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WASHINGTON — Over the years, “Little Billy” learned much from the country’s top minds. Secretaries of state, touched by the 10-year-old’s handwritten letters on grade-school notepaper, wrote back advising him how to settle a treehouse dispute with his sister. O.J. Simpson’s lawyer told him how to get off the hook on accusations he destroyed a doll.

UNALAKLEET, Alaska — She was greeted like a rock star in Unalakleet, a fishing village on the Bering Sea. She danced with Eskimos in Kotzebue. And she watched grizzlies at a wildlife sanctuary on the Kenai Peninsula. In all, Sarah Palin has been on eight trips outside her Anchorage base since announcing her resignation two weeks ago. Is this a farewell tour, the start of a possible presidential campaign for 2012?

Let me say first that I am a big fan of yours. The way that you point out the faults of both the republicans and the democrats is absolutely brilliant. I believe your talent along with the likes of Jon Stewart as well as Steve Colbert is very much needed especially among young people. Not to say that adults don’t benefit from your show as well, but it’s the young people, who otherwise would not pay attention to the news who benefit the most.

by Caryl Rivers Sarah Palin is feisty, gives a dynamite speech, and the camera loves her–not surprising, since she’s a dead ringer for Tina Fey. She’s positioning herself to run for president in 2012–but why is she still pushing fossil fuels when much of corporate America is going green? The Alaska governor has actually said that climate change is harming her state. “We Alaskans are living with the changes that you are observing in Washington,” Palin said.

CHICAGO — A man who stabbed his first wife to death more than two decades ago used a Civil War replica gun to kill his current wife and her son before committing suicide in their upscale suburban home, police said Tuesday. Richard Wiley left a 40-page, handwritten suicide note indicating he shot and killed Kathy Motes, 50, and Christopher Motes, 17, and saying he refused to go back to prison, Wilmette police Deputy Chief Brian King said.

Ever wonder why the Republican Party’s foreign “policy” got so off the wall and bellicose? Want to know why we’re in two wars? Want to know why so many evangelicals hate Obama for saying he’ll negotiate with Muslims? Want to know why President Obama should not try to work with Republicans? All you need to know is that the Republican/Sara/Palin base of evangelical support is rooting for war, death and killing as a longed for — even prayed for — conclusion to human existence. No kidding!

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An accelerant was poured around the exterior of Gov. Sarah Palin’s church before fire heavily damaged the building, federal investigators said Monday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the accelerant was poured at several locations around the church, including entrances. Lab tests will determine the type of substance involved. Possibilities include gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel or even lamp oil, Agent Nick Starcevic said.

Dear Latter Day Saints, I couldn’t help but be impressed by your swift mobilization in support of Prop. 8, and even more so, your unstoppable stand in sanctifying marriage. Indeed, your Church has become a shining example for the kind of moral stance this country must adopt in ushering in a new era. For that reason, I want to propose that the Church take its position one step further. As much as I hate to admit it, the gays have a point when they say, “Hey! Sanctity of marriage, my tush!

When President-elect Obama said he’d reach out to the Republicans and all Americans, he was telling the truth. Apparently some people on the left hoped he was lying. Obama’s “sin” in their eyes is that he is keeping his promises. Other than the perpetually aggrieved paranoid cranks on the far right — FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, James Dobson etc., — most Americans (no matter who they voted for) are just glad that someone brimming with confidence, intelligence and good will is in charge of our rescue, at last !