With Mitt Romney's VP announcement of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, all major presidential tickets for the 2012 election cycle are now set. Democratic and Republican National Conventions will be held in the coming weeks to formalize their official choices, while the Green Party and Libertarian 2012 presidential tickets are finalized.

Earlier this year, with the republican primary still wide open and Paul Ryan's budget in the news, presidential candidate Ron Paul, another Congressman known for his fiscal conservatism and limited government philosophy, told Neil Cavuto that Paul Ryan's budget "doesn't cut anything of substance" out of the exploding federal budget, and merely aims to contain its growth and "maybe balance the federal budget in thirty years."

Editorial cartoon humor from Randy Miller at ULIV.org (Utah League of Independent Voters.)

Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is indeed a definition of insanity. This election season will be no different.

Paul Ryan is not exactly a "small government" conservative. And he surely isn't an anti-war advocate. Not that anyone expected Mitt Romney to pick a Ron Paul-like VP choice, but Republicans may be underestimating their ability to win the votes of the libertarian-right and independent voters.

A professor at the University of Calgary has created a Twitter account that, with the help of a computer program, generates parodies of Mitt Romney's tweets. Rightly called @TransforMitt, the program was reportedly a Facebook experiment gone awry. Either way, these tweets are pure comedy.

When it comes to cutting entitlements, Obama is to the right of Romney and not that different from Paul Ryan.

Obama channels Reagan on welfare

Launched in 2010, Pinterest worked its ways up the ranks of social networks to become the fastest-growing site in history, passing 10 million users in nine short months. The image-based network, as I'm sure you have seen, allows you to create boards based on categories and upload and share images, creating a scrapbook-like album or collection of images.

The website now hosts 20 million users, and that number is about to sky rocket. Announced this week, Pinterest will be ditching its invite-only policy and opening the doors of creativity up to everyone.