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Sarah Palin can have it all
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down syndrome. The pregnant daughter. Sarah Palin's life ? chock full of challenge ? confronts her opposition with some formidable challenges of its own. After decades of pushing equal rights and treatment for women, the Left is backtracking.
How not to rescue the Big Three
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Car owners know the tough call: When do you stop putting money into a rickety auto? Congress faces a similar decision this month. Should it put money into a failing US car industry? The answer would be simple if Midwest swing states weren't up for grabs in the presidential election.
Broadway's 'Rent' exits stage left (thank goodness)
(The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Amid the current housing crisis, one foreclosure is welcome. "Rent" will take its final bow at the Nederlander Theatre in New York on Sept. 7, after 12 years on Broadway. Many will mourn the loss of the rock musical, no doubt, but not me.
The Palin Paradox: Does Her Candidacy Mark the Death of the Christian Right?
(HuffingtonPost.com)
HuffingtonPost.com - Sarah Palin's political and religious and religio-political background is the stuff of Christian right dreams. Raised in a Pentecostal Church, running for Mayor of town of 4000 by opposing abortion (is that a mayoral issue?), claiming to be its "first" Christian Mayor and ousting a 3-term incumbent (Lutheran, aren't they Christians too?), Palin saw "God's plan" in her political destiny as she later did in the war in Iraq.
McCain and The Forrestal
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- Last night, John McCain went on at length about his imprisonment in Vietnamese POW camps, and indeed his time as a captive in Vietnam has been the spark to his political career since the 1970s. But both McCain -- and the video that introduced him -- glosses over an earlier event that might have shaped his approach to military affairs: the disastrous 1967 fire aboard the USS Forrestal.
McCain Sticks To The Base
(The Nation)
The Nation - The Nation -- It was not the best speech John McCain's ever given. And it wasn't the worst. In fact, it was pretty similar to a lot of speeches McCain has given throughout this campaign.
Election Will Hinge on Abortion Issue
(RealClearPolitics.com)
RealClearPolitics.com - For those interested, I will be making my choice for president public next week. The candidates, we now know, are Barack Obama and Joe Biden for the Democrats and John McCain and Sarah Palin for the Republicans. My choice will be made next week, so nothing I write here should be perceived as an endorsement of either ticket.
Sarah Palin and the Two Americas
(RealClearPolitics.com)
RealClearPolitics.com - Liberals have long lamented the existence of two nations in America. They are right to do so today, but in a way they never meant. It is not the divide between rich and poor which soon will be causing serious pain on the left. Sarah Palin's pending nomination for Vice President is exposing the depth of the cultural divide between Middle America and the leftists who have taken over the education, media, and cultural establishment of our country.
The Unexamined Life
(Linda Chavez)
Linda Chavez - The biggest story to emerge from the Republican National Convention was the media's effort to destroy Gov.
Distant Drums at Sarah's Party
(Pat Buchanan)
Pat Buchanan - ST. PAUL, Minn. — The American Right has just died and gone to heaven.
Why Obama's "Community Organizer" Days Are a Joke
(Michelle Malkin)
Michelle Malkin - Rudy Giuliani had me in stitches during his red-meat keynote address at the GOP convention. I laughed out loud when Giuliani laughed out loud while noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a "community organizer." I laughed again when VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cracked: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."
The Big 5-0
(Susan Estrich)
Susan Estrich - He hit it this week. The big 5-0. No, I'm not referring to the age — an age that, whatever anyone says, is not the new 30. It's still 50. It's something no one I know looks forward to unless they are ill and afraid they won't make it that far.
Game Changer
(Mona Charen)
Mona Charen - John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin was the most inspired decision of his long race for the White House. The ads lampooning Barack Obama's messianic pretensions were skillful as well. But the Palin pick accomplished several goals at once.
SARAH PALIN, QUEEN OF THE NOBODIES
(Ted Rall)
Ted Rall - Experience is Overrated. What About IQ?
The Speech
(The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - NOW WE SEE why the liberal establishment has been trying for the last few days to destroy Sarah Palin.
The Natural
(The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - St. PaulThat was easy. Sarah Palin delivered what may have been the most important speech ever by a vice presidential candidate and made it look like she'd been performing on the national political stage for years. And she made John McCain look good for having picked her as his running mate.
Fighting Back
(The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - John McCain spoke to staff and advisers working in the campaign War Room at the Minneapolis Hilton this afternoon, and forcefully vowed to fight hard to defend his running mate Sarah Palin against attacks from the media and Democrats. "They're not doing right by our vice president, they're not doing right by the American people," McCain said, according to a source in the room. "We're gonna fight back, we're gonna get 'em." McCain pounded his fist into his hand as he spoke, the source said, and made clear that he would be aggressively challenging those who are attacking Palin.
The Public, the Press, and Palin
(The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - Television viewers would have been hard pressed to find media commentary in the last few days that was, on balance, favorable to Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
The Media Descend to a New Low
(The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - Time's Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner. That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig. The screaming headline: "Babies, Lies and Scandal: John McCain's Vice President."Wenner has contributed $5300 to Obama's campaign since 2007.
Sunday Morning, Staying Home
(The Weekly Standard)
The Weekly Standard - By now we know that evangelical Protestants--generally supportive of Republican candidates but eagerly courted by Democrats this year--are a crucial voting bloc in the November election.