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This fine essay from Ticker at Jus’ Sayin’ lays out some very deep research about Sarah Palin and her accomplishments: the details of Palin’s ethics reforms, as compared to Obama’s, Palins experience in oil and gas, compared to Obama’s, and Palin’s actions to clean-up corruption in the Republican party.

-By Warner Todd Huston There is an ethics squabble going on in Montana perpetrated by the senior counsel to the Democrat Governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer. It has been revealed that the Governor’s “senior counsel,” a man named Eric Stern, has been caught trying to “back-door” the judge in a case in which he is involved on behalf of Governor Schweitzer.

Denver police goons again: “Two teenagers who had been given city permission to write their messages protesting Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama’s support for abortion on public sidewalks during the Democratic National Convention this week were shoved to the sidewalk, cuffed and arrested for doing just that….

Amen. Of all the atrocities committed in this world, few acts are more evil than killing a child because he is disabled. Tragically, more than 90% of babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome in the UK are murdered in the womb…just because they are disabled. The figure in the US is about 80%.

Another good reason Palin was an awesome pick. She has a lot of good ideas on energy! Greg weighs in: This is hilarious because Gov. Palin points out that Joe Biden, 30 years ago, tried to kill the Alaskan pipeline. Kind of takes the sting out of Obama’s phony critique last night of McCain’s record.

Bill Ayers Chicago Magazine Photo Angry Obama supporters were asked to contact WGN’s 720 Extension radio talk show en masse to encourage the station to drop an interview with Stanley Kurtz, a National Review Online contributor with new information on Barack Obama. The show went on.

Excerpt: By KARL ROVE Democrats and Republicans have scripted their conventions as tightly as possible. But after delegates return home with buttons, badges and banners, the curtain will rise on a more unruly drama: the fall session of Congress. And it could affect the November election more than the conventions.

-By Warner Todd Huston Chris Redfern, the Democratic Party Chairman of Ohio, apparently thinks that Americans are so stingy and selfish that the only way charity work gets done is if government taxes the people to make it happen. In a recent radio interview, Redfern expressed the assumption that “unfortunately most Americans would not” help out the poor.

Our colleague Andrew Stengel has an op-ed in the Albany Times Union this morning decrying the ethics crisis in the legislature exemplified by Bruno's quick transition from Senate majority leader to lobbyist this summer. Andrew and Susan Lerner of Common Cause argue that the state's Legislative Ethics Commission has neither the will nor the muscle to bring real reform to Albany.

Our colleague Andrew Stengel has an op-ed in the Albany Times Union this morning decrying the ethics crisis in the legislature exemplified by Bruno's quick transition from Senate majority leader to lobbyist this summer. Andrew and Susan Lerner of Common Cause argue that the state's Legislative Ethics Commission has neither the will nor the muscle to bring real reform to Albany.