Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke Wednesday night before the Republican National Convention, defending her experience as a small-town mayor and governor of Alaska and taking a swipe at the Democratic ticket. Wasn't her daughter Piper cute, caring for her little brother?

The Washington Post Dan Balz (along with a lesser known ABC article, published last Friday), just blew the lid open on an assumption many of us have been feeling for days now.

How did the political radar miss this news. Joe Biden tells ABC "If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation," he said, "they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution - out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no one, no attorney general, no president, no one is above the law."

The U.S. Republican Party is hoping to get its national convention in St. Paul, Minnesota back on schedule Tuesday after the opening sessions were scaled down in response to the hurricane situation on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

“Absolutely brilliant,” Mathew Staver exclaimed when he heard the news that Sen. John McCain chose Governor Sarah Palin as his choice for Vice President. Staver is Chairman of Liberty Alliance Action, Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law.*

Barack Obama has accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for president of the United States, making history as the first-ever African-American candidate of a major political party. Fireworks followed Barack Obama's speech. See his acceptance speech with this story.

Stroll through the tree-lined streets of downtown Denver and indicia of massive security are everywhere, from Denver police patroling on bicycles to S.W.A.T. teams cruising around on foot and on vehicles as the Democratic National Convention shifted to Invesco Field for a closing.

Barack Obama has been nominated as the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential candidate. The Illinois senator is now officially the first African-American to be nominated for president by a major U.S. party.

The Democratic Party has opened its 2008 presidential nominating convention in Denver, Colorado as party leaders, after a long and bitter primary season, work to support nominee Barack Obama. While I don't know the TV schedule of the DNC Convention, CNN has a live coverage.

Anti-war protests mar the events leading to tomorrow's historic Democratic National Convention, which will nominate Barack Obama as Democratic candidate for the presidential elections.

The 2008 Democratic Convention will make a history as the party will nominate an African-American man to run for the president of USA. As it comes to Hillary Clinton, she will release her delegates to support Barack Obama's candidacy. Already thousands of democratic supporters have gathered in Denver to take part in Monday's Democratic Convention, which will nominate Barack Obama to be the party's candidate.

Meet Chet Edwards, US Congressman from the TX 17th district which includes Crawford, TX and now a possible Barack Obama Veep. I taped his remarks to a crowd at the VFW post in Manchester just last Sunday. He was stumping in NH with Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) and the focus of the day was vet issues.