In the weeks after the debate, Sarah Palin was helping McCain, which is very unusual for a vice presidential pick. In the last week, she’s been a drag on the ticket, which is equally unusual. With this solid performance she merely goes back to being a normal vice presidential candidate – largely irrelevant to the…

Pro-choice activists have been so intent on portraying Sarah Palin as a right wing fundamentalist whacko who’s going to force back-alley abortions that they’ve ignored evidence that Palin is somewhere between flexible and confused when it comes to abortion.Pro-life activists have been so hopeful that the Republican ticket is genuinely pro-life that they, too, have…

I really admire this passage from Joe Biden’s memoir, Promises to Keep. It’s about the sudden death of his wife, Neilia (above), and their baby daughter Naomi in a car accident shortly after his election to the Senate in 1992. It is defiantly not an explication of the power of faith, but rather an honest…

Hugh Hewitt: Do you think the mainstream media and the left understands your religious faith, Governor Palin? Sarah Palin: I think that there’s a lot of mocking of my personal faith, and my personal faith is very, very simple. I don’t belong to any church. I do have a strong belief in God, and I…

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