**Written by Doug Powers The Palins will be in Iowa next week for the premiere of The Undefeated. It’s not known yet if they’ll be flying to Pella, Iowa, or driving in on the lawless “rolling menace” that makes reporters flee for their lives like Tokyoites from Godzilla. Let the “is she or isn’t she” […]

**Written by Doug Powers Dozens of journalists dutifully monitored the hundreds of citizens they recruited to do pro-bono muckraking for the MSM, and the overall efforts to find dirt in Sarah Palin’s emails are finally starting to produce fruit. This New York Daily News headline explains the developing scandal: Sarah Palin writes at an eighth-grade […]

Free swag idea for Palin e-mail hunters Here’s my response to the New York Times and Washington Post crowd-sourcing of Sarah Palin’s emails during her tenure as Alaska governor, via Matthew Boyle’s piece on the document dump: The New York Times and the Washington Post issued open calls on Thursday asking their readers to help […]

And they’re off…

**Written by Doug Powers To read the Politico article, which is entitled “Sarah Palin’s tour a rolling menace,” you’d think the tour is being directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. This could even be the script for the preview of “Speed 3: Chasing Palin” — provided Sandra Bullock has one more sequel in her. Here are just […]

**Written by Doug Powers Many Beltway Republicans will say that Washington needs to think and operate differently in order to tackle the crushing debt, economic turmoil and all manner of problems that our country is enduring. But when somebody comes along who operates slightly outside the box and doesn’t follow the status quo rulebook — […]

**Written by Doug Powers CNN’s Peter Hamby presents what could be an interesting problem for the media — or maybe it’ll be a no-brainer. Mitt Romney will officially announce his White House intention Thursday in New Hampshire. At the same time, Sarah Palin’s bus tour will make a stop in the state: Reporters will have […]

Chasing Sarah: The Boys Behind the Bus by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 In the 1970s, “The Boys on the Bus” exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media […]

**Written by Doug Powers As I write this, it’s raining and I hear thunder in the sky, or it could just be the distant echo of Harleys: WASHINGTON — The sound of motorcycles is filling the streets of Washington this Memorial Day weekend. The group Rolling Thunder is in town for a motorcycle ride and […]

**Written by Doug Powers Now that Sarah Palin’s “Hey you guys dating Meghan McCain, look over here! WHOOO!” bus tour is under way, Meghan’s dating life is only bound to keep going south: Jay Leno: Are you dating anyone? Meghan McCain: No. I’m in, like, dating Babylon. Like, I go on dates with men and, […]

What a great combination: Sarah Palin and Rolling Thunder. Memorial Day in Washington, D.C. sounds like it will be a blast. The event is the kick-off for a cross-country bus tour. The Palin family will hit the northeastern corridor first, on a route that will take them to “historical sites that were key to the […]

**Written by Doug Powers The White House Correspondents Dinner took place last night in Washington. MSNBC hosted a party where a Barack Obama lookalike jumped out of a cake, much to the delight of a giddy Chris Matthews (that’s an unverified rumor but it sounds about right). From what I’ve read so far, the best […]

**Written by Doug Powers Update: The rally is over and Palin delivered a hard-hitting speech with parts that were directed toward the protesters on the outskirts of the crowd. If I can find video I’ll post it here, so check back later if you missed it live. Update II: The Right Scoop has posted a […]

**Written by Doug Powers Oddly enough, “don’t take advice from Al Sharpton” is nowhere to be found: Despite the chuckles some might have at the idea of Reverend Al Sharpton giving someone advice about how to be taken seriously, while appearing on Morning Joe, Sharpton was humorous and even insightful with some of the wisdom […]

**Written by Doug Powers This will be a rare treat. It isn’t every day that we get a chance to see a movie partly about the political right from the perspective of the Hollywood left: Four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore has been cast as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in HBO’s upcoming film, Game […]

Ron Reagan Jr.: Destroyer of presidential hopes?

**Written by Doug Powers Contrary to some opinions, I’m willing to bet Sarah Palin eventually comes out of this politically stronger than ever (even the New York Times is backpedaling like Lance Armstrong careening down Filbert Street with broken brake cables). Below is Sean Hannity’s interview with Palin Monday night. If she does in fact […]

Image via Zazzle On Monday, as the progressive smear machine worked overtime to pin the horrific Tucson massacre on conservatives and to squelch political opposition by targeting Tea Party/limited-government rhetoric, I published “The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010.” Today’s column provides another primer for the amnesia-wracked blamestream media on just how widespread […]

Toning down the rhetoric

“Blood libel.”

Update…Friend says Loughner “did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio. He didn’t take sides. He wasn’t on the left. He wasn’t on the right.” Over to you, Sheriff Dupnik…Update…Dupnik refuses to release public reports on Loughner…see below…update…documents released… In the ignominious tradition of camera-hogging police chief Charles Moose […]

From the bottom-of-the-barrel-scraping blogger whose reaction to the lynching of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah in 2004 was this… …comes today’s nominee for the progressive Left’s most ghoulish Tucson massacre Tweet of the week. He cheered the ruthless murders of American war veterans serving their country as civilian contractors in Iraq, and now he’s […]

**Written by Doug Powers Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, who admits to having no case-specific facts at this point and that the investigation is ongoing, has nonetheless repeatedly claimed Saturday’s murders were caused by those on the right who fan political flames. Fox News’ Megyn Kelly interviewed Dupnik, who once again said the same […]

The Tucson massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand. They need to be reminded. You need to be reminded. Confront them. Don’t be cowed into silence. And don’t let the media whitewash the sins of the hypocritical Left in their naked attempt to suppress the law-abiding, constitutionally-protected, peaceful, vigorous […]

**Written by Doug Powers Another outrageously outraged Aaron Sorkin column on the way in 3… 2… 1…