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Tea Party Convention Marks Coming Out for a Movement

By | 02.08.10 | 6:00 am

NASHVILLE — In the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips didn’t do much talking to the media. The founder of Tea Party Nation, the chief organizer of the conference alongside his wife Shelley, was buffeted by attacks from Tea Party activists who accused him of More…

Alabama Politicians Gear Up for Tea Party Convention

By | 02.05.10 | 11:06 am

Some lawmakers have indicated they aren’t going to touch this weekend’s National Tea Party Convention with a ten-foot pole. Apparently, Alabamans don’t share that sentiment.

Alabama state Treasurer Kay Ivey and former state Chief Justice Roy Moore (both candidates for Alabama governor) announced they are heading to Nashville, More…

Sarah Palin Money? Yes, Please

By | 02.03.10 | 12:36 pm

Sarah Palin’s PAC, SarahPAC, has raised more than $2 million since its formation in Jan. 2009. So which lawmakers and candidates are benefiting from all that potential spending cash?

Well, here’s the list:

Reporters (Mostly) Barred From Tea Party Convention

By | 01.12.10 | 10:04 am

For a while, I’ve been calling and emailing the organizers of the National Tea Party Convention with some basic logistical questions, to no avail. Kevin Diaz explains why: the convention, held in Nashville next month, will be closed to all but “selected” members of the press.

Organizers say

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Bachmann to Join Palin at National Tea Party Convention

By | 11.25.09 | 10:00 am

The Minnesota Independent reports that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is scheduled to join previously announced headliner Sarah Palin at the National Tea Party Convention to be held Feb. 4-6  at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.

From The Minnesota Independent:

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‘The Approval Gap’

By | 11.24.09 | 9:44 am

Brian Frederick’s debunking of Andrew Malcolm’s claim that “the approval gap between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin is shrinking” is well done, although Malcolm’s much-linked argument has probably gotten too far around the Web to be really demolished. Frederick’s main point, however, is solid. Public figures More…

Palin Profiler Matt Continetti Gets Profiled

By | 11.19.09 | 11:57 am

The author of “The Persecution of Sarah Palin” gets a friendly profile in Doublethink, the in-house magazine of the libertarian America’s Future Foundation. (Disclosure: I’m a member and am speaking at an AFF event tonight.) If there’s a revelation, it’s that Palin’s biggest defender inside the beltway is More…

Does Sarah Palin Think the Apocalypse Is Nigh?

By | 11.18.09 | 10:50 am

Well-known Israel expert Sarah Palin criticizes President Obama’s criticism of Israeli settlement expansion (most recently over Gilo):

“I disagree with the Obama administration on that,” Palin told Walters. “I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is

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Piper Palin, Superstar

By | 11.18.09 | 8:45 am

In the opening pages of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin tells an anecdote about the Alaska State Fair that took me aback. Here’s the story:

Ahead, on my right, I saw the Alaska Right to Life (RTL) booth, where a poster caught my eye, taking my breath away. It featured the

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Sarah Palin Thanks Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh

By | 11.17.09 | 2:03 pm

In the acknowledgments of “Going Rogue,” Sarah Palin gives a hearty and extended thanks to conservative media figures, using only their first names.

To some media professionals whom I admire because you don’t let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up, please keep making the idiots’ heads spin.

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