Live-blogging Day 2 of the GOP Convention.

6:03: Ayla Brown — the erstwhile "American Idol" contestant and daughter of Senator Scott Brown — sings the National Anthem. 6:07...

"There may well come a day, when women will be invited to join our membership..."

"... but that timetable will be ours, and not at the point of a bayonet."

"Women Are Awkwardly Attempting to Go to Lunch With New Internet Friends."

"Let's just be honest for a second: making female friends is hard in a new city." You want to be like, "Hey, want to get ...

Why is the Condi-for-VP rumor being floated?

1. It's a slow week, and everybody's looking for page views. 2. It helps offset the story about Romney getting booed at the NAACP co...

Condoleeza Rice is "either very worried about a socialist threat to America, or she wants to be Vice President."

Said a "Romney surrogate" about the 13-minutes speech Condi gave at a recent "closed-door fundraising retreat" for Romne...

Condi for VP? "How many ways can I say it? Not me.”

"I think we should go another direction and find somebody who really wants to be in elected office."

“What is this mac-and-cheese? Is it a black thing?"

Pat Robertson, getting up to speed on Thanksgiving and macaroni and cheese.

Found at the Qaddafi compound: an album filled with photos of Condoleezza Rice.

It's not surprising, considering his past expressions of fondness for the ex-Secretary of State: "I support my darling black Africa...

Interviewing Condi....

... will be done Condi's way.

"One night at a gathering at an apartment in New York City, a woman blithely announced, 'I would pay someone to have sex with my husband.'"

"There were snorts and yips of laughter. I believe one woman even clapped. 'What did they mean?' I asked my friend. '"...

What's with powerful women and thick bumpers of bangs?

Drudge is — I think — implicitly asking with this alignment of photographs: What drives intelligent women to that hairstyle? Are they think...

"The true measure of affirmative action's staying power is that its absence now is virtually inconceivable."

Writes Harvard lawprof Randall Kennedy: Liberalism has made racial homogeneity uncool and unacceptable. Even many conservatives are made unc...

McCain-Rice.

A surprisingly strong match. In a new poll conducted by Marist College and WNBC, a McCain-Rice ticket would beat a ticket that includes both...

"Condoleeza Rice has been actively campaigning" to be John McCain's VP pick.

Says Republican strategist Dan Senor. “There's this ritual in Washington, the Americans for Tax Reform, which is headed by Grover Norqui...

"Look, I don't comment on other people's comments. I don't have time, all right. I really don't have time to worry about this."

Condoleezza Rice does not have time to worry about Mike Huckabee, who probably thinks that sounds "arrogant."

Think you can startle Condoleezza Rice?

Think again.

When Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz tried to hit on...

... Condoleezza Rice. By the end of the meeting he was babbling. The Pakistanis were shifting uncomfortably. And his voice visibly changed.

Poll shows 2 Republicans Iowans want in the race even more than Fred Thompson.

Condoleezza Rice and Newt Gingrich. ADDED: In the comments, I make what you might think is an amazing assertion: I have never seen Fred Thom...

Loading Guantanamo onto the U.S. Attorneys story, increasing pressure on Gonzales.

Secretary of Defense Gates wanted to move the Guantanamo detainees to the United States, and Condoleezza Rice agreed with him, according to ...

"Can we marry up those two — or maybe that's the wrong word — can we have some kind of union of those two issues?"

NY Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman leaned on Condoleezza Rice after she complained about the lack of Farsi and Arabic translators in t...