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Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sara Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation -- a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption charges. Despite rumors of a looming controversy after Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she will leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no investigation into Palin for her activities as governor, as mayor or in any other capacity. "There is absolutely no truth to those rumors,...

There's a small lefty group blog here in Los Angeles called Martini Republic that always has its knickers in a knot about something. A couple of months ago one of their posters, Joseph Mailander, referred to L.A. blogger Patterico (who just won the 2004 Wizbang Best Blog Award) as a "chronic bar-flunker" — an odd insult considering that Patterico is a deputy district attorney. A few weeks ago, they were in high dudgeon because our local media site, L.A. Observed, had left them off some list of L.A. political bloggers. Earlier this month they were fuming because L.A. mayoral candidate...