#WARONWOMEN: McCaskill 2006 on Bill Clinton: “I don’t want my daughter near him.”

FRANK MINITER: What The Left Won’t Tell You About The Boom In U.S. Gun Sales.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Health, Fitness & Dieting.

BECAUSE THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT DOESN’T HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO TWIST THE KNIFE: Prof. Jacobson: Why aren’t we running as hard on Dems’ support for Occupy as they are on Akin?

TOMORROW’S THE LAST DAY OF THE LIBERTY ISLAND CROWDFUNDING PUSH.

HEATHER WILHELM: The End Of Men isn’t doing much for female empowerment, actually.

THIS WILL PROBABLY JUST MAKE TOBACCO MORE POPULAR AMONG THE YOUNGER SET: The Australian state of Tasmania is considering a ban on cigarette sales to anyone born after the year 2000 in an attempt to create a smoking-free generation.

BRENDAN LOY: Might Isaac Never Become A Hurricane?

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ANNALS OF GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: Prostate Cancer Drug Not Funded.

There are two tiers of men with advanced prostate cancer in Ontario: Those who get access to a remarkable drug through private insurance, and those who get a death sentence.

The grim news is often delivered at the London Regional Cancer Program to men whose shoulders sag and jaws drop when told Ontario’s Health Ministry has for 15 months refused to pay for a medication covered by every other Canadian province.

“There’s shock, fury and dismay,” said oncologist Kylea Potvin. “Everyone thinks we have this wonderful universal health care system, but this is absolutely not the case. We’ve increasingly become a two-tier health care system where if you have money, you have access.” . . .

A pill with few side effects, Zytiga targets an enzyme needed to make a hormone that feeds the cancer and studies have shown it to slow its progression, leaving men living months or even years longer and without as much pain.

It was quickly approved in the United States and by Health Canada.

But Ontario rejected the application, a decision that’s left heroic patients such as Percy Bedard of Zurich calling on Ontarians to ask their government why it has abandoned so many men to suffer and die before they should.

(1) They’re men, and nobody cares as much if men die. (2) On average, they’re past their earning years and if they die earlier it helps the pension problem. And men who live too long are just a burden on society anyway.

Expect this sort of thing here, soon, under ObamaCare. Probably with rules designed to discourage doctors from telling patients about treatments the government would rather not pay for.

THE IMPACT OF TAX RATES on productivity and fairness.

LOOKING BACK AT THE INVENTION OF DEODORANT. Don’t mock it. It was a good invention.

ROGER KIMBALL: Niall Ferguson Cleans House On His Critics. “I said that I found Ferguson’s analysis damning. So, I gather, did the Left. For out of those mephitic swamps of ‘progressive’ animus has risen a great cloud of anguished repudiation. It’s a violent, unpleasant, and ultimately unconvincing display, but it is certainly full of angry pathos. It has already elicited from Ferguson a long, detailed, and utterly deadly point-by-point reply, which is as entertaining as it is authoritative.”

LOOK, DAVE, I CAN SEE YOU’RE REALLY UPSET ABOUT THIS. Smartphone designed to recognize, respond to, user stress. “I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.”

NEWS FROM THE LAND OF HOPENCHANGE: BuzzFeed: Obama Volunteer Suggests Anti-Mormon Whisper Campaign.

UPDATE Related: ABC and NBC are doing big shows on Mormonism, and reader Doug McIntosh writes: “I notice they aren’t doing a show on Obama’s church. How about an hours worth of Jeremiah Wright?” That would be racist and bigoted.

PHOTOGRAPHY: The camera that can take a TRILLION pictures in a second – making it fast enough to watch beams of light travelling in slow-motion.

WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW about swordfighting.

BAH: Boston Market to take salt off table. First, salt shakers play a relatively small role in sodium intake — most of it’s processed into the foods. Second, some people, several of whom are in my family, have low blood pressure and actually need salt to keep their blood volume up. The one-size-fits-all health Nazis never seem to think of things like that.

I don’t mind Boston Market cutting the sodium in their dishes, but taking salt shakers away is just an insult.

PATRIARCHY: President Obama Jokes Again About Daughter Malia Not Being Allowed To Date. #WAR ON WOMEN.

AMAZON’S ELECTION MAP: 44% Blue, 56% Red. But Obama’s autobiography is outselling Romney’s.

Democratic National Convention closes cancer treatment center. “If the Obama administration has taught us anything, it has taught us that Mitt Romney causes cancer. Unfortunately for his victims, their problems are only beginning.”

WHERE YOU’RE SAFE AND WHERE YOU’RE NOT: A map of “stand your ground,” “castle doctrine,” and “duty to retreat” states.

SELLING THE “RECOVERY:” “Worried that people won’t believe what their own experience tells them is not true, the Obama campaign deploys an experienced liar.”

HOSPITAL INFECTIONS: Far more could be done to stop the deadly bacteria C. diff. My mother-in-law just had this after a hospital stay. She’s all right now, but it would have been better if it hadn’t happened.

IN BRITAIN: GM BUSTED FOR LYING ABOUT CHEVY VOLT’S RANGE.