Well, it only too "The One" one year to admit the surge was a great success after the facts were known.Maybe he should have listened to General Petraeus and John McCain a year ago when the general came to Congress and sat down to tell him about it. Instead, Obama was bashing the troops progress in Iraq, over and over, until he finally admitted last night on The O'Reilly Factor that the there was indeed ...

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Ted Nugent, hero to Libertarian Republicans nationwide, has weighed in on Sarah Palin. In an editorial on his website he claims to be Sarah's biggest fan.Excerpt from The Official Community of Ted Nugent blog, Tedtorial, "Sarah Palin is My Girl":With grave suspicion and reservations, I nonetheless rejoice that the fading embers of conservatism may have indeed caught fire once more. That fireball is Gov.Sarah Palin of Alaska, I pray the next Vice President of the ...

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...

Surprisingly provided by Chart o' the Day.Not to worry. The do-nothing, no-drill Democrats are ready to lead!

The Left is outraged that Sarah Palin was critical - even (gasp!) negative. It's quite insincere, of course, but that's what they're trying to sell. Naturally, the media is playing along. Shove this back in their face. Obama’s speech includes more negative attacks than Palin’s. [...] If one compares Palin’s speech to Obama’s, it appears to me that they used similar amounts of sarcasm (not much), but Obama made considerably more extensive negative comments about ...

Six and a half minutes of her from today’s stop in Cedarburg, followed by Maverick asking around the seven-minute mark if she isn’t, er, “the most marvelous running mate in the history of this nation.” [...] Read the rest »

Honorable Mention: "If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief." -- Lindsey Graham Honorable Mention: "Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their...

"The One" Is TwoGovernor Sarah Palin is now more popular than the Democratic Messiah!Rasmussen reported:A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Now, following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% hold an unfavorable view of the self-described hockey mom. ...Perhaps most stunning is the ...

John Hawkins hit two home runs today. The first is his Town Hall article about the motivation behind the appalling attacks against Sarah Palin. The second is a post at his own blog, Right Wing News, giving twenty of his favorite quotes from the Republican convention. Both make for enjoyable and enlightening Friday reading.

Mataharley (great name), who posts at Flopping Aces, has pulled together the procedural details of the challenges Palin faces with regard to her ex-brother-in-law, the hard drinking, hard tasering, hard threatening, hard illegal hunting Wooten. It’s a remarkably interesting post in that it is less concerned with the substantive details of the whole Wooten thing, and more concerned with the procedural manoeuvrings going on way up north. It looks very much as if Palin’s political ...

by Eric DonderoThe term "Western Conservative" is being bandied about in the media as a result of the Sarah Palin pick for VP. For instance, this morning's London Times-Herald has this story, headlined: "Sarah Palin - It's go West for the future of Conservatives."Excerpt from the Times:"Hailing from Arizona and Alaska, the Republican ticket has a chance to rekindle a western conservatism different from the old Yankee paternalist sort or the Bible Belt version. They ...

"Do we want to elect men and women whose first response to a terror attack is to ask 'Why do they hate us?' Or perhaps something more along the lines of 'Don't we have a carrier group in the region right now?'" - Gabriel Malor of AoS

The real anointed one (Mark Steyn), writing at The Corner:I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - as a hillbilly know-nothing permapregnant ditz, half of whose 27 kids are the spawn of a stump-toothed uncle who hasn't worked since he was an extra in Deliverance.

Place your bets ...

The Associated Press reports that, counting PBS, over 40 million Americans watched Sarah Palin on television last night--more, by around...

I think I'm fairly representative of those conservatives who just could not stand to vote for John McCain. But I now plan to vote for him this November. Let me tell you why.

Columnist Bill Steigerwald interviews The Case Against Barack Obama author David Freddoso.

Dayton, Ohio PALIN: Thank you so much. And I thank you, Senator McCain and Mrs. McCain, for the confidence that you have placed in me. Senator, I am honored to be chosen as your running mate. (APPLAUSE) I will be honored to serve next to the next president of the United States. (APPLAUSE)