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US promises $1 billion in aid to rebuild Georgia. I hope that includes military aid.

Mexican police find tunnel to the US with lights, air conditioning and an elevator. The border fence can't stop this. It takes a huge economic incentive to fund facilities like this, and we need to remove that incentive, not build a fence.

Chinese government develops CPU for computer for Chinese people.

Lieberman says Obama has never reached across party lines in the Senate to do anything significant. Democrats call Lieberman a liar, pointing to some nuclear proliferation and budget work. The key word is significant. To Democrats, every time Obama opens his mouth, it's significant. I certainly haven't noticed that nuclear weapons are any safer from terrorists or that our budget is in good shape.

Here's the NYTimes article questioning Palin's judgment as a mother for having both a career and 5 children. Apparently enlightened liberals think she should be at home, barefoot, carrying the baby and cooking dinner for her man. You can cut the hypocrisy with a knife. Good for McCain for blasting the media on their coverage of Palin. The media deserve to be blasted, and it will galvanize women. Even die-hard liberal and Democrats strategist Susan Estrich is upset at the media's sexism toward Palin.

The ex-brother-in-law trooper at the center of Sarah Palin's trooper-gate investigation, and investigation she called for herself, btw, admits he tazered his own step-son in addition to numerous other outrageous actions. This guy needed to be fired in the worst way. Palin should have pressured the public safety director to fire him, and probably only didn't because the guy was her ex-brother-in-law.

Cato blogs on Sarah Palin's record and compares her record to Obama's record.

I think McCain caught Obama in another trap by picking Palin. Obama's now stuck in the bizarre position of comparing himself, the presidential candidate, to her, the vice-presidential candidate. That diminished Obama and raises her status. It makes him look like the VP pick, albeit a bad one. But Sarah Palin is so amazingly important, given all the news, excitement and attacks, that you would think she was the presidential candidate. McCain couldn't possibly have hoped for the overwhelming response both ways that Palin has received. And its funny the only way Obama can attack her is to pretend she was nothing but a small town mayor (something he certainly never accomplished) and ignoring her being a governor. His pettiness is on high display.

Unaware her microphone was hot, Peggy Noonan calls McCain's choice of Palin, not Palin herself, bull****. Not all women, not all Republicans, and obviously not even all Republican women like the choice. I think Noonan did herself some real damage.

Tom Delay says the Democrats are better organized than Republicans. Yikes. Organized Democrats is almost an oxymoron and very scary. I guess Republicans miss Rove in that regard at least.

More on how Lousiana Gov. Jindal cut spending, taxes and enacted ethics reform to balance the budget, decrease unemployment, and improved eduction by implementing school choice. It's just that easy. What's interesting is Jindal credits Katrina with destroying the Lousiana people's misguided faith in collectivism and pushing them towards freedom and personal responsibility. Another result of this change toward personal responsibility was the significantly improved response to Gustav over Katrina.

McCain understands that income tax cuts increase productivity and prosperity for all, but he doesn't seem that if small cuts are good, big cuts are better, and abolishing the income tax in favor of the FairTax is best of all. Obama doesn't even understand that first part. He only understands class warfare.

Details of the Republican platform.

Obama is hiding his transcript from Columbia. You can bet that if he did well, he wouldn't be hiding it.

Now we know what McCain was thinking when he selected Sarah Palin.

If you look at Bush's economic record through tiny lens of aristocrats, it looks like Bush has a good economic record. But he added over a trillion dollars to the budget and multiple trillions to the debt. His Fed, though not under his control, created tremendous inflation to make it appear through that lens that the economy was stronger than it actually was. All that dramatically accelerated our looming debt crisis, so I disagree with this opinion.

Ann Coulter exposes the hypocrisy of the left including the media regarding Sarah Palin and points out that even the attack that McCain didn't vet her thoroughly enough is bogus because Clinton only met Gore once before selecting him, and all the smears being directed at Palin have turned out to be false anyway.

Lawrence Kudlow gets it. Sarah Palin brings energy expertice into the campaign that neither McCain, Obama nor Biden have. And reading this sparked another idea - bringing Palin onto the ticket gives McCain and excuse to change his position on drilling in ANWR.

Al Gore's global warming true believers don't want to stop with destroying civilization, they want to destroy the planet with risky geo-engineering. And these true believers haven't got the memo that the planet is cooling, and that cooling is bad for the biosphere and human life while warming is good for the biosphere and human life.

The great flood of 1913 corresponded with unusual low sunspots like the sun is experiencing now. Both May and June of 1913 were spotless. We had tremendous rain this year too. I wonder if there's a correlation. One of the comments mentions the deadliest Great Lakes storm was in 1913 too.

Another great speech by Palin tonight. She couldn't have done a better job drawing the distinction between Obama and McCain. And she burned Obama badly with wit and charm. And thank you Sarah Palin for being the first one of the candidates to draw the connection between domestic energy production and national security.

Michelle Malkin describes how Barack Obama is trying to intimidate journalists investigating his ties to terrorist Bill Ayers and Republican donors out of their free speech, and how the liberal self-proclaimed champions of free speech are silent on the issue. This sounds a lot like union intimidation tactics, so its not surprising that a union lawyer is involved. Liberals think free speech only applies to liberals.

Even Pat Buchanan approves of Sarah Palin.

Thomas Sowell shows how the press uses the "public's right to know" as an excuse to smear people it doesn't like, therefore they went nuts reporting that Sarah Palin's daughter was pregnant. On the other hand, it covers up stories like John Edward's illegitamate child even while he was running for president because he's a liberal.

John Stossel says we should remove the Federal 21 year old drinking age in favor of federalism.

Jonah Goldberg describes how excited conservatives are about Sarah Palin.

I predicted Democrats would fire off reflexive attacks if McCain picked a woman for VP, but Michelle Malkin is an expert observer, and recipient, of reflexive liberal attacks, and she breaks them down into 4 stages. What's amazing about these comments is that they come from celebrated liberals who are still celebrated after making them. The hate that fills the left and is accepted by the left is just amazing. But if Imus makes a joke about black women, a far less tasteless joke than these comments from liberals, liberals hound him off the air.

Amanda Carpenter quotes 5 sexist attacks Sarah Palin.