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Since today is usually a slow news day, I thought it would be interesting to look back on the first half of Governor Palin's Going Rogue book tour. Day 1: Wednesday November 18, 2009 Governor Palin began her much anticipated book tour at the Barnes and Noble store in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Wednesday evening. In what was a hint of things to come for the rest of the book tour, people began lining up in the chilly November air the day before, many staying outside all night in order to ensure they could get their books signed by Governor...

CINCINNATI — Each of the stores that Sarah Palin has lined up for her book tour has just three hours with the former Alaska governor in-store to try to move the minimum of 2,500 copies of “Going Rogue” publisher HarperCollins mandates a store must order in exchange for her visit. So far, that hasn’t proved difficult. With 29 announced stops, that adds up to at least 72,500 copies of her book — just from the stores she’s visiting. During the tour, Palin is not being staffed by Meg Stapleton, her longtime trusted right hand. Instead, she’s accompanied everywhere by Tina...

Richland, WA — Sarah Palin is taking a Thanksgiving break from her book tour to spend time with family in Washington and join a 5K run to benefit the Red Cross. Palin detailed her plans Wednesday on Twitter: “Leaving Florida to meet family from Texas/Alaska/Washington. We run in Red Cross charity 5k race tmrrw in Richland b4 Thanksgiving dinner” & "Much 2 b thankful 4 as Americans, most free people on earth! More opportunity 4 happiness/health/prosperity thx to our liberating Constitution," About 25 Palin relatives had registered for the annual Turkey Trot on Thursday at Kennewick's Columbia Park, said Heather...

I posted the 2 part interview with Fox & Friends from The Villages in Florida

(Video) Governor Sarah Palin Interview with KTUU-NBC Anchorage, AK

Rock star Sarah Palin needs no more time in office, excluding the space where she writes books and signs on to social networking sites. The Black-Friday-in-Walmart’s-parking-lot response to her book demonstrates her greatest appeal, namely how strong ideology trumps vast experience. Set aside her cheerless, zealous haters, the impossible sorts who will emit tears of joy when Barack Obama gets his Nobel. Instead, the focus is on the pockets of conservatives and fair-minded independents not yet sold on her as a presidential candidate. Many who would agree with most of her political stances if they were written on a nameless...

What an amazing lady! I do not know if the title makes sense but a women waiting in line to have her copy of Going Rogue signed told Sarah Palin she drove from Tennessee: As Governor Sarah Palin signed books, a woman in line approached wearing University of Tennessee orange. “How long of a drive was that?” Palin asked. “Twelve hours,” the woman replied. Palin Said “I love you, Thank you,” the woman said, claiming her book. “Run in 2012.” Orange Park was the first of three Florida stops for Palin on Tuesday. David Hunt from The Jacksonville Times-Union reported...

If the current pace continues, Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue is on track to become perhaps the best-selling nonfiction book ever. The extraordinary, record-breaking rollout and the throngs of fans who await Sarah at every stop of her nationwide bus tour is rivaled only by the endless succession of liberal talking heads who are willing to put aside years of carefully cultivated gender sensitivity in an attempt to finish off a job they had hoped they had taken care of last year – or at least in the last two months of granting Levi Johnston full access to the most coveted...

In January of 2008, many months before Sarah Palin would explode onto the national scene, I was pondering the chances of my dream choice for the next president, Hilary Clinton. Clinton had been in my heart since 2000 and I boldly told anyone who would listen that she would triumphantly return to the White House in eight years. Unlike many of my black friends, I was not excited by the prospect of Barack Obama and did not feel the need to “support one of our own.”’

In the new Star Trek, Cadet James Tiberius Kirk finds himself standing before the Academy's review board. During his third attempt at a computer simulation no one had ever passed, Kirk installed a subroutine in the simulator's programming which allowed him to win. He was accused of this by Spock, the creator of the simulation.Here's part of the exchange, starting with Kirk's justification for his actions:Kirk: [to Spock] The test itself is a cheat, isn't it? I mean you program it to be unwinnable.Spock: Your argument precludes the possibility of a no-win scenario.Kirk: I don't believe in no-win scenarios. (Source)...

“Going Rogue” sold 700,000 copies — a number that includes pre-orders — in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close to the former Alaska governor. The official was not authorized to release the sales figure and asked not to be identified.

Now, I want to give you more hope: We are Americans. Anything is possible in America. Anyone can make a positive difference. You don’t need a title or a political position or a pedigree. We can take our country back from those who think growing national debt will grow prosperity for us, the little guys. We can take it back from those who think shrinking military power will make the homeland safer for us, the little guys.

You've had time to read the book! Tell us what you think. Write us a brief review of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue : An American Life" and we'll post the best ones.

Interviews With Great, Bill O'Reilly, Graham and Photos Of Ft. Bragg Book Signing

Frum points to the polls: I was interviewed on PBS last week about Palin’s book release. I said that Palin had an especially serious problem with women voters. This is just fact, again recorded in every survey...And yet this attested statistical fact is shrugged off with comments like, “when I saw her campaign in N.H., I was surrounded by moms with strollers”(continued)

I know the news is about a day old but what the hell? Any opportunity to kick a blue-blood ignoramus like Martha Stewart, I'm game. As if anyone cared what Martha Stewart had to say about pretty much anything, the non-domestic warlord unloaded on Sarah Palin to "Showbiz Tonight" producer Jenny D'Attoma. "She's a very boring to me. Very boring, and a very, to me, kind of a, a dangerous person. I mean, to, she's dangerous. " She then goes on to tell the pop-tart journalist that she doesn't really know anything about Sarah Palin outside of what her medicated...

Can’t wait to meet our troops – and all those who love the U.S. Armed Forces – today at Ft. Bragg. Read my book’s dedication page. The book is for these Patriots who fight for freedom. They deserve our support and our government’s unwavering commitment to equipping them for victory. The book tour is beyond all expectations. This feels like the time when a team comes together, gearing up before a major competition to show unity and supply strength and encouragement to each team member equally, regardless of the team member’s role or title. On this tour I hear the...

Video Of Thousands Sleeping Overnight (below freezing weather) To See Sarah Palin & Many Fearful Of The Disaster Obama

ReGaining Reagan Sarah Carlsruh, November 23, 2009 Today, there are “far too many people saying ‘let’s move beyond Reagan,’” lamented Steve Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan and keynote speaker at Accuracy in Academia’s November 5th Author’s Night. Reagan stuck to an unwavering and enduring set of ideals. Yet, liberals are trying to present a distorted picture of Reagan and make him into a proto-liberal, said Hayward. Some liberals embrace the 2nd Term Reagan as a man of peace, call his foreign policy “pretty good” while condemning the Reagan of domestic policy. In contrast, Hayward insisted that “it was...

With her popularity on the rise and a number one book, Sarah Palin is coming out on top! As the L.A. Times points out, at this point in time before the 2008 election, Barack Obama was a relative unknown who rose to political fame. Given the same timeframe -- and her fanitical supporters snapping up 300,000 copies of her book in a single day -- could she be headed towards the White House? Could Palin take down President Obama in 2012? Give us your thoughts in the comments below, then take our poll to tell us: What side are you...

Can’t wait to meet our troops – and all those who love the U.S. Armed Forces – tomorrow at Ft. Bragg. Read my book’s dedication page. The book is for these Patriots who fight for freedom. They deserve our support and our government’s unwavering commitment to equipping them for victory. The book tour is beyond all expectations. This feels like the time when a team comes together, gearing up before a major competition to show unity and supply strength and encouragement to each team member equally, regardless of the team member’s role or title. On this tour I hear the...

Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's a male Democrat genius. But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening. And Barack Obama's are sliding. Guess what? They're about to meet in the 40's. Depending, of course, on which recent set of numbers you peruse and how the questions are phrased, 307 days into his allotted 1,461 the 44th president's approval rating among Americans has slid to 49% or 48%, showing no popularity bounce from his many happy trips, foreign and domestic.

I posted Photos of Sarah Palin on the road in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, a video of fans sleeping over in Virginia and photos of Sarah Palin on Hannity.

A couple of years ago I began to notice some peculiar yet familiar physical symptoms, like the smell of cigarettes making me feel more nauseated than usual. For a few weeks, I brushed these aside. Then I began to suspect something. There was no way I could buy a home pregnancy test in Alaska. I was the state governor. The supermarket cashiers would know, the people in the queue would know, and the next thing I’d see would be a headline. There were still a few things that I thought were not for public consumption, at least not at first.

Martha Stewart on Friday said former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is "a dangerous person," and "anyone like that in government is a real problem." Speaking with HLN's "Showbiz Tonight" producer Jenny D'Attoma, Stewart also said Palin is "very boring" and "confused." Ironically, when asked if she has seen any of Palin's recent interviews, Stewart replied without recognizing the hypocrisy, "I wouldn't watch her if you paid me" (video embedded below the fold with transcript, h/t

Sarah Palin understands the power of ordinary people, the diversity which makes up America, and the arrogance of paternalism. Because Sarah Palin is an individual not made in Washington D.C. and not approved by the D.C. power players, she must be destroyed. It has nothing to do with the individual -- Sarah Palin -- it has to do with the image -- Sarah Palin -- that the power players perceive as dangerous. Any one of these power players who met Sarah Palin at some social event, if Palin was not the image she is now, would have no problem with...

In an earlier post we reported on some problems Governor Palin had in Noblesville, Indiana due to there being a large number of people and not enough time to sign all of their books. In anticipation of encountering similar problems yesterday in Columbus, the number of wristbands was limited to 500 instead of the previously planned 1,000. A woman and her daughter, who were number 67 in line, describe their experience with Governor Palin:

<snip>2.4 Diagnosis #4: The Attraction of Magnificent Academic Trusels. A "trusel" is an idea or a finding that is widely perceived to be true, but which is largely useless (or even of negative value). (The idea that a truth may lack value may be disturbing, but it is true, although it is not a trusel and probably will not be thought to be magnificent.) A "Magnificent Academic Trusel" (MAT) is a trusel that has been widely acknowledged for its intellectual content (explicitly or implicitly), but without a corresponding amount of attention being given to its utility or even to its...

Somewhere in New York, a design genius turned out her light and breathed the long sigh of one no longer burdened by a terrible secret, a secret that had helped ruin the reputation of an amazing woman, a woman she had really liked.

In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's Newsweek cover. "Why aren't women coming to her defense?" they asked. "Why are the media being so rough on Sarah?" Having been enjoying a self-imposed moratorium on all things Palin, declining numerous interviews to discuss her latest self-promotional tour, I was surprised by the questions. My thoughts lately have drifted toward the sense that, though Palin is very much a celebrity, she's no longer running for public office, at least officially. Ergo, radar gets a rest. As for her...

MSNBC Andrea Mitchell (who badgered Tea Parties with her obnoxious arrogance), tries to "confront" Palin with the latest Newsweak rag. Fortunately the cops were keeping the lunatic Mitchell at distance. LOL!

Jennifer Burns sits down with Reason.tv and discusses her book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, and Ayn Rand in general. Very good interview outlining how, though Rand despised Libertarianism, her work has continued to inspire Libertarian thought.

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin officially launched her “Going Rogue” book tour Wednesday in the western Michigan city of Kentwood, and the crowd, somewhat predictably, went wild. More than 1,000 people were waiting in line before Ms. Palin even arrived, according the Detroit News. Many commentators have already compared the aesthetics of Palin’s book tour to a political campaign – the bus she’s using, the buttons for sale, the wild cheers. And looking at her announced tour stops through Patchwork Nation’s 12 community-type framework, there may be other campaign significance. If you were to devise a campaign tour for...

Want to do a little something for Sarah? Why not tell Associated Press's president, Tom Curley, to hire eleven more fact checkers to check those earth shaking "facts" discovered by those 11 dedicated Palin-prodding reporters, who were commissioned by the AP to get some dirt on Sarah's book Going Rogue. All that wasted investigatin' and the AP could only come up with the most trivial of errors and pseudo errors, including denouncing her for staying at a New York ritzy hotel (is there any other kind in New York?) after she only admitted in her book that she "does not...

Love Sarah Palin or not, one has to admit the press is so undone by her that they are both aggressive and passive-aggressive in their hate, and they betray themselves continually in all sorts of ways. They betray their snobbism; they betray their spitefulness, and most emphatically, they betray the fact that our “fourth estate” is populated mostly by perpetual adolescents. Our press, with a few exceptions, is largely made up of people who, at age 14, decided they were sophisticates who knew everything about everything, and therefore had no need to ever think deeply, change an opinion or grow....

...And I am kicking myself! :-( I called the bookstore yesterday and talked to a nice lady who gave me details. Her final question was, "Would you like to purchase this over the phone? I can do that for you!" and stupid me, I say, NOOOOOOO, I'll come over in person tomorrow (today) and pay in person. Drove all the way over there this morning and was told they completely SOLD OUT!!!! this morning right after opening--I guess conservatives in Dallas area heard what happened in Michigan with the overwhelming response to Sarah's first stop, and decided not to take...

(Sarah Palin’s autobiography offers a refreshing change from the usual political fare) I wasn’t eager to read Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue (HarperCollins). Most political autobiographies are boring because the candidate is afraid to write anything that might lose a vote, so I was pleasantly surprised to find the first half of the book to be vivid and revealing. Palin (helped by WORLD senior writer Lynn Vincent) describes her Alaska childhood, her teenage years, meeting Todd, working her way through college, eloping (and rustling up a couple of witnesses from a nursing home), and having babies. Meanwhile, she was developing her...

I posted Sarah Palin's Interview with CBN News BILL O'REILLY TONIGHT!! Nov 19th Nov 20th Part 2 Nov 23rd Part 3 DENNIS MILLER RADIO SHOW Nov 20th (http://radiotime.com/program/p_123379/The_Dennis_Miller_Show.aspx)

I posted Sarah Palin's CBN Interview She will also be on: BILL O'REILLY TONIGHT!! Nov 19th Nov 20th Part 2 Nov 23rd Part 3 DENNIS MILLER RADIO SHOW Nov 20th (http://radiotime.com/program/p_123379/The_Dennis_Miller_Show.aspx)

Details of the second half of the Going Rogue book tour! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in every stop on the tour, but I'm especially looking forward to meeting our brave men and women in uniform at Fort Hood. I'm joining the efforts of many others by donating my royalties from the book sales during our stop at Fort Hood to the families of the victims whose lives have been forever changed by the tragic events of November 5th. I am humbled to be able to join the larger effort called "Community Response to 11/5," which was established by...

WASILLA — Piper Palin missed most of her classes last week, but it’s OK. She brought notes. The 8-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin, along with 15-year-old sister Willow, joined the former Alaska governor in taping some interviews leading up to today’s release of Palin’s book, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” Perhaps the third-grader wanted more pull than just a note from a former governor and vice presidential candidate. So, after sitting in the front row while her mother was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in Chicago on Wednesday, Piper asked the talk show host for a note excusing her from class,...

I posted photos of Sarah Palin's book signing at the Woodland Mall in MIchigan. Many slept overnight and the crowd was 2,000 by 9am. It is estimated 9,000 to 11,000 fans showed up to see Sarah.

The photographer who shot the picture violated his contract by reselling them to Newsweek. That photographer, Brian Adams, could not immediately be reached, and his agent, Kelly Price, declined to comment, saying, "I keep all of my clients' business private." But a spokeswoman for Runner's World confirms that Adams's contract contained a clause stipulating that his photos of Palin would be under embargo for a period of one year following publication -- meaning until August 2010. "Runner's World did not provide Newsweek with its cover image," the spokeswoman said. "It was provided to Newsweek by the photographer's stock agency, without...

Do you plan to buy Sarah Palin's book? Yes. 42% (2,145 votes) No. 10% (540 votes) Not sure. 2% (100 votes) Other: 46% (2,383 votes) Total Votes: 5,168 http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/shepard-smith/index.html

You know the episodes of 30 Rock in which Liz Lemon, played by wicked Sarah-Palin impersonator Tina Fey, decides whether women's boyfriend troubles are deal-breakers? "Yes! I saw that the other day. It was hilarious," says none other than Palin herself. The former Alaska governor and VP candidate sat down with PEOPLE on Nov. 14 to answer some reader questions – such as that from Samantha Harris, of Boca Raton, Fla., who wrote that the man she's dating "doesn't believe in politics because it doesn't affect him. Do you think this is a deal-breaker?" Answered Palin, "The deal-breaker is that...

Sarah Palin says she’d rate Barack Obama's performance as president a 4 out of 10. She criticized the president for his handling of the economy and for "dithering" on national security questions. "There are a lot of decisions being made that I — and probably the majority of Americans — are not impressed with right now," she said in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters Tuesday. She said Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was "premature." The former Alaska governor also said that a 2012 presidential bid is "not on my radar," but wouldn't rule out playing some role in the next...

A number of years ago I was in the unfortunate predicament of having to be in two places at almost the same time: Zurich and San Francisco. There was no solution it seemed until someone suggested I take the Concorde. I could think of nothing more appealing or more practical considering what was at stake. So I made the two-day trip: San Francisco to Chicago to Zurich, Zurich to London where I would board the Concorde to fly to New York and then home. Flying the Concorde was like booking a first class cabin on the Queen Mary I was...

Pallin also recognized the political landmine into which she stepped when using the word “Profiling” . She went on to say, “Because I used that word ‘profile’ I’m going to get clobbered tomorrow morning. Liberals, their heads are just gonna be spinnin’. They’re gonna say ‘She is radical. She is extreme’. But I say profiling in the context of doing whatever we can to save innocent American lives…I’m all for it.”

I think Obama's in a league with TR," observes historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley. "He created his political reputation through the written word." To be sure, no one has ever accused Sarah Palin, a defeated vice presidential candidate, of creating her reputation thusly. One has to wonder, then, why her book, Going Rogue, would merit a fact check by no fewer than eleven Associated Press reporters when neither the AP nor any other mainstream outlet has spent a moment vetting the books of the "author in chief," as President Barack Obama was anointed in a November GQ article, "Barack...

I had a great conversation with Rush today. We spoke about the issues facing our nation, the future of the Republican party and touched on other great topics. - Sarah Palin You can listen here: Click On Citizen Palin 4 President Above