Opinion

• MSM Tensions Erupt The Nation - Wed Aug 27, 11:30 PM ET

  The Nation -- I could go on for at least another piece, maybe two, about all the nonsense surrounding Hillary Hype '08--from Fox News's immediate, persistent commentary after the speech that she didn't mean it, didn't do nearly enough, and the whole party is screwed, to CBS News bringing on a body language expert to testify to the same.

• How Scranton Became the New Peoria RealClearPolitics.com - Wed Aug 27, 10:45 AM ET

  For a long time, Scranton, a declining old coal town tucked away in the rolling hills of Northeastern Pennsylvania, was the Rodney Dangerfield of cities.

• The Four Horsemen of Economic Apocalypse RealClearPolitics.com - Wed Aug 27, 11:30 AM ET

  Like most conservatives, I look at the looming November election with a certain sense of gloom. While Senator McCain has a good shot at taking the White House, Democrats look certain to expand their majorities in both the House and Senate by considerable margins.

• JOE BIDEN: HAIR WE CAN BELIEVE IN Ann Coulter - Wed Aug 27, 7:58 PM ET

  Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention was great. As I write, he hasn't given it yet, but these are my favorite parts:

• Editorial Roundup AP - Wed Aug 27, 2:40 PM ET

  Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

• Misfortunes of War The Weekly Standard - Wed Aug 27, 11:42 AM ET

  Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 47 - 9/1/2008 - A funny thing happened this summer: John McCain taunted Barack Obama into making a trip to Iraq, whereupon the press looked around and finally noticed what those who were paying attention had known for some months now.

• What I Saw at the Discombobulation Michelle Malkin - Wed Aug 27, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - DENVER — Never was so much hype created by so few to simulate the appearance of so many.

• The Senator Susan Estrich - Wed Aug 27, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - All last week there were rumors that he would not make it to Denver at all. Then on Monday there were rumors that he was in a Denver hospital receiving oxygen, and that at best he would be in a box at Pepsi Center, watching the tribute and waving to the crowd. He'll never make it to the podium, more than one person told me. They don't know the Senator.

• No Nastiness In Springfield? Brent Bozell III - Wed Aug 27, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - For two years now, we've heard Barack Obama's media allies tell us how he was somehow Not a Politician, that he was the pragmatic soul of civility who was "uniquely qualified to nudge the country toward the color purple." (So said Newsweek.) If that myth hadn't died under tons of weight to the contrary by now, it certainly should have expired in Springfield, Ill., when he selected Joe Biden as his running mate.

• IS OBAMA SORT OF LIKE US? Maggie Gallagher - Tue Aug 26, 7:58 PM ET

  The headline over the Associated Press story on the first day of the Democrat convention sums up Obama's current political dilemma: "Obama's 'sort of like us.'"

• HERE'S BIDEN'S CHANCE TO PROVE HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY David Shribman - Tue Aug 26, 6:18 PM ET

  Joe Biden has been around so long -- he was elected to the Senate in 1972, when Barack Obama was 11 -- that just about anyone involved in politics has a Biden story. Here's mine.

• FOREIGN POLICY WILL BE THE ELEPHANT IN CONVENTION HALLS Georgie Anne Geyer - Tue Aug 26, 6:18 PM ET

  WASHINGTON -- Behind the cheers and jeers of the political conventions these next two rousing weeks -- with their focus on the all-important domestic questions during a troubled American era -- the single real foreign policy question waits ominously in the wings. It is like a policeman ready to arrest the actors once the first act of the Shakespearean "play" is over.

• Pushing Russia Into the Cold Pat Buchanan - Tue Aug 26, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - A year after taking power, in June 1934, Adolf Hitler made his first visit abroad — to his idol Benito Mussolini in Venice.

• This Historic Candidacy Mona Charen - Tue Aug 26, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - I so wish I could support Barack Obama. It would be great — truly magnificent — to elect a black president of the United States.

• The Thin Man The Weekly Standard - Mon Aug 25, 11:34 AM ET

  Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 47 - 9/1/2008 - This week, the least qualified man to receive a major party nomination for the presidency of the United States in modern times will be anointed by his party. He could well win the general election.

• TRYING A LITTLE TOO HARD James Kilpatrick - Sun Aug 24, 8:01 PM ET

  Today's rumination stems from this proposition: As writers, sometimes we try too hard.

• EACH GENERATION'S NEW TECHNOLOGY CHANGES POLITICAL LANDSCAPE David Shribman - Sat Aug 23, 7:58 PM ET

  In 1984, a Democratic senator from Colorado named Gary Hart sought the White House by using the phrase "new generation" a dozen times in his standard stump speech. His target was the baby boom generation, a group of about 76 million born between the years 1946 and 1964. Mr. Hart didn't win a presidential nomination, but the themes he explored formed the leitmotif of a quarter-century of presidential campaigns.

• Hillary the Admonisher HuffingtonPost.com - Wed Aug 27, 5:29 PM ET

  My favorite part of Hillary Clinton's speech last night was when she admonished her followers not to put their affection for her over the issues. When she reminded them that what's at stake is far more crucial than their loyalty to her. When she reproved them for thinking for even a moment that her historic thrilling campaign was more important than the real campaign to defeat the Republicans.

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

  The Polish Missile Crisis: Bush's Last War?

• HOPE FOR AUDACITY Ted Rall - Thu Aug 14, 7:58 PM ET

  NEW YORK--Unless something happens, John McCain will win.

Most Popular Opinion

• Put your marriage before your kids The Christian Science Monitor - Tue Aug 26, 4:00 AM ET

  State college, Pa. - American parents shoot ourselves in the foot by making our children the center of our universe. And we certainly don't help our kids, either.

• The Four Horsemen of Economic Apocalypse RealClearPolitics.com - Wed Aug 27, 11:30 AM ET

  Like most conservatives, I look at the looming November election with a certain sense of gloom. While Senator McCain has a good shot at taking the White House, Democrats look certain to expand their majorities in both the House and Senate by considerable margins.

• Who Started Cold War II? Pat Buchanan - Tue Aug 19, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO.