NOW THERE’S A SHORTAGE OF hospital saline solution.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Visiting Asteroids With Fleets of Nanoprobes.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Photos from 2014 Foresight Technical Conference.

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Also, Outlet Deals in Flashlights & Lanterns. Get ready for summer storms.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Aspirin May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk.

HOPEY CHANGEY: Newly Released DOJ Drone Killing Justification Memo… Points To Another Secret Drone Memo.

THE INCREASING APPEAL OF malware for mobile devices.

THE WAGES OF OVERREACH: KlearGear must pay $306,750 to couple that left negative review.

KILLER DRONES FINE, drones that deliver packages banned.

JOHN KOSKINEN WILL BE REMEMBERED DIFFERENTLY: Death of Former IRS Commissioner Johnnie Walters, Refused President’s Request to Audit His Enemies. Walters’ comment on the current situation: “I’m distressed at what’s happening and particularly with IRS. . . . IRS must be run nonpolitical. Our tax system otherwise will fail and we can’t afford that.”

I said something similar in 2009.

THE SUPREME COURT HAS RULED, but in Chicago it’s still “massive resistance.”

Under the gun to satisfy a federal judge, the City Council unanimously agreed Wednesday to allow gun shops, but keep them out of most neighborhoods and require them to videotape every sale to prevent straw purchases.

“If it was up to me as the person who helped establish the Brady bill, the five-day waiting period and the assault weapons ban, I wouldn’t take this step,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said after the 48-to-0 vote.

What’s next, standing in the gun-shop door?

AUSTIN BAY: Perhaps World War One Isn’t Over, But Just Entering A New Phase.

INTERESTING: Recess Appointment Case Was 13th Time Supreme Court Has Ruled Unanimously Against The Obama Administration Since 2012. Kinda wish they’d done that with the ObamaCare case, too, though.

BRUCE THORNTON: The Language Of Despotism.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 413.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Big Losers In The GDP Report: Democrats.

The last estimate had GDP shrinking slightly from the prior quarter. The current estimate has it shrinking a lot: 2.9 percent on an annualized basis. If this keeps up for another quarter, the economy will officially be in recession.

How did this happen? The White House line is that this was driven mostly by health care and net exports. But treat those figures carefully — which is what I’ve seen a lot of people on Twitter not doing.

Health-care spending is a major factor in the downward revision of Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates, because the BEA was overestimating it in prior reports. But it is not what is mainly driving the actual decline in GDP. That looks a lot more broad-based. . . .

The most worrisome potential explanation is that health expenditures fell because, well, health expenditures fall when the economy is contracting. I’m not exactly ready to call recession yet — consumption was still basically healthy, and the weather was awfully bad. But I’ll be crossing my fingers until the next report comes out.

And so, presumably, will Democrats: partly because they are patriotic Americans who want to see their country do well, but also because recessions are bad for incumbents and, one imagines, particularly bad for the party that claimed the other guys had driven the economy into the ditch and that they were just the folks to drive it out. If the economy heads back into a recession this year, things start looking pretty grim for the Democrats — not just for this year, but for 2016.

When you raise taxes dramatically and roll out tons of burdensome regulations, a contracting economy is only a surprise if you’re an idiot. Or a member of this Administration and the press. But I repeat myself.

THE STAGGERING PRICE of crushing the Tea Party. Hey, when I say we have the worst political class ever, I’m not just talking about Democrats.

ANOTHER UNANIMOUS OPINION, this time striking down Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB. “In choosing the make the recess appointments in the way it did, such as by not following precedents set by prior administrations (including Teddy Roosevelt) and filling some Board spots that the Senate never had time to fill, the Administration adopted a stance that was very hard to defend, so it could not attract a single vote.”

DATA: Sexual Assaults At The University of Michigan Don’t Support Claims of an “Epidemic.” “Note also that the downward trend in sexual assaults at UM is consistent with the downward trend in the national incidence of rape, which has fallen by 45% over the last 20 years, from 42.8 per 100,000 people to 23.6 per 100,000 last year (see chart below). If there’s a ‘rape epidemic’ in America, it certainly isn’t supported by the FBI national crime data.” Facts, data, and logic are tools of the Patriarchy.

EPISTEMIC CLOSURE: Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left. “The point is that Vox often looks more like a right-wing caricature of what a partisan media outlet dressed up as an explainer site would look like, rather than an actual explainer site.”

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Has Jack Bauer Ever Watched ’24’?

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IN POPULAR MECHANICS, I WRITE ON THE SUPREME COURT’S CELLPHONE PRIVACY CASE: The Supreme Court Brings the Fourth Amendment into the 21st Century.

NEW CLASS SOLIDARITY: John Stossel: Media Loves Big Government.