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Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn said former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin better get to work in Iowa if she wants to run for president.

"This isn't the type of process where you can give speeches to thousands, or you can be behind 30-second ads or even Facebook posts," Strawn said in an interview on CNN's "John King, USA" Thursday. "You need to be on the ground, letting Iowans look you in the eye and kick the tires."...  Read more:   Politicalticker

On Monday the 8th of August, Sarah Palin posted one of her longest posts on Facebook in history. In case you were thinking that Sarah Palin had a thought longer than 14 characters, …think again.
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• To cheat (a house buyer) by raising the price, at the time a contract is to be signed, over the amount originally agreed upon.

• a person who never misses a chance to post a "R.I.P. insert name" status update in Facebook as soon as any celebrity dies.

• A person who voices opinions beyond his or her scope of knowledge.

• Baltimore: port town and industrial center was founded (1729)
• "La Marseillaise": the French national anthem was first sung in Paris (1792)
• In God We Trust: became the official motto of the US (1956)
• Kim Philby: the Soviet news service announced that the British intelligence officer and double agent had defected to the USSR (1963)
• Medicare: insurance program for senior citizens was signed into US law (1965)
• Jimmy Hoffa: the former Teamsters president disappeared in suburban Detroit; he has never been found, but he is presumed dead (1975)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act: "Corporate Responsibility Act" — that tightened control of financial reporting and reduced the potential for fraud — was signed into law by President George Bush (2002)

• Emily Brontë (1818-1848): the author of Wuthering Heights
• Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929): political economist who coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" in his The Theory of the Leisure Class
• Henry Ford (1863-1947): inventor who popularized mass production with the Ford Motor Company
• Casey Stengel (1890-1975): manager of the NY Yankees who led them to five straight championships
• Henry Moore (1898-1986): sculptor of reclining figures
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (64): action-movie star who became governor of California
• Simon Baker (42): The Mentalist, Patrick Jane; also, actors Jean Reno (63), Ken Olin (57), Delta Burke (55), Laurence Fishburne (50), Lisa Kudrow (48), Vivica A. Fox (47), Terry Crews (43), Hilary Swank (37), Jaime Pressly (34) and Yvonne Strahovski (29)

Right-wing candidates have been promoting a curious inversion of the right of free speech in a democracy... 
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Apparently there is a marginally employed woman on Facebook who lives in Alaska and grows children and has opinions about things, lots of them, about political things. Oh look, she found something about politics in her “Saved Documents” folder from last year, she’ll throw that up on the Internet, some sort of rant about the security situation in...
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