Opinion

• McCain Sticks To The Base The Nation - 2 hours, 6 minutes ago

  The Nation -- It was not the best speech John McCain's ever given. And it wasn't the worst. In fact, it was pretty similar to a lot of speeches McCain has given throughout this campaign.

• Election Will Hinge on Abortion Issue RealClearPolitics.com - Wed Sep 3, 11:40 AM ET

  For those interested, I will be making my choice for president public next week. The candidates, we now know, are Barack Obama and Joe Biden for the Democrats and John McCain and Sarah Palin for the Republicans. My choice will be made next week, so nothing I write here should be perceived as an endorsement of either ticket.

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  Sarah Palin and the Two Americas RealClearPolitics.com - Wed Sep 3, 12:30 PM ET

  Liberals have long lamented the existence of two nations in America. They are right to do so today, but in a way they never meant. It is not the divide between rich and poor which soon will be causing serious pain on the left. Sarah Palin's pending nomination for Vice President is exposing the depth of the cultural divide between Middle America and the leftists who have taken over the education, media, and cultural establishment of our country.

• Game Changer Mona Charen - Fri Sep 5, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin was the most inspired decision of his long race for the White House. The ads lampooning Barack Obama's messianic pretensions were skillful as well. But the Palin pick accomplished several goals at once.

• The Big 5-0 Susan Estrich - Fri Sep 5, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - He hit it this week. The big 5-0. No, I'm not referring to the age — an age that, whatever anyone says, is not the new 30. It's still 50. It's something no one I know looks forward to unless they are ill and afraid they won't make it that far.

• Why Obama's "Community Organizer" Days Are a Joke Michelle Malkin - Fri Sep 5, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - 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 while noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a "community organizer." I laughed again when VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cracked: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."

• The Unexamined Life Linda Chavez - Fri Sep 5, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - The biggest story to emerge from the Republican National Convention was the media's effort to destroy Gov.

• Distant Drums at Sarah's Party Pat Buchanan - Fri Sep 5, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - ST. PAUL, Minn. — The American Right has just died and gone to heaven.

• SARAH PALIN, QUEEN OF THE NOBODIES Ted Rall - Thu Sep 4, 7:58 PM ET

  Experience is Overrated. What About IQ?

• The Speech The Weekly Standard - Thu Sep 4, 1:20 PM ET

  Washington (The Daily Standard) - NOW WE SEE why the liberal establishment has been trying for the last few days to destroy Sarah Palin.

• The Natural The Weekly Standard - Thu Sep 4, 1:20 PM ET

  Washington (The Daily Standard) - St. PaulThat was easy. Sarah Palin delivered what may have been the most important speech ever by a vice presidential candidate and made it look like she'd been performing on the national political stage for years. And she made John McCain look good for having picked her as his running mate.

• The Media Descend to a New Low The Weekly Standard - Thu Sep 4, 1:19 PM ET

  Washington (The Daily Standard) - Time's Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner. That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig. The screaming headline: "Babies, Lies and Scandal: John McCain's Vice President."Wenner has contributed $5300 to Obama's campaign since 2007.

• Fighting Back The Weekly Standard - Thu Sep 4, 1:19 PM ET

  Washington (The Daily Standard) - John McCain spoke to staff and advisers working in the campaign War Room at the Minneapolis Hilton this afternoon, and forcefully vowed to fight hard to defend his running mate Sarah Palin against attacks from the media and Democrats. "They're not doing right by our vice president, they're not doing right by the American people," McCain said, according to a source in the room. "We're gonna fight back, we're gonna get 'em." McCain pounded his fist into his hand as he spoke, the source said, and made clear that he would be aggressively challenging those who are attacking Palin.

• The Public, the Press, and Palin The Weekly Standard - Thu Sep 4, 1:19 PM ET

  Washington (The Daily Standard) - Television viewers would have been hard pressed to find media commentary in the last few days that was, on balance, favorable to Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

• Sunday Morning, Staying Home The Weekly Standard - Thu Sep 4, 1:18 PM ET

  Washington (The Daily Standard) - By now we know that evangelical Protestants--generally supportive of Republican candidates but eagerly courted by Democrats this year--are a crucial voting bloc in the November election.

• Why Bristol's Baby Matters Joe Conason - Thu Sep 4, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - Families deserve privacy about family matters, but families that want absolute privacy should stay out of politics. Sooner or later someone would have noticed the pregnancy of Bristol Palin, 17-year-old daughter of John McCain's vice-presidential pick, especially since everyone in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, seemed to know already.

• JFK: Democrats' Role Model? Larry Elder - Thu Sep 4, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - The John F. Kennedy legacy came up repeatedly during the Democratic National Convention. But today, would JFK even be a Democrat?

• The Palin Paradox: Does Her Candidacy Mark the Death of the Christian Right? HuffingtonPost.com - Fri Sep 5, 1:36 AM ET

  Sarah Palin's political and religious and religio-political background is the stuff of Christian right dreams. Raised in a Pentecostal Church, running for Mayor of town of 4000 by opposing abortion (is that a mayoral issue?), claiming to be its "first" Christian Mayor and ousting a 3-term incumbent (Lutheran, aren't they Christians too?), Palin saw "God's plan" in her political destiny as she later did in the war in Iraq.

• THE MUDDLE IS THE MESSAGE Ted Rall - Thu Aug 28, 7:58 PM ET

  Obama on the Ropes

• 13 DAYS IN AUGUST Ted Rall - Thu Aug 21, 7:58 PM ET

  The Polish Missile Crisis: Bush's Last War?

Most Popular Opinion

• SARAH PALIN, QUEEN OF THE NOBODIES Ted Rall - Thu Sep 4, 7:58 PM ET

  Experience is Overrated. What About IQ?

• Sarah Palin can have it all The Christian Science Monitor - Fri Sep 5, 4:00 AM ET

  Bluemont, Va. - The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down syndrome. The pregnant daughter. Sarah Palin's life – chock full of challenge – confronts her opposition with some formidable challenges of its own. After decades of pushing equal rights and treatment for women, the Left is backtracking.

• The Word From Wasilla The Nation - Thu Sep 4, 1:52 PM ET

  The Nation -- Everyone is trying to get the measure of Sarah Palin, the woman who was rocketed from small-state obscurity to the national stage when John McCain selected her as his running-mate on the 2008 Republican ticket.

• Why Obama's "Community Organizer" Days Are a Joke Michelle Malkin - Fri Sep 5, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - 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 while noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a "community organizer." I laughed again when VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cracked: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."

• McCain Gaffe on Foreign Aid The Nation - 2 hours, 11 minutes ago

  The Nation -- McCain's speech last night was so mind-deadening and his delivery so boring that you were probably sound asleep when he got to the part about foreign aid. Here's what he said: