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I was looking through Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue today, and one thing struck me: When she’s talking about going for a run at the Sedona debate prep, there’s a very blatant and specific product placement reference to her Japanese-made ASICS shoes (”I couldn’t wait to slip into my ASICS and work up a sweat.”).  [...]

On Thursday night, I was at Lou Dobbs’ going away party and snagged his advance copy of Sarah Palin’s new book Going Rogue. The book may have a lot going for it, but an index apparently isn’t one of them. Now I don’t like to be meanspirited, but despite Sarah’s school-marmish good looks, I can [...]

As an early advocate for war against Iraq and an original member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), I’d be the first to admit that President Bush may have unveiled the “Mission Accomplished” banner a bit prematurely. There was still a lot of work to be done. But now that work is [...]

What an exciting day it was for me today.  While visting old colleagues on Capitol Hill, I bumped into my dear friend and mentor Senator Joe Lieberman. As readers of “I Am Martin Eisenstadt” can tell you, Joe and I share a special bond since it was Joe who suggested that I write my tell-all memoir in [...]

From CNN to Atlantic Monthly to Washington Monthly to Harpers - first round of reviews and press are stunning. More later, but here’s the highlights: “Essential reading for all political junkies.” - Ken Silverstein, Harpers “Consistently funny…I intend it as real praise when I say that ‘I Am Martin Eisenstadt’ is the best fake memoir of the [...]

Victory is ours! Instead of Going Rogue, maybe Sarah Palin’s new book should be called Diary of a Wimpy Governor? The former vice presidential candidate’s upcoming book has already seen plummeting sales and is now being offered for a whopping 69% discount by both Amazon and Wal-Mart. The ratings for Going Rogue: An American Life [...]

To paraphrase my favorite movie, “The Secret”, it is important to be positive. So let me say, what a great time it is to be a neocon. Under Bush, no one trusted us. They questioned our every move. Why are we in Iraq? “For oil!” they would yell. “Don’t believe a word they say”, the [...]

I hear from sources in the administration that Obama, in response to accusations that he’s all talk and no action, has come up with a grand plan to solve the gay and Afghanistan problems with one proverbial golf swing. Apparently, the homosexual community will no longer accept “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. They are demanding the [...]

What do Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, Acorn, Sarah Palin’s new book, Michael Jackson, Oprah and zombies have to do with each other? Not much. Until, that is, you see how I weave them all together while providing a stinging indictment of so-called “Community Organizers.” A full year before James O’Keefe and his prostitute friend exposed [...]

As a good capitalist, I can certainly appreciate that Sarah Palin and Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins publishing house would want to sell all 1.5 million copies of Sarah’s upcoming book “Going Rogue.” But when that effort knocks my friend Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” off the top of the charts for the first time in [...]