Stories about Sarah Palin
Report: Palin quits Fox News gig as on-air commentator
By Paul Farhi, Washington Post on Jan. 26, 2013, at 7:47 a.m.
Sarah Palin has cut ties with Fox News Channel, ending an association with the cable network that had provided the most-visible forum for her conservative views. Fox confirmed that the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee would no longer be a regular on-air commentator but declined to ...
State of Alaska releases last Palin emails
By BECKY BOHRER, The Associated Press on Feb. 23, 2012, at 8:42 p.m.
JUNEAU, Alaska — In the final months before she resigned as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin displayed growing frustrations over deteriorating relationships with state lawmakers and their perceived efforts to “lame duck” her administration, along with outrage over ethics complaints that she felt frivolously targeted her and which prompted her to ...
Palin criticizes Obama holiday card and the dog
By David Ng, The Associated Press on Dec. 21, 2011, at 10:49 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — So much for the holiday spirit. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is once again targeting the Obama administration, leveling a critical glare at the official White House holiday greeting card for not emphasizing Christmas. The card was created for the Obama family by Los Angeles artist and ...
BREAKING
Sarah Palin says she will not run for president
By Charles Babington, The Associated Press on Oct. 05, 2011, at 6:41 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday she will not run for president, leaving little doubt that the eventual Republican nominee will come from the current field of contenders. After months of leaving her fans guessing, Palin said in a statement that she and her husband Todd “devote ...
‘The Rogue’ gets comic-strip tease
By Michael Cavna, The Washington Post on Sept. 13, 2011, at 5:41 a.m.
It all started in the summer of 2010, when author Joe McGinniss migrated from Massachusetts to Alaska, to be closer to nature. Human nature, at least, as it plays out on the Sarah Palin homestead. The self-assigned Palin biographer, as you may recall, made headlines by renting a residence in ...
EDITORIALS
Burning Corn, Money
on June 29, 2011, at 6:27 p.m.
Republicans lawmakers have made a lot of noise about cutting government spending recently, so ending a $5 billion annual subsidy for an alternative fuel program that is pushing up food prices and puts more money into the hands of oil companies should have been an easy thing to eliminate. After ...
Romney to Obama: It’s your economy now
By Philip Rucker and Dan Balz, The Washington Post on June 03, 2011, at 9:58 p.m.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — In his first outing as a declared presidential candidate, Republican Mitt Romney continued his assault on President Obama here Friday, using new unemployment data to claim that Obama’s policies have only deepened the nation’s economic downturn. “What he did simply was wrong,” Romney said during a town ...
LePage offers model for image of a Palin presidency
Did reality star Sarah Palin move one step closer to running for wolf-hunter-in-chief this week when she hired a chief of staff for her potential presidential campaign? Are polar bears drowning within eyeshot of the mama grizzly’s Alaskan porch? CNN reported Feb. 11 that Palin hired veteran politico Michael Glassner ...
Palin accuses press of manufacturing hatred after Ariz. shooting
The Associated Press on Jan. 12, 2011, at 10:57 a.m.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sarah Palin posted a nearly eight-minute video on her Facebook page early Wednesday, accusing journalists and pundits of inciting hatred and violence in the wake of a deadly Arizona shooting that gravely wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six. Last spring, Palin targeted Giffords’ district as ...
Poll: Palin most polarizing of 2012 candidate crowd
By Charles Babington, The Associated Press on Nov. 11, 2010, at 5:48 a.m.
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin is the most polarizing of the potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, while impressions of Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney lean more positive, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. As for the rest — Pawlenty, Barbour, Thune, Daniels — most Americans say, “Who?” The election, of course, ...
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