It’s getting rather old, but the Left continues to attack one of the most influential conservative women alive today: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

When she was invited to speak at Stanislaus university in California last Friday, leftist students immediately went through trash cans, trying to figure out how much Palin was being paid. They organized protests, asked their friends of the mainstream media for help, and altogether did their best to ruin what eventually became the most successful fundraising dinner in the university’s history.

The material recovered by the students, which detailed perks such as first-class airfare for two and deluxe hotel accommodations, prompted California Attorney General Jerry Brown to launch an investigation into the finances of the university’s foundation arm and allegations that the nonprofit violated public disclosure laws.| MORE ›

Great news, Russia’s new (self-anointed) Czar, Vladimir Putin, and his loyal number two, Dmitry Medvedev, have decided to go Stalin on Russians’ ass. They’ve ordered the police to confiscate 100.000 copies of a book written by prominent members of the opposition, Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov.

The reason, you ask? Well, they had the audacity to criticize Putin’s legacy.| MORE ›

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Daily Beast contributor Robert Goolrick has decided to quit FaceBook. Although he was once hooked to the (still popular) social networking site, he has lost faith in its usefulness. All his “friends” do is post irrelevant “status updates,” he reads them thinking “and why exactly should I know this?” and that’s pretty much it.| MORE ›

The world is a wonderful place, but it can also be a dangerous one. In almost every corner of the globe militants of some political persuasion are plotting terror attacks — and these attacks can happen in London or New York, not just in Peshawar or Baghdad. Meanwhile, criminals operate wherever there are people, seeking to steal, rape, kidnap or kill.| MORE ›

It seems that the scandal revolving around former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich isn’t the only corruption scandal that could spell trouble for leading progressives, most noteworthyPresident Obama himself. Writing for the Examiner, Robert Moon reports that that the president is also implicated in the Romanoff-scandal.| MORE ›

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Do you remember how ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS and every other network were in love withBarack Obama back when he was still a mere senator campaigning for president? He could do no wrong. Well, all that has changed now that the Messiah has proved incapable of handling the BP oil spill:| MORE ›

Hollywood Reporter published a rather fascinating interview with “motivational coach” Anthony Robbins. It’s quite an interesting read. For those who don’t know: Robbins has gotten a reality show on NBC. The first show will be aired July 27.| MORE ›

As Drudge headlines: “He’s back!” Former U.S. President George W. Bush – or Bush 43 as those closest to him preferred to call him – has decided to copy Sarah Palin’s outreach model, by using FaceBook to interact with supporters and to inform them about his whereabouts. He created a fan page more than a year ago already, but used it only sparingly until today.| MORE ›

“America has too many bureaucrats and they are dramatically overpaid,” the CATO Institute’s Dan Mitchell argues in his latest must watch YouTube video.| MORE ›

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I’m expecting a lot from disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s federal corruption trial, for which the jury selection started today.| MORE ›

Former Governor of Alaska and the most prominent conservative woman in America, Sarah Palin, once again succeeded in taking her left-wing enemies in the media by surprise. How, you ask? Well, not only did she have the courage to defend Arizona’s tough new immigration law on an appearance earlier today on Fox News, but she even went so far as to say that all other border states should adopt the exact same law.| MORE ›