Reading between the lines of Bristol Palin’s answers to her FOXNews interviewers leaves me with the decided sense that Sarah Palin is planning a presidential run. And I hope she does — and has developed the kind of media strategy that will allow her to reach the American people without the malignant filter of the mainstream press, which includes, unfortunately, many of the more mainstream GOP pundits working today. But

The dirty whore. Discuss.

…into non-journalistic plainspeak. Asks Stephanopoulakakis: Finally one—one final question. I think one of the most impressive things that people find in your background is the fact that you and your husband have helped raise 23 foster children and I know you want to shield them but are they prepared and are you prepared for the loss of privacy that comes with the president campaign? And is that something you are

(Well, without significant comment. Because, well…) It’s been nearly a decade. You folks are really going to have to learn to trust me on this stuff.

Good lord. I fucking give up. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday they will jointly enforce U.S. and international air pollution limits for vessels operating in U.S. waters. Both the Coast Guard and the EPA “will perform inspections and investigations, and will take appropriate enforcement actions if a violation is detected,” the news release said. The rules establish limits on nitrogen oxide emissions and require the

The normally quite reliable Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times argues that the Court’s ruling doesn’t take it account harried parents who, in the present economy, have difficulty finding time to actually parent, nor did it give the proper weight to the ickiness of certain games, played by people who just might date your daughter! To which I say, so? Such arguments were made at one time against the music

Of course, should they round us all up and put us in ovens, one wonders if they’d even note the irony.

So says Politico. Yet I don’t see the evidence that Bachmann won’t accept an apology, just that she didn’t appreciate Wallace’s question, which played directly into the left’s — and make no mistake, the GOP establishment’s, as well — desire to see Bachmann, like Sarah Palin, ultimately marginalized as a candidate. Of course, the mainstream press has been willing to build her up — doing so may keep Palin out

As part of my late trip to New York I was invited by director Steve Bannon to screen a rough cut of his film on Sarah Palin, The Undefeated. I’ll post my more detailed thoughts on the film later on this week, but for the moment let me just say this: those of you who’ve been convinced to believe in either Palin’s lack of intelligence or her intentional self-aggrandizement are

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