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Maverick resurrection

John McCain reminds of us his bipartisan chops in address
Out of the gate

Sarah Palin shows fight is on in her rousing GOP convention speech
The long journey

Peter Brown analyzes Lieberman's trip from the left to Minneapolis
49er short on gold

Peter Blake delves into campaign to limit paycheck deductions
The baby boot

Vincent Carroll says conservatives getting bad rap in Palin flap
Long Time Passing

Rocky cartoonist Ed Stein inks the final installment in his series
Conventional chuckles

ComedyWorks presents Nora Lynch with a DNC postmortem
Jindal vs. Gustav

Bridget Johnson says leadership may make voters wish he was VP
'Toon time

Don't miss Drew Litton's and Rich Moyer's convention animations

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McCain brings back the maverick

A funny thing happened on the way to the Republican nomination for this man who built his image as a crusty iconoclast.

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"I cannot believe McCain would show such poor judgment in choosing Palin. There is no way any intelligent Republican can vote for him now," asserted one left-wing blogger. In fact, intelligent Republicans would have no trouble voting for John McCain even if he had no running mate, as long as the alternative is Barack Obama.

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This must be that free lunch we've heard of

Some wise man or woman once said, "There is no such thing as a free lunch," and most Americans would agree.

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Speakout »

Divergence on patriotism stark

If there is anything that epitomizes the differences between Republicans and Democrats this year it is how sharply they disagree about the definition of patriotism.

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