Smokescreen statements about candidates
We must sort through the verbiage, spin, innuendo, sexism, racism, classism and religiosity to pick the next president on the basis of substance, critical issues, vision, quality of experience and gut instinct. This will not be easy.

Snark attack
Snarks from P-I opinion page editors and writers.

With a home comes a list of must-haves
When we moved in to our first ever house this summer, I had no idea that the to-do list would be as unending as it is. This to-do list grows daily and is almost as long as my home wish list of things that I want that I never really needed before.

The GOP's resentment strategy
The Republican Party, now more than ever, is firmly in the hands of the angry right, which has always been much bigger, much more influential and much angrier than its counterpart on the other side. What's the source of all that anger?

These African American Republicans say they support McCain
Yes, there are black Republicans in 2008. And they're not tokens either.

McCain has the heart of an insurgent
The central drama of this week's convention was the struggle by reform Republicans to break through the gravitational pull of old habits and create something new.