degree seekers, who were aided by federal student loan programs. Going to law school both delayed the need to start repaying undergraduate loans and appeared to be the pathway into a bright and lucrative career.

That’s not true anymore.

Indicative of the new law school reality is the announcement by the administration of the Western Michigan University Thomas Cooley Law School that it will close its Ann Arbor campus at the end of 2014.

A crucial factor in the steep declines in law school enrollment is the ready availability of information on the job prospects for graduates.

My colleague Ben Barton has a book on this subject, forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Female Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault.

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Only American Ground Troops Can Defeat ISIS. Yeah, but that’s not Obama’s plan. His plan is to look like he’s kinda doing something until November, then let ISIS win.

STEPHEN HAYES: Failure Upon Failure: The Disintegration Of The Obama Presidency.

WELL, THIS IS COMFORTING: Ebola: Officials Admit A ‘Defeat’ In Sierra Leone.

WEAK HORSE: U.S.-led air war in Syria is off to a difficult start, with moderate rebels disenchanted.

MARILINDA GARCIA, millennial candidate on the move.

ANNALS OF OFFICIAL THUGGERY: U.S. Capitol Police Dodging Questions On Harry Reid Attack Video.

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JOURNALISM: News & Observer sat on huge Hagan fundraiser story for two weeks. Think of them as Democratic operatives with bylines and you won’t be far wrong.

IT’S POTEMKIN VILLAGES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Fact checking Mark Warner and a ‘completely made up’ Obamacare claim.

DOOMED TEXAS CANDIDATE WENDY DAVIS aims wheelchair smear at Greg Abbott.

Every Democratic candidate should be asked, a la Todd Akin, if they support this tactic.

UPDATE: From the comments: “On a side note, I’m fascinated to see that Little Miss Harvard Law superlawyer is too dense to know the difference between compensatory damages (which is all Abbott asked for in his lawsuit against the tree maintenance company) and punitive damages (which are now restricted in Texas). Way to not understand Torts 101.”

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT: Jewish teen among dozens of French girls joining jihad in Syria. Well, chicks dig bad boys.