I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

A 44-year-old Montana man went into traffic dressed as Bigfoot. It did not end well.

Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine to promote jobs in the industry, unwittingly showing why a job in the industry sucks.

Brookings Institute scholar William Galston says election night might end early this year even if the race remains tight.

Four idiot privates from Fort Stewart planned to take over the base, kill the president, and take over the government.

Former US Senator Arlen Specter is reportedly hospitalized with “a serious illness.”

Mitt Romney’s forces won a rules change that will allow future nominees to have more say over their conventions. While this strikes me as a no-brainer, some conservative activists are up in arms.

Justin Strine spent part of the summer in jail for violent mayhem but doesn’t understand why he’s unfit to be an Army officer.

Unless something changes, Obama remains the odds-on favorite to win.

Jon Huntsman calls for an end to “unforced errors in immigration policy.”

NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is shocked that her outgoing public editor thinks her paper “virtually bleeds” a “kind of political and cultural progressivism.”

A farmer in southern Nepal mistook his son for a monkey trying to steal his crops and shot the 12-year-old dead.

The former Republican governor of Florida says his former party is so extreme that it holds positions he held two years ago.

New York’s police commissioner admits that his officers recklessly wounded 9 innocent bystanders at the Empire State Building yesterday.

Romney declared “I believe the president was born in the United States” on national television the day after he announced his 2012 campaign.

Mitt Romney says his joke that “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate” wasn’t a swipe at the president and once again declared “There’s no question about where [Obama] was born.”

UVA says a presidential visit isn’t worth the hassle or expense. They’re right.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

An old woman with no painting skills was allowed to restore an old painting. Oddly, it didn’t turn out very well.

Lance Armstrong joins a long line of the greatest athletes of his generation whose glory was fueled by performance enhancing drugs.

A former Obama official says government should learn from business, but is private industry really more efficient?

The erstwhile CalPundit starts his second decade strong as ever.

National Review’s Keith Williamson can’t fathom why Alpha Male Mitt Romney is having so much trouble beating Girly Man Barack Obama.

A federal judge has ruled that poker is a game of skill and that therefore betting money on it is not gambling.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”

Jonathan Bernstein didn’t make any predictions about the Wisconsin primary but wants you to know that, if he had, he would have been wrong.

A culture of fact-checking, of honesty, is as important as the actual fact-checking.

When and how often must they disclose their relationship? And can we take them seriously at all?

POLITICO has a new eBook on the Obama campaign and wants you to buy it.

The Justice Department has approved Virginia’s completely useless voter ID law.

I was more amused than I should have been by the YahooNews headline “Obama Says George Clooney Friendship Born in Sudan, Not Hollywood.”

“Top Gun” director Tony Scott is dead, aged 68, after an apparent suicide.

Since most pedophiles are men, Virgin airlines naturally treats all men as potential pedophiles.

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

While Republicans talk about family values, Chuck Schumer is busy promoting them one staffer at a time.

Two groups of former special operations soldiers are opposing Obama. Their military bonafides are not their most interesting credentials.

John Cole takes exception to my recent summary of recent Obama campaign highlight.

Forbes media critic Jeff Bercovici is a bit late spotting a trend.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

A black ‘Democrat’ who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 is endorsing Romney in 2012. It’s not a big deal.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

This charge is false, as 10 minutes’ work by the Washington Post would have shown.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.

People from blood groups A, B, and AB are at greater risk of heart disease than those with type O, a new study finds. Or does it?

Despite all of the gaffes, jobs reports, and various twists and turns that so fascinate pundits, the race has remained essentially unchanged since April.