RICHARD LANDES: What the World Isn’t Being Told about the Israeli-Lebanese Border Incident.

WHY THEY HATE US: Women wearing skimpy clothes? “For years the journalists and academics have said settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be a high foreign policy priority for America because it would remove a potential grievance of terrorists. Are they all now going to launch campaigns against skimpy clothing?” Personally, I’m willing to see every terrorist in the world die rather than give up on the bikini.

UPDATE: Phil Bowermaster writes: “So if these people who are so upset about the mosque being built near ground zero want to do something constructive, why not pool their resources and put up a monument of their own. I suggest an enormous Hooter’s franchise as close to Cordoba House as they can get it. Also, maybe a restaurant specializing in BLTs.”

Don’t be silly. That would be unforgivably insensitive.

MARY KATHARINE HAM AND GUY BENSON: ObamaCare’s Broken Promises: The Complete List.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: Judicial recusals and politics make a bad mix.

I’M PRETTY SURE THE ANSWER IS “NO:” Do You Need A $400 Ice Cream Machine?

BELL, CALIFORNIA: AlfonZo Rachel investigates and reports on the growing popular revolt.

UNEXPECTEDLY! JOBS PICTURE WORSENS: “U.S. employment fell for a second straight month in July as more temporary census jobs ended while private hiring rose less than expected, pointing to an anemic economic recovery.”

LOOK WHO’S BACK AT THE WASHINGTON POST! Boy, that didn’t take long.

WILLIAM JACOBSON: Obama’s “Birther” Strategy Has Backfired.

MEGAN MCARDLE:

If you want to know why us libertarian types are skeptical of the government’s ability to prevent housing market bubbles, well, I give you Exhibit 9,824: the government’s new $1000 down housing program.

No, really. The government has apparently decided, in its infinite wisdom, that what the American economy really needs is more homebuyers with no equity.

These people are idiots. Idiots who’ve been entrusted with nuclear weapons, and their economic equivalents.

RACISM IN CLOWN SHOES: Rangel Dismisses Plea Bargain as ‘English, Anglo-Saxon’ Procedure.

A “RASPUTIN BAILOUT?”

ED DRISCOLL: “If the office of the American Prospect (or, more generally, the world of liberal magazines) is full of depraved sexism, then really, feminists might as well give up.”

CHANGE: “When General Motors went through bankruptcy last year, it suspended its political donations. Now that it’s owned by the U.S. government, it’s donating to lawmakers’ pet projects again.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Damaged heart could be coaxed into mending itself, claim scientists. “In as little as five years, researchers hope to be able to coax the heart into regenerating itself, repairing the damage caused by cardiac arrests and old age. The revolutionary treatment could be possible after scientists discovered a technique for turning ordinary connective tissue into muscle cells inside the heart. It works in a similar way to stem cells but instead of the new cells being grown outside the body and then injected back in, the technique simply makes the cells switch at the point where they are needed.”

MORE ON the war against photography. “If the police are doing their jobs properly, they should have nothing to worry about.”

A CELLPHONE CAMERA comparison test.

POSTRACIAL AMERICA: “The former longtime mayor of Memphis, who unabashedly campaigned for voters to send him to Congress because he is black, was overwhelmingly defeated by the white incumbent in today’s 9th District Democratic primary.”

JOURNALISM.

MATERIAL GIRL.

TOP TEN SIGNS OF DOOM.

Well, here’s #2. And #s 6 & 7 are getting close . . .

And then there’s this.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on camp knives and tools.

MORE ON WHEAT: Check Out These Stunning Photos Of The Russian Wildfires Causing Wheat Prices To Surge.

CLAIM: Chick Flicks Are Ruining Your Sex Life.

GAMERS SOLVE protein puzzles.