REPORT: Top Gear Scandal Caused By Late Dinner. Hey, anyone can get hangry.

SOME CAUTIONARY THOUGHTS ON THE SELF-DRIVING CAR: “Completely autonomous vehicles will remain a fantasy for years. Until they’re here, we need technology that enhances human drivers’ abilities rather than making those abilities increasingly obsolete.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: How Barack Obama Undercut Bush Administration’s Nuclear Negotiations With Iran.

DAVID RIVKIN & ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY: The Federalism Fallacy in King v. Burwell: A new interpretation claims to protect the states, but would actually hurt them. “Particularly notable is this: In every single instance where the Supreme Court has invoked the clear statement rule, it has been to prevent Congress from using its enumerated powers in a manner that harms the states as states. The clear statement rule is utterly inapplicable, however, when Congress uses its power directly on citizens. And in the Affordable Care Act, when Congress exercises its taxing power to grant (or revoke) tax subsidies to individuals, that power operates directly on individuals, not on states. This is an extremely important distinction.”

ANNALS OF OVERREACH: Apartment Complex Claims Copyright Of Tenants’ Reviews And Photos, Charges $10k Fee For Criticism. The publicity from this bit of rotten lawyering is doing more harm to Windermere Cay than any review could.

JIM TREACHER: Secret Service Agents Party Too Hard, Crash Car Into White House Barricade. “Yep. That’s how it works. Five years ago, the DC Metro PD covered for the State Dept. by issuing me an utterly fraudulent jaywalking ticket. A week ago, they covered for these Secret Service guys by letting them go home and sober up. When federal employees run amok and break the law, they can always count on the DC cops to help them out.”

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Bridget Johnson: See How Bobby Jindal Fired Back at Clinton on Iran Letter.

WELL, THERE IS THAT WHOLE PESKY CONSTITUTION THING: F.I.R.E.: After Quick Expulsions, U. of Oklahoma Taking Heat on Free Speech and Due Process.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 672.

HUH. This “End of College” stuff sounds kinda familiar. Which is not to say it’s wrong.

ROGER SIMON: Free Guccifer!

WELL, THIS SUGGESTS THAT PEOPLE HAVE STARTED TO PAY ATTENTION: Gallup: Americans Name Government as No. 1 U.S. Problem.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Lending Bankrupt Students A Hand:

It is a great shame of the American financial system that we do not allow student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy. There’s no logic to it: “Well, you can’t pay all your other debts, but apparently, you can pay this one, even if it’s larger than all the others.” Its exclusion from the bankruptcy code, like the rules surrounding taxes, are a bit of special pleading from the government, an assertion that government obligations are somehow immune from the rules surrounding other sorts of debt.

As part of changes to the federal student loan program, the Barack Obama administration will be looking at relaxing the restrictions on bankrupting student loans. This is a change we should be looking at. But it has to be done the right way. . . .

At the very least, however, we could contain some of the damage by imposing a time limit on your ability to bankrupt loans — say, no bankruptcy until you’ve been out of school for 10 years. This would at least discourage the tactic that caused legislators to enact the student loan exception in the first place: that of taking out huge loans to attend professional school, then declaring bankruptcy as soon as you graduate.

Two thoughts: (1) I actually sympathize with many of these folks because, as has become increasingly clear, they were deliberately lied to by institutions of higher education in order to get the money. So bankruptcy is fair. But the institutions that lied should pay a price. Which leads to suggestion (2): The GOP should come up with a proposal that is significantly friendlier to borrowers, but that punishes the higher-ed institutions. That would neutralize the real purpose of this initiative, which is to buy votes for Democrats, while punishing the guilty. Who, conveniently enough, are overwhelmingly Democrats.

Of course, that’s probably true of the people in debt trouble, too, so it all evens out: Washington, DC has most-indebted students of any place in the nation.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How To Spot A College About To Go Out Of Business.

I THINK BARACK OBAMA MAY HAVE MENTIONED THIS A WHILE BACK: Ashe Schow: Hillary’s Problem Is That She Just Isn’t Likable. “She rarely takes questions from reporters and it’s easy to see why. She doesn’t like being questioned. The more she’s questioned, the more unlikable she becomes.”

Related: Mollie Hemingway: A Line Edit Of Hillary Clinton’s Disastrous Email Press Conference. It’s an old-fashioned Fisking!

DAVID WEIGEL: Lindsey Graham was joking about that whole coup thing.

Well, since it was contingent upon him being elected President, it was never much of a threat, but as Allah has noted, Graham has a tendency to make “jokes” along those lines. And given Barack Obama’s “joking” about auditing his enemies, I’m not sure how big a pass politicians who joke about the abuse of power should get.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Dean Advises Other Deans to Punish Law Schools in U.S. News Peer Reputation Voting for Manipulating Rankings With School-Funded Jobs and Transfer Students.

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THE WAGES OF RABBLE-ROUSING: Two police officers shot in Ferguson, Missouri, after chief quits. “Two police officers were shot during a protest outside Ferguson, Missouri, police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city’s police chief quit following a damning U.S. Justice Department report into his force. . . . ‘These police officers were standing there and they were shot, just because they were police officers.'”

The Administration, and its media allies, chose for political reasons to push the false “hands up don’t shoot” narrative. This is the result.

FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMATICS: Men Who Hold Doors For Women. “US researchers argue that while women may enjoy being showered with attention, benevolent sexism is ‘insidious’ and men who are guilty of it see women as incompetent beings who require their ‘cherished protection’.”

Honestly, these days incompetent beings who require protection is a pretty good description of feminists.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN HARD TO PICK JUST FIVE, ESPECIALLY AFTER YESTERDAY’S TED CRUZ-RELATED EMBARRASSMENT: 5 Times the Washington Post Failed At Fact-Checking. “We give these blunders double double Pinocchios.”

YOU OVERTURN BOURGEOIS SOCIAL CONVENTIONS, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET:

David’s mother was basically absent. “All her boyfriends have been nuts,” he said. “I never really got to see my mom that much.” His dad dropped out of school, dated several woman with drug problems and is now in prison. David went to seven different elementary schools. He ended up under house arrest, got a girl pregnant before she left him for a drug addict.

Kayla’s mom married an abusive man but lost custody of their kids to him when they split. Her dad married a woman with a child but left her after it turned out the child was fathered by her abusive stepfather. Kayla grew up as one of five half-siblings from three relationships until her parents split again and coupled with others.

Elijah grew up in a violent neighborhood and saw a girl killed in a drive-by shooting when he was 4. He burned down a lady’s house when he was 13. He goes through periods marked by drugs, clubbing and sex but also dreams of being a preacher. “I just love beating up somebody,” he told a member of Putnam’s team, “and making they nose bleed and just hurting them and just beating them on the ground.”

See, educated upper-middle-class people can get away with flouting bourgeois conventions, but lower class people tend not to do as well, and don’t have the reserves of financial and social capital to draw on when they get into trouble.

IT’S NOTHING COMPARED TO YOUR “JENJHIS KHAN” FLOOR SHOW, YOU PUTZ: Kerry: ‘Utter disbelief’ at Iran letter. Hey, Tom Cotton didn’t even pretend to throw his medals over the White House fence.

Meanwhile, a flashback to 2007:

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama led a field of Democratic presidential candidates offering their proposals to end the war in Iraq during a “virtual town hall meeting” hosted last night by liberal activist group MoveOn.org.

“All the happy talk will not change the grim situation on the ground,” Mrs. Clinton said, adding that she favors a withdrawal beginning within 90 days. “If President Bush won’t end the war in Iraq, when I’m president, I will.”

The New York Democrat also said she supports talking with Iran and Syria about Iraq.

“I applaud Speaker Pelosi,” she said, when asked about California Democrat Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Syria, despite objections from the White House.

Mrs. Clinton declined to say whether she would support a bill cutting off funding for troops in Iraq if Mr. Bush vetoes the current Senate supplemental-funding bill, which includes a timetable for withdrawal.

So, like I said, shut up, putz. Nobody respects you: Not the Iranians, not Americans (on any side), and most clearly, not President Obama, or he wouldn’t have put you in this absurd position.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Columbia Will Shrink Journalism School as Media Woes Mount. But the cost remains $92,933 for one year.