We addressed the arrogant condrescention of the left after Biden’s superb display of it.  Matther May at American Thinker has a very good post on that topic.  An excerpt::

You see, the left live in a rather special world.  It is a sealed bubble, impervious to logic and experience, and without regard for the facts as they are.  Biden’s rude gesticulations were a gruesome look into that special world, and we can thank him for it.

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Daren Jonescu  shares my fear that what needs to be fixed in our government will not be fixed as long as big government is viewed as an altruistic enterprise… as long as Republican dare not say that we must reverse course in a big way.  His critique of Ryan’s debate performance is here.  An excerpt:

But  with the election only a few weeks away, and the fate of liberty on the planet  hanging in the balance as rarely before, why must conservatives settle yet again  for having their views represented apologetically, rather than with gusto and  defiance?

The  Romney/Ryan ticket is all about balancing the budget and championing the free  market.  So champion it.

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Here is a powerful, honest speech about the ascendency of radical Islam and what it means to the West.  This is a very important topic covered in an intelligent way by CBS reporter, Lara Logan.  She may have a more intense interest in this topic than the average person because she was, as you recall, gang raped in the middle Tahrir Square during that wonderful Arab Spring uprising.  Here is an excerpt and the video:

“It’s amazing to me that we are still comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam.

“The Viet Cong didn’t care what you did when you went back to America. The Viet Cong didn’t fight for an Islamic caliphate. The Viet Cong didn’t fight a global struggle. It’s amazing to me that we constantly ignore … what all these groups tell us every day in their own in their own statements.”

“They share something. They share an idea. Al Qaeda is not an organization. You don’t have to have a membership card or badge… this is terrorism, it is a completely and utterly different fight from anything we have faced in our history.”

“Our way of life is under attack and if you think that’s government propaganda, if you think that’s nonsense, if you think that’s warmongering, you’re not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight.”

“In your arrogance, you think you write the script, but you don’t. There’s two sides and we don’t dictate the terms. In fact after eleven years of war in Afghanistan, we’re rushing for the exits as fast as we can, not only do we not dictate the terms, but we have less power to dictate anything on the world stage.”