Yesterday's mental illness is today's social policy.
Kathy Shaidle at takimag.com
Neither Mitt Romney's governance of Massachusetts nor the way in which he violated party rules and used his power to silence dissent at the Republican National Convention indicates he will be a lesser evil than Obama.
Vox at voxday.blogspot.com
DNC - Everyone's welcome. Except unless you own a corporation, or if you're a hunter, a gun owner, white males. They are a bunch of gun-toting, hillbilly, Tea Partiers, that's all I have to say.
DNC attendee, Reason TV video via Jonathan Seidl at theblaze.com
Democratic National Convention - It's likely the first time an illegal immigrant has taken the podium at a major party convention, and highlights President Obama's own stance on the issue.
Stephen Dinan at washingtontimes.com
Abandoned buildings in Detroit - If the city's demolition squads were able to tear down more than 3,000 buildings a year — an extraordinary number that would require dismantling at least a dozen buildings every working day — it would take Detroit 25 years to rid itself of this detritus.
Foreign Affairs Reporter, Toronto Star, via Robert Folsom at socionomics.net
Attorney General Janet Reno inaugurated the Pentagon's Law Enforcement Support Organization, through which police departments can have access to military hardware of any description on the assumption that each police department is "a DoD organization."
William Grigg at freedominourtime.blogspot.com
QE will not only continue ad infinitum but will in fact accelerate until the wheelbarrows are worth more than the piles of cash they're able to tote.
NewWorldOrange, comment at zerohedge.com