Or, refuting liberal talking points, one at a time.

An analysis of why the polls differ so much.  The AP has the candidates in a virtual tie, while other organisations have Obama in a 14-point lead.  As Ann Coulter pointed out last week, the polling margin of error always leans for the Democrats.  There are two problems with this: it makes liberals think that there is something wrong with the country, since no one they know is willing to admit to voting for the opposition, and the polls agree; and, in a race like this, with “racism” being thrown about like beads during Mardi Gras, anything other than a landslide victory for Obama will be taken as proof of racism in the Republican ranks.

As the Wall Street Journal points out, the Bradley effect was not even in effect for that historic 1982 election.

Charles Krauthammer will be casting his vote for McCain.  (Hat tip: Stubborn Facts.)

McCain at the Alfred Smith Memorial Dinner.  It’s better than Sarah Palin’s nomination speech, if such a thing is possible.  Watch Hillary laugh - and laugh - and laugh.  Watch Barack laugh, then grin tightly, then look like a deer in headlights.

The Democrats, having already confiscated 15% of people’s income (remember, your employer chips in half), now want to run your 401(k)s.  Your new “401(k)” will be run by the government, return a measly 3% per year, not be tax-deductible, and will result in another massive wealth transfer.  (Hat tip: Rachel Lucas.)  The liberals warned us to not hand over power to the government in the wake of 9/11; the same applies in the wake of financial disasters as well as those initiated by terrorists.  At least it wasn’t our own government that was behind 9/11; the same cannot be said of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Michelle Malkin continues to report on Barack Obama’s credit card fraud.  One blogger used his own credit card to make a donation.  He gave the name of John Galt, located at Ayn Rand Way, Galt’s Gulch, Colorado.  To state the obvious: this did not match the information on his credit card.  As commenter Ron Robinson said,

I can tell you unequivocally, that every well-designed commercial online payment system is going to have the 3/4 digit code check AND the ZIP check turned ON by default.

Any merchant (Obama’s campaign in this case is a ‘merchant’) who is accepting payment without these checks had to actively go in and turn these checks OFF.  This is easy to do and could probably be done with about 6 clicks in less than 2 minutes (un-checking the boxes that specify these safety checks and clicking ‘Save’).  What’s much harder for most folks is making the decision to do this.  Most merchants won’t make this decision because they want card holders to be protected.

Anybody who swipes at the pump knows that getting the billing zip right for an authorized purchaser is not hard at all.  And it’s a great anti-fraud check.

What gets me about this is that Obama is telling all of us in advance how fantastically careless he intends to be with *your* money!

True that.

We got Sarah running with McCain in ‘08.  Proving once again that the Republican party has some pretty awesome people who would make great candidates, there is a petition to get Joe the Plumber to run for Congress in 2010.  He said that he would consider it.  Sign the petition, read the blog, and enjoy the “Plunge Washington” graphics!