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The New York Times and the Washington Post issued open calls on Thursday asking their readers to help them “investigate” emails from Sarah Palin’s tenure as governor of Alaska. There was no indication of what this investigation was supposed to uncover. (more)

Republicans appear to be unenthusiastic about the Republican presidential candidates in the race for the White House or considering a run, according to a new Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll.  (more)

In his encyclical Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason”), John Paul II made the following observation: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to contemplation of the truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know Himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.” (more)

If you’re thinking of becoming a GOP presidential candidate — and who isn’t these days? — you can plan on being pressed on the climate issue. (more)

The Washington Post Company’s annual meeting of stockholders was not a joyous occasion for many in the room Thursday morning. (more)

Washington Post Company chairman Donald Graham told shareholders Thursday morning that he was unaware of the controversy surrounding the rapper known as Common, whom Michelle Obama has invited to a poetry event, until Cliff Kincaid of the watchdog group Accuracy in Media asked him about it. Graham apparently missed a story on the front page of his newspaper’s Style section*, which offered a defense of Common’s lyrics. (more)

The Washington Post’s Outlook section just gave ex-jihadi Moazzem Begg a half-page this Sunday to lament the U.S. war on jihadis, and Begg repaid the Post by showcasing a photoshopped image of a dead President Barack Obama on his advocacy website. (more)

The Washington Post’s managing editor, Raju Narisetti, opened his Twitter account on Monday morning with an anti-Defense Department, pro-Education Department tweet. (more)

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (also known as Kate Middleton) can’t seem to catch a break. Her younger sister Pippa has been ridiculed for taking a shirtless photograph, others created anti-Kate merchandise before the royal wedding, and now one woman claims Catherine’s dress was recycled. (more)

Another day, another first-quarter earning report — and the Washington Post Company is not doing too well. But wait, what? Did someone say something? No! Just run, and hide…quick! (more)

On the eve of the royal wedding, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed I wrote celebrating the entrepreneurship of Kate Middleton’s parents and pointing to their good fortune in business as an example of how economic life in Britain has improved— largely due to former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s reforms — since Charles and Diana’s wedding in 1981. Similar points about increased British prosperity were made by the London think tank Centre for Policy Studies. (more)

For years, America’s left-leaning mainstream media outlets have belittled and rebuked members of the new media — questioning their credibility, impugning their integrity and assigning all manner of self-serving motivations to their contributions to the marketplace of ideas. (more)

Throughout the 2010 election cycle and at the beginning of the new Congress this year, the Republicans had promised $100 billion in budget cuts. However, after the budget deal struck late on Friday, there was only $38 billion in cuts to show. (more)

They say you shouldn’t bite the hand feeds you, but that isn’t stopping MSNBC’s “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell. (more)

Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) — a $5 billion grant program that’s doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees. The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 in taxpayer subsidies and CBS Corporation secured $722,388 worth of Americans’ money. (more)

After serving at The Washington Post for nearly 30 years, national political correspondent Lois Romano is leaving the newspaper to work for Tina Brown’s Newsbeast, a news and opinion website.  (more)

Although plenty of comparisons have been made between Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, the latest incursion into Libya hasn’t elicited many. In fact, the move has garnered praise from some neoconservatives. (more)

Yesterday The Washington Post reported on left-wing activist group Media Matters new media training “boot camp” initiative, the Progressive Talent Initiative, or PTI, which was described by Post reporter Jason Horowitz to be “a partisan boot camp where rebel forces were trained for combat on Fox News.” (more)

Back in 2009, Washington Post columnist George Will shocked a lot of people when he came out against U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. Since then, others on the right have spoken out against that war effort and it begs the question – how would an anti-war movement play out in the race for the 2012 Republican nomination? (more)

The intra-party poaching begins as Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour hires one of Mitt Romney’s top advisers, Sally Bradshaw. It’s the first serious defection from one potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidate to another, according to the National Journal. (more)