But let’s not call him revoltingly and possibly dangerously self-involved and narcissistic.  We need to criticize the policies, not the man.  Because racism. (thanks to Darleen)

Byron York:  “This election, to me, is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment,” says former President Bill Clinton in a new ad released by the Obama campaign. Most voters would agree, at least if one believes countless polls that show the economy and jobs are the nation’s top concern. So why are Democrats planning to make their convention a celebration of abortion and gay

One gunman in custody DEVELOPING: Multiple people were shot Friday near the Empire State building in Manhattan, the New York City Police Department confirmed to FoxNews.com. Authorities would not say how many victims were shot. The New York City Fire Department said “several people” were injured in the shooting, which happened at 9:07 a.m. on 34th and 5th Avenue. One gunman has been taken into custody, WABC-TV reported.

Dream big … heh h/t Ricochet

Great.  Now we need to punish those who put him there to begin with.

Boom.  

Today’s forecast:  partly cloudy and breezy here in my  part of Colorado, with highs in the low-to-mid 80s. And the GOP will never become a viable party for classical liberals, because too many Republicans and putative “conservatives” have already surrendered to the progressives — and they either don’t know it, are too proud to admit it, or are able to justify it based on some always-pressing short term crisis that

Allow me a few final words on this Akin dustup so that I can address some of my “critics”.  First, I am not supporting Akin in any specific way.  What I’m doing is criticizing as deplorable, stupid, politically retarded, and all too frequent, the canned, PC, preemptive (and in many cases, I believe, if not ridiculously hyperbolic, then outright phony) outrage that came from the right in reaction to a