Bits & Pieces: Tuesday, March 23rd, 2009

• California takes another go at saving gay marriage. READ HERE. They need almost a million signatures. If you live in California, find a way to sign this thing.


• Mount Redoubt, 103 miles outside Anchorage, Alaska, erupted. READ HERE. BBC has video.


• President Obama expands his push to reach out to the liberal media. Calls for "filter-free" news. (Isn't that the real reason he fought so hard to keep his Blackberry, too?) READ HERE. Props to the Prez.


• Palin Watch 2012: Gov. Sarah Palin is already polling Iowa by phone. READ HERE. And it has already been reported that both President Obama and Gov. Palin have begun fundraising. Although I find you have to take most of what is said over at RedState.com with a whole brick of salt, it gives an interesting layer to Mark Impomeni's article, The Permanent Campaign Gets Creepy.
  Mark my words. America is duly warned. In spite of what undependable and irrelevant polls may be saying almost 4 years out, Sarah Palin, unfettered by John McCain, will be a formidable opponent to Barack Obama, and the outcome will be anyone's game by the time the real campaigning starts.