Palin cites -higher calling' in quitting
Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cites a "higher calling" with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines.

Palin links resignation to 'higher calling' - Yahoo! News
JUNEAU, Alaska – Outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday laid the groundwork to take on a larger, national role after leaving state government, citing a "higher calling" with the aim of uniting the country along conservative lines. A day after surprising even her closest friends by announcing she would step down as Alaska governor more than a year before her term was up, the controversial hockey mom was still keeping details of her future plans under wrap. But in a statement posted...

Palin fires back at press on Facebook
In the Facebook posting, the governor indicated that she plans to continue to play a role national politics.

Palin resignation splits GOP
Skeptics say Palin diminished presidential hopes.

Palin attorney warns press on 'defamatory material'
Palin’s attorney threatens to sue mainstream news organizations if they publish “defamatory” stories.

Palin takes to Web for hints of political future - Yahoo! News
JUNEAU, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn't wait long to give some hint of what her political life might look like after she leaves office at the end of the month. After staying out of the public eye for most of Saturday, a day after abruptly announcing she would soon give up her job as governor, Palin indicated on a social networking site that she would take on a larger, national role, citing a "higher calling" to unite the country along conservative lines. "I am now looking ahead...

Weary Palin seeks to regain control
Why did Sarah Palin step down?

Palin takes to Web for hints of political future
Palin hints at political future in Web posts, threatens legal action against bloggers, media

Sarah Palin's Resignation Stuns Father-In-Law
"Wow!" says Jim Palin. "We had no idea it was coming. Nobody seemed to know"

Top Republicans: Palin may have stopped making sense, but she can still make dollars
Sarah Palin is pretty much toast for 2012, but she can still make a lot of money for herself and the party, top Republicans said Sunday. "It's astounding, I'd think, if you want to run for President" to quit as a first-term governor, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) , whose state holds the first presidential caucus, said on Fox News Sunday. "She marches to the beat of her own drum, and it's going to be very interesting to see how she pulls this off," said Karl Rove , the former White House political...

In Sarah Palin's GOP, the leaders keep quitting and the troubles don't.
"It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down [and] plod along," Sarah Palin said Friday, in an attempt to suggest that serving her full term as governor would add to the nation's apathy. "That's the worthless, easy path; that's a qu

FBI: No Palin Investigations Ongoing
U.S. officials say there is no FBI investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who resigned abruptly last week. Palin's hasty resignation prompted speculation she was under some kind of criminal probe. But FBI Special Agent Eric Gonzalez, spokesman for the agency's Alaska bureau, said in a phone interview Saturday with the Los Angeles Times that no such investigation was under way. "There is absolutely no truth to those rumors that we're investigating her or getting ready to indict her,"...

Sarah Palin not under FBI investigation, agency spokesman says
Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sara Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation -- a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption charges . Despite rumors of a looming controversy after Palin's surprise announcement Friday that she will leave office this month, some of them published in the blogosphere, the FBI's Alaska spokesman said the bureau had no...

Sarah Palin's Resignation Stuns Father-In-Law
Jim went fishing and landed his biggest salmon yet -- a-60 lb. King. Then a little after 11 a.m. he got another whopper -- news that his famous daughter-in-law was quitting her job as governor of Alaska . "Wow!" he said after reading the bulletin on his email. "We had no idea it was coming. Nobody seemed to know; they're extremely private people."

Sarah Palin's Resignation Stuns Father-In-Law
"Wow!" says Jim Palin. "We had no idea it was coming. Nobody seemed to know"

kf stops the bleeding!
Does McCain like Palin?

TIME's Summer Reading List
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Palin aide says Obama backers politicizing Alaska investigation
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will not cooperate with a legislative investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner, the McCain-Palin presidential campaign announced Monday, accusing supporters of Democratic rival Barack Obama of manipulating the inquiry for political motivations.

Rove: Palin resignation part of a 'risky strategy' - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – One of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin 's potential presidential rivals said Sunday that her abrupt resignation won't help her dodge scrutiny. President George W. Bush 's chief political adviser said her strategy is, at best, unclear. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Palin's announcement that she would not seek a second term — and leave office before finishing her first — simply doesn't make sense in a conventional political setting. Karl Rove , a longtime Bush...