ROGER SIMON: ‘I’m Just a Soul Whose Intentions Are Good’: Obama, Bergdahl and Moral Narcissism.

#WARONWOMEN: Male Democratic Senate candidate uses a ‘chick’ in ad against female opponent.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: Widespread US Police Surveillance Is Happening In Total Secrecy. “The Obama administration has argued in court that cellphone customers ‘have no privacy interest’ in their location data. Further, most of the cases in question do not involve national-security matters — which led the National Security Agency to gather phone data on millions of Americans — but use many of the same surveillance methods.”

MORE ON OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE’S MAN-HATING POLICE STATE: Good grades, good home gets college student profiled as rapist, claims lawsuit.

Mamas, don’t let your babies go off to Occidental college. At least, not if they’re male.

FATHERS MATTER: Relevant? Nurturing? Well, So’s Your Old Man.

Mr. Raeburn writes that “as recently as a generation ago, in the 1970s, most psychologists” believed that “with regard to infants, especially, fathers were thought to have little or no role to play.” When it came to toddlers and older children, too, the great parenting theories of the 20th century placed fathers in the background. Freud famously exalted, or damned, the mother for her influence. John Bowlby’s attachment theory, which he developed beginning in the 1940s, focused on the mother or “mother-figure.”

When the pioneering researcher Michael E. Lamb became interested in the role of fathers, in the mid-1970s, “there wasn’t much evidence for the irrelevancy of fathers” — it was just assumed, Mr. Raeburn writes.

There sure was a lot of crappy social science in the 1970s. The book, meanwhile, is Paul Raeburn’s Do Fathers Matter?

PHILIP KLEIN: Latest moves show the inner President Obama has been unleashed.

In his first term, Obama fought against Iran sanctions until Congress overwhelmingly passed them and he was forced into changing course.

But in his second term, Obama has engaged in a aggressive diplomatic effort with Iran that has already allowed the radical Islamic regime to pocket significant concessions (such as U.S. acknowledging the Iranian right to enrich uranium), without reducing the likelihood that Iran will be able to reach nuclear capability.

At the start of his presidency, Obama tried to pursue a policy of creating “daylight” between the United States and Israel, but this often clashed with his attempt, in the run up to his re-election, to portray himself as supporting the American ally.

With such political considerations aside, Obama has become more comfortable displaying his true attitude toward Israel.

He needs to be contained until 2017, which is why it’s very important that the GOP retake the Senate this year.

TRANSPARENCY: U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU.

STEVEN CROWDER EXPLAINS THINGS: Having a Penis Doesn’t Equal Misogyny.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: WaPo: “For the first time in a very long time, Americans aren’t so sure their kids will have better lives than they do.”

GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE LEFT IS ANDROPHOBIC: Ross Douthat on The Left and Masculinity. “They look at the state of sex and gender, masculinity and femininity, and see an uncomplicatedly progressive social revolution that just hasn’t fully succeeded yet — that hasn’t brought men, especially, into the sunlit uplands of egalitarian enlightenment — because far too many ‘traditional’ concepts and constraints still perdure. I see a social revolution that has brought good and bad, intermixed, and whose supporters could profit from the realization that some of the human goods they seek are actually more clearly visible behind us, somewhere back in a cultural past they still insist they’re fighting to overthrow, whose actual details the darkness of forgetting has almost swallowed up.”

And in passing, I’ll just note again that chivalry was a system, which imposed numerous obligations on women, as well as on men. It is, I think, impossible to critique what has happened to notions of masculinity, without thinking about what has happened to notions of femininity in our culture. But that could lead to dangerous heresies.

PRIORITIES: Dems: Not Giving GOP a ‘Rhetorical Weapon’ Beats Dealing With Serious Medicaid Enrollment Problems.

CHARLES LANE: Fascinating how Obama recasts Bergdahl as a “child.” Uses word four times to describe him.

TWEET OF THE DAY: “Let me be clear. I will never negotiate with terrorists. Technically, I’m rolling over.”

Yeah, it’s the second Tweet Of The Day, but it’s an unusually target-rich environment. . . .

GOOD: Single Dose of Antibiotic Found Effective in Quelling MRSA. “A single infusion of an antibiotic can clear serious bacterial skin infections — including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA — just as effectively as the 10-day regimen now used to treat patients, researchers reported Wednesday. Many patients do not finish the complicated treatment for these infections, which requires two infusions of antibiotics daily, often in a hospital. Such incomplete treatments may breed resistance to antibiotics in surviving bacteria. A single-dose therapy may make it easier to treat these dangerous infections, said the authors of the new study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.”

SO IN 33 YEARS, no nation has lowered its obesity rate.

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THE BERGDAHL DEBACLE JUST GETS WORSE: EXCLUSIVE: Bergdahl declared jihad in captivity, secret documents show. And CENTCOM knew it in 2010.

MUST-SEE TV: Feminists Talk About Elliot Rodger.

SISTERHOOD IS NOT THAT POWERFUL: WaPo: Biggest Misogynists Are Women.

It was H.L. Mencken who defined a misogynist as “A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”

I believe Al Bundy said something similar.

FASTER, PLEASE: Repairing The Brain With Implantable Memory Chips.

WELL, OF COURSE NOT. HE NEVER APOLOGIZES FOR ANY OF HIS FUCK-UPS. Obama: “I make absolutely no apologies” for Bergdahl prisoner exchange.

HMM: Poor health, lifestyle factors linked to memory complaints, even among younger adults. “They were surprised by the prevalence of memory issues among younger adults, said the study’s senior author, Dr. Gary Small, UCLA’s Parlow–Solomon Professor on Aging and director of the UCLA Longevity Center.” I think the White House’s PR approach counts on this.

OKAY, IF YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT FROM ME, AND YOU WON’T BELIEVE IT FROM RIPPETOE, MAYBE YOU’LL BELIEVE IT FROM HER: Victoria’s Secret Angel: Squats Are The Key.

If she stops by the Wichita Falls Athletic Club, I’ll bet Rippetoe would be willing to give her a free training session.

I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Huge ‘Beast’ Asteroid to Fly By Earth Soon, Live Webcast Today. Warning: Annoying autoplay video ad.

COLD WAR IMAGES: This Is Where Americans Planned to Spend the Nuclear Holocaust.