~by Shawn Gordon

It’s been interesting to hear and read the Left talk about Palin. They’ve painted an inaccurate picture of her, and ironically used the same ‘dirty smear’ tactics that the Left often condemns the Right of allegedly using.

Let’s look at a few:

PALIN OPPOSES USE OF BIRTH CONTROL PILLS AND CONDOMS, EVEN AMONG MARRIED COUPLES & SARAH PALIN OPPOSES SEX EDUCATION, ONLY ENDORSES ABSTINENCE

FALSE ON BOTH COUNTS

I’ve not found a single piece of evidence to support the claims, but it does sound rather condemning. At no point has Palin voted to teach only Abstinence nor has she made remarks on record (or off that I can find) about how she opposes birth control..

According to TIME / CNN, Palin:

…is Christian and pro-life, but also a supporter of birth control: she’s a member of Feminists For Life (FFL), an anti-abortion, pro-contraception organization.

I will say that for such a big negative deal being made about how Palin had allegedly wanted to only teach kids to abstain from sex, Biden voted YES to put 75 MILLION dollars in just that!. That’s a lot of money in teaching abstinence where compared to Palin not voting to put ANY money into it as far as I can tell. This sort of turns the argument on its head.

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Videos from the convention….

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/28/hot-air-tv-at-the-dnc-our-man-in-orange/

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31058_Penn_and_Teller-_World_Peace

McCain still hasn’t picked a Veep…

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26438378/

Pajamas TV at the RNC…

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/pajamas-tv-launches-at-rnc/

American Power:

Desperation is building on the far-left at the realization that Barack Obama’s nomination is turning out to be an unmitigated disaster for the Democratic Party’s chances in November.

Note first the letdown among “progressives” at the dreadful polling numbers for the Obama-Biden ticket this week. Chris Bowers and Tremayne, at the radical portal Open Left, express their frustration and helplessness at the fading likelihood of a post-convention bounce following this week’s events in Denver.

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/progressives-paints-mccain-as-angry.html

All American Blogger:

Meanwhile, those ever ready to use force for the common good are just as ready to proclaim their moral superiority. To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, being morally superior is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Even if you type it in all caps.

http://www.allamericanblogger.com/3561/capitalists-v-socialists-who-holds-the-moral-high-ground/

My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy:

Ok, I now know who I want for McCain’s VP: Sarah Palin. Look at these pictures I merged. Can you see either Biden or Obama or even McCain with a biker gang or a motor cycle or a real fish? McCain maybe, but the others? Heck no. Oh, she also flies airplanes and was on the cover of Vogue. The republican party is in desperate need of fresh faces. She can lead the way.

http://bamapachyderm.com/archives/2008/08/26/interesting-sites-and-locations/

Harry’s Place:

We’re thinking of publishing all of the correspondence on the UCU activists list, every day, in full, to show how dominated the list is by the issue of pushing for the illegal boycott. The list is not private: it is circulated to nearly 700 recipients. We believe that the subject is of such importance, it deserves a wider audience still.

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/08/28/ucu-boycotters-still-dont-see-the-problem/

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“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”

~Barry Goldwater

Watching the Democratic National Convention this year has been an odd experience for me.  I have enjoyed some of the speeches.  Governor Schweitzer of Montana was fun, and his speech was a good preface to Hillary’s call for unity.  Even I can be roused by some of the calls for a better tomorrow, by the pleas for new technologies, greater investment in science and our education.

I just find that on a logical level–on the plain of Reason rather than Emotion–I could not adopt much of the liberal ideology, even if I wanted to.  For instance, last night at the DNC convention, I’m not sure how many times supposedly intelligent people said something to the effect of “Gas prices have gone up, and oil companies are making record profits, so we need to tax gas companies more (to punish them!)”

This use of windfall profit taxes requires a complete abandonment of reason.

First of all, yes gas prices are up.  This is due to a number of things, but primarily to supply and demand.  Also, yes, the oil companies are making record profits.  This, however, is not due to gas prices being up, but to sales being up.  It is costing the gas companies more to get the oil, and this added cost is passed along to the consumer.  Add to this the fact that as China and India develop their economies, they purchase more oil.  So do other developing nations. So, for oil companies, sales are up.  This means they make more money.  So do the nations which sell the oil in the first place, like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and the UAE.
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