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Heard indirectly from pollster and political analyst Matt Towery. He is telling folks that something unprecedented is happening even as we speak ... The opposition candidate is gaining in the polls while the Democrats are holding their convention. This would mean that the Democrats are failing to impress. Towery also reportedly feels that more and more Democrats are starting to feel the pangs of buyer's remorse.....>>>>>>

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The Democrats have this way of trotting out boring liberal relics that makes their poll numbers drop during the early days of their conventions....>>>>>>

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As I have noted before, the real troubling aspect of the Obama-Ayers relationship is that Obama comes from a political subculture in which Ayers is an accepted and unremarkable individual. Looking at Ayers, one is forced to ask exactly what kind of leftist extremism would be considered unacceptable by Obama and his cohorts...>>>>>>

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Maybe now we have a clear reason why speakers are struggling: the biggest foreign policy issue of the campaign - the largest policy reason, in fact, that Obama is the nominee - has swung so firmly away from the Democrats as to make their message incoherent at best, and dramatically out of touch at worse....>>>>>>

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...I might be mistaken, but I believe the tag line, "dangerously unprepared to be President," represents a ramping up of McCain's criticism of Obama's lack of qualifications for the office....>>>>

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Michelle Obama is an accomplished woman. She graduated from Princeton and from Harvard Law School. She became a member of the bar and practiced law at a top Chicago law firm. After that, she took on a prominent role as a lawyer for a major hospital.

Yet last night, at least according to the transcript of her speech, she mentioned none of these accomplishments...>>>>>>>

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Virtually everyone believes Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili foolishly provoked a Russian invasion on August 7, 2008, when he sent troops into the breakaway district of South Ossetia. “The warfare began Aug. 7 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia,” the Associated Press reported over the weekend in typical fashion.

Virtually everyone is wrong. Georgia didn't start it on August 7, nor on any other date. The South Ossetian militia started it on August 6 when its fighters fired on Georgian peacekeepers and Georgian villages with weapons banned by the agreement hammered out between the two sides in 1994. At the same time, the Russian military sent its invasion force bearing down on Georgia from the north side of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian side of the border through the Roki tunnel and into Georgia. This happened before Saakashvili sent additional troops to South Ossetia and allegedly started the war....>>>>>>>

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The Obama campaign is giving a glimpse of the future for conservative free speech. They’re trying to sic the Justice Department on TV stations, many of them Sinclair Broadcasting stations, that are airing the independent ad on Obama and Bill Ayers....>>>>>>

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The most impressive performance turned in at the Democratic convention last night was by one of the Obamas' children. When Barack appeared on-screen at the end of his wife's speech, he delivered his usual gaffe, announcing that he was in St. Louis when in fact he was in Kansas City. At the end of the bit, his daughter gave him chance to retrieve the error by asking, "What city are you in, Daddy?" The second time, he got it right.....>>>>>

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...I'm always astounded as to the extent of deception in which pro-choice Catholics indulge themselves, both inwardly and outwardly, to justify their positions. Perhaps there is no balder example of this than Nancy Pelosi attempting to spin the Catholic doctrine on human life on Meet the Press...>>>>>>

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I noted this in my year-end essay last December on the surge, the military, and the media. Worth noting again as the Obama camp hypes Joe Biden’s great foreign policy and strategic expertise. They were both wrong. Phenomenally wrong....>>>>>>

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In June 2006, straight-talking Joe Biden went on Meet the Press and demanded accountability from the administration for the so-called Haditha massacre. Biden spoke about the incident as if the accused marines were guilty (before a trial) and called on the administration to proceed, and to be treated, as if there were a cover-up at the highest levels of government.

Well, it turned out Biden was wrong about Haditha....>>>>>>

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John McCain's campaign has decided to start some trouble between the Democrats just as they’ve gathered for their convention in Denver. Their new ad, "Passed Over", asks why the woman who received 18 million votes for the nomination never even made it to the short list for the VP nomination....>>>>>>

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...The Dems are saying Biden is now Obama's "company man" and he'll be "loyal" and do whatever Obama says. That's wishful thinking. I don't believe Biden is capable of swallowing the Obama company line for the next three months. It's simply not in his DNA.

I anticipate a slip-up and a public disagreement over foreign policy ahead. Their records are too contradictory and Biden's too much of a loose cannon.....>>>>>>

-Amanda Carpenter

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...If Biden is supposed to cover Obama’s foreign policy void, he's a laughably weak choice. Biden has never done anything in his whole life. He's sat on committees and bloviated endlessly.

To top it all off, Biden is exceedingly boring as well as annoyingly arrogant. But maybe he'll deliver the key swing state of Delaware! ....>>>>>

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The word on the street is total meltdown. The Clintons and their advisors aren't even staying for the final speech. Bill Clinton is openly whining about his speaking assignment.

And that's before Joe Biden stuffs most of his leg in his mouth....>>>>>>

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...But will they follow her lead and throw their support to Barack Obama, or flip him the bird?...>>>>>

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....A relatively straight line runs from George McGovern to Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama. Like George McGovern, Barack Obama staked his candidacy on the purity of his opposition to the war in which we are engaged. Like McGovern, his avowed policies would guarantee defeat. Like Jimmy Carter, he has essentially adopted our enemies' view of the world.....>>>>>>

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Barack Obama is a lot like Sean Penn or George Clooney. If you give him a script, he can deliver it pretty well. But if he tries to talk without a script that has been written for him by others, he quickly reveals that he is poorly-informed if not downright ignorant. Today he delivered another classic, by claiming that if only we would all properly inflate our tires, we could save as much gasoline as "all the oil that they're talking about getting off drilling." Seriousl....>>>>>>>>

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David Petraeus, the general responsible for turning Iraq around with the surge, is putting out the word that a timeline is a bad idea...>>>>>>>

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The L.A. Times refuses to cover this hometown story. Editor Tony Pierce even sent an e-mail to staffers ordering them not to cover it.

Yes, this story started because John Edwards is apparently a lecherous scumbag. But the meat of this story is that the American mainstream media are corrupt scumbags...>>>>>>.

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Barack Obama is the most left-wing candidate the Democrats have nominated since George McGovern. If Obama wins the presidency, I think it is fair to postulate that it will be George McGovern's first term. Like McGovern, Obama staked out his territory as the antiwar candidate at the left end of the field of Democratic presidential candidates. His antiwar position, including his concocted critique of Hillary Clinton's purported "saber rattling" on Iran, was his signature issue through the Democratic primaries.....>>>>>>>

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If you keep lying about the surge and saying it did not work, you can't blame people for thinking that you actually do not support the troops...>>>>>>

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Conservative stalwart Sens. Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint blew the whistle last week on a new report from the Congressional Research Service showing that 94 percent of bills passed in the Dem-controlled Senate have been rammed through without debate or vote....>>>>>>

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Over the last couple of weeks the price of oil has dropped around $20 per barrel. Some observers have been quick to credit President Bush, who rescinded the executive ban on exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf, and Congressional Republicans, who have kept up pressure on Democrats to allow exploitation of our domestic resources. But is this realistic? Certainly producing more oil would reduce the price, but if the market merely believes that the U.S. is likely to expand production in the future, would that expectation really reduce oil prices today?..>>>>>>>>

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The recent Rasmussenpoll finding that now 49% of Americans think the media will try to help Obama win the election has been noted repeatedly in the blogosphere.....>>>>>>

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NBC's Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube get the skinny on the abrupt cancellation of Barack Obama's visit to Landstuhl and Ramstein yesterday. The campaign tried to excuse it by claiming that it wouldn't be appropriate to visit while on a campaign-funded portion of his trip, but that wasn't the real problem. When Obama found out he could't use the visit as a photo op, he canceled:..>>>>>>>

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Well, once again someone has come up with an explanation for another of Senator Obama's statements that, on the surface, are rank falsehoods....>>>>>>>

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Senate Republicans kept their word today to defeat any energy bill that did not include an end to the Congressional moratorium on off-shore drilling. By a 50-43 party-line vote, the bill that supposedly would curb "excessive" energy speculation failed to gain cloture. Instead of allowing a pro-drilling amendment to get attached to the bill, the Democrats will bury it:...>>>>>>>>

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...If Congress does break for the summer without a debate on energy, expect those numbers to slip much farther. Americans want to start using more domestic supplies, and not just for price relief in the next few years. They have finally begun to realize that sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas and inflating the price of oil benefit those whose don't like Americans. It amounts to a price support for terror-funding regimes like Iran and Sudan, and in fact has helped Iran survive the international sanctions designed to stop their uranium-enrichment program......>>>>>>

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Barack Obama is an American anomaly. An enigma. An aberration.

* Never in American history has a man with so pitifully little on his resume received such adoration.

* Never in American history has a candidate had the temerity to mimic our Presidential seal the place it upon his podium.

* Never in American history has a mere interviewee deigned to write the rules for our interview.

* Never in American history has a mere candidate had the gall to travel abroad with a press corps and secret service in tow to give "fake press interviews" for manipulated "news" coverage.

* Never in American history has so little respect been given to our electoral process. ...>>>>>>>>

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...So he shows up not as a candidate but as a "citizen of the world." So he's a citizen of the world? That's it. He's just a guy taking a stroll, found a microphone, walked up to the podium, and makes a speech. Of course he's there as a candidate. He can't even be honest about that. He has to obfuscate that. And then let us unite and "remake the world once again," and so forth. Now, what about it needs to be remade and how's he going to do this? The Germans don't care a rat's rear end about remaking the world. We don't even allow them to have a military. The Germans are like a lot of other European countries, that Obama finds them more sophisticated than Americans. That takes me to the thing that irritates me greatly about this. This "citizen of the world stuff," I know what he means by it, but why isn't it good enough to say, "I'm a proud United States citizen coming to speak to you today," about whatever you want to say our challenges are?

Why do you have to deemphasize that you are an American?...>>>>>>>

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Barack Obama canceled a visit to wounded US troops in Germany today, apparently because he wouldn't be allowed to use the trip as campaign publicity:...>>>>>>>

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....Why then can't Obama bring himself to acknowledge the surge worked better than he and other skeptics, including this page, thought it would? What does that stubbornness say about the kind of president he'd be?...>>>>>>>

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Obama's only comment about the American presidents who have spoken in Berlin before him: "I know that I don't look like the other Americans who've previously spoken in this great city."...>>>>>>>

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The Washington Post reports that John McCain has made significant gains in several battleground states over the past month. He and Barack Obama are now in dead heats, according to recent Post/Quinnipiac/Wall Street Journal polling, in Colorado, Michigan and Minnesota, while Obama continues to enjoy a sizable lead in Wisconsin....>>>>>>>>>

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I guess this is a question of priorities. Barack Obama apparently ran short on time in his visit to Germany today, and travelers know how schedules can slip during long tours, even without all of the events Obama had planned. Those circumstances force people to prioritize their time, and eliminate less-useful stops.

So what did Obama cut today? Der Spiegel’s blog reports on Obama’s priorities:....>>>>>>>

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During the run-up to the primaries, Senator Obama did not appear in the Senate to vote on the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment calling on the government to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist entity and thus suffer the imposition of sanctions. On the day of the vote on the amendment, however, Obama issued a statement announcing that he would have voted against it....>>>>>>

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Matt Lewis can't get no respect. Coupled with his unwillingness to engage in town hall events with McCain, one wonders what he is so afraid of....>>>>>>>

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....If the National Enquirer is correct, his girlfriend (are mistress and love child passe terms these days?) was six months pregnant in December 2007. Do the arithmetic. He and his wife announced that her cancer was back in March of that year and he must have been out working on his second family just a few months later. And it was all during the campaign last year when he still might have had a chance at the nomination. What is it with these politicians that they think they're immune from standards of normal decency?.....>>>>>>

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Regarding Obama's tendency to combine the resistance shown by Iraqis in Anbar with the surge to make it seem that the surge was tangential to the real reasons for the changes in Iraq and that the major credit goes to "the political factors" and not our military efforts, he does indeed seem to be betraying either his ignorance of this recent history or his willful manipulation of the facts to excuse his own poor judgment about the surge's chances for success....>>>>>>>

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The debate, then, is over, and the (landslide) verdict is in: The surge has been a tremendous success....>>>>>>

-Peter Wehner

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1. Elitism:

2. Bad Judgment:

3. Increasing Taxes:

4. Ideology:

5. Lack of Core Values:

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On the John Edwards story, I do wonder how much, if any, coverage this report will receive..... .....

....Today the National Enquirer reports that their reporters actually witnessed former Senator John Edwards entering the Beverly Hilton at 9:45pm to visit Rielle Hunter and her new baby.......

.....Of course, there's the question of whether the big media outlets will want to pick up a National Enquirer story. If I remember correctly, the Rush Limbaugh oxycontin story was broken by the Enquirer, and the press ran with that one. We'll see.....>>>>>>

-Byron York

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As you know, Barack Obama is still trotting across the globe, sinking three pointers, ignoring military counsel and healing the occasional leper. Amidst all the hullabaloo, these Obama comments regarding Israel and terrorism have been sadly overlooked:...>>>>>>

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Incidentally, this is exactly the same line of reasoning that Barack Obama has been using. He opposed the surge and believed we should leave Iraq in 16 months because the situation was unwinnable. Now, his new line is that we should leave in 16 months because things are going so well that they won't need us -- and ironically, Klein's post yesterday was sharply critical of John McCain for having the chutzpah to tell the truth about Barack Obama..>>>>>>

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Yesterday we posted on the pretty obvious dive into the tank the Washington Post was taking for Barack Obama. As evidence we pointed to the rather shameless sucking up Dan Eggen and Sudarsan Raghavan offered to the Obama campaign at the expense of their integrity --- or whatever passes for such a notion with them -- and the truth....>>>>>>

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Shocking. Not that he'd insist he was right all along, all evidence to the contrary a hallmark of the Iraq debate on both sides but that he'd offer such a feeble defense. What can this possibly mean?..>>>>>>>

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When he or his wife give speeches in the United States, the staff makes sure there are plenty of white people visible, because he's scared of creating the impression that only black people support him.

He prevents Muslim women wearing headscarves from sitting behind him, though, because he's scared American voters will think he's a Muslim.

He has refused requests for interviews from foreign media, because he's afraid of being asked questions a teleprompter can't answer....>>>>>>

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The day after Barack Obama said that the troop surge in Iraq has worked but that he was right to oppose it because "we had to change the political debate,"...>>>>>>>

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....The obvious point, obvious to all those who get beyond the "fairness" rhetoric, is the "rich" pay much more than their fair share. In fact, the rich pay the bulk of the income taxes collected.

And, in fact, according to the last numbers I heard, the bottom 50% of income earners pay 3% of the income taxes collected.....>>>>>>>

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Shocking. Not that he'd insist he was right all along, all evidence to the contrary, a hallmark of the Iraq debate on both sides, but that he'd offer such a feeble defense. What can this possibly mean?...>>>>>>>

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While the lib media refuses to confront Al Gore over his phony global warming models, leading scientific experts are beginning to take him to task. Tonight, Mark Levin read from a commentary in the Australian and commented; Al Gore and his carbon creditors are conning us out of liberty..>>>>>>>

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Mort Kondracke poses this as a rhetorical question in his Roll Call editorial, but he appears to be leaning towards "phony". After all of the policy reversals and waffles Obama has served up in the past month, some of which Kondracke applauds as pragmatic, can he be trusted? If he was willing to throw the netroots under the bus on FISA reform, just where will Obama take a stand on principle?...>>>>>>>>

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ABC interviewed Obama for Nightline and asked him, if he'd known then what he knows now about the success of the surge would he have supported the surge last year. See if his answer is at all coherent....>>>>>>

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Ironically, one of the reasons George Bush's approval rating is so low is that he has done such a fantastic job of protecting America from terrorist attacks since 9/11.

After 9/11, if you had told people that Bush would prevent another major terrorist attack against the US for nearly seven years and would have an approval rating under 30%, they'd have thought it was crazy....>>>>>>>

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I've said before that Coburn and DeMint are our two greatest Senators. We may need to add Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning.

Bunning, on Paulson's Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac taxpayer bailout plan...>>>>>>>

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Tonight Barack Obama told ABC News that, knowing what we know now--that the surge in Iraq has been a success, that it has drastically reduced violence and given Iraq a shot at a bright future--he would still oppose it..>>>>>>>

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Team Obama has outdone themselves on symbolism with this choice. They've managed to make their hosts uncomfortable for a second time with their choice of rallying point, and perhaps more so this time. If one wanted to talk peace, what worse location could one choose than Adolf Hitler's favorite monument to militaristic domination? One has to wonder how France, Denmark, and Austria will feel about Obama rallying German masses under the Siegessaule. Deja vu?...>>>>>>

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.....running for President of the United States is a grueling course of tests and examinations, for the family as well as the candidate. And when a candidate fails such tests, especially by whining that he and his family should not have to face such tests, he proves something to the American people, something vital missing from his character and skill set. Like it or not, if Barack Obama intends to become President of the United States, his wife Michelle will have to pass similar tests of character and integrity.....>>>>>

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Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Tuesday that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will unveil "a different message for a different audience" in the general election campaign, as opposed to the one he used to capture the Democratic presidential nomination....>>>>>>

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Old videos appear to show a radical Muslim named Khalid Al-Mansour helped Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gain acceptance into Harvard Law...>>>>>>>

-Amanda Carpenter

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Why Biden's plagiarism shouldn't be forgotten....>>>>>>

- David Greenberg

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...As the Democrats kicked off a convention designed to unite support behind Obama, interviews with several dozen delegates pointed to an undercurrent of anxiety among many from key swing states who will be charged with leading the push in their communities. They expressed doubts bordering on bewilderment: Why, in a year that had been shaping up as a watershed for Democrats, amid an economic downturn and an unpopular Republican presidency, is the race so tight? ...>>>>>

-Alec MacGillis and Paul Kane

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....Sixty percent of Americans considered themselves conservative. Does this mean that most Americans do not know what "conservative" means? No: The question specifically provides an out to people who are not sure about their ideology; it provides an out to people who want to be considered "moderate." Americans reject those choices. They overwhelmingly define themselves as "conservative." This is a huge political story - except that it is not "new" at all....>>>>>>

-Bruce Walker

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The choice of Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) for his vice presidential running mate is one more step in the decline of Barack Obama....>>>>>>

-Newt Gingrich

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Success in Iraq confounds the Democrats.

-Article by Noemie Emery

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The resume of a chronic underachiever.

-Dean Barnett

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...Obama’s youthful appearance is often cited as one of his biggest assets, but when he opens his mouth he doesn’t always come off as presidential or even particularly intelligent. The political figure who perhaps has received the most ridicule in the past twenty years is Dan Quayle (due largely to a misspelled word on a flashcard he read during an appearance at a school). I wonder how much more grief would have been heaped on Vice President Quayle if he had made any of the following gaffes committed by Barack Obama....>>>>>

-Lorie Byrd

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....The week began with a debate of sorts between Senator Obama and me at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. In case you missed it, the discussion yielded the line of the week, and maybe even of the campaign, when Pastor Rick Warren asked my opponent a very serious question. He wanted to know at what point, in my opponent's view, does a baby have human rights? Senator Obama thought about it for a moment, and came back with the reply that the question was, quote, "above my pay grade."

Here was a candidate for the presidency of the United States, asked for his position on one of the central moral and legal questions of our time, and this was the best he could offer: It's above his pay grade....>>>>>>

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Ah yes, another day, another story about the infighting between the Clinton and Obama wings of the Democratic Party, and John McCain’s team is making the most of it...>>>>>

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....Barack Obama has a problem. And it lives in a hut.

His name is George Hussein Onyango Obama, and he is the 26-year-old half brother of Mr. Obama, the multimillionaire autobiographer who neglected to write that his paternal sibling lives on less than a dollar a month in the outer slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

They have met twice.....>>>>>>

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....Obama's mega-gaffe in snubbing the wounded troops in Germany (with the excuse he wouldn't want to use campaign funds for such a visit) left even the MSM scratching their heads. There could be no perfect example of the argument McCain has been making: this is a callow man whose ego blinds him to the sacrifice of military service. Coming on the heels of news that Obama is already planning his White House transition, it seemed to put new emphasis on the question the McCain camp has been implicitly asking, "Who does he think he is?"....>>>>>>>>

-Jennifer Rubin

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It has become something of an article of faith among those who oppose drilling in the Arctic that it's too much trouble for too little oil. Well, how about 90 billion barrels of oil? Too little for you?..>>>>>>>>

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The gaffes Barack Obama has committed would have crushed the typical Republican politician. But the reporters who can't get over Dan Quayle's misspelling of "potato" have little to say about their man's slip-ups....>>>>>>>

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I don't know which troubles me more: the liberal media's fawning over Barack Obama or the great number of people who are buying into his mystique so uncritically. But what bothers me more than either of these is the arrogance of the liberal press, which sadly is typical of so many liberals....>>>>>>>>

-David Limbaugh

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...Barack Obama's recent global tour may have been a media sensation abroad, but back home it was a punch line. "There was a huge reception for Barack Obama in the Middle East this past weekend,"quipped Jay Leno. "People were screaming, chasing him, hanging on his every word, and that was just the U.S. press corps."....>>>>>>>

-Stephen Brown

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Markets can operate efficiently even when people don't understand how they work. On the other hand, policymakers can do untold damage when they don't understand how markets work. A case in point is the current misguided Senate proposal to regulate petroleum futures markets...>>>>>>

- David Kreutzer, Ph.D.

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The enormous improvement in Iraq's security situation caused by the surge has been so undeniable that even the mainstream press has started alternating between ignoring Iraq completely and acknowledging, albeit reluctantly, that the surge has put victory within reach in Iraq.

So with that in mind, it's worth taking the time to look back at what the creme de la creme of the Democratic Party has had to say about the war and the surge over the last few years....>>>>>>

-John Hawkins

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If America can learn from its problems, instead of blaming others, it will come back stronger...>>>>>>>

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Sen. Barack Obama scrapped plans to visit wounded members of the armed forces in Germany as part of his overseas trip, a decision his spokesman said was made because the Democratic presidential candidate thought it would be inappropriate on a campaign-funded journey.....

.... "Barack Obama is wrong. It is never inappropriate to visit our men and women in the military," said Brian Rogers, a spokesman for the Republican contender....>>>>>>>

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....A few months ago, Edwards, the Democratic Party's 2004 vice presidential candidate, seemed to pull himself out of the VP race. But then, a couple of weeks ago, Edwards quietly put himself back in, telling National Public Radio, "I'm prepared to seriously consider anything, anything [Obama] asks me to do for our country."......

.....But now there's another reason to watch: an extensive story in the National Enquirer providing new evidence that Edwards, in the midst of his presidential campaign, had an extramarital affair that has, perhaps, resulted in a child.....>>>>>>>

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The House yesterday passed a housing bailout by 272-152. The White House has thrown its reservations overboard and is begging to sign this boondoggle, despite the less-than-veto-proof majority. A few brave souls in the Senate are threatening a filibuster, which is where the last hope lies for stripping the most egregious and expensive provisions from this monster...>>>>>>>

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THE INITIAL MEDIA coverage of Barack Obama's visit to Iraq suggested that the Democratic candidate found agreement with his plan to withdraw all U.S. combat forces on a 16-month timetable. So it seems worthwhile to point out that, by Mr. Obama's own account, neither U.S. commanders nor Iraq's principal political leaders actually support his strategy...>>>>>>>

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The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money...>>>>>>

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It didn't seem possible that politicians could think up a sillier energy proposal than Barack Obama's windfall profits tax on oil companies, but Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia has done just that....>>>>>>>

-STEPHEN MOORE

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The underlying issue of the 2008 election makes this a watershed moment in American history...>>>>>>>

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....But Maliki's public utterances do not provide a reliable guide as to when it will be safe to pull out U.S. troops. Better to listen to the military professionals. The Post recently quoted Brig. Gen. Bilal al-Dayni, commander of Iraqi troops in Basra, as saying of the Americans, "We hope they will stay until 2020." That is similar to the expectation of Iraq's defense minister, Abdul Qadir, who says his forces cannot assume full responsibility for internal security until 2012 and for external security until 2018.

What would happen if we were to pull out much faster, on a 16-month timetable? Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond, commander of coalition forces in Baghdad, says that would be "very dangerous" -- the same words used by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff....>>>>>>>

-Max Boot

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No sooner did President Bush lift the executive ban on oil exploration in the outer Continental Shelf then Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, put the kibosh to its prospects.

"The only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources is action from the US Congress," said President Bush last week...>>>>>>>

-Humberto Fontova

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The "surge" in Iraq sure appears to have worked. There are some who say President Bush should have listened to voices such as Senator John McCain and then Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki in the first place, rather than taking the foolish advice of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other "neo-con" hardliners.

But before we give all the credit to the "more boots on the ground" stompers and all the blame to Rumsfeld and the neo-cons, let's take a second look at the surge....>>>>>

-Randall Hoven

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Campaign '08: The "newspaper of record" doesn't want John McCain's views on Iraq to go on the record, at least not while Barack Obama is on his magical media tour. The truth about Obama is unfit to print?...>>>>>>

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The New York Times wouldn't print this oped from the GOP candidate...>>>>>>

-John McCain

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Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others-- regardless of what the facts may be. Politicians get away with this to the extent that we gullibly accept their words and look to them as political messiahs...>>>>>>>

-Thomas Sowell

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Is anyone paying attention to what Obama is saying?.....>>>>>>

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Gas prices are high and Americans want the villains responsible held accountable. Congress doesn't want to be blamed, though it certainly deserves a portion for refusing policy changes that would make a difference even in the long run. So, to deflect attention Congress has joined in the finger-pointing, and the easiest targets are "speculators."..>>>>>>

-J.D. Foster, Ph.D.

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....Raising taxes, increasing government spending and demonizing business? That is straight out of the New Deal of the 1930s.

The New Deal was new then but it is not new now. Moreover, increasing numbers of economists and historians have concluded that New Deal policies are what prolonged the Great Depression. ..>>>>>>

-Thomas Sowell

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....Of course, we saw plenty of hypocrisy -- especially the fact that Gore didn't ride his bike or take public transporation to the event. He didn't even take his Prius! Instead, he brought a fleet of two Lincoln Town Cars and a Chevy Suburban SUV! Even worse, the driver of the Town Car that eventually whisked away Gore's wife and daughter left the engine idling and the AC cranking for 20 minutes before they finally left!...>>>>>>>

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MAYBE THE quickest way to lower oil and gas prices would be this: Immediately enroll every Democratic member of Congress in an entry-level economics class......>>>>>>>

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....This reduced speed limit would have the effect of robbing most Americans of hours per year of time and productivity. Increased productivity that has propelled our markets to new highs in the last couple years. It would reduce the productivity of nearly every single truck driver, repair and maintenance crew, sales and marketing rep and in fact every single person and business who depends on transportation for their commerce. In other words, that means practically every single business in the country would take a hit. That inevitably means fewer jobs, reduced economic activity and lower tax revenues.....>>>>>>>

- C. Edmund Wright

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Tony Snow's death packed a particularly hard punch to my gut this week. Because during the past year, Tony had been warmly and graciously corresponding with my precious wife Denise, who had also been battling cancer. When Tony found out about her diagnosis, he asked for her email address so they could exchange words of inspiration and advice....>>>>>>>

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The economic mess the country confronts can be laid at the feet of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The Don't Drill Democrats are forcing deindustrialization through depression brought about by soaring energy costs. This is a man-made meltdown, and make no mistake: The Democrats could halt and reverse the skyrocketing cost of oil, but they are choosing not to....>>>>>>>>

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...It makes political sense that Obama is moving to the center since he knows that a Northern liberal like himself has not won a presidential election since 1960. So don't expect Obama's metamorphosis to stop now. Before this campaign is over, he may well flip some more; would anybody be surprised if he starts supporting some of Bush's proposal for expanded domestic oil drilling or backtracks on raising trillions in new payroll taxes?...>>>>>>

-Victor Davis Hanson

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In a shocking blast at Barack Obama that was caught on tape, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, "I wanna cut his nuts out."..>>>>>>

- CHARLES HURT, Bureau Chief

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The list of issues on which Barack Obama has flipped now that the primaries are over is long and growing rapidly...>>>>>>>

-Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

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New polling suggests that approval ratings for Washington lawmakers have hit rock bottom. This poll of 1,000 likely voters reveals that only 9% give Congress a good or excellent rating. This is the first time that we can recall when Congress approval ratings have dipped into single digits....>>>>>>>>

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More European sharia nonsense.

-Stephen Schwartz

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....The presidential candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty....>>>>>>

-Michelle Malkin

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...The Bill of Rights did not create rights. It acknowledged them. Right before the July 4 holiday, it shouldn't have been necessary to remind the four Supreme Court dissenters of what Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. ... "

The Framers of the Second Amendment did not say, "The people shall have the right to keep and bear arms." They wrote, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."....>>>>>

-John Stossel

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....Let me share a few facts: Each year we import more and more oil. In 1973, the year of the infamous oil embargo, the United States imported about 24% of our oil. In 1990, at the start of the first Gulf War, this had climbed to 42%. Today, we import almost 70% of our oil.

This is a staggering number, particularly for a country that consumes oil the way we do. The U.S. uses nearly a quarter of the world's oil, with just 4% of the population and 3% of the world's reserves. This year, we will spend almost $700 billion on imported oil, which is more than four times the annual cost of our current war in Iraq....>>>>>>>

-T. BOONE PICKENS

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Responding to these four questions would let us know exactly where he stands on the war....>>>>>>>>

-Abe Greenwald

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......To preserve Social Security and our economy, we need a three-pronged approach....>>>>>

-Ed Feulner

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Governor Jindal is leading a revolution of conservative reform in Louisiana. He is the most transformational young governor in America today. The principles that motivate his Louisiana Revolution are the same pro-innovation, pro-competition, anti-bureaucracy and anti- big government principles that I urge each week in this newsletter - the same principles that are so desperately needed in Washington, D.C....>>>>>>>

-Newt Gingrich

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Hillary Clinton must be fuming. Only a month after sewing up the nomination, Barack Obama’s claim to be the Agent of Change is already unraveling He is proving belatedly that Bill and Hillary’s prediction was right: he is not ready for prime time....>>>>>>

-Jennifer Rubin

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... Voting is a right but it is also a duty-- a duty not just to show up on election day, but a duty to give serious thought to the alternatives on the table and what those alternatives mean for the future of the nation.

What is becoming ever more painfully apparent is that too many people this year whether conservative, liberals or whatever are all too willing to judge Barack Obama on the basis of his election-year rhetoric, rather than on the record of what he has advocated and done during the past two decades....>>>>>>

-Thomas Sowell

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.....About 550 metric tons of yellowcake concentrated uranium were recently shipped out of Iraq. It had been part of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program......>>>>

-Randall Hoven

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..."I want to send a message to the FARC," Gonsalves said. "FARC, you guys are terrorists. You deny that you are, you say with words that you're not terrorists, but your words don't have any value. Don't tell us that you're not terrorists, show us that you're not terrorists."...>>>>>>

-ELIZABETH WHITH