Former vice presidential candidate and governor of Alaska Sarah Palin has created a political action committee named — are you sitting down? — SarahPAC. On the Web site, which features some beautiful panoramas of Alaska’s snow-topped mountains and a kind of disturbing image of Palin who, by the look on her face, is up to [...]

Drinking to excess is what separates us from the Greeks. Being drunk is what separates us from the beasts. And what’s more, drinking makes me happy. Not drinking makes me unhappy. Which means if I do as I’m told by Gordon Brown, I’ll be sad all the time.
— Columnist Jeremy Clarkson, in the Times of [...]

Wildmon
Don Wildmon, the leader of the Mississippi-based, virulently anti-gay group, the American Family Assoc., joined Facebook recently, and has sent an email blast to his followers urging them to sign up so that they can use the social networking platform as an outlet for propagating hatred and intolerance of gay people.
“I have joined Facebook. [...]

The National Review’s Charlie Cook had a very interesting column today that gives a pretty good overview of where we are as a nation in relation to our new president. It’s worth a read:
John Edwards was right when he spoke about there being “two Americas.” The way Edwards framed it, there was an America of [...]

We’ve been impressed by the mastery of public policy, newshound-like familiarity with the events of the day, and remarkable facility with banter displayed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich … In all probability the governor will soon be unemployed … and frankly, he could use a good medical plan to defray the expenses of psychiatric care.
— WGN [...]

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s “Countdown” turns 50 today.

Before they left office, both George Bush and Dick Cheney defended their administration’s practice of torturing of suspects in terror cases. Bush characteristically attempted to deflect responsibility for what his operatives euphemistically called “interrogation techniques” on the grounds that a lawyer in his employ said the practices were legal.
“[Failure to prosecute Bush officicals] wouldn’t [...]

Florida Rep. Ray Sansom, center, has ’splainin’ to do
I haven’t wanted to bore you non-Floridians out there with the details of our House speaker’s misuse of power and conflicts of interest, but his case just got way less boring. Unless you consider being investigated by a grand jury and your fellow legislators dull.
A grand jury [...]

Is it time to sharpen the guillotines yet?
Beleaguered Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet – only this time, it’s the taxpayers who are getting screwed.
Even though the bank’s stock is as cheap as a gallon of gas and it’s burning through a $45 billion taxpayer-funded rescue, the [...]

I won.
— President Barack Obama, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, in response to Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on why he’s not including more Republican ideas in his economic stimulus plan.