SECRET SERVICE SPEAKS: Hillary told secret service agent who refused to carry her bag to ‘get the f*** away from me’, and treated her detail like hired help but Bill was a softie . . . says former agent in bombshell book.

Bill is an extremely good politician. Hillary is the wife of an extremely good politician.

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NOT PULLING A LUGAR. GOOD. Cantor Will Vote For Brat. “Cantor, who lost to Brat despite outspending by a margin of 26 to 1, stressed the importance of keeping the Republican Party unified, a message he stressed to Tea Party conservatives in the House after the 2013 government shutdown.”

IF YOU’RE NOT A CITIZEN, OR NOT OF AGE, YOU’RE NOT A “VOTER.” New York Times: Hispanic Voters Marginalized by Age, Citizenship, Geography, Turnout. Likewise if you don’t turn out. And if you live in a district where your vote doesn’t matter, well, that’s most Americans.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Smearing Scott Walker. If you’re a Republican who’s a threat to the Democrats, of course you’re a racist. That’s the definition of a racist, nowadays . . .

OUT: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. IN: JUVENILE IMMOBILITY. Teen Smoking, Sex Hit New Lows But Texting, Fat Are New Dangers.

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YEAH, IT’S DUMB. But when I see headlines like NASA’s Orion spacecraft stacks up for first flight, I think of this Orion spacecraft. Now that would be cool. George Dyson’s book, by the way, is terrific.

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ON THE HILL: Can Conservative Groundswell Give Labrador a Chance in Majority Leader Race?

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IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, a nice review of Amy Alkon’s new book, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck. “It may not be good manners to say such a thing, especially in this newspaper, but the title of this book s*cks. Once I started reading, though, I was drawn in.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why You Should Spend No More Than $500 On Your Next TV.

So these are right out, then.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: How Will Sexbots Change Human Relationships? Nobody tell that notorious robophobe Matthew Yglesias.

But if you’re going to worry, as this author does, that “female” sexbots will shape male expectations of real women, what about vibrators? The oldest of all sexbots, have they shaped female expectations of men? Plus, note this old post on double standards. Plus, a discussion in the comments here.

HMM: Threat Grows From Liver Illness Tied To Obesity.

I had a post on this a while back, including a possible Gary Taubes point. Note this on choline, too. So it’s possible that this is because of the carb-heavy Food Pyramid, plus advice to avoid things like eggs and liver, which are potent sources of choline.

SPYING: Judge Orders DOJ To Hand Over FISA Court’s Justification For Bulk Data Collection On Americans In FOIA Lawsuit.

STICK IT TO THE MAN: Man who beat NSA in T-shirt parody case wins against Ready for Hillary.

I like the Ready For Oligarchy takeoff.

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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 402.

ROGER SIMON: America, The Headless Horseman. “This is a moment when we need a Churchill and what we have is the man who sent Churchill’s bust home.”

MEGAN MCARDLE: The Adoption Turnaround:

These days, adoptable infants are so rare that parents wait years and pay tens of thousands of dollars to get one. What explains the change?

I know what you’re thinking: birth control; abortion; the end of the stigma against unwed motherhood. And those things undoubtedly played a part: immediately after Roe v. Wade, the number of adoptable white infants dropped sharply.1 But in fact, the change started well before that. By the end of World War II, when the stigma against unwed motherhood was still very high, demand for adoptable infants was already growing much faster than the supply.

What changed? Two things, I’d suggest: First, we became richer. The cost of feeding and clothing a child was no longer a terrifying burden, so people became more interested in adopting children who weren’t theirs.

Second, the value of child labor declined. People who adopted at the end of the 19th century were often looking for farmhands and junior household help. People who adopted in the middle of the 20th were looking for a child to love.

Obviously, those weren’t the only reasons: Social changes of all sorts mattered a lot. But this is also an economic story; as we got richer, we became more willing, and able, to take care of our nation’s babies. That’s a great story, and we should tell it more often.

Hmm.

HILLARY CLINTON’S GAY-MARRIAGE PROBLEM. She’s always having some kind of a marriage problem. . . .

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