An Open Dish Challenge To Palin  —  Well, she has now thrown down a gauntlet that the Dish will be very eager to take up in the next few days.  —  Yesterday the AP ran a story describing some of the contents of the book, and arguing that many assertions in it are, like so much of what Palin has said, empirically untrue.

Her Side of the Story  —  McCain aides kept her out of the loop, focusing instead on ‘packaging.’  —  “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin's autobiography, refers to the snide remark of an anonymous McCain aide late in last year's presidential campaign.

The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin: A Summary Before The Next Round  —  On the eve of Palin's latest version of reality, the Dish offers a recap of all the demonstrable lies she has told in the public record.  We reprint the list as a public service and invite readers to run the new “book” …

Palin Media Strategy: Reagan 2.0  —  Sarah Palin seems to be spoiling for a fight with the media in her latest Facebook posting.  There are going to be people, assuming political consultants are people, that are going to call this foolish.  They'll rely on conventional, read old …

Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama's bow made him look like an idiot  —  So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper's source, at least one Japanese paper isn't running the photo out of embarrassment.  This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident.

Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan  —  His strategy deliberations are starting to look like dangerous indecision.  —  Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name.  —  The decision about whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan was never going to be easy …