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I haven’t watched the RNC convention live, but wanted to check out the speech highlights. Anyone notice what’s missing here?

NBC Video: Tuesday night’s RNC speeches

According to NBC there weren’t any black or Hispanic speakers. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Armed Citizens:

• NBC (local) Armed bystander stops stabbing outside school
  Wait a minute. Shouldn’t he have called 911 and waited for the police? We can’t have citizens stopping attempted murders, now, can we?
• CBS (local) Bystander Fired Deadly Shot, Not Officer
  Shouldn’t he have called 911 and waited for the police? Oh wait…that was the police.

Michelle Malkin Obama’s Sneaky, Deadly, Costly Car Tax

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell Entitlement Reforms
• Walter E. Williams The Rich Don’t Pay Enough?

Fox News New US standards would double car fuel efficiency
Great. So we’ll get smaller, lighter, flimsier deathmobiles when what we want are cheaper gas and cars and SUVs that are big enough to actually travel with our families—or even do something really crazy like take the kids and a couple friends to the lake without being forced to drive two vehicles.

CBS Family: School Made Deaf Child Change Sign Name, Said It Looked Like Gun
More of the insanity that ensues when our schools are run by liberals.

FoxNation Ellen Barkin Hopes Hurricane Kills ‘Every Pro-Life, Xenophobic, Gay-Bashing SOB’ At The RNC
Where, again, is all the hate supposedly coming from?

Doug Powers@MichelleMalkin New campaign ad: ‘Republican’ women for Obama
Nothing like a little AstroTurf…

WSJ Cheesecake Factory Medicine

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell Risky Business
• Dennis Prager My Dream Speech for Mitt Romney

So, how are those strong anti-gun laws working for you?

• Chicago Tribune 19 people shot in overnight shootings across Chicago
• AP NYPD Gunfire Injures 9 at Empire State Building
  Pop quiz: how many innocent bystanders are shot by CCW holders in the US each year?

Michelle Malkin “Clean Energy” Is Obama-Speak for Crony Government

Fox News:

• More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under ObamaCare rules
  Guess who’s going to pick up the tab when hospitals increase rates to make up for the penalties?
• Dress code bars Oklahoma City kindergartner from wearing University of Michigan T-shirt
  This is the kind of insanity that ensues when school districts refuse to enforce disciplinary policies that might have an actual effect—like criminal prosecution of students for violent behavior.

Townhall:

• Maggie Gallagher Politics Interfering With D.C. Hate Crimes Law
  So why isn’t this being prosecuted as a hate crime? Although it clearly falls within the scope of the law, the victims belong to the wrong class—conservative Christians.
• Walter E. Williams Educational Lunacy
  See Fox item above for a perfect example.

James Taranto@WSJ Out of Mani, One: The philosophical roots of the Obama cult.

WSJ The $6,400 Myth: Breaking down a false Obama Medicare claim.

Fox US taxpayers bail out California homeowners, as banks fail to pay their share

CBS NYPD Probing Hate Crime After Bacon Found At Staten Island Ramadan Site
So strewing bacon is a “hate” crime but the media and DOJ can’t bring themselves to call Nidal Hasan a terrorist? Gotta love the word games of the Left.

ABC Valley woman told she could not hand out free bottled water in summer heat
We certainly can’t have charity going on without government approval, now, can we?

Townhall:

• Thomas Sowell “Issues” or America?
• Mike Adams All My Exes Live in Texas
• Walter E. Williams Educational Lunacy

Kirsten Powers@The Daily Beast Why The Screwed Generation Is Turning To Paul Ryan
Yes that Kirsten Powers…hardly a conservative commentator.

Louis Woodhill@Forbes General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy — Again

Breitbart Obama Top Bundler Ran Bain Capital During GST Steel Layoffs
Delicious!

Townhall:

• Brent Bozell Skipping Over the Shooting at FRC
• Jonah Goldberg A Storied Presidency
• Mike Adams Ethnocentric Studies

Breitbart New Black Panthers to RNC: Our ‘Feet will be on your Motherf***ing necks’

The media silence is deafening.

Michelle Malkin Black like us: The race clownery of Obama-Biden

Townhall:

• John Stossel There Ought Not to Be a Law
• Walter E. Williams Obama’s Educational Excellence Initiative

Des Moines Register Owner complains Obama’s beer tent stop cost him $25,000

Who cares? That beer vendor? He didn’t pour that.

Byron York@Washington Examiner When 1,099 felons vote in race won by 312 ballots

Think voter fraud isn’t significant? We have ObamaCare thanks to it.

Dr. Daniel Akin@OneNewsNow Is it true Jesus never addressed same-sex marriage?

Fox News Philadelphia woman faces $600-a-day fine for feeding needy neighborhood kids

This epitomizes the problems caused by increasingly intrusive government at all levels.

Townhall:

• Humberto Fontova Chick-fil-A, Mayor Vincent Gray, and “Hate Speech”
• Dennis Prager Will a Weakened American Character Defeat Paul Ryan?

WSJ:

• Kimberley A. Strassel Why Romney Chose Ryan
• Joseph Rago The Forgotten History of Ryan’s Medicare Reform

HotAir Video: Romney, Ryan play offense on Medicare in 60 Minutes appearance

Nothing quite like having the media so blatantly in your camp.

Townhall:

• Katie Pavlich Payback: Holder’s DOJ Refuses to Close Whistleblower’s Retaliation Case

Outrageous treatment of an agent and his family. Why am I not surprised?

• Jeff Jacoby The Rich Pay Their Fair Share in Taxes — And Then Some
• Michelle Malkin Revisiting the DHS Smear of the Tea Party Movement

WSJ:

• Obama Attacks Romney on Wind-Energy Stance

Hey, I have an idea. Let’s keep spending billions on failed “green” energy projects that reward campaign supporters but leave taxpayers in the hook and consumers with higher energy prices. Forward!

• The Postmodern President: The challenge is finding anything his campaign says that is true.

NBC Woman, 84, raped; husband, 93, savagely beaten inside home
Where are the police when horrible crimes are committed against innocent people? It doesn’t matter who you are or where you live. You are responsible for your own protection.

The LA Times ran a story headlined ‘Batman’ movie-goer brings guns, knives for ‘protection’.

Gotta love lefty scare quotes. Since charges are being considered I assume that either he doesn’t have a CCW or concealed weapons aren’t allowed in the theater in question.

But other than “protection,” what motive could he possibly have had? Self-defense is an actual right exercised by normal, responsible adults? Not in lefty land.

Just carrying weapons doesn’t justify the scare quotes unless you have an anti-gun bias. Personally, I carry a handgun, at least one reload, and often a tactical flashlight everywhere I legally can. And if my home were searched, police would certainly find a variety of other goodies designed to thwart those of ill intent.

Am I planning mayhem? Of course not. I’m prepared for the “protection” of myself and my loved ones should the fit hit the shan. You can’t rely on “security guards” (scare quotes justified; see Paul Blart) or the police—who either weren’t there or were entirely ineffective at Columbine, VA Tech, and Aurora…where mass murders occurred even though the weapons used to commit them were banned.

Michelle Malkin Meet the real workers Obama screwed over

Harry R. Jackson, Jr.@Townhall 54.5 MPG and The Law of Unintended Consequences
Environmental regs are useful when they are reasonable, but which is more important to the left: the environment or the safety of drivers and passengers and the well-being of the poor?

WSJ The Romney Hood Fairy Tale: The false, invented analysis behind Obama’s tax claims.

Washington Times:

• Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants: 43% on welfare after 20 years
• IRS told employees to ignore potential fraud in program used by immigrants

Can you say, “Unsustainable?”

Weekly Standard Over 100 Million Now Receiving Federal Welfare