FLOTILLA CHOIR PRESENTS: We Con The World.

SAVING FOR RETIREMENT when you only have a decade.

A REASON TO LOVE “CASH FOR CLUNKERS:” “It is a fabulous demonstration project for just how utterly pointless government stimulus programs can be. Stimulus programs tend to be hard to evaluate in our complex economy — sort of like trying to calculate the effect of a butterfly flapping its wings on world climate. But since cash for clunkers only lasted a few weeks and hit only one industry, we can learn a lot about the effectiveness of government stimulus.”

FROM POPULAR MECHANICS, the ultimate summer grilling guide.

BARRY RUBIN: It’s Not About The Flotilla: Turkey Changed Sides Years Ago.

SORTING SPERM to sort winners from losers.

WHAT EVERY DRIVER NEEDS: A laptop desk that attaches to your car’s steering wheel. The customer reviews are overwhelmingly favorable . . . .

HEH:

“Let me tell you something,” Mr. Clinton said. “A few years ago Jerry Brown said the real solution to racial problems was for the white boys to teach black boys how to read and for black boys to teach white boys how to fight. Now, I could have run an ad on that and made him look like a bigot.”

Good thing he refrained. . . .

PETER SUDERMAN: When Governments Choose To Pay For Medicine, They Also Choose What Medicine To Not Pay For.

NICK GILLESPIE: Yet Still Even More on The Coming War Between Public and Private Sector Workers.

DENTISTRY goes digital.

THE ROBIN HOOD MOVIE: A “rousing love letter to the Tea Party movement?”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Will Washington bail out the MSM with an iPad tax? Well, the payoff for all that shilling has to come somehow.

Meanwhile, Newsmax interested in buying Newsweek?

NEURAL STIMULATION for autoimmune diseases.

HOW MIDDLE EAST TALK WORKS: “Whatever Israel does, Amnesty is still going to say it was acting illegally/violating human rights.”

VIDEOTAPING COPS IS NOT “WIRETAPPING:” “Police do not have an expectation of privacy in their public encounters with the citizenry. In fact, they should have instead an expectation of public accountability for the performance of that work. When a free people give police the authority to enforce our laws and to have the leeway to commit acts of violence in doing so, that is a trust that requires oversight and accountability. The vast majority of police officers enforce the law in a lawful, professional manner, but some abuse their positions of trust. Removing oversight makes it more difficult for the professionals to do their job and easier for the small number of abusers to bully others into following their example.”

AND JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO THEY WERE STILL COOL: “The biggest data pigs in the world are the iPhone guys.” How dare they use their devices as they were marketed!

CLIMATE SCIENCE “is facing reputational meltdown similar to the Roman Catholic church’s over allegations of child abuse and the British parliament’s following the scandal over MPs’ expenses.”

HOW TO FIX California’s Public-Pension Crisis.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our 1979.

Plus, Walter Russell Mead on Gaza.

FORD KILLS MERCURY, will make Lincoln the most efficient luxury brand.

FIVE high-paying, low-stress jobs.

CHANGE: Mortgage applications fall 40% in May, lowest level since April 1997. Like cash-for-clunkers, the tax credit was just borrowing against future sales. Now it’s payback time.

IN THE MAIL: From Michael Harvey, The Third Rail. John Grisham says everyone should read it.

PHOTO GALLERY: The Armenian Genocide.