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Levi Johnston–who sired Sarah Palin’s first grandchild and in October told the Associated Press that he was quitting high school to work as an apprentice electrician for the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation–” resigned” that job Monday, reports the Anchorage Daily News. Questions about Levi’s eligibility for the oil field job were raised by conservative Alaskan commentator Dan Fagan , as a high school diploma or GED is required by law in order to work as an apprentice.

The mother of Sarah Palin’s future son-in-law pleaded not guilty to the drug charges against her today. A Palmer grand jury on Friday indicted Sherry Johnston on six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance relating to possession and sale of the prescription painkiller OcyContin.
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Sherry Johnston Pleads Not Guilty To Drug Dealing

Frost: Are you really saying the President can do something illegal? Nixon: I’m saying that when the President does it, that means it’s not illegal! Frost: …I’m sorry? To try to put yourself in the environment of Frost/Nixon , imagine it’s 2010 and George W. Bush has decided to sit for his first post-Presidency interview as a twenty-plus hours exclusive taping with … Carson Daly, or somewhere halfway between Ryan Seacrest and that guy who does the sex predator busts for Dateline .

You can start the New Year feeling indulgent and selfish by inspecting Jan. 12 Time’s ” Wasting our Watts ” and the Jan. 3-9 Economist’s ” Troubled Waters .” On land and sea, we appear equally our own worst enemy. Time’s treatise is less about conservation than it is the many technologies we could use to build more efficient cars, light bulbs, machines, you name it.

A Mat-Su drug investigator and the union representing Alaska State Troopers are alleging political meddling in the Sherry Johnston drug case, including a delay in serving the search warrant because of the November election.

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A Mat-Su drug investigator and the union representing Alaska State Troopers are alleging political meddling in the Sherry Johnston drug case, including a delay in serving the search warrant because of the November election.
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With Palin As Candidate, Troopers Delayed Drug Case Against Levi’s Mother: Paper

By Stephen C. Rose Yawn. This is how I feel about two gratuitous and ill-formed verdicts on Caroline Kennedy from Peggy Noonan, the same one who dissed Palin in private and had to pay for it in public. Noonan is a celebrated wordsmith for Republicans now in the pay of Rupert Murdoch. Here, regarding Caroline Kennedy, Noonan’s exceptionally near-sighted New Year’s verdicts: The difficulty of Caroline Kennedy’s hopes for appointment to the U.S.

2008 was kind of a rough year for American publishers, culminating in the bloodbaths of November and December which saw hundreds of firings, major restructuring at Random House, and a crisis at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt which may yet prove fatal. Industry professionals are understandably looking for a silver bullet to reverse the trend: a new blockbuster from Dan Brown? A trilogy of teen sorcerer novels from Jhumpa Lahiri? Saddam Hussein’s memoir, written from beyond the grave?

Johnston and Palin have plans to marry.

(CNN) — Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is going on the record about the recent birth of her son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.
In a statement dated Wednesday but posted on the Alaska governor's Web site Friday, Bristol says the pregnancy was "not ideal," but [...]

In a statement released Friday, Gov. Sarah Palin called the birth of her first grandchild an "amazing, joyful blessing," but noted that, "When Bristol and Levi first told us the shocking news that she was pregnant, to be honest, we all at first looked at the situation with some fear and a bit of despair."

The statement from the Alaska governor's office came almost a week after the birth of Tripp Johnston on December 27, and was prompted by "the high volume of press inquiries, along with some erroneous