In this photo taken Oct. 4, 2008, David Chaney, right, who identified himself on his Facebook account as a member of Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Secret Service detail, watches Palin during a rally in Carson, Calif. Chaney wrote on his Facebook page next to a photo of Palin & him: “I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?” Chaney’s lawyer, Lawrence Berger of New York, said he is representing Chaney in the fallout from the prostitution scandal inside the Secret Service. Story here. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

The U.S. Secret Service said on Friday that three more of its employees have resigned, bringing to six the number that have left the agency in connection with alleged misconduct involving prostitutes in Colombia last week before President Barack Obama's trip there. The Secret Service also said that a 12th employee had been implicated in the ongoing investigation into a night of partying on April 11-12 that embarrassed the United States and overshadowed Obama's participation in the Summit of the Americas last weekend/Reuters. More here.

Question: How would you explain this to your wife or girlfriend if you were one of the Secret Service agents caught in this scandal?

Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been drawn into the scandal involving Secret Service agents and Colombian prostitutes. David Chaney, one of two Secret Service agents ousted as a result of the scandal, reportedly once posted on Facebook a photo of him on the job behind Palin during the 2008 campaign and wrote next to it, “I was really checking her out, if you know what i mean?” Palin, always quick to fire back, used the friendly atmosphere on Fox News to rib the ex-agent — and criticize President Obama, too. “Well, this agent, who was kind of ridiculous there in posting pictures and comments about checking someone out — well, check this out, bodyguard. You're fired,” Palin said on Greta Van Susteren's show Thursday night. “And I hope his wife kicks his ocoli and sends him to the doghouse, as long as he's not eating the dog, along with his former boss”/Matt Negrin, ABC News. More here. (AP file photo of Sarah Palin)

Question: Do you still have faith in our Secret Service agents?

From left, “Today” show co-hosts, Al Roker, Ann Curry and Matt Lauer talk with Sarah Palin during the show in New York this morning. Palin was the much-hyped guest co-host on NBC's “Today,” going head-to-head against former “Today” anchor Katie Couric, who this week is subbing on “Good Morning America” at her current workplace, ABC. (AP Photo/NBC, Peter Kramer)

Question: Anyone see the “Today” show this morning? Thoughts?

Bristol Palin, daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin, smiles at the beginning of the Rolling Thunder ride from the Pentagon during the Memorial Day weekend in Washington. Lifetime says it will air 10 episodes of  “Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp” later this year. The series will explore the pressures of raising her toddler son, Tripp, as she maintains her close relationship with the larger Palin clan, the network said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Question: Which reality show(s) do you watch? Would you watch this one?

A political blog in the other Washington, The Daily Caller,  suggests a certain congresswoman from this Washington could have a shot at the No. 2 spot on the GOP presidential ticket this fall. The blog quotes a Republican strategist, Kellyanne Conway, as saying Cathy McMorris Rodgers would fit the bill as a vice presidential selection that “needs to be a surprise, but not a shocker.” The blog goes on to recount the parts of McMorris Rodgers bio that would make her a good pick on paper: daughter of fruit farmers, first in her family to attend college, married to a retired naval pilot, only woman to have two kids while in Congress, founder of the Congressional Down Syndrome Caucus after her first child, Cole, was born with that condition, leadership post in the House Republican Caucus, from a Western state/Jim Camden, Spin Control. More here. (SR file photo of Cathy McMorris Rodgers celebrating re-election in November 2010)

Question: Would Cathy McMorris Rodgers be a better pick for a Republican vice presidential candidate than another woman with roots in the Inland Northwest, Sarah Palin?

In a pair of related stories, Bob Dole officially endorsed Mitt Romney to be the Republican presidential nominee, but Palin said that she would not endorse anyone “with the field as it stands.”

How valuable do you think political endorsements are? Do you take them into consideration when you go to the polls?

• Original Editorial: $82 million is real money/Twin Falls Times-News

In yesterday’s editorial regarding the erroneous payment of unemployment benefits in Idaho, comparisons were made to the rate of errors in Alaska, Oregon and Washington. While Idaho’s percentage of errors was the lowest of the three states (9 percent), only former governor Sarah Palin of Alaska was cited as presiding over a state whose error rate was higher (11.8 percent). This was a shabby inclusion on our part. If a governor or governors had to be mentioned (they did not), we should have taken a shot at either current Democratic Oregon governor John Kitzhaber, former Democratic Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski (12.2 percent error rate) or Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire of Washington (14.1 percent error rate) because those state’s error percentages were much higher. We apologize/Twin Falls Times-News. (AP file photo: Sarah Palin shown in Iowa Sept. 3)

Question: Was an ap-hollow-gy necessary?

Sarah Palin dismissed Florida Straw Poll winner Herman Cain as “the flavor of the month” and mistook the candidate's first name in an appearance Tuesday night on Fox News. “Take Herman Cain. Look at why he's doing so well right now. I guess you could say, with all due respect, he’s the flavor of the week,” the former governor of Alaska said. “Because Herb [sic] Cain is the one up there who doesn't look like he's part of that permanent political class - He came from a working class family. He's had to make it on his own all these years. We respect that.” Cain defended his campaign Wednesday morning on CBS/Justin Sink, The Hill, Blog Briefing Room. More here. (AP file photo: the late Herb Caen, of the San Francisco Chronicle)

Question: What do you make of Herman Cain's surprising polling in Florida? And/or: Are you a fan of former San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen?

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., greets American Legion officers on stage after addressing the national convention Thursday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Tom Olmscheid)

Question: Who would you rather see as president, if you were forced to pick: Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin?

The Republican establishment inside the Washington Beltway may be pining for new candidates to enter the race for president, but two-thirds of influential local Republicans surveyed by The Huffington Post and Patch in the early primary and caucus states are satisfied with their choices. And while Sarah Palin is gearing up for a major speech in Iowa, just 8 percent want her to run. Sixty-three percent of the 169 influential Republicans surveyed in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina in our second HuffPost-Patch Power Outsiders poll say they are satisfied with the candidates now running for president, while just 36 percent say they want to see more candidates get into the race/KHQ. More here. (AP file photo)

Question: Are you surprised that so few of the GOP establishment want Sarah Palin to run for president?

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and possible presidential candidate Sarah Palin lambasted Vice President Joe Biden Monday night for negative comments he allegedly made about the Tea Party. Biden was reported by Politico on Monday to have agreed with an argument by Rep. Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania, who apparently asserted that “[w]e have negotiated with terrorists” during a closed-door meeting with House Democrats about the deal to raise the debt limit. “They have acted like terrorists,” Biden was said to have responded. The Hill reports that in an e-mail Monday night, Bachmann, R-Minn., condemned Biden's alleged statement and called on the vice president to apologize/CBS News Political Hotsheet. More here. (AP file photo, of VP Joe Biden)

Question: Should Biden apologize?

(Bristol Palin) has right to be angry with Levi Johnston, and to be miffed as Cindy McCain, Megan McCain, and all the rest. However, it doesn’t mean that she has to publicly voice everything, particularly against Johnston who has shown himself to be a trashy individual over the course of the past few years. When you treat the allegations of a trashy person like they’re worth responding to, you increase their credibility and lower yourself to their level. This is something that Sarah Palin didn’t realize which is a big part of the reason why she isn’t better positioned for a 2012 run. She’d be doing far better if she had not engaged in a tit-for-tat with playgirl model Levi Johnston. And sadly that lesson has been lost on Bristol as well/Adam Graham, Adam's Blog. More here.  (AP file photo: Bristol Palin and her then boyfriend Levi Johnston meet U.S. Sen. John McCain before 2008 GOP national convention in Minneapolis, Minn.)

• A go at healthcare insurance/Fort Boise
• Bryan Fischer's greatest hits/43rd State Blues
• Roller coasters & recycling/Idaho Conservation League
• GOP history not taught in schools/Idaho Conservative Blogger
• Idaho 2nd but slumping in one economic indicator/Idaho Reporter
• Transition on Idaho Statesman editorial page/Kevin Richert
• No crimes: The virtiginous tangle/Marc Johnson, Johnson Report
• Cobell tribal settlement helps Obama w/Native Americans/Rocky Barker

Question: Are you interested in reading an autobiography by Bristol Palin?

Matt poses with Kerri Thoreson after buying an autographed copy of Sarah Palin's “Going Rogue” at Coeur d'Alene Fred Meyer in December 2009. Matt tells Huckleberries.

So do you remember back in December 2009 when Sarah Palin rolled into Coeur d Alene on her book tour? Well I was there, waited in line, freezing, for 5 hours to meet her. Well I'm now selling a first edition Autographed copy of Going Rogue. The book is in perfect unread condition. I figured one of your loyal readers might be interested in taking this item off my hands. I'm asking $50 for the book. If one were to look on ebay the same thing is currently selling for $200 so this is quite a deal.

DFO: Usually, I don't advertise things for sale here at Huckleberries Online. But this one from a long-time blog reader has piqued my interest. Can't help but wonder about the back story. Has the Berry Picker grown tired of Sarah Palin? Or does he simply need a few extra bucks? If you're interesting in buying the book, contact Matt at cdagardner@gmail.com

Question: Are you interested in buying a signed, first-edition copy of Sarah Palin's “Going Rogue”? Phaed?

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, holding a booklet depicting Paul Revere, speaks briefly with the media as she tours Boston's North End neighborhood on Thursday. On Fox News Sunday Palin insisted Sunday in Washington that history was on her side when she claimed that Paul Revere's famous Massachusetts ride was intended to warn both British soldiers and his fellow colonists. At right is Palin's daughter Piper. You write the cutline. Story here. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Top Cutlines:

• 1. “As living proof that public and higher education doesn’t suffer from reduced funding every year, I stand by my statement about Paul Revere’s warning the British the Americans had guns, then chopping down the cherry tree to slow down the German mercenaries that were chasing the Indians who threw Ben Franklin’s tea stash into the Delaware on Christmas Eve” — DCR.
• 2. Poolman.
• 3. $arah’s lawsuit against her marketing agency ends unsuccessfully when its revealed the the media attention they promised made no guarantee that it would reflect positively upon her — Sisyphus.
• HM: Charlie

One moment that you won't find posted on the (SarahPace blog) is Palin's response to reporters when they asked her who Paul Revere was. Instead of saying, “Come on, everyone knows who Paul Revere, the silversmith and patriot is,” she stammered while saying this: “He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”

Needless to say, the lamestream media are having a field day with that gaffe/Andrew Malcolm, Los Angeles Times. More here. (AP photo)

Question: Do you know more about the American Revolution that Sarah Palin?

Donald Trump makes a point as he walks with former governor of Alaska Sarah Palin in New York City as they make their way to a scheduled meeting Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Top Cutline:

• 1. Unable to Trump his appeal, the question concerning egos is “Would Sarah Palin comparison to the Donald?” — JohnA.
• 2. “Let’s set the record straight,” said Trump, “I didn’t fire her, she quit!” — Phaedrus.
• 3. The Narcissistic leading the Narcissistic — Cis.
• HM: Hereford

Lisa Benson/Washington Post Group

Sue Boardman, left, a tour guide at the Gettysburg National Military Park, points out an interesting design feature in a monument to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, center, and others Tuesday during a tour of the Civil War battlefield cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa. Palin did not take questions from the media or make any statements during the brief tour. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen)

• Weekend contest winners

Top Cutlines:

• 1. Sarah Palin sports a Cheshire cat grin as she watches the spectacular implosion of Newt Gingrich over the skies of D.C. “The idiot should have known buying all that fancy jewelry would come back to bite him in the a**. Now clothes are another story…” — Hereford.
• 2. Ms. Palin to the tour guide: “Ah, Miss, about four scores and seven years ago…(laughing) you know, whenever that was, that other great Republican President had an ‘address’ here, how I can get one, too?” — JohnA.
• 3. “There,” cries Sarah Palin, “I can see Mars from here. That’s where man came from” — JeanieS.
• HM: Dan Gookin

It’s been a tough month for Sarah Palin. Two tell-all books have been published in May about the shortcomings of her 31-month tenure as governor of Alaska, including Blind Allegiance by ex-Palin aide Frank Bailey. The second, The Lies of Sarah Palin by Geoffrey Dunn, includes some pointed comments about Palin from former Twin Falls newscaster Rhonda McBride. McBride, who worked as a reporter at KMVT-TV during the mid-1980s, was appointed Palin’s rural adviser in 2007, dealing with Alaska Native affairs. She got the job in part because of her reporting on rural issues for Anchorage television station KTUU and before that for KYUK, a public radio and television station in Bethel, Alaska. But after she was hired, Palin and senior members of her staff rebuffed McBride’s efforts to meet with her and with Native leaders/Steve Crump, Twin Falls Times-News. More here. (AP file photo of book cover of Frank Bailey's tell-all, “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin”)

Question: Do you appreciate inside information from individuals who worked for controversial politicians and other personalities? Or do you feel that they've betrayed confidences?

Clay Bennett/Chattanooga Times Free Press