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• Sarah Palin gave an interview to CNN's Drew Griffin, who only had to provide his viewers with misleading information on Troopergate and ACORN to get it. Try not to throw things against the screen when you watch it. [CNN, Huffington Post]
• By the way, although she said in that interview that she's excited to work on American's energy independence, she pushed the federal government to allow natural gas exports. The U.S. imports 771 billion cubic feet last year, and Alaska exported 100 billion. [CBS]
• Oh, and while she's running around mocking Joe Biden's statement that the Obama Administration might face an international crisis, CNN pointed out that the Cuban Missile Crisis started off Kennedy's Administration; the fall of Saigon, Ford's; the first World Trade Center bombing, Clinton's; and 9/11, Bush's. Silly facts. [Hotline]

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It's a beautiful morning here, one of those mornings no one in Beijing ever has anymore where you can pretend it's the 70s and the world is less polluted but visions of stagflation might dance in your head, or you can be like Moe and I and pretend it's the 90s and read about 90s music and China's human rights record and WTO negotiations and wish you lived in Berlin instead. But it's 2008 and real questions await like: What EXACTLY is a green collar job? Will Obama embrace Virginia governor Tim Kaine more fully than in this picture? And why do we care what some crazy guy's motives were for shooting a bunch of people in a church when he is obviously crazy and thus his motivations are no more explicable that the motives of any other crazy person, including the first guy that ever sent me a crap-anything-from-a-dude...or Dan Quayle's? These questions and many, many others will stay unanswered after the jump, at least until you get to the comment threads. More »
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