WEAR AND TEAR: Tam illustrates what happens to a carry gun over time.

SALESMANSHIP: McCain: I want to name America’s new immigration reform law after Ted Kennedy. Well, if your goal is to get GOP voters to stay home, that should do it.

IN DEFENSE OF “CLICKBAIT.”

GRESHAM’S LAW IN ACTION: Why Can’t I Find Any Pre-1965 Silver Quarters?

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PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: RNC Chair Demands (And Receives) Apology From Ebony Editor For Attack On African-American Staffer: Priebus demands an apology “not just for making assumptions about his race but more importantly for dismissing black Republicans and the validity of their opinions in public discourse.” Good.

SAD TROMBONE: Gun Control Groups Fear Sen. Yee’s Indictment Will Make Gun Control More Difficult to Pass.

SCIENTISTS FIND A WAY TO READ MINDS. Well, this technology will only get better.

COMPETENCE: Boston Bombing Suspect Avoided CIA, FBI Because His Last Name Was Misspelled In DHS Database.

SPYING: Feds want an expanded ability to hack criminal suspects’ computers: Proposed rules to let one judge authorize “remote access” essentially anywhere.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Leland Yee, the Kochs, and the Press: There’s no journalistic skepticism about the motives of those on the left.

SO AT FIRST GLANCE, I thought that this Crosman BB “Shotgun” fires 30 BBs at once, which would be cool. But on closer reading I think — but I’m not entirely sure — that that’s wrong.

Meanwhile, a moment of nostalgia for the old M-19 Annihilator. “A BB machine gun! One that fired 3,000 BB’s per minute!”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10 Annoying Surprises That Trap Unsuspecting Homebuyers.

STEPHEN COLBERT makes a mess. “Often it’s your enemies who take your statements out of context, but with Twitter, you do it to yourself.”

REAL ESTATE: Finding A House That Won’t Destroy You. As you shop, bear in mind the possibility of eliminating or capping the mortgage interest deduction. But, hey, if you’re thinking of the mortgage interest deduction, you’re probably already well off: “The authors took a detailed look at the distribution of existing tax benefits for home ownership and found that the benefits do more to help wealthier Americans purchase larger homes than they do to encourage lower-income Americans who otherwise would be renting to purchase homes in the first place.”

ALAN GRUNES AND MAURICE STUCKE ON THE COMCAST/TIME WARNER MERGER: The Beneficent Monopolist.

LITIGATION: Argentina Is Joined In The Supreme Court By The Coalition Of Weasels. “The overriding theme of the three briefs is how terribly important it is for a country in crisis to be able to walk away from debt. . . . Never mentioned is that the ‘crisis’ in Argentina actually consists of nothing more than that the politicians would rather spend money on various forms of vote buying than on paying their debts. They don’t have to pay for any wars. (The Falklands war was way back in 1982.) They haven’t had any natural disasters to speak of. Whatever crisis they have is completely of their own making, born of incompetent economic policy and waste. Argentina is famous for an economy dominated by crony capitalism and subsidies.” Good thing we could never end up like that.

IT’S A BIG ONE TODAY: TaxProf Roundup: The IRS Scandal, Day 323.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: These U.S. Colleges and Majors Are the Biggest Waste of Money: You can major in art at a lower-tier public university if you want to. Just don’t expect it to make you rich.

This morning we published a review of recent research by PayScale on the most valuable colleges and majors in America, based on self-reported earnings by individuals who graduated from hundreds of schools.

Some of you asked: What about the least valuable colleges and majors in America? What a mischievous question! So we looked into that, too.

Here are the eleven schools in PayScale’s data with a 20-year net return worse than negative-$30,000. In other words: these are the schools where PayScale determined that not going to college is at least $30,000 more valuable than taking the time to pay for and graduate from one of these schools. . . . It gets worse. The self-reported earnings of art majors from Murray State are so low that after two decades, a typical high school grad will have out-earned them by nearly $200,000.

People push “college” as a source of higher earnings like it’s a generic product. But there’s college, and there’s college.

BIG ANTI-GUN POLITICIAN CHARGED WITH GUN-RUNNING, New York Times buries it on page A21. “California: State Senator Accused of Corruption.”

Howie Carr, on the other hand, covers all the Democrat arrests of the week.

Then there’s state Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco. He used to go on Piers Morgan’s now-canceled CNN moonbat-fest and denounce the Second Amendment. He sent out tweets on the first anniversary of the Newtown massacre saying, “I’m still shocked & prepared to take steps to stop gun violence.”

Well, up to a point …

He, too, was arrested on Wednesday, for allegedly arranging deals to procure M16s and rocket launchers to be smuggled into California after being purchased from Muslim terrorists in the Philippines. Sen. Yee was working with a Chinese gangster named “Shrimp Boy.”

Apparently, Yee was much less concerned about the spread of weapons of mass destruction when he was talking to his fellow hoods than when he was pontificating on CNN: “People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don’t care. People need certain things.”

Like, rocket launchers.

Two-gun Yee is the third Democrat state senator to be arrested in California this week. Earlier it was state Sen. Rod Wright (perjury) and then Ron Calderon (bribery).

What a crime wave, in less than one week. So guess what most of the networks led with on their newscasts last night? The 5-month-old story of Gov. Chris Christie’s Bridgegate. Because it has one thing going for it that none of these other stories had, the only thing that matters to the corrupt American media.

Christie is a Republican.

It’s all about the narrative.

PUTIN’S NEXT STEPS: Why He Does Not Fear NATO.

Related: Claudia Rosett: UN General Assembly Sort of Semi-Isolates Russia.

BUT THAT WOULD HURT WELL-OFF DEMOCRATS IN BLUE STATES THE MOST: Time To Scrap The Mortgage Interest Deduction.

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JAMES TARANTO: Ezekiel’s Prophecy: If he’s right, ObamaCare’s biggest disruptions are yet to come.

Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s elder brother, is a physician who helped design ObamaCare and has been one of its most intense champions. So you may be surprised to learn that in his new book, “Reinventing American Health Care,” he predicts that tens of millions more Americans will lose their medical plans in the coming decade.

In its “You’re the Boss” small-business blog, the New York Times quotes his prediction that by 2025, “fewer than 20 percent of workers in the private sector will receive traditional employer-sponsored health insurance.” As of March 2013 such benefits were available to 85% of full-time private-sector workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If Emanuel is right–and especially if, as he implies, ObamaCare was designed to produce such an outcome–the president’s repeated pledge that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan” was a far more widespread fraud than has yet been realized.

It’s fraud all the way down.