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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…

Palin to Wasilla Librarian: Are You OK With Censorship?

By | 09.03.08 | 5:00 am

ANCHORAGE — Tuesday afternoon, the Mat-Su Frontiersman, in Wasilla, hosted me in their offices so I could dig through their print archives to get a sense of Gov. Sarah Palin’s tenure as mayor there.

I photocopied one story, from December 1996, about Palin’s run-in with Wasilla’s director of libraries, More…

GOP, Lobbyists Party With ‘Hookers and Blow’

By | 09.02.08 | 5:48 pm

In case you missed it…some things are just too good not to mention.

ABC reported that while New Orleans braced for Hurricane Gustav to make landfall, Republican politicians and delegates in the Twin Cities for the GOP national convention attended a party Saturday night, thrown by the National Rifle Assn., More…

Gustav and the RNC

By | 09.01.08 | 3:52 pm

President George W. Bush is saying that the emergency response to Hurricane Gustav is far better than the response to Katrina in 2005. The president canceled his plans to attend the Republican National Convention today in order to fly to Texas and oversee emergency response efforts to Gustav. More…