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Sarah Palin'/><category term='hop-and-drop anchor baby'/><category term='Antichrist'/><category term='videos'/><category term='music'/><category term='shariah'/><category term='birth certificate'/><category term='marine'/><category term='qur&apos;an'/><category term='robert spencer'/><category term='joan swirsky'/><category term='Bill Warner'/><category term='fifth column'/><category term='patriot'/><category term='pro-Constitution birthers'/><category term='che guevara'/><category term='Art Telles'/><category term='Rush Limbaugh'/><category term='Lou Pritchett'/><category term='communerd'/><category term='Pray'/><category term='american daughter'/><category term='you scare me'/><category term='white people'/><category term='Patrick Henry'/><category term='mahmoud ahmadinejad'/><category term='revolution'/><category term='nazi'/><category term='naturally'/><category term='frontpage mag'/><category term='Bob Dylan'/><category term='12 Rules For Radicals'/><category term='Sarah Palin'/><title type='text'>Sarah Palin Today</title><subtitle type='html'>ARTICLES, SPEECHES, AUDIOS, VIDEOS -- TO PROMOTE FROM A HUMAN INTEREST PERSPECTIVE&lt;br&gt; THE PERSONAL, FAMILY, POLITICAL INTERESTS OF A UNIQUE AMERICAN ORIGINAL WITH A 'SERVANT'S HEART'&lt;br&gt; AN INSPIRING LADY / WIFE / MOM ... THIS IS SARAH PALIN TODAY</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Art Telles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/S4neqJ4J-sI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Nn443AI4X8M/S220/WakeUpAmerica-small.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983582508948076300.post-3221038295526181968</id><published>2010-01-01T00:00:00.021-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T18:54:31.162-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sarah Palin Today'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sarah Palin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gov. Sarah Palin'/><title type='text'>Sarah Palin Today</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SuhS1D9vBEI/AAAAAAAAAUY/OG6hzZm9W3Y/s1600-h/sarah-palin045reagan.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="74" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SuhS1D9vBEI/AAAAAAAAAUY/OG6hzZm9W3Y/s640/sarah-palin045reagan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Sarah Palin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2000/01/sarah-knows.html" linkindex="75" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Unique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2000/01/sarah-knows.html" linkindex="76" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;"&gt; American &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Original&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/TCK59SrGT7I/AAAAAAAAAaY/V60nOJfcZj8/s1600/sarah-palin-prayin-flag.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="77" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/TCK59SrGT7I/AAAAAAAAAaY/V60nOJfcZj8/s400/sarah-palin-prayin-flag.jpg" width="282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" style="height: 66px; width: 800px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sarah Palin's Influence In Perspective &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;When she speaks, people listen&lt;br /&gt;When she doesn't speak, people wait for her to do so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No other political leader has this power&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2000/01/sarah-knows.html" linkindex="78" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Everybody Knows 'Sarah'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nobody&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt; says... '&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarah who&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;'?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarah-palin-videos.html" linkindex="79" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Sarah Palin (and Family) Videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Happy 21st Wedding Anniversary Todd and Sarah (August 29, 1988)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Todd and Sarah are an amazing role model couple&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Vice Presidential Candidate Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) -C-SPAN&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- 2006 Alaska Gubernatorial Debate - Sarah at the debate table with the men&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Women in American Politics -  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Henderson, Nevada October 21, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin's climb to the top of the GOP - 3m 57s&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Redneck Woman -theme song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;Sarah Palin Web Brigade&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- America, I Hear You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;When In The Course Of Human Events&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;Sarah Palin - Our Modern Day Esther - Raised Up "For Such a Time As This" (Esther 4:14)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;-&amp;gt; &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarah-palin-facebook-notes-january-2010.html" linkindex="80"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Sarah Palin Articles, Op-Eds, Speeches, Facebook Notes - January 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin - &lt;a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/02/column-why-im-speaking-at-tea-party-convention-.html" linkindex="81"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Why I'm Speaking At Tea Party Convention&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - USA Today - February 2, 2010&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/why-jews-hate-palin-15323" linkindex="82"&gt;&lt;b style="color: blue;"&gt;Why Jews Hate Palin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Jeffifer Rubin &lt;i&gt;CommentaryMagazine.com&lt;/i&gt; January 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/sarah-palins-gridiron-speech.html" linkindex="83"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin's &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Gridiron Speech&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Saturday, December 5, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/sarah-palin-drill-here-drill-now-yes-we.html" linkindex="84"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;National Review Online - Drill Here, Drill Now... Yes We Can - October 16, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-and-bureaucratization-of-health.html" linkindex="85"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Wall Street Journal - September 8, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/palin-on-ahmadinejad-he-must-be-stopped.html" linkindex="86"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin on Ahmadinejad - 'He Must Be Stopped' - September 22, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/governor-sarah-palin-transfers-power.html" linkindex="87" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Governor Palin's Resignation Speech - July 26, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;-&amp;gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarah-palin-facebook-notes-after-july.html" linkindex="88" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Sarah Palin Facebook Notes &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;After&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; July 26, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through - December 13, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SyHKe9X26oI/AAAAAAAAAW0/FnX5ed5y2sw/s1600-h/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-home-Alaska.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="89" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SyHKe9X26oI/AAAAAAAAAW0/FnX5ed5y2sw/s640/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-home-Alaska.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through - December 11, 2009 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2836265&amp;amp;op=1&amp;amp;view=all&amp;amp;subj=177508213434&amp;amp;aid=-1&amp;amp;auser=0&amp;amp;oid=177508213434&amp;amp;id=24718773587" linkindex="90"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class=" " onload="var img = this; onloadRegister(function() { adjustImage(img); });" src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs051.snc3/13832_184226353587_24718773587_2836265_2552295_n.jpg" style="width: 460px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through Thanksgiving - November 9, 2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SvkNne6-L8I/AAAAAAAAAVs/ElaWf6N3Vjo/s1600-h/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-Book-Tour-2009.jpg" imageanchor="1" linkindex="91" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SvkNne6-L8I/AAAAAAAAAVs/ElaWf6N3Vjo/s640/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-Book-Tour-2009.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;b style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Worthy American Heroes&lt;/b&gt; - Reminding Us What Really Matters - November 3, 2009 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Another source (&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;with music&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;) for Sarah's quote that her brother passed on to her: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://oldbluejacket.com/americanwarrior.htm" linkindex="92" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://OldBlueJacket.com/AmericanWarrior.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See also &lt;a href="http://apathetic-usa.com/" linkindex="93"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Apathetic-Usa.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://oldbluejacket.com/americanwarrior.htm" linkindex="94" style="color: blue;"&gt;Who Is This American Warrior&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father’s, but he has never collected unemployment either. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;[&lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;See the &lt;b&gt;Facebook&lt;/b&gt; post or the &lt;b&gt;video link&lt;/b&gt; for the entire and very long quote&lt;/i&gt;]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Merry Christmas! - December 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel - December 22,2009&lt;br /&gt;- My Letter to the Washington Post - December 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy Hanukkah - December 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Greener Than Thou? - December 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Photos from the Conan O'Brien Tonight Show - December 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- More Photos from the Tour - December 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Home to Alaska - December10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Laura Ingraham’s Auction to Benefit Our Military - December 10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Washington Post Op-ed Response to Climate Change and Gravity - December 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Drill, Baby, Drill... Even Off-Shore - December 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Reflection on Pearl Harbor - December 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Worthy American Heroes - Reminding Us What Really Matters - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Stupid Conspiracies - November 3, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Mr. President: Boycott Copenhagen; Investigate Your Climate Change "Experts" - &lt;br /&gt;December 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- The Ethos of Ethics (ethics charges dropped)- December 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Faith, Family, Freedom: Remembering What Really Matters - December 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Finally, A Decision for Afghanistan: We're In It to Win It - December 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Media's Priorities Shine Bright, Again! :) - December 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- If We're In It, Let's Win It (Afghanstan) - November 29, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy Thanksgiving - November 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Congress Never Ceases to Amaze - November 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- More "Going Rogue" Book Tour Photos - November 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- US Troops Must be Second to None (Billy Graham pictures) - November 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- In the Midnight Hour (Senate vote) - November 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Not Enough Hours in the Day (thanks to book tour friends) - November 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Cancer Screenings - Rational Advice or Rationed Care? - November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Going Rogue Tour! (1st 3 stops) - November 18, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Sean Hannity &amp;amp; Mark Levin (YouTube links) - November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Go Rogue With the Rest of Us! (2nd half of book tour)- November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Hannity - November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Rush Limbaugh Interview (with YouTube links) - November 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- 1,000,000 on Facebook - November 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Multi-Part Interview with Barbara Walters - November 16, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Newsweek - November 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Really? Still Making Things Up? - November 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Obama Administration's Atrocious Decision - November 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Recommended by Sarah - &lt;a href="http://www.thebravest.com/neverforget" linkindex="95"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.thebravest.com/neverforget&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;- Keep Your Powder Dry - November 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Thank you, Washington, for Requesting a Demonstrably Good Idea - November 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Pelosi "Health Plan" Should Be DOA - November 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Oprah on November 16th - November 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Coin Controversy? - November 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- In Honor of Those Who Sacrificed for Our Freedom - November 10-2009&lt;br /&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through Thanksgiving - November 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Commemorating Freedom (20 Years... Berlin Wall... Ronald Reagan... - November 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming - November 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Great Wisconsin Event (And Setting the Record Straight, Again) - November 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Speaker Pelosi: Your Blue Dogs are Howling - November 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- On the Tragic Shooting Today at Ft. Hood - November 5, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A Victory for Common Sense and Fiscal Sanity - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Road Trip! Book Tour Announcement - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- It’s Imperative That We Exercise Our Right To Vote Today - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Response to Vice President Biden's Comments Today About My Position On Energy Independence - November 2, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- NJ’s Governor’s Race: Candidate Plays Loose With Facts? - November 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A Time to Unite - October 31, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A health care reform plan that will prove to be the game changer - October 30, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Support Doug Hoffman - October 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy Alaska Day! (and... Happy Birthday Bristol Palin) - October 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Good Intentions Aren't Enough with Health Care Reform - October 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Drill Here, Drill Now - National Review Online - October 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Birthday Wishes to Margaret Thatcher - October 13-2009&lt;br /&gt;- Further Proof of the Need for Energy Independence - October 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- We Must Win In Afghanistan - October 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Best Wishes for the Jewish High Holidays - September 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Click here for the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/10/gov-sarah-palins-hong-kong-speech.html" linkindex="96"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Hong Kong Speech&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - September 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Constitution Day - September 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Remembering 9/11: We Are Americans - September 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Ride2Recovery Charity Auction - September 10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Response to the President's Health Care Speech - September 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Response to the White House - September 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Written Testimony Submitted to New York State Senate Aging Committee - September 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Shame on&amp;nbsp; Associated Press for Ignoring Wishes of a Grieving Family - September 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- An Invitation by Glenn Beck - August 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- On the Passing of Senator Ted Kennedy - August 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- No Health Care Reform Without Legal Reform - August 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work: First Cars, Now Foreign Oil - August 19, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Troubling Questions Remain About Obama's Health Care Plan - August 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Concerning the "Death Panels" - August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Palin Reduced Medicaid Backlog 83% In Two Years - August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Our Condolences on the Passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver - August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- The Heritage Foundation: The Economic Consequences of Waxman-Markey - August 10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A Message to Alaskans about the Stimulus Veto and the Health Care Town Halls - August 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- 2 Articles of Interest - August 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- 16 Articles - Commentary on the Health Care Debate - August 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- The 1st &lt;b style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;'Death Panel'&lt;/b&gt; Statement on the Current Health Care Debate - August 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Text of Governor Palin's Farewell Address Sunday, July 26, 2009 - July 27, 2009&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;-&amp;gt; &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/02/sarah-palin-facebook-notes.html" linkindex="97" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Sarah Palin Facebook Notes &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Before&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/span&gt;July 26, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;-Text of Governor Palin's Farewell Address Sunday, July 26, 2009 - July 27, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Another Ethics Complaint Dismissed - July 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Kristan Cole, Trustee, The Alaska Fund Trust - July 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement from Sarah Palin on Legal Fund News Report - July 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement Regarding Latest Frivolous Ethics Complaint - July 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Great IBD Editorial Regarding My "Cap and Tax" Article - July 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Washington Post Op-ed: The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End - July 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy 4th of July from Alaska! - July 4,2009&lt;br /&gt;- Palin Announces No Second Term - July 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement on the desecration of photo of Governor Palin and baby Trig - June 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin's Reaction regarding David Letterman's Apology - June 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- GOP Serious About Good Policy? How About Sarah Palin? (author unknown) - June 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement from Governor Palin on shooting at National Holocaust Museum - June 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement re: David Letterman from Meghan Stapleton, Palin spokesperson - June 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Concerning Letterman's comments about my young daughter - June 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Energy Department Reveals Strings Attached, Asks States to Comment - June 5, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Statement on William Long - June 2, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Statement on George Tiller - June 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Maintains Stance on Stimulus Funds - May 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Signs Budget Bills - May 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Statement on attacks against Miss California Carrie Prejean - May 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Welcomes House Energy Committee Proposal - April 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Stresses Need for Strong Missile Defense Capability - April 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Accepts Half of Stimulus Package Funds - March 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Continues Earmark Reform - March 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement from SarahPAC on Governor Palin's selection of Judge Christen - March 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Christen Named to Alaska Supreme Court - March 5, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Gov. Palin Pushes Parental Consent Legislation - March 4, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Gov. Palin Transmits Two Bills on In-State Gas February 27, 09, Juneau, Alaska – March 4, 09&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin, Lt. Governor Parnell to Travel to Western Alaska - February 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Expresses Concerns with President’s Stimulus Package - February 3, 2009, February 4, 2009&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/pray-for-sarah-palin.html" linkindex="98" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;PrayForSarahPalin.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- More &lt;a href="http://patricksworld.webs.com/sarahpalin.htm" linkindex="99"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin at Patrick's World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/10/sarah-palin-fanatical-islam.html" linkindex="100"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin: Fanatical Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (comment re: Gov. Palin's Hong Kong speech September 23, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/10/gov-palins-perspective-about.html" linkindex="101"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Gov. Palin's Perspective About Supremacist Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (comment re: Hong Kong speech)&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin and &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/11/sarah-palin-and-emotion-opinion-vs-fact.html" linkindex="102"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Emotion Opinion vs. Fact Opinion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/sarah-palin-has-mindset-of-winner-next.html" linkindex="103"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin has the Mindset of a Winner... NEXT!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;_________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6983582508948076300-3221038295526181968?l=sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/feeds/3221038295526181968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2010/01/sarah-palin-today.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/3221038295526181968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/3221038295526181968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2010/01/sarah-palin-today.html' title='Sarah Palin Today'/><author><name>Art Telles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/S4neqJ4J-sI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Nn443AI4X8M/S220/WakeUpAmerica-small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SuhS1D9vBEI/AAAAAAAAAUY/OG6hzZm9W3Y/s72-c/sarah-palin045reagan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983582508948076300.post-1814335048475013398</id><published>2009-09-01T00:00:00.096-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T20:07:39.715-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unique American original'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sarah Palin'/><title type='text'>Sarah Palin: Unique American Original</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SuhS1D9vBEI/AAAAAAAAAUY/OG6hzZm9W3Y/s1600-h/sarah-palin045reagan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SuhS1D9vBEI/AAAAAAAAAUY/OG6hzZm9W3Y/s640/sarah-palin045reagan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Sarah Palin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2000/01/sarah-knows.html" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Unique&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2000/01/sarah-knows.html" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;"&gt; American &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Original&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0000ee;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" style="height: 66px; width: 653px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sarah Palin's Influence In Perspective &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;When she speaks, people listen&lt;br /&gt;When she doesn't speak, people wait for her to do so&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;No other political leader has this power&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2000/01/sarah-knows.html" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Everybody Knows 'Sarah'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nobody&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt; says... '&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sarah who&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;'?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarah-palin-videos.html" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Sarah Palin (and Family) Videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Happy 21st Wedding Anniversary Todd and Sarah (August 29, 1988)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Todd and Sarah are an amazing role model couple&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Vice Presidential Candidate Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) -C-SPAN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- 2006 Alaska Gubernatorial Debate - Sarah at the debate table with the men&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Women in American Politics -  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Henderson, Nevada October 21, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin's climb to the top of the GOP - 3m 57s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;Redneck Woman -theme song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;Sarah Palin Web Brigade&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- America, I Hear You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;When In The Course Of Human Events&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;Sarah Palin - Our Modern Day Esther - Raised Up "For Such a Time As This" (Esther 4:14)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2010/01/sarah-palin-facebook-notes-january-2010.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Sarah Palin Facebook Notes January 2010&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarah-palin-facebook-notes-after-july.html" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Sarah Palin Facebook Notes &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;After&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt; July 26, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through - December 13, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SyHKe9X26oI/AAAAAAAAAW0/FnX5ed5y2sw/s1600-h/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-home-Alaska.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SyHKe9X26oI/AAAAAAAAAW0/FnX5ed5y2sw/s640/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-home-Alaska.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through - December 11, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2836265&amp;amp;op=1&amp;amp;view=all&amp;amp;subj=177508213434&amp;amp;aid=-1&amp;amp;auser=0&amp;amp;oid=177508213434&amp;amp;id=24718773587"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class=" " onload="var img = this; onloadRegister(function() { adjustImage(img); });" src="http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs051.snc3/13832_184226353587_24718773587_2836265_2552295_n.jpg" style="width: 460px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through Thanksgiving - November 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SvkNne6-L8I/AAAAAAAAAVs/ElaWf6N3Vjo/s1600-h/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-Book-Tour-2009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SvkNne6-L8I/AAAAAAAAAVs/ElaWf6N3Vjo/s640/sarah-palin-Going-Rogue-Book-Tour-2009.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;b style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Worthy American Heroes&lt;/b&gt; - Reminding Us What Really Matters - November 3, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Another source (&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;with music&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/b&gt;) for Sarah's quote that her brother passed on to her: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://oldbluejacket.com/americanwarrior.htm" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://OldBlueJacket.com/AmericanWarrior.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See also &lt;a href="http://apathetic-usa.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Apathetic-Usa.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://oldbluejacket.com/americanwarrior.htm" style="color: blue;"&gt;Who Is This American Warrior&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father’s, but he has never collected unemployment either. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;[&lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;See the &lt;b&gt;Facebook&lt;/b&gt; post or the &lt;b&gt;video link&lt;/b&gt; for the entire and very long quote&lt;/i&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Merry Christmas! - December 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel - December 22,2009&lt;br /&gt;- My Letter to the Washington Post - December 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy Hanukkah - December 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Greener Than Thou? - December 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Photos from the Conan O'Brien Tonight Show - December 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- More Photos from the Tour - December 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Home to Alaska - December10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Laura Ingraham’s Auction to Benefit Our Military - December 10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Washington Post Op-ed Response to Climate Change and Gravity - December 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Drill, Baby, Drill... Even Off-Shore - December 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Reflection on Pearl Harbor - December 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Worthy American Heroes - Reminding Us What Really Matters - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Stupid Conspiracies - November 3, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Mr. President: Boycott Copenhagen; Investigate Your Climate Change "Experts" - &lt;br /&gt;December 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- The Ethos of Ethics (ethics charges dropped)- December 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Faith, Family, Freedom: Remembering What Really Matters - December 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Finally, A Decision for Afghanistan: We're In It to Win It - December 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Media's Priorities Shine Bright, Again! :) - December 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- If We're In It, Let's Win It (Afghanstan) - November 29, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy Thanksgiving - November 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Congress Never Ceases to Amaze - November 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- More "Going Rogue" Book Tour Photos - November 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- US Troops Must be Second to None (Billy Graham pictures) - November 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- In the Midnight Hour (Senate vote) - November 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Not Enough Hours in the Day (thanks to book tour friends) - November 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Cancer Screenings - Rational Advice or Rationed Care? - November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Going Rogue Tour! (1st 3 stops) - November 18, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Sean Hannity &amp;amp; Mark Levin (YouTube links) - November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Go Rogue With the Rest of Us! (2nd half of book tour)- November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Hannity - November 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Rush Limbaugh Interview (with YouTube links) - November 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- 1,000,000 on Facebook - November 17, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Multi-Part Interview with Barbara Walters - November 16, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;- Newsweek - November 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Really? Still Making Things Up? - November 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Obama Administration's Atrocious Decision - November 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Recommended by Sarah - &lt;a href="http://www.thebravest.com/neverforget"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.thebravest.com/neverforget&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- Keep Your Powder Dry - November 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Thank you, Washington, for Requesting a Demonstrably Good Idea - November 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Pelosi "Health Plan" Should Be DOA - November 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Oprah on November 16th - November 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Coin Controversy? - November 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- In Honor of Those Who Sacrificed for Our Freedom - November 10-2009&lt;br /&gt;- "Going Rogue" Book Tour Dates Through Thanksgiving - November 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Commemorating Freedom (20 Years... Berlin Wall... Ronald Reagan... - November 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming - November 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Great Wisconsin Event (And Setting the Record Straight, Again) - November 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Speaker Pelosi: Your Blue Dogs are Howling - November 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- On the Tragic Shooting Today at Ft. Hood - November 5, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A Victory for Common Sense and Fiscal Sanity - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Road Trip! Book Tour Announcement - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- It’s Imperative That We Exercise Our Right To Vote Today - November 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Response to Vice President Biden's Comments Today About My Position On Energy Independence - November 2, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- NJ’s Governor’s Race: Candidate Plays Loose With Facts? - November 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A Time to Unite - October 31, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A health care reform plan that will prove to be the game changer - October 30, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Support Doug Hoffman - October 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy Alaska Day! (and... Happy Birthday Bristol Palin) - October 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Good Intentions Aren't Enough with Health Care Reform - October 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Drill Here, Drill Now - National Review Online - October 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Birthday Wishes to Margaret Thatcher - October 13-2009&lt;br /&gt;- Further Proof of the Need for Energy Independence - October 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- We Must Win In Afghanistan - October 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Best Wishes for the Jewish High Holidays - September 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Click here for the &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/10/gov-sarah-palins-hong-kong-speech.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Hong Kong Speech&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - September 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Constitution Day - September 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Remembering 9/11: We Are Americans - September 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Ride2Recovery Charity Auction - September 10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Response to the President's Health Care Speech - September 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Response to the White House - September 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Written Testimony Submitted to New York State Senate Aging Committee - September 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Shame on&amp;nbsp; Associated Press for Ignoring Wishes of a Grieving Family - September 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- An Invitation by Glenn Beck - August 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- On the Passing of Senator Ted Kennedy - August 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- No Health Care Reform Without Legal Reform - August 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work: First Cars, Now Foreign Oil - August 19, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Troubling Questions Remain About Obama's Health Care Plan - August 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Concerning the "Death Panels" - August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Palin Reduced Medicaid Backlog 83% In Two Years - August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Our Condolences on the Passing of Eunice Kennedy Shriver - August 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- The Heritage Foundation: The Economic Consequences of Waxman-Markey - August 10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- A Message to Alaskans about the Stimulus Veto and the Health Care Town Halls - August 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- 2 Articles of Interest - August 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- 16 Articles - Commentary on the Health Care Debate - August 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- The 1st &lt;b style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;'Death Panel'&lt;/b&gt; Statement on the Current Health Care Debate - August 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Text of Governor Palin's Farewell Address Sunday, July 26, 2009 - July 27, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;- &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/02/sarah-palin-facebook-notes.html" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Sarah Palin Facebook Notes &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Before&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/span&gt;July 26, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;-Text of Governor Palin's Farewell Address Sunday, July 26, 2009 - July 27, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Another Ethics Complaint Dismissed - July 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Kristan Cole, Trustee, The Alaska Fund Trust - July 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement from Sarah Palin on Legal Fund News Report - July 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement Regarding Latest Frivolous Ethics Complaint - July 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Great IBD Editorial Regarding My "Cap and Tax" Article - July 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Washington Post Op-ed: The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End - July 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Happy 4th of July from Alaska! - July 4,2009&lt;br /&gt;- Palin Announces No Second Term - July 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement on the desecration of photo of Governor Palin and baby Trig - June 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin's Reaction regarding David Letterman's Apology - June 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- GOP Serious About Good Policy? How About Sarah Palin? (author unknown) - June 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement from Governor Palin on shooting at National Holocaust Museum - June 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement re: David Letterman from Meghan Stapleton, Palin spokesperson - June 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Concerning Letterman's comments about my young daughter - June 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Energy Department Reveals Strings Attached, Asks States to Comment - June 5, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Statement on William Long - June 2, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Statement on George Tiller - June 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Maintains Stance on Stimulus Funds - May 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Signs Budget Bills - May 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Statement on attacks against Miss California Carrie Prejean - May 13, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Welcomes House Energy Committee Proposal - April 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Stresses Need for Strong Missile Defense Capability - April 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Accepts Half of Stimulus Package Funds - March 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Continues Earmark Reform - March 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Statement from SarahPAC on Governor Palin's selection of Judge Christen - March 6, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Christen Named to Alaska Supreme Court - March 5, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Gov. Palin Pushes Parental Consent Legislation - March 4, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Gov. Palin Transmits Two Bills on In-State Gas February 27, 09, Juneau, Alaska – March 4, 09&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin, Lt. Governor Parnell to Travel to Western Alaska - February 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;- Governor Palin Continues to Express Concerns with President’s Stimulus Package - February 3, 2009, Juneau, Alaska - February 4, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/governor-sarah-palin-transfers-power.html" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Governor Palin's Resignation Speech - July 26, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-and-bureaucratization-of-health.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Wall Street Journal - September 8, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/palin-on-ahmadinejad-he-must-be-stopped.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin on Ahmadinejad - 'He Must Be Stopped' - September 22, 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/sarah-palin-drill-here-drill-now-yes-we.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;National Review Online - Drill Here, Drill Now... Yes We Can - October 16, 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/pray-for-sarah-palin.html" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;PrayForSarahPalin.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AdoringPalin"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"&gt;Adoring Palin YouTube Channel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;EXCELLENT for current Sarah Palin videos &amp;amp; audios... My HIGHEST recommendation!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AdoringPalin" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SxxOOd7WWEI/AAAAAAAAAWs/AEVRCQRuWNc/s640/adoring-palin-avatar-picture.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- More &lt;a href="http://patricksworld.webs.com/sarahpalin.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin at Patrick's World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/10/sarah-palin-fanatical-islam.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin: Fanatical Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (comment re: Gov. Palin's Hong Kong speech September 23, 2009)&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/10/gov-palins-perspective-about.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Gov. Palin's Perspective About Supremacist Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (comment re: Hong Kong speech)&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin and &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/11/sarah-palin-and-emotion-opinion-vs-fact.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Emotion Opinion vs. Fact Opinion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/sarah-palin-has-mindset-of-winner-next.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin has the Mindset of a Winner... NEXT!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://liftupusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/sarah-palins-gridiron-speech.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Sarah Palin's &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Gridiron Speech&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Saturday, December 5, 2009&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;_________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6983582508948076300-1814335048475013398?l=sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2000/01/sarah-knows.html' title='Sarah Palin: Unique American Original'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/feeds/1814335048475013398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-note-samba-this-is-just-little.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/1814335048475013398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/1814335048475013398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/one-note-samba-this-is-just-little.html' title='Sarah Palin: Unique American Original'/><author><name>Art Telles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/S4neqJ4J-sI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Nn443AI4X8M/S220/WakeUpAmerica-small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SuhS1D9vBEI/AAAAAAAAAUY/OG6hzZm9W3Y/s72-c/sarah-palin045reagan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983582508948076300.post-8015589234326328694</id><published>2009-08-01T00:00:00.196-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-22T17:30:26.334-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='videos'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='glenn beck'/><title type='text'>Glenn Beck - Aug to Dec 2009</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SpvbnlNKX3I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Sy50ytz9vw4/s1600-h/I-Want-You-To-Speak-Out.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376132053245517682" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SpvbnlNKX3I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Sy50ytz9vw4/s200/I-Want-You-To-Speak-Out.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 180px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 149px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GlennBeck.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.glennbeck.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;[The most recent videos are at the end of this page]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Glenn Beck&lt;/span&gt;10 Million Watchdogs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/28438/" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/28438/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;PRESIDENT OBAMA: December 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;GLENN: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And they cheered, and that is how liberty and freedom ends... the sound of a cheer."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Reagan: Don't Say We Weren't Warned&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 28, 2009 - 13:05 ET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29847/" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29847/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Remix, as heard on his radio program and seen on the Glenn Beck Insider August 28, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;GLENN:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Now, somebody sent me, a watchdog sent me some old video of Ronald Reagan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is about three weeks ago. And I thought, you know what, that's kind of cool because it's an old video of Ronald Reagan, but we've got to hippen this up a little bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to be able to make this into something that people will want to listen to and watch and so Nick, one of our unbelievable producers on this program along with Eric oh, Eric Chase was involved, too? I haven't even heard this yet. This is how much I trust these two guys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know this is amazing. Ronald Reagan on health care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;REAGAN:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Ronald Reagan: &lt;/span&gt;Norman Thomas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"&gt; and&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3ycMDTfw4" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Socialism By Any Other Name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3ycMDTfw4" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx3ycMDTfw4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;the American people would never vote for socialism&lt;/span&gt;. But he said &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many ways in which our government has invaded the precincts of private citizens, the method of earning a living. But at the moment I'd like to talk about another way because this threat is with us and at the moment is more imminent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine, gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So with the American people on record as not wanting socialized medicine, Congressman Ferrand said, if we can only break through and &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;get our foot inside the door&lt;/span&gt;, they can we can expand the program after that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, let's see what the socialists themselves had to say about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They say once the Ferrand bill is passed, this nation will be provided with a mechanism for socialized medicine capable of indefinite expansion in every direction until it includes the entire population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, we can't say we haven't been warned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;James Madison in 1788, speaking to the Virginia Convention said: “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now in our country under our free enterprise system, we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world. Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be envied any place. The privacy, the care that is given to a person, the right to chose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor to the other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in world’s history. The only true revolution. Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another. But here for the first time in all the thousands of years of man’s relation to man, a little group of men, the founding fathers for the first time – established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the God given right and ability to determine our own destiny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This freedom was built into our government with safeguards. We talk democracy today. And strangely we let democracy begin to assume the aspect of majority rule is all that is needed. Well, majority rule is a fine aspect of democracy, provided there are guarantees written in to our government concerning the rights of the individual and of the minorities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What can we do about this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, you and I can do a great deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms and that you demand the continuation of our traditional free enterprise system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You and I can do this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only way we can do it is by writing to our congressmen, even if we believe that he's on our side to begin with, write to strengthen his hand. Write those letters now. Call your friends and tell them to write.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't, this program, I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country... until one day as Norman Thomas said, we will awake to find that we have socialism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you don't do this and if I don't do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29831/" style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;The New Republic: America's Future Recap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29831/" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29831/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;August 28, 2009 - 18:41 ET&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All week on radio and TV Glenn asked the tough questions -- because our republic is being transformed before our very eyes. The time for silent dissent has long passed, and now the hard questions need to be asked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe there are perfectly logical explanations for Obama's 'Civilian National Security Force' he wants funded as well as the military.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... But what is it?&lt;br /&gt;... Who are the radical Czars in the White House, and why are they there?&lt;br /&gt;... Does the President actually listen to Communist ideas?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29831/" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Here is the ENTIRE RECAP of this weeks shows&lt;/a&gt; -- the monologues, the questions, the amazing interview with Rush Limbaugh and more. Please, read it and pass it around to all of your friends. These questions need to be asked and answered. Get started!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29831/" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29831/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Current Events and Politics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/list/198/" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/list/198/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SpvbnlNKX3I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Sy50ytz9vw4/s1600-h/I-Want-You-To-Speak-Out.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376132053245517682" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/SpvbnlNKX3I/AAAAAAAAAJA/Sy50ytz9vw4/s200/I-Want-You-To-Speak-Out.jpg" style="display: block; height: 180px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 149px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Glenn Beck Daily Clips&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NewsYouCanBelieve.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsyoucanbelieve.com/category/glenn-beck/" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://newsyoucanbelieve.com/category/glenn-beck/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;GlennBeckClips.com &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://glennbeckclips.com/" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://glennbeckclips.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GlennBeckDailyClips" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/GlennBeckDailyClips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;"&gt;The New Republic: America's Future&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: black;"&gt;FoxNews August 24 to 28, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Monday - August 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Can we survive this debt? If yes, how?&lt;br /&gt;• Why the rush on health care reform, cap-and-trade?&lt;br /&gt;• Who is writing these bills?&lt;br /&gt;• Will Washington read and understand the bills?&lt;br /&gt;• Why are you called "grassroots" if you are for, but "Astroturf" if you are against?&lt;br /&gt;• Our unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?&lt;br /&gt;• We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and health care programs before we stop the flow of red ink?&lt;br /&gt;• The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN: How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?&lt;br /&gt;• If it was so important for Congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it, why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent six months later?&lt;br /&gt;• Former President Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them; how exactly does that work?&lt;br /&gt;• Why won’t member of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?&lt;br /&gt;• Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them?&lt;br /&gt;• Was the "cash for clunkers" program meant to save the Earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?&lt;br /&gt;• How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist, become a special adviser to the president?&lt;br /&gt;• Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special adviser?&lt;br /&gt;• The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill; why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?&lt;br /&gt;• If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1,000-page plus bills actually impose on the American people?&lt;br /&gt;• If the "public option" health care plan is so good, why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?&lt;br /&gt;• If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind, why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?&lt;br /&gt;• Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?&lt;br /&gt;• Why would you want to overwhelm the system?&lt;br /&gt;• Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through Congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about not letting a crisis go to waste?&lt;br /&gt;• What are the president's "czars" paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FoxNews... The New Republic: America's Future&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8619912&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8619912&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Reasonable Questions For An Unreasonable Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;FoxNews... Cloward and Piven&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8619916&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Cloward / Piven Strategy In A Nutshell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;FoxNews... Losing Strategy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8619885&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Charles Payne on government's attempt to spend it's way out of debt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;FoxNews... Who Is Van Jones on FoxNews&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8661920&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;A look at President Obama's green jobs czar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Who Is Van Jones and Color of Change?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.defendglenn.com/behind_the_lies.html" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;More info about 'Color of Change' and Van Jones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monday - August 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pra8DTsgac" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Segment 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKdjGZQIoI" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Segment 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzB_yIad6v8" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Segment 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Cloward - Piven Strategy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8quM-mspOU" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Segment 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who Is Van Jones?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5iJsUXXkwo" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Segment 5 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Apollo Alliance and the Stimulus Bill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnnIPsGNeVM" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Segment 6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - August 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Who is "surrounding" the president in the White House?&lt;br /&gt;• Do any of the president's advisers have criminal records?&lt;br /&gt;• Are the president's advisers working to better the country or their own ideals?&lt;br /&gt;• Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington?&lt;br /&gt;• What role do they have in crafting bills?&lt;br /&gt;• What was "STORM"? What happened to the founders; where are they now?&lt;br /&gt;• What qualifications must one have to be a presidential adviser?&lt;br /&gt;• What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist?&lt;br /&gt;• Do the "czars" have power?&lt;br /&gt;• Should a communist have the ear of the president of the United States?&lt;br /&gt;• What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting bills?&lt;br /&gt;• Does the president know the co-founder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance?&lt;br /&gt;• How many people in the administration are connected to the Movement for a Democratic Society?&lt;br /&gt;• What role does George Soros play... constitutionally?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;FoxNews... &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8670985&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;All The President's Men&lt;/a&gt; 1&lt;br /&gt;FoxNews... &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8666966&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;All The President's Men&lt;/a&gt; 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;FoxNews... &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8665715&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Meet Jeff Jones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Who is really pulling the strings in Washington?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;YouTube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZca-5HgW-I" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;The Apollo Aliance - Aired on FoxNews August 4, 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8665421&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Perfect Storm:&lt;/a&gt; Radicals In The White House&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What roles do former members of 'Standing Together To Organize A Revolutionary Movement' play in the Obama White House?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;YouTube&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwJ0RwANTA" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Radicals In The White House&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - August 26, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Why does the FCC have a diversity "czar"?&lt;br /&gt;• Who is Mark Lloyd and how does he plan to "balance" the airwaves?&lt;br /&gt;• Will he bring back the Fairness Doctrine or worse?&lt;br /&gt;• Cass Sunstein once said he wants to balance the Internet; is that next?&lt;br /&gt;• Will broadcasters who leave the airwaves be allowed to go to satellite or Internet without government regulation?&lt;br /&gt;• Is there any place (that has a mass audience) where the government wont regulate free speech?&lt;br /&gt;• Why does it seem every member of the Obama advisory team hates capitalism, unless those companies (like G.E.) are in bed with the administration?&lt;br /&gt;If Lloyd has his way, stations who don't comply to the governments definition of the "public interest" will have to pay a massive fine — that helps support public broadcasting:&lt;br /&gt;• What will be the definition of "public interest"?&lt;br /&gt;• Who defines "public interest"?&lt;br /&gt;• Why should it be balanced? Because it's public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don't count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FoxNews... &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8710658&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Speak Without Fear&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FoxNews... &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8711717&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749"&gt;Who Is Mark Lloyd?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America, Meet the FCC's New Diversity Czar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;FoxNews...&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8716699&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt; Rush Responds: Efforts To Curb Freedom of Speech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - August 27, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Day 4&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Why do we need a civilian force?&lt;br /&gt;• Who is posing a threat to us?&lt;br /&gt;• Who will this "force" be made up of?&lt;br /&gt;• Who is the real enemy?&lt;br /&gt;• Does the president know of a coming event? If not, who builds an army against an unrecognized enemy?&lt;br /&gt;• Why won't the media get off their butts and look into these radicals in the White House? And into this civilian army?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FoxNews... &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8747210&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Barack Obama's Civilian Army&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - August 28, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Day 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;FoxNews... &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8794815&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;A Call To Action&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FoxNews...&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8794621&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;IN Or OUT... 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Challenges Washington Lawmakers To Take Pledge&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/Spy4CxjnZ1I/AAAAAAAAAJI/W8iBsN12ZGg/s1600-h/Beck-5-Pledges1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376374412975499090" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/Spy4CxjnZ1I/AAAAAAAAAJI/W8iBsN12ZGg/s400/Beck-5-Pledges1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 397px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/downloads/09/in_or_out.pdf" target="_blank"&gt; Downloadable PDF Format&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;To Congress, The 5 Pledges&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during a difficult economic times, therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;3. I believe more than four decades of US dependence on foreign oil is a travesty, therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas and coal as necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why. I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity power over US citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Glenn Beck:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Am I Hateful If I Ask...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29631/?ck=1" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29631/?ck=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Who is "surrounding" the President in the White House?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Do any of the President's advisers have criminal records?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Are the President's advisers working to better the country or their own ideals?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... What roles do they have in crafting bills?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... What was "STORM"? What happened to the founders, where are they now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... What qualifications must one have to be a Presidential adviser?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Do the czars have power?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Should a communist have the ear of the President of the United States?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting bills?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Does the President know the co-founder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... How many people in the administration are connected to the movement for a democratic society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... What role does George Soros play... CONSTITUTIONALLY?&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; ----   &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save  them, how exactly does that work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Why won’t members of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman  to read the bills before they vote on them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the  economy? Did it accomplish either?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist become a special advisor  to the president?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he  named him special advisor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good why won’t politicians  agree to have that as their plan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Why would you want to overwhelm the system?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about "not letting a crises go to waste"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... What are the czars paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Glenn Beck Daily Clips&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NewsYouCanBelieve.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsyoucanbelieve.com/category/glenn-beck/" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://newsyoucanbelieve.com/category/glenn-beck/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;GlennBeckClips.com &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://glennbeckclips.com/" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://glennbeckclips.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;[Check out the archive on the left side panel]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GlennBeckDailyClips" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/GlennBeckDailyClips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;FOX News - Video&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The New Republic: America's Future&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monday - August 31, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8947695&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=playlist" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Obama's Radical Advisers Are Fighting For A Revolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8944048&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Use Your Head: Big Oil... Socialism... Forced Vaccinations For H1N1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8943174&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;Cyber Land Grab: Does Obama Administration Have Designs On Your Personal Computer?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - September 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m 47s &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=8990946&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Van Jones In His Own Words&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - September 2, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;17m 50s &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9044749&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d" style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Why Are We Still Listening To Progressives About The Environment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - September 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m 35s &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9091520&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff;"&gt;Personnel Is Policy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - September 4, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monday - September 7, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Business in America&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - September 8, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m 30s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9322931&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Don't Congragulate Me For Van Jones' Resignation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - September 9, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9374264&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Why Obama's Prime Time Health Care Speech Doesn't Matter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - September 10, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9409490&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Corruption At ACORN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - September 11, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m 22s &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9448002&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Remember Why We Were Attacked On September 11, 2001&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Time To Quarantine Washington, D.C.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Saturday - September 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;9m 10s Put The Country First. &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=011008&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9476293&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Glenn Beck's 9/12 Message&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m 30s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9481678&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Time To Quarantine Washington, D.C.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;8m 42s How Did We Get Here? &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9479908&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=00763edb002e93666931ef50bbf63932b33cee85"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Origins Of The 9/12 Project&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;9m 15s Turn This Thing Around. &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9479611&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=00763edb002e93666931ef50bbf63932b33cee85"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Rep. Pence, Senator DeMint On Restoring America &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;3m 50s 9/12 Protest. &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9479241&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=00763edb002e93666931ef50bbf63932b33cee85"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Tens of Thousands Gather in Nation's Capitol&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monday - September 14, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;19m 40s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9572251&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d" style="color: blue;"&gt;Time To Re-Found America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - September 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;6m 50s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9613596&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d" style="color: blue;"&gt;It's Not About ACORN - It's Bigger Than That&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - September 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;16m 52s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9656740&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d" style="color: blue;"&gt;The President Accepted the Apology of Joe Wilson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - September 17, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m 30s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9699166&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Does Congress Still Matter?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - September 18, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;18m 55s&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9741859&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Remember To Look At The Big Picture, America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;4m 17s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9739082&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Where Are The Watchdogs?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Are the mainstream media asleep at the switch?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-style: italic;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monday - September 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - September 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;19m 46s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9912408&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;We're All Socialists Now, Aren't We?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - September 23, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;16m 49s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9947433&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;Taking Action On Acorn&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - September 24, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;15m&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=9984919&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;Time To Stop Playing Politics And Fight To Win In Afghanistan&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - September 25, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;6m 50s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10024337&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;What Is So Complicated About The Tea Party Movement?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- -&amp;gt; The entire 41m MOM's Program&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dc173.4shared.com/download/135538718/df7ff06d/Glenn_Beck_Show_-_Friday_Sept_25_2009.flv"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Mother's Challenge: A 9.12 Report&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monday - September 28, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - September 29, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;17m&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10182800&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;It's Getting Harder To Believe Your Own Eyes &amp;amp; Ears&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - September 30, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;17m&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10225103&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;The Importance Of Chicago's Olympic Bid&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - October 1, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;11m 52s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10272906&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Would Justice Sotomayor Award The Olympics To Chicago?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;White House Corrects Glenn’s Mistake – He Apologizes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;About Michelle Obama’s Sacrifice To Bring The Olympics To Chicago&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;47 In Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s Administration Have Been Convicted Of Corruption&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Michelle Malkin On The Corruption Of Bringing The Olympics To Chicago&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Charles V. Payne, founder, CEO and Chief Analyst of Wall Street Strategies. Payne shared his moving tale of growing up in a poor inner city neighborhood. He said his fellow black students beat him up daily for “speaking too white”, getting good grades and daring to have a dream of becoming a businessman. “The kids were not simply jealous of me, they were extremely hostile” said Payne. He attributes the black students’ negative attitudes to a victim and entitlement mindset instilled in them by liberals.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Lighting Ceremony On The Empire State Building&amp;nbsp; To Celebrate Communist China&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - October 2, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;6m 52s&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10306408&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;Mom's And Dad's Of America Have Had Enough&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;New Poll: Government Ethics Overtakes Economy As #1 Issue For Americans&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Corruption, Spending&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Moms Are The Key – Moms Organizing Around Americana&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Mother Of 12 Children Testifies Of Radical Youth Like Those In The Terrorist Weather Underground&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Frank Luntz Shares His Ideas On What Signs The Tea Party Movement Should Carry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Refounding America&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monday - October 5, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;19m 45s&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10397106&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt; Show Me Where We're Wrong&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;5m 46s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10397098&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Community Organizer Extraordinair. Who Is Deepak Bhargava?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Corruption And Ethics More Important To Americans Than The Economy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Our Republic Is Being Stolen While Politicians Enrich Themselves&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Redistribution Of Wealth And Transformational Change&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Government Is Not The Solution To Our Problems – Government Is The Problem&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Deepak Bhargava – Executive Director Of Center For Community Change&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Art Propaganda Pushed By The White House&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Saturday Night Live Hammers Obama – Finally&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tuesday - October 6, 2009&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;19m&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10429999&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt; The Demise Of The Dollar&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Demise Of The U.S. Dollar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Closer Look At Currency Controversy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monetizing America’s Debt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Comparing The Fall Of The Soviet Union To America Today&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Global Taxes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Correction: Acorn Embezzlement Was Five Million&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Federal Trade Commission Is Staging A Crackdown On Deceptive Ad Practices On Facebook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - October 7, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;17m 55s&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10460816&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;American's Fight To Win&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7m 57s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10461525&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Who Is Robert McChesney, And How Powerful Is Free Press?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Obama’s diversity Czar Mark Lloyd, what he has in store for the media&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Strange Empty Prison In Montana With Fake/Private Police Going In And Out&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Charlie Rangel Investigation For Ethics&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - October 8, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;9m 55s&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10489573&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;H1N1: Who Do You Trust?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Information So Your Family Can Make The Best Decision.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Should The Government Force You To Get Vaccinate?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Is Mandatory Vaccinations A Moral Or Ethical Problem?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;People With Neuromuscular Diseases, Muscular Dystrophy At Higher Risk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Children Are 14 Times More Likely To Be Sickened Than Adults Over 60&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Children 5-14 Became Ill With H1N1 At A Rate Of 147 Per 100,000 People&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Infections: 20 Times More Common In 5-24 Year Old Range Vs Those Over 65&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Older Generations Appear To Have Greater Resistance To N1N1&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Worldwide: Swine Flu Or H1N1 Is Killing People Mostly In 20’s-40’s&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Pregnant Women Are Especially At Risk Of Contraction H1N1&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Differences Between Nasal Mist And Injections&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;What Rights Do You Have If Employer Requires You To Get H1N1 Vaccine?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Sept 29: 200 Plus Health Care Workers Protest Mandatory H1N1 Flu Shots&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Ny Is First State To Require All Health Care Workers Get H1N1 Shot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Untrue Rumors Are Circulating About Tracking Chip Called Verichip&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - October 9, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;14m 55s&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10519142&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;Why Obama Took Control Of The Census And What It Means For You&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7m 31s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10519125&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=f909db77f0ad31bbfd35cb7e6a04f50204809c04"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Why The SEIR Is Advocating Illegal Immigrants To Be Counted In Census&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Is The Country Being Transformed Via Immigration?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Obama Taking His Time On Afghanistan But Everything Else: Rush, Rush, Rush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Health Care Legislation Will Cover Non-Citizens&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Obama Consults With SEIU Before Debating Anything&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;SEIU Has More Immigrant Workers Than Any Other Union&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;SEIU Funded The Communist May Day Rallies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Compares The Founding Father’s Debate Over Slavery To The Current Debate Over Immigration &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Most Of Our Founding Fathers Wanted To End Slavery&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Illegal Immigration Is Modern Day Slavery&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;The South, Who Supported Slavery, Also Wanted The Slaves To Be Counted In The Census To Keep Their Power&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Today Politicians What To Count Illegals To Keep Their Power&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Most Of Our Founding Fathers Who Wanted To Free The Slaves Did Not Want To Count Them At All, While The South Who Wanted To Keep Them Enslaved Wanted Blacks To Be Counted As A Full Human.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Slaves Were Only Counted As 3/5’s Of A Human Being Which Was A Compromise.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Interviews Linda Chavez Former Labor Secretary Nominee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Interviews America’s Toughest Sheriff Joe Arpaio&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday - October 12, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;18m 31s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10608699&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;The Real Winners In Health Care Reform&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;According To The White House The Problem With America Is Fox News&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;White House Using Tax Dollars To Fight Fox News&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Obama’s Goal To Organize Coalitions Of Power To Bring About Redistributive Change&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;The Government Is Suppose To Protect Us From Coalitions Of Power&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Health Care&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;The Gap Insurance, Medicare Advantage Will Be Cut Out Of ObamaCare – So People Will Be Looking To Buy&amp;nbsp; A Replacement Plan And Who Sells Gap Insurance? – Answer: AARP&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;How Closely Is Obama Tied To SEIU&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;According To A New Video, Obama’s Goal Is To Build More Power For SEIU&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Many Of The Staged Doctors In White Coats Last Week At The White House Were Representatives Of SEIU&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director: “We’re Going To Treat (Fox News) The Way We Would Treat An Opponent.”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Pat Caddell Talks About The White House War With Fox News&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Pew Poll: Fox Has Greater Balance Of Democrat And Republican Viewers Than Other Networks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Death Of The Dollar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Gold Futures Rise To $1,060 An Oz Today On Dollar Weakness&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Central Banks Shift To Euro Reserve At The Expense Of The Dollar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Dollar Under Siege As Treasury Tries To Finance Record Debt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - October 13, 2009 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;11m 21s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10635706&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Six Degrees Of President Barack Obama&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;6m 22s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10636202&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Part 2: Six Degrees Of President Barack Obama&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Sets Up A Red Phone Hotline For The White House To Respond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Explains The Six Degrees Of Barack Obama &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Progression Of Society: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Bondage To Spiritual Faith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Spiritual Faith To Great Courage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Courage To Liberty&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Liberty To Abundance&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Abundance To Complacency&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Complacency To Apathy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Apathy To Dependence&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;From Dependence Back Into Bondage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Health Care&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Obama Wants A Single Payer Government Run Health Care Plan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Why Most Americans Will NOT Keep Their Current Health Plan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;How The Stimulus Has Failed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Most Stimulus Money Is Scheduled To Be Paid Just Before The 2010 Elections So They Can Be Re-Elected.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Wednesday - October 14, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;14m 13s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10671193&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Promise vs. Performance In The Obama Administration&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Obama’s broken promises&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;CNN reports the long list of names of people who have worked on Obama’s transition team or have accepted jobs in the White House who are either former lobbyists who have close ties to lobbyists&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Glenn has fun faking a phone call from the white house&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Michele Bachmann talks about banks being forced to make bad loans&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Michele Bachmann exposes how &lt;b&gt;banks are being extorted to give money to ACORN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Thursday - October 15, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;19m 25s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10700128&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;The Radical Truth About Anita Dunn&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Friday - October 16, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;16m 12s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10730542&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=c985e69916535a2170b2b18ab0ab7eb60401f9bb"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Doctors And Medical Students Debate Future Of Health Care In America&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;4m 55s &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10728845&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=c985e69916535a2170b2b18ab0ab7eb60401f9bb"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Doctors On How Cost Of Reform Will Impact Cost Of Health Care&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Obama Care: A Second Opinion &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Brings Together An Audience Of Real Doctors And Medical Students With Diverse Opinions About Obama Care&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;An Interesting Dynamic Existed Between The Young Medical Students, Indoctrinated In Our Liberal Colleges, Who Were Supportive Of Obama Care And The Experienced Doctors Who Were Generally Against Government Run Health Care&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;None Of Glenn’s Audience Said They Would Quit If Obama Care Was Enacted Even Though A Recent Poll Reported That 45% Of Doctors Said They Would Quit Rather Than Practice Under Government Run Care&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;Derek Kozlowski, M.D. From Poland Reported On Medicine Overseas As: &lt;/li&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;“Awful”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;“If Something Remote Happens Here The American People Will Not Put Up With That”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;“Bureaucracy And Red Tape”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;“Doctors Spend Half Their Time In Poland Fighting Government Bureaucrats”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;“Patients Don’t Get Care Because They Are Getting Too Old Or Too Sick”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: left;"&gt;“People Playing God With Patients Lives”&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Glenn Touched On The Issue That We Can Forget About The Wonderful Miracle Drugs Developed By Drug Companies If The Government Controls/Limits Profits, But I Would Have Like To Hear More Discussion On This Issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I Was Disappointed Glenn Never Asked The Most Important Question;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;“&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;How Will The Government Supply Care To More People Without Increasing The Number Of Doctors And Health Care Providers?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;“&amp;nbsp; Of Course The Answer Is So Obvious – The Government Will Ration Care As In Every Single Case Where This Has Been Tried.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Monday - October 19, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;17m 52s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10817863&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;So, Anita Dunn Was Joking About Mao?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h4&gt;White House Agenda: Control The Press&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Freedom Of The Press.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anita Dunn Admiring Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Press Being Controlled By The White House: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anita Dunn:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;“A huge part of our press strategy was focused on &lt;i&gt;MAKING THE MEDIA COVER&lt;/i&gt; what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it, what the tactic was.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"We had a huge premium both on message discipline, on people in the campaign not leaking to reporters, on people in the campaign not discussing our strategy and also on &lt;i&gt;MAKING THE PRESS COVER WHAT WE WERE SAYING&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe [Campaign Manager] videos was not just for our supporters but, also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters.&amp;nbsp; We just put that out there and make them write what Plouffe had said as oppose to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"So it was very much – &lt;i&gt;WE CONTROLLED IT&lt;/i&gt; — as opposed to the press controlled it — and it did not always make us popular with the press — but we increasingly, by the general election, very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;White is House Renewing Their Attacks on Fox News.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tuesday - October 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;19m 23s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10845232&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Freedom Of Speech Is Under Attack&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Wednesday - October 21, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;15m 40s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10874574&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Three Tactics Use To Discredit Their Opponents&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday - October 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;17m 37s &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&amp;amp;streamingFormat=FLASH&amp;amp;referralObject=10904749&amp;amp;referralPlaylistId=7d5c39e633ccf8113bd2cce634b1447d3376587d"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;A Little Hope For Some Real Change&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Glenn Beck Daily Clips&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NewsYouCanBelieve.com&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsyoucanbelieve.com/category/glenn-beck/" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://newsyoucanbelieve.com/category/glenn-beck/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;GlennBeckClips.com &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://glennbeckclips.com/" style="color: blue;"&gt;http://glennbeckclips.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;[Check out the archive on the left side panel]&lt;/span&gt; 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Sarah Palin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='national review online'/><title type='text'>Sarah Palin: Drill Here, Drill Now... Yes We Can</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Drill Here, Drill Now... Yes We Can &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;National Review Online&lt;/b&gt; published a &lt;b&gt;Sarah Palin&lt;/b&gt; energy article. &lt;a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Nzc2ZjhjY2MwMWUyM2M4NTM5YWRjYTcwMTEzZTNjMTc="&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;Read the original article here&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Nzc2ZjhjY2MwMWUyM2M4NTM5YWRjYTcwMTEzZTNjMTc="&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Nzc2ZjhjY2MwMWUyM2M4NTM5YWRjYTcwMTEzZTNjMTc=&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Drill&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Petroleum is a major part of America’s energy picture. Shall we get it here or abroad?&lt;br /&gt;October 16, 2009 4:00 AM &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Sarah Palin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given that we’re spending billions of stimulus dollars to rebuild our highways, it makes sense to think about what we’ll be driving on them. For years to come, most of what we drive will be powered, at least in part, by diesel fuel or gasoline. To fuel that driving, we need access to oil. The less use we make of our own reserves, the more we will have to import, which leads to a number of harmful consequences. &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;That means we need to drill here and drill now.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We rely on petroleum for much more than just powering our vehicles: It is essential in everything from jet fuel to petrochemicals, plastics to fertilizers, pesticides to pharmaceuticals. Ac­cord­ing to the Energy Information Ad­min­is­tra­tion, our total domestic petroleum consumption last year was 19.5 million barrels per day (bpd). Motor gasoline and diesel fuel accounted for less than 13 million bpd of that. Meanwhile, we produced only 4.95 million bpd of domestic crude. In other words, even if we ran all our vehicles on something else (which won’t happen anytime soon), we would still have to depend on imported oil. And we’ll continue that dependence until we develop our own oil resources to their fullest extent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who oppose domestic drilling are motivated primarily by environmental considerations, but many of the countries we’re forced to import from have few if any environmental-protection laws, and those that do exist often go unenforced. In effect, American environmentalists are preventing responsible development here at home while supporting irresponsible development overseas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My home state of Alaska shows how it’s possible to be both pro-environment and pro-resource-development. Alaskans would never support anything that endangered our pristine air, clean water, and abundant wildlife (which, among other things, provides many of us with our livelihood). The state’s government has made safeguarding resources a priority; when I was governor, for instance, we created a petroleum-systems-integrity office to monitor our oil and gas infrastructure for any potential environmental risks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alaska also shows how oil drilling is thoroughly compatible with energy conservation and renewable-energy development. Over 20 percent of Alas­ka’s electricity currently comes from renewable sources, and as governor I put forward a long-term plan to increase that figure to 50 percent by 2025. Alaska’s comprehensive plan identifies renewable options across the state that can help rural villages transition away from expensive diesel-generated electricity — allowing each community to choose the solution that best fits its needs. That’s important in any energy plan: Tempting as they may be to central planners, top-down, one-size-fits-all solutions are recipes for failure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the same reason, the federal government shouldn’t push a single, uni­versal approach to alternative-powered vehicles. Electric cars might work in Los Angeles, but they don’t work in Alaska, where you can drive hundreds of miles without seeing many people, let alone many electrical sockets. And while electric and hybrid cars have their advantages, producing the electricity to power them still requires an energy source. For the sake of the environment, that energy should be generated from the cleanest source available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Natural gas is one promising clean alternative. It contains fewer pollutants than other fossil fuels, it’s easier to collect and process, and it is found throughout our country. In Alaska, we’re developing the largest private-sector energy project in history — a 3,000-mile, $40 billion pipeline to transport hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas to markets across the United States. Onshore and offshore na­tural gas from Alaska and the Lower 48 can satisfy a large part of our energy needs for decades, bringing us closer to energy independence. Whether we use it to power natural-gas cars or to run natural-gas power plants that charge electric cars — or ideally for both — natural gas can act as a clean “bridge fuel” to a future when more renewable sources are available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to drilling, we need to build new refineries. America currently has roughly 150 refineries, down from over 300 in the 1970s. Due mainly to environmental regulations, we haven’t built a major new refinery since 1976, though our oil consumption has increased significantly since then. That’s no way to secure our energy supply. The post-Katrina jump in gas prices proved that we can’t leave ourselves at the mercy of a hurricane that knocks a few refineries out of commission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Building an energy-independent Amer­ica will mean a real economic stimulus. It will mean American jobs that can never be shipped overseas. Think about how much of our trade deficit is fueled by the oil we import — sometimes as much as half of the total. Through this massive transfer of wealth, we lose hundreds of billions of dollars a year that could be invested in our economy. Instead it goes to foreign countries, including some repressive regimes that use it to fund activities that threaten our security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reliance on foreign sources of energy weakens America. When a riot breaks out in an OPEC nation, or a developing country talks about nationalizing its oil industry, or a petro-dictator threatens to cut off exports, the probability is great that the price of oil will shoot up. Even in friendly nations, business and financial decisions made for local reasons can de­stabilize Amer­i­ca’s energy market, since the price we pay for foreign oil is subject to rising and falling exchange rates. Decreasing our dependence on foreign sources of energy will reduce the impact of world events on our economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end, energy independence is not just about the environment or the economy. It’s about freedom and confidence. It’s about building a more secure and peaceful America, an America in which our energy needs will not be subject to the whims of nature, currency speculators, or madmen in possession of vast oil reserves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alternative sources of energy are part of the answer, but only part. There’s no getting around the fact that we still need to “&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;drill, baby, drill&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;!” And if those in D.C. say otherwise, we need to tell them: “&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Yes, we can&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;— Sarah Palin was governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009, and the Republican candidate for vice ­president in 2008. 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 &lt;/m:defjc&gt;&lt;/m:rmargin&gt;&lt;/m:lmargin&gt;&lt;/m:dispdef&gt;&lt;/m:smallfrac&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Palin on Ahmadinejad: 'He Must Be Stopped'&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;By &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;SARAH PALIN&lt;/span&gt; | September 22, 2008&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nysun.com/opinion/palin-on-ahmadinejad-he-must-be-stopped/86311"&gt;http://www.nysun.com/opinion/palin-on-ahmadinejad-he-must-be-stopped/86311&lt;/a&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;[ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2008/09/22/the_speech_sarah_palin_would_have_given_at_todays_antiahmadinejad_rally.html"&gt;http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2008/09/22/the_speech_sarah_palin_would_have_given_at_todays_antiahmadinejad_rally.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Governor Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, was scheduled to speak today at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance here of President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Her appearance was canceled by rally organizers who sought a nonpolitical event. Following are the remarks Mrs. Palin would have given.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;I am honored to be with you and with leaders from across this great country — leaders from different faiths and political parties united in a single voice of outrage.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Tomorrow, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will come to New York — to the heart of what he calls the Great Satan — and speak freely in this, a country whose demise he has called for.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Ahmadinejad may choose his words carefully, but underneath all of the rhetoric is an agenda that threatens all who seek a safer and freer world. We gather here today to highlight the Iranian dictator's intentions and to call for action to thwart him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;He must be stopped.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The world must awake to the threat this man poses to all of us. Ahmadinejad denies that the Holocaust ever took place. He dreams of being an agent in a "Final Solution" — the elimination of the Jewish people. He has called Israel a "stinking corpse" that is "on its way to annihilation." Such talk cannot be dismissed as the ravings of a madman — not when Iran just this summer tested long-range Shahab-3 missiles capable of striking Tel Aviv, not when the Iranian nuclear program is nearing completion, and not when Iran sponsors terrorists that threaten and kill innocent people around the world.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The Iranian government wants nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran is running at least 3,800 centrifuges and that its uranium enrichment capacity is rapidly improving. According to news reports, U.S. intelligence agencies believe the Iranians may have enough nuclear material to produce a bomb within a year.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;The world has condemned these activities. The United Nations Security Council has demanded that Iran suspend its illegal nuclear enrichment activities. It has levied three rounds of sanctions. How has Ahmadinejad responded? With the declaration that the "Iranian nation would not retreat one iota" from its nuclear program.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;So, what should we do about this growing threat? First, we must succeed in Iraq. If we fail there, it will jeopardize the democracy the Iraqis have worked so hard to build, and empower the extremists in neighboring Iran. Iran has armed and trained terrorists who have killed our soldiers in Iraq, and it is Iran that would benefit from an American defeat in Iraq.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;If we retreat without leaving a stable Iraq, Iran's nuclear ambitions will be bolstered. If Iran acquires nuclear weapons — they could share them tomorrow with the terrorists they finance, arm, and train today. Iranian nuclear weapons would set off a dangerous regional nuclear arms race that would make all of us less safe.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;But Iran is not only a regional threat; it threatens the entire world. It is the no. 1 state sponsor of terrorism. It sponsors the world's most vicious terrorist groups, Hamas and Hezbollah. Together, Iran and its terrorists are responsible for the deaths of Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, and in Iraq today. They have murdered Iraqis, Lebanese, Palestinians, and other Muslims who have resisted Iran's desire to dominate the region. They have persecuted countless people simply because they are Jewish.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Iran is responsible for attacks not only on Israelis, but on Jews living as far away as Argentina. Anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial are part of Iran's official ideology and murder is part of its official policy. Not even Iranian citizens are safe from their government's threat to those who want to live, work, and worship in peace. Politically-motivated abductions, torture, death by stoning, flogging, and amputations are just some of its state-sanctioned punishments.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;It is said that the measure of a country is the treatment of its most vulnerable citizens. By that standard, the Iranian government is both oppressive and barbaric. Under Ahmadinejad's rule, Iranian women are some of the most vulnerable citizens.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;If she walks down a public street in clothing that violates the state dress code, she could be arrested.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;But in the face of this harsh regime, the Iranian women have shown courage. Despite threats to their lives and their families, Iranian women have sought better treatment through the "One Million Signatures Campaign Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws." The authorities have reacted with predictable barbarism. Last year, women's rights activist Delaram Ali was sentenced to 20 lashes and 10 months in prison for committing the crime of "propaganda against the system." After international protests, the judiciary reduced her sentence to "only" 10 lashes and 36 months in prison and then temporarily suspended her sentence. She still faces the threat of imprisonment.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Earlier this year, Senator Clinton said that "Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is in the forefront of that" effort. Senator Clinton argued that part of our response must include stronger sanctions, including the designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization. John McCain and I could not agree more.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Senator Clinton understands the nature of this threat and what we must do to confront it. This is an issue that should unite all Americans. Iran should not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Period. And in a single voice, we must be loud enough for the whole world to hear: Stop Iran!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Only by working together, across national, religious, and political differences, can we alter this regime's dangerous behavior. Iran has many vulnerabilities, including a regime weakened by sanctions and a population eager to embrace opportunities with the West. We must increase economic pressure to change Iran's behavior.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Tomorrow, Ahmadinejad will come to New York. On our soil, he will exercise the right of freedom of speech — a right he denies his own people. He will share his hateful agenda with the world. Our task is to focus the world on what can be done to stop him.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;We must rally the world to press for truly tough sanctions at the U.N. or with our allies if Iran's allies continue to block action in the U.N. We must start with restrictions on Iran's refined petroleum imports.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;We must reduce our dependency on foreign oil to weaken Iran's economic influence.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;We must target the regime's assets abroad; bank accounts, investments, and trading partners.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;President Ahmadinejad should be held accountable for inciting genocide, a crime under international law.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;We must sanction Iran's Central Bank and the Revolutionary Guard Corps — which no one should doubt is a terrorist organization.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Together, we can stop Iran's nuclear program.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Senator McCain has made a solemn commitment that I strongly endorse: Never again will we risk another Holocaust. And this is not a wish, a request, or a plea to Israel's enemies. This is a promise that the United States and Israel will honor, against any enemy who cares to test us. It is John McCain's promise and it is my promise.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Thank you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6983582508948076300-6494511724584803819?l=sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/feeds/6494511724584803819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/palin-on-ahmadinejad-he-must-be-stopped.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/6494511724584803819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/6494511724584803819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/palin-on-ahmadinejad-he-must-be-stopped.html' title='Palin on Ahmadinejad: &apos;He Must Be Stopped&apos;'/><author><name>Art Telles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/S4neqJ4J-sI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Nn443AI4X8M/S220/WakeUpAmerica-small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983582508948076300.post-4146091686015560009</id><published>2009-08-01T00:00:00.012-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-08T23:14:52.159-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wall street journal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='barack obama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sarah Palin'/><title type='text'>Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400581157986024.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"&gt;&lt;i style="color: blue;"&gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400581157986024.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SEPTEMBER 8, 2009, 7:45 P.M. ET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care&lt;br /&gt;The president's proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By SARAH PALIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans "talk with one another, and not over one another" as our health-care debate moves forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I couldn't agree more. Let's engage the other side's arguments, and let's allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats' health-care proposals should become governing law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that "no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds." Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also know that our current health-care system too often burdens individuals and businesses—particularly small businesses—with crippling expenses. And we know that allowing government health-care spending to continue at current rates will only add to our ever-expanding deficit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. And common sense tells us to be skeptical when President Obama promises that the Democrats' proposals "will provide more stability and security to every American."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With all due respect, Americans are used to this kind of sweeping promise from Washington. And we know from long experience that it's a promise Washington can't keep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's talk about specifics. In his Times op-ed, the president argues that the Democrats' proposals "will finally bring skyrocketing health-care costs under control" by "cutting . . . waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies . . . ."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, ask yourself whether the government that brought us such "waste and inefficiency" and "unwarranted subsidies" in the first place can be believed when it says that this time it will get things right. The nonpartistan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doesn't think so: Its director, Douglas Elmendorf, told the Senate Budget Committee in July that "in the legislation that has been reported we do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He's asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Council—an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of "normal political channels," should guide decisions regarding that "huge driver of cost . . . the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives . . . ."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by—dare I say it—death panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans. Working through "normal political channels," they made themselves heard, and as a result Congress will likely reject a wrong-headed proposal to authorize end-of-life counseling in this cost-cutting context. But the fact remains that the Democrats' proposals would still empower unelected bureaucrats to make decisions affecting life or death health-care matters. Such government overreaching is what we've come to expect from this administration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking of government overreaching, how will the Democrats' proposals affect the deficit? The CBO estimates that the current House proposal not only won't reduce the deficit but will actually increase it by $239 billion over 10 years. Only in Washington could a plan that adds hundreds of billions to the deficit be hailed as a cost-cutting measure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The economic effects won't be limited to abstract deficit numbers; they'll reach the wallets of everyday Americans. Should the Democrats' proposals expand health-care coverage while failing to curb health-care inflation rates, smaller paychecks will result. A new study for Watson Wyatt Worldwide by Steven Nyce and Syl Schieber concludes that if the government expands health-care coverage while health-care inflation continues to rise "the higher costs would drive disposable wages downward across most of the earnings spectrum, although the declines would be steepest for lower-earning workers." Lower wages are the last thing Americans need in these difficult economic times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, President Obama argues in his op-ed that Democrats' proposals "will provide every American with some basic consumer protections that will finally hold insurance companies accountable." Of course consumer protection sounds like a good idea. And it's true that insurance companies can be unaccountable and unresponsive institutions—much like the federal government. That similarity makes this shift in focus seem like nothing more than an attempt to deflect attention away from the details of the Democrats' proposals—proposals that will increase our deficit, decrease our paychecks, and increase the power of unaccountable government technocrats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of poll-driven "solutions," let's talk about real health-care reform: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include giving all individuals the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage; reforming tort laws to potentially save billions each year in wasteful spending; and changing costly state regulations to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. Rather than another top-down government plan, let's give Americans control over their own health care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Democrats have never seriously considered such ideas, instead rushing through their own controversial proposals. After all, they don't need Republicans to sign on: Democrats control the House, the Senate and the presidency. But if passed, the Democrats' proposals will significantly alter a large sector of our economy. They will not improve our health care. They will not save us money. And, despite what the president says, they will not "provide more stability and security to every American."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We often hear such overblown promises from Washington. With first principles in mind and with the facts in hand, tell them that this time we're not buying it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Palin, Sen. John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election, was governor of Alaska from December 2006 to July 2009.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6983582508948076300-4146091686015560009?l=sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/feeds/4146091686015560009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-and-bureaucratization-of-health.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/4146091686015560009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/4146091686015560009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/08/obama-and-bureaucratization-of-health.html' title='Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care'/><author><name>Art Telles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/S4neqJ4J-sI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Nn443AI4X8M/S220/WakeUpAmerica-small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983582508948076300.post-5125462040103309602</id><published>2009-07-01T12:00:00.018-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-10T21:18:22.575-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='I have a dream'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Martin luther king'/><title type='text'>Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.popmodal.com/video/1730/Martin-Luther-King-I-have-a-dream" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.popmodal.com/video/1730/Martin-Luther-King-I-have-a-dream" style="color: #3333ff; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"&gt;Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"&gt;Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.popmodal.com/video/1730/Martin-Luther-King-I-have-a-dream" style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;http://www.popmodal.com/video/1730/Martin-Luther-King-I-have-a-dream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Have A Dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.&lt;br /&gt;So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6983582508948076300-5125462040103309602?l=sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.popmodal.com/video/1730/Martin-Luther-King-I-have-a-dream' title='Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/feeds/5125462040103309602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/martin-luther-king-i-have-dream.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/5125462040103309602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6983582508948076300/posts/default/5125462040103309602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sarahpalintoday.blogspot.com/2009/07/martin-luther-king-i-have-dream.html' title='Martin Luther King: I Have A Dream'/><author><name>Art Telles</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u-hhp1IsZw0/S4neqJ4J-sI/AAAAAAAAAZE/Nn443AI4X8M/S220/WakeUpAmerica-small.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6983582508948076300.post-778923022858525146</id><published>2009-07-01T00:01:00.060-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-30T19:23:38.270-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sarah Palin Today'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sarah Palin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gov. Sarah Palin'/><title type='text'>Sarah Palin Facebook Notes January 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Sarah Palin Facebook Notes As A Private Citizen - January 2010&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=24718773587" linkindex="1539"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Use This Link For The Original Sarah Palin Facebook Note&lt;/b&gt;s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Sarah Palin's &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;influence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt; in perspective&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;When she speaks, people listen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;   When she doesn't speak, people wait for her to do so&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;  No other political leader has this power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_403777543434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=403777543434" linkindex="1540"&gt;Peace  Through Strength and American Pride vs. “Enemy-Centric” Policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Today at 2:56pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Earlier this week, I spoke at the Freedom Fest in Norfolk,  Virginia; and, evidently, the media was asked to leave – not by me,  that’s for sure. I want my message out, so despite reporters making up a  story about “Palin people kicking us out” (uh, the “Palin people”  entourage would consist of one person – my 15-year-old daughter, Willow –  and I have no doubt she could take on any reporter, but I know for  certain she didn’t “kick ‘em out” of the event). Anyway, here are some  of the key issues I spoke about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;DEFENSE SPENDING&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It takes a lot of resources to maintain the best fighting force in the  world – especially at a time when we face financial uncertainty and a  mountain of debt that threatens all of our futures.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a federal government that is spending trillions, and that has  nationalized whole sections of our economy: the auto industry, the  insurance industry, health care, student loans, the list goes on – all  of it at enormous cost to the tax payer. The cost of Obamacare alone is  likely to exceed $2.5 trillion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of all these trillion dollar spending bills, America’s going  bust in a hurry. By 2020 we may reach debt levels of $20 trillion –  twice the debt that we have today! It reminds me of that joke I read the  other day: “Please don’t tell Obama what comes after a trillion!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something has to be done urgently to stop the out of control  Obama-Reid-Pelosi spending machine, and no government agency should be  immune from budget scrutiny. We must make sure, however, that we do  nothing to undermine the effectiveness of our military.  If we lose  wars, if we lose the ability to deter adversaries, if we lose the  ability to provide security for ourselves and for our allies, we risk  losing all that makes America great! That is a price we cannot afford to  pay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may be obvious to you and me, but I am not sure the Obama  Administration gets it.  There isn’t a single progressive pet cause  which they haven’t been willing to throw billions at. But when it comes  to defense spending, all of a sudden they start preaching a message of  “fiscal restraint.” Our Defense Secretary recently stated the “gusher”  of defense spending was over and that it was time for the Department of  Defense to tighten its belt. There’s a gusher of spending alright, but  it’s not on defense. Did you know the US actually only ranks 25th  worldwide on defense spending as a percentage of GDP? We spend three  times more on entitlements and debt services than we do on defense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now don’t get me wrong: there’s nothing wrong with preaching fiscal  conservatism. I want the federal government to balance its budget right  now! And not the Washington way – which is raising your taxes to pay for  their irresponsible spending habits. I want it done the American way:  by cutting spending, reducing the size of government, and letting people  keep more of their hard-earned cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the Obama administration doesn’t practice what it preaches. This is  an administration that won’t produce a budget for fear that we discover  how reckless they’ve been as fiscal managers. At the same time, it  threatens to veto a defense bill because of an extra jet engine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This administration may be willing to cut defense spending, but it’s  increasing it everywhere else. I think we should do it the other way  round: cut spending in other departments – apart from defense. We should  not be cutting corners on our national security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE U.S. NAVY&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secretary Gates recently spoke about the future of the US Navy.  He said  we have to “ask whether the nation can really afford a Navy that relies  on $3 to $6 billion destroyers, $7 billion submarines, and $11 billion  carriers.” He went on to ask, “Do we really need... more strike groups  for another 30 years when no other country has more than one?”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, my answer is pretty simple: Yes, we can and, yes, we do because we  must. Our Navy has global responsibilities. It patrols sea lanes and  safeguards the freedoms of our allies – and ourselves.  The Navy right  now only has 286 ships, and that number may decrease.  That will limit  our options, extend tours for Navy personnel, lessen our ability to  secure our allies and deter our adversaries. The Obama administration  seems strangely unconcerned about this prospect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY INHERITANCE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When George W. Bush came into office, he inherited a military that had  been cut deeply, an al Qaeda that had been unchallenged, and an approach  to terrorism that focused on bringing court cases rather than  destroying those who sought to destroy us.  We saw the result of some of  that on 9/11.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When President Obama came into office, he inherited a military that was  winning in Iraq.  He inherited loyal allies and strong alliances.  And  thanks to the lamestream media pawing and purring over him, he had the  benefit of unparalleled global popularity. What an advantage! So their  basic foreign policy outlines should have been clear.  Commit to the War  on Terror.  Commit to winning – not ending, but winning the war in  Afghanistan.  Commit to the fight against violent Islamic extremism  wherever it finds sanctuary.  Work with our allies.  Be resolute with  our adversaries.  Promote liberty, not least because it enhances our  security. Unfortunately, these basic principles seem to have been  discarded by Washington. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE WAR ON TERROR&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His administration has banned the phrase “war on terror,” preferring  instead politically correct nonsense like “overseas contingency  operations.”  His Homeland Security Secretary calls acts of terrorism  “man-caused disasters.”  His reckless plan to close Guantanamo (because  there’s no place to go after it’s closed) faces bipartisan opposition  now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Attorney General just announced that a decision about where to try  terrorists like 9/11 master mind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would not be  announced until after the mid-term elections. Is there something he’s  afraid to tell us? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President’s new National Security Strategy does not even use the  word “Islamic” when referring to violent extremism.  Does he think the  ideology of those who seek to kill Americans is irrelevant?  How can we  seek to defeat an enemy if we don’t acknowledge what motivates them and  what their ultimate goals are?  President Obama may think he is being  politically correct by dropping the term, but it flies in the face of  reality.  As Senator Joe Lieberman noted, refusing to use the word  Islamic when describing the nature of the threat we face is “Orwellian  and counterproductive.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;AFGHANISTAN&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Afghanistan, it is true that President Obama approved deploying  additional forces to the conflict – most, but not all the troops  requested by commanders on the ground.  But it took months of indecision  to get to that point, and it came at a very high price – a July 2011  date to begin withdrawal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This date was arbitrary!  It bears no relation to conditions on the  ground.  It sends all the wrong signals to our friends and to our  enemies. We know our commanders on the ground are not comfortable with  it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As that great Navy war hero, Senator John McCain recently put it: “The  decision to begin withdrawing our forces from Afghanistan arbitrarily in  July 2011 seems to be having exactly the effect that many of us  predicted it would:  It is convincing the key actors inside and outside  of Afghanistan that the United States is more interested in leaving than  succeeding in this conflict.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does the President really believe the Taliban and al Qaeda won’t be  empowered by his naming of a starting date for withdrawal? They now  believe they can beat him simply by outlasting us. What sort of effect  does he think this will have on the morale of our troops – and of our  allies?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;ALIENATING OUR ALLIES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not the only area where the Obama administration has failed our  allies. They escalated a minor zoning issue in Jerusalem into a major  dispute with our most important ally in the Middle East, Israel.  They  treated the Israeli Prime Minister shabbily in Washington.  When a  Turkish sponsored flotilla threatened to violate a legal Israeli  blockade of Hamas-run Gaza, the Obama Administration was silent. When  Israeli commandos were assaulted as they sought to prevent unmonitored  cargoes from being delivered to Hamas terrorists, the Obama  Administration sent signals it might allow a UN investigation into the  matter – an investigation that would be sure to condemn our ally Israel  and bemoan the plight of Hamas. Loyal NATO allies in central Europe were  undermined by the cancellation of a missile defense program with  virtually no warning.  At the same time, Russia and China are given  preferential treatment, while remaining silent on their human rights  violations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CODDLING ADVERSARIES&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s  worst regimes.  They shake hands with dictators like Hugo Chavez, send  letters to the Iranian mullahs and envoys to North Korea, ease sanctions  on Cuba and talk about doing the same with Burma. That’s when they’re  not on one of their worldwide apology tours. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do we get anything in return for all this bowing and apologizing? No, we  don’t. Yes, Russia voted for a weak sanctions resolution on Iran, but  it immediately stated it could sell advanced anti-aircraft missile to  Iran anyway, and would not end its nuclear cooperation. In response to  North Korea’s unprovoked sinking of a South Korean Navy ship, China  warned us not to take part in military exercises with our ally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And while President Obama lets America get pushed around by the likes of  Russia and China, our allies are left to wonder about the value of an  alliance with the U.S. They have to be wondering if it’s worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;AN “ENEMY-CENTRIC” FOREIGN POLICY&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has led one prominent Czech official to call Obama’s foreign policy  “enemy-centric.” And this “enemy-centric” approach has real  consequences.  It not only baffles our allies, it worries them.  When  coupled with less defense spending, it signals to the world that maybe  we can no longer be counted on, and that we have other priorities than  being the world leader that keeps the peace and provides security in  Europe, in Asia and throughout the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Together with this enemy-centric foreign policy, we see a lessening of  the long, bipartisan tradition of speaking out for human rights and  democracy.  The Secretary of State said she would not raise human rights  with China because “we pretty much know what they are going to say.”  Democracy promotion programs have been cut.  Support for the brave  Iranians protesting their government was not forthcoming because  President Obama would rather try to cut a deal with their oppressors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the world’s dictators see the United States unconcerned with human  rights and political freedom, they breathe a sigh of relief, because  they know they have a free hand to repress their own people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This goes against the very ideals on which our republic was founded.  There is a long bipartisan tradition of speaking out in favor of freedom  – from FDR to Ronald Reagan. America loses something very important  when its President consigns human rights and freedom to the back burner  of its international priorities. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;A DIFFERENT VIEW OF AMERICA&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding  of our republic, who doesn’t appear to believe that America is the  greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When asked whether he believed in American exceptionalism, President  Obama answered, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect  that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe  in Greek exceptionalism.” Amazing. Amazing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think this statement speaks volumes about his world view.  He sees  nothing unique in the American experience? Really? Our founding, and our  founding mothers and fathers? Really? And our history over the past two  and half centuries?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Really?  He sees nothing unique in an America that fought and won two  world wars and in victory sought not one inch of territory or one dollar  of plunder?  He sees nothing unique in an America that, though  exhausted by conflict, still laid the foundation for security in Europe  and Asia after World War II?  He sees nothing unique in an America that  prevailed against an evil ideology in the Cold War?  Does he just see a  country that has to be apologized for around the world, especially to  dictators?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama actually seems reluctant to even embrace American power.   Earlier this year when he was asked about his faltering Middle East  peace process, he said “whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant  military superpower.” Whether we like it or not?! Really? Mr. President,  this may come as news to you, but most Americans actually &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt;  like it. And so do our allies. They know it was our military might that  liberated countless millions from tyranny, slavery, and oppression over  the last 234 years. Yes, we &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; like it. As a dominant superpower,  the United States has won wars hot and cold; our military has advanced  the cause of freedom and kept authoritarian powers in check. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is in America’s and the world’s best interests for our country to  remain the dominant military superpower, but under President Obama’s  leadership that dominance may be slipping away. It’s the result of an  agenda that reeks of complacency and defeatism. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(I went on from there to talk about our need to end the negative,  defeatist attitudes of those in leadership. I spoke further on American  exceptionalism, and Willow and I ended a great evening with some great  patriots. Sorry the media chose to report anything other than what  actually happened at the event.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_403777543434" id="commentable_item_1288822535" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;403777543434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;702c44d18a2898df&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_403024568434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=403024568434" linkindex="1541"&gt;Another  Victory for the Second Amendment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday at 10:46am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;The Supreme Court handed down an important ruling today stating  what should be obvious: that the Second Amendment, in the words of  Justice Alito writing for the court, “applies equally to the federal  government and the states.” Today’s decision in &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=403024568434&amp;amp;h=de4bb240ad8482abe35920bfd724a43f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2Fopinions%2F09pdf%2F08-1521.pdf" linkindex="1542" target="_blank" title="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf"&gt;McDonald  vs. City of Chicago&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, in conjunction with the landmark &lt;i&gt;Heller&lt;/i&gt;  case two years ago, should leave little doubt that our individual right  to keep and bear arms applies everywhere and is a right for everyone. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For an interesting perspective on the significance of today’s ruling,  take a look at David Rittgers’ article in &lt;i&gt;National Review&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=403024568434&amp;amp;h=d8d371067b5ad3e31310dec35de2f72b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Farticle.nationalreview.com%2F437253%2Fgun-prohibition-rip%2Fdavid-rittgers%3Fpage%3D1" linkindex="1542" target="_blank" title="http://article.nationalreview.com/437253/gun-prohibition-rip/david-rittgers?page=1"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_403024568434" id="commentable_item_1027889708" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;403024568434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;27fa4ab436c848b9&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_401885808434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=401885808434" linkindex="1543"&gt;The Cost of  Legal Warfare – A Few Words About Today’s Defense Fund Agreement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 3:02pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;First off, let’s keep in mind that this is about a legal defense  fund. According to the Summary of Findings in the decision released  today by the Alaska Personnel Board, nothing illegal and nothing  unethical occurred because not a penny has been distributed. Governor  Palin did nothing wrong. And in fact, everyone is in agreement that  Governor Palin acted in good faith. Now, let me explain how we got here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is no secret that Governor Palin has been subject to political and  legal attacks on an unprecedented scale.  Since these attacks originate  from her opposition, sometimes it can be a badge of honor to be the  focus of such irrational hatred. But there is a cost to all of this.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year, those who willfully and excitedly violated or abused Alaska  law showed they would do it again and again to either bankrupt Governor  Palin or paralyze her success for Alaska. Governor Palin had a choice:  plead guilty to things she didn’t do so that she could focus on the  state and save money for the family – or defend her good name and  reputation. She chose to fight back. In the end, Governor Palin and her  attorney, Thomas Van Flein, successfully defended against well over two  dozen complaints, lawsuits, and allegations. Time and time again during  and after the 2008 Presidential election cycle, independent  investigators proved that Governor Palin’s actions were sound, her  judgment was proper, and her intentions were honest. In fact, the  Personnel Board, the ethics board for the Governor of the state, never  even had to take up a case as each was dismissed before making it to the  next level.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it did cost the Palins financially. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seeing this nonsense, it was suggested to me from both sides of the  aisle that one way to deal with the substantial financial cost these  tactics were inflicting, was to create a trust fund for legal fees –  just like all the other legal defense funds for prominent politicians  who are targets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401885808434&amp;amp;h=1fa2a20d359bbb5a1986a6392276dcc2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB124052923534150395.html" linkindex="1544" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124052923534150395.html"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt;  in the Wall Street Journal, “Such funds have become increasingly common  as scrutiny of politicians has intensified.”  (&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401885808434&amp;amp;h=1fa2a20d359bbb5a1986a6392276dcc2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB124052923534150395.html" linkindex="1545" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124052923534150395.html"&gt;“Palin  Backers Set Up Legal-Defense Fund”&lt;/a&gt;, Wall Street Journal, p. A-3,  April 24, 2009) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I approached Governor Palin with the idea, she had one primary  directive – if it can be done lawfully, then I will support it. She also  asked that, if possible, we keep it Alaskan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One might think that creating a trust fund to collect money to pay legal  fees should not be that complicated, but it turns out, it is  exceptionally complicated.  You should know that as many as seven  lawyers were involved in the process; some of whom were and are  nationally prominent experts in creating legal defense funds, in  evaluating federal and state election laws, state trust law, federal and  state tax laws, state reporting requirements and state ethics  requirements.  It is a sad commentary on public life today when the  legal system can be used as a political weapon against an elected  official, and it takes a battalion of lawyers to figure out how to fund a  defense and counter-attack.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any event, the legal team concluded that the fund they had created  was lawful in all respects.  I relied in good faith on that advice and  advised Governor Palin of that advice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, the Alaska Fund Trust was borne, and within a day or two, a  complaint was filed against it challenging its legality. (And like  everything else, the public knew because someone – likely the  complainant – violated the law and publicly released the accusation.)   And so started another prolonged legal battle – this time to determine  if the legal fund created to defend Governor Palin against frivolous  ethics complaints was itself ethical.  Quite a circle really.  We made  it clear that no money would be paid out on until the matter had been  resolved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, to this very moment, the money received was frozen and no one, not  the Palins, not the Palins’ attorney, no one ever received a penny from  the Trust on the Palins’ behalf.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Personnel Board initially appointed an “independent” investigator.   That investigator, we later learned, had connections with, and was  associated with President Obama.  The Personnel Board had hired  President Obama’s personal law firm as an “independent” investigator to  review whether a fund created to raise money to eliminate a debt  incurred as a result of Governor Palin’s opposition to President Obama  was appropriate.  We objected to both the illegal leak and the blatant  political influence, and a new investigator was appointed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new investigator spent considerable time reviewing the old  information and collecting new, but I think it proved to be too  difficult to reverse an already-public decision. He concluded that the  Trust fund violated Alaska law in two respects.  His biggest heartburn  was that we used the word “official” on the website. And he was  distressed that we turned down an offer from a former White House  Special Counsel to serve as trustee and instead chose an Alaskan whom  Alaskans would recognize – Kristan Cole. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kristan sat on several state boards as a volunteer public servant.  The  investigator concluded that because she sat on such boards, Governor  Palin as governor was technically her boss, and therefore she should not  be the trustee of the fund.  That is his conclusion and we respect  that.  The law is not clear on this aspect, and not one member of the  legal team saw this as an issue, but again, we respect the conclusion  here and it is not worth the time or money to dispute that.  But we do  want to thank Kristan for taking on that otherwise thankless task. What  is it they say about no good deed?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other conclusion needs context.  There was a point where it appeared  that people around the country wanted to start legal defense funds for  Governor Palin.  The support and good will the people of this country  have shown to the Palins is inspiring.  But a concern was raised whether  all these other potential funds would comply with various laws,  including donation limits, limits against contributions from lobbyists  or contributions from foreign nationals.  So we used the word “official”  in the website to distinguish the Alaska Fund Trust from ones we were  not sure would be compliant.  In our view, that was a solid and common  sense reason to use the word “official,” but the investigator believes  that it made it appear that the website was sponsored by the State of  Alaska, and thus would be a use of Governor Palin’s ”official” office to  raise money.  We are not terribly persuaded that really would be the  case or that any member of the public could be confused, but we respect  the investigator’s evaluation of this point and it is not worth fighting  about.  Again, Governor Palin’s prime directive was simple – if this  fund could be set up lawfully, she would support it.  If not, it would  not have her support. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So Governor Palin has reached a point where she decided to agree to  resolve this matter with the investigator rather than spend time and  money fighting an ethics complaint about a fund that was created to  reimburse her for the money she has spent fighting bogus ethics  complaints drawn up by insiders and outsiders violating and abusing  Alaska law.  Really, this is simple pragmatism and common sense.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you know, we love a good fight, but we must pick our battles  carefully.  As a chief executive, Governor Palin makes the calls, and  she knows that this battle, though important to her personally, does  nothing for the country. She has bigger battles to fight, battles to  restore our strength internationally and stand by our allies, battles to  stop the downward slide of our economy, and battles to take back  control of Congress.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I know and you know that no public official should ever have to  bear the financial brunt of these attacks. And Governor Palin can  lawfully raise money now through a brand new – not official but let’s  call it “real” – legal defense fund without any risk of offending an  investigator or state law.  And such a fund now exists at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401885808434&amp;amp;h=5b6946468a854bdeeede2d43fb0cc101&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahpalinlegaldefensefund.org%2Fdonate.php" linkindex="1546" target="_blank" title="http://www.sarahpalinlegaldefensefund.org/donate.php"&gt;http://www.sarahpalinlegal&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;defensefund.org/donate.php&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Alaska Fund Trust.  Your heart  was in the right place.  And Governor Palin and her family have been  overwhelmed by your generosity. If you want to, you can contribute to  the new fund.  In the meantime, we will try to contact you to get your  donation returned from the old trust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now – back to motherhood for me! And common sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. One last thought as we approach the anniversary of Governor Palin’s  “reloading,” thank God she had the fortitude and wisdom to look down  the road and see what she did – the state’s bills would have amounted to  millions upon millions more and her personal legal bills would be  personally insurmountable. I don’t know who would want to hold office  under these circumstances and with loopholes our Alaska legislators  refuse to close.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;- Meghan Stapleton, Mom, Wife, and Now More Knowledgeable Than Ever  About Legal Defense Funds&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_401885808434" id="commentable_item_870932" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;401885808434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;1f4923b1ad3c3206&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_401872813434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=401872813434" linkindex="1547"&gt;Thank Todd  Tiahrt for True Public Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 2:08pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;I’m happy to endorse Todd Tiahrt’s campaign to be the next U.S  Senator from Kansas. Todd is a protector of our Constitution, a  pro-family, pro-Second Amendment Commonsense Conservative who has never  voted for a tax increase and has fought to end the wasteful spending  coming out of Washington. He didn’t just stand on the sidelines  complacently, but instead actually &lt;i&gt;battled&lt;/i&gt; against the bailouts,  the debt-ridden stimulus spending, the cap-and-tax energy schemes, and  Obamacare. In fact, remember on the day Obamacare was being debated,  Todd Tiahrt was on the House floor all day working to defeat it, and  he’s helped lead the charge to repeal and replace Obamacare the moment  it was signed into law. We can count on Todd to take on the liberal  spending agenda of the Obama administration and fight for lower taxes,  more individual freedom, and less government intrusion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please join me in supporting Todd Tiahrt’s campaign by visiting his  website at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401872813434&amp;amp;h=5ebba79ff8fea52980333617450647dd&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toddtiahrt.com%2F" linkindex="1548" target="_blank" title="http://www.toddtiahrt.com/"&gt;www.ToddTiahrt.com&lt;/a&gt;  and following him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401872813434&amp;amp;h=7b2b897d47562df161157a040f7ff126&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FTodd-Tiahrt%2F7030956271%3Fref%3Dts" linkindex="1549" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Todd-Tiahrt/7030956271?ref=ts"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401872813434&amp;amp;h=ed2c2d20b45aa1c87021c246edc3fa3a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRepToddTiahrt" linkindex="1550" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/RepToddTiahrt"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_401872813434" id="commentable_item_1296224536" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;401872813434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;95225c1aa406eed7&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_401691963434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=401691963434" linkindex="1551"&gt;The  Uncommon Law – Reality and Common Sense&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 11:05pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;As most people know, Sarah Palin is relentlessly attacked by those  who elevate the state over the individual and by those who lack faith in  any higher power except the regulatory power of Washington, D.C.  Many  of these people use – and abuse – the law, and in the case of Sarah  Palin, they have abused our state ethics laws by repeatedly,  remorselessly, and routinely filing false and malicious claims against  her.  So too, they have resorted to our courts, where several civil  suits were filed against Sarah Palin.  To date, these civil suits have  been rejected by the courts as baseless.  But we know the toll this  caused the Palins.  Almost a year ago, Governor Palin pointed out the  many groundless complaints, records requests and suits filed against  her, and explained that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;“…it hasn’t been cheap – the State has wasted thousands  of hours of your time and shelled out some two million of your dollars  to respond to ‘opposition research’ – that’s money not going to fund  teachers or troopers – or safer roads. And this political absurdity, the  ‘politics of personal destruction’… Todd and I are looking at more than  half a million dollars in legal bills in order to set the record  straight. And what about the people who offer up these silly  accusations? It doesn’t cost them a dime so they’re not going to stop  draining public resources – spending other peoples’ money in their  game…. Some Alaskans don’t mind wasting public dollars and state time. I  do. I cannot stand here as your Governor and allow millions upon  millions of our dollars go to waste just so I can hold the title of  Governor.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The past year has confirmed that Governor Palin was right.  The number  of false claims, records requests, mendacious accusations and ridiculous  posturing by the left and street corner ethicists dropped dramatically –  at least as applied to the mechanics of state government.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it did not all go away when she stepped aside – some claims and  suits are pending and are getting resolved in time.  A judge in  Anchorage recently issued a ruling throwing out a baseless claim against  Governor Palin – and indirectly involving Todd Palin.   In this civil  claim, Todd Palin was being attacked because he was a close and trusted  advisor to his wife, the Governor.  That he was should surprise no one.   The claimant asserted that because Todd Palin was not being paid by the  State of Alaska, any emails copied to him could not be protected by the  standard law of deliberative process privilege – a privilege that  essentially protects the decision making process in government in order  to allow the decision makers the freedom to honestly discuss policy and  process and promote the open exchange of ideas.  The claimant demanded  the right to see emails that were sent to Todd Palin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a well reasoned opinion, the judge explored state law, federal law  (including an historical discussion on First Lady Sarah Polk, wife of  President James K. Polk), and invoked a too rarely used legal principle –  common sense – to throw out this lawsuit.  In so doing, the court  concluded that Todd Palin, as the First Gentleman, though unpaid, was in  essence a privileged consultant to the Office of the Governor, and the  court compared Todd Palin’s privileged consultations to First Lady  Hillary Clinton, in which a federal court determined that the chief  executive’s spouse “acts as the functional equivalent of an assistant to  the President.”  And, with state government employees assisting the  first spouse, Todd Palin had a clear and obvious privileged consultative  function and is analogous to a &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; state officer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The court ultimately concluded that “common sense and Federal law”  compel the conclusion that “Todd Palin could properly… act[] as an  advisor to the Governor” and therefore he was appropriately involved in  policy discussions, emails, and deliberative discussions, all of which  are protected from disclosure.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is refreshing to see a court resort to common sense and historical  precedent.   Further, as more and more women get elected to high office  (What are they called now? – “Mama Grizzlies”?), it is notable that  challenges such as this, which were based on sexist notions and  demeaning attitudes towards women, are being rejected.  This suit  challenged Todd Palin’s role as a first spouse and was implicitly  premised on the idea that a male spouse must somehow exert too much  influence over a female chief executive.  Hence the demand to “see those  emails” from Todd Palin; but contrast this with decades of silence  relative to communications to prior executive spouses – female spouses.  That dismissive and contemptuous posture towards the new brand of  feminist leaders was appropriately condemned by the court as lacking a  basis in reality.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are, of course, some remaining issues to address. The attacks  against Sarah Palin will continue.  They are distractions meant to keep  her off message.  There will be times when Sarah Palin will have to take  one for the team in order to continue on with her message to the  country and simply resolve matters without having to incur crushing  personal debt.  That is the cost, unfortunately, of public life today.   When that happens, read the details closely – like the details in this  court opinion.  Every time you do you will see that Sarah Palin has  always acted with honest intent.  You will see that again soon.  Today’s  ruling is a positive step not just for Sarah and Todd Palin, but for  all female chief executives currently in office – and waiting to take  office in November. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;- Thomas Van Flein, Attorney for Sarah Palin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_401691963434" id="commentable_item_11506840" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;401691963434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;598a4ed23164ea64&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_401656023434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=401656023434" linkindex="1552"&gt;Upcoming  Events in Texas, Virginia, and Georgia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 8:03pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;I’m looking forward to heading down to the Lower 48 for some great  events. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Saturday, June 26th, I’ll be speaking at the Oil Palace in Tyler, TX.  You can visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401656023434&amp;amp;h=8c628677beba0a8b8b6c6ae7eb0976f9&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oilpalace.com%2F" linkindex="1553" target="_blank" title="http://www.oilpalace.com/"&gt;their website here&lt;/a&gt;  for more details. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then on Sunday, June 27th, I’ll be at the Freedom Fest 2010 in Norfolk,  Virginia.  If you’re free that day, you can join me, Oliver North, and  George Allen at the Ted Constant Convocation Center on the campus of Old  Dominion University for an evening honoring our military and first  responders (Police, Fire, and EMS).  And what better way to kick off the  event than to have Lee Greenwood on stage to sing “Proud to Be An  American”! I hope you can join us to show support for all the brave men  and women who serve in our armed forces and in our communities every  day. You can visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401656023434&amp;amp;h=0f58899e0852555349493c60ac57b71a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freedom1650.com%2F" linkindex="1554" target="_blank" title="http://www.freedom1650.com/"&gt;the event website  here&lt;/a&gt; for more details. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Tuesday, June 29th, I head to Atlanta for the P.U.R.E. Celebration  sponsored by Zachariah’s Way at the Gwinnett Arena. Zachariah’s Way is a  wonderful organization committed to serving our special needs  community. You can visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=401656023434&amp;amp;h=f3cc37484f8e0dc9aac1a1c574578d50&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pureministryproject.com%2F" linkindex="1555" target="_blank" title="http://www.pureministryproject.com/"&gt;their  website here&lt;/a&gt; to learn more about them, and if you’re free next  Tuesday, I hope you’ll join us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_401656023434" id="commentable_item_883862432" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;401656023434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;881d631cd6e79f73&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_400332293434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=400332293434" linkindex="1556"&gt;Tim Scott  for South Carolina’s 1st District&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 12:22pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;I’m very proud to add my support to Tim Scott’s campaign to  represent South Carolina’s 1st congressional district.  Tim has a  remarkable success story.  He grew up in poverty and was raised by a  single-mom who struggled to provide.  With help from a mentor and his  brave mom, Tim learned to appreciate the value of hard work and American  opportunity.  He went on to become a business owner and has served in  public office with integrity on the county and state level.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tim is a pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-development, Commonsense  Conservative who’s been endorsed by the Club for Growth because of his  solid commitment to the principles of limited government and fiscal  responsibility. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He will represent the Palmetto State with distinction in DC, so I  encourage you to vote for Tim in his run-off election next Tuesday, June  22nd. Please visit Tim’s website at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=400332293434&amp;amp;h=4d2e01c3a6a0f10292687ae35e824b68&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.votetimscott.com%2F" linkindex="1557" target="_blank" title="http://www.votetimscott.com/"&gt;www.votetimscott.com&lt;/a&gt;  and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=400332293434&amp;amp;h=d44385217928815bf9206a80f1c3a1d5&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FTim-Scott-for-Congress%2F349068689306" linkindex="1558" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tim-Scott-for-Congress/349068689306"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=400332293434&amp;amp;h=3f58207481e73a9683edea1cf6b12c77&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fvotetimscott" linkindex="1559" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/votetimscott"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_400332293434" id="commentable_item_279568510" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;400332293434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;843658d6abb1c9cb&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_399842678434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=399842678434" linkindex="1560"&gt;The Nature  of Those Tough, Self-Sufficient Bears&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 3:40pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Last summer I stood on the grassy bank of an Alaskan waterway that  was teeming with salmon to watch part of Alaska’s brown bear population  forage, fight, feed, and fend off enemies to survive. I joined Fish and  Game biologists to observe 42 of these majestic wild animals all within  eyesight, all at once. Even though I’ve lived all my life in the “Last  Frontier,” I still find days like that absolutely fascinating! And I  swear the hardest workers on the water were those “mama bears.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously not waiting for another bear to do the work for them, the mama  bears not only foraged for themselves to prepare for winter, but they  worked twice as hard to slay salmon for their cubs, too, making sure the  future of the population was ready for the season ahead. She would  instinctively rear up on hind legs when her cubs were threatened – you  don’t mess with her cubs. And most importantly, just as the well known  modern proverb expresses, she didn’t just hand over a free fish for the  day – she taught young ones how to fish for a lifetime. (There’s no  shortage of life lessons learned while scanning our great outdoors!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, scanning the political landscape, here’s a new “Mama Grizzlies”  field report! There are great guys running for office all over the  place, but I hope you will join me in supporting three more bold  Commonsense Conservative women who are willing to put it all the line to  get our country back on track: Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Star Parker, and  Mary Fallin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cathy McMorris Rodgers is running for reelection to serve in Congress.  She knows the value of hard work.  She grew up as a farmer’s daughter  and was the first in her family to attend and graduate from college.   Her roots in eastern Washington go back generations.  Cathy is a  pro-family, pro-business fiscal conservative who has an honest, direct  plan for action in Congress, which she calls her “Patriot Pledge.” It’s a  10-point agenda focused on fiscal health, tax reform, and other common  sense solutions. Further, I have deep respect for Cathy’s strong voice  for families who are touched by those with special needs.  She formed  the Congressional Down Syndrome Caucus which promotes research,  education, and treatment to help improve the quality of life for those  with Down syndrome and other challenges. Cathy and I share a personal  bond as proud moms who’ve both been blessed with sweet sons born with  extra chromosomes. Perhaps it’s because we learn so much from these  children and can see how they make the world a better place that I am  confident that Cathy’s respect for life, and her commitment to  protecting America’s Constitution, truly benefits all Americans. We need  her in Congress, so please visit her website at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=ac80081d64b0986a134783be080e758c&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cathyforcongress.com%2F" linkindex="1561" target="_blank" title="http://www.cathyforcongress.com/"&gt;www.cathyforcongress.com&lt;/a&gt;,  follow her on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=b91b305b656beef2aa9ffba1fba1132e&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FCathy-McMorris-Rodgers%2F15351475322" linkindex="1562" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cathy-McMorris-Rodgers/15351475322"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=0cb1e3818dcee67e9f84bdaea5ded8ea&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2FTeamCMR" linkindex="1563" target="_blank" title="http://www.twitter.com/TeamCMR"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;, and  please support her campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m proud to endorse Star Parker for California’s 37th Congressional  District.  Star has an incredible story and a passionate commitment to  her community and our great nation.  Rising up from being a single mom  on welfare, Star worked hard to build a non-profit network that seeks to  reduce poverty and create a brighter future for America by promoting  free market solutions and personal responsibility. There is no doubt  that she will bring a new level of enthusiasm and energy to Washington  for American values, limited government, and economic growth.  She’s a  dynamic leader who is committed to building a more prosperous  environment for the families in her district and ushering in positive  change.  Please join me in supporting Star and her message of hope,  opportunity, and self-reliance. Visit her website at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=aa40a2fe9e3cd4521f96df21d882571f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.starparkerforcongress.com%2F" linkindex="1564" target="_blank" title="http://www.starparkerforcongress.com/"&gt;www.StarParkerforCongress.&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;com&lt;/a&gt; and follow her on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=dac4dd6d8b5ecb9bb1780e93d02b31d1&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FStarParker" linkindex="1565" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/StarParker"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=5f73275780fe6adbf869e110ad332445&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FStarParker" linkindex="1566" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/StarParker"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mary Fallin is another strong, smart conservative who I am proud to  support.  Mary is running for Governor of Oklahoma, and the Sooner State  is fortunate to have her offer to serve in this new capacity.  Mary’s  another fiscal conservative with policy experience, political backbone,  and real world knowledge that will serve the entire state well as she  proves her mettle as Oklahoma’s next CEO.  Her personal, professional,  and political background gives her a healthy perspective on the  challenges facing so many of our families and businesses. Mary truly  understands public service, and she served her state with distinction in  Congress and as the first Republican and first female lieutenant  governor in Oklahoma history.  Sharing the aforementioned foundational  values of Cathy and Star and so many other Americans, Mary also  understands the complexities of our domestic energy policy and has been a  consistent voice for energy independence.  Please visit Mary’s website  at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=5a821f2fab210e0b6478041d4b92a941&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryfallin.org%2F" linkindex="1567" target="_blank" title="http://www.maryfallin.org/"&gt;www.maryfallin.org&lt;/a&gt;  and follow her on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=958a701648c5447d951b2ce86a9d0d8b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmaryfallinforgovernor" linkindex="1568" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/maryfallinforgovernor"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399842678434&amp;amp;h=46d2c6666f88dd39736f2d9f63541cc9&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fmaryfallin" linkindex="1569" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/maryfallin"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I heartily endorse these liberty-loving “Mama Grizzlies.” They’ll do  more than just growl about our challenges because they know how to work  hard and protect America’s future by ushering a new era of prosperity  and security. How? By proving their selfless service, common sense, and  respect for the will of the people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_399842678434" id="commentable_item_1405282654" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;399842678434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;f89185a1e213c703&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_399485143434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=399485143434" linkindex="1570"&gt;Restoring  Honor Rally and Charity Auction with Glenn Beck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Wednesday, June 16, 2010 at 10:10am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;I am so excited about the upcoming Restoring Honor rally with Glenn  Beck on August 28th in Washington, D.C., right on the steps of the  Lincoln Memorial. Glenn and I will be speaking at the rally, and I hope  you’ll be able to join us. You can visit the &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399485143434&amp;amp;h=a3ed9d9aa746d063600c6c482977d4e4&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Frestoringhonor" linkindex="1571" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/restoringhonor"&gt;Restoring  Honor Facebook page here&lt;/a&gt; for all updates. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can also help us raise funds for some amazing true American heroes  by joining me and Glenn for breakfast on August 28th before the rally.  Visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=399485143434&amp;amp;h=d70f8656a7ee9dff875d69d3f0d95d0f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charityfolks.com%2Fcfauctions%2Fauction_bid.asp%3Fauctionid%3D19179%26catname%3DCelebrity%2B%26%2BHollywood%26mcid%3D18204" linkindex="1572" target="_blank" title="http://www.charityfolks.com/cfauctions/auction_bid.asp?auctionid=19179&amp;amp;catname=Celebrity+&amp;amp;+Hollywood&amp;amp;mcid=18204"&gt;this  website&lt;/a&gt; to bid on a fun morning with both of us, and remember all  proceeds from this auction go to the Special Operations Warrior  Foundation, a non-profit charity serving the children of our fallen  heroes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bid on the auction! Come with an appetite! And see you in D.C.!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_399485143434" id="commentable_item_1308064088" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;399485143434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;a58c7714e86a129d&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=398865538434" linkindex="1573"&gt;Concerning a  Possible Trip to the United Kingdom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday, June 14, 2010 at 11:11am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Following an article in a British publication on Sunday, I’ve  received questions about a possible trip to the United Kingdom. I have  received an invitation for a visit to London, and part of that  invitation included the offer of arranging a meeting between myself and  one of my political heroines, the “Iron Lady,” Margaret Thatcher. I  would love to meet her and hope I’ll be able to arrange the trip in the  future. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;As I wrote last year when I offered her birthday wishes, Baroness  Thatcher’s life and career serve as a blueprint for overcoming the odds  and challenging the “status quo.” She started life as a grocer’s  daughter from Grantham and rose to become Prime Minister – all by her  own merit and hard work. I cherish her example and will always count her  as one of my role models. Her friendship with my other political hero,  Ronald Reagan, exemplified the Special Relationship between the United  States and the United Kingdom. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_398548958434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=398548958434" linkindex="1574"&gt;Fuel  America with Terrorist-Tarred Oil Instead of Drilling Our Own, Baby?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 12:20pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Am I the only one who wonders what could possibly be the agenda of  any politician who would thwart our drive toward energy independence?  Continuing to lock up America’s domestic energy reserves, including the  energy-rich Last Frontier of Alaska, only equips dangerous foreign  regimes as they fund terrorist organizations to harm us and our allies.  I’m going to keep speaking and writing about this in the simplest of  terms until someone can provide a simple answer as to why liberal  Democrats don’t understand that we have safe, warehoused onshore and  shallow water reserves waiting for permission to be extracted. They  either choose not to understand the geology, science, and technology  behind an “all-of-the-above” approach to energy security, or they  understand it, yet for whatever frightening reason choose to be lap dogs  to Chavez and Ahmadinejad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal,  independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only  public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I  haven’t learned enough to dismiss common sense (a prerequisite for  power in Washington these days). Help me out, friends! Help someone like  me – and the majority of Americans – understand why we would ever  kowtow and bow to foreign regimes that hate us, instead of doing all we  can to starve the beast of terrorism in our plight for security,  prosperity, and peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There’s an obvious common sense answer to our need for security and  energy independence, but don’t hold your breath waiting for common sense  to surface in Washington – it’s an endangered species there.  Obviously  we must responsibly develop our God-given domestic oil and gas reserves  right here, right now; we must conserve energy; and we must develop  renewables that are based on sound science, not snake oil and favors for  political pals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please read &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=398548958434&amp;amp;h=a93f8e2923188ec0f980a7ade0e6d4a9&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.newsmax.com%2F%3FZ646.WSjaO0L7BJOCpKk6QX1DXbftJU1Z" linkindex="1575" target="_blank" title="http://news.newsmax.com/?Z646.WSjaO0L7BJOCpKk6QX1DXbftJU1Z"&gt;the  following Newsmax article&lt;/a&gt; (posted below) summarizing GOP efforts to  push the Obama Administration to produce a plan to potentially wean us  off one source of dangerous foreign oil. (Of course, I think the  prodding should be even more aggressive to shake up the naïve  complacency of anti-development Democrats and some  deer-in-the-headlights mainstream reporters who are finally realizing  they’d been buffaloed into believing any politician had all the  answers.)  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must understand the imperative nature of energy security, along with  America’s life and death need to secure our borders. Baby, this is why I  won’t sit down and shut up about the need to drill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=398548958434&amp;amp;h=a93f8e2923188ec0f980a7ade0e6d4a9&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.newsmax.com%2F%3FZ646.WSjaO0L7BJOCpKk6QX1DXbftJU1Z" linkindex="1576" target="_blank" title="http://news.newsmax.com/?Z646.WSjaO0L7BJOCpKk6QX1DXbftJU1Z"&gt;Senators  Demand Answers on Venezuela’s Links to Terrorism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A dozen Republican senators have sent a letter challenging the Obama  administration to explain what it knows about Venezuela’s support for  terrorism and suggesting that the country be declared a “state sponsor  of terrorism.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Hugo Chavez’s relationships with Iran and other foreign terrorist  organizations continue to grow and pose a serious threat to our  hemisphere,” Sen. George LeMieux of Florida, one signer of the letter,  said of the Venezuelan president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I encourage the State Department to thoroughly evaluate Venezuela’s  actions and determine if the country needs to be added to the official  U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Ensign of Nevada, who drafted the letter along with LeMieux,  declared: “It’s no secret to the American people that Venezuela wishes  harm to the United States. What is secret is how many more ties to  terrorist organizations and state sponsors of terrorism does Venezuela  need to be declared a state sponsor of terrorism.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The letter addressed to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton points to a  number of concerns raised by Chavez’s Venezuela:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Surface-to-air missiles and other weapons have reportedly  been provided by Venezuela to FARC guerrillas in Colombia. An arms cache  captured from FARC in 2008 included Swedish-made anti-tank rocket  launchers that had been sold to Venezuela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Venezuela provides cross-border sanctuaries for  Colombian guerrillas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;A United Nations report last year disclosed that nearly  one-third of all cocaine produced in the Andean region passes through  Venezuela. The senators question how much terrorist groups such as  al-Qaida profit from trafficking drugs that originate in or flow through  Venezuela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The U.S. has frozen the assets of two Venezuelans,  including one working for Chavez, for providing direct support to the  terrorist group Hezbollah. The senators ask the State Department for an  assessment of the activities of Hezbollah inside Venezuela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chavez’s “extensive support” of the Castro regime in  Cuba is calculated to amount to $1 billion a year, and Cuban advisors  are involved in the intelligence and security apparatus of the  Venezuelan government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chavez “has repeatedly expressed support” for Iran’s  covert nuclear program and announced a plan for the construction of a  “nuclear village” in Venezuela with Iranian assistance. Also, Chavez has  pledged to provide Iran with 20,000 barrels of gasoline per day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;As for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, “recent years have  witnessed an increased presence in Latin America, particularly  Venezuela.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Weekly flights connecting Iran, Syria, and Venezuela  raise suspicions of “nefarious purposes” because passengers on these  flights have been subject to only “cursory immigration and customs  controls.”  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Newsmax magazine’s May issue disclosed that Iranian security officers  seal off the airport in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, two hours  before Iran Air jets arrived. Those officers supervise cargo unloading  with no inspection by local officials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran could easily fly in highly enriched uranium that could then be  carried into the U.S. from Mexico, increasing the risk of a terrorist  attack with a nuclear weapon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the U.S. did declare Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism, American  arms sales to the country would be prohibited, as would U.S. economic  assistance, and severe restrictions would be placed on bilateral trade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The Obama administration’s decision to pull the trigger on Venezuela  may hinge on whether the United States can afford to forfeit petroleum  exports from that South American country,” Roger F. Noriega, a former  assistant secretary of state and a visiting fellow at the American  Enterprise Institute, observes on the Institute’s journal, The American.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Anticipating the argument that Venezuela’s oil supply is too essential  to the U.S. economy to risk slapping that country with the terrorist  label, the senators ask the administration to explain its ‘contingency  plan’ for dealing with a ‘sudden and prolonged unavailability of  Venezuelan oil exports to the United States.’”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In answer to the question, the U.S. would likely find new sources of oil  on the international market — but Venezuela’s economy will be crippled  by the loss of oil revenue and consumer imports, Noriega notes, adding:  “Since the last years of the George W. Bush administration, U.S.  diplomats have steered clear of Chavez for fear of ‘provoking’ him.  Thanks to congressional oversight, we are about to confront the terrible  downside of that naïve, passive policy.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other senators who signed the letter include John McCain of Arizona,  Scott Brown of Massachusetts, and Republican Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_398348523434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=398348523434" linkindex="1577"&gt;Koster for  Congress, the Work Ethic Washington Needs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 5:36pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;I’m happy to endorse John Koster for Washington’s 2nd Congressional  District. John is a strong pro-family, pro-2nd Amendment,  pro-development fiscal conservative who will work to rein in the  excesses of an out of control federal government. He’s just the sort of  Constitutional Commonsense Conservative we need in DC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John’s free market principles are rooted in his real life experience as a  business owner of a dairy farm in North Snohomish County. He served his  community with integrity and distinction on the Snohomish County  Council and in the Washington State House of Representatives. And now he  would like to serve in Congress in order to stop the reckless spending  before it’s too late. John knows that growing government is not the  answer to our economic problems. He wants to return us to a smaller,  smarter government that abides by our Constitution and lives within its  means.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a candor and clarity that is so needed in DC, John says: “History  and common sense both instruct us that we cannot spend our way out of  debt. The most recent bailouts and stimulus packages are a failure. We  are courting long term economic devastation and potentially enslaving  our children and grandchildren to pay the debt.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John is running against an incumbent Democrat who is part of the  Pelosi/Reid agenda spending away our children’s future. That’s why we  need to send John to DC in his place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please join me in supporting John. Visit his website &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=398348523434&amp;amp;h=46bbb99e05d00d2d489033f5601b6344&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kosterforcongress.com%2F" linkindex="1578" target="_blank" title="http://www.kosterforcongress.com/"&gt;www.kosterforcongress.com&lt;/a&gt;  and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=398348523434&amp;amp;h=668152679ac13f1f657d6be24af0df90&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FKoster-for-Congress%2F246070079439" linkindex="1579" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Koster-for-Congress/246070079439"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=398348523434&amp;amp;h=e93f5a0e97328cf5f779d5f165e9a5ee&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FKoster4Congress" linkindex="1580" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/Koster4Congress"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John joins other good candidates in Washington State, like &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=398348523434&amp;amp;h=4407df1d407d48de76e69321b691f219&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clintdidier.org%2F" linkindex="1581" target="_blank" title="http://www.clintdidier.org/"&gt;Clint Didier&lt;/a&gt;,  who are ready to shake up the status quo and help put us on the right  track!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_398348523434" id="commentable_item_643105737" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;398348523434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;058a2c98139281a5&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_397148258434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=397148258434" linkindex="1582"&gt;Less  Talkin’, More Kickin’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 2:31pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;50 days in, and we’ve just learned another shocking revelation  concerning the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill. In  an interview aired this morning, President Obama admitted that he  hasn’t met with or spoken directly to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. His &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434&amp;amp;h=f07ded7950ee0a5930fd03dba1aec165&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoday.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F37566848%2Fns%2Fdisaster_in_the_gulf%2F%23ixzz0qH0sYLpa" linkindex="1583" target="_blank" title="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37566848/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/#ixzz0qH0sYLpa"&gt;reasoning&lt;/a&gt;:  “Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s  gonna say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m  interested in actions.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, to the “informed and enlightened” mainstream media: in all the  discussions you’ve had with the White House about the spill, did it not  occur to you before today to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions  were progressing to remedy this tragedy? You never cease to amaze. (Kind  of reminds us of the months on end when you never bothered to ask if  the President was &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434&amp;amp;h=adf03fbc44b18df1fd22f9f4ab221a60&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2009%2F10%2F02%2Fobama-meets-mcchrystal-denmark%2F%3Ftest%3Dlatestnews" linkindex="1584" target="_blank" title="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/02/obama-meets-mcchrystal-denmark/?test=latestnews"&gt;meeting  with General McChrystal&lt;/a&gt; to talk about our strategy in Afghanistan.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof  that it bodes well to have &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434&amp;amp;h=a36a0ebb09f616d53acf8ac9cad5417d&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolitics%2FSpill-reveals-Obama_s-lack-of-executive-experience-95819074.html" linkindex="1585" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Spill-reveals-Obama_s-lack-of-executive-experience-95819074.html"&gt;some  sort of executive experience&lt;/a&gt; before occupying the Oval Office (as  if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties,  finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local  government simple requests weren’t proof enough). The current  administration may be unaware that it’s the President’s duty, meeting on  a CEO-to-CEO level with Hayward, to verify what BP reports. In an  interview a few weeks ago with Greta Van Susteren, I noted that based on  my experience working with oil execs as an oil regulator and then as a  Governor, you must &lt;i&gt;verify&lt;/i&gt; what the oil companies claim – because  their perception of circumstances and situations dealing with public  resources and public trust is not necessarily shared by those who own  America’s public resources and trust. I was about run out of town in  Alaska for what critics decried at the time as my “playing hardball with  Big Oil,” and those same adversaries (both shortsighted Repubs and  Dems) continue to this day to try to discredit my administration’s  efforts in holding Big Oil accountable to operate ethically and  responsibly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. President: with all due respect, you have to get involved, sir. The  priorities and timeline of an oil company are not the same as the  public’s. You cannot outsource the cleanup and the responsibility and  the trust to BP and expect that the legitimate interests of Americans  adversely affected by this spill will somehow be met.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;White House: have you read this morning’s &lt;i&gt;Washington Post&lt;/i&gt;? Not to  pile it on BP, but there’s &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434&amp;amp;h=117db59884ddc7fa20486bd2ac289898&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2010%2F06%2F07%2FAR2010060704826.html%3Fhpid%3Dtopnews%26sid%3DST2010060704777" linkindex="1586" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060704826.html?hpid=topnews&amp;amp;sid=ST2010060704777"&gt;an  extensive report&lt;/a&gt; chronicling the company’s troubling history:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;“BP has had more high-profile accidents than any other  company in recent years. And now, with the disaster in the gulf,  independent experts say the pervasiveness of the company’s problems, in  multiple locales and different types of facilities, is striking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘They are a recurring environmental criminal and they do not follow U.S.  health safety and environmental policy,’ said Jeanne Pascal, a former  EPA lawyer who led its BP investigations.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s  regulators &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434&amp;amp;h=4ea790e63cdc510cb3a46548cd4e3206&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2FResearch%2FReports%2F2010%2F05%2FGulf-Coast-Oil-Spill-Does-the-Federal-Government-Share-Responsibility" linkindex="1587" target="_blank" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/05/Gulf-Coast-Oil-Spill-Does-the-Federal-Government-Share-Responsibility"&gt;gave  the oil rig a pass&lt;/a&gt;, and last year the Obama administration &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434&amp;amp;h=e922898597c4f7de92eac03f6afebfc3&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2010%2F05%2F04%2FAR2010050404118.html" linkindex="1588" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050404118.html"&gt;granted  BP&lt;/a&gt; a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its  drilling operation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These decisions and the resulting spill have shaken the public’s  confidence in the ability to safely drill. Unless government  appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives  accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And  we must! Or we will be even more beholden to, and controlled by,  dangerous foreign regimes that supply much of our energy. This has been a  constant refrain from me. As Governor of Alaska, I did everything in my  power to hold oil companies accountable in order to prove to the  federal government and to the nation that Alaska could be trusted to  further develop energy rich land like ANWR and NPR-A. I hired  conscientious Democrats and Republicans (because this sure shouldn’t be a  partisan issue) to provide me with the best advice on how we could deal  with what was a corrupt system of some lawmakers and administrators who  were hesitant to play hardball with some in the oil field business.  (Remember the Alaska lawmakers, public decision-makers, and business  executives who ended up going to jail as a result of the FBI’s  investigations of oily corruption.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the aforementioned article notes, BP’s operation in Alaska would hurt  our state and waste public resources if allowed to continue. That’s why  my administration created the Petroleum Systems Integrity Office (PSIO)  when we saw proof of improper maintenance of oil infrastructure in our  state. We had to &lt;i&gt;verify&lt;/i&gt;. And that’s why we instituted new  oversight and held BP and other oil companies financially accountable  for poor maintenance practices. We knew we could partner with them to  develop resources without pussyfooting around with them. As a CEO, it  was my job to look out for the interests of Alaskans with the same  intensity and action as the oil company CEOs looked out for the  interests of their shareholders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learned firsthand the way these companies operate when I served as  chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC). I ended  up resigning in protest because my bosses (the Governor and his chief  of staff at the time) wouldn’t support efforts to clean up the  corruption involving improper conflicts of interest with energy  companies that the state was supposed to be watching. (I wrote about  this valuable learning experience in my book, “Going Rogue”.) I felt  guilty taking home a big paycheck while being reduced to sitting on my  thumbs – essentially rendered ineffective as a supervisor of a  regulatory agency in charge of nearly 20% of the U.S. domestic supply of  energy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My experience (though, granted, I got the message loud and clear during  the campaign that my executive experience managing the fastest growing  community in the state, and then running the largest state in the union,  was nothing compared to the experiences of a community organizer)  showed me how government officials and oil execs could scratch each  others’ backs to the detriment of the public, and it made me ill. I ran  for Governor to fight such practices. So, as a former chief executive, I  humbly offer this advice to the President: you must &lt;i&gt;verify&lt;/i&gt;. That  means you &lt;i&gt;must&lt;/i&gt; meet with Hayward. Demand answers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the interview today, the President &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=397148258434&amp;amp;h=a9d367cd08a96184d14595c821bd382d&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftoday.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F37566848%2Fns%2Fdisaster_in_the_gulf%2F%23ixzz0qHHVfV1h" linkindex="1589" target="_blank" title="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37566848/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/#ixzz0qHHVfV1h"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;:  “I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college  seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best  answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please, sir, for the sake of the Gulf residents, reach out to experts  who have experience holding oil companies accountable. I suggested a few  weeks ago that you start with Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources,  led by Commissioner Tom Irwin. Having worked with Tom and his DNR and  AGIA team led by Marty Rutherford, I can vouch for their integrity and  expertise in dealing with Big Oil and overseeing its developments. We’ve  all lived and worked through the &lt;i&gt;Exxon-Valdez&lt;/i&gt; spill. They can  help you. Give them a call. Or, what the heck, give me a call.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, finally, Mr. President, please do not punish the American public  with any new energy tax in response to this tragedy. Just because BP and  federal regulators screwed up that doesn’t mean the rest of us should  get punished with higher taxes at the pump and attached to everything  petroleum products touch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_397148258434" id="commentable_item_1827259684" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;397148258434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;3c64d6bdc2a75b57&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_396451853434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=396451853434" linkindex="1590"&gt;Remembering  D-Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 12:15pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Today, on the 66th Anniversary of D-Day, let’s remember the courage  and sacrifice of our Greatest Generation whose actions helped liberate a  continent. I’d like to share with you &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=396451853434&amp;amp;h=5c56852f5c9f6af9f32b52df8cd46b9d&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics.com%2Farticles%2F2007%2F06%2Fthe_boys_of_pointe_du_hoc.html" linkindex="1591" target="_blank" title="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/the_boys_of_pointe_du_hoc.html"&gt;excerpts&lt;/a&gt;  from &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=396451853434&amp;amp;h=32c36ee9a43cfa2a17486ccde82d33fc&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeEIqdcHbc8I" linkindex="1592" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEIqdcHbc8I"&gt;President  Reagan’s beautiful speech&lt;/a&gt; on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day honoring  the Rangers who took the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger  daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are  the men who put them here. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These  are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free  a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war. Gentlemen, I  look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are  men who in your “lives fought for life and left the vivid air singed  with your honor.”....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You  were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more  than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked  everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside  the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these  cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look  at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief. It was  loyalty and love. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith  that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant  them mercy on this beachhead, or on the next. It was the deep knowledge  -- and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a profound moral  difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force  for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and  those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is  worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most  deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you  loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew  the people of your countries were behind you.”&lt;/i&gt; - Ronald Reagan&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May we never forget the sacrifices made for liberty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_396451853434" id="commentable_item_1091556887" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;396451853434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;44f3c4ebf449d963&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_395865318434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=395865318434" linkindex="1593"&gt;Coach  Wooden’s Parquet Success – a Blueprint for Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Friday, June 4, 2010 at 8:14am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the  way things turn out.”&lt;/i&gt; - Coach John Wooden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ever since we were kids, Todd and I have looked at Coach John Wooden as a  true hero. His quotes plastered our bulletin boards, school notebooks,  and locker doors. Realizing this mutual admiration of Coach Wooden when  Todd and I first met about 30 years ago was a sure sign that we were on  the same page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From afar we have admired Coach’s wit and wisdom, we’ve absorbed his  writings and the life lessons he’s taught from the basketball court.  Coach’s &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395865318434&amp;amp;h=86e2505edd8707acae7dfb2af4183ce9&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coachwooden.com%2F" linkindex="1594" target="_blank" title="http://www.coachwooden.com/"&gt;“Pyramid of  Success”&lt;/a&gt; is a blueprint that everyone in this country should tack  within eyesight and try to follow daily. Coach teaches: &lt;i&gt;“Material  possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in  the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is  all that matters,”&lt;/i&gt; but I admit I fail that material possession  lesson as I prize a favorite one that’s displayed in our living room – a  genuine autographed copy of his Success Pyramid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel better, Coach Wooden! You are God’s gift to those who recognize  value in life lessons learned in the arena of competition. In the midst  of all your success on the parquet you’ve reminded us what really  matters. You remind us to be courageous and optimistic and prepared.  Truly, you are a gift on this earth, and our world needs you to keep on  giving!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel better. We love you. Thanks for teaching us: &lt;i&gt;“Success is never  final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Todd and Sarah Palin and our families, your biggest fans&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best  that you are capable of becoming.”&lt;/i&gt; - Coach John Wooden&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_395865318434" id="commentable_item_2025594285" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;395865318434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;eec220d10c0388a4&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_395697108434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=395697108434" linkindex="1595"&gt;On the List  of “Mama Grizzlies”: Cecile Bledsoe for Arkansas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 4:30pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Just had a great talk with Cecile Bledsoe (and talk about “boots on  the ground” in her grassroots campaign, she answered her own campaign  phone when I called). She’s an inspiring individual whom I’m happy to  support. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cecile is another Commonsense Conservative “mama grizzly” running for  Congress this year. Her mission to protect our great country’s freedom  is so commendable. Cecile is a pro-family, pro-2nd Amendment, fiscal  conservative who will work hard for the people in Arkansas’ 3rd  Congressional District.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please join me in supporting another member of the “pink elephant  stampede” of Commonsense Constitutional Conservative women who will take  this country back to our roots of limited government and fiscal  responsibility. Please vote for Cecile on Tuesday, June 8th.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can visit Cecile’s &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395697108434&amp;amp;h=710f34f9bd914128dea573258448acba&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cecilebledsoe.com%2F" linkindex="1596" target="_blank" title="http://www.cecilebledsoe.com/"&gt;website here&lt;/a&gt;,  and follow her on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395697108434&amp;amp;h=d22328ee18d6ffdd7b5c124bc93768ec&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fpages%2FCecile-Bledsoe%2F275586418079" linkindex="1597" target="_blank" title="http://facebook.com/pages/Cecile-Bledsoe/275586418079"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395697108434&amp;amp;h=895daaaf378eab3bcb1298eaee49cdda&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fcecilebledsoe" linkindex="1598" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/cecilebledsoe"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_395697108434" id="commentable_item_1756774732" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;395697108434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;899afe1f09fcc0f4&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="bbe2b6392f322fcabe06e30edbc32430" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=395675463434" linkindex="1599"&gt;Terry  Branstad for Iowa&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 2:41pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Iowa, your great state’s motto is “Our liberties we prize and our  rights we will maintain.” That motto will be well served by voting for  Terry Branstad for governor next Tuesday!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Please join me in supporting Governor Branstad’s campaign. Visit his &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395675463434&amp;amp;h=b715b94e339dfb99eeb88eddc3e1a32b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.governorbranstad2010.com%2F" linkindex="1600" target="_blank" title="http://www.governorbranstad2010.com/"&gt;website  here&lt;/a&gt;, and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395675463434&amp;amp;h=e38e844559c00cc5c35acfb50b2f7aed&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2FTerryBranstad" linkindex="1601" target="_blank" title="http://facebook.com/TerryBranstad"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395675463434&amp;amp;h=aaae4458a158bc4eaef2864635852171&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FGovBranstad2010" linkindex="1602" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/GovBranstad2010"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_395324638434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=395324638434" linkindex="1603"&gt;Extreme  Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR – Now Do You Get It?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;June 2, 2010 Today at 12:17pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;This is a message to extreme “environmentalists” who hypocritically  protest domestic energy production offshore &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;and&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  onshore. There is nothing “clean and green” about your efforts. Look,  here’s the deal: when you lock up our land, you outsource jobs and  opportunity away from America and into foreign countries that are making  us beholden to them. Some of these countries don’t like America. Some  of these countries don’t care for planet earth like we do – as evidenced  by our stricter environmental standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With your nonsensical efforts to lock up safer drilling areas, all  you’re doing is outsourcing energy development, which makes us more  controlled by foreign countries, less safe, and less prosperous on a  dirtier planet. Your hypocrisy is showing. You’re not preventing  environmental hazards; you’re outsourcing them and making drilling more  dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our  country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about  onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s  catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil  spill proves it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need permission to drill in safer areas, including the uninhabited  arctic land of ANWR. It takes just a tiny footprint – equivalent to the  size of LA’s airport – to tap America’s rich and plentiful oil and gas  up north. ANWR’s drilling footprint is like a postage stamp on a  football field.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it’s not just ANWR; it’s our Petroleum Reserve, too. As Governor  Sean Parnell &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=395324638434&amp;amp;h=04abf6878bff0afd1192310bdfc2b107&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704596504575272991022477222.html%3Fmod%3Drss_opinion_main" linkindex="1604" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704596504575272991022477222.html?mod=rss_opinion_main"&gt;noted  today in the &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Federal agencies are also now blocking oil  development in the National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although familiar with ANWR, most Americans are less likely to know  about NPR-A and how vital it is to our energy security. Given recent  developments, it’s time to elevate the position this area holds in our  national discourse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NPR-A, a 23 million acre stretch of Alaska’s North Slope, was set aside  by President Warren Harding in 1923 for the specific purpose of  supplying our country and military with oil and gas. Since 1976 it has  been administered by the Department of the Interior, and since 1980 it  has been theoretically open for development. The most recent estimates  indicate that it holds 12 billion barrels of oil and 73 trillion cubic  feet of natural gas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to containing enormous hydrocarbons, NPR-A is very close to  the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, which means that there would be relatively  little additional infrastructure needed to bring this new oil to our  domestic market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But even here, progress has been stalled.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts  to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about  your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as  we question your true motives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_395324638434" id="commentable_item_1700108970" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;395324638434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;8adc190ca75c0805&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=395277003434" linkindex="1605"&gt;Competition's  Good! Joe Miller for Alaska&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;June 2, 2010 Today at 9:34am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix" style="text-align: left;"&gt;Contested primaries are so good for America’s political process!  Competition makes everyone work harder, be more efficient, debate  clearer, and produce more. So, Alaskans should be thrilled that Joe  Miller jumped in the GOP race and is ready, willing, and able to serve  us as our next United States Senator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m proud to join so many other long-time Alaskans in supporting Joe  Miller in the upcoming Alaska Republican Primary.  Joe is a true  Commonsense Constitutional Conservative, and we’re thankful he and his  family are willing to offer us a choice in Alaskan leadership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I share Joe’s belief that we are at a critical time in our nation’s  history and the status quo will no longer do. Unfortunately, Lisa  Murkowski and much of the political establishment have recently evolved  into being a bigger part of the big government problem in Washington,  and they’ve strayed from the principles upon which they had espoused.   They ushered in the largest increase in federal domestic spending since  Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society; it’s an increase in government that  political machines may embrace, but “we the people” reject because we  know it’s unsustainable and immorally burdensome to future generations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over a year ago, upon kicking off our Political Action Committee to  assist candidates and promote competition in the nation’s electoral  system, with no one willing to challenge the political machine at the  time, and amid rumors that I would challenge Lisa Murkowski for the U.S.  Senate, SarahPAC contributed to Lisa’s campaign.  As she and I  discussed, this was an attempt to reassure the Senator that I, as  Alaska’s governor, had no intention of jumping into the race. Though the  media has tried to portray some sort of feud or bad blood between Lisa  and myself, such is not the case.  I’ve always wished her well, but it  is my firm belief that we need a bold reformer who is not afraid to  stand up to special interests and take on the tough challenges of our  time.  Joe Miller has stepped forward. I am thankful for his willingness  to serve. He has fought alongside me and others to help clean up the  Republican Party here in Alaska by bringing in new leadership, new  ideas, and commitment to putting government back on the side of the  people, not any political machine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe is a man of true integrity. He will never be bought off; he knows  what a solemn trust it is to be given the responsibility of spending  other people’s money prudently and wisely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe also more closely shares so many of Alaskans’ values.  He believes  the greatness of our country is grounded in the founding principles of  limited constitutional government and individual freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe believes that we must repeal the new Obamacare health care mandate  and seek true market-based reform to allow competition, control costs,  increase access, and give Americans more freedom in health care; Lisa  opposes repealing the law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe is unashamedly and unequivocally pro-life; Lisa is not and has voted  to use taxpayer funds to support abortions and embryonic stem cell  research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe is against granting amnesty to illegal immigrants; Lisa has voted  for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe is against cap and trade (Obama’s new job-killing energy scheme that  I call cap and tax); Lisa believes Al Gore’s insistence that man-made  global warming is fact, so she’s on record as being open to cap and  trade legislation to address weather changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are just some of the major differences between these two  candidates. I believe Joe is the better choice for Alaskans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe worked commendably through West Point, the University of Alaska, and  Yale Law School. He has shown courage under fire in service of his  country, earning a Bronze Star to prove his commitment to freedom.  He  has demonstrated his abilities in our courtrooms as a state magistrate  and later a federal judge, has established a successful business with  his own law practice, and has served as a volunteer and leader  throughout his community and our state.  Joe has the right values; he is  ready to help lead the greatest state in our exceptional nation; he is  Alaska’s true Commonsense Conservative choice, and I’ll be proud to vote  for him for the United States Senate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please join my family and me in supporting Joe Miller, and please donate  to his campaign so a contested primary can do what it does best:  produce the best candidate in the name of public service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can visit Joe’s website at &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6983582508948076300&amp;amp;postID=778923022858525146" linkindex="1606"&gt;www.joemiller.us&lt;/a&gt; and follow him on  &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6983582508948076300&amp;amp;postID=778923022858525146" linkindex="1607"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6983582508948076300&amp;amp;postID=778923022858525146" linkindex="1608"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin &lt;/div&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_394980903434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=394980903434" linkindex="1609"&gt;Israeli  Flotilla: Don’t Take Mainstream Media Coverage at Face Value&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;June 1, 2010 at 11:49am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;The media, as usual, seems to be reporting only one side of the  Israeli Flotilla incident. Don’t trust the mainstream media to give you  both sides of a story fairly… you must seek out fair reporting to ensure  you have all the information. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far too many in the media, and in various governments, rush to  condemn Israel, we must put the recent events off Israel’s coast into  the right perspective.  This “relief” convoy was not about humanitarian  aid, as the liberal mainstream media keeps reporting.  The whole  operation was designed to provoke Israel, not to provide supplies to  Palestinians held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.  Anyone who sees  the video of Israeli commandos being attacked as they land on that ship  knows the people aboard were vicious thugs, not “peace activists.” The  media insults our intelligence with their outright mischaracterization  of who these enemies are. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel delivers thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies every week to  Gaza.  These ships could have offloaded their cargoes at a nearby  Israeli port if they really wanted to help the people of Gaza.  Instead,  they chose to incite confrontation and violence.  Israel has a right to  prevent arms shipments to Gaza that will be used to target innocent  Israelis, so they were legitimately checking the cargo on the flotilla.   Turkey has chosen to condemn Israel but we should be asking some  serious questions about Turkey’s role in this whole affair.  Why is a  fellow member of NATO sponsoring such a dangerous publicity stunt?  As  one &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=394980903434&amp;amp;h=8c70f1b404199ed181471f1a470255c5&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fp%2Fnews%2Fopinion%2Fopedcolumnists%2Fturkish_blood_bath_Jean7yjj5Salz75brRSsMJ%23ixzz0pcGtltRi" linkindex="1610" target="_blank" title="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/turkish_blood_bath_Jean7yjj5Salz75brRSsMJ#ixzz0pcGtltRi"&gt;expert  points out&lt;/a&gt;: “Three ships of that six-ship pro-terror convoy flew  Turkish flags and were crowded with Turkish citizens. The Ankara  government – led by Islamists these days – sponsored the ‘aid’ operation  in a move to position itself as the new champion of the Palestinians.  And Turkish decision-makers knew Israel would have to react – and were  waiting to exploit the inevitable clash. The provocation was as cynical  as it was carefully orchestrated.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can only hope the Obama Administration does not join the anti-Israel  chorus in the aftermath of this staged confrontation.  Please, Mr.  President, we need to let Israelis know we stand with them in their  fight against terrorists and those who arm and support them. America and  her ally, Israel, stand by waiting for your response. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_394979258434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=394979258434" linkindex="1611"&gt;Is It Any  Wonder Why We Call Them “Lame”?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;June 1, 2010 at 11:42am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;It may seem like a small thing, considering the state of the union  and international issues of the day, but let me share some facts  surrounding a most recent illustration of the untrustworthiness of  America’s mainstream media. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, Todd and I spent our Memorial Day evening exchanging emails  with NBC in regards to the interview they conducted this morning with  our new neighbor. As you’ll recall, the “journalist” Joe McGinniss moved  all the way from Massachusetts to Wasilla – literally right next door  to our home – after tracking us down in various forums this past year,  so that he could be close to his “subject matter” while he writes his  book about me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When NBC asked to interview me for this story, I politely declined. NBC  then asked for a statement from us and promised to run it as a full  screen graphic during their interview with McGinniss. We were glad to  provide a statement and appreciated NBC’s promise to run it. Todd and I  both crafted the statement very carefully because our new neighbor has  taken to accusing us of “inciting hatred” – a charge which we obviously  take very seriously. We knew that he would make more accusations like  this, and we felt very strongly that such comments should not go  unanswered. So, we emailed NBC the following statements:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“McGinniss has followed us for some time now, from showing up on our  doorstep last winter, bidding over $60,000 for a military charity  auction dinner with me, writing the hit pieces, attending at least one  Outside book event, etc. He has a right to pursue his subject, I  suppose, and certainly has a right to live wherever he wants, but my  family also has a right to expect privacy, and hopefully to enjoy peace  this summer. Good fences do make for good neighbors. The fence is now  up, and I hope that we can enjoy peace. The media sensationalizes the  recent McGinniss’ tactic so the public will tune in to whatever the  latest episode is, always with ratings in mind, and that’s unfortunate.”  - Sarah Palin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“What’s also unfortunate is journalists’ tactics like this, because it  keeps good people from wanting to get involved in public service.” -  Todd Palin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NBC responded to thank us for our statements and again promised that  they would “make sure” that the Today Show aired both of our statements  “as a fullscreen graphic during the segment tomorrow.” We were grateful  because we knew that our statements would counter any accusation of  “inciting hatred.” And boy was it necessary because in his interview on  NBC this morning McGinniss doubled down on his accusation to actually  compare us to the Nazis! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But there was just one problem: NBC broke their promise and didn’t run  our statements after all. So, the “journalist’s” sensational claims  about us being Nazis went unchallenged. We emailed NBC this morning to  ask why our statement wasn’t aired. We were given a lame excuse and told  that they would run it tomorrow (after the damage had been done) and  that they would be happy to interview me about it (which was their aim  all along because journalism today is all about ratings and not about  truth). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interview itself was quite an eye-opener. I’m not sure what “&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=394979258434&amp;amp;h=46c0f92216c64b10c81f9f37ebc116cf&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsbusters.org%2Fblogs%2Fgeoffrey-dickens%2F2010%2F06%2F01%2Fsarah-palin-stalker-joe-mcginniss-compares-her-nazis-today-show%23ixzz0pcCVTfVF" linkindex="1612" target="_blank" title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/06/01/sarah-palin-stalker-joe-mcginniss-compares-her-nazis-today-show#ixzz0pcCVTfVF"&gt;ugly  innuendo&lt;/a&gt;” was in my Facebook post or why it is so controversial to  suggest that the presence of a hostile “journalist” writing a hostile  book about me is an imposition on my children who simply want to enjoy  their summer outside. When I say or write “leave my kids alone,” it  means simply that: let my kids have a fun summer without having a  “journalist” 15 ft from their play area. How that equates me with the  Nazis is quite beyond me. If receiving nasty emails and even death  threats is the standard by which we judge “inciting hatred,” then the  left in this country has been “inciting hatred” on my family for almost  two years now. We don’t complain about this or call people “Nazis”  because we value freedom of speech enough to believe that even ignorant  and hateful people have a right to it. It’s a shame that a  self-proclaimed “journalist” doesn’t understand this. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it’s a shame that Todd and I had another disappointing encounter  with the media on Memorial Day of all days. It was time that we could  have spent with our kids and on a day when we honor those who have died  in defense of our Constitution, including our freedom of the press. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freedom of the press is integral to our democracy, but reporters must be  held accountable because with power comes responsibility. A corrupt,  deceptive, and manipulative media can ruin the lives of good people,  disrupt families, destroy reputations, and ultimately hurt our country. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’d like to believe that it’s not too late to demand integrity from our  media. Thank goodness for social networking sites like this and new  media sites which have allowed us to get around the “lamestream” media  and present the facts. But let this story be another example of why you &lt;i&gt;must&lt;/i&gt;  seek out facts and truth about anything and everything you see reported  today. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_394979258434" id="commentable_item_1568516327" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;394979258434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;cf5c1803e80079ae&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_394273363434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=394273363434" linkindex="1613"&gt;Memorial  Day, to Remember Past and Present Sacrifice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;May 30, 2010 Sunday at 8:22am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or  to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of  a free and undivided republic.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=394273363434&amp;amp;h=50bbe116edd58c6c9fa5d2275f6e7c58&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cem.va.gov%2Fhist%2Fmemdayorder.asp" linkindex="1614" target="_blank" title="http://www.cem.va.gov/hist/memdayorder.asp"&gt;General  Orders No.11&lt;/a&gt;, Grand Army of the Republic Headquarters, May 5, 1868&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This weekend, as we enjoy time with family and friends, we should stop  and remember the meaning of this national holiday. Memorial Day is a  uniquely American holiday that finds its origins in the aftermath of our  Civil War, when our country searched for a proper way to commemorate  the many who had fallen in the long struggle to end slavery and unify  our nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, we remember all of those throughout our history and to this very  day who gave their lives serving our country in uniform. Our prayers are  especially with the surviving family members for whom everyday is  memorial day, as they live on remembering their loved ones who died  selflessly to protect the freedoms we hold dear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And on Memorial Day, let us also remember all veterans, past and  present, because everyone who wears the uniform and swears the oath is  willing to make that ultimate sacrifice for America. So, in honoring  them let’s keep in mind this version of a popular poem as we show  respect for those willing to sacrifice all for our exceptional country:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is  the veteran,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;not the preacher, who has given us freedom of   religion.&lt;br /&gt;It is the veteran,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;not the reporter, who has given us freedom of  the  press.&lt;br /&gt;It is the veteran,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;not the poet, who has given us freedom of  speech.&lt;br /&gt;It is the veteran,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;not the campus organizer, who has given us  freedom to  assemble.&lt;br /&gt;It is the veteran,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;not the lawyer, who has given us the right to  a fair  trial.&lt;br /&gt;It is the veteran,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;i&gt;not the politician, who has given us the  right to  vote.&lt;br /&gt;It is the veteran,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;who salutes the flag, who serves under the  flag, and  whose coffin will be draped by the flag.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Sarah Palin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Enjoy &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=394273363434&amp;amp;h=047db7410cbe91bd097e7dbe0717ef69&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dvq9HHJjlEyo%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded" linkindex="1615" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq9HHJjlEyo&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;this  version&lt;/a&gt; of the poem recited by Fred Thompson.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_394273363434" id="commentable_item_234781057" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;394273363434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0786bf16311b55e4&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_393619003434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=393619003434" linkindex="1616"&gt;Passing The  Buck Doesn’t “Plug the D#*! Hole”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 8:01pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Nearly 40 days in, our President finally addressed the American  people’s growing concerns about the Gulf Coast oil spill. Listening to  today’s press conference, you’d think the administration has been  working with single-minded focus on the Gulf gusher since the start of  the disaster. In reality, their focus has been anything but singular to  help solve this monumental problem. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the President really was fully focused on this issue from day one,  why did it take &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=bc198b81be7b2731ca56ea2ee775f283&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2FResearch%2FReports%2F2010%2F05%2FThe-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned" linkindex="1617" target="_blank" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/05/The-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned"&gt;nine  whole days&lt;/a&gt; before the administration asked the Department of  Defense for help in deploying equipment needed for the extreme depth  spill site?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was the expert group assembled by Energy Commissioner Steven Chu  only set up &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=148d23edc285ec81cb10110c657d2068&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fpreview.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2F2010-05-14%2Fobama-sends-bomb-inventor-mars-expert-to-fix-bp-oil-spill-in-mexican-gulf.html%3Fxid%3Dhuffbloomberg" linkindex="1618" target="_blank" title="http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-05-14/obama-sends-bomb-inventor-mars-expert-to-fix-bp-oil-spill-in-mexican-gulf.html?xid=huffbloomberg"&gt;three  weeks after the start of this disaster&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was Governor Jindal forced &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=4fe105d99677951b2ccd11dc71bffbc2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSTRE64M2L220100524%3Ftype%3DpoliticsNews" linkindex="1619" target="_blank" title="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64M2L220100524?type=politicsNews"&gt;more  than a month after the start of the disaster&lt;/a&gt; to go on national  television to beg for materials needed to tackle the oil spill and for  federal approval to build offshore sand barriers that are imperative to  protect his state’s coastline?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why was no mention of the spill made by our President for days on end  while Americans waited to hear if he grasped the import of his  leadership on this energy issue?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why have several countries and competent organizations who offered help  or expertise in dealing with the spill not even received a response back  from the Unified Area Command &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=d5e1a700ebf9877bf2050054629de060&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2010%2FUS%2F05%2F26%2Fgulf.spill.help%2Findex.html" linkindex="1620" target="_blank" title="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/05/26/gulf.spill.help/index.html"&gt;to  this day&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=2e1246d3c534e7f00a37cd0fc9979a4a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.chron.com%2Fnewswatchenergy%2Farchives%2F2010%2F05%2Fobama_confident.html" linkindex="1621" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.chron.com/newswatchenergy/archives/2010/05/obama_confident.html"&gt;claimed&lt;/a&gt;  that “this notion that somehow the federal government is somehow  sitting on the sidelines and for the last three or four or five weeks  we’ve just been letting BP make a whole bunch of decisions is simply not  true.” But, in fact, that is how U.S. Coast Guard Commandant &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=9e000eafd3907926e11b04ce9ec8be1a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessweek.com%2Fnews%2F2010-05-23%2Fcoast-guard-s-allen-says-he-trusts-bp-in-spill-effort-update1-.html" linkindex="1622" target="_blank" title="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-23/coast-guard-s-allen-says-he-trusts-bp-in-spill-effort-update1-.html"&gt;Thad  Allen&lt;/a&gt; described the Obama administration’s approach to this crisis:  “We keep a close watch.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Listening to the President, you get the impression he is continually  surprised by the inability of various centralized government agencies to  get more involved and help solve problems. His lack of executive  experience might explain this because he is apparently unaware that it’s  his job as a chief executive to make sure they do their jobs and help  solve problems. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fundamental problem at the core of this crisis is a lack of  responsibility. (I risk the President taking my comments personally, but  they’re not intended to be personal; my comments reflect what many  others feel, and we just want to help him tackle this enormous spill  problem.) There’s a culture of buck-passing at the heart of this  administration that has caused the tragedy of a sunken oil rig to turn  into a potential disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=bc198b81be7b2731ca56ea2ee775f283&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2FResearch%2FReports%2F2010%2F05%2FThe-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned" linkindex="1623" target="_blank" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/05/The-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned"&gt;1990  Oil Pollution Act&lt;/a&gt; was drafted in response to the &lt;i&gt;Exxon-Valdez&lt;/i&gt;  spill in my home state. It created new procedures for offshore  cleanups, specifically putting the federal government in charge of such  operations. The President should have used the authority granted by the  OPA – immediately – to take control of the situation. That is a big part  of what the OPA is for – to designate who is in charge so  finger-pointing won’t disrupt efforts to just “plug the d#*! hole.” But  instead of immediately engaging with this crisis, our President chose to  spend precious time on political pet causes like haranguing the state  of Arizona for doing what he himself was supposed to do – secure the  nation’s border. He also spent much time fundraising and politicking for  liberal candidates and causes while we waited for him to grasp the  enormity of the Gulf spill.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that the American people are calling him out on his lack of  engagement with this disaster, the buck-passing is in full swing – and,  unbelievably, his administration is still looking to blame his  predecessor. Amazingly, even those of us who support energy independence  for America are the brunt of some buck-passing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He suggested today that a “culture of corruption” at the U.S. Minerals  Management Service (MMS) was solely the previous administration’s  responsibility and that the failure of the inspection system was a  failure of that administration. That is false. The MMS has been &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=e82e069e5cfcfd1ff380f36485a2af99&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.com%2Fbostonglobe%2Feditorial_opinion%2Feditorials%2Farticles%2F2010%2F05%2F20%2Fobama_must_get_control_of_rogue_oil_regulators%2F" linkindex="1624" target="_blank" title="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/20/obama_must_get_control_of_rogue_oil_regulators/"&gt;his  responsibility&lt;/a&gt; since January 20, 2009. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MMS director who &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=6c553e313bc6366df81bdc4c2603cdf2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2010%2F05%2F27%2FAR2010052703302.html" linkindex="1625" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052703302.html"&gt;resigned  today&lt;/a&gt;, Elizabeth Birnbaum, was appointed by &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=b32d41b32964fb340a36006aaa73b0c8&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mms.gov%2Fooc%2Fnewweb%2Fdirectorspage%2Fdirector.htm" linkindex="1626" target="_blank" title="http://www.mms.gov/ooc/newweb/directorspage/director.htm"&gt;his  administration&lt;/a&gt;. And the most recent inspection of the oil rig took  place a mere 10 days before the explosion – &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=de59fa7bbecd0c81e890106699e2ffc7&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2FResearch%2FReports%2F2010%2F05%2FGulf-Coast-Oil-Spill-Does-the-Federal-Government-Share-Responsibility" linkindex="1627" target="_blank" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/05/Gulf-Coast-Oil-Spill-Does-the-Federal-Government-Share-Responsibility"&gt;also  very much on his watch&lt;/a&gt;, not President Bush’s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The President is also now attempting to somehow distance himself from  his administration’s recent decision to open a few areas of the  continental shelf to oil and gas exploration. That’s unfortunate because  America desperately needs our domestic oil and natural gas. We rely on  it for our prosperity, security, and freedom. The President’s decision  to open a few areas to offshore exploration was the right decision then;  and unlike his quickly evolving position on energy development now, I  continue to believe it’s the right decision today – because energy  independence is in the long-term economic and security interests of the  United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I explained in &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=73ccc11e1e0f8bc58ba96fea473d7e06&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Farticle.nationalreview.com%2F410205%2Fdrill%2Fsarah-palin" linkindex="1628" target="_blank" title="http://article.nationalreview.com/410205/drill/sarah-palin"&gt;an  article&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;i&gt;National Review&lt;/i&gt; last year, conventional sources  like natural gas “can act as a clean ‘bridge fuel’ to a future when more  renewable sources are available.” I do not, as the President mistakenly  believes, think we can “drill, baby, drill” our way out of all of our  troubles. As I have consistently stated, we need an “all of the above”  approach to energy independence that combines conventional drilling with  energy conservation and renewable-energy development. My record in  Alaska clearly shows my commitment to this “all of the above” approach.  Over 20 percent of Alaska’s electricity currently comes from renewable  sources. As governor, I put forward a long-term plan to increase that  figure to 50 percent by 2025, which is the most ambitious renewable  energy target in the nation. I take great pride in helping to make  Alaska, in the words of the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=393619003434&amp;amp;h=761cafab774fc5b103d23a7838692df2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F02%2F18%2Fbusiness%2F18alaska.html%3F_r%3D2" linkindex="1629" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/business/18alaska.html?_r=2"&gt;  “a Frontier for Green Power&lt;/a&gt;,” even as we continue to embrace the  need to “drill, baby, drill” at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alaska can be that frontier for renewable energy only because our  conventional oil and gas reserves provide us with “a bridge” to a  greener energy future. In fact, Alaska has enough reserves of both oil  and gas to help the United States cross that bridge – if only we are  allowed to drill!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please, Mr. President, hear me on this, if nothing else: if it’s your  administration’s decision to suspend the leases of new oil field  developments off the coast of Alaska in response to the Gulf’s deepwater  spill, and you still remain committed to locking up ANWR and other  oil-rich lands, please know you are making a mistake. Unless we continue  to drill here and drill now, we risk digging ourselves deeper into the  hole created by our continued dependence on foreign energy – which often  comes from regimes that care nothing for our prosperity or security,  and even less for global environmental safety. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need affordable, reliable, secure, environmentally-sound, and  domestically-produced energy, but this administration continues to lock  up federal land filled with huge energy reserves. If there is to be a  moratorium on offshore development, then it’s time we stop ignoring our  safest options for domestic development – places like ANWR and NPR-A in  my home state of Alaska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it’s time for the administration to stop passing the buck and get  control of the disaster in the Gulf. There’s a reason why Harry Truman  had that famous sign on his desk. The “buck stops” with the occupant of  the Oval Office. When the American people elected President Obama they  gave him responsibility to handle this disaster. He promised to “heal  the earth, and watch the waters recede...” or something far-fetched like  that. It was unbelievable then, it’s impossible now, but what I believe  he meant was that he promised to be held accountable. With all due  respect, Mr. President, you have a huge job in front of you. We hope  you’re learning. Please learn that we must have domestic energy  development, you must stop looking backward and blaming Bush, and we  must all work together to “plug the d#*! hole.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_393619003434" id="commentable_item_451836190" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;393619003434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;8f6ff99155956b3c&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_392858953434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=392858953434" linkindex="1630"&gt;America  Speaks Out!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 10:34am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Here’s a great forum for those who believe it’s time to stand up  and be heard! From the tea party movement to the town halls, we’ve seen  Americans rise up and make their voices heard. From the bailouts to the  wasteful stimulus spending bill to the $2.5 trillion health care take  over, Washington stopped listening to us average everyday hardworking  Americans... so we’re doing something about that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today a new website was launched to change the situation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Led by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, a new project  is now launched called “America Speaking Out” which is aimed at giving  us a direct role in putting together a new policy agenda for our country  based on the principles of smaller, more accountable government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the website at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392858953434&amp;amp;h=cd21adc6e5722ce973043a48a81ed45e&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americaspeakingout.com%2F" linkindex="1631" target="_blank" title="http://www.americaspeakingout.com/"&gt;http://www.americaspeaking&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;out.com/&lt;/a&gt; and make your voices heard. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s time to take back our government and put it on our side. Remember  it’s “We the People”!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_392858953434" id="commentable_item_2052100096" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;392858953434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;255102f247a0cfd7&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_392687973434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=392687973434" linkindex="1632"&gt;Just When  Ya Think It Can’t Get Any More “Interesting”... Welcome, Neighbor!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday, May 24, 2010 at 10:17pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Spring has sprung in Alaska, and with this beautiful season comes  the news today that the Palins have a new neighbor! Welcome, Joe  McGinniss!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; Joe McGinniss. Here he is – about 15 feet away on the  neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my  kitchen window. Maybe we’ll welcome him with a homemade blueberry pie  tomorrow so he’ll know how friendly Alaskans are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We found out the good news today. Upon my family’s return this morning  from endorsement rallies and speeches in the Lower 48 states, I finally  got the chance to tackle my garden and lawn this evening! So, putting on  the shorts and tank top to catch that too-brief northern summer sun and  placing a giddy Trig in his toddler backpack for a lawn-mowing  adventure, I looked up in surprise to see a “new neighbor” overlooking  my property just a stone’s throw away. Needless to say, our outdoor  adventure ended quickly after Todd went to introduce himself to the  stranger who was peering in...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joe announced to Todd that he’s moved in right next door to us. He’s  rented the place for the next five months or so. He moved up all the way  from Massachusetts to live right next to us – while he writes a book  about me. Knowing of his many other scathing pieces of “journalism”  (including the bizarre anti-Palin administration oil development pieces  that resulted in my Department of Natural Resources announcing that his  work is the most twisted energy-related yellow journalism they’d ever  encountered), we’re sure to have a doozey to look forward to with this  treasure he’s penning. Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while  overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming  hole?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome, Joe! It’ll be a great summer – come borrow a cup of sugar if  ever you need some sweetener. And you know what they say about “fences  make for good neighbors”? Well, we’ll get started on that tall fence  tomorrow, and I’ll try to keep Trig’s squeals down to a quiet giggle so  we don’t disturb your peaceful summer. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="photo photo_none" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="photo_img"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4097864&amp;amp;op=1&amp;amp;view=all&amp;amp;subj=392687973434&amp;amp;aid=-1&amp;amp;auser=0&amp;amp;oid=392687973434&amp;amp;id=24718773587" linkindex="1633"&gt;&lt;img class="  img" onload="var img = this; onloadRegister(function() { adjustImage(img); });" src="http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs609.snc3/32074_402689238587_24718773587_4097864_1334045_n.jpg" style="width: 460px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="caption"&gt;Hi, Neighbor! May I Call You “Joe”?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_392687973434" id="commentable_item_254269354" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;392687973434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6944c75a33dc191d&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_392573883434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=392573883434" linkindex="1634"&gt;Big Oil:  Learning from Alaska’s Experience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday, May 24, 2010 at 3:10pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Many Americans want a serious discussion about what can be done to  finally tackle the Gulf Coast oil spill. Unfortunately, yesterday White  House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used his appearance on “Face the  Nation” to deflect from the needed discussion about solutions as he &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=f372998d15a67dff0190a02833268a98&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fhtdocs%2Fpdf%2FFTN_052310.pdf%3Ftag%3DcbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea" linkindex="1635" target="_blank" title="http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/FTN_052310.pdf?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea"&gt;suggested&lt;/a&gt;  that I should “get slightly more informed as to what’s going on in and  around oil drilling in this country.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Gibbs’ comments were in response to something I said last weekend in  an interview on “Fox News Sunday.” In the course of discussing the  administration’s failure to get to grips with the oil spill, I pointed  out that the media was rather silent on asking if there was a connection  between the White House’s hands-off response to the spill and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=9ff59330ab359ec13c07a2e89d1a4c1a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0510%2F36783.html" linkindex="1636" target="_blank" title="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html"&gt;the  undisputed fact&lt;/a&gt; that Barack Obama was BP’s top recipient of both PAC  and individual money for the last 20 years. Please note that I never  claimed there was a conspiratorial connection; rather, I was saying that  it’s odd that so few in the media have asked that question. In fact, I  believe Major Garrett is one of the few reporters to &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=ff71d755ef8878cb294335b7fed586b8&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLtc3rgyozv0%26feature%3Dchannel" linkindex="1637" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltc3rgyozv0&amp;amp;feature=channel"&gt;pursue  the issue&lt;/a&gt;. You can be sure that if this were a Republican  administration, at the very least the media would be asking that  question nonstop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for getting “informed” about oil drilling: I’m confident that in the  course of my chairmanship of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation  Commission (AOGCC) and the U.S.’s Interstate Oil and Gas Compact  Commission (IOGCC), and my work as governor of our nation’s huge oil  producing state, I’ve learned enough to be able to say with some  certainty that the White House’s response to this crisis leaves  something to be desired. I also believe that the White House should  spend all of its time finding solutions to the enormous oil gush  problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Obama administration &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=7df415dd27b14e2040ab8fb47c4f4e96&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fox10tv.com%2Fdpp%2Fnews%2Fgulf_oil_spill%2Foil-scrutiny-turns-to-obama-administration" linkindex="1638" target="_blank" title="http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/gulf_oil_spill/oil-scrutiny-turns-to-obama-administration"&gt;claims&lt;/a&gt;  that it “will not rest until we get this situation under control,” but  in practice it’s evident that it must do more to stop a potential  environmental disaster from happening. U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Thad  Allen probably &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=873eea1b3f77121848463b96597dc9c3&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessweek.com%2Fnews%2F2010-05-23%2Fcoast-guard-s-allen-says-he-trusts-bp-in-spill-effort-update1-.html" linkindex="1639" target="_blank" title="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-23/coast-guard-s-allen-says-he-trusts-bp-in-spill-effort-update1-.html"&gt;summed  it up best&lt;/a&gt; when he described the Obama Administration’s approach to  this crisis as “keeping a close watch” while BP is tackling the problem  – at the company’s own pace. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Administration watches from the sidelines, the Gulf Coast  states face some potential disaster. This raises serious questions.  Should it really take &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=a81cfbcebc1110ebf569120b413ab32b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2FResearch%2FReports%2F2010%2F05%2FThe-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned" linkindex="1640" target="_blank" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/05/The-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned"&gt;nine  whole days&lt;/a&gt; before the Administration asked the Department of  Defense for help in deploying equipment needed for the extreme depth  spill site? Why is Governor Jindal &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=ca01b1875990608f5cc274c6c4c517d1&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FidUSTRE64M2L220100524%3Ftype%3DpoliticsNews" linkindex="1641" target="_blank" title="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64M2L220100524?type=politicsNews"&gt;still  waiting&lt;/a&gt;, 35 days later, for material needed to tackle the oil spill  to protect the coast’s environment and for federal approval to build  offshore sand barriers to protect his state’s coast line? Is it correct  that the Coast Guard was initially &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=392573883434&amp;amp;h=a81cfbcebc1110ebf569120b413ab32b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2FResearch%2FReports%2F2010%2F05%2FThe-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned" linkindex="1642" target="_blank" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/05/The-Federal-Response-to-the-Oil-Spill-Lessons-to-Be-Learned"&gt;unwilling  to burn off the oil&lt;/a&gt; for fear of causing air pollution (which would  have been far less harmful than the current water pollution)?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These questions all require answers. In the meantime, let me make a  constructive suggestion to help the White House out of its current  impasse. They should reach out to the best oil and gas team in the  nation and tap into its expertise. I know just the team: Alaska’s  Department of Natural Resources, led by Commissioner Tom Irwin. Having  worked with Tom and his DNR team as Governor, I can vouch for their  expertise and their integrity in dealing with Big Oil and overseeing its  developments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This team’s (and Alaska’s PSIO team’s) expertise on oil spill issues is  particularly relevant. We all lived and worked through the Exxon oil  spill, and we all committed to the principle that this would never  happen again in Alaska’s waters, at least not on our watch. That’s why  we created the Petroleum Systems Integrity Office (PSIO) when we saw  proof of improper maintenance of oil infrastructure in our state. And  that’s why we instituted new oversight and held BP and other oil  companies financially accountable for poor maintenance practices. And  that’s why we cracked down on unethical and unsound practices by oil  companies and their contractors that operate in Alaska. And that’s why I  filed a Friend-of-the-Court brief against Exxon’s interests for its  decades-old responsibility to compensate victims adversely affected by  the &lt;i&gt;Exxon-Valdez&lt;/i&gt; oil spill. None of these actions made us popular  with oil company management. (In fact, Commissioner Irwin received a  message from a North Slope oil company employee that summed up their  view of our efforts well: the message told him to “go to hell, but  resign first.”) Our relationship with Big Oil may have been perceived as  contentious because we always put the interests of Alaskans first.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The White House could do worse than emulate what Alaska did over the  years. No, it doesn’t make you popular with Big Oil (my commissioners  and I certainly learned that!), and you may see fewer campaign  contributions flow your way – but so what? Dealing with the impacts of  35 days of uncontrolled oil flow into pristine waters is more than  enough time for the White House to realize they need to tap into  expertise, hold BP accountable, and not waste time politicking around  such a grave situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taking a tough stand to protect our environment while domestically  drilling for much-needed energy sources is the only way the public can  trust government and industry to safely work towards energy  independence. We need to “Drill, baby, drill” responsibly, safely, and  ethically. That’s the way Alaska’s DNR accomplishes its mission in  America’s 49th state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_392573883434" id="commentable_item_1198082727" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;392573883434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;3375a21bddb797fc&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_392492378434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=392492378434" linkindex="1643"&gt;Nikki Haley  in Opposition’s Crosshairs: a Good Sign for Nikki and South Carolina!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday, May 24, 2010 at 10:55am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Well, whaddya know? South Carolina’s conservative candidate, Nikki  Haley, recently zipped to the front of the line in her state’s race for  governor; and lo and behold, now accusations of an affair surface.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nikki categorically denies the accusation that was spewed out there by a  political blogger who has the gall to throw the stone, but then quickly  duck and hide and proclaim he would not comment further on the issue.  Quite convenient. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Nikki and I held her endorsement rally on the steps of the  beautiful and historic South Carolina state house a few weeks ago, I  warned her and her family that she &lt;i&gt;would&lt;/i&gt; be targeted because  she’s a threat to a corrupt political machine, and she &lt;i&gt;would&lt;/i&gt; be  put through some hell. That, unfortunately, is the nature of the beast  in politics today – especially for conservative “underdog” candidates  who surge in the polls and threaten to shake things up so government can  be put back on the side of the people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;South Carolina: don’t let some blogger make any accusation against your  Nikki if the guy doesn’t even have the guts or the integrity to speak  further on such a significant claim. And don’t believe anything a  liberal rag claims or suggests unless the reporter involved has the  integrity and the facts to report to you so you can make up your own  mind. For traditional media to rely on an accusation via some blog entry  is almost laughable, but I know the seriousness of it because that’s  exactly what my family and colleagues have had to put up with, every  single day, for the past couple of years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said to Nikki this morning, “Hang in there. I’ve been there. Any  lies told about you will strengthen your resolve to clean up political  and media corruption. You and your supporters will grow stronger through  things like this.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reaching her from Wasilla, I then joked with Nikki that I was calling  her from one of the many locations the lamestream media claims I moved  to. (Let’s see, I think the last I heard I was living in the Hamptons,  or was it Montana? No, supposedly L.A. is where they claim I moved when I  “left Todd” in their idiotic reports.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;South Carolina friends, don’t let ‘em just make things up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_392492378434" id="commentable_item_1160816742" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;392492378434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;cd5b7cc430950401&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_391191163434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=391191163434" linkindex="1644"&gt;The Right  Game Plan for Victory in America with #86&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 10:01am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;I’m proud to support Clint Didier as he willingly puts it all on  the line to serve Washington state in the U.S. Senate for all the right  reasons! This selfless, inspiring commonsense constitutional  conservative will help put our country on the right track. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=391191163434&amp;amp;h=07d94436c44e0a452d6d0de5ff2cfee5&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clintdidier.org%2F" linkindex="1645" target="_blank" title="http://www.clintdidier.org/"&gt;Clint’s website  here&lt;/a&gt;, and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=391191163434&amp;amp;h=dcbeba13bb3b62fe27cf780b974c1c0a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroup.php%3Fgid%3D144064676225" linkindex="1646" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=144064676225"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=391191163434&amp;amp;h=9dc5ccc141c6035472b1966051682722&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FClintDidier" linkindex="1647" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/ClintDidier"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s get behind #86!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_391191163434" id="commentable_item_738302278" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;391191163434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;a1f5dc6eaba1fb9d&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=390526273434" linkindex="1648"&gt;American  Apology Tour Continues&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 10:18am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;On Fox News &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=b47f694c1a82dbbb918ef659969b3f28&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2010%2F05%2F18%2Fstate-department-defends-official-expressed-regret-chinese-arizona-law%2F" linkindex="1649" target="_blank" title="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/18/state-department-defends-official-expressed-regret-chinese-arizona-law/"&gt;this  morning&lt;/a&gt;, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley became the third  Obama administration official in short succession to admit that he  hadn’t actually bothered to read Arizona’s &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=e6cfcd125f1cd23d0dc25df6e7c20369&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.securetheborder.org%2Fread-the-law%2F" linkindex="1650" target="_blank" title="http://www.securetheborder.org/read-the-law/"&gt;10-page  long&lt;/a&gt; “secure the border” bill before condemning it and criticizing  Americans who support Arizona’s necessary efforts to do the job the  Obama Administration should be doing. Crowley’s statement follows  similar admissions from Attorney General &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=614df78fb282af5d47272e596c830c49&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fblogs%2Fjoshgerstein%2F0510%2FHolder_hasnt_read_Ariz_immigration_bill.html" linkindex="1651" target="_blank" title="http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0510/Holder_hasnt_read_Ariz_immigration_bill.html"&gt;Eric  Holder&lt;/a&gt; and Secretary of Homeland Security &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=21bcbd0c3a584e05d3bb1e4c8646e5c8&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics.com%2Fvideo%2F2010%2F05%2F17%2Fnapolitano_admits_she_hasnt_read_arizona_law_but_says_she_wouldnt_sign_it.html" linkindex="1652" target="_blank" title="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/05/17/napolitano_admits_she_hasnt_read_arizona_law_but_says_she_wouldnt_sign_it.html"&gt;Janet  Napolitano&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first blush this revelation seemed &lt;i&gt;unbelievable&lt;/i&gt;, but maybe I  shouldn’t be surprised. This now seems “the Washington way” of doing  things. If the party in power tells us they have to pass bills in order  to find out what’s actually in them, they can also criticize bills (and  divide the country with ensuing rhetoric) without actually reading them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still I can’t help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizona’s citizens for  the incompetence shown by these Administration officials. Arizonans  have the courage to do what the Obama administration has failed to do in  its first year and a half in office – namely secure our border and  enforce our federal laws. And as a result, Arizonans have been subjected  to a campaign of baseless accusations by the same people who freely  admit they haven’t a clue about what they’re actually campaigning  against. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The absolute low point of this campaign came last Friday, when a U.S.  State Department delegation met with Chinese negotiators to discuss  human rights. Apparently, our State Department felt it necessary to make  their Chinese guests feel less bad about their own record of human  rights abuses by repeatedly atoning for American “sins” – including, it  seems, the Arizona immigration/pro-border security law. Asked if Arizona  came up at all during the meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Michael  Posner &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=980575332183da7bb782cbb5b05657a3&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.state.gov%2Fr%2Fpa%2Fprs%2Fps%2F2010%2F05%2F141899.htm" linkindex="1653" target="_blank" title="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/05/141899.htm"&gt;answered&lt;/a&gt;:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first  session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that  we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential  discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our  own society.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note that he said “We brought it up” – not the Chinese, but the U.S.  State Department’s own delegation. Instead of grilling the Chinese about  their appalling record on human rights, the State Department continued  the unbelievable apology tour by raising “early and often” Arizona’s  decision to secure our border. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arizona’s law, which just mirrors the federal law, simply allows the  police to ask those whom they have already stopped for some form of  identification like a driver’s license. By what absurd stretch of the  imagination is that the moral equivalent of China’s lack of freedoms,  population controls (including &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=c6c382049b56fbb451994e4c12e6717e&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Ftemplates%2Fstory%2Fstory.php%3FstoryId%3D9766870" linkindex="1654" target="_blank" title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9766870"&gt;forced  abortions&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=fd7756f0c206e95c84488d90e364bfd8&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F04%2F08%2Fworld%2Fasia%2F08censor.html" linkindex="1655" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/world/asia/08censor.html"&gt;censorship&lt;/a&gt;,  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=390526273434&amp;amp;h=9f838261e3ef7119280e9d92e0672efb&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hrw.org%2Fen%2Fnews%2F2010%2F05%2F07%2Fletter-secretary-clinton-regarding-us-china-human-rights-dialogue" linkindex="1656" target="_blank" title="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/05/07/letter-secretary-clinton-regarding-us-china-human-rights-dialogue"&gt;arbitrary  detentions&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surely our U.S. Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, must disagree with  the Obama Administration’s continued apology tour? We have nothing to  apologize for. If Administration officials want to apologize to anyone,  apologize to the American people for the fact that after a year and a  half in office, they still haven’t done anything to secure our borders,  and they join our President in making false suggestions about Arizona’s  effort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_389979423434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389979423434" linkindex="1657"&gt;Lend a Hand  to the Good Folks of Tennessee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 9:37pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;My friend John Rich has a new song called “Lend a Hand” dedicated  to the flood relief efforts in Nashville. You can download the song for  free at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389979423434&amp;amp;h=50138fec79c63b2d5a2f69c88c9612f6&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.johnrich.com%2Findex.php" linkindex="1658" target="_blank" title="http://www.johnrich.com/index.php"&gt;his website  here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The good folks of Tennessee have been hit so hard by the recent flood.  They could sure use our help. We can pitch in by donating to the Red  Cross relief effort. Text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 or donate  online at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389979423434&amp;amp;h=f8a6dcad33594f3a26c93aabbdfeede5&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Famerican.redcross.org%2Fsite%2FPageServer%3Fpagename%3Dntld_main%26s_subsrc%3DRCO_RedTab%26s_src%3DDRF" linkindex="1659" target="_blank" title="http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&amp;amp;s_subsrc=RCO_RedTab&amp;amp;s_src=DRF"&gt;the  Red Cross’ website here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s do as John’s song says and “lend a hand to our neighbor and throw a  lifeline to a friend.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_389979423434" id="commentable_item_1287284007" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;389979423434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;043e00a74dcdc0a7&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_389749508434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389749508434" linkindex="1660"&gt;Mr.  President, do your job. Secure our border&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 9:57am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Let’s respect the hardworking, accomplished legal immigrants who  sacrificed much, contributed selflessly, and helped build America into  the greatest melting pot on earth! We need to understand the importance  of America’s fair immigration laws.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Erasing U.S. borders will destroy our country as we become less safe –  and this national security issue is what Arizona and other border states  are addressing with reinforcement of federal immigration laws. They  have to do it because the feds aren’t doing it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spoke with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer yesterday, and she reminded  U.S. citizens that, despite President Obama’s ignoring this grave  national security threat, his dismissal of the need for border security  is no laughing matter – and it’s being used as a political tool to  divide her state along racial lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Arizona immigration law mirrors the fed’s own law. It sure would be  helpful if the Obama Administration would read the short 10-page bill  before laughing about it and condemning it. And it would be helpful if  the media would actually read it before twisting reports on its content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Log on to &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389749508434&amp;amp;h=4474906478f22941b1cb43f4dabbb404&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsecuretheborder.org%2F" linkindex="1661" target="_blank" title="http://securetheborder.org/"&gt;securetheborder.org&lt;/a&gt;  to learn more and show your support for our sister state of Arizona!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’re all Arizonans now and we say with clear unity: “Mr. President, do  your job. Secure our border.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_389749508434" id="commentable_item_240417900" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;389749508434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;f0603a2dfb59cfd0&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_389594173434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389594173434" linkindex="1662"&gt;New Mexico  is Fired Up, Ready to Go!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 9:34pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;I’m proud to endorse Susana Martinez for governor of New Mexico.  Susana is a strong pro-family, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment,  pro-development fiscal conservative who’s going to fight the corruption  that’s plagued her state and bring transparency, accountability, and  renewed fiscal vitality to New Mexico.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a tough district attorney, Susana fights for justice everyday in this  promising, beautiful state. Her unwavering commitment to bring justice  speaks to her determination and strength of character.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As governor, Susana will lead New Mexico to a new economic vitality  based on free market reform that cuts out the cronyism, invites  competition, reduces taxes, cuts waste, and creates jobs – all while  identifying and rooting out the corruption that has taken hold for too  long in this state which deserves so much better!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please join me in supporting this breath of fresh air from the Land of  Enchantment – the gorgeous state of New Mexico! Visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389594173434&amp;amp;h=6ff63204618703506c7d81746f6efd45&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsusanamartinez2010.com%2F" linkindex="1663" target="_blank" title="http://susanamartinez2010.com/"&gt;her website here&lt;/a&gt;,  and follow her on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389594173434&amp;amp;h=16194ba6fdca6e41f2d3f6a9c5f9ec03&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSusanaMartinezNM%23%2FSusanaMartinezFan" linkindex="1664" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/SusanaMartinezNM#/SusanaMartinezFan"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389594173434&amp;amp;h=ec6f712311325558658375ef7c220465&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fsusana2010" linkindex="1665" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/susana2010"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m also excited to join Susana at the 9:00 am rally tomorrow, Sunday,  May 16th, at the Albuquerque Marriott Grand Ballroom, located at 2101  Louisiana Blvd. NE. Space is limited, so please click &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389594173434&amp;amp;h=4f427a8ecda613accb6f82585927c067&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fsusanamartinez2010.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fsarah-is-coming%2F" linkindex="1666" target="_blank" title="http://susanamartinez2010.com/2010/05/sarah-is-coming/"&gt;here to  RSVP&lt;/a&gt; if you can swing by and join us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_389594173434" id="commentable_item_1690032065" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;389594173434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;30e05ed91b388dea&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_389468438434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389468438434" linkindex="1667"&gt;Research is  your friend, News Media. Try it sometime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 11:39am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;The more things change, the more they stay the same with twisted  media coverage of my comments. Stories from yesterday are littered with  typical inaccuracies and half truths; and in our never-ending quest to  hold the press accountable, here are the points that require correction:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) I was not “interviewed” by ABC News. I had an ABC News camera in my  face while I was signing things and greeting some attendees following  the Susan B. Anthony List Breakfast. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) My &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=15202effd0e0cf84f666a626a0c69e7e&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wcnc.com%2Fvideo%2Fraw%2FRaw-Video--Sarah-Palins-speech-at-the-NRA.html" linkindex="1668" target="_blank" title="http://www.wcnc.com/video/raw/Raw-Video--Sarah-Palins-speech-at-the-NRA.html"&gt;remarks  at the NRA Annual Meeting&lt;/a&gt; regarding the anti-Second Amendment  sentiments of Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi were as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“President Obama and his allies like Nancy Pelosi have been relatively  quiet on the gun control front – not because they don’t want to limit  your rights, but because they’re afraid of the political consequences.  Don’t doubt for a minute that &lt;b&gt;if they thought they could get away  with it&lt;/b&gt;, they would ban guns, and ban ammunition, and gut the Second  Amendment.” (emphasis added)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s what I said. And here’s what Barack Obama himself &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=af0cd3fdec79219736c047fd22d518e9&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fwashwire%2F2008%2F09%2F05%2Fobama-im-not-going-to-take-your-guns-away%2F" linkindex="1669" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/05/obama-im-not-going-to-take-your-guns-away/"&gt;once  said&lt;/a&gt;: “Even if I want to take them away, &lt;b&gt;I don’t have the votes  in Congress.&lt;/b&gt;” (emphasis added)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, what proof do we have that he would want to limit our Second  Amendment rights? Well, he made some pretzel-like &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=2e25d2a50d1c9b4d98755b2c5a1f84cf&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F26%2Fobama-on-gun-rights-decision-much-needed-guidance%2F" linkindex="1670" target="_blank" title="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/26/obama-on-gun-rights-decision-much-needed-guidance/"&gt;equivocating  statements&lt;/a&gt; about our individual right to keep and bear arms, and he  &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=ff503ae3ee40d295fcef218c69a049c0&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F26%2Fflip-flop-confirmed-obama-says-dc-gun-ban-went-beyond-constitutional-limits%2F" linkindex="1671" target="_blank" title="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/26/flip-flop-confirmed-obama-says-dc-gun-ban-went-beyond-constitutional-limits/"&gt;flip-flopped&lt;/a&gt;  on his opinion in the Heller case and then still wouldn’t come out and  say that the court made the right decision. But the real proof is his  terrible anti-gun record as a state senator in Illinois, where he voted  repeatedly &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=c227a36e1fa86a1d8af429001fd80f76&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nraila.org%2Fmedia%2FPDFs%2F2008Obamafactsht.pdf" linkindex="1672" target="_blank" title="http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/2008Obamafactsht.pdf"&gt;in favor  of banning guns and ammunition&lt;/a&gt;. He even expressed his support for  state legislation to “ban the manufacture, sale and possession of  handguns.” (This outrageous position was &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=bcf2699741abdf227504b2065d511618&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2Fstories%2F0308%2F9269_Page2.html" linkindex="1672" target="_blank" title="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9269_Page2.html"&gt;declared  in a questionnaire&lt;/a&gt;, which candidate Obama later claimed he “never  saw or approved,” despite the fact that his handwriting was on it – a  fact which he did not dispute.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for Nancy Pelosi – she’s a San Francisco Democrat. That should be  proof enough. But if you require more: She has an &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=90282481bf625262b3dd75b758f6d4e0&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrapvf.org%2FNews%2FArticle.aspx%3FID%3D226" linkindex="1673" target="_blank" title="http://www.nrapvf.org/News/Article.aspx?ID=226"&gt;F  rating&lt;/a&gt; from the NRA and supports &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=2ad5ba59d8986c5830aeb1d553d48a14&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freerepublic.com%2Ffocus%2Fnews%2F2224089%2Fposts" linkindex="1674" target="_blank" title="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2224089/posts"&gt;gun&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=bbb7a5c941f19c25f1bc7e3b62b97c4f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FGMA%2FBooks%2Fstory%3Fid%3D7271110%26page%3D1" linkindex="1675" target="_blank" title="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=7271110&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;bans&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=9e8e7ae6cd5001d351e3072e9525d4a5&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.examiner.com%2Fx-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner%257Ey2009m4d8-Pelosi-made-it-official-to-ABC-We-want-registration" linkindex="1676" target="_blank" title="http://www.examiner.com/x-4525-Seattle-Gun-Rights-Examiner%7Ey2009m4d8-Pelosi-made-it-official-to-ABC-We-want-registration"&gt;registration  laws&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As noted in my remarks, I don’t believe that it’s politically expedient  for them to attack our Second Amendment Rights. But that doesn’t mean  they wouldn’t like to do so if they had the chance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Despite reporters’ claims to the contrary, Obamacare &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt;  allow for &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=017f43948d09032dd0df1a021c99afae&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritage.org%2FResearch%2FReports%2F2010%2F04%2FObamacare-Impact-on-Taxpayer-Funding-of-Abortion" linkindex="1677" target="_blank" title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/04/Obamacare-Impact-on-Taxpayer-Funding-of-Abortion"&gt;public  funding of abortion&lt;/a&gt; in myriad ways, which is why the US Conference  of Catholic Bishops (speaking as the voice of authority for the Catholic  Church in America) &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=bde19ac3e43f7a212ac82fb4220d1b1f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fusccb.org%2Fhealthcare%2Fcardinal-george-healthcare-statement.pdf" linkindex="1678" target="_blank" title="http://usccb.org/healthcare/cardinal-george-healthcare-statement.pdf"&gt;unequivocally  opposed&lt;/a&gt; Obamacare despite the Church’s long desire for health care  reform. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) As for the remarks I made yesterday about my beautiful son, Trig, I  ask that you &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389468438434&amp;amp;h=714ab04ccbe7e08790df689b76b81009&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.viddler.com%2Fexplore%2Frightscoop%2Fvideos%2F31%2F" linkindex="1678" target="_blank" title="http://www.viddler.com/explore/rightscoop/videos/31/"&gt;watch my  speech here&lt;/a&gt; and judge for yourself my intentions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_389468438434" id="commentable_item_950913894" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;389468438434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;b17c90d10eb8fd5c&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_389119888434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=389119888434" linkindex="1679"&gt;Shaking it  up in South Carolina with Nikki Haley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Friday, May 14, 2010 at 9:25am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;I’m very proud to add my voice to Jenny Sanford’s and others in  endorsing Nikki Haley for governor of South Carolina. Nikki is a strong  pro-life, pro-Second Amendment fiscal conservative who served with  distinction as a state lawmaker, a reformer who fought her own party to  protect the interests of the taxpayer, a proud daughter of immigrants  who worked night and day to achieve the American dream, a wife of an  officer in the Army National Guard, a board member at her family’s  Methodist church, and – most proudly – the loving mother of two  beautiful kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s my honor to join Nikki today at a rally at 5:30 pm at the  statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina. If you are in the area, please  come by and join us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, Nikki needs our support in her race. She’s the scrappy  underdog in a tough competitive primary. Please visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389119888434&amp;amp;h=06c536fccbef8d25e7f9152a15a2f8dc&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nikkihaley.com%2F" linkindex="1680" target="_blank" title="http://www.nikkihaley.com/"&gt;her website here&lt;/a&gt;,  and follow her on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389119888434&amp;amp;h=a45e6aaabb9820230c8be4e8ffe8d48d&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNikkiHaleyforGovernor" linkindex="1681" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/NikkiHaleyforGovernor"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=389119888434&amp;amp;h=6d7aa8d1c36bd56191d709c06cb3ac9f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fnikkihaley" linkindex="1682" target="_blank" title="http://www.twitter.com/nikkihaley"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s help this tough, proud daughter of South Carolina shake things up  in the Palmetto state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_389119888434" id="commentable_item_700485587" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;389119888434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;5e5eb0af7ee3e4fa&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_388850663434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=388850663434" linkindex="1683"&gt;Hey Girls,  Play Ball!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 1:07pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;This has-been ball player/Wasilla Warrior would like to send a  shout out of support to the Highland Park High School Giants Girls  Basketball Team in Illinois. These girls &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=388850663434&amp;amp;h=c552f9e4450146209af5d2d77bc858a2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2F2010%2F05%2F12%2Fhoop-dreams-shattered-arizona-safety-fears%2F" linkindex="1684" target="_blank" title="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/12/hoop-dreams-shattered-arizona-safety-fears/"&gt;have  been working&lt;/a&gt;, having bake sales, and saving money for months in  order play in a hoop tournament in Arizona. They’ve won their school’s  first conference title in 26 years, but now because a school bureaucrat –  an assistant superintendent – wants to play politics, they’re not  allowed to play ball.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keeping girls off the court for political reasons? As I said last night  in Illinois: “Them’s fightin’ words.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The assistant superintendent &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=388850663434&amp;amp;h=efd6a4a1392a23c20bd7fa811255a533&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.chicagotribune.com%2F2010-05-12%2Fnews%2Fct-met-arizona-trip-canceled-20100512_1_basketball-court-brewer-last-month-immigration-paperwork" linkindex="1685" target="_blank" title="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-05-12/news/ct-met-arizona-trip-canceled-20100512_1_basketball-court-brewer-last-month-immigration-paperwork"&gt;claims&lt;/a&gt;  that a trip to Arizona “would not be aligned with our beliefs and  values.” But apparently the school has no problem sending kids on trips  to China, which has a population control policy that is anti-girl in  practice – contributing to female infanticide and abandonment and  sex-selective abortions. So, is China – with its many serious human  rights violations (too many to list here) – “aligned” with the “values  and beliefs” of the school? But our sister-state of Arizona is not?  Really? This is ridiculous and totally unfair to the girls who just want  to play ball. Going to Arizona to play in a tournament will not  endanger them, and the ban sure doesn’t solve the problem of unsecured  borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These boycotts of Arizona will not help the state or lead to positive  change. Economic and political boycotts of our nation’s 48th state will  hurt &lt;i&gt;all&lt;/i&gt; Arizonans – including all members of the Hispanic  community. If people really want to help, they should tell President  Obama to do his job: secure the border. If he were to do his job, the  good people of Arizona, who have been overwhelmed by violence on their  border, would not feel compelled to do it for him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, let’s help the girls “go rogue” and go play ball.  Please take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=388850663434&amp;amp;h=d9a995814048cd363ab77b9eec35db7a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FSupport-the-Highland-Park-High-School-Girls-Basketball-Team%2F122663581086259" linkindex="1686" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-the-Highland-Park-High-School-Girls-Basketball-Team/122663581086259"&gt;this  Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; set up on their behalf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s have our own bake sale! Let the girls play ball!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_388850663434" id="commentable_item_2068131840" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;388850663434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;424e073f21645dc4&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_386510153434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=386510153434" linkindex="1687"&gt;Let’s shake  it up in California! (Updated)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 11:32am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;I’d like to tell you about a Commonsense Conservative running for  office in California this year. She grew up in a modest home with a  school teacher dad, worked her way through several colleges, and then  entered an arena where few women had tread. Through a combination of  hard work, perseverance, and common sense, she proved the naysayers  wrong to reach the top of her field, where she led with distinction –  facing hard truths, making tough decisions, and showing real leadership  through a rocky transition period. Where others had failed, her company  had weathered the storm and settled on a stronger new foundation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her name is Carly Fiorina, and I’m proud to endorse her for U.S. Senate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carly is the Commonsense Conservative that California needs and our  country could sure use in these trying times. Most importantly, she’s  running for the right reasons. She has an understanding that is sorely  lacking in D.C. She’s not a career politician. She’s a businesswoman who  has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job  creation. Her fiscal conservatism is rooted in real life experience. She  knows that when government grows, the private sector shrinks under the  burden of debt and deficits. We can trust Carly to do the right thing  for America’s economy and to make the principled decisions she has  throughout her professional career. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please consider that Carly is the conservative who has the potential to  beat California’s liberal senator, Barbara Boxer, in November. I’m a  huge proponent of contested primaries, so I’m glad to see the contest in  California’s GOP, but I support Carly as she fights through a tough  primary against a liberal member of the GOP who seems to bear almost no  difference to Boxer, one of the most leftwing members of the Senate.  Carly needs our support in this crucial election year when we have a  real chance of putting an end to the Pelosi/Reid “Big Government”  agenda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you’ll join me in supporting Carly. Visit her &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=386510153434&amp;amp;h=8f6eefe7e406485f9d2a879c8c58a38d&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carlyforcalifornia.com%2F" linkindex="1688" target="_blank" title="http://www.carlyforcalifornia.com/"&gt;website here&lt;/a&gt;,  and follow her on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=386510153434&amp;amp;h=9041b9fc9146f34913e6923edaed043a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carlyforcalifornia.com%2Ffacebook%2F" linkindex="1689" target="_blank" title="http://www.carlyforcalifornia.com/facebook/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=386510153434&amp;amp;h=4cf64e6ea7fe1da1e789ba91bc85b116&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FCarlyforCA" linkindex="1690" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/CarlyforCA"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. Read  up on her positions and plans to help get us on the right track.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;California is still Reagan Country, and Carly promises her “Reagan  Conservative” values will be put to good use for her state and for our  great nation. Shaking it up in California is long overdue. Let’s help  Carly do it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update:&lt;/b&gt; I’d like to add a few things about my Carly endorsement  because some reaction right out of the chute calls for more information:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Carly has been endorsed by the National Right to Life, the California  Pro-Life Council, and the Susan B. Anthony List. She is pro-life,  pro-traditional marriage, pro-military, and pro-strict border security  and against amnesty. She is against Obamacare and will vote to repeal it  and prevent the government takeover of private companies and  industries.  Carly is also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment.  Like me, she is a member of the NRA, has a 100% NRA rating, and she and  her husband are gun owners. She is pro-energy development and believes  as I do in an all-of-the-above approach to energy independence. She is  against cap and tax. And most importantly, Carly is the only  conservative in the race who can beat Barbara Boxer. That’s no RINO.  That’s a winner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_386510153434" id="commentable_item_224178795" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;386510153434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;4631e462efc367da&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_384560338434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=384560338434" linkindex="1691"&gt;Domestic  Drilling: Why We Can Still Believe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Friday, April 30, 2010 at 1:48pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;We’ve all been shocked and saddened by the tragic events in the  Gulf of Mexico. My heart breaks for coastal residents who are facing  fears of the unknown impacts of the oil spill. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an Alaskan, I can speak from the heart about the tragedy of an oil  spill. For as long as I live, I will never forget the day the &lt;i&gt;Exxon-Valdez&lt;/i&gt;  ran aground on Bligh Reef and millions of gallons of North Slope crude  poured into the waters of our beautiful Prince William Sound. The spill  was devastating to so many Alaskans who, like my own family, make their  living on the water from our commercial fishing industry.  “Heartbreaking” was the word my husband Todd, an Alaska Native and  trained oil spill responder, used to describe the scene as we watched it  unfold on land and water that we feel is sacred.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alaskans understand the tragedy of an oil spill, and we’ve taken steps  to do all we can to prevent another Exxon tragedy, but we are &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt;  pro-development. We still believe in responsible development, which  includes drilling to extract energy sources, because we know that there  is an inherent link between energy and security, energy and prosperity,  and energy and freedom.  Production of our own resources means security  for America and opportunities for American workers.  We need oil, and if  we don’t drill for it here, we have to purchase it from countries that  not only do not like America and can use energy purchases as a weapon  against us, but also do not have the oversight that America has.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the coming days, there will be hearings to discover the cause of the  explosion and the subsequent leak. Actions will be taken to increase  oversight to prevent future accidents. Government can and must play an  appropriate role here. If a company was lax in its prevention practices,  it must be held accountable. It is inexcusable for any oil company to  not invest in preventative measures. They &lt;i&gt;must&lt;/i&gt; be held  accountable or the public will forever distrust the industry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the position I took as an oil and gas regulator and as Governor  of Alaska when my administration ramped up oversight of the oil  industry and created a petroleum-systems-integrit&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;y office to monitor our oil and gas  infrastructure for potential environmental risks. I took a lot of heat  for the stand I took “against the oil industry” (which is how political  adversaries labeled my actions). But we took tough action because there  was proof of some improper maintenance of oil infrastructure which I  believed was unacceptable. We instituted new oversight and held British  Petroleum (BP) financially accountable for poor maintenance practices.  We also filed a Friend-of-the-Court brief against Exxon’s interests for  its decades-old responsibility to compensate Alaskans affected by the  Valdez spill, and I took other actions “against” the industry which  ultimately helped hold it accountable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All responsible energy development must be accompanied by strict  oversight, but even with the strictest oversight in the world, accidents  still happen. No human endeavor is ever without risk – whether it’s  sending a man to the moon or extracting the necessary resources to fuel  our civilization. I repeat the slogan “drill here, drill now” not out of  naiveté or disregard for the tragic consequences of oil spills – my  family and my state and I know firsthand those consequences. How could I  still believe in drilling America’s domestic supply of energy after  having seen the devastation of the &lt;i&gt;Exxon-Valdez&lt;/i&gt; spill? I continue  to believe in it because increased domestic oil production will make us  a more secure, prosperous, and peaceful nation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our hearts go out to all Americans along the coast affected by this  recent tragedy, especially those who lost family members in the rig  explosion, and our prayers go up for a successful recovery. May spill  responders be safe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_384560338434" id="commentable_item_1245038513" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;384560338434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;ec2f15a1d8beb368&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_384534143434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=384534143434" linkindex="1692"&gt;The Hacker  Case Verdict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Friday, April 30, 2010 at 12:27pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;My family and I are thankful that the jury thoroughly and carefully  weighed the evidence and issued a just verdict. Besides the obvious  invasion of privacy and security concerns surrounding this issue, many  of us are concerned about the integrity of our country’s political  elections. America’s elections depend upon fair competition.  Violating  the law, or simply invading someone’s privacy for political gain, has  long been repugnant to Americans’ sense of fair play.  As Watergate  taught us, we rightfully reject illegally breaking into candidates’  private communications for political intrigue in an attempt to derail an  election. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to thank the public servants who worked so hard on this case,  particularly the jurors who gave up precious time from their jobs and  families to listen to the evidence and reach a decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My family and I appreciate the good people of Knoxville, Tennessee, who  showed us true Southern hospitality.  We can’t wait to visit again – but  without having a subpoena in hand. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_384534143434" id="commentable_item_1564364953" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;384534143434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7e4629bdd4e17fcb&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=384243033434" linkindex="1693"&gt;The  Straight-talking “Hockey Dad” with a Message for Reform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 1:13pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;A patriotic fiscally conservative “hockey dad” who got his start in  politics by serving on his local city councils is running for governor  of the great state of Minnesota. His name is Tom Emmer, and I’m proud to  support him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tom has based his campaign on three founding principles: “Honoring the  Constitution, Expanding Liberty and Fostering Economic Freedom.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming from a working class background, Tom is known as a  straight-talker who is unafraid of taking on the challenge of reining in  the size and scope of government. A proud father of seven, Tom is in  this race for the right reasons – to provide bold, principled leadership  that will leave Minnesota fiscally stronger for the next generation. He  knows that government overspending is the real obstacle to reform. Tom  says, “When a family experiences a change in its income, that family  adjusts its budget accordingly. If they have less money, they spend less  money. This simple form of money management is completely lost on state  government.” It’s common sense statements like that which make Tom such  an attractive candidate for Minnesotans who want real reform. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A family man who wants to leave his kids a better future, a “hockey dad”  who once played for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks, a  patriotic commonsense conservative who wishes to serve for the right  reasons – that’s Tom Emmer, and I ask you to join me in supporting him  for governor of Minnesota. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=384243033434&amp;amp;h=3360841646d3230944c1d6328cf85304&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emmerforgovernor.com%2F" linkindex="1694" target="_blank" title="http://www.emmerforgovernor.com/"&gt;Tom’s website  here&lt;/a&gt;, and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=384243033434&amp;amp;h=7b08dfbb72e3bcabc045373334f18033&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Femmerforgovernor" linkindex="1695" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/emmerforgovernor"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=384243033434&amp;amp;h=b98b11680be4d263b8278cb413b60761&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Ftomemmer" linkindex="1696" target="_blank" title="http://www.twitter.com/tomemmer"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.  Let’s shake things up with this straight-talking “hockey dad” and his  message for reforming government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_383652698434" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=383652698434" linkindex="1697"&gt;Swing and a  miss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 5:06pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;Yesterday we learned that another “ethics” complaint that was filed  against Governor Palin was dismissed as baseless.  (If you are  counting, the Governor is 26-0-1 regarding such complaints or suits,  with one still pending).  Only this complaint was actually filed after  she left office, and alleged that the mere existence of the Alaska Fund  Trust (the legal defense fund set up for her to help defray the costs  incurred during the Troopergate fiasco and related machinations that  followed in its wake) was violative of the Alaska Executive Branch  Ethics Act as well as its solicitation or receipt of contributions.  The  &lt;i&gt;raison d’être&lt;/i&gt; of the legal defense fund was inexorably linked to  Governor Palin’s nomination as the Republican candidate for Vice  President and the post-nomination political tactics arising therefrom;  thus making the nomination &lt;i&gt;sine quo non&lt;/i&gt; for the fund.  In a  detailed opinion, the complaint was dismissed as lacking a factual or  legal basis.  Last June, upon learning that a complaint against the  Governor’s Anchorage Office Director was dismissed as baseless, Governor  Palin’s then Chief of Staff Mike Nizich said, “This is not about  holding the governor or state employees accountable. This is pure  harassment.”  That still rings true today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I discussed this with Governor Palin, she had an interesting take:  “My reaction upon reading the opinion in this matter was not what I  expected.  Though I’m always pleased with the results of these  investigations that prove the false allegations wrong, and I appreciate  the detailed reasoning set forth in this recent opinion, I was primarily  disappointed that the State of Alaska, the Attorney General’s office,  and others, still have to spend time and resources addressing the  abusive onslaught of frivolous complaints directed against me—even after  I left office.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At times (indeed, as recently as Sunday in a magazine cover story)  people allege that the “real” reason Governor Palin stepped down was to  “make money” (citing primarily her best selling book).  As this most  current complaint again emphasizes, Governor Palin stepped down for the  right reasons—she did not want to see her state government continue to  get bogged down with inane “ethics” complaints that were transparently  political, plainly partisan, and diverting state resources.  The  voluntary relinquishment of power for the greater good is normally  praised as an example of true leadership—just review any biography of  George Washington—and it should be in this case as well.  But for those  who seek power for the sake of power, a selfless act is confusing, so a  new narrative is created, such as the “profit” motive now being asserted  with renewed vigor.  Rest assured Sarah Palin had obtained approval to  write her memoir while still in office without running into any conflict  with the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.  Her financial future from  her best selling book, though unknown then, would not have altered much  whether she stayed in office or resigned, except the number of “ethics”  complaints did dramatically decrease, so any legal fees associated with  such complaints decreased concomitantly.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let this latest dismissed complaint serve as a reminder for one of the  real—and stated—reasons for her voluntary relinquishment of office, an  office she campaigned for diligently, tirelessly and effectively.  It  stands as a marker that occasionally, every so often, there are public  servants who can recognize the difference between self-interest and  public interest.  Sarah Palin is one such public servant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Thomas Van Flein, personal attorney for Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_383652698434" id="commentable_item_267799964" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;383652698434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7161963a553eaa12&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="7a3522221f475ab3eec7826f58060eeb" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=383261683434" linkindex="1698"&gt;The  Businessman vs. the Bureaucrat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Monday, April 26, 2010 at 11:37am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In a year when Americans are desperate for job growth and  frustrated with the reckless spending in Washington, the candidates  running in the special election in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional  District epitomize the problem and the solution. It’s a race between a  career Washington bureaucrat and a small business entrepreneur. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Born and raised in Pennsylvania’s beautiful 12th district, Tim Burns’  story is like that of millions of successful small business owners  across the country. He started a pharmaceutical technology company out  of the basement of his house and grew it to over 400 employees. He  worked hard and gave back generously to his community, in part by  starting a charity to help children with special needs. In his spare  time, he’s a “hockey dad” coaching his sons’ team. Last year, he  attended a local tea party and spoke passionately about the danger that  the policies coming out of Washington pose for small business owners  like him.  Reflecting on that day, Tim &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=383261683434&amp;amp;h=899e5f58c38b3940c272e2b81d170406&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humanevents.com%2Farticle.php%3Fid%3D36024" linkindex="1699" target="_blank" title="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36024"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;,  “I had not considered running until after the tea parties, but I  decided that I owed it to my two children, who are 14 and 12, to do  something.  We’re in a fight for the very life of our country.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tim spent his professional life building a business from scratch that  employed Pennsylvanians, and now he would like to bring his common sense  pro-free market message to Washington. I’m proud to offer my support to  Tim Burns in his campaign to bring real job creation to Pennsylvania’s  12th district. Please join me in supporting his campaign. Visit Tim’s &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=383261683434&amp;amp;h=f2e2383703e44840253eb83b752bf8e0&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timburnsforcongress.com%2F" linkindex="1700" target="_blank" title="http://www.timburnsforcongress.com/"&gt;website  here&lt;/a&gt;, and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=383261683434&amp;amp;h=ea3d77bb4a199dfc20ea047ae2d1f821&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftimburnsforcongress%3Fv%3Dwall" linkindex="1701" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/timburnsforcongress?v=wall"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=383261683434&amp;amp;h=a46fa32a2a27ad396c4185bf5c392aad&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FTimothyBurns" linkindex="1702" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/TimothyBurns"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s been said many times this year that America is at a crossroads, and  the decision we make in November will decide the course of our  children’s future. The choice in Pennsylvania’s 12th district couldn’t  be more obvious. Let’s send the job-creator to Washington to get this  economy moving again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_382386913434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=382386913434" linkindex="1703"&gt;The Army’s  Loss in Dis-Inviting a Good Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;April 23, 2010 Today at 5:01am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;My, have things changed. I was honored to have Rev. Franklin Graham  speak at my Governor’s Prayer Breakfasts. His good work in Alaska’s  Native villages and his charitable efforts all over the world stem from  his servant’s heart. In my years of knowing him, I’ve never found his  tempered and biblically-based comments to be offensive – in fact his  words have been encouraging and full of real hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s truly a sad day when such a fine patriotic man, whose son is  serving on his fourth deployment in Afghanistan to protect our freedom  of speech and religion, is &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382386913434&amp;amp;h=1e67631e3922681005c5846fb84e2663&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2F2010%2F04%2F21%2Farmy-weighs-rescinding-invitation-evangelist%2F" linkindex="1704" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/21/army-weighs-rescinding-invitation-evangelist/"&gt;dis-invited&lt;/a&gt;  from speaking at the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer service. His  comments in 2001 were aimed at those who are so radical that they would  kill innocent people and subjugate women in the name of religion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we really so hyper-politically correct that we can’t abide a  Christian minister who expresses his views on matters of faith? What a  shame. Yes, things have changed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_382386913434" id="commentable_item_603028962" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;382386913434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;e2dd5efb4f39f06d&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="e6263e40193873a3489c640c7ba76ccc" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=382303098434" linkindex="1705"&gt;Institutionalizing  Crony Capitalism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;April 22, 2010 Yesterday at 7:28pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In the wake of the recent financial meltdown, Americans know that  we need reform. Not only have many individuals learned lessons about  personal responsibility through this, but we’ve been able to engage in a  discussion about government’s appropriate role.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The current debate over financial reform demonstrates what happens when  political leaders react to a crisis with a raft of new regulations.   First off, the people involved in writing government regulations are  often lobbyists from the very industry that the new laws are supposed to  &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=ce456cf7a2b1a0a0be0c4023c51fda52&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704508904575192430373566758.html" linkindex="1706" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704508904575192430373566758.html"&gt;regulate&lt;/a&gt;,  and that’s been the case here. It should surprise no one that financial  lobbyists are &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=48544afc1fd0afd6f68fbdd41c7fd14c&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F04%2F20%2Fbusiness%2F20derivatives.html" linkindex="1707" target="_blank" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/business/20derivatives.html"&gt;flocking  to DC&lt;/a&gt; this week.  Of course, the big players who can afford  lobbyists work the regulations in their favor, while their smaller  competitors are left out in the cold.  The result here are regulations  that &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=4031f97fb4750a115703438dd7457ed6&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.american.com%2F%3Fp%3D12786" linkindex="1708" target="_blank" title="http://blog.american.com/?p=12786"&gt;institutionalize  the “too big to fail” mentality&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Moreover, the financial reform bill gives regulators the power to pick  winners and losers, institutionalizing their ability to &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=267113a82f3f1fcb139d7325a0f7f599&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704448304575196303707790866.html" linkindex="1709" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704448304575196303707790866.html"&gt;decide&lt;/a&gt;  “which firms to rescue or close, and which creditors to reward and  how.” Does anyone doubt that firms with the most lobbyists and the  biggest campaign donations will be the ones who get seats in the  lifeboat? The president is trying to convince us that he’s taking on the  Wall Street “fat cats,” but firms like Goldman Sachs are &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=28214b9e88eacc19e0a2fb7367cab535&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolitics%2FGoldman-Sachs-wants-regulation_-not-laissez-faire-91639489.html" linkindex="1710" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Goldman-Sachs-wants-regulation_-not-laissez-faire-91639489.html"&gt;happy  with federal regulation&lt;/a&gt; because, as one of their lobbyists recently  &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=7dd5707db1b5263754dc39b1463d39c3&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdyn.politico.com%2Fprintstory.cfm%3Fuuid%3D1890A239-18FE-70B2-A815B17AF6E3A5BA" linkindex="1711" target="_blank" title="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1890A239-18FE-70B2-A815B17AF6E3A5BA"&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt;,  “We partner with regulators.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They seem to have a nice relationship with the White House too. Goldman  showered nearly &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=28214b9e88eacc19e0a2fb7367cab535&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolitics%2FGoldman-Sachs-wants-regulation_-not-laissez-faire-91639489.html" linkindex="1712" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Goldman-Sachs-wants-regulation_-not-laissez-faire-91639489.html"&gt;a  million dollars&lt;/a&gt; in campaign contributions on candidate Obama. In  fact, J.P. Freire &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=ca605bc965fea9846c3ae67e5b76d439&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fblogs%2Fbeltway-confidential%2FIs-Goldman-Obamas-Enron-No-its-worse-91613449.html" linkindex="1713" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Is-Goldman-Obamas-Enron-No-its-worse-91613449.html"&gt;notes&lt;/a&gt;  that President Obama received about seven times more money from Goldman  than President Bush received from Enron. Of course, it’s not just the  donations; it’s the &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=28214b9e88eacc19e0a2fb7367cab535&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fpolitics%2FGoldman-Sachs-wants-regulation_-not-laissez-faire-91639489.html" linkindex="1714" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Goldman-Sachs-wants-regulation_-not-laissez-faire-91639489.html"&gt;revolving  door&lt;/a&gt;. You’ll find the name Goldman Sachs on many an Obama  administration résumé, including Rahm Emanuel’s and Tim Geithner’s chief  of staff’s.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;We need to be on our guard against such crony capitalism.  We fought  against distortion of the market in Alaska when we confronted “Big Oil,”  or more specifically some of the players in the industry and in  political office, who were taking the 49th state for a ride.  My  administration challenged lax rules that seemed to allow corruption, and  we even challenged the largest corporation in the world at the time for  not abiding by provisions in contracts it held with the state. When it  came time to craft a plan for a natural gas pipeline, we insisted on  transparency and a level playing field to ensure fair competition. Our  reforms helped reduce politicians’ ability to play favorites and helped  clean up corruption. We set up stricter oversight offices and ushered  through a bi-partisan ethics reform bill. Far from being against  necessary reform, I embrace it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Commonsense conservatives acknowledge the need for financial reform and  believe that government can play an appropriate role in leveling the  playing field and protecting &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=382303098434&amp;amp;h=b3345f77c86b4c5bd9da7158942ff6fc&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnationalaffairs.com%2Fpublications%2Fdetail%2Fcurbing-risk-on-wall-street" linkindex="1715" target="_blank" title="http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/curbing-risk-on-wall-street"&gt;“the  dynamism of American capitalism without neglecting the government’s  responsibility to protect the American public.”&lt;/a&gt;  We’re listening  closely to the reform discussion in Washington, and we know that  government should &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; burden the market with unnecessary  bureaucracy and distorted incentives, nor make a dangerous  “too-big-to-fail” mentality the law of the land.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_380458453434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=380458453434" linkindex="1716"&gt;Mr.  President, is a strong America a problem?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;April 16, 2010 Today at 7:09am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Asked this week about his faltering efforts to advance the Middle  East peace process, President Obama did something remarkable.  In front  of some 47 foreign leaders and hundreds of reporters from all over the  world, President Obama said that “whether we like it or not, we remain a  dominant military superpower.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Whether we like it or not?&lt;/b&gt; Most Americans do like it. America’s military  may be one of the greatest forces for good the world has ever seen,  liberating countless millions from tyranny, slavery, and oppression over  the last 234 years. As a dominant superpower, the United States has won  wars hot and cold; our military has advanced the cause of freedom in  Iraq and Afghanistan and kept authoritarian powers like Russian and  China in check. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;It is in America’s and the world’s interests for our country to remain a  dominant military superpower, but under our great country’s new  leadership that dominance seems to be slipping away. President Obama has  ended production of the F-22, the most advanced fighter jet this  country has ever built. He’s gutted our missile defense program by  eliminating shield resources in strategic places including Alaska. And  he’s ended the program to build a new generation of nuclear weapons that  would have ensured the reliability of our nuclear deterrent well into  the future. All this is in the context of the country’s unsustainable  debt that could further limit defense spending. As one defense expert &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=380458453434&amp;amp;h=44c8fa7957b47b638c0fc9d07e6b0e68&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weeklystandard.com%2Farticles%2Fdisarming-america" linkindex="1717" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/disarming-america"&gt;recently  explained&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;The president is looking to eliminate the last vestiges  of the Reagan-era buildup. Once the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are  “ended” (not “won”), the arms control treaties signed, and defense  budgets held at historic lows while social entitlements and debt service  rise to near-European levels, the era of American superpower will have  passed.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;The truth is this: by his actions we see a president who seems to be  much more comfortable with an American military that isn’t quite so  dominant and who feels the need to apologize for America when he travels  overseas. Could it be a lack of faith in American exceptionalism? The  fact is that America and our allies are safer when we are a dominant  military superpower – &lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;whether President Obama likes it or not&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_380458453434" id="commentable_item_20463760" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;380458453434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;bfa59a8e014c78b3&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="06ac7496766e1c94a4cbc9b494117d72" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_376366873434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=376366873434" linkindex="1718"&gt;A  Celebration of Hope&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;April 1, 2010 Thursday at 8:29pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;For many of us, the arrival of Easter means the arrival of a new  season of joy – of Easter parades, Easter egg hunts, chocolate bunnies,  and sweet Peeps topping off a family meal. Some may wonder why we  merrily celebrate at a time when we’re remembering Christ’s crucifixion  on the cross. And there is something to that. Good Friday is, after all,  about God who became Man, dying on the cross for our sins. And yet we  celebrate Easter Sunday, and we are right to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that  whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting  life”&lt;/i&gt; (John 3:16).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This one verse sums up the miracle that is the  Easter season and helps explain the celebration. Yes, Christ died for  us, but in the end Easter isn’t a season of sadness. Ultimately, the  story of Christ’s rising from the dead three days after the crucifixion  is the story of the triumph of hope over despair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Hope is one of America’s unique virtues. Hope makes us dream and achieve  the seemingly impossible. It’s who we are, and it’s why we’re able to  always believe that our best days are yet to come, both for our families  and for our country. Easter time reminds us that we have every right to  believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid  foundation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On behalf of the Palin family, I wish you all a peaceful and reflective  Good Friday and a blessed and happy Easter Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_376366873434" id="commentable_item_1127057425" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;376366873434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;69012988894984f3&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="06ac7496766e1c94a4cbc9b494117d72" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=376261678434" linkindex="1719"&gt;Real  American Stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;April 1, 2010 Thursday at 11:17am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;America is exceptional! It’s not her politicians that make her so;  it’s her everyday people and the values Americans hold so dear. During  this special week let’s take time to honor some exceptional citizens who  may have felt ordinary, but by acting on opportunities in front of  them, they’ve accomplished some extraordinary things and have made this  world a better place. “Real American Stories” highlights some good  people who help lift America’s spirit. Enjoy their stories as they  inspire all of us to look beyond self and strive to contribute to this  great, blessed country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I will be guest hosting “Real American Stories” tonight on Fox News  Channel. The show airs at 10pm EDT, 9pm Central, 8pm Mountain, 7pm  Pacific, and 6pm Alaska time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_376101068434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=376101068434" linkindex="1720"&gt;Stall,  Baby, Stall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 31, 2010 Today at 6:50pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Please &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=376101068434&amp;amp;h=62723639b759342bb955db38e4f8cac3&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcorner.nationalreview.com%2Fpost%2F%3Fq%3DNDE2MjU4NzdkNzQxZjA3MDE4NmFjMjYxZTU4NDQxN2Q%3D%26p%3D1" linkindex="1721" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDE2MjU4NzdkNzQxZjA3MDE4NmFjMjYxZTU4NDQxN2Q=&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;click  here&lt;/a&gt; to read statement at National Review Online’s The Corner  regarding the president’s new energy proposal. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_376101068434" id="commentable_item_1077107900" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;376101068434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;8b8b90cf37714e69&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="90820ad9b040d4a9e29d8be2297dbb16" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=375861323434" linkindex="1722"&gt;Peace Not  Possible if Iran Escapes Real Sanctions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 30,2010 Yesterday at 9:05pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This is a meaningful week for so many of us. As millions of  Christians and Jews celebrate this Holy Week, it’s appropriate to  reflect on developments in the Holy Land. Israel faces a nuclear threat  from Iran that grows every day. Today we learned that the CIA has  concluded that&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375861323434&amp;amp;h=052b38f6eb5292b2c7d9847aba2dfbbf&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2010%2Fmar%2F30%2Fcia-iran-has-capability-to-produce-nuke-weapons%2F" linkindex="1723" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/30/cia-iran-has-capability-to-produce-nuke-weapons/"&gt;Iran  already has the capability and the know-how to build nuclear weapons&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;While President Obama once said a nuclear-armed Iran would be  “unacceptable,” after more than a year in office it’s sobering to have  to acknowledge that his administration has made no progress in  implementing “crippling” sanctions on Iran, let alone halting Iran’s  nuclear program.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Even the rhetoric moved in the wrong direction –  recently the administration downgraded their call for “crippling”  sanctions to sanctions that “bite.” Shockingly, as we learned last week,  these “biting” sanctions &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375861323434&amp;amp;h=92f195e6f6c88e17bc138cc97b3b1e6b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB20001424052748704266504575142073816248844.html" linkindex="1724" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704266504575142073816248844.html"&gt;will  no longer include&lt;/a&gt; actions that could actually change Iran’s  behavior, including limiting Iran’s access to international capital  markets and banking services or closing air space and waters to Iran’s  national air and shipping lines.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;So the issue is not when the so-called  sanctions will come (President Obama promised them in “weeks” today) but  whether they will even “nibble.” And while the Obama administration was  more than willing to use every parliamentary trick in the book to ram  its government health care takeover through Congress, conversely, it has  &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375861323434&amp;amp;h=6a4d3e62c276ee999fb50aff5c7569d4&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthecable.foreignpolicy.com%2Fposts%2F2010%2F03%2F05%2Fcongress_hot_to_trot_on_iran_sanctions" linkindex="1725" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/05/congress_hot_to_trot_on_iran_sanctions"&gt;worked  hard to stall bipartisan efforts to pass the Iran Sanctions Act&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Many, many Americans and our allies know that if Iran acquires nuclear  weapons, the consequences will be catastrophic for our interests in the  Middle East, and we want our government to do everything in its power to  prevent Iran from acquiring nukes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;We foresee a regional nuclear arms  race beginning as other countries seek their own nuclear weapons to  protect themselves from Iran. Nuclear non-proliferation efforts would be  over. The U.S. and our allies in the international community would be  shown to be impotent – after long claiming that Iranian nuclear weapons  could not and would not be tolerated. And Israel would face the gravest  threat since its creation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Iran’s leaders have repeatedly called for the  destruction of Israel and with nuclear weapons and the means to deliver  them, the mullahs would be in a position to launch a Second Holocaust. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Iran continues to develop long range missiles. Its missiles can reach  Israel and Europe right now and in time they will be able to reach US  territory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This issue is the most serious security challenge facing the U.S. in the  region. Yet just as the Obama administration inexplicably gives up on  imposing crippling sanctions on Iran, it’s taken an uncompromising hard  line against one country in the Middle East: Israel. On his recent visit  to Washington, the Israeli Prime Minister was treated like an unwelcome  guest, as shown by White House actions such as refusing to be  photographed with Israel’s Prime Minister.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Public demands for concessions have been made of the Israelis while the  Palestinians add ever more conditions to their participation in peace  talks, and those in the administration that dare to argue for looking at  these policies through the lens of Israel’s security needs are subject  to &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375861323434&amp;amp;h=600839dfe882d39d06f9aca24b0deba4&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fblogs%2Flaurarozen%2F0310%2FFierce_debate_on_Israel_underway_inside_Obama_administration.html" linkindex="1726" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.politico.com/blogs/laurarozen/0310/Fierce_debate_on_Israel_underway_inside_Obama_administration.html"&gt;slanderous  attacks&lt;/a&gt; from “senior administration officials.” The Obama  administration has their priorities exactly backwards; we should be  working with our friend and democratic ally to stop Iran’s nuclear  program, not throwing in the towel on sanctions while treating Israel  like an enemy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In a week when events in the Holy Land thousands of years ago are on the  minds of millions, we would all do well to include Israel’s security in  our prayers as we encourage our government to do all it can to ensure  there is never a nuclear Iran able to threaten our interests or our  allies. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=375548873434" linkindex="1727"&gt;Best Wishes  for a Blessed Passover&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 29,2010 Today at 6:52pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tonight Jewish families all over the world will gather to celebrate  Passover, the story of Exodus and the freedom of the Jewish people from  bondage. This holiday reminds us of the sacrifices that are still being  made for freedom – the U.S. troops who are away from their families so  that we can be with ours, and the Israeli people, who struggle for peace  with their neighbors even as they face the threat of war. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;“Next year in Jerusalem”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; will be the refrain echoed by Jewish families  as they finish their Seders tonight.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;It is a stark reminder that  whatever the threats the Jewish people have faced, whatever the  struggles,&lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt; their connection to Jerusalem is ancient and unshakable&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. On  this Passover holiday, our family sends our best wishes to all who are  celebrating. Chag kasher V'Sameach. Happy Passover. And &lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;next year in  Jerusalem&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_375469568434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=375469568434" linkindex="1728"&gt;American  Heroes Ready and Willing to Serve in Congress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 29,2010 Today at 1:29pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;America, if you love your freedom, thank a vet! And if you’re  looking for leaders who believe in integrity, service, and country  first, look to our veterans.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Last week I campaigned for a true American hero, John McCain, and this  week I’d ask you to join me in supporting a new generation of heroes who  are heeding their country’s call for leadership in Washington.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;There are a number of great veteran candidates running for office this  year, and there are some excellent organizations dedicated to helping  them, including: &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=a5c9edd63cb7f8830d22088032b2551f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iraqvetsforcongress.com%2F" linkindex="1729" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com/"&gt;Iraq Vets  for Congress&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=1c44f34beb5ae2f32e65c0ab12231bbd&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcombatveteransforcongress.org%2F" linkindex="1730" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://combatveteransforcongress.org/"&gt;Combat  Veterans for Congress&lt;/a&gt; (please click on the links to visit their  websites).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;There are three veterans in particular I’ll be supporting this week.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The first is &lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Major Vaughn Ward&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a fourth-generation Idaho native who  grew up on his family’s farm in Shoshone and is running in Idaho’s 1st  Congressional District.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming from a family with a proud military  tradition, Vaughn joined the Marine Corps after college and was  finishing up his service when the September 11th attacks occurred. He  put his life on hold and heeded his country’s call – serving first as a  CIA Operations Officer and later volunteering with the Marine Corps for a  combat tour in Iraq, during which he was awarded the Bronze Star with  Combat V.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After returning from Iraq, Vaughn went to work for the  McCain/Palin campaign. I was grateful for his support then, and I’m  happy to support him now because I know that he believes in the same  commonsense conservative ideals that we cherish.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vaughn knows that real  job growth comes from the private sector, not government. He believes in  free market reforms, tax relief for families and small businesses, and a  return to a constitutionally limited government that lives within its  means. He’ll carry the conservative banner to Washington and will rein  in the reckless growth of government to get it back on our side. And  remember, a vote for Vaughn is a vote to remove the gavel from Nancy  Pelosi’s grip.  Please visit Vaughn’s &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=c564d17275106d3603c786588d0a0949&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vaughnward.com%2F" linkindex="1731" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.vaughnward.com/"&gt;website here&lt;/a&gt; to  make a donation to his campaign, and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=59e8b546ab0365bedb81502e8398f3f5&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprofile.php%3Fid%3D634803730%26ref%3Dprofile" linkindex="1732" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=634803730&amp;amp;ref=profile"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=ddea9decac59a65d60b7b1808c1daa4f&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fvaughnlward" linkindex="1733" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.twitter.com/vaughnlward"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The second veteran is &lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Captain Adam Kinzinge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;r, a decorated  special-operations pilot who flew combat missions in Iraq and  Afghanistan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam is running for Illinois’ 11th Congressional District  against a freshman incumbent congresswoman who seemed to pull a bait and  switch on voters to get elected. She sounded like a blue dog on the  campaign trail, but didn’t vote like one in Washington. Instead, she  voted in lockstep with the Pelosi agenda – on Obamacare, the stimulus,  cap-and-tax – and the list goes on. She’s part of the reason for  Congress’ 11% approval rating.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adam is a strong fiscal conservative with  a proven track record as a reformer from his years serving on his local  county board. Adam started out in local office, and, like many of us,  believes in making government more accountable to the people. When you  serve in local office, your constituents truly are your neighbors. Adam  understands this, and I know that he will listen to his constituents and  work for us, not against us, in Washington. Please visit Adam’s &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=bb9ab40570584a6c1622d1e45230cbdd&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.electadam.com%2F" linkindex="1734" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.electadam.com/"&gt;website here&lt;/a&gt; to  make a donation to his campaign, and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=702c9f93e5f7b6311bbbbbfcf2ebae15&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Felectadam%3Fref%3Dts" linkindex="1735" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/electadam?ref=ts"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=cce52f286bec4ec72821654a8b4675f6&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Felectadam" linkindex="1736" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/electadam"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The third veteran is &lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Lieutenant Colonel Allen West&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, a decorated war hero  who’s served with distinction in combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many of you may have heard of Allen from a speech he gave last year that  became &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=07adc4338e23d3876f39649fd2340b32&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVP2p91dvm6M" linkindex="1737" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M"&gt;a  viral video on YouTube&lt;/a&gt; with over 2 million viewers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allen’s personal  story is a testament to the commonsense conservative belief that our  nation’s greatness is rooted in freedom, because with freedom comes  equal opportunity, and that, coupled with hard work, leads to success.  Allen is a small government fiscal conservative running against a  leftwing ideologue who’s marched to the beat of Nancy Pelosi on every  issue from cap-and-tax to the stimulus, TARP, and, of course, Obamacare.  It’s time to send Allen to Washington in his place. Please visit &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=7f2ab4173c74aeaf4ce7b0945e5e75aa&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fallenwestforcongress.com%2F" linkindex="1738" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://allenwestforcongress.com/"&gt;Allen’s  website here&lt;/a&gt; to donate to his campaign, and follow him on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=4b705360a92ec37a53e4520f9bf4e061&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FElectAllenWest%3Fv%3Dinfo%26viewas%3D2029091" linkindex="1739" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/ElectAllenWest?v=info&amp;amp;viewas=2029091"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375469568434&amp;amp;h=a1333dc2537e4e2174b0c4dd56bf7b0b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FAllenWest2010" linkindex="1740" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/AllenWest2010"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I believe that these great veterans will fight for us in D.C. to uphold  and defend our constitution as courageously in the halls of Congress as  they did on the field of battle. I’m so honored to offer my support to  these American heroes, and I hope you’ll join me in helping them so that  they can serve us all in Washington. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_375469568434" id="commentable_item_1043903974" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;375469568434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7c41b94fa37d54ad&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="c87479c3650e51973b7c8cbb367a9f85" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_375219993434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=375219993434" linkindex="1741"&gt;Searchlight  Shines Light on Wayward Washington&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 28,2010 Yesterday at 4:22pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you, Tea Party Americans!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A big thumbs up to the attendees,  organizers and volunteers at yesterday’s inspiring Tea Party Express  rally in Searchlight, Nevada. Take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=375219993434&amp;amp;h=b8a1149652649300869ad251c8232fcb&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Famericanpatrol.com%2F10-FEATURES%2F100327-FEATURE2%2FPHOTOS%2F100327-Photos.html" linkindex="1742" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://americanpatrol.com/10-FEATURES/100327-FEATURE2/PHOTOS/100327-Photos.html"&gt;these  aerial photos&lt;/a&gt; from yesterday. What an amazing sight to see  thousands and thousands of Americans show up in the middle of the desert  to freely assemble and have their voices heard. In Harry Reid’s  hometown (while he may have been doing a victory lap over the passage of  Obamacare), more than 10,000 concerned citizens rallied to tell him and  Speaker Pelosi that we’re ready for November.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;We’re ready for a fundamental transformation of Washington – no need for  their desired “fundamental transformation of America.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The Tea Party Express rolls on... can’t wait to see you all in Boston on  April 14th!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- - - - - - - - - -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_footer clearfix"&gt;&lt;form action="/ajax/ufi/modify.php" ajaxify="1" class="commentable_item comment_form_375219993434" id="commentable_item_178026263" method="POST" name="add_comment"&gt;&lt;input name="charset_test" type="hidden" value="€,´,€,´,水,Д,Є" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="feedback_params" name="feedback_params" type="hidden" value="{&amp;quot;actor&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_fbid&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;375219993434&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;target_profile_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;24718773587&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;type_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;14&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;6&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;assoc_obj_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;source_app_id&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;extra_story_params&amp;quot;:[],&amp;quot;check_hash&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;095f5a4fc42c1786&amp;quot;}" /&gt;&lt;input autocomplete="off" id="post_form_id" name="post_form_id" type="hidden" value="c87479c3650e51973b7c8cbb367a9f85" /&gt;&lt;span class="UIActionLinks UIActionLinks_bottom" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;action&amp;quot;}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_header" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=375184908434" linkindex="1743"&gt;Warning:  Subject to New Politically Correct Language Police Censorship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline"&gt;March 28,2010 Yesterday at 1:59pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;March Madness battles rage! My family and I join millions of  Americans enjoying college basketball’s finest through March Madness.  Underdogs always get my vote as we watch intense competition bring out  the best in these accomplished teams.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The Final Four is an intense, contested series (kind of like a heated,  competitive primary election), so best of luck to all teams, and &lt;i style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;watch  for this principle lived out: the team that wins is the team that wants  it more&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;To the teams that desire making it this far next year:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Gear up!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;In the &lt;i&gt;battle&lt;/i&gt;,  set your &lt;i&gt;sights&lt;/i&gt; on next season’s &lt;i&gt;targets&lt;/i&gt;!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;From the &lt;i&gt;shot  across the bow&lt;/i&gt; – the first second’s tip-off – your leaders will be  in the enemy’s &lt;i&gt;crosshairs&lt;/i&gt;, so you must execute strong defensive  tactics.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;You won’t win only playing defense, so get on offense!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The  crossfire is intense, so penetrate through enemy territory by bombing  through the press, and use your strong weapons – your Big Guns – to  drive to the hole.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Shoot with accuracy; aim high and remember it takes  blood, sweat and tears to win. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Focus on the goal and fight for it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;If the gate is closed, go over the  fence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If the fence is too high, pole vault in.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If that doesn’t work, &lt;i&gt;parachute  in&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;If the other side tries to push back, your attitude should be  “go for it.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Get in their faces and argue with them.&lt;/i&gt; (Sound  familiar?!)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Every possession is a battle; you’ll only win the war if  you’ve picked your battles wisely.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;No matter how tough it gets, &lt;i&gt;never  retreat&lt;/i&gt;, instead RELOAD!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=373854973434" linkindex="1744"&gt;Don’t Get  Demoralized! Get Organized! Take Back the 20!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 23, 2010 Today at 10:18am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the president signing this unwanted and “transformative”  government takeover of our health care system today with promises  impossible to keep, let’s not get discouraged.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Don’t get demoralized.  Get organized!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;We’re going to reclaim the power of the people from those who  disregarded the will of the people. We’re going to fire them and send  them back to the private sector, which has been shrinking thanks to  their destructive government-growing policies. Maybe when they join the  millions of unemployed, they’ll understand why Americans wanted them to  focus on job creation and an invigorated private sector. Come November,  we’re going to print pink slips for members of Congress as fast as  they’ve been printing money.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;We’re paying particular attention to those House members who voted in  favor of Obamacare and represent districts that Senator John McCain and I  carried during the 2008 election.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Three of these House members are  retiring – from Arkansas’s 2nd district, Indiana’s 8th district, and  Tennessee’s 6th district – but we’ll be working to make sure that those  who replace them are Commonsense Conservatives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The others are running  for re-election, and we’re going to hold them accountable for this  disastrous Obamacare vote.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;They are:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-1)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Harry E.  Mitchell (AZ-5)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-8)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;John Salazar (CO-3)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Betsy  Markey (CO-4)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Allen Boyd (FL-2)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Suzanne M. Kosmas (FL-24)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Baron P.  Hill (IN-9)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Earl Pomeroy (ND-AL)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Charlie Wilson (OH-6)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;John Boccieri  (OH-16)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Christopher Carney (PA-10)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;John M.  Spratt, Jr. (SC-5)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tom Perriello (VA-5)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Alan B. Mollohan (WV-1) and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Nick J. Rahall II (WV-3)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;We’ll aim for these races and many others. This is just the first salvo  in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense  to Washington. Please go to &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=373854973434&amp;amp;h=0a871bc9c16f2015991b52b0f2210c92&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahpacdonate.com%2Ffb" linkindex="1745" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="https://www.sarahpacdonate.com/fb"&gt;sarahpac.com&lt;/a&gt;  and join me in the fight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Stand tall, America. Real change is coming!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=373540253434" linkindex="1746"&gt;Out-of-touch  Congress Sounds Our Clarion Call to Take a Stand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 22, 2010 Today at 9:03am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’ve been reminded many times that elections have consequences.  Yesterday we saw the consequence of voting for those who believe in  “fundamentally transforming” America whether we want it or not.  Yesterday they voted. In November, we get to vote. We won’t forget what  we saw yesterday. Congress passed a bill while Americans said “no,” and  thousands of everyday citizens even surrounded the Capitol Building to  beg them not to do it. Has there ever been a more obvious exhibition of a  detached and imperious government?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In the weeks to come, we can expect them to try to change the subject,  but we won’t forget. Don't let them move on to further  “transformational” steps while forgetting what Congress just did against  the will of the people. Though Obamacare will inflict &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=373540253434&amp;amp;h=a287a6b0ad78933c78e2575e0ca52dc4&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gop.gov%2Fpolicy-news%2F10%2F03%2F19%2Fhealth-care-takeover-by-the" linkindex="1747" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.gop.gov/policy-news/10/03/19/health-care-takeover-by-the"&gt;billions  in new taxes&lt;/a&gt; on individuals and employers, at least it creates some  jobs: the &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=373540253434&amp;amp;h=703aabba74aaee6193446b2defffbcad&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Frepublicans.waysandmeans.house.gov%2FNews%2FDocumentSingle.aspx%3FDocumentID%3D176997" linkindex="1748" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=176997"&gt;IRS  might have to hire&lt;/a&gt; as many as 16,000 new employees to enforce all  the new taxes and penalties the bill calls for! And that doesn’t include  all the other government jobs from the &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=373540253434&amp;amp;h=0cfefdbbbce8c29ba965a3b27c5c3dab&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fhealthcare%2Farticle%2Fopinion-159-new-government-agencies-wont-improve-health-care%2F19407363" linkindex="1749" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.aolnews.com/healthcare/article/opinion-159-new-government-agencies-wont-improve-health-care/19407363"&gt;159  new agencies&lt;/a&gt;, panels, commissions and departments this bill will  create. As the private sector shrinks, we can count on government to  keep growing along with the deficits needed to keep it all afloat. (Is  this the kind of “change” Americans asked for?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In the end, this unsustainable bill jeopardizes the very thing it was  supposed to fix – our health care system. Somewhere along the way we  forgot that health care reform is about doctors and patients, not the  IRS and politicians. Instead of helping doctors with tort reform, this  bill has made primary care physicians think about &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=373540253434&amp;amp;h=3f109f9876556d6f9ffeea7fba6232e8&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themedicusfirm.com%2Fpages%2Fmedicus-media-survey-reveals-impact-health-reform" linkindex="1750" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.themedicusfirm.com/pages/medicus-media-survey-reveals-impact-health-reform"&gt;getting  out of medicine&lt;/a&gt;. It was supposed to make health care more  affordable, but our premiums will &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=373540253434&amp;amp;h=8a503611613444d07e77bb888a7b4a4d&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Frepublicanleader.house.gov%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D824" linkindex="1751" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=824"&gt;continue  to go up&lt;/a&gt;. It was supposed to help more people get coverage, but  there will still be &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=373540253434&amp;amp;h=f947cd839fe1bcad43f405b22b3f868b&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fweeklystandard.com%2Fblogs%2Fcbo-obamacare-would-cost-over-2-trillion%3Fpage%3D2" linkindex="1752" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbo-obamacare-would-cost-over-2-trillion?page=2"&gt;23  million uninsured people&lt;/a&gt; by 2019.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Though they’d like us to forget, we will remember the corrupt deals, the  corrupt process, the lack of transparency, the deceptive gimmicks to  game the CBO score, and the utter disregard for the will of the American  people. Elections have consequences, and we won’t forget those who  promised to hold firm against government funding of abortion, but caved  at the last minute in exchange for a non-binding executive order  promised by the most pro-abortion president to ever occupy the White  House.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;All along we’ve said that we want real health care reform, but this  isn’t it. We mustn’t be discouraged now. We must look to November when  our goal will be to rebuke big government’s power grab, reject this  unwanted “transformation” of America, and repeal dangerous portions of  Obamacare that will bury us under more Big Government control.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This is just the beginning of our efforts to take back our country.  Consider yesterday’s vote a clarion call and a spur to action. We will  not let America sink into further debt without a fight. We will not  abandon the American dream to government dependency, fewer freedoms and  less opportunity. Change is made at the ballot box. If we work together,  we can renew our optimistic pioneering spirit, revive our economy, and  restore constitutional limits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Stand tall, America. November is coming!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=372793148434" linkindex="1753"&gt;America –  Be Heard or Brace for “Transformation”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 19,2010 Today at 2:40pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please stay involved throughout the weekend on the Obamacare  debate. There will be another very important rally in D.C. at noon on  Saturday. If you are anywhere near the Beltway or can travel there this  weekend, I urge you to participate. &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=8a139b4aa075b1a1429a6b3c5bc9c8db&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbiggovernment.com%2Fjvoight%2F2010%2F03%2F18%2Fcall-to-arms-join-me-in-dc-saturday-to-stop-obamacare%2F" linkindex="1754" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://biggovernment.com/jvoight/2010/03/18/call-to-arms-join-me-in-dc-saturday-to-stop-obamacare/"&gt;Jon  Voight&lt;/a&gt; and Rep. Michele Bachmann and many others will be there. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=365002c9c61a1cfb42009f0c726f3b2e&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichellemalkin.com%2F2010%2F03%2F19%2Ftaxpayer-march-on-washington-saturday-high-noon%2F" linkindex="1755" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/19/taxpayer-march-on-washington-saturday-high-noon/"&gt;Click  here&lt;/a&gt; for details. (&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=365002c9c61a1cfb42009f0c726f3b2e&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmichellemalkin.com%2F2010%2F03%2F19%2Ftaxpayer-march-on-washington-saturday-high-noon%2F" linkindex="1756" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/19/taxpayer-march-on-washington-saturday-high-noon/"&gt;Michelle  Malkin&lt;/a&gt; has a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=04a46c8b60b350eb617bb6ccb3c78c6d&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.resistnet.com%2Fforum%2Ftopics%2Ftransportation-to-washington" linkindex="1757" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/transportation-to-washington"&gt;link  here&lt;/a&gt; to grassroots organizers setting up transportation to D.C.). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;If you can’t attend the rally, you can still make your voices heard by &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=893d8c1b252286aad6fb8261bb66b0e2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.congress.org%2Fcongressorg%2Fdirectory%2Fcongdir.tt" linkindex="1758" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt"&gt;calling&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=a221f48848f6fc87d4f736ef9315f9ff&amp;amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwriterep.house.gov%2Fwriterep%2Fwelcome.shtml" linkindex="1759" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml"&gt;writing&lt;/a&gt;  your Representative. Sign the &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=329e186b45d3b96d951868f9d330eef0&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fnovemberiscoming.com%2F" linkindex="1760" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://novemberiscoming.com/"&gt;petition here&lt;/a&gt;  to remind Congress that “November Is Coming.” As Rep. Boehner &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=372793148434&amp;amp;h=17935560390325fcdcce0f418a60d47a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Frepublicanleader.house.gov%2FNews%2FDocumentSingle.aspx%3FDocumentID%3D177219" linkindex="1761" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=177219"&gt;said  today&lt;/a&gt;, “Republicans can’t beat this bill, but the American people  can.” Stand strong together! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The implications of Obamacare will reach into every aspect of our lives,  from the value of our paycheck, to the quality of our health care, to  the opportunities that will be stripped from Americans as we’re shoved  under the enormous burden of more government growth and control. We must  stop this now. “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=366863963434" linkindex="1762"&gt;Needed: A  Reset with Israel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 16, 2010 Tue at 11:01am&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s worst  regimes in the name of their engagement policy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- America and our allies  watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Letters are written to Iran’s  mullahs only to see that regime start killing protestors in the streets  of Tehran.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Envoys are sent to North Korea as they continue to defy the  world’s demand to give up their nuclear weapons.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- The Burmese military  junta’s representative is allowed to travel to our nation’s capital.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- The  President’s envoy for Sudan talks about giving that genocidal regime  “gold stars,”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- while the President shakes hands with Venezuela’s  tyrannical leader.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where  does the Obama Administration choose to escalate a minor incident into a  major diplomatic confrontation? With Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or  Burma? No. With our treasured ally, Israel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Last October, Secretary of State Clinton recognized Israel’s desire for  peace in the Middle East and praised Israel’s “unprecedented”  concessions for agreeing to halt settlement construction in the West  Bank, a concession that did NOT include halting construction of  apartments for Jews in Jerusalem.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even last week after planned  construction was announced, Vice President Biden still expressed  “appreciation” for the “significant” steps taken by the Israeli  government to address this minor issue.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Now, however, we see the Obama  Administration has decided to escalate, make unilateral demands of  Israel, and threaten the very foundation of the US-Israel relationship.   This is quickly leading to the worst crisis in US-Israel relations in  decades, and yet this did not have to happen. More importantly, it needs  to stop before it spirals out of control. Vice President Biden should  rein in the overheated Obama Administration rhetoric and chill the  political spin masters’ fire as they visit the Sunday media shows to  criticize Israel. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Once again, the Obama Administration is missing the boat on a very, very  important issue. They need to go back to the basics and acknowledge  Palestinian leaders have not progressed any peace process since  President Obama was elected.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Israel makes concessions (and is still  criticized by the Obama Administration), Arab leaders are just sitting  back waiting for the White House to further pressure Israel. The Obama  Administration needs to open its eyes and recognize that it is only Iran  and her terrorist allies that benefit from this manufactured Israeli  controversy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vice President Biden was actually right when he said last  week, before the construction announcement, that “one necessary  precondition for progress is that the rest of the world knows...there is  absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes  to security.”  Right now, thanks to the Obama Administration, there is a  chasm.  It’s time for President Obama to push the reset button on our  relations with our ally Israel. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;- Sarah Palin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- - - - - - - - - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="note clearfix wide_note" id="note_364728493434"&gt;&lt;div class="note_body"&gt;&lt;div class="note_header"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title_share clearfix" style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;div class="note_title" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=364728493434" linkindex="1763"&gt;Nonstop  D.C. Nonsense: Drilling Down on Energy Doublespeak&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;March 15, 2010 Today at 1:04pm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="byline" style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="note_content text_align_ltr direction_ltr clearfix"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may be tempting to feel worn down as we take one step after  another towards the “fundamental transformation of America” that Barack  Obama promised. But we mustn’t let our energy be sapped, even in the  face of the mind-boggling leap the Obama Administration just took that  fundamentally shifts us towards more reliance on foreign energy sources.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Hang on to your hat and take a look at this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Months ago I &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=509d009b231b303e5e286efc0ac1a588&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnote.php%3Fnote_id%3D119471438434" linkindex="1764" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=119471438434"&gt;discussed&lt;/a&gt;  Washington’s decision to allow U.S. dollars to flow &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=a1b0b282301325fea450ad6749527462&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html" linkindex="1765" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html"&gt;to  Brazil&lt;/a&gt; for that nation’s off-shore oil drilling projects, while  D.C.’s attitude towards America’s own offshore developments appeared  less-than-enthusiastic. We gained hope though when our President  promised in his State of the Union address that he’d be “making tough  decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development.”  Most of us optimistically assumed that “making tough decisions” meant  allowing at least some offshore drilling. In fact, on national  television that night I said that the President deserved kudos for  acknowledging our need for domestic energy development in his speech.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Turns out that was just more drilling doublespeak: America has been  snookered again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;While everyone has been focused on Obamacare, the Obama administration  took advantage of America’s distraction &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=b849bc4b115d9fbc98a1503412da77a6&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fe2-wire%2F677-e2-wire%2F84781-salazar-eyes-sequential-offshore-drilling-plans" linkindex="1766" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/84781-salazar-eyes-sequential-offshore-drilling-plans"&gt;and&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=d951cb65a33d4e6c3a2c2b3ed238c089&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fblogs%2Fbeltway-confidential%2FThe-Obama-Moratorium-No-offshore-drilling-while-hes-in-office-87246077.html" linkindex="1767" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/The-Obama-Moratorium-No-offshore-drilling-while-hes-in-office-87246077.html"&gt;quietly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=d0f54bef0dda8b7473aac26ffc484bde&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748704784904575112144130306052.html%3Fmod%3DWSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop" linkindex="1768" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704784904575112144130306052.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop"&gt;said&lt;/a&gt;  that it’s planning to place a hold on offshore drilling on the outer  continental shelf until at least 2012.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;At a time when our country is desperate for job growth, deficit  reduction, and energy independence, it’s simply astonishing that the  administration refuses to allow additional offshore drilling, even while  supporting energy development in foreign countries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;According to a &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=b2e7ed7ee9f8a95d2571b0063522e97a&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Famericanenergyalliance.org%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D146%26Itemid%3D50" linkindex="1769" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://americanenergyalliance.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=146&amp;amp;Itemid=50"&gt;study&lt;/a&gt;  by the American Energy Alliance, opening the OCS to drilling could  create as many as 1.2 million new jobs and add hundreds of billions of  dollars annually to the US economy. Those are real American jobs – and  great American opportunities – that can’t be outsourced. Offshore  drilling would provide billions in revenue for our states, allowing them  to reduce their budget deficits without raising taxes. It would help  reduce our trade deficit, which &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=e5a394998270500b671559d35496c405&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fblogs%2Fmoney%2F2010%2F02%2Fmorning_report_trade_deficit_i.html" linkindex="1770" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/02/morning_report_trade_deficit_i.html"&gt;spikes&lt;/a&gt;  with each rise in the price of oil because we’re so reliant on foreign  sources of energy.  And because we have some of the best environmental  standards in the world, we should be drilling for our own oil instead of  buying it from countries with less stringent standards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;When the Obama Administration first delayed offshore leasing on the OCS  to allow for “an extended public comment period,” the comments it  received reflected what all the &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=b219b7d5e982d1980caab9fbae824e6e&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rasmussenreports.com%2Fpublic_content%2Fpolitics%2Fcurrent_events%2Foffshore_drilling%2F68_favor_offshore_oil_drilling" linkindex="1771" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/offshore_drilling/68_favor_offshore_oil_drilling"&gt;polling&lt;/a&gt;  tells us – that Americans overwhelmingly support offshore drilling.  (Curiously, those pro-drilling findings &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/note_redirect.php?note_id=364728493434&amp;amp;h=f19a9aa0bb391f944e99666dc581eea7&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnotes%2Fsarah-palin%2Fdrillgate%2F293441098434" linkindex="1772" style="color: blue;" target="_blank" title="http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/drillgate/293441098434"&gt;weren’t  heavily publicized&lt;/a&gt; by the Administration and the press.) Americans  understand that a true “all-of-the-above” approach to energy  independence must include responsible development of our conventional  resources. Even as we develop alternative energy sources, we’ll still  rely on oil and gas for decades to come.  If we don’t drill for it here,  then we’ll just have to keep buying it from others.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Using executive power to lock up energy resources ignores the will of  the American people who want to develop those resources and know that we  can do so in an environmentally responsible 
