Sullivan Back; Still Hates Palin

He sees possibility of a 'huge scandal' and needs time to get it right

(NEWSER) - Readers of Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog will have to be patient: The site has "gone silent" for only the second time in its 10-year run so Sullivan and his two assistants can devote all their time to dissecting Sarah Palin's new book. "There is a possibility here of such a huge scandal that we would be crazy not to take our time either to debunk it or move it forward for further examination," Sullivan tells readers in a note . More»

Man kept from Sarah's Alaska signing gets answers

(NEWSER) - Turns out Todd Palin was behind the banning of certain bloggers from wife Sarah’s book-signing event in her Alaskan hometown Tuesday. One of those barred from the event talked to the store manager, who told him, “The ‘banned list’ is just four names he wrote in a notebook after getting the names from Todd Palin.” Continues Dennis Zaki in his email to Talking Points Memo , “Yes Todd Palin. The shadow governor.” More»

Critics kicked out of hometown 'Going Rogue ' event

(NEWSER) - Dying to attend one of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue book signings? Better make sure you’re not on the banned list first. It includes four names so far, one of whom hasn’t been identified. The first three:

• Jesse Gryphen: An Alaska kindergarten teacher who posted Palin divorce rumors on his blog, refusing to take them down even after Palin’s lawyer threatened to serve him with libel papers in front of his class. He tells the story of being kicked out of the book signing on his blog .

Hillary sends her own for parody blog

(NEWSER) - The "Texts from Hillary" blog just got some text from Hillary. The Tumblr blog has garnered much attention for its meme series featuring fake texts from Clinton, playing off a wire photo of her with her Blackberry. Now the secretary herself is in on the joke. She posted one of her own on the blog: "ROFL @ ur tumblr! g2g—scrunchie time. ttyl?" The post, which also compliments one of the bloggers on his phone self-portrait, or "selfie," has been a Twitter sensation, the Washington Post reports. More»

On track for two-thirds of vote despite Russians' frustrations

(NEWSER) - It's a banner day for Vladimir Putin. He'll easily sail to victory in the March 4 presidential election, according to the final big pre-election poll: About two-thirds of voters are expected to get behind him. That means a landslide against his nearest rival, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, who is projected to win 15% of the vote. That means no run-off round. Still, frustration with the idea of six more years of Putin continues to simmer, the independent pollster says, according to Reuters . More»