By Wendell Potter - The Affordable Care Act might havebeen able to curtail spending further if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin’s reckless rhetoric. It was Palin who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay doctors for having end-of-life discussion …
Speaking [on ABC's This Week] about presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney selecting a vice presidential running mate, McCain said that the “primary, absolute, most important aspect is if something happened to him, would that person be well qualified to take that place?&rdqu …
Talking Points Memo in an article titled, "Why Mitt Romney Won't Take GOP Down Another VP Rabbit Hole" quoted a strategist who said my mom is "a case study on what not to do. The McCain campaign really screwed up by going in and picking someone who was just gonna sha …
Sarah Palin says the Obama administration wants to ban kids from working on family farms. In a Facebook post Wednesday she charges that the Department of Labor is working on regulations that would stop children from doing agricultural chores that teach hard work and help feed Ame …
We have a winner. If you had asked me before what the craziest conservative talking point was, it had to be the czars. After all, this was a case of taking something around for decades and claiming it was some sort of new threat to the republic. Plus it came with fun side idiocy …
White House spokesman Jay Carney dismissed any attempt to link the scandal in Colombia, a row over a lavish conference held by the government's administrative agency and a furor over soldiers who had posed with corpses in Afghanistan. "It is preposterous to politicize the …
Sarah Palin responded to a harsh comment Fox News chief Roger Ailes made about her earlier this week. During a speech at the University of North Carolina, Ailes said that "Sarah Palin had no chance to be president." The quote came from New York Magazine editor Gabriel Sherman' …
Sarah Palin says there's one name at the top of her list if the Republican Party wants to "go rogue" in its pick for the vice presidential nominee: Rep. Allen West. The former vice presidential candidate told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Tuesday that the Florida Republic …
But the whole gig provided an intriguing twist on the whole “lamestream media” critique. In the end, NBC was more than glad to use Palin for counterprogramming, and Palin more than glad to accept the media exposure. Is NBC going to win over any Tea Party viewers by …
Now we’re getting a better idea of how ”Today” will counter Katie Couric’s weeklong stint as co-host of “Good Morning America” next week. “Today” will bring on former Gov. Sarah Palin as co-host on Tuesday. Lester Holt announced …
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