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• Sarah Palin Resigning as Alaska Governor

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  Sarah Palin is resigning as of July 26 as governor of Alaska.
  
  The question now becomes, is it because she's positioning for a presidential run, a U.S. Senate run, or is she tired of the political nonsense?
  
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:07pm EDT

• Sarah Palin resigns as governor of Alaska!

  —zTruth

  Fox News reported Sarah Palins husband, Todd Palin, confirmed she is stepping down from being the goveror of Alaska and will hand over control to the Lt. Governor at the end of the month.  CBS News is also reporting her resignation.  Other sources simple say she will not seek a 2nd term.

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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:38pm EDT by zTruth

• Sarah Palin Resigns as Governor: Palin Resigns This Month

  —Maggie's Notebook

  Alaska's Governor, Sarah Palin, announced today that she will not seek a another term in office and, in fact, she will step down from the Governor's office at the end of July 2009.
  
  Sarah Palin
  
  There are quotes coming from interviews with Todd Palin. [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:38pm EDT

• The Sale of Cap'n Tax Indulgences for Climate Sins

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  The Waxman-Markey Cap & Trade legislation revives the concept of "indulgences" -- little permissions to engage in environmental CO2 sin -- only they are called offsets.
  
  The government becomes the environmental priesthood, granting these CO2 indulgences so that you can "offset" your carbon footprint.
  
  Big business has already [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:21pm EDT

• Cap'n Tax -- You Pay for Saving Rain Forests

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  We continue to look at Sprueill and Williamson's 50 most egregious components of the Waxman-Markey "Cap & Tax" climate change bill passed by the House (and soon to be considered by the U.S. Senate).
  
  At its heart this is "wealth transfer" legislation. It will take money from the middle [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:00pm EDT

• Ambassadorships Given to Biggest Fund-Raisers

  —Oklahomily the Blog

  Every administration places a certain number of non-diplomat types in the ambassadorships around the world. The number historically hovers just above 10 percent, although the average since John F. Kennedy's presidency has been about 30 percent.
  
  Guess what Barack Obama's percentage is?
  
  First, however, consider that then candidate [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:56am EDT

• Wake up video on Muslim demographics

  —zTruth

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  There is video which you should probably watch.  But there is a caveat; I cannot say that every statement is correct because each requires verification but I have read about some of these concerns and I think there is some truth to this video.  I plan to add links about these issues as I find them to either support [...]

  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:34am EDT by zTruth

• Frank Lombard Amazon WishList Scrubbed from Web

  —Maggie's Notebook

  Frank Lombard, the Duke University professor who raped and molested his five-year-old son and offered him up for others to do the same, had a public wish list of books and DVD's on Amazon. Amazon has scrubbed that list and I'm asking why?
  
  Frank Lombard
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:05am EDT

• Iranian cleric: British embassy staff will be tried!

  —zTruth

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  Last weekend nine British embassy employees in Iran were arrested by authorities.  Earlier reports this week said all but one was let go.  Now, the crisis has taken a turn for the worse when an Iranian cleric said today at Friday prayers  two embassy employees will be tried in court.  No official word from Britain [...]

  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:29am EDT by zTruth

• 'Looking for Advil in all the wrong places'

  —Choice Remarks

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  Jacob Sullum is encouraged that apparently "there are still limits on what government agents can do to our children." [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:58am EDT by Brandon Dutcher

• The Gadfly On His Soapbox

  —The McCarville Report Online

  Get Out: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford should resign and go into hiding. Even in Argentina. This guy is an irresponsible goofball; he left his state and its citizens high and dry to go unzip his pants with his foreign sleep-in, lied about where he [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:12am EDT

• The Gift of Standing Up

  —BatesLine

  Alisa Harris posted a clip from the movie On the Waterfront on the World Magazine Blog in memory of Karl Malden. It's a powerful speech in which Malden, as Father Barry, gives last rites to a longshoreman who was ready to testify against the Mob and paid for his... [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:01am EDT

• Adelson in, Christiansen out, Medlock maybe; Council races shape up

  —BatesLine

  Democratic State Sen. Tom Adelson announced on Wednesday his anticipated candidacy for Mayor of Tulsa. Reports of the announcement hint that many of Mayor Kathy Taylor's Democratic supporters during the 2006 primary were in attendance in support of Adelson. It will be interesting to see if Democrats who supported Don... [...]
  
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:49am EDT

• Todd Russ Eyes Run For HD 55 Seat

  —The McCarville Report Online

  Republican businessman Todd Russ of Cordell said today he is seriously considering running for the State House District 55 seat which is being vacated later this month by Rep. Ryan McMullen, who has been named the new State Director of Rural Development for the USDA.

  Governor Henry will set dates [...]
  
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:47pm EDT

• More Choices for Special-Needs Children

  —Dutch, Reformed

  
  
  School choice could help special-needs students while saving money for taxpayers, according to a new study published by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and OCPA (press release here).
  
  At a state capitol press conference on Tuesday, OCPA and Friedman were joined by three [...]
  
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  Posted: July 02, 2009, 8:37pm EDT