Robert Scheer - Barack Obama is betraying his promise of change and is in danger of becoming just another political hack.

Ann Coulter - Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee, The New York Times called him "the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe." The paper praised him for "working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation" and predicted that he would appeal to "a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field."

Maggie Gallagher - Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chief?

Pat Buchanan - "You go hunting where the ducks are," said Barry Goldwater.

Brent Bozell III - John McCain has figured out that one way to build enthusiasm among conservatives is to confront his former best friends in the liberal media. As the media glorify Barack Obama the "statesman" on his trip abroad, with the three network anchors lining up for interviews like a gaggle of smitten fan-club presidents, the McCain campaign suddenly acquired a surprising "Annoy The Media" flavor.

Joe Conason - Barack Obama knows which countries border Iraq; he understands the difference between Shia and Sunni; and he is probably aware that Czechoslovakia no longer exists — but as John McCain complains, the young senator has "no military experience whatsoever." Indeed, like both of the last two presidents, Sen. Obama possesses scant credentials in national security and foreign policy.

USATODAY.com - In January 2007, America's adventure in Iraq seemed like a chaotic failure. The country was riven with sectarian violence, and al-Qaeda in Iraq had gained a foothold in western Anbar province. Attacks on U.S. troops were running well over 1,000 a week, and Iraqi civilians were dying at a rate of more than 3,000 a month.

RealClearPolitics.com - For a while now, one of the strongest narratives working against Barack Obama has been the notion that he is an elitist and too full of himself.

Ted Rall - Nothing Honorable About the Vietnam War

Larry Elder - Did it work — the Washington, DC, gun ban, that is?

Larry Elder - A prominent 20th-century Democrat made the following statement about the purpose of the Second Amendment: "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. … The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard, against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to be always possible."

Ted Rall - The Triumph of Faith-Based Politics

James Kilpatrick - Every critic of the writing art, most memorably Professor William Strunk of Cornell, has inveighed against redundancy. E.B. White quoted him in "The Elements of Style." Let us listen up.

The Christian Science Monitor - Politics have taken American values out of military serviceIn response to Colleen Reiss's July 14 Opinion piece, " 'I'm joining the military' shouldn't be a jaw-dropper": We cannot trust the proprietors of our military might to act wisely. I refer not to the military professionals but to the civilian authorities who make the decisions about how to use the military.

Ann Coulter - Well, I guess we're all pretty relieved we didn't drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back in 2002. What a disaster that would have been.

The Christian Science Monitor - Like its towering mountains, Afghanistan looms as a serious security threat, with Taliban attacks on US and NATO forces there rising precipitously. But the road to improvement starts in Pakistan, and the route is as winding as the Khyber Pass highway that connects the two countries.

Randy Cohen - I struck up a close friendship with a man. We take longs walks or simply talk for hours. I trust that our somewhat intense relationship will remain platonic because he is married and I am in a committed long-term relationship. Yet this feels like a nonsexual affair, because we haven't told our partners about it, an omission that feels like a sort of betrayal. May we continue to see each other in this way? -- Name Withheld

The Nation - The Nation -- It might be Fox News' worst nightmare: liberal bloggers and black hip hop.

Larry Elder - A "jealous rage," Fox's Geraldo Rivera called it.

Michelle Malkin - If you don't know what ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is all about, you better bone up.