MICHAEL PETRELIS has the full text of the National Enquirer’s Sarah Palin article. Not exactly John Edwards level stuff, but you can read it for yourself. Deceiver notes another difference. Stay tuned.

THOUGHTS ON THE G.O.P. FROM BILL WHITTLE.

As for the notion that the G.O.P. is Wile E. Coyote running in midair — I don’t think that’s now, I think that was in 2005. Or maybe 2006.

ABC NEWS: Obama Campaign National Finance Committee Member Criticizes Palin’s Parenting.

BARACK OBAMA: The new Ronald Reagan? “Obama’s path to high office bears an uncanny resemblance to Reagan’s in at least this regard: like Reagan, Obama understands that inexperience can be an asset, not a liability.” Though Reagan did have that background as Governor. I wish people would get things settled on whether inexperience is good or bad, though. Seems to depend on which candidate they’re talking about.

SO IS THIS GOOD NEWS, OR BAD NEWS? Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to be Put Under Federal Control, Sources Say.

UPDATE: More on Fannie and Freddie here.

A BIGGER TV AUDIENCE FOR JOHN MCCAIN than for Barack Obama? “That means McCain’s speech is now the most-watched in convention history — 41% higher than President Bush’s acceptance speech four years ago, and 1% higher than Obama’s address last week.” Go figure.

SALLY QUINN apologizes.

DANIEL DREZNER on blowback for Russia over Georgia. But, of course, you need to know that Drezner is a stooge of “the elite NATO foreign policy criminals like Albright, Kissinger, and Soros.”

MORE STORM NEWS FROM BRENDAN LOY: Hanna to pack a punch; Ike a threat to Keys, Gulf.

TALKING TO DAVID LAT about ex-Hillaryites for Palin.

THOUGHTS ON RADICAL EGALITARIANISM and engineered longevity.

WHO WORKS MORE? Rich people, or the working class?

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE Movie President?

ANOTHER UNDERFUNDED PUBLIC PENSION FUND, this time in Cobb County, Georgia.

More on that problem here, and here. I suspect that we’re only beginning to guess at the extent of this situation nationally.

UPDATE: Reader Dave Ivers emails:

I teach Public Budgeting (aimed mostly at sub-state level budgeting) and have for the past 9 years in a Masters of Public Administration. You wouldn’t believe (well, maybe you specifically would) how many current or would-be local government employees have no idea how much money from the current budget it takes to fund future retirement benefits. It’s going to eat entire local budgets alive. I’ve been preaching this for the past nine years. Even a couple of my colleagues who should know better don’t usually address the problem much.

Roughly speaking, it’s not unusual for 2/3 or so of local operating budgets to be devoted to employee compensation, current and future. It’s also not uncommon to fund future benefits as meagerly as possible, counting on the growth of future revenues to bail the system out. At least 3 Michigan cities in the past decade have gone bankrupt and bailed out on their pension ‘promises’. It’s probably going to happen to more.

Getting local politicians *and* local unions to think more than a year or two is all but impossible. Do you realize that practically no local jurisdictions even have a Liabilities Budget?

Sheesh. It’s like banging your head against the wall.

Yeah. I think I may be glad that my retirement is all in 403(b) and related funds, not a state retirement system.

JAMES TARANTO: “The most striking thing about this convention is that the vice presidential nominee stole the show.”

HEH: “I’m from Alaska, or as Senator Obama calls it the 57th State.”

NANOTECHNOLOGY: STUDYING THE IMPACT OF NANOMATERIALS on the environment.

Better actual studies than bogus reports. Some related thoughts on nanotechnology and nanomaterials here.

FARMING IN THE SKY: Reinventing agriculture.

OBAMA: Disillusioned with community organizing.

GREYHAWK: Defending Obama, Debunking Lindsey Graham.

ARTHUR CHRENKOFF on Georgia and the dangers of Putinism.

MICHAEL MALONE ON what Google wants.

COMPARING MCCAIN-PALIN WITH OBAMA-BIDEN on aviation policy.

MARC AMBINDER: Obama Surrogates Urged to Mention Eagleton. If this is really their strategy, they may want to rethink. I’m just taking a guess here, but I’ll bet that if Eagleton had polled as the most popular national-ticket politician in 1972, McGovern would have kept him.

Of course, McGovern later said he should have kept him anyway. And Ann Althouse comments:

I remember the McGovern campaign. I was a big supporter of McGovern’s, and I hated Nixon, as did all of my friends. And the scenario then was completely different from what you are seeing now. We were never excited about Eagleton in the first place. We just wanted McGovern to win. Eagleton didn’t infuse new energy into the McGovern campaign or jazz up am important subset of voters. He was just some boring Senator that got slotted in. . . .

The Palin candidacy has virtually nothing in common with the Eagleton scenario, and the people who are saying it does are displaying their desperation. Obviously — I’m not the first to say this — if you want McCain to lose and you think she’s so terrible, you should be happy to see Palin as the VP nominee. It will help defeat McCain.

Yes.

ANN ALTHOUSE VS. JANE HAMSHER on Bloggingheads TV.