For all her histrionics about not accepting stimulus money, guess whose state got the most, per capita? According to a fascinating resource, Alaska is receiving $1,024.28 for each of its 686,293 Alaskans.
California is (obviously) getting the largest total amount: a whopping $15,719,496,704 to be exact. But that only breaks down to $427.66 for each [...]

On his Air America show last Thursday, Thom Hartmann said he’d heard scuttlebutt suggesting that there’s more to Sarah Palin’s abrupt announcement that she would not be speaking at the Reagan library in Simi Valley, Calif., on Aug. 8, than has been reported.
The idea that Nancy sees Palin as responsible for the ugly turn the [...]

William Shatner makes sense of the hot mess that is Sarah Palin’s mind.

Don’t let it hit you in the ass, Sarah.
Bad news for Sarah Palin, just as Alaska prepares to celebrate its pending independence from Gov. Beauty Queen, who, after Sunday, will be Ex-Gov. Beauty Queen. “Screen door” parties begin as soon as today, with microbrewed “Bailin’ Palin Fail Ale” on tap. As our colleagues at Mudflats [...]

In the Bush era, Republicans demonstrated their collective poor judgment by twice electing as president a bellicose, proudly incurious, anti-intellectual ideologue. A poll out yesterday suggests that they learned nothing from that disaster, and are ready to do it again.
Less than a week after Sarah Palin — who has all of George Bush’s intellectual [...]

You know, politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it.
— Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in an interview on ABC News.

In Sarah Palin’s bizarre, rambling statement on Friday announcing that she was quitting her job as governor of Alaska, she claimed that a series of investigations into ethics charges filed against her and her staff had been too costly to state taxpayers and to herself personally:
The Juneau Empire reported that the most expensive investigation by [...]

It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one wondering how Sarah Palin can think resigning her office proves she’s fit for a higher one. On twitter, Mother Jones’ David Corn is dishing out some great stuff.
David Corn: Palin is quitting her way to the top.

Remember all those GOP pundits & commentators who praised [...]

Pundits have been filling the airwaves over the past week speculating about if and when South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the latest family values-touting Republican to admit to adultery, might be forced to resign. Some pundits even suggested he might resign over the July Fourth holiday weekend.
The holiday has come and the resignation of a [...]

Statement: ‘NOW hopes that all the conservatives who are fired up about sexism in the media lately will join us in calling out sexism when it is directed at women who aren’t professed conservatives’
Poor David Letterman. He’s finding out the hard way that going up against Sarah Palin can be a very, very unpleasant experience. [...]