— 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.