You mean he doesn’t pay for all the spending? That’s not the half of it.

Has Barack Obama’s convention bounce already stalled?

Oy. There’s a reason he came in fifth in Iowa.

What a country: “What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew?”

For now Sarah Palin is viewed more favorably than Joe Biden. By a lot.

John is right: the parade of glossy magazine spreads begins. Moose hot dogs?

Maybe it’s not the female vote that will get a jump start –which picture would energize men to go vote?

If energy is going to be front and center in the McCain campaign you’d be hard pressed to find a better spokesperson. Notice how she draws the contrast with Joe Biden’s record on domestic energy development.

Is the New York Times smitten?

Peggy Noonan, wordsmith and comedienne. (Watch to the end.)

John Fund says Barack Obama should come clean on his questionable associations.  He argues: “All presidential candidates resist full examination of their records. But it should be the job of reporters not to accept noncooperation, stonewalling or intimidation when it comes to questions about fitness for the nation’s highest office.”

There is an interesting contrast between Sarah Palin and Obama when it comes to local political machines, says the Wall Street Journal’s editors: “For starters, we’d say Governor Palin’s credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama’s. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of pushback. Alaska’s politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on.”

Grover Norquist on Palin: “Her focus on spending continues the McCain strategy of putting distance between himself and the greatest liability of the Bush presidency — its failure to even try and limit overall spending. More like Reagan, less like Bush. Obama is the guy who wants to spend like Bush.” Sounds like both tickets are running against the Bush administration now. Newt Gingrich is pumped up too.

The Left wonders now whether Hillary should have been the VP pick. As my kids would say, “Duh.”

How quickly the press moves on.

No dissent permitted at the Democratic Politburo.

The real story behind the “scandal” — we should all be accused of trying to fire a child abuser.