2 Canadian News Globe and Mail's Measuring Canadian ignorance poll.
"If independent retailers owned gas stations instead of the refineries, do you think the price of gasoline would go down?"
Might be cheaper if the grocers owned the farms, too.

2 Must be because he is so passive, but Alan Freeman found Cheney "fiery" and that his speech was a "scathing attack" against John Kerry. No doubt that's dictated by the writer's odd conviction that Cheney is a rightwing figure who appeals to the right wing of the party and he "survived months of rumours that he would be replaced" on the ticket. Freeman confuses media hopes for John McCain for reality.

2 God was absent from the podium is the charge from Jeffery Simpson, claiming that Republicans hid their ewil Christians. He manages, though, to peg the conventions.

Primaries, not conventions, select the nominees, and platforms that almost nobody reads are drafted before the event begins. Stripped of any capacity to make decisions, conventions are, therefore an exercise in political packaging, four days of hoopla, rhetoric, patriotism and positioning for the fall campaign.

Odd that he didn't mention the abortionists and professional protesters the Dems kept off the podium. Hugh Hewitt, though, reminds us of the value of conventions.