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The latest running debate between Al Gore and Sarah Palin reveals once more the absurdity behind today's Republican Party, which looms increasingly as a far right pressure group rather than a viable political entity. The Republicans indicated the direction where they were heading when Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele dared to speak of right wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh as an "entertainer," which was construed to mean that he was undermining his stature as a serious political analyst. A furious Limbaugh demanded an apology. The blustery talk show host had declared himself to be the titular head of...

Declaring that she “was honored and proud to run with him,” former Alaska governor Sarah Palin pushed back hard Wednesday against a report that she had disrespected Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by blacking out his name on a sun visor she wore on vacation. The website TMZ accused Palin of “a frontal attack on Sen. John McCain” during a Hawaii vacation this week: “Sarah chose to wear a visor from her campaign -- a visor that was emblazoned with the former presidential candidate's name ... that is, until Palin redacted McCain's name with a black marker.” But Palin said in...

The Tea Party movement is working to put “America back on track” as a majority of elected officials are doing “great damage to this nation,” one organizer of a local group says. The Starkville and Columbus Tea Party groups will gather Saturday in Starkville in a public town hall meeting at the Starkville Sportsplex from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The event is free. In explaining the Tea Party movement, Robert J. Allen, who co-founded with Gary Chesser the Starkville Tea Party, said: “We have happening in our country right now something that has never happened before, at least to...

Sarah Palin hits it right on the head, with Governor Schwarzenegger.

After the man in Minneapolis threw tomatoes from a second story balcony at Palin during a book signing and was arrested, Salt Lake Tribune reports that the COSTCO company removed all tomatoes from the shelves ahead of Palin's visit to prevent another similar incident

Appreciate Rep.Mark Kirk's(Illinois)comments re:Pres Obama not CLOSING Gitmo, merely moving it outside of Chicago!Very,very odd strategy,DC.

The Islamic Circle of North America has been named in "a list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends" by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is bent on waging "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." They say they want to encourage dialogue via these billboards. Great. I'll start. The billboard says that Islam is "the way of life of Adam, Noah, Abraham,...

She may not be the Person of the Year, but Time considered her influence significant enough to put her on the list of PEOPLE WHO MATTERED in 2009. Here's their explanation : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you thought Sarah Palin was just going to fade back into the Alaskan wilderness after she and John McCain lost the 2008 presidential election, then you don't know Sarah. America's favorite Rorschach political figure is still going rogue, whether quitting her job as governor — who needs a bully pulpit when there's Facebook? — or spending her hour on Oprah dissing the 19-year-old father of her...

...‘We wondered; given this controversy about the circumstances of Mr. Obama’s birth, on what documentary basis did Ms. Pelosi ascertain he was a NBC...we wrote to Ms. Pelosi and asked her...she ignored us.’ A knowing sound of ‘ooooo’ filled the room. ‘What do you think that means?’ The students smiled. ‘That means, she’s busted; she didn’t check whether he is a NBC before she swore he was.’ ...’Could be. But people wanted to know...so they wrote to Alice Germond, the Secretary to the DNC Services Corporation, who had co-signed those Certifications. Again, they asked on what documentary basis she had...

Video: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger bashes Sarah Palin for picking the economy over the environment. "The biggest jog creation is in green technology...people don't believe in fixing the envoronment or in global wrming...they are living in the stone age". He's talking about yesterday's USA poll which says that 7 out of 10 Americans believe that fixing the economy should be a higher priority than fixing the environment. Pesky humans may be able to "fix" the economy (except for California) but "fixing" the environment is an entirely different matter! How does one fix that which God created?

South Florida attorney Scott Rothstein may have ran a $1.2 billion ponzi scheme and is, in general terms, a giant @$$hat with the gaudiest taste known to man, but if he had it his way no one in the lower 48 would have ever heard of a certain pitbull in lipstick. Bob Norman up at New Times Broward-Palm Beach is reporting that Rothstein funded the fledgling efforts to put Gov. Charlie Crist in the McCain campaign's VP slot. The Ponzi schemer was the fourth ranked fundraiser for the GOP candidate in the entire nation, and used that influence (he apparently...

From 1975 to 1979 Ronald Reagan gave more than 1,000 daily radio broadcasts. These addresses came at a time when Reagan held no political office, but was nonetheless mapping out a strategy to transform the economy, end the Cold War, and create a vision of America that would propel him to the presidency. Using modern technology , Palin is using facebook the same way Reagan used Radio and is making an impact on Washington more effectively than anyone else in the opposition. The lethel blow to Obamacare that begin it's slow demise was the Palin penned death panels. In her...

fter Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized Sarah Palin’s stance on global warming yesterday, few thought it would take long for Palin to respond. She launched a broadside on her Facebook page, and reminded California’s governor that the “grain of salt” the Governator recommended should be taken with economic advice from the leader of a state in free-fall and unable to budget its money properly. Even if the world is warming, it doesn’t mean that the warming is either anthropogenic or catastrophic — and conservation doesn’t mean killing the economy: Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen...

TOP 10 REASONS WHY SARAH PALIN SHOULD BE THE GOP NOMINEE IN 2012 (1) She's already been vetted - Governor Palin's record & her personal life has been dissected more than a frog in biology class. Every stone has been unturned, and her life story is all in her book. Pawlenty, Romney, Daniels of IN? We can't afford any more October surprises or bombshells. We know what will happen if Mitt is the nominee - can you imagine the fun the Dems will have producing attack ads? With Palin, voters know her story and will ignore or call BS...

ALBANY -- State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Pete Grannis swiped back at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and other deniers of man-made climate change during remarks at this week's international climate conference in Copenhagen. "Last week, Sarah Palin -- you all remember her -- put a new posting on her Facebook page challenging the severity of climate change and telling President Obama to boycott Copenhagen," Grannis told his audience Monday. He pointed out that in the last 50 years, temperatures in Alaska have increased 6 degrees, and some coastal villages are at risk of falling into the ocean because of melting...

Todd and I would like to offer our best wishes to the Jewish community as they celebrate Hanukkah. Known as the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah commemorates the eight-day miracle that took place when the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated. Though there was only enough consecrated oil for one day, the flame miraculously burned for eight – just long enough to prepare more. This beautiful story is rich with life lessons for members of all faiths. With hope and dedication nothing is impossible, and the Almighty never abandons those who seek the light.

Let's start with the positive news: the left is finally moving beyond a discussion of Gov. Palin's wardrobe and is actually willing to talk about her policy positions. The bad news: they're as crap on policy as they are on trivia. In today's Washington Post, Eugene Robinson writes about Gov. Palin's recent editorial in his paper, which dealt with climate change, the Climategate scandal and the Cop-15 Copenhagen summit. He thinks he's spotted something: Palin isn't the climate change denier that Al Gore says she is! Good job, Eugene! I'd rate that at least a B+ for effort. Mind you:...

<p>"Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment?" Palin wrote on her Facebook page. "Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation's only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change."</p>

Love her or loathe her, it's hard to argue that Sarah Palin didn't look chic during her debut at the Republican National Convention in September 2008. That weekend, Palin and her family were transformed overnight from fleece-wearing rubes to fashion plates, courtesy of a then-unnamed New York wardrobe stylist. The transformation cost the Republican campaign $150,000, a figure that outraged Palin's supporters and detractors alike. Still, most everyone did agree that she looked fabulous. Her shining style moment came as she accepted the vice-presidential nomination. She looked sleek and feminine in a simple black pencil skirt and a cream-colored Valentino...

Former Gov. Mitt Romney could square off with Sarah Palin for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, but he’s already gearing up to take her on in the world of book sales. Palin’s bestseller has been racking up sales for the former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate, and now Romney’s team is planning an ambitious national tour for the March release of his new book, “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.” Romney aides in Utah are hoping for up to 10,000 fans at one of the first stops on the planned tour, a March 13 signing at the Salt Palace...

From the Times of London comes an intriguing report on Al Gore's latest falsehood in the debate surrounding climate change: In his speech, Mr Gore told the [Copenhagen climate change] conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.” Unfortunately for Mr. Gore, this was false. As noted by The Times: [T]he climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water...

Earlier today, John Kerry and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) sent out an email soliciting donations to fight a woman that democrats have publicly called insignificant. Let's go to the source: Think GOP obstruction is bad now? Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators - inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd - took over. Fiscal responsibility, reining in government spending, an end to government overreach, a better economy? Heck, yeah. Where do I sign up? Are these guys serious? I don't know if SarahPAC could write better copy. Either we...

Why is Governor Schwarzenegger pushing for the same sorts of policies in Copenhagen that have helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? Perhaps he will recall that I live in our nation’s only Arctic state and that I was among the first governors to create a sub-cabinet to deal specifically with climate change. While I and all Alaskans witness the impacts of changes in weather patterns firsthand, I have repeatedly said that we can’t primarily blame man’s activities for those changes. And while I did look for practical responses to those changes, what I didn’t do was hamstring...

How so, you say? First of all, ‘Birthers’ who know what this is really all about, know that the ‘Birth Certificate’ is nothing more than a ‘red herring’ in this issue. A Red-Herring because they know that: 1. Article II of the Constitution requires that the U.S. President be a ‘Natural-Born’ U.S. Citizen, not just a ‘born-here’, Naturalized, Anchor-babied, Native-born, etc. U.S. Citizen, but ‘Natural-Born’ - of two (2) U.S. Citizen parents. 2. Barack Hussein (the Long-Legged Mac Daddy) Obama has already admitted that he is not a ‘Natural-Born’ U.S. Citizen when he: a. Admitted to Alan Keyes in his...

President Obama has lost his 2012 bid for re-election. He has made key decisions in three areas that, unless he alters his approach (not likely), could well guarantee a Republican victory: an embarrassingly rolled-out, badly-compromised health-care reform bill; his continuing slavish subservience to those on Wall Street that took the country into the economic toilet; and his sad imitation of CheneyBush's imperial campaign in Afghanistan. (Obama's only hope for 2012 may depend on Sarah Palin getting the GOP nomination. Even better if Glenn Beck or Dick Cheney is her running mate -- been mentioned seriously. The Democrats can only hope...

She's the best-selling author of "Going Rogue,'' a former VP candidate and governor of Alaska, and now Sarah Palin has a surprising new role -- as the most bankable star in Democratic fundraising drives aimed at firing up the grassroots, and their checkbooks, before the 2010 midterm elections. California's 700,000-member progressive Courage Campaign has Palin as its marquee name in a fundraising letter that's out this week. No wonder: with George W. Bush -- the last bigname Republican that Democrats Loved to Hate -- gone, the Campaign prominently stars Palin in an effort to to bulk up the coffers for..the...

Sen. John Kerry's new fundraising letter seeks to make a bogeyman of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement and rally liberals for the 2010 midterm elections.A new fundraising letter from Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts gives a strong hint about how Democrats may try to stir their base to action during the 2010 election season: scare them with the prospect of a Sarah Palin nation.“Think GOP obstruction is bad now?” Senator Kerry asks in a fundraising letter sent out Tuesday morning by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of...

A new fundraising letter from Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts gives a strong hint about how Democrats may try to stir their base to action during the 2010 election season: scare them with the prospect of a Sarah Palin nation. “Think GOP obstruction is bad now?” Senator Kerry asks in a fundraising letter sent out Tuesday morning by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “Just imagine what Washington would look like if a bunch of new senators – inspired by Sarah Palin and the tea party crowd – took over.” In recent months, the political right has been energized by...

Governor Palin's recent op-ed in the Washington Post caused significant panic among the purveyors of the man-made global warming scam. We covered this extensively last week here and here. Today, Investor's Business Daily, in an editorial, takes another look at the one-sided "debate" between Governor Palin and the hopelessly outclassed Al Gore...

It is certainly not breaking news that Sarah Palin is the darling of the most extreme fringe of the Republican Party, but here's yet another data point on it: she's by far the most popular potential 2012 candidate with voters who disapprove of Barack Obama and already want to impeach him. 86% of voters who fit that description have a favorable opinion of Palin to 62% for Mike Huckabee and 49% for Mitt Romney. That's a much wider popularity gap than exists among all Republicans, 73% of whom view Palin favorably to 57% for Huckabee and 51% for Romney. By...

In the predawn hours this morning, over 30 people loaded a chartered bus in a parking lot across from Ross Park Mall were seeing red and it had nothing to do with getting up before 3:00 a.m. "We want to let Washington know that we are not going to let them pass legislation without them knowing how we feel," said Pam Smith of Evans City. Smith was part of a group of grassroots activists and concerned citizens heading down to Washington, D.C., this morning to issue a "code red" alert to stop the health care overhaul legislation from advancing in...

The liberal (and mostly white) media is maniacally obsessed with sorting people by race. One of the most amazing aspects of the Sarah Palin phenomenon is the response of the liberal media to the large crowds she draws. This was on display during the election campaign and again during the just concluded Going Rogue book tour. The liberal media goes to tremendous pains to point out that the former Alaska Governor's audiences are primarily white. Let's start with MSNBC's Chris "West Point = Enemy Camp" Matthews. Last month, Matthews was in conversation with MSNBC Correspondent Norah O'Donnell who was covering...

The good news for George W. Bush is that the haters have just about worn out the object of their contempt. The Bush years have been remaindered to the old-news bin. The good news for Sarah Palin is that she's the designated heir. Good news not only because Mrs. Palin is laughing all the way to the bank, if not necessarily all the way to Campaign '12, but her popularity with average Americans is growing. She may be the only author in America who can get book buyers to line up by the thousands, sometimes in cold rain, for a...

I posted the video of Sarah Palin at Elmendorf, AFB Alaska plus a great Palin Derangement Vaccine Photo. TV Entertainment Media Companies ‘Instinctively’ know a winner when they see one and Sarah is a Massively Popular Political Media Star. Sarah ROCKED not only the TV Entertainment House with her autobiography reading Duo with William Shatner on Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show… Sarah rocked the Liberal and Moderate World as well. Even some liberals could not help themselves and say some nice things!! If Gov. Palin can get a liberal television critic like David Zurawik to confess that: I think it is...

I posted the video of Sarah Palin at Elmendorf, AFB Alaska plus a great Palin Derangement Vaccine Photo. TV Entertainment Media Companies ‘Instinctively’ know a winner when they see one and Sarah is a Massively Popular Political Media Star. Sarah ROCKED not only the TV Entertainment House with her autobiography reading Duo with William Shatner on Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show… Sarah rocked the Liberal and Moderate World as well. Even some liberals could not help themselves and say some nice things!! If Gov. Palin can get a liberal television critic like David Zurawik to confess that: I think it is...

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is delivering his big speech in Copenhagen right now -- but before he took the stage he offered an opening salvo -- a whack at fellow Republican Sarah Palin who has expressed skepticism about global warming. The FT, which is on quite a roll: The California governor has become an environmental standard bearer for the Republican party, which is split on the merits of curbing emissions. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, has attacked cap and trade and questioned any link between man-made emissions and global warming. “You have to ask:...

Sarah Palin has added a second speech to her appearance in Redding in February. Tickets went on sale Monday morning. The former Republican vice presidential candidate will address the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference. Tickets for her first speech scheduled for February 8th at 7pm, sold out in days. Palin has now added a matinée speech for the same day at 3pm. There are about a thousand tickets remaining, they run $54 and $74. You can purchase them at Northern Lights Energy, KLXR radio or the Redding Convention Center.

There's a post up over at The Mudflats (for those who aren't familiar, it's a politically liberal Alaska blog), about a nurse at Walter Reed having her picture taken with Governor Palin during her recent visit. The nurse is a fan of The Mudflats and its founder, "AKMuckraker". One of the ongoing "in jokes" at The Mudflats is for AKMuckraker to get pictures of the blog's "mascot" taken with famous people. The mascot is a toy moose named Brian. The nurse at Walter Reed, as a fan of The Mudflats, decided that when it came time for her picture with...

Sarah Palin is such a cold-eyed skeptic about the Copenhagen summit on climate change that it's no surprise she would call on President Obama not to attend. After all, Obama might join other leaders in acknowledging that warming is a "global challenge." He might entertain "opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." He might even explore ways to "participate in carbon-trading markets." Oh, wait. Those quotes aren't from some smug Euro-socialist manifesto. They're from an administrative order Palin signed in September 2007, as governor of Alaska, establishing a "sub-Cabinet" of top state officials to develop a strategy for dealing with climate...

an Antonio, TX -- Tea Party Support has announced the keynote speakers and emcee at the first National Conservative Symposium, scheduled for Friday, January 22nd, 2010 through Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort and Spa in San Antonio, Texas. Speaking will be Governor Sarah Palin; radio and TV host Sean Hannity; conservative blogger and TV commentator Michelle Malkin; and radio host and TV commentator Laura Ingraham. Best selling author and political pundit Kevin Jackson, will emcee the event. The National Conservative Symposium, hosted by Tea Party Support, will bring together conservative grass roots leaders and...

A compilation of pictures from the book tour. Current total at the link is 129. Many have not been seen before but are AP credited so can not post actual photos here on FR. http://www.adn.com/photos/palin/story/1018829.html

Global Warming: The Alaskan governor who knew polar bears weren't endangered says the planet isn't either and challenges the oracle of climate change. Al Gore says despite the CRU e-mails, the situation is of the utmost gravity. In a Dec. 9 Washington Post op-ed, Sarah Palin noted that the Climate-gate e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia "reveal that leading climate 'experts' deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to 'hide the decline' in global temperatures and tried to silence their critics from publishing in peer-reviewed journals." This did not sit well with Gore. "The entire North...

Former Governor Sarah Palin is once again crisscrossing America, this time to promote her new book "Going Rogue: An American Life." Judging by the huge crowds lining up at the book stores for a chance to meet her, she is fast becoming a political rock star. As the debates on the economy, jobs, health care reform, government spending, terrorist trials, and the Afghan War heat up-and the President's poll numbers head south-her timing couldn't be better. Not everyone, however, is happy to see her take center stage once again. Many liberals and left wing media pundits have been downright apoplectic...

Alaska's fairest Sarah Palin is on a mission. The US vice-presidency was snatched from her manicured grip, which from her perspective is just as well. This is no number two kinda gal. She's no easily-muzzled sidekick. Those who believed she would pale into insignificance following the McCain camp's defeat got it wrong. She's hungry for the top job and, judging by her rising popularity, she just might land it. A December CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows that she has a popularity rating of 46 per cent with eight-out-of-10 Republicans viewing her favourably. Incredibly, she is only one point below President...

I don’t travel in liberal circles much, so last night was a real eye-opener as to how much this country is in deep doo-doo. I went to my brother’s house (Marin County, CA) for our family’s annual Dungeness crab feast. It’s no secret in my family that my political position is hard starboard at flank speed, so out of deference to the occasion I made a personal vow not to steer the conversation to current events. Alas, my best intentions were scuttled by my brother’s neighbor lady let slip a snarky comment about Sarah Palin not believing in global warming.

Sarah Palin's success with humor, for me, was/is pivotal. She must transcend the media by engaging them humorously. And she did that in spades. This segment and the book tour and the Facebook page and the Op-Eds have succeeded to do one thing: Bring Sarah Palin back to neutral ground. That's it. At this point, Sarah Palin is neither a positive or negative in the minds of those who care the least and matter the most: the middle-of-the-road American centrist independent who swings elections and decides policy fates. Neutral is a good place to be. President Obama would like to...

Nice to see her viewpoint on the last election cycle and I was impressed at the way she handled differences of opinion within the campaign. She is definitely a class act; I guess that drives our liberal fanatical friends into climbing the walls. The one thing I like about Sarah Palin is the reaction of the “lame stream media” this is more fun to watch the frustration with how ineffective they are at destroying a class act. What often goes through my mind is a classic cartoon series of Road Runner and the coyotey. The coyotey being the “drive-by media”...

Smug and misplaced criticism of Sarah Palin feeds the resentment on which Palin and her followers thrive. Sarah Palin has the floor. Last Wednesday she wrote a comment piece, essentially dismissing the Copenhagen climate conference as a political stunt. On Thursday, she injected herself into another discussion, joining a chorus of public figures from across the political spectrum in their commendation of Obama's Nobel peace prize acceptance speech in Oslo. Her fame and access to the public sphere remain solidly intact, one year after her ticket's heavy defeat in the US presidential election. Much of the recent Palin buzz began...

Sarah Palin's Going Rogue Book Tour has been a tour de force for the Republican Party's 2008 vice presidential nominee. Through the book tour and associated interviews, speeches and cameo appearances, The Arctic Fox has managed to change many perceptions about her, altering the stereotype that liberals and their media allies had generated. The former governor began the process with the Oprah and Barbara Walters interviews. Both shows have audiences composed of mostly women, but not the conservative women who registered favorable opinions of Mrs. Palin in the opinion polls. No, these viewers are mostly Democrats and independents. Sarah Palin's...