Last year, I flew to the fishing village of Dillingham, Alaska for a story on Sarah Palin. This week, Senator Ted Stevens died in a plane wreck at near the same remote town. Some thoughts on flying in Alaska and, particularly, to the fishing village of Dillingham.
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Sarah Palin Stops By The “Worst Governor Ever” Sign
In the new issue of Vanity Fair, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer is quoted making the following observation: “What they teach you on the first day of press-secretary school is to worry about blowing something up by giving attention to it. … ‘Don’t blow something up.’” He goes on to explain that those rules no …
Health Care Reform Sentiment – Beyond Missouri
Today, Republicans are celebrating the fact that Missouri voters just overwhelmingly approved a state anti-health reform ballot initiative. The measure, which says Missouri residents can’t be required to maintain health insurance, is largely symbolic since federal law trumps state law. There was almost no organized opposition to the …
Re: Palin’s Haul
I was definitely among the skeptics Jay mentions when it came to the prospects of a Palin presidential run in 2012. Since she stepped down from the governorship last year, she had taken few concrete steps in that direction. Showing interest in a TV career is a pretty strong indication that a politician has ambitions that don’t include …
Palin’s Haul
Washington is expressing collective shock – shock, I tell you – this morning over Sarah Palin’s second quarter 2010 FEC report. Might she be running for president in 2012??
I’ve always through Palin would run – though it flies in the face of the MSM group think inside the Beltway. How could she run without the staff? The …
Palin’s New Video
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I believe Alex will have more to say about this later but here’s Sarah Palin’s newest web video. Her words are mostly excerpted from a speech she gave to the pro-life group, the Susan B. Anthony List. She talks about her “Mama Grizzlies” and “Pink Elephants” stampeding into …
Palin’s Busy Year
It’s hard to believe that a year ago I was watching a photographer shoot Sarah Palin on her dock in front of her Wasilla home for our cover story on her. And given the weather today — it’s 100+ degrees in Washington — a pleasant Alaska summer is looking pretty nice right now. TIME’s Feifei Sun has a look at Palin’s eventful year. An …
Re: Sarah Palin’s “Stalker”
Todd is one handy man. After Sarah Palin discovered that author Joe McGinniss, who’s writing a book about her, moved in next door to the family’s lakefront home in Alaska, the former VP candidate promised that the former First Dude and his pals would build a huge fence between the properties. Missions accomplished, according to a picture …
Today In Blogfights: Will Sarah Palin Run?
There are some delicious contretemps going on over at Atlantic.com, home of the mega-watt blogger. Joshua Green doesn’t think Palin will run for president. Andrew Sullivan does. But that’s not all. Sullivan accuses Green of dangerous complacency, and willful myopia.
[W]here the f— have you been this past year?
It doesn’t matter
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President Obama Set To Meet With Billy Graham Sunday (UPDATED)
Michael Duffy and I file this report:
WASHINGTON–Famed evangelist Billy Graham has met and known 11 US Presidents.
Today he will meet his 12th.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to pay a call on the 91 year old preacher today as part of a brief vacation the President is taking with his family in the hills of western North …
Sarah Palin Snaps Back At President Obama’s Nuclear Dis
In Prague, President Obama declined to engage Sarah Palin’s schoolyard taunt (literally) of his new nuclear policy. Here is the transcript from ABC News:
QUESTION: Sarah Palin, taking aim at your decision to restrict the use of nuclear weapons. Your pledge not to strike nations, non-nuclear nations, who abide by the nonproliferation
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Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin Stump Together, The Political Universe Quivers
To hear the chatter, this is big, like The Beatles partying with The Rolling Stones, or Prince sharing a stage with Michael Jackson, or Elvis doing a surfer movie with Frank Sinatra. The two alpha women of conservative politics, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, will share the same stage in Minnesota Wednesday for a rally, with a private …
Deja Vu
If you happened to have turned on C-SPAN in the last half hour you may have noticed the Senate was full of senators but no vote going on. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid convened the upper chamber to try and get consensus on how to proceed after Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, objected to proceeding to a one-month extension …