maverick

The four state strategy:

The Maverick™ from Arizona announced his bold, ambitious, super-duper fantastic empty wish-list plan to provide energy security to America, the most prominent position besides unnecessarily giving more federal land away to the oil and gas companies that they won't use, is to

From the Baltimore Sun:

John McCain once had the most powerful brand in American politics.

Ben Cunningham points to an article in The Independent which shows that Cuba, under Raul Castro, is moving closer to Chinese/Vietnamese style communist governments, which employ some version of a free market.

Sean Braisted pokes a hole in the conventional wisdom that John McCain is a more known quantity to the American public than Barack Obama:

Marsha Blackburn on John McCain’s Veep choice:

Howard Fineman in Newsweek gives an oft-repeated, yet mistaken point of view on our electoral situation:

We know John McCain: as formed and familiar as a well-worn boot. But we don't know Barack Obama very well, and getting to know him has been and remains the basic national task of 2008.

From Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

FiveThirtyEight linked to an interesting ranking system for the US Congress into the liberal/conservative spectrum. Tennessee is all over the map in the House, and our Republican Senators seem to be smack dab in the middle of their caucus.