Top Items:
![](/img/pml.png)
‘TOLD YA SO’ — Sarah Palin hits FOXNEWS tonight for the big ‘Told Ya So’ interview, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. — As President Obama vows to spend the ‘stimulus’ faster, Governor Palin tells host Sean Hannity: ‘You gotta quit digging that hole!’ — HANNITY: What do you make of - look at the state of the economy now...
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
GOP Leader Working Behind Scenes To Get Palin Reinvited To Big Fundraiser — In another sign of the sway that Sarah Palin and her supporters in Palin Nation hold over the GOP, NRCC chief Pete Sessions is working behind the scenes to get Palin reinvited to the big GOP fundraiser tonight, GOP sources say.
Discussion:
NY Daily News, Weekly Standard, Associated Press, Think Progress, DownWithTyranny!, Salon and Talking Points Memo
![](/img/pml.png)
Palin and GOP spar over fundraising dinner — A dispute with Republican congressional leaders may keep Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, one of the GOP's most-recognized names, from attending the party's big fundraising dinner Monday night. — Palin was originally slated to headline Monday's dinner benefiting …
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama's Top Targeter Bullish on Montana and Worried About Gingrich; Predicts Deeds Win Tomorrow — Ken Strasma, recognizable to many 538 readers as Barack Obama's national targeting director in 2008, is the first participant in a new series of interviews we will be conducting with consultants …
![](/090608/i100.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Sarah Palin To Attend GOP Fundraiser — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is planning to attend the joint House-Senate fundraising dinner tonight, according to sources familiar with her schedule, ending a back and forth between the vice presidential nominee and the two congressional campaign committees that goes back for months.
![](/img/pml.png)
After Mixed Signals, Palin May Try to Upstage Gingrich at GOP Dinner
Discussion:
Gawker
![](/090608/i105.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Republicans Seize Control of State Senate — ALBANY - Republicans seized control of the New York State Senate on Monday, in a stunning and sudden reversal of fortunes for the Democratic Party, which controlled the chamber for barely five months. — A raucous leadership fight erupted …
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Ginsburg temporarily blocks Chrysler deal — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put a temporary hold Monday on the deal to sell Chrysler to save it from collapse. Her order, however, simply gives her or the full Court more time to ponder whether to postpone the sale further, or allow it to go forward.
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Supreme Court Turns Down 'Don't Ask' Challenge — The Supreme Court today declined to hear a constitutional challenge to the Pentagon's “don't ask, don't tell” policy banning openly gay people from serving in the U.S. military, a move that could effectively leave it to the Obama administration to resolve the long-controversial issue.
Discussion:
AMERICAblog News, Bloomberg, Pam's House Blend, News Desk, American Power, QandO, Think Progress, HRC Back Story, D-Day and Salon
![](/img/pml.png)
Caperton and The Supreme Court's Boundary-Enforcing Role
Discussion:
Law Blog
![](/img/pml.png)
AMATEURS.... As disappointing as it was to see the National Review's Ed Whelan expose the identity of Obsidian Wings' publius over the weekend, there were at least one encouraging development of note: bloggers from the left and right who don't agree on much agree that Whelan crossed a line.
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Anonyblogging Cont'd — A (anonyblogging) reader writes, in part: Jonah- If it's cowardly to blog anonymously, were Madison, Hamilton, and Jay cowards for publishing the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym “Publius”? Answer: No. Madison, Hamilton, and Jay weren't amateur pundits.
![](/img/pml.png)
Sotomayor Breaks Her Ankle — The X-ray revealed a small fracture in her ankle. She was released from the hospital after less than two hours and is now using crutches, said Ben LaBolt, an assistant press secretary at the White House. — “This morning, on the way to Washington, D.C., Judge Sotomayor tripped at LaGuardia Airport.
Discussion:
Gawker, The Ninth Justice, Think Progress, Little Green Footballs and The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Sotomayor and the Politics of Race
Discussion:
Wonk Room, Balkinization, NO QUARTER, Commentary, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Betsy's Page and The Opinionator
![](/090608/i127.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Health Care Reform for Beginners: The Many Flavors of the Public Plan — For most of you, this is the big one. The inclusion of a strong public insurance option has become, for most observers I know, the single most recognizable marker for victory. If the public plan exists, liberals have won.
RELATED:
![](/img/pml.png)
Nobel Winner Krugman Sees U.S. Recession Ending Soon — The U.S. economy probably will emerge from the recession by September, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said. — “I would not be surprised if the official end of the U.S. recession ends up being, in retrospect …
![](/img/pml.png)
Trust on Issues — Voters Now Trust Republicans More than Democrats on Economic Issues — Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% …
![](/img/pml.png)
Obama Rated Highest as Person, Lowest on Deficit, Spending — Obama doing better than Bush and Clinton at similar points in their first year in office — PRINCETON, NJ — While 67% of Americans view President Barack Obama favorably, his overall job approval rating and his ratings on specific areas are less positive.
Discussion:
The Politico, The Fix, The Moderate Voice, Weekly Standard, The Foundry, Hot Air, Wake up America, Commentary, The Rhetorican, Don Surber and Say Anything
![](/img/pml.png)
The 15 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media — After doing The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics last week, I thought that in order to be fair, I should feature the women on the Right as well. So, in the spirit of the Hill's 50 Most Beautiful lists, I present to you “The 15 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media.”
![](/090608/i38.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Source: Booby-trapped horses used in failed terror attack — Article's topics: Gaza Strip, IDF, Palestinians — Under the cover of morning fog, a group of around 10 Palestinian gunmen armed with “huge amounts of explosives” launched a failed Gaza border assault at the Karni Crossing on Monday …
Discussion:
YID With LID, Atlas Shrugs, Hot Air, JustOneMinute, Gateway Pundit, Israel Matzav and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
![](/090608/i78.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Hard Labor in North Korea — As you've no doubt heard, two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, have been arrested by the North Korean government and sentenced to twelve years hard labor. I've been trying to Google around for more information on the DPRK's labor camps …
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, Weekly Standard, ATTACKERMAN, The Washington Independent, The Daily Dish, The TrogloPundit, Feministing and American Power
![](/img/pml.png)
Understanding the Kennedy health care bill — Over the weekend a draft of Senator Kennedy's (D-MA) health care bill leaked. After playing with Adobe Acrobat, here is the text of the draft Kennedy bill as a text file (173 K), and as a single Acrobat file (3.4 MB). Update: I fixed the broken link to the PDF.
Discussion:
Bloomberg, CNSNews, Hot Air, AmSpecBlog, Cato @ Liberty, Wake up America, JustOneMinute and Paco Enterprises
![](/090608/i120.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
The Reintroduction of Kirsten Gillibrand — After a shaky first hundred days, the junior senator from New York is trying to start over. — The shuttle that transports senators from the Capitol to their offices shimmies a bit, like a kiddie roller coaster.
![](/090608/i17.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
In Iraq, Colbert Does His Shtick for the Troops — CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — It was Sunday night in Baghdad, and President Obama was ordering Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of the American troops here, to shave Stephen Colbert's head. (Not to give everything away, but the general is not as brutal …
![](/090608/i65.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Has The Obama Administration's Banking Plan Failed? — When Tim Geithner's Public-Private Investment Partnership (PPIP) plan was announced, it dominated commentary for a solid week. It was big, complicated, controversial, and, it seemed, important. It was the center of the administration's …
![](/090608/i64.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
Scandal could derail Democratic dreams — The Republican Party's fall from dominance in 2002 to utter collapse in 2008 is mostly attributed to the GOP either being too conservative or not conservative enough. — But Republicans were mostly incoherent on domestic policy during their six-year ride to the bottom.
![](/090608/i16.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
EXCLUSIVE: Recently Released Gitmo Detainee Talks to ABC News — Held Seven Years, Former Aid Worker Tells ABC News He Was Tortured — For 7½ years, Lakhdar Boumediene was known simply by a number: “10005.” — These were the digits assigned to him when he arrived at the detention center …
![](/img/pml.png)
Lebanon — Happy news from Lebanon, and Tony Badran's analysis is, as always, excellent. The defeat of Hezbollah has regional significance. It will undoubtedly affect the Iranian “elections,” since one of Ahmadinejad's major claims has been that his tough line has produced success after success.
![](/090608/i15.jpg)
![](/img/pml.png)
U.S. to Propose Wider Oversight of Compensation — The Obama administration plans to require banks and corporations that have received two rounds of federal bailouts to submit any major executive pay changes for approval by a new federal official who will monitor pay, according to two government officials.