This is rather priceless… Senator John Ensign’s parents “shelled out big bucks to pay off” his mistress. The pay off was $96,000 and it was deemed “gifts” to the mistress and her family. Sphere: Related Content

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RUSSIA Reported by Michael Scherer of Time magazine “Medvedev and Obama: Sunshine in Moscow” Moscow Mission Day 1 Jake Tapper of ABC News  reports: POTUS and Putin aspire to get past “grayish moods” IRAN Borzou Daragarhi- LA Times reports Revolutionary Guards publicly announce they have taken over national security in Iran during this period of “unrest”. <H/T to @LaraABCNews based in Dubai.> CHINA URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Han Chinese armed with iron bars and machetes spilled down side streets...

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Sarah Palin said she had a “higher calling” that required her to resign 17 months before her term ended as governor of Alaska, and not to seek a second term. I have no idea where this “higher calling” came from, but I suspect it could only have come from two sources. The first one is God. I don’t know what God said to Sarah Palin, but I suspect it might have been something like this: “Sarah. I am a...

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Joe Biden on “This Week” today: “The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy.” Biden acknowledged administration officials were too optimistic earlier this year when they predicted the unemployment rate would peak at 8 percent as part of their effort to sell the stimulus package. The national unemployment rate has ballooned to 9.5 percent in June — the worst in 26 years. “The truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited,”...

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Declare a Democratic Worldview by John Hank Edson This Fourth of July, let’s give America the birthday present she cannot do without. Let’s give the people back their Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence sets forth a worldview that, back in the 18th century, served as the foundation of our new nation. This foundation was composed of the principle of human equality and the rights of self-determination implied by the famous phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of...

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Sarah Palin announced today that she was not running for re-election and stepping down from her office as Governor by the end of the month: The top speculation is that Palin is resigning so that she can focus solely on running for the Republican nomination in 2012. But there’s plenty of other speculation too. The full text of Palin’s resignation speech is available here. Stay tuned… UPDATE: Via Think Progress: Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah...

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