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Will Palin’s Endorsement Change The Odds in Delaware?

By | 09.10.10 | 9:31 am

On late Tuesday, a Sarah Palin “retweet” with favorable words for Delaware GOP Senate primary candidate Christine O’Donnell provoked a controversy: was a retweet the same as a tweet? More importantly, did it count as an endorsement? O’Donnell, for her part, stayed coy: “No, that’s a retweet. That’s a, More…

Palin Facebook Nod Upends Georgia Race in a Heartbeat

By | 07.15.10 | 2:13 pm

Another Facebook endorsement from Palin, another race turned on its head. This time it’s the Republican primary race for governor in Georgia, where state insurance commissioner John Oxendine had been maintaining a decent lead over a crowded field. But no longer. Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel, the More…

#GenPetraeusBlogger

By | 06.21.10 | 4:24 pm

U.S. Central Command’s website launches a new blog — woo, let’s party like it’s 2005* – complete with an introductory post penned by its commanding general, David Petraeus. It’s a straight-forward welcome-to-the-blog here’s-what-t0-expect post, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But now that the general is contesting my battlespace, I More…

Who Is Sarah Palin’s Pick for Alaska’s Contested Senate Seat?

By | 06.02.10 | 3:06 pm

Not sitting Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), as Palin made clear in a Facebook message to her supporters this morning that began: “Contested primaries are so good for America’s political process! Competition makes everyone work harder, be more efficient, debate clearer [sic], and produce more.”

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Sarah Palin: Newspapers That I Won’t Talk to Won’t Let Me Talk to Them

By | 03.03.10 | 10:49 am

Dave Itzkoff ribs Sarah Palin, in perfect New York Times style, for a strange complaint made on the program formerly known as The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien. Palin’s version of her criticism of “Family Guy,” which recently featured a Down Syndrome actress doing the voice for a Down More…

‘Keep Doing What Your Doing Man’

By | 01.27.10 | 11:52 am

What’s happening on James O’Keefe’s Facebook wall? Almost exactly what you’d expect.

Just Your Typical Facebook Interaction Between GTMO Guards and Ex-Detainees

By | 01.12.10 | 9:22 am

They friend each other!

Mr. Neely, an Army veteran who spent six months at the prison in 2002, sent messages to one of the freed men, Shafiq Rasul, and was astonished when Mr. Rasul replied. Their exchanges sparked a face-to-face meeting, arranged by the

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White House Dinner Crashers May Face Criminal Charges

By | 11.30.09 | 9:07 am

Even as Michaele and Tareq Salahi try to sell their story to the highest media bidder, it looks like America’s most successful party crashers may get more than the money and reality show they were after. CBS reports they may soon be facing criminal charges. Secret More…

Quote of the Day

By | 11.17.09 | 9:05 am

It’s early, but it’s got to be this from Sarah Palin’s Facebook reaction to Newsweek’s cover, which uses a photo of her clad in workout duds from her Runners World photo shoot:

If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn’t judge a book by its

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The War on Joseph Cao

By | 11.09.09 | 8:42 am

Moments after Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) voted for the Democratic health care bill, countless anti-Cao Twitter feeds, Web forums, and Facebook pages were born. Here’s a sampling of comments from “Bye Bye Joseph Cao,” a group that, according to Facebook, five of my friends had joined.