Free-Market Brat Beats on Cantor, VA Gets FBI Investigation, Iraqi Cities Fall: P.M. Links

David Brat, the economics
professor who squished second-ranking House
Republican Rep. Eric Cantor in the primaries, is a

free-market guy who digs Ayn Rand and doesn’t like the snoopy
NSA. Yeah, he’s a border warrior, but that’s a pretty good
start.
Like Brat, his Democratic opponent, Jack Trammell, is a
professor at Randolph-Macon College. Unlike Brat, Trammell is

writing a vampire novel.
Having has his clock cleaned,
Cantor will step down as House majority leader.
The Veterans Administration earned itself a
full-fledged criminal investigation by the FBI. Whoops.
In two days, the Iraqi government lost
control of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and then Tikrit,
to Islamic militants.
Thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in El
Salvador and Guatemala are
turning up at the U.S. border, seekig refuge. They’re ending up
crowded into holding facilities.
The weapons used by Jared Michael Padgett to kill a classmate
at an Oregon high school had been locked up at his home, “but
he defeated the security measures,” according to the local
police chief.