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Powerful stuff at last night’s RNC.  The torture McCain went thru is extraordinary, as outlined in Fred’s speech last nite.  Fred says it doesn’t give him an automatic pass to the White House.  I say it does.

Stepping up.

Putting his ”Country First.”

Three months later John McCain was a Prisoner of War.

FT.com / In depth – Fred Thompson’s speech.

Imagine a building this big sitting empty for 10 years in Toronto.  Detroit is one of the saddest cities in one of the saddest states of America.  Let’s hope they can turn it around there.  How I do not know.

Who knew there was a whole website devoted to this and more buildings.

It’s this kind of thinking that makes me happy to vote for Sen. McCain.

The presumed Republican nominee on Monday proposed a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology. The bounty would equate to $1 for every man, woman and child in the country, “a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency,” McCain said at Fresno State University.

We need more ideas like this to spur innovation.  It’s about time!

I love J-Walk’s comment.

Isn’t working in a meat packing plant punishment enough?

Personally, I think the country is better off keeping those who defy the odds and get into the country, and take a sh*t job. They’ve obviously got balls and sticking power.

Mother nature in all her glory.

Too bad about this…no one speaks as well as Newt, or seems to know as much.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday he could have been a contender, but has no regrets about skipping the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

You can blame government policy for making America fat.

Thanks to Hitler, I think it’s time to ban the month of April, or at least the days in between his birth and death (Apr 20-30).

Yet another catastrophe.

Students and faculty at Virginia Tech University were in shock Monday after a gunman shot and killed at least 31 people and injured 28 during the most deadly shooting spree in U.S. history.

It’s about time we hear a politician who won’t cave to the sky-is-falling global warming alarmists.  Harper take note.

At least one prominent politician is standing against the insane Iranian president’s visit to Harvard.

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is best known for his strong domestic conservatism. Today, he took a tough stand on a crucial foreign policy issue.

I’ve often read that D.C. is more dangerous than Iraq.

A great article on what’s so great about America.  Happy Birthday, America.

But it had the opposite effect. Ordinary people across the Soviet Union saw that the poorest Americans had television sets and cars. They arrived at the same conclusion that I witnessed in a friend of mine from Bombay who has been trying unsuccessfully to move to the United States for nearly a decade. I asked him, “Why are you so eager to come to America?” He replied, “Because I really want to live in a country where the poor people are fat.”

If he does run, I’ll vote for him.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) expects to run for president in 2008 if the contest for the Republican nomination still seems wide open late next year, he said yesterday.

He certainly is one of the smartest guys I’ve listened to.