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Global Warming: Russian analysts accuse Britain's Meteorological Office of cherry-picking Russian temperature data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. Is Copenhagen rooted in a single tree in Siberia? Michael Mann, a Penn State meteorologist, wrote in Friday's Washington Post that "stolen" e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit still don't alter the evidence for climate change. Mann, a creator of the discredited hockey-stick graph used in reports from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show man-made warming, attacks climate skeptics, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, saying they "confuse the public." Chutzpah has been...

The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it…It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here. 1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt...

As GOP former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin kicks off a national book tour this week, there are some unlikely voices cheering "You go, girl!" - hard-core Democrats and progressives who hope Palin's 15 minutes of fame lasts all the way to 2012. "She's a legend in her own mind, the dream candidate, the dream opponent," said satirist Joey Green of Los Angeles, author of the tongue-in-cheek "Sarah Palin's Secret Diary," which hit the shelves just as Palin herself is hitting 20 cities to push her memoir, "Going Rogue." Green, a former National Lampoon contributing editor who describes himself as...

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Be prepared to see more of Levi Johnston than you ever wanted to see. The 19-year-old who fathered a baby born out of wedlock to Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol is about to pose nude for Playgirl magazine. Also, with Palin's book "Going Rogue" set for release this month, some publications may follow Vanity Fair's example in October by granting the high school dropout a byline. In that piece, Johnston claimed that Palin did not nurture her children - or cook or clean - while husband Todd tinkered in the garage or slept on a black recliner in the living...

Here is a poll question as to whom Freepers prefer to be the POTUS. The list is fairly extensive, but even at that there will be those who's choice is not listed. It does however have the usual suspects and category for other. Interesting thing about this poll is John McCain is not on the list. Doe anyone really think he will even attempt top run? Whom do Freepers Prefer For president

On August 7th, Sarah Paling wrote in her facebook page The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so...

Sarah has started her new career with a big bang. She called the end-of-life proposals in the health care reform bills government death panels. Suddenly the Senate Democrats say they are taking this out of their proposed bill. Obama tells a child at a town hall meeting, we aren’t going to pull the plug on grandma. Nice. It would have been tactless if the child weren’t the daughter of a big Obama supporter and a plant in the audience with a question. Obama’s town hall meetings are like the jungle ride at Disney, all little tired and not worth the...

They hopes to win the keys to the White House. Instead, they got tickets to Yankee Stadium. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose presidential aspirations collapsed in humiliating defeat in Florida last year, and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the failed GOP veep pick, enjoyed a game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. The GOP political duo and their spouses exchanged laughs, smiles and small talk as they watched the Yanks take on Tampa Bay. At one point, Giuliani snapped a photo of his wife, Judith, with Alaska's First Couple. Giuliani invited the Palins to the game when he learned they would be...

Sooner or later these people are going to realize the constant whining and attacking is not working. The fact that many ostensibly "popular" mainstream news shows are suffering big ratings drops is an indicator that the tide is turning. These poor women don't get that a person they despise is, without lifting a single finger and without the tiniest intention to do so, controlling them. Simply by being who she is, the person they love to hate, Sarah Palin controls their lives without even intending to. How ironic that they spend so much time thinking about Sarah Palin.

Mr. President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President, The purpose of this letter is to provide notice that I am accepting those funds available to Alaska under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that create new, private-sector jobs and grow the economy. I have invited public discussion through the legislative hearing process currently underway on ARRA funds that appear designed to grow government programs or that will impose federal mandates on our state. Federal stimulus spending must not add to strained state budgets nor diminish state sovereignty by imposing mandates, now or in the future. The...

Barack Obama promised to elevate the level of political discourse. Some of his apparent admirers didn't get the memo. Take, for example, this user comment on the Washington Post's 44: The Obama Presidency blog today: Considering how many people donated small amounts to his campaign, I imagine it would be difficult to find people who couldn't be considered "backers" in some way. I mean one of these guys donated a whopping $250. Yay Matt Drudge! Yay Rush Limbaugh! Way to be more retarded than Palin's down syndrome baby. The poster was responding to the blog item "Obama Town Hall Questioners...

“Shovel ready or digging a hole?” By Gov. Sarah Palin Some question my decision to accept job-ready stimulus funds, while leaving on the table for discussion other funds that grow government. Washington dollars are tempting, but we must consider whether they create sustainability, help develop our resources, reduce dependency on Washington, and all without mortgaging our kids’ futures. Under federal law, I must certify that every stimulus dollar will create new jobs and stimulate the economy. I take that charge seriously. Accordingly, I’ve requested $514.4 million for capital projects that legitimately create new private sector jobs. Shovel-ready projects are certifiable...

The Lady Is Preoccupied By Thomas Cheplick on 3.27.09 @ 6:07AM Ah, the gripes and groans emitting from Washington conservatives over Sarah Palin's decision not to attend any events, can be heard all the way up here in New England "Where is she?" I can hear my fellow D.C. comrades cry. "Doesn't she care about us?" is another loud moan. "Why, why, why has she forsaken this, that, and every event we've asked her to show up at?" others righteously inquire. And then there is this new, almost vengeful, attack on her refusal to 'show up': "I can't believe one...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-23 Governor Palin Urges President to Discuss Gas Pipeline February 6, 2009, Juneau, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin today encouraged President Obama to discuss construction of an Alaska natural gas pipeline in his upcoming meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Governor Palin outlined the importance of producing and transmitting energy between the U.S. and Canada and the significant impact the Alaska natural gas pipeline would have on North American energy policy in the years to come. In the letter, Governor Palin states, “Alaskans have appreciated your strong support for the construction of such a pipeline....

MANORVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been named "Honoree of the Year '09" by the Independent Group Home Living Foundation (IGHL; www.ighl.org), a Manorville, New York-based not-for-profit organization providing programs, services and support for people with developmental disabilities in New York State.

Anchorage, Alaska - Governor Sarah Palin announced today that the State of Alaska filed a notice of intent to file a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s decision to list beluga whales in Cook Inlet as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. “The State of Alaska has worked cooperatively with the federal government to protect and conserve beluga whales in Cook Inlet,” said Governor Palin. “This listing decision didn’t take those efforts into account as required by law.” The notice of the state’s intent to sue was sent to the Secretary of Commerce and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). It...

When "Media Malpractice" filmmaker John Ziegler appeared on MSNBC to discuss the YouTube clips released yesterday of his interview with Gov. Sarah Palin, some fireworks could be expected. The interview did not disappoint. David Shuster interviewed Ziegler this afternoon, and the filmmaker took on MSNBC as a whole. "I believe that her character was assassinated, David, and I think this network played an enormous role in that process," said Ziegler. Later, Ziegler said: "You've clearly seen this through the prejudiced eye of MSNBC, which has had an agenda since the beginning of the campaign, pro Obama, against Palin, it continues...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riHC40sNc_c In an interview for the forthcoming documentary "Media Malpractice" Governor Sarah Palin, for the first time at length, takes on the media coverage of her and the 2008 campaign. There is plenty more of the interview to come. To find out more got to www.HowObamaGotElected.com and get on the mailing list.

The union representing state troopers has backed off allegations that a drug investigation of Sherry Johnston was slowed down last fall to shield the national candidacy of Gov. Sarah Palin. An inquiry Monday by officials for the Public Safety Employees Association concluded that investigators did not delay a search warrant for political reasons, said union president Rob Cox. Charges of political meddling erupted last week because of misunderstandings between investigators working on the case and senior state public safety officials, Cox said.

Mama Tiger: Grandma Sarah Palin cuts to the chase with journalists eager to dismiss her daughter Bristol and husband-to-be as "high school drop outs" just days after Bristol became mother to a little boy — Mrs. Palin's first grandchild. Link has the governor's complete statement about motherhood, media - and faith.

Governor Palin Welcomes International Diplomats January 2, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin today is welcoming an international delegation of diplomats who are traveling to Alaska to celebrate Alaska Statehood Day on January 3, 2009. Representatives from several Asian and European countries accepted Governor Palin’s invitation to participate in weekend celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Alaska being admitted to the Union. “We welcome these representatives with our best Alaska hospitality. We are pleased with their recognition of the importance of our 50th anniversary,” Governor Palin said. “It is a special honor to welcome Ambassador Kislyak and to showcase...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is the front-runner to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, according to online oddsmakers. Despite a slew of negative press this fall about Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) running mate, online gaming site Superbook.com puts Palin’s odds at 3.5-1, the best among Republican hopefuls. Other top GOP contenders include former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose odds are set at 4-1, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, at 5-1. Former Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-La.), who is now governor of Louisiana, has a 6-1 shot of claiming the nomination. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford...

Redstate.com reports that Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) had this to say in the House of Representatives. I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, um, that the parties have differences, but if you want Change, but if you want change, you want the Democratic party, uh, Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus who our, uh, minister prayed about, uh, Pontius Pilate was a governor. Perhaps Rep. Cohen believes that Obama is the Jewish Messiah (whom Christians would probably call the Second Coming of Jesus). After all, the National "Jewish" Democratic Council proclaims with a straight face that the Messiah is...

Haven't seen these pics on FR before. Palin visiting Strykers at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Out of curiosity... does anyone know when this visit was? Can't find a date at the Governor's site. BTW there is no dress she doesn't look good in.

An important lesson on guilt by association from a man who surely never would have objected if John McCain had once worked with, say, an unrepentant abortion clinic bomber. I can’t decide which part is my favorite: Is it Kayo comparing The One’s knowing, voluntarily association with a terrorist to Palin being saddled months ago with an in-law who was busted just this week? Or is it him using Palin’s own supposed lack of empathy to declare open season on this story, replete with nasty drug jokes from an actual comedian about what Bristol Palin’s baby should be named? It...

For people who think there's no cultural divide in the country, consider the treatment of two women much in the news in 2008. The first is Gov. Sarah palin. A woman from very humble roots and with a very blue collar life story. She got involved in the PTA, became mayor, and then rose by dint of her dedication and fearlessness to the job of governor. The full fury of the liberal establishment came down on her with a vengeance usually reserved for klansmen and pedophiles. Then there's Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy. A multimillionaire from birth, she's...

To align Sarah Palin with Hillary Clinton on any level other than gender is both disingenuous and insulting. She has been the governor of a state whose economic structure (among other things) is unlike that of any other state in the country; 80 percent of their revenue is based in oil and gas! It’s too convenient and easy to pin her inadequacies on “the press’ demeaning” portrayal of her. To be fair, Sen. [John] McCain was the one who put her into this position, as Pete kindly pointed out to me; the guy who was willing to lose an election...

Whatever the intention of the anonymous leaker (or leakers) from the McCain campaign who spread nasty rumors about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in the end, they did not so much trash the image of Caribou Barbie, as they ended up tarnishing the public's perception of their G.I. Joe, Arizona Sen. John McCain. It tells you everything that the Palin smear stories come from anonymous staffers. There is no documentation. There is no way to prove the rumors false. Think graffiti in a junior high school girls' room. It started before Sen. Barack Obama won the election, when an unnamed McCampaign...

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is striking back at critics of the high-priced wardrobe she wore as the Republican vice presidential candidate. As she returned to the governor's office in Anchorage on Friday, Palin said all she ever asked for was "a Diet Dr. Pepper once in a while." Palin says the expensive outfits were purchased by the Republican National Committee and they belong to the committee. She called her critics cowardly for speaking to reporters about her anonymously.

GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin returned home in defeat to Wasilla, Alaska, on Wednesday night - leaving behind eyebrow-raising tales about towel-clad appearances and internal campaign feuds. Palin had barely touched down when conservative Web sites began hawking defiant bumper stickers: "I'll keep my guns, freedom and money. You can keep 'The Change': Palin 2012." It's 1,460 days until the next election, and loyal Palinmaniacs have already kicked off the palin4pres2012.com Web site and mailing list. Emerging from her plane, Palin was met with chants of "2012! 2012!" She left herself a very big open door when asked...

Video here. The hope of America is 44, Alaskan, and beautiful.

Experts in Washington think themselves infinitely more important to the Republican Party than mere voters in Pennsylvania who stand in line to see the Alaska hockey mom who sent her oldest son to fight the war the experts once urged. Our experts don't fight wars or send their sons to fight them. They don't make hand-lettered signs and drive 50 miles to wait in the October wind for the chance to wave their signs inside an arena in Cumberland County, Pa. The experts don't seem to care about facts. On Aug. 29, when Mrs. Palin was announced in Columbus, Ohio,...

The Obama campaign, the DNC, the MSM, and others have gone to considerable length, including push polls, mistatements, lies, fraud, and deceit to convince Americans that Barack Hussein Obama has essentially already won the Presidency. But common, every-day Americans are not buying it. Meet the people who don't buy it and who will be the principle reason Barack Hussein Obama goes down to defeat on November 4th. The truth is that the left, the Obama campaign, the DNC, and the MSM will lie, fabricate, misquote, commit fruad, beg, borrow, or steal in their effort to slow down what is...

Palin Not Always All Alaska - She Spent Time In South Texas, Too The Republican V.P. nominee attended a basketball clinic in George West. She hasn't forgotten her time there.

Palin stirs up vitriolic hatred among liberals because she is a conservative Christian who practices her beliefs, especially regarding abortion. If the mainstream media and other liberals are going to continue vilifying Sarah Palin, then they should at least be honest about the reason for their attacks. Their issue with Palin is not her foreign policy experience. After all, Palin’s critics love Obama, who has about the same amount of foreign policy experience as Palin. Nor do any of them really care about her folksy manner, little winks and moose hunting. Palin stirs up vitriolic hatred among liberals because she...

Drag queens dressed as Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin - one runs down the street and another one poses after the High Heel Drag Race near Dupont Circle in Washington October 28, 2008. A drag queen dressed as Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain poses with a drag queen dressed as McCain's running mate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin before the High Heel Drag Race near Dupont Circle in Washington October 28, 2008. Jamaican-born disco diva Grace Jones arrives at the Q music awards in London on October 6. Jones has said she was sorry Hillary Clinton had...

(Jose Rodriguez, 87. I be he remembers the 'change' Cuba got in 1959.)

Flanked by her husband Todd Palin, left, and Joe Wurzelbacher, also known as 'Joe the Plumber', right, Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gestures while speaking at a rally at Bowling Green University in Bowling Green, Ohio, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin poses for a photo with supporters during a rally at Penn State University, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, in State College, Pa.

THE MAVERICK WEARS PRADA Screenplay by Maureen Dowd Revised third draft © Oct. 29, 2008 (snip) NICOLLE Think like a diva. Where would you go rogue? TRACEY Sean Hannity’s pocket. Could he pant over her more? Or maybe she’s hiding in Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s dressing room at “The View.”

LEESBURG, LOUDON COUNTY, VIRGINIA— Tito Munoz, a dark-haired, muscular building contractor in khaki work clothes, steel-toed boots, a yellow hardhat and sunglasses, is striding back and forth, beckoning the crowd to ramp up the cheering. We had been cheering sporadically since before daybreak as we waited for Sarah Palin, scheduled to speak at 10 AM here in Leesburg, northern Virginia — a traditionally “red” area lately tipped towards blue by DC commuters and an influx of immigrants. Speculation about who would introduce Sarah Palin ran from Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who had done so the day before in Florida, to Fred Thompson,...

Article and slide show of Sarah Palin's visit to Grand Junction, CO yesterday. The paper estimates 10,000 attended, but other sources say up to 22,000.

Did you know that Sarah had 15,000 people at her rally this morning in the 40 degree rain in Grand Junction Co? Probably not, because the champaigne and brie msms don't get out of bed that early and wouldn't print anything positive about it had they had to endure the discomfort. I wonder how long they would last in an Alaskan winter.

Sarah Palin sat down Friday night with Tribune-Review political reporter Salena Zito for a wide-ranging interview that covered the economy, education, energy and the Alaska governor's approach to governing. It was Palin's first face-to-face interview with a print reporter as Republican vice presidential candidate. John McCain's running mate was in Pittsburgh for a fundraiser at the Westin Convention Center Hotel, Downtown.

Paling Campaign Speech in Johnstown, PA Gov. Palin gave a remarkable pro-life speech today in Johnstown, PA--one that deserves its own thread. It is a powerful, hard-hitting, emotionally touching witness to the pro-life cause delivered sincerely by a loving mother and determined leader. It's easily the best pro-life speech given by any politician this entire campaign. For those who want to get directly to her pro-life comments, that portion of the nearly 30 minute speech begins approximately at the 00:12:40 mark as she talks about children with special needs. From there she segues into the larger issue of abortion....

Despite everything John McCain and Barack Obama can do, Sarah Palin continues to be the liveliest of the candidates, now starting the clubhouse turn and about to race down the homestretch. There's only one more presidential debate to endure. By this time in a campaign, both presidential candidates are so programmed, their talking points so tested and trite if not necessarily true, that viewers long for a refreshing gaffe. But all we get is a Tuesday-night debate where both men seem terrified of saying something interesting and new. Tom Brokaw tried. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is something else....

Sarah Palin was in trouble the minute she stepped on the stage of the vice presidential debate - her clothes said it all. The usual pinks and reds that gave her so much of her spontaneous style and image were gone, replaced by funeral black. She looked like someone's idea of a Washington senator, and she tried to act like one as well. I suppose that after the Katie Couric interview debacle, her handlers were not interested in seeing Sarah in her natural state. Instead, we got someone who looked and acted like she had crammed for an exam. Someone...