ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER ON THE ATMOSPHERE IN ISRAEL. “Knesset testimony begins, amidst calls to treat ‘peace groups’ as potentially violent allies of terrorists rather than benign protesters.”

BUILDING A SPACE ELEVATOR in seven years.

STUDY: Mass adoption of EVs in China will lead to tremendously higher emissions. “We have here another study that points to the fact that widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EV) could actually increase greenhouse-gas emissions rather than reduce them as we had hoped. This study, conducted by the Argonne National Laboratory and China’s Tsinghua University, specifically focuses on China and concludes that mass EV adoption could lead to tremendously higher emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide due to the country’s widespread use of coal as a power source.”

IS AUTOMATION ELIMINATING JOBS? “Martin Ford — who joined us on FastForward Radio not long ago — directs us to this story about HP planning to cut 9000 jobs via automation. This development looks like more support for Martin’s thesis, outlined in his book The Lights in the Tunnel, that automation is advancing at a rate that makes the displacement of most human beings from the workforce inevitable (and sooner than you would think.)”

I, for one, welcome our new robot employees. I feel like I’m safe, though. Before they can replace me, they’ve got to figure out what it is, exactly, that I do.

BOMB SQUADS SHARPEN SKILLS in Robot Rodeo.

SO, YESTERDAY I MENTIONED LIKETOTALLY80S.COM for Eighties music, TV and culture. And for 90s music, TV and culture, there’s 90s411.com. How long before there’s an aughties nostalgia site?

SOME PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW how to help out Katie Granju. Michael Silence has the story.

IN THE MAIL: Robert Heinlein’s The Rolling Stones. I’m glad they’re keeping these in print.

INSTAVISION: I interview Fred Thompson about his new book, Teaching The Pig To Dance. Plus, lessons from Europe’s turmoil, and the future of the Tea Party movement.

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NOW THEY TELL US: Soaring costs force Canada to reassess health model.

THE SEIU: A PAPER TIGER? Union fails in move aimed at N.C. Democrats who opposed health bill. “A defiant move by one of the nation’s most powerful unions to help oust Democrats who voted against the health-care bill by establishing a third political party in North Carolina has failed because organizers did not collect enough signatures to qualify for the November midterm elections.” Remember, this isn’t a union made up of tough, disciplined coal miners. It’s a union made up of DMV clerks . . . .

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: Long-Term Trend: Wage Redistribution Increases.

BYRON YORK: Can the GOP Stir Up The Public To Dig Into The Sestak Affair?

JAMES LEWIS: “I think the decision to stop the ‘peace’ flotilla with commandos was a deliberate signal to Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, and most of all the United States. Are you listening, President Obama?”

IN NEW YORK, a Tea Party insurrection.

TEA PARTIES: Doing the hard work of local politics.

MICHAEL YON’S WAR.

VIRUS RAVAGES cassava plants in Africa. Making life worse for some people whose lives don’t need to be worse. “After rice and wheat, cassava is the world’s third-largest source of calories. Under many names, including manioc, tapioca and yuca, it is eaten by 800 million people in Africa, South America and Asia. The danger has been likened to that of Phytophthora infestans, the blight that struck European potatoes in the 1840s, setting off a famine that killed perhaps a million people in Ireland and forced even more to emigrate.”

RAND PAUL still well ahead in Kentucky.

CHINESE HIDING THREE MILLION BABIES A YEAR: “As many as three million Chinese babies are hidden by their parents every year in order to get around the country’s one-child policy, a researcher has discovered.”

TALKING CARS with the Car Lust crowd.

RICK MORAN: 24 Hours After The Gaza Incident, Where’s The President?

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Seventh hole.”

G.O.P. SEES A WAY TO REVIVE HEALTHCARE DEBATE. “President Barack Obama spent the last year insisting he doesn’t want to turn the American health care system into a carbon copy of the government-run British system. But Obama’s pick to run Medicaid and Medicare — Donald Berwick — is a pediatrician and Harvard University professor with a self-professed ‘love’ of the British system. . . . Now Senate Republicans are vowing to press their case against Obama’s sweeping new health care law by challenging Berwick’s nomination — just in time to resurrect the brutal yearlong health reform battle ahead of the midterm elections.”

BLOGGINGHEADS TV: Are liberals bad for poor Africans?

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: White House Can’t Get Its Sestak Story Straight.

UPDATE: “When the President does it, it’s not illegal.”