I’ll be over at RedState liveblogging the speech.

More to come.

Update: Erick says it’s a done deal.

As many of y’all know, I’ll be at the GOP Convention as a delegate representing Georgia’s beautiful Eighth Congressional District. If any of SA’s readers live in the area, or plan on attending the convention, shoot me an email and we’ll try to organize an informal SA gathering.

And fwiw, I’ll be live blogging as much as possible both here and over at RedState.

It just might be.

Like I said, I can live with Romney.

Bishop Zubik joins the fray:

On Sunday, August 24, on “Meet the Press,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped out of her political role and completely misrepresented the teaching of the Catholic Church in regard to abortion. She said that Church teaching condemning procured abortion is somehow new and therefore unsettled. She could not have been more wrong.

Jesus proclaimed the sacredness of human life throughout his teaching and ministry. In a Roman world where abortion was commonplace, the Church proclaimed its intrinsic moral evil. The Didache, perhaps the earliest known Christian manual of moral teaching dating from the first century, rejected abortion. Early Church councils considered it one of the most serious crimes.

That teaching has remained constant and unaltered for two millennia.

As the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith re-stated in 1974, “The first right of the human person is his life. … It does not belong to society, nor does it belong to public authority in any form to recognize this right for some and not others. … From the time the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor of the mother; it is rather the life of a new human being.”

The teaching of the Church on abortion is settled. And as old as the Gospels.

*  Amity Shlaes is being interviewed this week on Uncommon Knowledge.

*  Walter Williams lauds Texas A&M economist Edgar Browning’s new book, Stealing From Each Other: How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit.

*  There’s a photo gallery of the very cool, recently-unveiled statue of Adam Smith in Edinburgh here.

*  The 2008 edition of the Weidenbaum Center’s annual estimate of the federal regulatory budget is now downloadable as a PDF file here.

More to come . . .

Professor Rick Garnett has today’s must-read post. Here’s a taste:

What is at stake in the abortion debate — and, as someone who has known and admired Doug Kmiec for years, I am sorry that he seems to be forgetting this — is not only reducing the number of abortions and helping women considering abortion to find their way to a different choice (though, of course, such reductions and help are important, and one wishes that Democrats for Life had more influence); it as about repairing the damage done to our political community, and to our constitutional order, by a decision that declared that the Constitution itself disables citizens from protecting in law the most vulnerable among us.

My good friend, Professor Michael O’Shea, is speaking to the feddies at Bama today. So, if you live in t-town (or nearby), please try to attend the event. You won’t regret it. O’Shea is quite the second-amendment guru.

So saith Drudge.

I am going to go out on a limb and say it’s this guy.

Another night. More “unifying” from the dems. What a delight.

Have at it in the comments section. I’ll probably join in on the fun.

Update: I am live blogging over at RedState.

Recently I’ve heard Obama and his supporters repeatedly use a phrase that, as a conservative, I think is wonderfully tone deaf.  I finally saw it in print in Byron York’s NRO column today:

Speaking to reporters in Illinois this week, [Obama] took pains to play down the razzle-dazzle [aspect of his acceptance speech]. “I’m not aiming for a lot of high rhetoric,” he said of his upcoming speech. “I’m much more concerned with communicating how I intend to help middle-class families live their lives.”

“People know that I can give the kind of speech that I gave four years ago,” Obama continued. “That’s not the question on voters’ minds. I think they’re much more interested in, what am I going to do to help them in their lives? And so, in that sense, this is going to be a more workmanlike speech.”

Can you think of a more intrusive or condescending way to say that “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” than this?  The phrase is clunky, to boot.  And I hope it forms the rhetorical core of his acceptance speech.

This is fantastic news that everyone should celebrate.

(LvJJ)

Disgusting.

And isn’t it interesting that “love” isn’t mentioned once in this woman’s screed.

Courtesy of FactCheck.org.

(LvProfessorB)

Have at it.

I may even do a little “live blogging” in the comments section.

Because this rejoinder by Romney to Chrissy Matthews tonight on Hardball is dipped twice in awesomeness:

Chris Matthews:  “How many houses do you have?”

Mitt Romney:  “One less than John Kerry — and that’d be four.”

They both believe they are “devout Catholics.”

Take that, Speaker Pelosi:

Like many other citizens of this nation, I was shocked to learn that the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America would make the kind of statements that were made to Mr. Tom Brokaw of NBC-TV on Sunday, August 24, 2008. What the Speaker had to say about theologians and their positions regarding abortion was not only misinformed; it was also, and especially, utterly incredible in this day and age.

We are blessed in the 21st century with crystal-clear photographs and action films of the living realities within their pregnant mothers. No one with the slightest measure of integrity or honor could fail to know what these marvelous beings manifestly, clearly, and obviously are, as they smile and wave into the world outside the womb. In simplest terms, they are human beings with an inalienable right to live, a right that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is bound to defend at all costs for the most basic of ethical reasons. They are not parts of their mothers, and what they are depends not at all upon the opinions of theologians of any faith. Anyone who dares to defend that they may be legitimately killed because another human being “chooses” to do so or for any other equally ridiculous reason should not be providing leadership in a civilized democracy worthy of the name.

Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York

If you’re watching the Dem Convention, and want to comment on the speeches and festivities, feel free to do so in the comments section.

I do ask that you refrain from saying anything nasty about Senator Ted Kennedy. The man is very sick, and I don’t believe in kicking someone while they’re down.

I may even do a little live blogging per the request of SA reader Top Shelf.

Live Blogging:

Sweet Lord is John Kerry boring (I am watching him being interviewed on MSNBC). Can y’all believe that this joker came as close as he did to being president? (more…)

Catholic News Agency has the details.

(LvChristopher)

It was only a matter of time:

Douglas Kmiec, a former Reagan administration official and a Catholic who is supporting Obama, portrayed Biden as a Catholic not just by belief but by culture, someone who can connect with people at a gut level.

“You can’t find a more regular guy than Joe Biden,” said Kmiec, a constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University. “He would be the kind of guy you would expect to find in the parish hall, in the neighborhood. That kind of personality, when combined with the kind of reflective Christianity Barack Obama has demonstrated, is a winning combination.”

Kmiec argues the Obama campaign is “ultimately premised upon Catholic social teaching” like care for working families and the poor and foreign policy premised on peace over war. Democratic efforts to tackle social and economic factors that contribute to abortion hold more promise, Kmiec said, than Republican efforts to criminalize it.

Ah yes, Obama and Biden are quite the dynamic duo. Obama’s “reflective Christianity” leads him to oppose legislation that would provide basic medical care to children who survive botched abortions, and Biden is vocal champion of Roe v. Wade. It’s easy to see why a “conservative” Catholic like Kmiec would sing the praises of this “dream ticket.”

Why Professor Kmiec, it profits a man nothing to lose his soul for the whole world . . . but for Obama/Biden?

(cross-posted at Catholics Against Joe Biden)

Uh, I don’t think these words mean what you think they mean, Speaker Pelosi.

Please pray for this deeply misguided young lady, and her precious unborn child.

(LvPTN)

You can check out my latest political web-based project here. You’ll no doubt recognize some of the other bloggers involved.

Oh, and not five minutes after we launched, someone marked our blog as a “spam blog” with blogger, which means we’re locked out for the time being.

No surprise there. Some folks are afraid of the truth.

Update: Good news. We can get into the blog now.

Better late than never:

Here was a candidate for the presidency of the United States, asked for his position on one of the central moral and legal questions of our time, and this was the best he could offer: It’s above his pay grade. He went on to assure his interviewer that there is a, quote, “moral and ethical element to this issue.” Americans expect more of their leaders. There seems to be a pattern here in my opponent’s approach to many hard issues. Whether it’s the surge in Iraq that has brought us near to victory, or the issue of campaign reform, or the question of offshore drilling, Senator Obama’s speeches can be impressive. But when it’s time for straight answers, clear conviction, and decisive action, suddenly all of these responsibilities are — well, as he puts it, “above my pay grade.” As mottos of leadership go, it doesn’t exactly have the ring of “the buck stops here.” (more…)

Wow. You know things are going bad for Obamamessiah when even WaPo’s folks are unable to make excuses for his monstrous support of infanticide:

It is probably fair to say that Obama does not favor infanticide, though his position on the Illinois bill was extreme even by pro-choice standards.

Ouch! Parker may be one of WaPo’s token conservatives, but the paper published her piece, and it’s pretty damning (to say the least).

Senator McCain, now might be a good time to seriously consider choosing Gov. Sarah Palin as your running mate.

This issue isn’t going away, Senator McCain.

How can you reconcile your belief that “life begins at conception” with your support for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research?

It’s official. Obama has chosen a proabortion “Catholic” as his running mate.

Update: This may explain part of the reason Biden was chosen.

I gotta say, this is a disturbing and devastating takedown of NRLC.