08-20-08

Cliff Note: Today’s musical icon is another who is identified world wide by just one name – Clapton…Also check out my op-ed below!

David Freddoso: Democrats don’t like it when you say that Barack Obama won his first election in 1996 by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot on technicalities… The real man is the one they know in Chicago — the one who won his first election bydepriving voters of a choice.

Ed Morrissey: PUMA alert: “Massive” e-mail campaign to derail Obama at convention

Ed Morrissey: Secret web pages and hard-sale tactics have replaced Hope and Change for the Democratic convention.

In from the Cold: There was supposed to be a big event in the presidential race last week, and we’re not talking about the “Veepstakes,” or Saturday night’s forum at Rick Warren’s megachurch in California.

WSJ: “Empty words.” That’s how Moscow glibly dismissed NATO’s criticism yesterday of Russia’s continued occupation of Georgia. The Russians may be bullies, but like all bullies they know weakness when they see it.

Tom McGuire: Pete Yost of the AP covers the cover-up of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge archives described yesterday by Stanley Kurtz at NRO

Steve Diamond: Chicago Annenberg Challenge…it’s not the crime, it’s the cover up and now the University of Illinois has provided the cover up.

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