Palin's sourcing

Sarah Palin's Facebook entry attacks the stimulus in familiar terms, but what caught my attention were the four links — two of them to the financial paper Investors Business Daily.

One is to an unsigned editorial suggesting the stimulus is an invitation to "fraud and corruption," the other to a report on foreign-made wind turbines.

The paper, though, has come to fill an open space in the conservative media, an authoritative-sounding voice somewhere to the right of The Wall Street Journal. It got in some trouble for suggesting Steven Hawking would never have survived in Britain and went fairly deep into speculation over Barack Obama's religion: Perhaps he wasn't a "lapsed Muslim" but in fact an African nativist.