A new New York Times magazine profile of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin confirms the obvious: she's at least considering a 2012 presidential run.

Not only is she considering it, but Palin told Barbara Walters in an interview that will air in full on December 9 that she thinks she can win.

In an interview with The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz, Fox News president Roger Ailes has some new vitriol for the Obama administration.

Kicking off a laundry list of criticism, Ailes said, "The president has not been very successful. He just got kicked from Mumbai to South Korea, and he came home and attacked Republicans for it. He had to be told by the French and the Germans that his socialism was too far left for them to deal with."

Stephen Colbert is a big fan of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's new reality TV show, Sarah Palin's Alaska.

After rolling the show's opening credits last night, Colbert said, "Let me just say that after that, my Bering Strait just got a litte Bering straighter. And yes, you can see Russia from it."

Jon Stewart last night had some fun at Rep. Charles Rangel's (D-NY) expense, offering his analysis of some of the finer moments of the congressman's ethics hearing.

President Barack Obama -- already a best-selling author -- has a new children's book hitting shelves today.

"Of Thee I Sing" tells the tale of groundbreaking Americans like Georgia O'Keefe, Jackie Robinson and George Washington -- whose traits Obama says he sees in all American children, including his own.

Stephen Colbert last night called into question President Barack Obama's patriotism, disappointed that he spent Veterans Day in South Korea -- with active-duty American troops, no less.

Keith Olbermann last night defended his brand of opinion journalism against Ted Koppel's op-ed in the Washington Post, titled "Olbermann, O'Reilly and the death of real news."

Koppel, former managing editor of ABC's Nightline, lamented what he sees as the loss of objectivity in broadcast news in exchange for a more successful business model.

Former House Speaker and possible Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has some advice for President Barack Obama: take most of the rest of the year off.

Gingrich, speaking to the Christian Broadcasting Network, reflected on the time former presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush spent away from the White House, saying it would be healthy for Obama to slow down and do the same.

As Congress prepares to transition into its 112th session, C-SPAN is again pressing the House to allow its own cameras to cover floor debates.

Currently, the cameras used to cover House floor debates are owned and operated by Congress. Under the House rules, wide shots and reactionary shots are prohibited. Media outlets must rely on the feed provided by Congress. But C-SPAN argues that allowing its own cameras to televise floor debates would result in a more open, transparent government.

It may not make Sarah Palin's tweets any easier to read, but maybe she was on to something when she combined the words "refute" and "repudiate" into the now infamous "refudiate."

The New Oxford American Dictionary has named 'refudiate' its 2010 Word of the Year, defining it as:

refudiate: verb used loosely to mean "reject": she called on them to refudiate the proposal to build a mosque. 
[origin -- blend of refute and repudiate]