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Since his lie-filled speech at the Republican National Convention at the end of August, Paul Ryan has artfully embraced Mitt Romney’s tactic of saying anything to win—truth be damned. Tonight Ryan faces the ultimate fact checker, Vice President Joe Biden.

Our conclusion was not a prediction about Governor Romney would do as President, it was an arithmetic calculation: all of the promises couldn’t be met simultaneously without resorting to tax increases on households with income below $200,000.

Yarbrough claims that the recent spike in gas prices is due to the policies of the Obama administration. As a former economics professor, Yarbrough should know better; but why let a few facts get in the way of partisan political rhetoric.

I was somewhat encouraged when the Orange County Register was purchased earlier this year. I was hopeful that new ownership might breathe some balance into the Register’s dusty editorial pages. It appears that my hopes were optimistic at best, naive at worst.