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Donald Trump in Tusla

On Wednesday, I attended the Tulsa rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump with former Alaska Gov. and vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, held at ORU's Mabee Center. I was there as a member of the news media; I received an email at 7 pm the night before the event saying that...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 24, 2016 11:17 PM

Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck in Tulsa

Via KFAQ's Pat Campbell's blog, here are videos from YouTube user FreedomsLighthouse with the opening five minutes of the speeches of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck at the Take Our Country Back event at the Tulsa Convention Center....

Posted by Michael Bates on March 15, 2010 2:44 AM

Obama just one crisis short of a full Nixon

Sen. Joe Biden has predicted that the callow youth at the top of his ticket would be tested by a "generated" international crisis, which, just as John F. Kennedy, whose obvious weakness gave Khrushchev the all-clear to wall off Berlin and plant missiles in Cuba, did, Obama will royally screw...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 21, 2008 11:11 PM

Palin Derangement Syndrome: A fake SAT report

A Photoshopped image purporting to be Sarah Palin's SAT report is circulating amongst the moonbats tonight. It was posted on Gawker, but Rick Paulas, Gawker's art director, has spotted several telltale signs of fakery, including the impossible variations in baselines and too-perfect kerning for the impact printers that generated SAT...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 10, 2008 11:25 PM

Palin and the American grassroots tradition

Why are Asian investors keeping their money in America? According to Asia Times columnist Spengler, it's because of Sarah Palin. Or rather, it's because of a political culture that allows concerned citizens like Palin to emerge to challenge and expose corruption. You need to read the whole thing. There are...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 6, 2008 6:10 PM

The rise of Sarah Palin

Via Mister Snitch, I came across this detailed, link-heavy blog post about Sarah Palin's political career, beginning with her first race for City Council in 1992, and including her 2004 decision to quit a plum $118,000 a year seat on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after the Attorney...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 5, 2008 12:15 AM

VP debate Wynnterview

Earlier this evening, Tyson Wynn interviewed me and Jason Carini of Oklahomans for Responsible Government about tonight's vice presidential debate between Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) and Sen. Joe Biden (D-Delaware). Click that link to listen and download the podcast. I thought Palin did a wonderful job and clearly came out...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 2, 2008 11:44 PM

Punchy cons

I've been following the anti-Sarah Palin tirades coming from a handful of conservative pundits who are embarrassed by her interview with Katie Couric. One of those is Rod Dreher, whose string of anti-Palin posts has won him interviews on Good Morning America and Larry King Live. In a recent entry...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 1, 2008 10:16 PM

Mrs. Bates on Gov. Palin

My wife, Mikki, wanted me to write something about why the mainstream media hates Sarah Palin. I thought what she wrote herself put it pretty well, so here it is: Why does the MSM hate Palin? She is the antithesis of "Sex in the City" and "Desperate Housewives." Our media...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 1, 2008 12:02 PM

How Sarah Palin busted Alaska crony capitalism

Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal describes in depth how Sarah Palin, first as an oil and gas commissioner and then as Governor, busted up an insider sweetheart deal involving a natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48. Here's the heart of the story: And so it...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 6, 2008 12:55 PM

Obamphaloskepsis

Sarah Palin's speech was a big hit with the delegates. A couple of lines painted Democratic nominee Barack Obama as something of a navel gazer: But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 4, 2008 1:13 AM

Frank Luntz speaks to blogger brunch

California Congressman Kevin McCarthy roped in political focus group maven Frank Luntz to take about four minutes to answer a few blogger questions at the end of today's RedState.com / Google blogger brunch on the 22nd floor of the St. Paul Crowne Plaza hotel. He spoke about swing voter...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 3, 2008 7:45 PM

Good and <s>Pawlenty</s> Palin

There. I had that headline ready to go, and by golly, I'm going to use it. (Dawn Summers already won the Sarah Palin punny headline contest: "Palin Comparison.") I was excited this morning to hear the buzz about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as I hadn't been hearing her name in...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 29, 2008 11:00 PM