Below is a collection of selected editorials, articles, and interviews Investor's Business Daily has published regarding Alaska Governor and GOP Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.
May 22, 2008
Environmentalism: Alaska says it will sue to challenge the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. The designation could block vital oil and gas development. But that was the whole point in the first place.
July 11, 2008
Gov. Sarah Palin is a rising political star in Alaska, with an 84% approval rating. A strong advocate of opening her state to more oil drilling, she recently spoke with IBD.
August 15, 2008
Energy: As congressional Democrats dither on a vote for oil drilling, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has pushed through a gas pipeline project to bring new supply and price relief to the lower 48.
August 29, 2008
No one knows how this presidential election will turn out. There are still thousands of miles of road to travel, dozens of speeches to be made, scores of hands to be shaken, millions of voters to be swayed.
August 29, 2008
John McCain stole the Democrats' thunder by announcing Friday morning that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be his vice presidential running mate...
September 2, 2008
Security: The impact of prolonged high oil prices is moving well beyond economics. Russia now takes license to assault Georgia, and intends worse. John McCain's Alaska running mate has the only weapon.
September 2, 2008
Election '08: The attacks on John McCain's bold veep pick have begun. But if the critics think Sarah Palin is an easy target, they'd better think again. She can fire back. Working moms of the world, unite.
September 3, 2008
Election '08: Sarah Palin's entry into the vice presidential race not only breaks glass ceilings. It shatters the Democrats' aging feminist agenda that has done far less to empower women than John McCain.
September 3, 2008
Politics: You'll be hearing a lot in coming weeks about Sarah Palin's "abuse of power" in trying to get a state cop fired. Here's the back story you won't be hearing.
September 4, 2008
GOP: That sound you heard Wednesday night was the political glass ceiling being shattered by a working mom. We could be looking at the first female vice president of the United States — and first grandmother.
September 4, 2008
Transcript of the speech Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered Wednesday night in St. Paul, Minn., in accepting the Republican Party's nomination for vice president.
September 9, 2008
Media Bias: Oprah Winfrey won't invite Sarah Palin on her show because she doesn't want to use it to promote any candidate. Yet she was willing to use the celebrity garnered from her show to promote Barack Obama.
September 12, 2008
Election '08: Is a dazzling damsel about to save fellow Republicans in distress? Polling finds that Sarah Palin's energetic message of freedom, and her record fighting corruption, may save GOP congressional candidates.
September 15, 2008
Election '08: ABC's Charles Gibson does his best to prove that Gov. Sarah Palin is unqualified to be vice president. But there's no entrance exam for veep. Is she qualified? Barack Obama seems to think so.
September 22, 2008
Leadership: If anything shows how Democrats are beneath their office, it's how they snubbed the visiting leader of Colombia on his current trip. Sarah Palin, by contrast, shows respect.
September 24, 2008
Election '08: The press spent so much time sniping at Sarah Palin for her visits with global leaders that in the end it babbled about itself. What it missed was news on John McCain's foreign policy. Who are the real rubes?
September 30, 2008
Election '08: One lackluster TV interview has the media questioning Sarah Palin's readiness for office. Yet her stellar record as Alaska's governor lies buried, like treasure. Maybe that deserves attention, too.
October 14, 2008
Energy: Iran resurrected its idea of a "gas cartel" to control gas markets like oil. But even if it succeeds, the U.S. won't be vulnerable. If you wonder why, look to the governor of Alaska.
October 24, 2008
Election '08: As vast crowds cheer Sarah Palin, the odd specter of conservative elites hissing at Alaska's governor lingers, with some plugging for Barack Obama. It's a bad case of style over substance, and feeling over fact.
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