Op-Ed

Who can find the rules for how Arizona would replace Senator McCain should he win this November?

Who would be likely candidates?

Who would we like to see?

Tom Harman represents the people of the 35th Senate District.

Harman, a member of the Republican Party, was first elected to the State Senate in 2006 in a special election after serving nearly six years in the State Assembly representing the 67th Assembly District.

Senator Harman first entered the State Legislature in 2000 after serving six years on the Huntington Beach City Council.

Senator Harman, a local businessman and civic volunteer, has lived and worked in Orange County for nearly 50 years.

With every passing hour comes word through the political grapevine that John McCain has settled on Romney, or considering Mike Huckabee, or picked Ron Paul. Even Hillary Clinton’s name has been thrown around this afternoon. Probably the biggest issue surrounding McCain's VP pick is whether he'll dare pick a populist candidate as his running mate. A small vocal base of the richest 1% of Americans is up in arms at the thought of a populist candidate on the ticket.

This doesn't surprise me at all and I've been saying that I see a path to victory and merit in the Lieberman for VP argument for some time now.

As a Conservative I relinquished all hope for this cycle when Thompson and Romney bowed out. Although Romney is my choice for VP, at this point, going with Lieberman is a game changer with McCain having a clear path to victory (there's no way Conservative's will boycott or stay home because of a VP pick - defeating Obama is too important) with Lieberman as VP it virtually guarantees a strong Republican/Conservative cabinet. It also ends the "Bushs third term" meme... taking that away from the Dems and forcing people to see McCain as the real change agent guaranteeing victory in Nov.

As for the pro-lifers threatening to stay home if he picks a pro-choice VP... I call BS! Most of you know how I feel about single-issue voters (they shouldn't be voting anyway) but If anyone stays home because of a pro-choice VP, in what is clearly to be a pro-life administration, that to me is just plain ridiculous!

Marc Ambinder reports:

Michael H. Cognato asks a hard question to the “citizens of the world” out there who want humanitarian aid workers to remain neutral and unbiased. As Cognato points out in his piece ”Must Aid Flow from the Barrel of a Gun?”; combatants in our planet’s worst ongoing civil wars have made the flow of humanitarian aid to these places impossible, without a heavy investment in military hardware to protect the aid workers.

By Mike DeVine, Legal Editor

Originally published at the new Gamecock’s DeVine Law

Kobe Bryant slam dunks NBC with unabashed love for America

"LAY OFF MY WIFE," Barack Obama in May 2008. During the Saddleback Forum Obama was asked in whom he receives advise when Rick Warren asked this question , " Who are you going to rely heavily on in your administration ?" Obama's first response was, "You mentioned one person I'd be listening to and that's Michelle."

Obama has made it very clear that his wife Michelle is off limits when it concerns his run for the Presidency. He emphatically stated in May after a GOP ad in Tennessee targeted his wife because of several controversial statements that she has made on the campaign trail, that he deemed it , "unacceptable, " and that his wife was off limits.

By Lance Thompson

Recently I overheard a neighbor proudly showing his new truck to the guy next door. In response to appropriate appreciation, the new truck owner made this statement: I refuse to participate in the recession.

Slowly, the wisdom of this profound statement sank in. A recession, like any other manifestation of mass hysteria, requires participation to continue. People must have faith in a recession, must contribute to it, must convert others to believe in it. Otherwise, the recession would collapse for lack of support.

How do we know there is a recession in the first place? The media, bearer of all dire tidings, tell us so. It is clear to most Americans, based on a recent poll that rates the media among the least trustworthy of institutions, that those who bring us the news have an agenda. Part of that agenda is to elect Barack Obama. To achieve that end, the media must convince Americans that the economy is in a nosedive, so that we will seek relief from the junior varsity Senator from Illinois.

Stanley Kurtz digs into the Obama-Ayers connection. Above, Stanley explains to Bill Bennett about a cache of documents he found in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), in a collection called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge!