Direct From Sarah Palin: "Going Rogue" Tour Dates Through Thanksgiving

Here are some details of the upcoming book tour. I’m starting in Michigan, and you’ll understand why when you read the book. Last year, I made a promise to the good people of Michigan that I would be back, and now I’m keeping that promise. (Michigan is near and dear to my family’s heart! Our eldest son, Track, lived with a great host family there during his hockey days.)

From Michigan, the “Going Rogue” tour will cover as much of the country as possible. I’ve decided to stop in cities that are not usually included in a typical book tour. For instance, I’m looking forward to meeting our honorable men and women in uniform and their families at a Fort Bragg book signing, and to reconnecting with friends my family made last year on the campaign trail in different book signing venues. 

We have a tight schedule, but I’m working with the publisher to allow possibilities of stopping at a few unannounced places, too. 

I’ll Twitter information when the tour starts, so I’ll post our progress from the road. You can follow on Twitter at SarahPalinUSA.

Below are dates, times, and locations for the first part of the tour – this schedule brings us up to Thanksgiving, where I’ll get to connect with family in Washington state for the holiday. Stay tuned for our post-Thanksgiving schedule coming soon. 

Please contact each venue for more information. Can’t wait to see you soon! 

- Sarah Palin 

PS: Included below is a flyer for the tour. Feel free to pass it around! 

November 18th

GRAND RAPIDS, MI

Barnes & Noble

3195 28th Street SE

Space B116

Grand Rapids, MI 49512

6:00 – 9:00 PM

November 19th

FORT WAYNE, IN

Meijer’s

10301 Maysville Road

Fort Wayne, IN 46835

12:00 – 3:00 PM

NOBLESVILLE, IN

Borders Books and Music

13145 Levinson Lane

Noblesville, IN 46060

6:00 – 9:00 PM

November 20th

CINCINNATI, OH

Joseph-Beth Booksellers

2692 Madison Road

Cincinnati OH 45208

12:00 – 3:00 PM

COLUMBUS, OH

Borders Books and Music

6670 Sawmill Road

Columbus, OH 43235

6:00 – 9:00 PM

November 21st

WASHINGTON, PA

Sam’s Club

80 Trinity Point Drive

Washington, PA 15301

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

ROCHESTER, NY

Borders Books and Music

1000 Hylan Drive

Rochester, NY 14623

6:00 – 9:00 PM

November 22nd

ROANOKE, VA

Barnes & Noble

4802 Valley View Boulevard NW

Roanoke, VA 24012

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

November 23rd

FORT BRAGG, NC

AAFES Bragg N Main Shop 

Bldg 8-5050, 2nd & Butner Road

Ft. Bragg, NC 28307

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

BIRMINGHAM, AL

Books-A-Million

757 Brookwood Village

Birmingham, AL 32509

4:30 – 7:30 PM

November 24th

JACKSONVILLE, FL AREA

Books-A-Million

Orange Park Mall

1910 Wells Road

Orange Park, FL 32073

9:00 – 11:00 AM

THE VILLAGES, FL

Barnes & Noble

1055 Old Camp Road

The Villages, FL 32162

2:30 – 5:00 PM

ORLANDO, FL

Barnes & Noble

Colonial Plaza Market Center

2418 East Colonial Drive

Orlando, FL 32803

7:30 – 10:00 PM

Sarah Palin: Reagan Never Stopped Regarding The Berlin Wall As An Affront To Freedom

Twenty years ago, the ultimate symbol of the division between freedom and tyranny was torn down. The Berlin Wall was constructed for one purpose: to prevent the escape of East Germans to the freedom of the West. The Wall’s cold, gray façade was a stark reminder of the economic and political way of life across the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. 

Ronald Reagan never stopped regarding the Berlin Wall as an affront to human freedom. When so many other American leaders and opinion makers had come to accept its presence as inevitable and permanent, Reagan still hammered away at the Wall’s very premise in human tyranny, until finally the Wall itself was hammered down. Its downfall wasn’t the work of Reagan alone. Our president’s actions were joined with the brave acts of many individuals who stood firm and united in facing the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall came down because millions of people behind the Iron Curtain refused to accept the fate of enslavement and their supporters in the West refused to accept that the “captive nations” would remain captive forever. 

Though that long, tragic episode in human history had come to a close finally with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it wasn’t the “end of history” or the end of conflict as some had hoped. New conflicts confront us today throughout the world which call for courage and resolve and dedication to freedom. The new democracies and market economies that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe still require our friendship and alliances as they continue to seek security, prosperity, and self-determination. But as we reflect on present and future challenges, let’s take time to celebrate the anniversary of this awesome victory for freedom. The downfall of that cold, gray concrete Wall should be a lesson to us in hope. Nothing is inevitable. Tyranny is no match for the hope and resolve of those who work and fight for freedom. 

Sarah Palin: The People Who Gave Us Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Now Want To Run Health Care

We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country. 

The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.

Despite Americans’ decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken her own promises of transparency to ram a health “care” bill through the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called “the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced”? 

This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates – the highest we’ve seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don’t have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market. 

Make no mistake: we’re on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that. 

All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it’s ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn’t covered in the bill to begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great – because abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak’s amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership has already refused to promise that it won’t be scrapped later. 

We had been told there were no “death panels” in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.

Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens’ health care coverage too. 

Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday. Speaker Pelosi’s promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C. establishment’s too-common political ploys. It’s broken promises like this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned about the future of their country. 

But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close attention tonight. We’ll keep paying close attention. We need to let our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the “reform” they are pushing. After all, this is still a country “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” We will make our voices heard. It’s on to the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It’s their choice.

- Sarah Palin