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Mark Steyn muses on the propensity for conservative pundits to live in liberal parts of the country, where the ideas they profess have little chance to prevail:

[W]hen a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived, as opposed to conservatism as a theoretical fantasy playground for the purposes of cocktail-party banter.

Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, Chris Buckley, Heather MacDonald, Charles Krauthammer and David Frum take note. Meanwhile, why should I take anything Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol say seriously again? These guys have been pushing McCain since 2000 and now are constantly criticizing him for running a campaign that perfectly fits his well-known personality and beliefs.

Feel free to make comparisons to whatever current political race might be going on.

With 8:33 left in the game and down 20-7, Kentucky turned the ball over on downs and the crowd started leaving Commonwealth stadium. With about five minutes left, the much-maligned UK quarterback Mike Hartline threw an interception that Arkansas returned to near midfield and the exodus continued in earnest.

On their first play after the pick, the Razorbacks fumbled and the comeback was on. In the nearly empty stadium, Hartline found freshman Randall Cobb on two quick touchdown passes while the 'Cats defense smothered the visitors in between.

In any sport, you occasionally find a player that can be the best man on the field at whatever position he plays (remember Magic Johnson in the NBA Finals during his rookie year?). Cobb is that man.

From FrankJ's version of BO's encounter with "Joe the Plumber":

Obama turned to the press. “And that was the dramatization of my new tax plan. Any questions?”

“Why are you so awesome?” a reporter squealed with glee.

“It’s hard.” Obama bowed his head sadly. “Especially when FOX News allows critical things about me to be said.”

“Awww, poor Obama,” the press said. “Everyone is against him.”

“Let’s only write positive things about him and negative things about McCain!” one reporter said.

Another reporter looked confused. “Um… I thought we were already doing that.”

McCain did much much better last night and probably "won," but missed many openings and should have held Obama to account for his lies and omissions. I'm really confused about what how he thinks the Ayers stuff is going to work for him if he refuses to connect the dots. If all he's going to do with it is insist that Obama hasn't been forthcoming (which is true) and he's never going to talk about Wright, Pfleger, Khalidi, et al, then I don't understand why his campaign brought it up in the first place. He should turn the "Senator Government" slip into an ongoing joke.

Obama did a good job of pretending to be a moderate. Why hasn't anyone asked how someone that calls for "fundamental change" can be a moderate? Moderates are not comfortable with the radicals Obama chooses to hang out with.

Obama still insists he's going to have a net decrease in spending while being specific about many areas where he wants to spend more and just giving the standard politician's pledge to cut "waste, fraud and abuse" without much specificity. I don't know if this is lying or self-deception.

Obama lied about ACORN, Ayers, abortion and more. He repeated the media's libel that folks yelled "kill him!" about him (when it was really about Ayers). He did it calmly, smoothly and convincingly. He's really a better liar than Bill Clinton. Simply amazing. I never thought I'd see that in my lifetime.

I've been anxiously waiting to see what Don Luskin would say about his nemesis. He doesn't disappoint.

Are taxes for raising money to run the government, or for redistribution of wealth?

At least he's being consistent on one issue:

Perhaps Iceland understands it now:

Iceland was supposed to be an example to the rest of the world on how you could give up carbon energy, switch to green energy, and build a vibrant economy.

It would be as if I borrowed tens of thousands of dollars against the equity of my house. I used the money to put in a pool and deck, pave the driveway, upgrade my landscaping, and install enough solar panels to get off the grid. Then I told my friends, neighbors, and any newspapers that would listen, "Look at my prosperity. I have a pool, a deck, a paved driveway, and these lovely flower beds because I stopped paying for electricity and became energy independent."

Enter the housing collapse, and the bills come due. I have a bank-loan that I can't possibly pay back. My prosperity was not attributable to my getting off the grid, but to my spending other people’s money.

But Obama does not.

It's worth asking that if the laws that he prefers had been in place in the '60s, would Barack Obama had been born?

Remember what I said about the "Pro-Life Case for Obama?" Yeah, right: