“Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights organization, posted an alert on its blog Tuesday: ‘Paul Ryan Speaking at Hate Group’s Annual Conference.’ The ‘hate group’ that the Republicans’ vice presidential candidate would be addressing? The Family Research Council, a mainstream conservative think tank…” [WaPo]

Our guest columnist is Daniel Halper, online editor for the Weekly Standard.

• “Biden: ‘I’d Trade Being Vice President in a Heartbeat for Having Won Daytona'” [3:59 pm, Tuesday]
• “Obama Has Plenty of Time to Drop Biden” [12:35 pm, Wednesday]
• “Is Today the Day?” [8:01 am, Thursday]

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• Failed to shoot a lawyer in the face.
• Failed to say we would be “greeted as liberators” in Iraq.
• Failed to tell Mitch McConnell to “Go Fuck Yourself” on the floor of the Senate.

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I still hold the all-time attendance and pay per view record at @wwe.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2012

“Perhaps further fueling speculation that Barack Obama may replace Joe Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket with, say, Hillary Clinton, take a look at part of the president’s schedule for today…” [Weekly Standard]

Our guest columnist explains how his awesome P90X workout not only leads to zero body fat, but extraordinary tap-dancing skills.

First of all, those [Medicare cuts] are in the baseline, [Obama] put those cuts in. Second of all, we voted to repeal Obamacare repeatedly, including those cuts. I voted that way before the budget, I voted that way after the budget. So when you repeal all of Obamacare what you end up doing is that repeals that as well. In our budget we’ve restored a lot of that. It gets a little wonky but it was already in the baseline. We would never have done it in the first place. We voted to repeal the whole bill. I just don’t think the president’s going to be able to get out of the fact that he took $716 billion from Medicare to pay for Obamacare.

Ryan On Medicare Cuts: “We Would Never Have Done It In The First Place” [BuzzFeed]

Three Reasons Why Nobel Peace Prize Winners Are Wrong About “Stars Earn Stripes” fb.me/BP0ehwSC

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) August 15, 2012