Search

Categories

Total Results

No Record Found

View All Results
DONATE

Sarah Palin

Palin biographer under investigation for ethics violations

donal brown May 24, 2011

Frank Bailey, a former aide to Sarah Palin, is under investigation in Alaska for writing a book critical of Palin using thousands of e-mails from her 2006 gubernatorial campaign, her run for vice president in 2008 and her brief tenure as governor. The Alaska attorney general  is investigating Bailey’s use of the emails under laws that prohibit former public officials from using information acquired during their work for personal gain if the information is not

Read More »

First Amendment commentator urges restraint in blaming free speech for Arizona shootings

donal brown January 11, 2011

First Amendment Center editor Brian Buchanan argues that assassins have acted without the influence of hate talk and doubts that “inflamed rhetoric” is to blame for the latest horrific shooting. -db First Amendment Center Opinion January 10, 2011 By Brian J. Buchanan Hold on, there, sheriff. Before the crime scene had even been fully analyzed, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was quick to blame free speech after the horrific attack Jan. 8 in Tucson, Ariz.,

Read More »

Open records dispute: Judge orders university to release contract with Palin

donal brown August 26, 2010

A Superior Court judge has ordered California State University of Stanislaus to comply with public records laws and release a speakers contract with Sarah Palin. -db San Francisco Chronicle August 26, 2010 By Nanette Asimov California State University at Stanislaus violated public records laws and will have to release the speakers contract with Sarah Palin it had tried to keep secret, a judge has ruled. The details of Palin’s contract to speak at a June

Read More »

Dr. Laura, Sarah Palin, and the fight over free speech

FAC August 20, 2010

Commentary on the controversy of Dr. Laura Schlessinger and her decision to end her radio show after using a racial epithet. -SM Yahoo! News August 20, 2010 By Ken Paulson In the wake of Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s decision to end her radio show after repeatedly using a racial epithet, she’s spent quite a bit of time talking about freedom of speech. “I want to regain my First Amendment rights,” Schlessinger said, contending that special-interest groups

Read More »

Cal State Stanislaus admits to possessing Palin speech documents

donal brown May 6, 2010

After saying they had no records pertaining to Sarah Palin’s contract for a speech at a fundraising event, officials at California State University Stanislaus copped to possessing “800 to 900” documents. -db California Watch May 5, 2010 By Lance Williams Is the open government ruckus over Sarah Palin’s speaking fee in Turlock sputtering toward a conclusion? Terry Francke of Californians Aware, the First Amendment group that is trying to pry loose a copy of Palin’s

Read More »