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On Wednesday, controversial former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) mocked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, outlined death threats he and other Members received last year and detailed inflammatory rhetoric, asking his supporters to “stand against it.” “[T]here has been a stream of violence and threats of violence by the right wing against Democrats. [Rep. Gabrielle Giffords] warned against it, and then became a terrible victim of it. Palin has instigated it, and then tried to pretend that it doesn’t exist,” Grayson wrote in an e-mail to supporters. Grayson said it was Palin’s appearance on “The Sean Hannity Show,” where she complained...

Thinking there will be a moderation in the tone of political rhetoric in America after the tragedy in Arizona is wishful thinking. Instead, I believe there is about to be a huge intensification — like when a hurricane goes from Category 1 to Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Hurricanes strengthen as they pass over bodies of warm water. The swirling left-right word-war metastasizing into every hamlet, town and city across the USA is about to pass over a body of cold land — which will strengthen it to the 49th power. That's because I believe someone...

Sarah announced on last night’s episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska that she will make her decision to run — or not to run — for U.S. President on small-town Alaskan radio station WKHL! It’s no surprise Sarah Palin would want to make such a controversial announcement as to whether or not she’ll be running for president to the people in her home town of Wasilla, AK first. They are, after all, some of her biggest supporters! Plus, the politician and reality star has devoted a lot of time and energy to convincing the American public that she’s just a down-home...

Yesterday, the Oregonian featured an editorial and excellent hit piece called, “ A prediction for 2012: Sarah Palin will toss her hat into the ring.” The article written by featured columnist, Todd Huffman, a Eugene, Oregon pediatrician was entertaining to say the least. Sadly for Dr. Huffman, virtually everything he wrote about Governor Palin cannot be factually proven. Huffman is quite the dilettante writing on a plethora of topics. When he veers to his obsession, the need to assassinate the character, background and education of Sara Palin perhaps his time would be better spent in his office taking care of...

This year has been a banner year for Sarah Palin -- if her goal was to become rich and famous. The cash comes courtesy of a break-out reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska" (just try to turn it off), a best-selling book, a TV news gig, and a stage-mother cameo on "Dancing with the Stars."No wonder that for the third time in as many years, the Alaskan dynamo made it onto Barbara Walters' list of the year's most fascinating people. But if Palin wants to be not just rich and famous, but also president of the United States, 2010 might turn...

JUNEAU, Alaska—Republican Joe Miller is taking his challenge to the Alaska Senate race to the state Supreme Court. The court confirms that Mr. Miller filed an appeal Monday. Arguments are set for Friday....

Sarah Palin is planning her first real foreign trip—a move that could burnish her foreign policy credentials in advance of a 2012 presidential run. The Daily Beast has learned that Sarah Palin will be traveling overseas in the new year. At the top of the list: Israel and England, both countries she has said she wanted to travel to in the past. The schedule and itinerary is still fluid, but an overseas trip in 2011 will boost her foreign policy credentials, something she can turn to in a potential 2012 presidential run. Up to now Palin’s travel outside of North...

Two years ago, two superstars lit up a dazzled political universe -- young, stunning, lissome, and bursting with talent -- and were propelled ahead of their time into prominence, after a minimal time on the national scene. Two years later, it seems as if this has done them no favors: President Obama is widely seen as "overwhelmed" by his office, and Sarah Palin is meeting resistance establishing her credentials as a possible candidate against rivals with rather more seasoning. On election day 2008, Obama had been in the Senate for less than four years, two of which he had spent...

Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who had a good run during the 2008 Republican presidential primaries before Sen. John McCain went on to win the nomination, is thought by some in the White House to be the likely GOP nominee. But he hasn't been getting the kind of excited frequent media attention of Sarah Palin and this has apparently begun to bother him. According to Politico.com which interviewed Huckabee, he expressed some consternation: “The polls are consistently favorable, putting me either at the top of every poll or right near it. It’s hard to ignore that, having swum in...

<p>This is it. This is the last time I’m going to write the name Sarah Palin until she does something truly newsworthy, like declare herself a candidate for the presidency. Until then, I will no longer take part in the left’s obsessive-compulsive fascination with her, which is both unhealthy and counterproductive.</p>

Sarah Palin is a serious problem for the Republican Party. She is making several moves that suggest she will seek the presidency in 2012, even though it’s quite unlikely she could win a general election. He negatives her high. Nearly half of Americans have an unfavorable view of her; only 22 percent view her favorably. Furthermore, the vast majority don’t believe she is electable. Though she recently told Barbara Walters she would defeat President Barack Obama in a head-to-head matchup, most Americans disagree. Sixty percent don’t think she would win. But Palin has an adoring base that would make her...

Mrs Palin, the 2008 vice-presidential nominee who is considering a 2012 White House bid, told conservative radio host Laura Ingraham that Mrs Obama's anti-obesity push reflected a belief that parents can't be trusted "to make decisions for their own children". She said: "Instead of a government thinking that they need to take over, make decisions for us according to some politician or politician's wife's priority, just leave us alone, get off our back, and allow us as individuals to exercise our own God-given rights to make our own decisions, and then our country gets back on the right track." Mrs...

To be in the public eye is a double-edge sword. When an opinion is formed and shaped as fact then spread by all forms of social media like a pandemic, how can anyone shake off what's false? In the case of Sarah Palin, there is rarely an article that paints her formidable achievements above the notorious and farcical anecdotes they’d rather publish (after all, what sells better?). How many people, let alone moms or women, can claim all of this in a mere 46 years: first female Mayor of Wasilla, first female Governor of Alaska, first female Vice Presidential candidate...

Sarah Palin wasted little time firing back at Barbara Bush, who used an interview with Larry King early this week to express her hope that Palin will stay in Alaska. "I think the majority of Americans don't want to put up with the blue bloods," Palin said on Laura Ingraham's radio show on Wednesday. "And I say it with all due respect because I love the Bushes. The blue bloods who want to pick and choose their winners instead of allowing competition to pick and choose the winners." While it's true that Barbara Bush remains a well-liked figure, particularly within...

Faced with the prospect of a President Sarah Palin, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the Republican party’s darling from another coast, shook his head and rolled his eyes. “I don’t know, but it’s an amazing world,” he said to Jimmy Fallon during a taping of Tuesday’s Late Night show. Christie brought his sharp tongue to the talk show Tuesday after the two traded barbs over Twitter when the Republican governor canceled a long-planned Hudson River train tunnel. Fallon had joked that New Yorkers would now have to get to New Jersey as they usually do — by accident. “You think...

We interrupt your regularly scheduled politics for another moment brought to you by Sarah Palin. Palin is set to dominate yet another week. Her unique blend of celebrity, media, pop culture, and -- yes -- political engagement is again delivering near-ubiquity that's all the more remarkable for the fact that she does not actually hold any public office -- and that she's coming off of an election cycle with an endorsement record that's spotty at best. That aside, the cable program about her family is setting records for TLC. Her daughter is a finalist on the TV sensation "Dancing with...

In a National Review Online column on November 19, Mona Charen provided an explanation of why she believes Sarah Palin shouldn’t run for President. She argued that after the 2008 campaign, Palin “quit her job as governor after two and a half years…and seemed to chase money and empty celebrity.” She asserted that “Palin seems consumed and obsessed” by the media, labeled Palin’s new TLC show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, a “cheesy entrant in the reality-show genre,” and took issue with the fact that Sarah and Todd sit in the Dancing with the Stars audience “cheering on their unwed-mother daughter.” She...

Sarah Palin says she is “seriously considering” a run for the White House, and she believes she could beat President Obama in 2012. Well, first things first though, could she win the GOP ticket. According to the latest Gallup poll, although it would be a close race, if the GOP convention were held today, Sarah Palin would be the GOP nominee. All this comes on the heals of the former Alaska Governor learning that her reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” turn out to be TLC network’s highest rated show ever and that her daughter Bristol Palin reached the finale of...

In last week’s article on Tim Pawlenty, we noted that Mr. Pawlenty’s Google search traffic — which may be a reasonably good proxy for how much interest the candidate generates among the public at large — somewhat lags behind that of several other potential Republican contenders, such as that of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. These differences are small, however, as compared with the gap between Mr. Pawlenty and Sarah Palin. And the same goes for every other Republican candidate: (GRAPH AT LINK) Ms. Palin’s search traffic, since the start of 2010, is roughly 16 times that of Mitt Romney,...

Sarah Palin tells Barbara Walters that she could beat Barack Obama in 2012, if she were to run for president. Ms. Palin tells Ms. Walters that she is "seriously considering running."