A SALUTE TO THE EUROPEAN YOUTH. Something about this seems kind of familiar, somehow.

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PHILIP KLEIN: A high-speed train wreck for Obama and liberalism.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Biotech lab in the cloud lowers entry barrier to nanotech research.

REALLY? Brady’s death ruled homicide; Hinckley could be charged. Having already been found to be not guilty by reason of insanity at the time he shot Brady, how could Hinckley be guilty of anything else?

THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING, you really need to read Kurt Schlichter’s book.

THE NEW REPUBLIC: “Far from being sites of activism and empowerment, Berkeley’s Women’s Studies classes were weighed down by theory and jargon.” True, but since this article mindlessly parrots the discredited one-in-five-college-women-are-raped claim, maybe that’s just as well.

DRIVERS SAY THEY’RE READY For Autonomous Cars.

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ADMINISTRATION AS CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY: Key ObamaCare official likely deleted emails now sought in House probe.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: New Study Supports Links Between Dementia And Vitamin D Deficiency. “The researchers discovered that participants with a moderate vitamin D deficiency had a 53% increased risk of developing any form of dementia, and those with a severe deficiency had a 125% increased risk. Similar results were also found for the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, which is the most common form of dementia. Interestingly, they found that there was a threshold level of 50nmol/L vitamin D in the serum, below which the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s was markedly increased.”

EDUCATION: Video: This Teachers Union President Will ‘PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE’ If You Don’t Like Common Core. “Attendees at the convention said the hulking, bald and very angry union boss’s intimidating diatribe was frightening.” Just the person to entrust with our children’s future.

CORY BOOKER’S SMOOTH OPERATION: Booker Staffer tells Booker Opponent to ‘Suck It.’

VIRGINIA POSTREL on History’s 7 Most Glamorous Women.

UPDATE: Virginia emails:

Hi Glenn,
Thanks for picking up my listicle, but would you mind adding something to correct the horrible headline and avoid a lot of dumb comments?

As I explain in the first paragraph this is NOT the list of “History’s 7 Most Glamorous Women,” which is a nearly meaningless concept. It is a list of seven glamorous women who helped to define by their example what it meant to be a “modern woman.” They are mostly from the first half of the 20th century, when that was a burning cultural question.

So there you have it.

SMART DIPLOMACY: June 2014: Obama declares world ‘less violent’ than ever.

August 2014: Asked if Kerry was traveling to help broker a political truce, @PressSec had to ask what country the question was about.

WELL, YES: Slate: Gridlock In Washington Means Our Political System Is Working Exactly As It Should.

COMPETENCE: U.S. can’t deliver on FATCA promises. “To circumvent the issue of conflicting local laws, the U.S. Treasury Department conjured for itself powers and responsibilities not part of the actual legislation.” There seems to be a lot of that going on.

THAT’LL BE GOOD PRACTICE: Next Mars Rover Will Make Oxygen from CO2. We’re moving more slowly than I’d like, but at least we’re moving in the right direction.

THIRTEEN YEARS AGO TODAY, InstaPundit’s first post went up.

UH HUH: “He would do better to find his inner George Bush right now. Bush would make what he believed was the right decision and allow the media to beat him up all they wanted. That’s what I want Obama to do.”

OBAMA’S ENERGY GURU is enthusiastic about small, modular nuclear reactors.

THE HORROR OF SAD ETSY BOYFRIENDS. (Via Ace).

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 456.

THANKS, RUSSIA — but we’ll mock Obama without your help.