— Which, to be fair to Ms Rhodes, them lonely days and nights in a winterproofed doublewide can be really trying on oversexed reindeer groomers and ice fishing aficionados. At least, that’s what her friends in Manhattan say. Besides, Alaska is barely even a part of the US. Like Mississippi or West Virginia or places like that. Hillbilly outre, as it were. In fact, it’s total anarchy up there, is

Steven Hayward, “Give ’em Hell, Sarah,” WS: Lurking just below the surface of the second-guessing about Sarah Palin’s fitness to be president is the serious question of whether we still believe in the American people’s capacity for self-government, what we mean when we affirm that all American citizens are equal, and whether we tacitly believe there are distinct classes of citizens and that American government at the highest levels is

…maybe it’ll get some play. I’ve always been a bit ahead of my time. Like the Plasmatics, or Crack the Sky. **** update: See also, Mark Levin.

From the Daily Telegraph: Anderson, 41, was recently in Toronto speaking out against the abuse of animals in Hollywood. When asked by E! News Weekend Canada about Palin, she has some choice words for the Republican hopeful. The reporter asked Pam if she saw a recent Newsweek article, which showed a gigantic bear hide in the office of Palin’s house. “I can’t stand her,” Pam blurted out. “She can suck

This, from commenter Andrew the Noisy: “Pilate was an urbane and educated professional. Jesus was a Galileean redneck born in a barn.” — Though, in fairness, he was a Capricorn, too. Just thought you should know.

Evidently, rather than issuing a correction or retraction to an egregious error, ABC News has simply scrubbed their “Nightline” airing of the Charlie Gibson interview with Sarah Palin of Gibson’s misquote (and Governor Palin’s notice of that misquote) of a line Palin delivered to a church assembly — the result being that Palin is left not only to explain an out of context exhortation made at her old church, but

Excerpts from Gov. Palin’s interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson, who tries hard to turn a “soccer Mom” into, well, Ahmanidinejihadiwhatever: GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war? PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote. GIBSON: Exact words. PALIN: But the reference there is a

Can “justifiable homicide” be far behind? RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!

Looking back to that horrible day, seven years ago: We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the

Janet Albrechtsen, WSJ: For left-leaning elites outside the United States, the nomination of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate is a case of “only in America” — a sneering phrase foreigners use to explain a weird or distasteful American phenomenon. For them, the emergence of a small-town conservative Christian woman with a large family and a beehive hairdo, who talks about the small-town American values of faith, family