THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: 2012 Obama vs. 2008 Obama. Lose-lose.

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From my email.

ARE WE BETTER OFF than we were four years ago? Echoing John Kerry's famous 'for it before I was against it' statement, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley thought the country was not better off 24 hours before he decided it was better off than 4 years ago. And it's Bush's fault.

HEH! Look who's invested in Bain Capital.

THE HATERS: "There’s a choice this election, alright. Which side are you on? If you’re on the side that fantasizes about knocking an 82 year old man off a stage for laughing at your leader, you might want to examine your soul." Assuming, of course, that you have one.

Linked from Instapundit.

GROUPTHINK is not bias.

THOMAS SOWELL on entitlement reform:

Let's stop and think, if only for the novelty of it. If you make any change in anything, you are ending it "as we know it." Does that mean that everything in the status quo should be considered to be set in concrete forever?

If there were not a single Republican, or none who got elected to any office, arithmetic would still end "Medicare as we know it," for the simple reason that the money in the till is not enough to keep paying for it. The same is true of Social Security.

Read it all.

THEY FAIL TO RECOGNIZE that only the dogs can hear dog whistles.

AN HONEST UNION MAN: "It's all about the money."

NATIONAL EMPTY CHAIR DAY:


Surrounded by his accomplishments.

UPDATE: More 'empty chairs' are here.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE of government insanity.

JEFF JACOBY: Scrap the conventions. I'll grant that they should be smaller and shorter. But scrap an American tradition? No way.

DID ANN ROMNEY snub Vogue magazine? I would ask why would she want to appear in a magazine whose sole appeal is to snobs?

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE interpreting the Romney/Ryan 'dog whistles', Deroy Murdock can help.

NANOWIRE MESH LINKS CELLS AND ELECTRONICS: 3-D nanowire scaffolds let researchers grow tissue around transistors: "The most immediate application of the work ... may be a new type of sensor system for in vitro testing of new drugs. But further down the road the research may lead to artificial eyes, implantable chips to control prosthetic limbs, and other devices that can communicate between electronics and living cells."

SUNDAY REFLECTION: The importance of showing up.

DON'T GIVE CLIMATE CHANGE HERETICS AN EASY RIDE. Read the article first, then consider this comment:

Jay Griffiths was born in Manchester and studied English Literature at Oxford University.

When the pheasant expert proffered his climate-heretic views in a hugely popular book, ...

Am I the only one to see the irony here?

Climate change enthusiasts rarely have a scientific background either, but it doesn't stop them.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK: "CurrentTV ... is the most clever cover evah for the federal witness protection program...."

TO DEMOCRATS: How is it healthier to be unemployed? Democrats are always willing to address the symptoms (especially if they require taxpayer money), but never the problem.

DEMOCRAT HYPOCRISY knows no bounds: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., accused Mitt Romney of 'hypocrisy' for visiting victims of Hurricane Isaac, saying that Romney would ignore them if elected president."

Never mind that the same day Romney went to Louisana, President Obama made a campaign stop at Fort Bliss, Texas (and had to promptly schedule a 'concern stop' for Louisana the following week).

The short video clip I saw of Romney had him asking some very intelligent questions about the sources of the flooding, which the know-nothings at CBS News promptly derided.