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...Dillingham, Palin traces her decision to resign directly to Aug. 29, 2008, the day she was announced as McCain's running mate, the day "the distractions," as she calls them, "ramped up." They ranged from the bizarre - a blogger's campaign to prove that Palin faked her last pregnancy (she didn't) - to the humiliating. The National Enquirer sent four reporters to Alaska, hoovering up gossip about drug use by her older children and long-ago marital infidelity. Despite rave reviews for her Republican National Convention speech, Palin soon became the target of late-night comics and snarky columnists...
...Johnston, the hockey-playing former fiancé of her daughter Bristol. After a joke aimed at 18-year-old Bristol hit 14-year-old Willow instead, Palin demanded multiple apologies from comedian David Letterman. Even after Palin announced her resignation, she remained on high alert. Shannyn Moore, an Alaska blogger, questioned whether Palin quit because of rumors she was facing a scandal. Palin's lawyer threatened to sue. Net result: more publicity and an FBI denial of any investigation. (See pictures of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston...
...into a case for reduced regulation--regulators are likely to mess up, so why bother? But it can also point toward an approach based not so much on discretion as on rules, the simpler the better. I first encountered this argument last fall in the work of left-leaning blogger Matthew Yglesias--he advocated "crude measures" like the old ban on interstate banking. Lately, though, I've been hearing similar suggestions from those of a conservative, University of Chicago bent. "When you give a lot of discretion to regulators, they don't use the tools that are given to them...
...Apparently, they translate well. After a series of sold-out shows, the Chinese version of the show is being hailed as a hit. "I'd never, ever seen anything like that!" a student leaving the show told a Huffington Post blogger. (Read a Q&A with Ensler...
...anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long.' KAISER KUO, a Beijing-based blogger, on the Chinese government's blocking access to websites like Twitter two days before the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square...