Sarah Palin is the darling of the Republican party, but her cries against the “Washington elite” are contradictory with her own desire to become one… as Christopher Hitchens points out.

From John Moltz comes a link to an interesting perspective of the recent Washington, DC “Tea Party” protest march. He links to Matthew Yglesias’s website with the following quote. As was the case with the bulk of the protesters, there was very little sense that anyone had any actual specific complaint with Obama’s health care proposals. [...]

At the beginning of last month, I wrote about the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s sign at the Olympia, Washington capitol building, stating that I wasn’t all that pleased with the approach they took with the wording of the sign. Since then, I’ve read a lot (and I mean a lot) of commentary about that situation [...]