GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain drew applause and guffaws by referring to Nancy Pelosi as “Princess Nancy” during a debate last week. Her reaction? “Really, it’s another one of those clueless statements — clueless in that you don’t say something like that,” she said in a wide-ranging interview in her office. “I don’t know that he had any malicious intent, but it trivialized the fact that I was speaker of the House.” Read full article > >

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‘Princess Nancy’ Pelosi calls Cain ‘clueless’; vows to do more for child care

Sarah Palin is defending her account of Paul Revere and his midnight ride. “I didn’t mess up,” Palin told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Last week in Boston she said that Revere “warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our…

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Palin Defends Paul Revere Remarks

Lightning rod Rep. Michelle Bachmann gave her own response to the president’s State of the Union address, to the dismay of both Democrats and Republicans alike, and to the delight her far-right base. “Instead of a leaner, smarter government,” she said,…

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You can’t keep Nancy Pelosi down: The outgoing House speaker, who will stay on as minority leader, was defiant on her last day in the job, telling reporters that she has “no regrets.” Her Democratic caucus, she said, has “on any number of occasions…

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Pelosi: ‘We Have No Regrets’

Something to look forward to: Joan Didion will release a new memoir in 2011. Entitled Blue Nights, the book will be about aging. Asked how aging has treated her, she said, “I’d just as soon not. I’d as soon skip it, skip that aspect,” before adding,…

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Joan Didion Plans New Memoir

The wife of an American reportedly shot dead by gunmen believed linked to a Mexican drug gang gave an eight-hour interview and provided a detailed statement to federal and state authorities in Mexico, she said Monday.

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