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California State University at Stanislaus and its private foundation violated public records laws and will have to release the speakers contract with Sarah Palin they had tried to keep secret, a judge has ruled. The details of Palin's contract to speak at a June 25 fundraiser for the foundation became national news last spring after foundation officials refused to tell state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, how much Palin would be paid. Yee has been trying to change a state law that shields campus foundations from public scrutiny. The Palin story grew more bizarre in April after students found discarded...

<p>Sarah Louise Palin née Heath; born February 11, 1964 is an American politician, author, speaker, and political commentator who served as the Governor of Alaska from 2006 until she resigned in 2009. She was the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in 2008.</p>

Sarah Palin is out and Newt Gingrich is in. Congressional Republicans decided Tuesday to ditch the former GOP vice presidential nominee in favor of the former House speaker for the critical House-Senate fundraising dinner in June 8 in Washington. It's the marquee Republican event to raise money for GOP House and Senate candidates. Just weeks ago, the House and Senate Republican campaign committees were giddy at securing the telegenic Palin for the dinner. But then things grew murky. At the time, the Alaska governor's office told FOX News that Palin was still considering the invitation and had not yet made...

IF BARACK OBAMA has been the most remarkable phenomenon of the recent political scene, Sarah Palin must be second. The emotional responses to each — especially by the media and the intelligentsia — go beyond anything that can be explained by the usual political differences of opinion on issues of the day. That liberals would be thrilled by another liberal is not surprising. But there are conservative Republicans who voted for Barack Obama, and other conservatives who may not have voted for him, but who are quick to see in various pragmatic moves of his since taking office an indication...

Palin vs. PETA We think it's safe to say that Sarah Palin didn't get a Christmas card from the folks at PETA. (You know, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) Or vice versa. During the holiday season, PETA posted an online game that involves pelting the (moose-hunting) Alaska governor with snowballs, urging internet users to "help make the holidays safe for animals by fighting back against notorious animal abusers." (In the game, we should mention, Palin is bikini-clad and wearing a fur coat.) Fast forward to Tuesday morning...PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said she received a call from someone...

Gov. Sarah Palin's next act on the national stage could come as early as February, at a major conservative convention in Washington, D.C. The annual event is called the Conservative Political Action Conference, and Palin was supposed to be the keynote speaker last February, long before she became a household name as the Republican choice for vice president. When Palin couldn't make it, Vice President Dick Cheney took her place. The convention isn't affiliated with the Republican Party, but big-name Republicans make a point of stopping by. It's where presidential candidate Mitt Romney conceded to John McCain this year, and...

It is an inescapable rule of politics that defeat breeds recrimination, and the bitter aftermath of the 2008 election is no exception. Hardly had Barack Obama swept to a resounding victory on November 4th, than anonymous insiders in the McCain campaign began feeding political reporters a too-convenient-by-half theory to explain the electoral rout. In brief, it was all Sarah Palin’s fault. Most sensational in this vein is the claim that Palin’s supposed intellectual deficiencies were one of the downfalls of the campaign. Thus, in the past few weeks alone, McCain aides have accused Palin of being so politically clueless that...

NEW YORK, (AP) -- MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday. David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent. Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at...

Republican John McCain poked fun at his presidential campaign's financial shortcomings in an appearance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live." The presidential hopeful made a cameo appearance on the show with Tina Fey reprising her memorable impersonation of McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Yesterday my daughter and I attended a massive Sarah Palin rally in Springfield, Missouri. Springfield is Missouri's third-largest city. Officially, it has a population of 150,000. When you include outlying communities, it's probably more like 200,000 people in the area. Local news has estimated the crowd that turned out at 20,000! This is good news in this battleground state. Every election, it seems to be basically us in Springfield and the entire rest of the state against the big-city liberals in Kansas City and St. Louis. And in St. Louis, they bring out the dead. Heck, they've even been known...

News Network Gets 15-Minute Interview with GOP VP Candidate By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 10/21/2008 10:49:00 AM CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin will sit down for a wide-ranging interview with Republican vice-presidential nominee Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Reno, Nev., today, officials said Tuesday. The 15-minute, one-on-one interview—CNN’s first with Palin—will air in all three hours of The Situation Room and will cover a variety of topics. Earlier this year, Griffin reported the documentary CNN Presents: Sarah Palin Revealed, which included interviews with Palin’s father and sister. A transcript of the interview will be available at www.CNNPressroom.com. The Situation...

I just added my donation, so I don't feel so guilty cluttering up the boards with yet another vanity. Go donate and write a vanity! Here's why I think we should ignore the polls and continue with our efforts to elect McPalin: 1) I think some of FR's gloom and doomers just might be shills. With the kind of crooked dough that Obama's amassing, ACORN, and Soros has bought in the past, it's not so far fetched that the #1 conservative site would get "seminar callers." That they have senior dates on their page doesn't mean they're not seminar callers--it...

As Gov. Palin attempted to make a campaign speech, she was interrupted by a hippie, er protester.Click here to view the video. Palin stops her speech, looks directly at the heckler and says the following "Bless your heart sir, my son is in Iraq fighting for your right to protest"... Visit RUF for the video and the rest of the story!!!

Governor Sarah Palin at the Vice-Presidential debate. Photo from Foxnews.com. Any questions about Governor Palin's ability to be in the big time spot light were put to rest last night. Gov. Palin succeeded in turning the tables on the main stream media's assault on her qualifications. Moderator Gwen Ifill, with wary eyes on her for not disclosing to the debate commission her forthcoming Obama book conflict of interest, behaved herself. more

I'm up for another couple of bucks after Saracuda rolled over Joe. How about you?

Sarah Palin is set to upstage George W. Bush in New York Tuesday as the Republican vice-presidential candidate meets world leaders and the singer Bono on the margins of the United Nations World Summit. Bush will be inside UN headquarters giving his final address as president, but his call for countries to confront U.S.-designated "rogue" states like Iran, North Korea and increasingly Russia risks getting lost amid the attention given to John McCain's running mate. The Alaska governor didn't even have a U.S. passport until 2007, but the McCain camp hopes Palin's "coming out" on the world stage will boost...

I don't mean that in a romantic way. I'm talking about Trigg. How cute is he! No doubt even the most avid pro-abortionist was thinking as much when little Trigg was on the convention stage with the rest of the Palin family. I wouldn't be surprised if Palin's choice started a new fad: Everyone is going to want to get themselves a Down Syndrome baby—a breed that's almost extinct, with 80 to 90 percent of pregnancies being terminated when the prenatal test shows Down. As mother of a Down Syndrome child Patricia Bauer wrote in the Washington Post in 2004:...

Dare to criticize Sarah Palin and you'll find yourself back in high school, with all the petty taunts. "You're just jealous!" is the refrain filling my e-mail and voice mail in-boxes, and no doubt other female skeptics face a similar barrage. As if the presidency is about who has the hottest wardrobe, the best-coiffed hair and the attention of the hunky quarterback. For men who question Palin's credentials, it's different. They're just sexists. Sorry, but neither jealousy nor sexism has anything to do with the well-founded doubts about the Republican Party's choice for vice president. Anybody who cares about the...

the people are having a lot of fun making up nicknames for Sarah the Saracuda and now its the Palinator /////////////// really though, this girl is something else. in the high school championship game, she captained the team, was the point guard, scored the winning points at the free throw line.... with a fractured ankle. now that's something to reckon with.... so FRiends, post your favorite Sarah nicknames Saracuda, the Palinator.....and

Freepers, I humbly submit this night the first song parody I have ever had the courage to share on FR. Tonight Sarrahcuda impreseed the h3ll outta me. Like many of you other crusty big nard-nosed buys, when she spoke I cried. Clarity! Conviction! … and without apologetics! We have needed her for a long, long, time. but...