CLIMATEGATE: UK Climategate Investigation Conclusion: Hiding the Decline was “Misleading.”

A CHART OF UNEMPLOYMENT since 1995.

JIM TREACHER: “You mean I can enjoy Jon Stewart’s cutting-edge comedy, sociopolitical analysis, and yelling, without guilt that I’m enabling a tool of the patriarchy? Whew!”

BUILDING A BRIDGE to 1932.

TOM BLUMER: Mapping the Economy’s ‘Man-cession.’ “Far more men than women are out of work as the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy enters its third year. Why? And what can be done?”

A SMALL VICTORY FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: Iowa Federal Court Finds Sheriff Denied Concealed Carry Because of Applicant’s Political Activity, Orders Sheriff to Take a First Amendment Class.

GOOD GRIEF: NAACP Leader: Kenneth Gladney Not Black Enough.

More here: ” Apparently, a HuffPo writer was present. You can see her laughing at the remark in the video.”

BILL CLINTON DOESN’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT AL GORE:

Given I was surrounded by five armed Secret Service agents who eyed me suspiciously, I didn’t have the nerve to bring up Al Gore’s name, but another Aspen pal did so. ”Even though it was about a global warming issue and had nothing to do with that masseuse sex scandal, the mere mention of Gore’s name made Clinton shoot me a very ugly look,” said the source, who realized the former president was mentally connecting the dots to his own well-documented challenges to marital fidelity.

Heh.

RICH GALEN: “If I can’t be a Russian spy on Putin’s payroll, I wish a Russian spy would have tried to wheedle intelligence out of me. Especially that red-haired babe.”

RETAIL NUMBERS “TEPID” AND “SLUGGISH.” Unexpectedly?

And how bad has it gotten? “The Obama White House must feel quite a bit of desperation to partner up with Wal-Mart, and this program sounds pretty doggone desperate. Is it really so hard to give out SBA loans that the government needs to discount them through Sam’s Club? And do you have to get 12 loans at a time and carry them out in the flatbed cart?”

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: Lawyer Who Defended ‘American Taliban’ Now Heads DOJ Suit Against Arizona. Under the circumstances, it might have been more discreet to pick a different lawyer.

MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS serve different percentages of their sentences?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “Some of us had hoped three weeks ago that a leader like General Mattis might become Centcom commander. The recent announcement that Secretary Gates, wisely, has just done that could not come at a better time. Mattis is a proven battlefield commander, a sophisticated student of history, and unshakeable in his nerve and purpose. We now have, with General Petraeus as ground commander, our two most gifted senior combat generals in charge of Afghanistan, who have worked well together and who were brilliant in Iraq in its darkest hours.”

DON’T EVEN BOTHER PROPOSING POLICIES with no room for graft.

THE HILL: Deficit hits $1 trillion in June for second year.

SHOCKER: Doubts About Cuomo’s Support of Gay Rights.

PROF. WILLIAM JACOBSON: Is The Harry Reid Campaign Hiding Its Activities To Evade Campaign Finance Laws?

COMING: An expanded fishing ban?

“YOUNG AND NUBILE:” Actually, at my gym, if you see a mother and teenage daughter working out together, the daughter is usually 10 or 15 pounds overweight, while the mother is usually really hot.

UPDATE: Probably friskier, too.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on electronics.

DAN RIEHL: “This is so good for the GOP, the idiot must be a plant.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Sorry, but when Byrd lies in state in his beloved Senate today, plenty of his colleagues will share over-the-top reminiscences about the elder statesman who quoted Cicero while defending their prerogatives and protecting their pork. He’ll be eulogized as the soul of the Senate, the embodiment of the institution, the hero of the world’s greatest deliberative body and so on. That’s fair, I suppose, because the Senate sucks. And so did the politics of Robert C. Byrd, an imperious and egomaniacal reactionary, an anachronism in a three-piece suit.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Lawlessness in the Civil Rights Division at DOJ.

TRIFECTA: Obama’s Failing Economy & 5 Solutions From the Trifecta Team.

LIST: The Emmy nominees.