Archpundit nails it. In reference to Palin's interview with Katie Couric:One of my various part time employments from time to time is grading AP exams for the Government and Politics Exam. Sometimes students who clearly don’t know what they are talking about back into a...
Sarah Palin
Unlike Chris Orr, I have utterly no sympathy for Sarah Palin, despite the fact that her interviews and occasional public statements have meandered into the realm of the exquisite corpse..
I've been having an argument today with my friend JJ about whether Sarah Palin is, as Jeeves says of his employer, "mentally negligible." JJ (who btw is a hardcore libertarian.
I have an article on Palin's environmental record at the MI.There was a lot that I didn't have time or space to explore with respect to Palin's environmental record, but I did come across one interesting detail connected to the state's recent polar bear lawsuit....
My governor, promising thorough reform:Through reform, absolutely. Look at the oversight that has been lack [lax?], I believe, here at the 1930s type of regulatory regime overseeing some of these.
Moving from ordinary villainy to cartoonish super-villainy:The last straw, the McCain campaign said, was in July, when Monegan planned to travel to Washington to seek federal money for a plan.
In case you haven't been reading enough about Sarah Palin, I have another piece up at the Minnesota Independent. Some people like it. Others, not so much:Exhibit A:Professor of History...with a liberal agenda, perhaps? I think we need to clean out our colleges and universities...
The fairy tale continues:"The important thing is she's vetoed a half a billion dollars in earmark projects — far, far in excess of her predecessor and she's given money back.
Cathy Young has an attempted feminist defense of Sarah Palin (endorsed, natch, by Ann Althouse.) The fundamental problem with the argument is that there's no inherent value to having lots.
Hilzoy:You'd think that $5,000 to $14,000 a year would be a small price to pay for putting violent sex offenders behind bars. Apparently, Sarah Palin disagrees.I guess policies that prevent poor women from having legal recourse (or subjecting them to crushing debt) when they're subject...
First, there's more better journalism here. Among other things we learn that Palin, apparently, "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America." Impressive. McCain's.
Amid all the extremely disturbing tidbits in the Gibson/Palin soupcon of agitprop masquerading as journalism, the most disturbing may be the revelation that the GOP's VP candidate (on a ticket.