MY ADVICE: MORE ATTENTION ON GERMS, LESS ON GUNS AND SODA POP. Leader of Troubled Lab Steps Down, C.D.C. Says. “The leader of the federal bioterrorism lab in which careless procedures may have exposed dozens of workers to live anthrax has resigned, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 12 Useful Tools You Should Only Buy On The Cheap.

TED CRUZ: Obama Administration Playing Politics With Air Safety. “Was this politics from the White House? Or was this an airline safety decision? And I think the facts strongly suggest it was politics and an effort to strong arm the nation of Israel.”

IT’S A BIG ONE TODAY: TaxProf Roundup: The IRS Scandal, Day 441.

Plus: Gowdy Grills IRS Commissioner Koskinen Some More. “Maybe it’s just me, but Koskinen’s facade of eerie, arrogant disdain for the proceedings is beginning to crumble.”

2012: OBAMA MOCKS ROMNEY FOR REGARDING RUSSIA AS ADVERSARY.

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MORE ON THE DAN MARKEL MURDER, WHICH IS LOOKING WORSE, IF THAT’S POSSIBLE: Grim Details Emerge in FSU Professor’s Shooting Death. But what kind of contract killer drives a Prius?

OOPS: Sight-Impaired Millionaire Still Not Cleared to Drive: Hillary Clinton flees baby-talking event in five-car motorcade. Nobody trolls better than Andrew Stiles.

ILYA SOMIN: Why the DC Circuit’s interpretation of the ACA in Halbig v. Burwell is far from “absurd.”

NYC CUPCAKE TRUCK sends tweet comparing Israel to Hitler. I’m screenshotting this instead of embedding it because I have a feeling it might be deleted.

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION wants to regulate conservative books. Fat advances to Dems like Hillary? That’s just business.

BECAUSE “THE WORLD” BASICALLY APPROVES WHEN PEOPLE KILL JEWS: WaPo Editorial: Why is the world ignoring Hamas’ depravity? If I were Israel, I’d tell “the world” to go hang, and then go hang Hamas.

TAR. FEATHERS. Busted for Off-Leash Dog, Man Ordered Not to Leave Southern California. “They deal with gangbangers, drug dealers, murderers. And here I am, for a dog leash.”

AT AMAZON, it’s the Off To College Sale.

Plus, summer markdowns on Clothing, Shoes & Watches. For men and women.

PAUL RYAN ON how to cut poverty.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Derivatives regulator CFTC’s ‘revolving door’ move to industry group criticized.

An outgoing commissioner of the regulatory agency that oversees derivatives contracts will become the CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, a trade group for firms that engage in derivatives transactions, according to a statement from the ISDA Wednesday.

The commissioner, Scott O’Malia, had announced his departure from the Commodity Futures Trade Commission two days earlier. O’Malia, who had previously worked as a Senate staffer for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, was a Republican nominee to the five-member CFTC.

O’Malia’s move to a trade group involved in CFTC matters drew immediate criticism from financial reform advocates. The group Better Markets wrote in a statement that “O’Malia’s spin through the revolving door is a record setter for influence peddling.”

The Obama era has just been one big advertisement for my revolving door surtax.

AMNESTY: Sen. Jeff Sessions: ‘Colossal Error’ to Pass Immigration Spending Without Blocking ‘Administrative Amnesty.’

SO MAYBE HE CAN BE A SENATOR FROM MONTANA: Kid’s “groundbreaking” science fair project plagiarized?

ELIZABETH WARREN’S STREET TEAM IS MORE CREATIVE THAN I EXPECTED: Mystery: Posters in NYC, D.C. call Clintons ‘America’s Lannisters.’

CHANGE: Senate Moves To Extend Ban On Internet Taxes.

NEWS FROM THE HOUSING “RECOVERY:” The drought of young California home buyers: Unaffordable housing reigns supreme as first time home buyers squeezed out of market. Of 7,000,000 completed foreclosures since 2005, 1 million occurred in California.

ROBERT HEINLEIN WAS RIGHT — THESE ARE THE CRAZY YEARS. Mom Jailed for Letting Her Kid Play Unsupervised Also Fired From Job.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Nationalize The Ivy League!

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND MURDEROUS: Behind the Scenes in Putin’s Court: The Private Habits of a Latter-Day Dictator.

CNN POLL: Twice As Many Americans Say They Were Hurt By ObamaCare As Say They Were Helped.