YEAH, THAT MIGHT CHANGE: House conservative: Move by John Boehner allies to crush opposition ‘boneheaded.’

ROGER SIMON: What Cantor’s Defeat Means.

But is this primary such a disaster? I am not so sure – and I was the one defending Cantor not long ago in these pages. To put it mildly, politics as usual has obviously been failing. That of course means Obama and the rest of the tawdry “progressive” crew but it also inevitably means his loyal (actually too loyal) opposition. The old pas de deux must go. Now maybe it will – or more of it anyway.

Listening to Brat being interviewed by Sean Hannity after the primary, I was encouraged. The professor seemed a bright man, refreshingly direct and honest, addressing ideas and issues in a, well, professorial manner rarely heard in politics these days. It almost made me sad he was leaving academia, such men having become as extinct in universities as they are in politics.

He was also free of rancor toward Cantor, whom he judged a good man in a way that appeared authentic. This impressed me even more. Did we have an actual citizen politician here – and, incredibly, an intelligent one? Skeptical old me began to think of Frank Capra movies. Brat even had the diffident, bespectacled look of Jimmy Stewart.

Well, Stewart was actually kind of a tough guy. We’ll see.

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“THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT’S PROBLEM ISN’T WITH THE TEA PARTY, IT’S WITH REPUBLICAN VOTERS:” John Fund on what went wrong for Eric Cantor. “Cantor managed to muddle his message on immigration. His direct-mail pieces claimed he was foursquare against amnesty. But the newspapers covering Washington, D.C., quoted him as saying he was seeking a compromise with President Obama on immigration. Voters resolved the seeming contradiction by deciding to vote out their establishment congressman. Cantor’s loss destroys any chance of a comprehensive immigration bill passing the House this year.”

Related: White House: Immigration Didn’t Sink Cantor.

DAVID STEINBERG: Dave Brat Defeats Eric Cantor, and Writes the New Conservative Playbook. “Team Brat just put together the playbook for using the grassroots and new media to win as a conservative, because no challenger will face a more experienced, well-funded, by-any-means-necessary incumbent team than Brat just did. If you can make it in Cantortown, you can make it anywhere.”

CHANGE: Battle Over Fracking Poses Threat To Colorado Democrats. Yeah, opposing jobs and cheap energy’ll do that to you.

MICKEY KAUS LOOKS AT David Brat, the guy who beat Eric Cantor:

This is a pitch — against a “low wage agenda” and “crony corporate lobby” — that can appeal to Democrats as well as Republicans. Maybe partisanship will eventually be transcended, not at the top, with David Brooks, Gloria Borger and Jon Huntsman imposing a Beltway consensus they hammer out at an Atlantic panel, but at the bottom, where less sleek figures like Brat, Phyllis Schlafly and Jeff Sessions, can make common cause with Democratic workers who’ve gotten the short end of previous top-down triumphs such as global trade and Reagan’s 1986 amnesty, as well as of ineluctable technological trends like automation. 2) Perhaps not coincidentally, Democrats can vote in the Cantor vs. Brat primary.

And there’s some evidence that they did. This was posted before polls closed today. I look forward to Mickey’s victory cry tomorrow, if he’s not too hungover from celebrating in the bars of Richmond.

Related: The Big Murkowski: Will Cantor Try to Salvage Seat Through Write-Ins?

SUMMARY: POORLY-THOUGHT-OUT “STEALTH” LEGISLATION, AND ABSURDLY EXPANSIVE JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION: Why Colleges Are on the Hook for Sexual Assault. The result is an increasing PR nightmare, as well as a bright, shiny lure for business-starved plaintiffs’ lawyers.

For colleges who are already having trouble attracting men — which is the vast majority of them — these kangaroo court procedures are only going to make it harder. And colleges without enough men also have trouble attracting women.

DON’T FEAR THE LEAKER: Why Reporting Government Secrets Should Not Be Criminalized.

I CREDIT THE POWER OF MICKEY KAUS, who’s been pushing his opponent for weeks: Eric Cantor Loses Primary in Massive Upset. If he hadn’t supported amnesty, he’d be cruising to an easy victory. I suspect a lot of folks on both sides of the aisle just lost enthusiasm for an immigration deal.

TESLA’S ELON MUSK: It Wouldn’t Be Hard To Build A Flying Car.

HMM: West Virginia’s Natalie Tennant Can Tote All the Guns She Wants, but Obama’s War on Coal is a Battle She Can’t Win.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: The Monuments of Gentry Liberals in Chicago: White Students Dominate the Test-Admittance Public Schools.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Chicago’s population peaked a long time ago. In 1950, Chicago had 3. 6 million people. Recent estimates put Chicago’s population at 2.7 million. With the growth of American suburbs, many Chicago families have fled to public schools in the suburbs. Chicago’s horrible public schools have been an embarrassment for Chicago’s elite. A recent Chicago Tribune editorial estimated that only “only 8 of 100 freshmen who enter Chicago public high schools manage to get a college diploma.”

In an attempt to keep white families from fleeing Chicago, the second Mayor Daley came up with a plan: test-admittance-only public high schools. This was a reasonable solution for gentry liberals who pay high property taxes but didn’t want to leave the city or couldn’t afford to send their children to private schools. These select public high schools produce college bound students while “limiting” gentry liberal’s children from being exposed to children from “troubled backgrounds”. This is a sensitive subject because Chicago’s Public School System is only 9.2% white, while being 39.7% African-American.

Being admitted to these select magnet schools can often determine whether a family stays in Chicago or moves elsewhere. Recently, Daniel Hertz made news by graphically showing how Chicago’s middle class has being largely eliminated since 1970. The new Chicago is still a one-party town, but is now a coalition of rich and poor with a residual government worker middle class. White children have left Chicago’s Public School system leaving minorities as the majority. But, who gets into the selective public high schools? . . .

Gentry liberals leaders have told us with enormous conviction that public education is an “investment”. Yet, President Barack Obama and Mayor Rahm Emanuel send their children to elite private schools. What’s interesting in Rahm Emanuel’s case is he couldn’t find one public school in all of Chicago good enough to send his children. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is so committed to public education that he sends his children to a private school 15 miles away from where his children live.

Color me unsurprised.

CREATIVITY: It’s Terminator 2 on the streets of Los Santos: A shot-for-shot homage to the famous chase sequence, all shot in-game.

WAPO: One way to end violence against women? Married dads. The data show that #yesallwomen would be safer with fewer boyfriends around their kids.

Well, then I guess you want to make marriage more rewarding for men, huh?

IS ANONYMOUS DEAD? Or just preparing to rise again? And who’s really behind it?

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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: California Judge Strikes Down Teacher Tenure In Vergara Case.

SCIENCE: Human Face Evolved To Withstand Punches. “Human facial structure evolved to tolerate punches to the head, according to new research that suggests our ancestors spent a lot of time fighting.”

Wait, I thought everything was all peaceful and loving before capitalism and patriarchy arrived to screw up Eden. But no: “If the latest theory holds true, then other ideas about human evolution go out the window. For example, French philosopher Rousseau argued that, before civilization, humans were noble savages and that civilization corrupted us, making us more violent. Our distant past probably wasn’t very tranquil, though.” Another theory from a French social philosopher doesn’t square with the facts? Incroyable!

TALK TO LA BOMB: Nuclear bomb nearly detonated over North Carolina, declassified report says.

DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY replicates enzyme cascade. “In another advance along this pathway to atomically precise manufacturing, researchers have arranged two enzymes on a DNA scaffold to replicate the organization of an enzyme cascade inside a cell, passing a substrate molecule from one enzyme to the next.”

HOW TO BEAT MALARIA, once and for all. We were actually coming pretty close at one point.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Google Has Started Hiring More People Who Didn’t Go To College. “After years of looking at the data, Google has found that things like college GPAs and transcripts are almost worthless in hiring. Following these revelations, the company is hiring more and more people who never even went to college.” How did I miss this story?

HILLARY REVEALS THAT THE “WAR ON WOMEN” WAS ACTUALLY A DEMOCRATIC OP: Hillary: I refused Obama Campaign request to attack Sarah Palin “for being a woman.”

EMOTION-READING APPS for kids with autism.