TPM: The Alaskan Independence Party, whose secession work Sarah Palin has cheered for years and of which Todd Palin has been a long-standing member, has ties not just to white supremacists, but also to the Chechen separatists who in turn have ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. I wonder what Jim Inhofe, who demands that Barack Obama prove that he loves his country thinks of this?
Washington Post: The alleged "reformer", Sarah Palin, "has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business."
The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.
Palin, who earns $125,000 a year, claimed and received $16,951 as her allowance, which officials say was permitted because her official "duty station" is Juneau, according to an analysis of her travel documents by The Washington Post.
The governor's daughters and husband charged the state $43,490 to travel, and many of the trips were between their house in Wasilla and Juneau, the capital city 600 miles away, the documents show.
HuffPo: The McCain campaign's efforts to squelch the abuse of power investigation into Sarah Palin in regard to the firing of the state's public safety commissioner for refusing to fire her ex-brother-in-law have failed. For now.
AP: Sarah Palin's church preaches that you can "pray away the gay." Will Charlie Gibson ask if she believes that gays can be made straight through prayer? Don't bet on it.
Telegraph U.K.: John McCain plans to make Sarah Palin the public face of energy independence. So what does that mean? Does that mean that he doesn't have to show that he has any energy or stamina because Palin is like Bart Simpson on speed? Or is Palin the latest face of American energy policy being the private fiefdom for the enrichment of Administration members' family and friends, and in Palin's case, entire home state?
Andrew Halco (Alaskan blogger): In an eerie echo of Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin has requested a conference call with oil company CEOs to try to get a natural gas pipeline project that's gone nowhere jump-started. After all, she crowed about this pipeline during her speech last week; it kind of looks bad that the project has been languishing. This also gives Palin the framework she needs to put on a big show of being "tough on the oil companies.
Michael Kinsley: Separating the myth (or as they say in common parlance, LIES) told by the McCain camp and by Palin herself from the facts (or as they say in common parlance, TRUTH).
Juan Cole: Sarah Palin's values are not much different from those of the Islamic fundamentalists against whom John McCain claims are our "transcendent challenge.
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