http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:26:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like ex-senators and former presidents, ex-governors retain their honorific titles, so Sarah Palin will still be addressed as "Governor Palin" after she officially turns the reigns of her office over to Sean Parnell July 26. The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate has never been much of a stickler for that ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/08/you-can-still-call-her-governor-after-july-26/ Gov. Sarah Palin granted interviews to the legacy media yesterday, and each outlet added its own spin to its presentation of the story. One thing is obvious from watching the various videos and reading the stories: they don't get it. Palin had to scold NBC's Andrea Mitchell, for instance. "You're ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/07/palin-to-andrea-mitchell-youre-not-listening-to-me/ In the wake of Gov. Sarah Palin's announcement that she will resign her office before the end of the month, she has been the target of considerable crtiticism from the punditocracy on both the left and the right who sneer that "she abandoned her post." John Podhoretz says the charge ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/06/exploding-the-she-abandoned-her-post-meme/ From Gov. Palin via Twitter: See letter from my attorney on baseless allegations of past 24hrs @ http://tinyurl.com/l4ct5n(excerpt) The Palin-hating left has been salivating this weekend over lies that began at an Alaska ankle biter website, percolated up to the national nutroots and got mentioned on several major liberal media outlets. At Conservatives ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/05/why-shes-resigning-a-warrior-must-be-mobile/ If Sarah Palin had intended to make media heads collectively explode, she couldn't have planned it better. She called a press conference on short notice, then announced that not only would she not seek a second term as Alaska's governor, but she intended to resign later this month. All that ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/03/sarahs-satisfaction/ From anchorage television station KTUU: WASILLA, Alaska -- Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. The governor gave no reason why she will resign, but there has been much speculation that she intends to run for the ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/03/breaking-gov-sarah-palin-wont-seek-a-second-term/ From the National Archives: Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/03/the-declaration-of-independence/ David Frum has done conservatives a great favor, and we should be thankful. The favor is not that he has written another negative piece about Gov. Palin. No, that's nothing new for Frum, who has been bashing the governor since she stepped up onto the national stage. Frum's gift to ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/02/frum-demonstrates-why-vichy-republicans-will-kill-the-gop/ Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board chairman H.R. Crawford told the panel at its Wednesday meeting that he heard some congresscritters talking about removing President Ronald Reagan's name from DC's airport. MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton tried to minimize the fallout that is already hitting the ground inside the Beltway: “It was just a ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/02/petty-democrats-want-to-remove-reagans-name-from-airport/ Back in December at a meeting with the nation's governors, then vice President-Elect Joe Biden asked Governor  Sarah Palin for help in attracting some attention: "I might point out, as I told you, we walked in. Since the race is over, no one pays attention to me at all," Biden joked ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/01/poor-joe-biden-cant-even-fill-a-room/ Twenty years after the United States removed Manuel Noriega from power, and with the recent focus on Honduras, Panama has been well below the radar for most Americans: But it is a strategically important country that is playing a growing role in global trade. Indeed, it is estimated that 5 percent ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/01/panama-will-swear-in-a-new-president-today/ The NY Daily News is promoting the August edition of Vanity Fair, in which a vicious hit piece full of lies, distortions and innuendo savagely attacks everything about Sarah Palin, not the least of which is her character. The author is the liberal magazine's national editor Todd Purdum. If you don't ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/07/01/there-they-go-again/ Early in January, a Sarah Palin op-ed appeared in the NY Times in which she argued against adding the Polar Bear to the list of endangered species because the polar bear populations in the Arctic were healthy: "...polar bears are more numerous now than they were 40 years ago. The polar bear ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/29/suppressed-reports-vindicate-palin-polar-bear-policy/ One of Barack Obama's often repeated promises made on the campaign trail was that he would not raise taxes on the midddle class: "I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/28/obamas-middle-class-tax-pledge-headed-under-the-bus/ Senator John Kerry has thrown the joke he told Tuesday about Governor Sarah Palin under the bus. Or in Kerryspeak, he obviously voted for the joke before he voted against it. Just one day after Gov. Palin stood up to the liberal Senator and returned fire, he has apparently calculated that ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/27/spokesperson-kerry-didnt-mean-what-he-said/ In a case which explores the depths of human depravity, authorities say that a Duke University official tried to persuade a person he had met in an internet chat room to travel to North Carolina to have sex with the official's adopted 5-year-old child. Unfortunately for Frank Lombard, the associate ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/26/gene-robinson-fan-offered-his-5-year-old-son-for-sex/ One would think Sen. John Kerry (D-Cambodia) would have realized by now that his idea of humor doesn't go over very well. It must be because he's a nasty person, and his pathetic attempts at being funny just turn out to be... well, nasty. He should have remembered the firestorm he ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/26/does-kerry-moonlight-as-a-writer-for-letterman/ From the governor via Twitter: "Travel now to bring appreciation from their Alaska family & Natl Guard leadership to heroes in US European Command's area of responsibility" We had wondered if Gov. Palin was going to return to the Middle East to visit her state's Guard troops deployed there after she tweeted: "Got ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/24/gov-palin-headed-for-europe-to-visit-troops/ Governor Sarah Palin recently tweeted: "Got Fed ok for Adjutant Gen Campbell, Command Sgt Major Choate and me to travel to our Ak Army Natl Guard troops on Wed. Glad to go to them" The 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate's tweet didn't say exactly where she would travel to visit the toops. ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/24/is-palin-going-back-to-the-middle-east/ If you've watched any of the televised images from Iran since the people first went into the streets to protest their country's rigged election, you've seen them in action. That bunch of thugs wearing civilian garb and clubbing protesters with nightsticks are the Basij -- Niruyeh Moghavemat Basij is the ... http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/06/22/meet-the-basij-irans-thug-militia/