Below The Beltway

In a move that is bizarre both in it’s content and in its timing, Sarah Palin announced today that she would be stepping down as Alaska’s Governor by the end of this month:
WASILLA, Alaska - Sarah Palin announced Friday she plans to resign as governor of Alaska in a few weeks, saying she will try [...]

Orly Taitz has made a name for herself over the past several months as what one writer called the “Queen Bee” of the people obsessed with Barack Obama’s citizenship.
Now, she’s dispensing medical advice and telling her readers not to get the flu vaccine because it’s part of some vast worldwide conspiracy that will kill us [...]

Something tells me that Charles Krauthammer won’t be invited to Wasilla anytime soon:

Krauthammer is, I think, 100% correct, as I observed only days after the 2008 election:
History certainly isn’t on her side. There are no examples in history of a failed Vice-Presidential candidate becoming either their party’s nominee or President of the United States (Walter [...]

Despite some hopes/signs that the economy may be improving, the job market continues to get worse:
The pace of job losses quickened in June after slowing just a month earlier, casting a shadow over the Obama administration’s attempts to stanch months of declines in the labor market.
The American economy shed 467,000 jobs last month, and the [...]

After the Supreme Court ruling I wrote about earlier, there were very few options left for Norm Coleman so it’s good to see that he had the class to bow out now rather than continue a pointless fight.‘
Here’s the statement he read at the top of the hour:
“Ours is a government of laws, not men [...]

It looks like things are about to go from bad to worse for the former Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate:
Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people’s minds off his own cheating scandal.
Former Edwards aide Andrew Young [...]

In a move that is bound to have repercussions for Judge Sonya Sotomayor’s approaching confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court today narrowly reversed a ruling she had made in a controversial employment discrimination case:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, in a case with enormous implications for workplaces across the country, that white firefighters in [...]

It seems that the Certification of Live Birth that Barack Obama produced last year is the only birth record that Hawaii releases:
[Y]ou can’t obtain a “certificate of live birth” anymore.
The state Department of Health no longer issues copies of paper birth certificates as was done in the past, said spokeswoman Janice Okubo.
The department only issues [...]

Just over a month ago, it was Chrysler filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection, today General Motors did the same:
General Motors filed for bankruptcy protection this morning, marking the end of financial independence for the 100-year-old industrial leviathan that once conflated its interests with the country’s and — counting jobs at the company and its [...]

If you’re looking for a reason why President Obama continues to enjoy relatively high approval ratings despite the state of the economy, look no further:
President Obama contends he inherited the nation’s ongoing economic problems and that his actions since taking office are not to blame. Sixty-two percent (62%) of U.S. voters agree with the president [...]