THE OLD ONE WAS PROBABLY MORE RESISTANT TO ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE: B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s.

LEFTY WISH-FULFILLMENT BOOK ALL FAKED-UP? THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE. The Financial Times Isn’t Just Saying Piketty Made A Mistake — They’re Saying He Manipulated Data.

Who could have seen that coming?

SHUT UP, PAKISTAN, YOU’RE DRUNK: Pakistan Internet Content Regulator Asks Twitter To Take Down A ‘Blasphemous’ Search.

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JELLYFISH PROBLEM? “If you can’t beat them, eat them.”

I’ve championed a similar approach myself, but naturally the environmentalists are mucking things up.

MORE ON THE MICROBIOME: A Hygiene Experiment. “The tonic looks, feels and tastes like water, but each spray bottle of AO+ Refreshing Cosmetic Mist contains billions of cultivated Nitrosomonas eutropha, an ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) that is most commonly found in dirt and untreated water. AOBiome scientists hypothesize that it once lived happily on us too — before we started washing it away with soap and shampoo — acting as a built-in cleanser, deodorant, anti-inflammatory and immune booster by feeding on the ammonia in our sweat and converting it into nitrite and nitric oxide.”

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT: Cracking Down On People Who Shoot Lasers At Aircraft.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: An Angry Graduate’s Reply To A University Fundraising Letter.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Jim Crow Prowls Paradise. So much for the post-racial Obama era, I guess.

KILLING MOSQUITOES with Garlic Oil. Every time a mosquito dies, the world becomes a better place.

IN BRITAIN, big wins for the UKIP. It’s much harder to start new parties in the US, and the anti-EU sentiment isn’t the same issue, of course, but the dissatisfaction with the political establishment certainly remains.

BRYAN PRESTON: #LikeABoss: Democrats’ Ridiculous Bossy Bumper Sticker Just Begs to be Photoshopped (Updates).

THE SCIENCE OF Bruce Lee’s One-Inch Punch.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Presiding Over A College After It Closes. “The board came back to me and said, Would you agree to be the president? We can’t pay you anymore, but we’ll give you the parking space near the building.”

WHY OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IS SCREWED, in one basic chart.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 379.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Master’s is the new Bachelor’s.

Eight percent of the population now holds Master’s degrees, the same percentage that held bachelor’s degrees (or higher) in the 1960s, reports Vox. Master’s degrees in education were by far the most popular, holding at around a third to a quarter of all such degrees from 1971 to 2012, though MBAs had taken the top spot by 2010. In fact, the increase in the number of MBA degrees is astonishing: Only 11.2 percent of master’s degrees were in business in 1971, but in 2012, they were a whopping 25.4 percent.

The rise of the master’s degree is likely a product of credential inflation. As more and more people acquire bachelor’s degrees, those who wish to make themselves stand out go on to get the MA. And as Vox points out, while a Master’s degree does have a positive impact on earnings, the overall debt of people with undergraduate and Master’s degrees has grown markedly in the past decade. In fact, as we recently noted, graduate student debt is in large part driving the student loan crisis.

Conclusion: “This data is not a good sign for our economic health.”

Nope.

MEDIA RUNNING CLIMATE-CHANGE STORIES EVEN THOUGH VIEWERS ARE TUNING OUT.

I QUESTION THE TIMING OF THESE PIECES: The Supreme Court Needs Term Limits.

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PRIORITIES: Al Qaeda Terrorists At Guantanamo Treated Better Than American Veterans. “Al Qaeda detainees get better medical treatment than our veterans. Say what? Yes, it’s true. I know because I served as a Pentagon spokesman from 2005-2009 and visited Guantanamo Bay Naval Base over 30 times during those years. Doctors and medical personnel are at their beck and call. Got a cold, a fever, a toothache, a tumor, chest or back pain, mental health issues, PTSD? No problem, come right on in. Military doctors are waiting to see you. The VA and Gitmo eligible patient-to-health care provider ratios speak volumes. While the Gitmo ratio is 1.5 to 1, for America’s 9 million veterans receiving VA health care and 267,930 VA employees, the ratio is 35 to 1. . . . In late 2008, when Obama was president-elect, he and his staff were warned not to trust the wait times reported by VA health care facilities. But instead of fixing the problem, their focus was closing Guantanamo and improving the comfort of detainees. Even though they already lived under some of the best prison conditions ever seen.”

ED DRISCOLL: Obama’s Excuse Machine. “It’s now blatantly obvious how the Obama Excuse Machine approaches every scandal. Since the Obama White House has become the equivalent of an ancient 8-Track tape stuck in a loop until it wears itself out, why can’t the GOP, and a la Andrew, Acorn, and the MSM turn the Obama spin machine cycle against itself?”

IN LIBYA, A New Revolution Against The Islamic Terrorists.

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: Flood of Comments Prompts IRS to Rethink Rule Limiting Political Activity of Nonprofits. Pushback works.