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McCain Tense in Iowa Newspaper Interview

By | 10.01.08 | 10:05 am

The Des Moines Register has posted several video clips of what appears to be, at times, a tense interview with Sen. John McCain conducted yesterday by the newspaper’s editorial board.

In one clip, McCain strongly rejects a questioner’s suggestion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is too experienced for the vice More…

Palin’s Geography Lesson

By | 09.25.08 | 4:35 pm

In her interview with Katie Couric, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin again points to her state’s proximity to Russia as evidence of her national security cred. She offers, “As Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. More…

“This is something new….”

By | 09.15.08 | 2:52 pm

Last week I wrote about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and how she has changed the model set by the late Clare Boothe Luce, who had set the standard that Republican women were held to for nearly three decades. But no longer. In the piece, I spoke about how Palin’s More…

Who Wants To Be An Investigative Reporter?

By | 09.08.08 | 7:14 pm

Via Politico’s Ben Smith. Have you ever wanted to try your hand at investigative reporting? If so, now’s your chance.

The city of Wasilla, Alaska, has posted online a collection of documents from Gov. Sarah Palin’s six-year stint as the town’s mayor, as well More…

Frontiersman v. Times of London

By | 09.08.08 | 5:45 pm

TALKEETNA, Alaska — Looks like a feud has kicked up between The Times of London and the local paper that covers Gov. Sarah Palin’s hometown, the Mat-Su Frontiersman.

Here’s the paragraph that started it in The Times:

[Wasilla is] a small, unkempt-looking place, defined by a series of

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Watchdog, Historians Declare Preemptive War on Cheney

By | 09.08.08 | 4:30 pm

As The Washington Post previewed this morning, Citizens for Responsibility for Ethics, a watchdog group, along with two historians and three historical organizations, filed a lawsuit in U.S. district court this afternoon against the office of Vice President Dick Cheney and Allen Weinstein, head of the National Archives. More…

Reflections on a Sunday at Palin’s Church

By | 09.08.08 | 9:42 am

WASILLA, Alaska — In my quest to understand Gov. Sarah Palin, I attended services at her church, the Wasilla Bible Church, Sunday morning. I ended up being shooed out of the parking lot — but I’ll get to that in a minute.

It felt a bit like a high-school More…

Mayor Palin: ‘Under God’ Stays

By | 09.05.08 | 7:02 pm

ANCHORAGE — We’re still going through documents from the time Sarah Palin served as mayor of her hometown, Wasilla, that I picked up from the clerk’s office on Tuesday. We’ve got about seven years worth of city council meeting minutes, agendas, resolutions and other related local government paperwork in all. More…

Palin to Talk To Voters, Not Media

By | 09.05.08 | 4:15 pm

Marc Ambinder reports that — surprise! — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is not going to be doing any media interviews in the near future:

A senior McCain campaign official advises that, despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin won’t submit to a formal interview

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Palin’s ‘Luxury’ Jet Didn’t Sell on eBay

By | 09.05.08 | 3:44 pm

ANCHORAGE — You would think after being here a week I would have learned my lesson. Always vet.

I didn’t check Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s claim in her acceptance speech for the GOP vice presidential nomination on Wednesday night that she had sold the governor’s “luxury” jet on eBay. More…