Sarah Palin Compares Herself To Shakespeare

Sarah Palin’s anti-Muslim Tweet, now deleted, used a word she continues to defend, “refudiate.”  It’s a cute conflation of “refute” and “repudiate,” and if Ms. Palin would just acknowledge that, all would be forgiven. Instead, Palin insists she has coined a new word, just like Shakespeare did. (h/t Crooks and Liars)

Perhaps, as rumproast hints, Palin can follow in the footsteps of the great Norm Crosby.

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Mel Gibson Mistress Claims He Was Full Of Rage, Feared For Her Life

Geraldo Rivera interviewed fitness model Violet Kowal, who says she had an affair with Mel Gibson beginning in 2007.  She says she was led to believe that she and Oksana Grigorieva were no longer together. Kowal says that when their relationship became public he called her up and said, “I will make you suffer.”  She then thought of going to the police, but instead “went into hiding for a few weeks.”

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GOP Wants To Run On The Bush Legacy

Republicans appear to be gearing up to run for office on the Bush legacy.

“We need to go back to the exact same agenda that is empowering the free enterprise system rather than diminishing it,” said NRCC chairman Pete Sessions on “Meet the Press” Sunday morning.

I’m not aware that the end of the Bush era was also the end of the free enterprise system.

Texas Senator John Cornyn says George W. Bush’s “stock has gone up a lot” since he was president and “people looking back with fondness” and that “history will prove him right.”

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Harry Reid Is Back, Baby

by Sandi Behrns

A few short months ago, it seemed certain that Harry Reid was headed for forced retirement. How circumstances have changed: A slew of new polls show Reid either leading GOP nominee Sharron Angle, or making significant swings.  A Mason-Dixon Research poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review Journal and KLAS-TV shows Reid leading with 44% to Angle’s 37%. A partisan Democratic poll showed Reid up by four last week.  Even Republican Senator Bill Bennett is predicting victory for Reid.

It would be nice to believe that this turn of fortune is because of the Majority Leader’s …

Oil Spills: No One Really Cares Too Much

by Stuart Shapiro

There’s a lesson here for activists of all stripes.  Many predicted that after the BP oil spill occurred, there would be a dramatic uptick in environmentalism, mirroring those after the Exxon Valdez spill and the publication of Silent Spring. Instead,

In public-opinion polls taken after the spill by Leiserowitz and other academics, 53 percent of people said they were worried about climate change. That was only slightly different from January, and still down from 63 percent in 2008. . .  In addition, U.S. government estimates show that public demand for gasoline and electric power is …

As Facebook Hits Half-A-Billion, Aaron Sorkin Dramatizes FB Founding

Facebook is just six years old (you might want to read that again), and it’s about to pass the 500 million member mark, according to an interesting post this morning from Cecilia Kang, on WashingtonPost.com.

The news comes a few months before Aaron Sorkin’s latest endeavor is due to grace movie screens nationwide. Called “The Social Network” and based on The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, the film dramatizes the events surrounding the site’s founding at Harvard University by tech wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg just six years ago.

Oakland Police Stop Suspected Right-Wing Terrorist Who Was “Angry At Left-Wing Politicians”

By William K. Wolfrum

A heavily armed man wearing a bullet-proof vest opened fire on police on the I-580 freeway after being pulled over by the California Highway Patrol. Byron Williams, 45, was angry at “Left-wing politicians,” according to his mother.

Williams watched the news on television and was upset by “the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items,” his mother said.

The California Highway Patrol said they found evidence that Williams was planning some type of terrorist attack on the public.

Police and CHP officers had been investigating the scene for more than ten hours …

CNBC’s Rick Santelli: If They Say “Father Of The Tea Party” On My Tombstone “They Can Bury Me With A Smile”

CNBC’s Rick Santelli went on the now famous (or infamous, to some) “rant heard ’round the world” a year ago February against the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan.

A self-described Independent, though, he’s pleased that after his ’09 rant, some call him the Father of the Tea Party. “Look, if that’s what they put on my tombstone, they can bury me with a smile.

“…This grassroots movement of the Tea Party, to me, is as American as it gets. And whether you are left, center, or right, to me it’s not about politics. It’s about, in this country, …

Evangelical Christians Allied With Obama On Immigration Reform

President Obama has unlikely allies in his quest to reform immigration policy.  Evangelical Christians believe in a path to citizenship for those here illegally.

“I am a Christian and I am a conservative and I am a Republican, in that order,” said Matthew D. Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a conservative religious law firm. “There is very little I agree with regarding President Barack Obama. On the other hand, I’m not going to let politicized rhetoric or party affiliation trump my values, and if he’s right on this issue, I will support him on this issue.”

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Mark Williams Kicked Out Of Tea Party After Mock Letter From “Colored People” To Abraham Lincoln

Mark Williams, recently called “crackpot” with “no influence” by Mary Matalin, was thrown out of the movement after he posted a mock letter called “NAACP Resolution: Colored People change minds about emancipation.”

“We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote,” Federation spokesman David Webb said during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

In an announcement on the group’s website, Federation spokeswoman Christina Botteri said members of the National Tea Party Federation suspended Williams and threatened to immediately expel Tea Party …

J.D. Hayworth Claims Obama Wants “No Enforcement” Of Immigration Law

John McCain’s challenger for the GOP Senate nod in Arizona, former Congressman and talk show host J.D. Hayworth, tells “Face the Nation that the Obama administration is for open borders and wants “no enforcement” of immigration law.

“It should come as no surprise that any number of people who advocate open borders and advocate no enforcement of the law, including this current administration, are trying to throw up these roadblocks,” Hayworth said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”

Hayworth was defending Arizona’s harsh anti-immigration law.  Is Hayworth talking about the same administration that just requested $600 million for border …