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Bristol and Snooki nation: ‘Jersey Shore’ company plans politics reality TV show

By | 10.25.11 | 5:29 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

U.S. politics today features a speaker of the House with an orange tan and the kind of constant unoriginal and petty backbiting and betrayals that are the stock in trade of reality TV. Why pretend otherwise? Where some might see tragedy, the media company behind “Jersey Shore” sees opportunity. More…

Palin tells pregnant women in crises to ‘hang in there’ at Heroic Media fundraiser

By | 05.01.11 | 11:21 am

Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/AnyaLogic

UPDATE: May 3, 10:47 a.m. EST: This article was amended with a clarification, noted below.

Anti-abortion rights marketing group Heroic Media is expanding domestically and internationally, officials said Saturday during an “inaugural District of Columbia benefit dinner,” held in Bethesda, Md. – part of an effort to raise More…

Lunchtime Links

By | 07.30.10 | 12:16 pm

The House GOP voted down medical funding for 9/11 victims…

…and Rep. Anthony Weiner is still angry.

July was the deadliest month of the war in Afghanistan for the U.S.

People try to get really strange things through airport security.

The N.Y. More…

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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Lede of the Day

By | 05.01.09 | 12:43 pm

John Hawkins wins the Internet:

When I was in college, I studied Southern Long Fist Kung Fu for more than a year and my teacher told me something that I never forgot.

I’d like to think that the F. Scott Fitzgerald rip is intentional. Sadly, the rest of the More…

The Plot Against Sarah Palin

By | 04.11.09 | 10:53 am

RedState.com blogger Josh Painter asks whether Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin’s child, is being funded in his campaign of politically-inconvenient-to-Sarah Palin interviews by shadowy forces.

Ask yourself what we have to do here to follow the money. As Ron points out, if we can nail down the

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He’s heeeeeere!

By | 09.03.08 | 1:47 pm

Minneapolis–Moments ago, Sen. John McCain stepped off his Straight Talk flying Express here and was greeted by members of his own family and that of his running-mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The group included a soon-to be-Palin member, Levi Johnston, who was holding hands with his pregnant girlfriend, and soon-to-be More…

Ironically, Palin Opposes Sex-Ed

By | 09.01.08 | 3:56 pm

With the news that Bristol Palin, the unmarried 17-year-old daughter of Sen. John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, it’s difficult not to recognize the irony of the situation — Palin is an ardent opponent of sexual education programs in schools. FiveThirtyEight.com featured a very prescient More…

Palin’s Unmarried Daughter Pregnant

By | 09.01.08 | 12:58 pm

ANCHORAGE — Gov. Sarah Palin announced today that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and plans to marry the baby’s father, Politico reports. The couple plans to keep the baby.

The news clears up rumors that have been swirling on the Web — and in Anchorage bars — More…