Newspaper Bailout fan joins Obama Team

Newspaper bailout fan joins Obama Team

"It had gone largely unnoticed that former Los Angeles Times columnist and Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks had been tapped by the Obama administration for a senior spot in the Pentagon.

Brooks, whose last two columns at the Times were "Bail Out Journalism" and "Bush's Big Lies" is a pretty hard-line liberal who frequents the sets of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann.

Her legal work, which focuses on international human rights law, includes stints with Amnesty International and the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute .

Her last diatribe against George W. Bush includes both scare quotes around "war on terror" and a Bush-Nazi comparison:
"How did such dangerously bad legal memos ever get taken seriously in the first place?...."Washington Examiner

Anti-Abortion groups applaud Sarah Palin

Anti-abortion groups applaud Sarah Palin

"When she learned of Trig's diagnosis while on an out-of-state trip, Palin said she thought, "Wow, it is easy. It could be easy to think maybe of trying to change the circumstances. And no one would know. No one would ever know."

Ultimately, Palin said she decided she was going to have to "walk the walk" and remain faithful to her long-standing opposition to abortion. But she said that the experience had helped give her an "understanding for ... why someone might believe it would be possible to change those circumstances. Just make it all go away."

"I had just enough faith to know that trying..."read more Washington Post