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From an November 25, 2007 sermon: “The purpose for the United States is… to glorify God. This nation is a Christian nation.”

– David Pepper, senior pastor at Church on the Rock.

That’s something Palin will no doubt distance herself from shortly. After all, according to her the purpose of the United States is to benefit Alaska.

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High Resolution
Feb. 25—As NGA kicks-off its centennial celebration, the nation’s current governors “recreated” the 1908 photo during the annual governors’ meeting with the president.

Front Row (left to right): Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin…

For Palin the answer is:
[just a few lines into her nomination acceptance speech:]

I signed major ethics reform. And I appointed both Democrats and independents to serve in my administration. And I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress — I told Congress, “Thanks, but no thanks,” on that bridge to nowhere.

Bzzzzt.

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Here’s what she told the Anchorage Daily News on October 22, 2006, during the race for the governor’s seat (via Nexis):

5. Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?

Yes. I would like to see Alaska’s infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now–while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.

So she was very much for the bridge and insisted that Alaska had to act quickly—the party of Ted Stevens and Don Young might soon lose its majority, after all. By that point, the project was endangered for reasons that had nothing to do with Palin—the bridge had become a national laughingstock, Congress had stripped away the offending earmark, shifting the money back to the state’s general fund, and future federal support seemed unlikely.

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An Australian pastor who inspired hundreds of thousands of people with his fight against terminal cancer has admitted he faked his illness to hide an addiction to porn.

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His deception was so great his wife quit work to care for him, he forced himseld to vomit regularly at night and even lost his hair to fool his family and the public about the extent of his illness.

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Police in riot gear surround protesters on 15th Street near Civic Center park in downtown Denver on Monday night.

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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city beginning 8 a.m. Sunday but urged residents to consider escaping “the mother of all storms” before then.

“You need to be scared,” Nagin said of the Category 4 hurricane tearing along Cuba’s western coast. “You need to be concerned, and you need to get your butts moving out of New Orleans right now. This is the storm of the century.”

No, he’s not talking about Katrina. He’s talking about Gustav.