L.A. Times - National News:
What the Republican vice presidential candidate would have said -- in victory or loss -- had she been allowed last year. A year ago Wednesday, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stood by while her Republican running mate, Sen. John McCain, deli (Read More)
Tennis | Sports News from TimesOnline:
Katie Couric, the American broadcaster who did so much expert work during the dismantling of Sarah Palin a year ago, has done a more sympathetic job on Andre Agassi and can reveal the reason that Agassi unloaded the “crystal meth” confessions in his new autobiography, serialised exclusively in The Times, was apparently not (Read More)
Valleywag:
This week was all about gun violence and terrible elections and Jay Leno. Nouriel Roubini likes to rock the party. JFK blown away, what else did Mad Men have to say about how crazy it was that things were different in the early '60s? We endorsed not voting for Mike Bloomberg and, to be fair, a majority of New Yorkers took (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
Look out Washington, Sarah Palin is coming.Palin will be the Republican speaker at the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club of journalists in Washington on Dec. 5.“The governor is very excited and was honored to accept the invitation,” said her spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton.The former Alaska governor, who rose to fame (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann took her paranoid campaign against the White House to new heights on Thursday, leading a mass protest inside the Capitol itself that led to multiple arrests. Antics like these have made her one of the breakout stars of the Republican Party in the Obama era, drawing praise from Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and e (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the Republican speaker at the Gridiron Club's Winter Dinner on Dec. 5, the club announced Friday.Gridiron Club President Dick Cooper told club members earlier this afternoon that Palin accepted an invitation to speak at the black-tie affair, according to a member of the club's executiv (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The only thing more frightening than being caught in an angry mob of health care protesters is revealing to that angry mob that you work for the Huffington Post. On Thursday, I ventured down to Capital Hill with a professional death wish. I was going to mingle with a group of tea partiers to get a sense of what, exactly, ke (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is set to deliver remarks at a Wisconsin Right to Life event Friday evening, one of the few speeches the former Republican presidential nominee will have given since she resigned the governorship last summer.But Palin appears to be doing her best to keep a low profile on this trip: no press wi (Read More)
Huffington Post:
This week, I was celebrating the anniversary of President Obama's defeat of Sarah Palin and some old ghuy whose name slips my mind (and his), by taking a listen to my old, old friend (I mean it, he's old!) Will Wixon's Obama victory song, Yes We Can, when I had to turn away from lovely thoughts and return for an hour to Sam (Read More)
Times Online:
Remember when William Shatner set Sarah Palin’s tweets to music?
Well he’s back. And he’s turned his talents to Alaska’s other literary giant - Palin's own nemesis and almost-son-in-law Levi Johnston.Best line? "You know you're a celebrity when strangers want to see your penis". Somebody get this boy some help. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
When word broke that self-described moderate Republican Mark Kirk was angling for kind words from Sarah Palin for his U.S. Senate bid, the response from his rivals was savage and uniform.All three leading Democrats, as well as Kirk's Republican challenger, accused him of inconsistency, a criticism that has nagged Kirk ever (Read More)
Huffington Post:
In political news, former Republican Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin has hit it rich again in the book world. Despite the November 17th release of "Going Rogue: An American Life" -- her tell-all book about her political rise -- Palin has already decided to "write" her even newer tell-all book wh (Read More)
Valleywag:
It's been quite a day for Levi Johnston. First Page Six speculated about the size of his wang, and now he is furious with NBC over a skit Conan and William Shatner did based on his fake Twitter account. First of all, Levi doesn't seem like the kind of guy who isn't in on his own joke. We're surprised that he didn't go on Th (Read More)
Valleywag:
Earlier today, author Greg Beato posted a fascinating story on his site Soundbitten disclosing the links-for-pay arrangement that the Drudge Report's sometime deputy Andrew Breitbart struck with Reuters. We wrote about it earlier, but Beato's allowed us to reprint it. For years, Andrew Breitbart, second-in-command at the Dr (Read More)