THIS SEEMS LIKE A CONVENIENT “ACCIDENT” TO ME: “[S]ays the document, which the White House accidentally emailed to an Associated Press reporter.”

IN THE WORDS OF OWL, I doubt if the necessary dorsal muscles. . . The Angry, Enormous Eagle That Could Carry Off Elephants.

SOCIAL MEDIA PUSHBACK: Women In Turkey Post Laughing Selfies. “Women should not laugh in public. So said Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc in a speech on Monday about ‘moral corruption’ in Turkey. ‘Chastity is so important,’ he said. ‘She will not laugh in public.’ His comments have prompted a big backlash from women on social media in Turkey, with thousands posting photos of themselves laughing and smiling on Twitter and Instagram.”

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#WOMENAGAINSTFEMINISM reaches the Today Show, so I guess it’s officially a gender-relations phenomenon.

IT’S CLOWN CARS ALL THE WAY DOWN: IRS Agents As Bad With Guns As With Hard Drives. “According to a government audit, IRS Agents ‘Accidentally’ Discharged Guns 11 Times between 2009 and 2011. Some of those weapons discharges resulted in property damage or personal injury, claimed the report. In fact, agents accidentally fired their guns more times than they did intentionally, said the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.”

ROGER KIMBALL: Thoughts on ‘Political Suicide’ and other tales from ‘Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.’

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Federal review stalled after finding forensic errors by FBI lab unit spanned two decades. Hell, I was writing about this kind of stuff in the first week or two of InstaPundit.

BEFORE I CLICKED ON THE LINK, I ALREADY HAD A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHO IT WAS: Law Prof Sez: State Judges Have Contempt For Smart Guys Like Me.

“INTERNET OF THINGS” LOOKING MORE LIKE AN INTERNET OF TARGETS: Connected devices have huge security holes: study.

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I LOVE BENTON’S BACON from Madisonville, Tennessee. Here’s a short film about them.

MICKEY KAUS: Tell Boehner: “No New Laws.” “Senate Democrats are now explicitly saying they will try to use Boehner’s border bill as a vehicle for broad, ‘Gang of 8’ style amnesty, and immigration activists are urging them on. All the more reason to call ((202) 224-3121). A House vote on Boehner’s bill is expected Thursday.” Wow. The last time Mickey got this involved, Eric Cantor lost his job.

FROM THE COMMENTS TO MY EARLIER GOPRO POST, The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader GoPro Hula Hoop Video. “This is pretty much the pinnacle of human achievement, right here. Think how much technology went into my being able to watch that from my couch. Wow. And for such a good cause, too.”

A NEW PUSH FOR missile-proof planes. You know what makes a plane missile-proof? Nasty and near-certain consequences for anyone who shoots it down.

WAS QUARANTINE THE RIGHT MOVE? China’s dramatic response to a single case of plague is very telling.

TRANSPARENCY: CIA Tells FOIA Requester That He Needs To Know Everything About The Emails He’s Requesting Before He Can Request Them.

POLITICO: Pat Roberts’ foe Milton Wolf begins to close the gap in Kansas. So I guess it’s time for the NRSC to unload a bogus attack that will render him less electable if he wins the nomination. Because, apparently, that’s how they roll there.

UPDATE: Don Surber: “Wolf has an unfair advantage. He actually lives in Kansas.”

SPYING: Analysis: Bill banning phone metadata collection gives NSA access to it.

THIS WILL END WELL: In New Sexual-Assault Bill, Harsher Penalties for Colleges. “Under the terms of the proposed legislation, whose exact language has not been made public, colleges that don’t comply with its rules could face fines of up to 1 percent of their operating budgets. For larger institutions, such a penalty could amount to several million dollars. The bill would also increase the maximum penalty for a violation of the Clery Act to $150,000 from $35,000.”

I don’t know why Marco Rubio is in on this. Two possibilities: (1) Once again, a senior Democrat has roped him into a “bipartisan” deal that he thinks will look good; or (2) He’s trying to accelerate the demise of the existing higher education apparatus. This is certainly setting a precedent for federal strong-arming of colleges and universities, which Republicans may find useful in the future. All is proceeding as Kurt Schlichter has foreseen.

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STRONG PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY MORE USEFUL, AND HARDER TO KILL: Strong men keep a-comin’ on.

No, this is not a Rippetoe reference, but rather a post about Charles Cobb’s This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed. But the point holds, for all kinds of strength.

Plus: “He was raised to believe that you were supposed to work hard, treat everyone right, respect everybody but take no mess off nobody, regardless of color.” Sounds about right.

NEWS FROM THE INTERNAL DEMOCRATS’ REVENUE SERVICE: ‘Nonpartisan’! Lois Lerner email bemoans right-wing ‘crazies,’ ‘assholes.’

As bad as the emails that have been released are, the ones they’re hiding must be just dreadful.

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