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The ADN has become nothing more than a hack journalist website that is one step above the fringe bloggers here in Alaska. They are going to cover the circus that will take place in the custody battle between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin. And there are two judges that have had their hand in this circus that is about to take place. First to Judge Gleason. I know about this Judge. I had a First Amendment case against the State of Alaska and she was the judge assigned to the case. She came up with an asinine ruling from the...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Alaska judge's ruling has revealed a heated legal custody battle between Sarah Palin's daughter and the father of Palin's grandson. A November request by 18-year-old Bristol Palin keep the proceedings closed was denied Christmas Eve. Her Nov. 3 petition for sole custody and child support also seeks a visitation schedule for Levi Johnston, the father of 1-year-old Tripp. Bristol says her ex-fiance has exercised "sporadic visitation rights." The 19-year-old Johnston denies in court documents that he has avoided his responsibilities. He is seeking shared custody.

Alaska, Dec. 29, 2009 Palin Custody Battle To Be Open Judge Refuses To Close Hearing In Dispute Between Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston (AP) Bristol Palin, Sarah Palin's oldest daughter, appears to have lost her bid to keep a bitter legal dispute with her 1-year-old son's father confidential. An Alaska judge last week denied Bristol Palin's request to keep the legal proceedings of her custody dispute with Levi Johnston closed. Palin, 18, filed a petition in early November seeking sole custody of her son, Tripp, and child support payments. She had argued that the scrutiny the case could attract would...

"Johnston fought to allow the custody matter to unfold in public, saying in a sworn statement that doing so would help put everyone on best behavior. He noted that Van Flein also represents Sarah Palin. "I know that public scrutiny will simplify this matter and act as a check against anyone's need to be overly vindictive, aggressive or malicious, not that Bristol would ever be that way, nor that I would. But her mother is powerful, politically ambitious and has a reputation for being extremely vindictive," Johnston said in his affidavit. "So, I think a public case might go a...

First to the posting of the custody files on the Anchorage Daily News (ADN)..... The ADN has become nothing more than a hack journalist website that is one step above the fringe bloggers here in Alaska. They are going to cover the circus that will take place in the custody battle between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin. And there are two judges that have had their hand in this circus that is about to take place. First to Judge Gleason. I know about this Judge.

NEW YORK — Sarah Palin says she didn't know her daughter Bristol was sexually active before she learned the teenager was pregnant. The former vice presidential candidate told ABC's Barbara Walters: "Truthfully, we were devastated."

I have, over the past year or so, expressed occasional dismay over Sarah Palin. I think she has the issue understanding of a Kodiak bear and an Arctic wolf’s eye for the main chance, and I think the idea of her being president, devising a national budget and having access to nuclear weapons is the kind of horrific vision that might come to you after weeks alone in the Alaskan wilderness. But I don’t know what she did to deserve Levi Johnston. Johnston, if you miss both the political news and the supermarket tabloids, is the former high school classmate,...

Levi Johnston, the former boyfriend of Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, has offered to pose naked for Playgirl. During a behind-the-scenes video for his recent Vanity Fair photoshoot, the 19-year-old self-confessed "redneck" from Wasilla, Alaska, said: "I would do it." However, it seemed that Levi was unaware that Playgirl has a large gay readership, reports The Telegraph. While talking about its contents, he said: "I'm guessing it's a dude posing for women." Rick Andreoli, executive editor of Unzipped Media, said Johnston was a gay icon. Andreoli said: "The gay community's outpouring of support and adoration for Levi Johnston has been loud...

Levi Johnston tells editors at Vanity Fair about the off-camera life of the woman who almost became vice president, revealing that the Palin family's home life was very different from what was presented in the mainstream media. “Even before she was nominated,” Johnston writes, “there wasn't much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn't cook, Todd doesn't cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I'd barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.”

RESIGNATION: Daughter's ex-fiance says governor also missed family time. BY SEAN COCKERAM Levi Johnston, the former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, on Thursday joined the crowd offering up potential reasons for Palin's decision to step down. Johnston met with reporters to say that he heard her musing about a better life, one in which she could spend more time at home, reduce her stress, and accept the lucrative offers coming her way. Back in December, a month after her election defeat as John McCain's running mate, Johnston said that Palin "had talked about how nice it would be...

Seriously, what is it with Republican daughters? If it's not Julie (Nixon) insisting that her father was not some weirdo liar and thief, then it's Meghan and Bristol gloriously re-enacting a kind of Montague v Capulet spat, even after the elders have long laid down their batons. Best of all, what are these lovely ladies actually fighting about? Sex! Never let it be said that the conservative right is as obsessed with women's sexuality as the Muslim fundamentalists, from whom they claim to be defending the rest of the world. Twenty-four year old Meghan McCain, who is everything that one...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The mother of Bristol Palin's ex-fiance has agreed to plead guilty in a felony drug case involving OxyContin, a strong prescription painkiller. Attorney Rex Butler says 42-year-old Sherry Johnston will plead guilty July 31 to a count of possession with intent to deliver. Butler says the state has agreed to dismiss five other drug charges against Johnston.

What a cover picture!! How did they convince Bristol to pose in her graduation gown with her baby? That picture tells the entire story. And, it was a smart move by the magazine to make Bristol’s name prominent in the headline for those that don’t immediately recognize her face. Without her name, this could be seen as a teen pregnancy story with an unknown teen mom. The quote in the dek will send this baby to therapy for years to come. It’s just a shame that Bristol didn’t think about this before saying it to a national magazine. Bottom Line:...

Elizabeth Edwards always seemed like the yin - a genuine human being - to her smarmy husband's too-slick yang. No more. With the release of her memoir "Resilience" and self-flagellation book tour about her life with her cheating hubby, Mrs. E now seems about as believable as her husband. That is: Add the prefix "un." No one should expect the wife of a man with Edwards' hobbies to be completely forthcoming - which is why she never should have written the book. Unless she had decided to show him the door - or if she had come out and said...

Meghan McCain: Republicans Don't Get Sex Updated 11:15 AM EDT, Fri, May 8, 2009 Meghan McCain says it's time for Republicans to talk about sex. The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain said Bristol Palin's annoucement that she's be repping an anti-teen pregnancy group helped her realize the GOP's view of sex was misguided. "Unless we learn how to integrate that kind of discussion, our party will continue its descent into irrelevance," she wrote today in the Daily Beast. McCain said she's a pro-lifer but believes in using birth control and having sex education -- and that promoting an...

This message isn't hard; it just isn't as tidy as Just Do It or Just Say No. So Bristol Palin, in all her complexity as target and role model, sitting there with the beautiful baby she wishes hadn't been born for another 10 years, is a perfectly natural messenger.

Once upon a time, there was Dylan Ratigan, host of CNBC's "Fast Money," and co-host of that network's "Closing Bell." He was never partisan and willing to criticize both political parties in Washington, D.C. Now he seems to think Bristol Palin has taken Karl Rove's job as the sinister mastermind of Republican politics. --more with video--

Bristol Palin's new abstinence campaign shines a light on the Republican Party's unhealthy attitude about sex and desire. BY MEGHAN MCCAIN The first time I ever heard about oral sex was during the Lewinsky scandal. Mostly, I remember being confused by President Clinton’s response—“it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is”. When it comes to sex, politicians face all sorts of double standards: who is allowed to have sex with whom, what constitutes sex, and whether it’s appropriate, to name a few. Candie’s Foundation’s announcement that they were partnering with Bristol Palin to promote an abstinence-only campaign has caused...

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Gail Collins, New York Times, seems to have had a lot of fun with her column, "Bristol Palin’s New Gig." Leftists get such enjoyment out of mocking Sarah Palin and her daughter, Bristol. I think it's one of their favorite pastimes.

An op-ed in the leftist New York Times by Gail Collins today attacks 18-year-old Bristol Palin, her parents, her home town, her role as teen ambassador for a teen pregnancy awareness campaign, the Candie's Foundation, abstinence, and... well, you get the drift. Among the many poison darts Collins threw at the teenager was this one: "It's hard not to suspect that for her, being the anti-pregnancy ambassador is just a good excuse to get out of Wasilla."Slimy, elitist opinion writers are standard fare at the Times, but Collins is a really rotten piece of dried-up fruit. She has been...

...under fire from critics who accused him of dressing high schoolers like tarts, [Neil Cole] established the Candie's Foundation, which fights teen pregnancy. And there he was on Wednesday introducing the foundation's new teen ambassador, Bristol Palin.... But surely, when it comes to combating teen pregnancy, the Palin family has done enough damage already. What worse message could you send to teenage girls than the one they delivered at the Republican convention: If your handsome but somewhat thuglike boyfriend gets you with child, he will clean up nicely, propose marriage, and show up at an important family event wearing a...

Unwed teen mom Bristol Palin did a turnabout Wednesday with her views on teen sex, saying abstinence is a realistic option for teenagers.....Johnston said he and Palin had used condoms but occasionally had slipped up. That's how Tripp was conceived, he said.

NEW YORK (AP) — Unwed mother Bristol Palin said Wednesday that abstinence is a realistic way for teens to avoid unwanted pregnancy — a view not shared by the father of her infant son. Palin, the 19-year old daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, told ABC's "Good Morning America" that she wishes she'd waited to have sex. Bristol Palin was in New York Wednesday to help promote National Teen Pregnancy Awareness Day. In the interview, Palin said abstinence is the safest and best choice for teens. "Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only...

Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol is making her first appearances as Teen Ambassador for The Candies Foundation, working to raise awareness of teen pregnancy prevention. She was a guest on ABC's "Good Morning America" (story here and video here), as well as NBC's "Today Show" (story here and video here). The young lady seems to be doing her job for Candies, including dealing with the media, with all the poise and grace that could be expected of an 18-year-old. She will participate in a town hall discussion sponsored by the foundation later today. CBS, feeling left out because Bristol chose...

You can view Bristol Palin's appearance on "Good Morning America" here. We are hoping to post the video as soon as we can. I believe that Bristol did an excellent job in the interview. Chris Cuomo also seems to be a very nice guy, unlike most members of the media when it comes to the Palin family.

<p>For those in the Mountain/Pacific time zones, Bristol gives a ten-minute interview at the bottom of the first hour on GMA. She has begun a tour with a group to talk about teen pregnancy, her difficulties as a single mom, how she disappointed her parents, and why abstinence is the best policy.</p>

<p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Unwed mother Bristol Palin is going to take part in a national campaign to help raise awareness for teen pregnancy prevention.</p>

The father of Sarah Palin's grandchild said Wednesday night that he might pursue legal action against the Alaska governor's family, who he says has cut off communication with him and are no longer letting him see their son Tripp. Levi Johnston said during an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he has hired an attorney in hopes of compelling former fiancé Bristol Palin to honor his visitation rights.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's father is taking the 19-year-old father of her grandson to task for not helping to pay for the baby's care. In the issue of Us Weekly magazine to be released Friday, Chuck Heath says Levi Johnston is capitalizing on national interviews but not spending money on Tripp, the nearly 4-month-old son of Johnston and Bristol Palin, the governor's 18-year-old daughter.

The father of Sarah Palin’s grandchild accused the Alaska governor on Wednesday of lying about him and his family. Levi Johnston said during an interview on CBS’s “Early Show” that he moved into the governor’s house a few weeks before Bristol Palin gave birth to their child. Palin’s camp has denied the claim, but Johnston insisted the governor is not telling the truth. “They said I didn't live there,” he said. “I was like, 'OK, well, whatever you want to call it. I had my stuff there.'” Asked if the Palin was lying about him, Johnston simply said: “Yes.” Palin...

(CBS) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate in last year's presidential race, is a new grandmother. But a war of words is escalating between her camp and Levi Johnston, the father of Tripp, the baby Palin's teenage daughter, Bristol, had in late December. Levi and Bristol have broken off their engagement. On "The Tyra Banks Show" earlier this week, Johnston said Sarah Palin almost certainly knew the two teens were having sex before Bristol got pregnant, and he admitted the obvious -- that they didn't always practice safe sex.

She knew? You betcha, says the baby daddy of Sarah Palin's grandson. The Alaska governor most likely was aware before her daughter, Bristol, became pregnant that the teenager and her hockey hunk boyfriend were having sex, Levi Johnston said in a bombshell new interview. "I'm pretty sure she probably knew. Moms are pretty smart," said Johnston, 18, the father of the governor's first grandchild, in an interview that will air Monday on "The Tyra Banks Show." Johnston said he and Bristol Palin practiced safe sex "most of the time."

Levi Johnston, ex-fiancee of famous teen mom Bristol Palin, admitted to Tyra Banks in an interview set to air Monday that the couple was not always practicing safe sex and says they shared a bedroom on occasion. Johnston talks about his relationship with Sarah Palin's daughter next Monday on "The Tyra Banks Show." In a preview, Johnston tells the host that he and Bristol were practicing safe sex, and agrees that her pregnancy must have resulted from some sort of 'wardrobe malfunction.' But when pressed by Tyra, he admits that they used protection "most of the time" -- but not...

<p>David Letterman said he and longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko had a bumpy trip to matrimony last week. During a taping Monday of CBS' "Late Show," Letterman said he and Lasko married March 19 at the Teton County Courthouse in Choteau, Mont., but only after their truck got stuck on a muddy road.</p>

Now that Levi Johnston has presumably seen the slimy interview that ABC’s Neil Karlinsky conducted with him, aired on GMA this morning, I wonder if he wishes he had just kept driving . . . or maybe hopped out of the cab and given Neil a little poke in the nose. This was clearly not an interview that Levi had agreed to. Instead, ABC apparently sent a crew up to Wasila to track him down. As Karlinksy said in introducing the interview “we found Levi Johnston,” and there he was in his pickup, looking about as comfortable as some corporate...

It is news at the intersection of politics, sociology and gossip: Gov. Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol and her boyfriend, Levi Johnston, have called off their engagement, about 10 weeks after the birth of their child. But it also speaks to the larger question of where the private becomes the public and whether, once the line is crossed, it is possible to go back. When news broke at the Republican convention last year that Bristol Palin, then 17 and the unmarried daughter of the vice-presidential nominee, was five months pregnant, political handlers moved quickly to limit the damage. Senator John...

Last night, Bill O'Reilly quoted some of te etypically hateful comments by the liberals rejoicing in the unfortunate situation of Bristol Palin. I am trying to find those links (so I can post tehm where I know libs post.) I am having trouble finding the links. Can anyone help? Specifically, I'm looking for the hatred on the liberal sites DailyKos (AKA Daily Kook), Huffington Post (Huff and Puff), and DUh. I want to show these folks how truly hateful their side is. Can anyone help me fiond these quotes?

The news that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have canceled their engagement doesn’t come as very much of a surprise. The arrangement looked from the start like an election-season pretense. With the election decently behind us, the pretense can be dropped. Now Bristol and her baby can recede into private life for the next 3 years or so. But as she goes, Republicans and conservatives need to think seriously about the lesson she has taught us – or more precisely, about the illusion she has punctured. Many conservatives carry in their heads a mental image of American society that’s a...

Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter angrily denounced reports today that she was to blame for breaking up with the father of her two-month-old son. Bristol Palin, the daughter of last year’s controversial Republican vice-presidential candidate, responded after it emerged that she and her fiancé, Levi Johnston, had split up. The story first emerged in the tabloid Star magazine, which quoted Mr Johnston’s sister Mercedes saying that Ms Palin and her mother were to blame for the break-up. The couple had been due to marry this summer. “Levi tries to see Tripp every single day, but Bristol makes it nearly impossible,” Mercedes...

<p>Sarah Palin probably won't go for it. But Cecile Richards -- the national president of Planned Parenthood -- says Palin's 18-year-old daughter Bristol would be a great advocate for her group. "I really admire this young woman. I think she should be a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood."</p>

SARAH Palin's teenage Bristol has broken off her engagement to Levi Johnston two months after the birth of their child. The 18-year-old daughter of the Alaskan Governor told the Associated Press (AP) she was "devastated" by the split. "Unfortunately, my family has seen many people say and do many things to 'cash in' on the Palin name," she said in a statement. "Sometimes that greed clouds good judgment and the truth." Mr Johnston, 19, told AP the pair had mutually decided to end their relationship. Bristol Palin's pregnancy was announced last summer days after her mother was named John McCain's...

The pair, parents to 2-month-old son Tripp, broke up 'a few weeks ago' Bristol Palin and her fiancé Levi Johnston have broken up, two sources tell PEOPLE. The split happened "a few weeks ago," according to a source close to the couple, but it's unclear what precipitated it. "It was a mutual thing," adds the source. "It kind of just happened," says the source, referring to the split. "I thought they would stick it out. But I think they can work together to raise Tripp." Despite the breakup, Levi still sees the couple's son. Levi's dad, Keith Johnston, told PEOPLE...

When I, a parent of a 17-year-old daughter due to graduate from high school this May, originally read about Bristol Palin’s pregnancy during the presidential campaign, I shared the same sense of indignant outrage expressed by many upon hearing the news. Why on earth is a girl that age having sex, particularly when she was raised by a mother who staunchly supports abstinence-only education? Didn’t she listen? Yes, I’ll admit my first reaction upon learning of a pregnant teenage girl is to think that it really should be that simple: telling one’s child “don’t have sex until you’re married” should...

You might think that Cal Thomas, as a cultural conservative, would be among the least likely of pundits to call on Sarah Palin to get out of the spotlight for the time being. But Thomas did just that on Fox News Watch this evening. The topic at hand was Greta Van Susteren’s interview of Bristol Palin, and the way the MSM focused on Bristol’s comment that abstinence “is not realistic at all.” Cal was displeased that our culture treats having a child before or after marriage as morally equivalent choices. But his call for “the Palins”—which would clearly include Sarah...

Abstinence is unrealistic, says the daughter of Sarah Palin From correspondents in Los Angeles Agence France-Presse February 18, 2009 11:09am THE daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has spoken out against teenage pregnancy, but says her famous mother's advocacy of abstinence is unrealistic. Unmarried Bristol Palin's pregnancy became a US presidential election campaign talking point last year after her mother was announced as John McCain's running mate. Bristol, 18, later gave birth to a baby boy in December. Speaking about the birth of Tripp to Fox News, Bristol Palin said she now hoped to become an advocate against teen pregnancy....

(CNN) -- In her first interview since giving birth, the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said having a child is not "glamorous," and that telling young people to be abstinent is "not realistic at all." Bristol Palin says "everyone should just wait 10 years" to have a baby, rather than when you're young. Bristol Palin says "everyone should just wait 10 years" to have a baby, rather than when you're young. "It's just, like, I'm not living for myself anymore. It's, like, for another person, so it's different," Bristol Palin told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. "And just...

Greta Van Susteren also interviewed Bristol Palin, and it the short clip above asked her about the tabloid and other press reports that came out during the campaign about her pregnancy. In short, she says they are "evil." How right she is. . . . . (Watch Video) Palin Says Obama Should Veto the Stimulus Bill - Video 2/16/09

Last night I posted an item on David Shuster's hypocrisy in branding Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston "unwed parents," pointing out that the MSM would never normally use such an un-PC term, preferring to speak reverentially of "single mothers." This morning, Ann Coulter appeared on Today to discuss her new book, Guilty, and by coincidence, an important focus of Ann's remarks was . . . the liberal media's "exaltation of single-motherhood." I'll leave it to my fellow NewsBusters to recount the entire story of Ann's Today appearance, including the way NBC apparently scurried to have her on this morning's show...

He stopped short of demanding they be branded with a scarlet 'U.' But the suddenly puritanical David Shuster insists that the proper term for Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston is "unwed parents." Shuster rendered his verdict on this evening's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the MSNBC show he's been hosting since David Gregory parted for Meet The Press. Shuster teased the issue at the top of the program, then devoted a segment to it later on. View view here.