REMEMBER, ONLY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS: Police Officer Mistakenly Fires Rifle In Court.

DAILY BEAST: Obama Is The New Dubya: With each passing year, Obama’s foreign policy gets more and more like Dubya’s—which creates bigger political problems for the Democrats.

Worse yet, he provides occasion to remind people of what the Democrats, including Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton, were saying on Iraq before the invasion:

UPDATE: Despite the Bush-blaming, here’s Joe Biden in 2010 on what a great achievement the stable, democratic Iraq has become.

AT AMAZON, deals on Men’s Watches.

Also, new summer clothes for women.

IMMIGRATION BECOMING AN ISSUE IN U.S. SENATE PRIMARY IN TENNESSEE? Joe Carr Challenges Lamar Alexander to Sign ‘No Amnesty’ Pledge.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Why Won’t My Boyfriend Give Me Money?

ON THE UPSIDE, HE’S GOT AN EXCELLENT TEE TIME: Chuck Todd says Obama’s “over,” Cheney says he’s “so wrong about so much,” the GOP has the votes to impeach, and “Obama Meets Giant, Talking Robot Giraffe at White House.”

EARTH IMPACT: Are Comets A Bigger Danger Than Asteroids?

MICROBIOME NEWS: Exercise and the ‘Good’ Bugs in Our Gut. But note this caveat: “The rugby players consumed far more calories than did the other men, with a much larger percentage of their diet consisting of protein. Such nutritional differences can affect which microbes thrive in the gut. The athletes also were training at a level that few of us would be able or willing to emulate.”

Plus, from the comments: “Maybe the rugby players from getting knocked over were ingesting more soil bacteria than the sedentary group?”

CULTURE IS BEFORE POLITICS: A Crowdfunding Push For Liberty Island. I pledged fifty bucks.

KILLJOYS IN CAMBRIDGE GO TO WAR ON UBER.

Tech-friendly Cambridge is just the latest city to mull a clampdown on wildly popular Internet-based car services, with a heated licensing board hearing last night that pitted webbies vs. cabbies over tough regulations that would unplug Uber in the city that is home to the Kendall Square electronics research hub.

The latest regulatory challenge to transportation apps drew dozens of supporters of Uber and Lyft — a similar service that uses cars adorned with furry pink mustaches — as well as Boston and Cambridge taxi drivers fearful of losing business.

“We will do everything and anything to help our fellow brothers kick (the app services) out,” said Chando Souffarnt, one of several cabbies sporting anti-Uber stickers. “This is unacceptable.”

But Gordon Gossage, a Lyft driver who says he has made more than 2,300 trips, said cab drivers are just trying to avoid competitors. “They don’t have the constitutional right to be protected from competition,” Gossage said.

Nope, but they think that they do. More from Adriana Cohen:

There’s a simple answer to the battle between cabbies and techies over app car services like Uber — now being fought in Cambridge, Boston and other cities around the country.

Let the market decide.

The marketplace is already making its voice heard, loud and clear. Uber is stealing market share away from its old-school competitors at such a lightning pace, it could someday make traditional taxis a thing of the past. Just like CDs were replaced by iTunes. And DVDs were replaced by streaming movies online … the same could happen to the taxi industry.

It’s called technology innovation. It’s why we don’t use buggywhips anymore.

We’ve moved on to smartphones. Savvy consumers can summon an Uber car without having to wait and hail a taxi on the street. This genius concept has earned Uber an estimated $18 billion market share that has investors salivating.

Taxi companies — stuck with 20th-century technology, rules, fees and overhead that services like Uber and Lyft are free of — say it’s an unfair playing field. How can traditional cabbies remain competitive when they are subject to different rules than their direct competitors?

The answer is, they can’t.

Which is why politicians, instead of banning progress, need to get out of the way and let the free market decide which company is left standing. That’s how free markets work.

Yep. But the trouble with free markets is that they offer insufficient opportunity for graft.

More: War On Rideshare Apps Heats Up In Boston.

HISTORICAL COMPARISONS: In the context of the (arguably) destroyed IRS email, let’s revisit an old question: Why didn’t Richard Nixon destroy the Watergate tapes?

MAKE YOUR JOKES ABOUT CONGRESS HERE: National Zoo Closes Invertebrate Exhibit.

CHANGE: Cincinnati Station Says ‘No’ to PC Reporting on Racially Motivated Crime. “A remarkable thing happened in Cincinnati on Thursday. WKRC-TV, which has taken to calling itself ‘Local 12,’ did a story on the growing problem of black-on-white teen mob violence — and called it black-on-white teen mob violence.” What a novel approach.

NOW OUT: The new Amazon Fire Phone. Interestingly, it offers the “Mayday” service, like the Kindle Fire HD. The camera looks good, too.

BRING BACK DDT: U.S. CHIKUNGUNYA CASES MORE THAN DOUBLE IN ONE WEEK.

READY FOR HILLARY? Ready for blatant censorship attempts. Which, happily, failed.

SPYING: Secret UK Policy On Surveillance Of All ‘External’ Communications Revealed By Counter Terrorism Boss.

DEAN KAMEN’S Clean Water Invention.

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UNACCEPTABLE VIEWPOINTS: Patent & Trademark Office cancels several Washington Redskins trademarks.

TRANSPARENCY: Judge allows US Marshals’ seizure of stingray records, dismisses lawsuit; What began as request for info on cell tracking records turns into surreal tale.

JIM TREACHER: Remember When Harry Reid Thought Iraq Was A Threat?

INSIDE THE COCKPIT of the 1000 mph car.

WASHINGTON POST backpedals from bogus Everytown school shooting map. Suddenly, this stuff is complicated.

MORGAN CHALFANT: Obama sides with Republicans in higher ed debate.