At the very modest Hilton St. Louis Frontenac hotel this weekend, folks from this great country will converge for the How to Take Back America conference, sponsored by, among others, the Eagle Forum (Phyllis Schlafly’s baby) and WorldNetDaily. Tickets were still available Friday morning, and…
U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., held a town-hall meeting in his district over the weekend in which he revealed himself to be a birther (is that still going on?) and said (without apparent disbelief from the crowd) that Republicans have pending health care reform legislation.
Wait. What?…
Update: YouTube video has been pulled but now available here.
Gov. Sarah Palin
Not what you’d expect to find on Huffington Post, but Bonnie Fuller writes there that outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shouldn’t be counted out now, and especially not because she is resigning as governor.
Fuller writes:
In fact, announcing her…
Media-shy Sarah Palin and a crew from ABC News on Alaska's Nushagak Bay. (ABC News/Getty Images)
Doggonit, for the last five days we’ve done nothing but try to figure out this whole Sarah Palin resignation thing. We’ve been watching and rewatching her…
Soon-to-be-former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin has announced that she will resign as governor of Alaska this month.
In a news conference from her home in Wasilla, Alaska, Palin announced Friday that she would resign later this month. The state’s lieutenant…
Photo by Brian Adams for Runner's World
In case your subscription to Runner’s World has lapsed, here’s a link to a long interview with Sarah Palin, who describes the joy of sweat. Don’t miss the part when she encounters a mother…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Rasmussen is out with an interesting poll today. Check it out here.
In the poll, more than half of Republican respondents said the party should be more like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Only 11 percent said the party…
Letterman gives Gov. Palin’s Top 10 excuses for interviewing in front of Turkey slaughter.
THE FOLLOWING paragraphs are from an actual published newspaper story about problems with voter registrations. I’ve edited out certain identifying information, so as not to spoil the punchline:
“Investigators for [deleted] attorney general and secretary of state have launched an inquiry into…
Post-Dispatch photo by Robert Cohen
Nine Days before the Feb. 5 presidential primaries in Missouri and Illinois, this editorial page endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain in their respective races.
We did so enthusiastically. We wrote that either Mr. Obama’s message of…
The ghosts of Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln slept soundly last night. The vice presidential debate at Washington University did not threaten their immortal legacy of 1858.
On the other hand, Democrat Joe Biden did not stick his foot in his mouth.…
Do you think there’s been enough hype?
In a few minutes, Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin take center stage at Washington University’s field house in our hometown for the only debate between the vice presidential candidates.
According to the Commission on Presidential…
Eleven months ago, when the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that Washington University would host the vice presidential debate this year, it was a little like being awarded the ArenaBowl instead of the Super Bowl. Indoor football’s championship game is a…
Courtesy of CBS News
Pop quiz:
Below, you’ll find transcripts from two television interviews that aired last week. One comes from the interview of Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, by “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric. The other…
They may love Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska, but check out this video summary of “Troopergate” by the Anchorage Daily News.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin round-up:
Mitt Romney says let her speak. Yep. The same Romney thought to be on the VP short list.
Biden beware.
Conservative columnists are not getting in line. Or rather, they are getting out of line.
But when you knock her…
Scary: The Times Online (the Internet site of “The Times” of London) is reporting that we’re running out of Internet addresses. And that could be a problem. From the times:
The world is about to run out of the internet addresses…
From her interview with Katie Couric.
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