MICKEY KAUS: “Because Facebook would never secretly tweak its algorithm to influence voter behavor! … Oh wait.”

JOURNALISM: “I get so tired of the sad articles that desperately try to reassure working mothers that their children are ‘better off’ than the children of mothers who stay home.”

SCREW JERRY BROWN, can we have his dad back?

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think.

THEN SHE STOOD NEXT TO THE COFFINS OF THE DEAD AND LIED: Hillary Received Memo Describing Benghazi As Planned Terror Attack Within Hours. “New documents obtained by Judicial Watch and made public Monday show that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials under President Obama were given intelligence within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack describing how it had been planned at least 10 days in advance ‘to kill as many Americans as possible.'”

Also, they locked up a filmmaker for a year, just to support their cover story. Nice people.

A HORMONAL THEORY OF CIVILIZATION: The Testosterone Hypothesis: How Hormones Regulate the Life Cycles of Civilization.

If this is true, does this mean that Low-T Centers may break the cycle for good?

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MOCK RAPE VICTIMS: Boston University prof in racist tweet flap accused of trolling white rape victim. “Go cry somewhere, since that’s what you do.”

JEFF CARTER: Does The Sharing Economy Destroy The Middle Class? “If you only quantify the ‘sharing’ incomes, he might be right. The problem is, most of the time the ‘sharing’ income is only a piece of the income stream for an individual. This isn’t the 18th century.”

HEALTH: Surge in Cases of H.I.V. Tests U.S. Policy on Needle Exchanges. Hint: It’s all the Republicans’ fault.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Woman pleads guilty to breaking into man’s apartment, raping him in his sleep.

DRIP, DRIP: Former ABC News anchor turns on Stephanopoulos.

LIONEL CHETWYND: One by one, the great Western institutions have fallen to the infection of the left. Have they now captured the Church of Rome?

TEST DRIVE: The 2016 Chevy Camaro.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Democrats sic identity politics on their own: The left has handicapped its ability to debate policy, even among themselves.

PORTION OF MARYLAND INCOME TAX RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL:  The Supreme Court today ruled 5-4, in Comptroller of the Treasury v. Wynne that Maryland’s income tax law is an unconstitutional violation of the Dormant Commerce Clause.  Specifically, the Court ruled that Maryland’s income tax unduly burdens interstate commerce by not offering Maryland residents a full credit against income taxes they pay in other States.  The State’s failure to give its residents a credit for income earned outside Maryland constituted double taxation.

There are two quick points of note:  First, the 5-Justice majority lineup was not along purely ideological lines, with the majority consisting of Alito (who wrote the opinion), Chief Justice Roberts, Kennedy, Breyer and Sotomayor (the last two being on the “liberal” wing of the Court).  Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg and Kagan dissented in various forms.  Second, the Court seems to reinforce its view (illustrated in other cases such as Citizens United) that there is no meaningful difference between individuals and corporations, thus requiring parity of tax treatment between the two (inso far was what out-of-state income may be taxed) by the State.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 739.

MEGAN MCARDLE ON THE LEFT, THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT, AND THE POOR:

Conservative Christians are taking part in the “national conversation” on poverty. They’re also taking action. If there is a society-wide effort to fight poverty, it is arguably the secular folks who are shirking.

There’s a common trope among liberals, that many Christians are abdicating Christ’s message by focusing on stupid issues like sexual morality and abortion rather than his true message about serving the poor. This shows ignorance about how conservative religious denominations actually operate. Why do so many people hold such a distorted view? It’s a product of availability bias: If you don’t actually interact much with those churches, then your understanding is shaped by the politically controversial stories about abortion and gay marriage. These are readily called to mind because they are perennially discussed, while the vast work that churches do to help struggling people, day in and day out, goes unremarked.

Well, there’s also a general agenda to demonize and marginalize conservative Christians throughout the media, so this isn’t just an accident. Plus:

To put it another way: What if conservative Christians started saying that secular liberals don’t care about poverty, and the only way liberals could show their human decency would be to step up charitable donations to the same level as conservative religious people, get active in efforts to provide private assistance, take in foster kids, and aggressively support stable nuclear families through a combination of exhortation and social sanction? It doesn’t feel quite fair, right?

I dunno, it seems pretty fair to me to suggest that people should put their money where their mouth is, instead of demonstrating their “compassion” largely through a willingness to redistribute other people’s money.

ROGER SIMON: Bored To Death: Do Jeb and Hillary Really Want To Be President?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: 75% Of Charleston Faculty Put Their Jobs On The Line, Blast Law School’s Management.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Democrats sic identity politics on their own: The left has handicapped its ability to debate policy, even among themselves.

MEANWHILE, IN EUROPE: Shape Of Greek Endgame Emerges: IMF Discussed “Cyprus-Like” Plan After Tsipras Warned Of Looming Default.