Yes, she did!

Alaskan governor and former Republican candidate for Vice President announced her resignation as governor of Alaska yesterday afternoon, providing reasons that were so scrambled that the press has been covering the story with the notation that she is doing so without providing any reason for her action.

Let's be perfectly clear: sometimes what you see is exactly what you get. (See today's New York Times' story.)

Read Todd S. Purdum's Vanity Fair article, "It Came from Wasilla."

Happy Birthday, Declaration of Independence!

Quote of the Day:

"America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and
moral fact—the first community in which men set out in principle to
institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality."

—Adlai Stevenson