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...Could there be a less likely venue in which to ask a woman in a blue T-shirt - "Go Slam a Salmon," it reads - about her plans to run for President? And yet this was the place where her answer finally made sense. It included none of the strange ramblings of her televised resignation speech, which managed, in pure Palin style, to be both plainspoken and inscrutable. For example: "Take the words of General MacArthur. He said, 'We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.' " And "Do you want me to make a positive difference and fight...
...Washington, where even a flat no can mean maybe, this answer will almost certainly be taken to mean "Yes, she's running," heedless of the widely spouted view that she blew her chance with the decision to quit her current job. Left, right and center, pundits opined on the lightness of Palin's résumé and her vanished chance to beef it up. How could she seek a promotion when she didn't finish the job she had? Even a fan like columnist Fred Barnes, writing in the pro-Palin Weekly Standard, declared glumly, "Forget about Sarah Palin...
...quickly other states may hit the wall will largely depend on how quickly we exit this recession. Will we emerge later this year? Not until next? It is easy to find an economist for whatever answer you'd like. That's not nefarious; it's just really hard to anticipate what the economy is going to do. For the fiscal year that just ended, revenues came in below expectations in 38 states, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers and the National Governors Association. And if projections are too rosy again in the just-signed state budgets? Well...
...While Perry works the command center to ensure what she hopes will be a "peaceful, well-run, seamless operation," she and her colleagues will have to come up with an answer to how the cash-strapped City of Los Angeles will eventually foot the event's large public bill. The councilwoman would not hazard a guess of what the memorial would cost, but she did use last month's Laker Pride parade as a yardstick, which was estimated to run a tab of about $2 million. Other estimates listed the Jackson total price tag at $2.5 million...
...answer isn’t stupidity, so much as hubris. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is flying way too close to the sun. But before I get into that, some background information...