I’LL BE ON JOHN STOSSEL’S SHOW TONIGHT AT 9 ET, talking about . . . well, you can probably guess.

REBRANDING HERSELF AS A LIBERTARIAN? KINDA LATE IN THE GAME FOR THAT: Wendy Davis Supports Open Carry Now? Seriously? “Davis’ campaign is in a tailspin after revelations that she embellished the origins story that was central to her campaign for governor. Wendy Davis needs a game-changer, or at least a subject-changer. And surprise! Wendy Davis is now in favor of open carry. . . . Davis is trying to defuse an issue before it becomes even more of a problem for her, and may be trying to raise her bottom-feeding F score from the National Rifle Association. But the reality is, her new position just creates new questions about her credibility. It raises the question of whether she can be believed on anything. Six months ago Wendy Davis wanted to do what the radical Travis County Democrats are doing. Now she wants Texans to believe that she’s for open carry? There is good news here, for gun rights advocates. Attacking the Second Amendment is a dead end in Texas.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: K.C. Johnson: More Grotesque Sex Hearings At Yale.

So a Yale faculty member was suspended solely–at least according to the Spangler document–on the basis of an anonymous complaint. Even if the professor is ultimately exonerated, this move exemplifies the remarkable, unchecked power given to virtually anyone on the Yale campus to commence a witch hunt against a male student or even faculty member who has crossed the accuser.

And, finally, the case from the current report that (unintentionally) best reveals the Kafka-esque environment that now prevails at Yale. Spangler indicates that “an anonymous [graduate] student reported that a [graduate] student, who was not identified, made inappropriate remarks of a sexual nature.”

The investigation, Spangler informs us, “is pending.”

Would you pay a small fortune to send your son there?

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DATING ADVICE FROM TAYLOR SWIFT. And from Miley Cyrus. A generation lost in space.

Okay, actually Miley’s comment on how romantic comedies are like porn for women was fairly insightful, considering.

SCIENCE: NASA’s Troubled $8-Billion Hubble Successor Is Back on Track.

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BILL HENDERSON: If We Make Legal Education More Experiential, Would it Really Matter? “I think the answer is yes. But, unfortunately, in virtually all of the debate surrounding legal education, there is a tremendous lack of clarity and precision about how we assess improvements in quality. And equally relevant, if a gain is real, was it worth the cost?”

SPACE: NASA Mars orbiter examines dramatic new crater.

CALLING OUT RON FOURNIER for shady race talk.

FASTER, PLEASE: This Time With Feeling: A man with a robotic hand can now feel varying degrees of pressure thanks to an implant that connects with the nerves in his arm.

JOE PAPPALARDO: 3 Ways Red Tape Could Ground Private Space. “The nation has never seen anything like the nascent private space industry. There are laws and regulations that could keep spaceflight safe or smother entrepreneurial firms and industries in their cradles.”

SPACE: Massive Worldwide Response to Inspiration Mars Student Design Contest.

ED DRISCOLL INTERVIEWS the incomparable P.J. O’Rourke about his new book, The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way, And It Wasn’t My Fault.

WAR ON WOMEN: NAACP Asks Massachusetts House Not To Expel Lawmaker Jailed for Beating Woman When She Wouldn’t Have Sex With Him.

UPDATE: You can listen live to the proceedings here.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 273.

ROSS DOUTHAT: Liberals, Obamacare and Work.

So far, nearly all of the left-of-center responses to the latest C.B.O. projections on Obamacare and workforce participation have emphasized the upside of the downward trend — the fact that what we’re seeing is just the end of job lock in action, which gives parents the freedom to cut their hours, near-retirees the chance to stop working a job they hate a little early, and so on down a sympathetic list. ”If Obamacare really does cause millions of people to voluntarily leave full-time employment,” Matt Yglesias writes in a representative piece, “that shows us how much avoidable suffering the earlier system was causing,” and you can find roughly similar arguments from Jonathan Cohn, Jonathan Chait, and others too numerous to name.

Yes, it’s almost as if they’re all part of an email list or something, distributing the same talking points. . . . But read on to see what they’re not talking about.

SMART DIPLOMACY UPDATE: Wages Of A Failed Syria Policy: Chemical Weapons Deal Helped Assad.

The administration and its press acolytes did their best to spin the ugly meltdown of President Obama’s ill-considered and hastily abandoned airstrike proposal as a diplomatic victory, but around the world it was considered a major fiasco and raised deep doubts about the capability of this administration to manage American foreign policy with any kind of competence or credibility.

And things aren’t looking any better as time goes by. The Syrians keep missing deadlines, walking back concessions, and generally delaying and obstructing. Clapper was only admitting the obvious when he told Congress yesterday that Assad had come out of the deal stronger.

This would be a point of merely historical interest, except that Iran is carefully and closely watching how all this plays out. The lessons so far: The Obama approach offers Iran two bargain of the century opportunities. First, the Obama Administration is so desperate to avoid war that it will accept deals that probably no other American President would have entertained. And second, Iran has learned that the administration lacks the will to enforce the deals that it does make.

Obama is only ruthless with his domestic enemies.

DERP: “The stupidity is running deep this morning, and even the observers of stupidity are manifesting their stupid idea of superiority by talking stupidly. Beutler. I’m looking at you. Beutler. Beutler. Beutler…” It’s stupidity in defense of The Narrative, though, so all thinking people will applaud it.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Eight Reasons Early Voting Is Bad.

ALEXIS MADRIGAL: Snipers Coordinated an Attack on the Power Grid, but Why? Perhaps it was a message. But from whom?

UPDATE: Thoughts from Tom Maguire. Is there an inside man? “Just imagine that the people who hit the San Jose station are pros with a plan. And suppose they have their own Edward Snowden operating inside a utility somewhere. Within the next few years they may be able to steal away with the detailed assessment of the critical vulnerabilities of our nation’s power grids which is currently under development. We might even speculate (wildly!) that a key goal of the San Jose exercise was to try to provoke the creation of such a plan.”

The solution is the creation of a grid that’s resilient enough that it can’t be brought down that way. More microgrids would help.

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INSTAVISION: I talk with Hugh Hewitt about his new book, The Happiest Life.

WAIT, I THOUGHT IT WAS A “PHONY SCANDAL:” New IRS chief apologizes to targeted conservative groups after House hearing.