Bristol Palin and her fiance, Levi Johnston are the parents of a healthy baby boy. The 18-year-old daughter of Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Sunday in Palmer, Alaska. Baby Tripp weighed in at 7 lbs., 4 oz.

Congratulations to the happy parents.

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All in all, it was a great Saturday Night Live and Sarah Palin has done wonders to inject SNL with new life.

The National Enquirer is  reporting that Sarah Palin had an affair with her husband’s business partner, Brad Hanson. According to the report, the pair got busy back in 1996 when Palin was the mayor of Wasilla.

Hanson has denied knowing Palin in the Biblical sense, but Jim Burdett, a member of the Hanson family has gone on record about the affair and passed a polygraph test.   Another unnamed source has given the Enquirer a sworn affidavit.

I wonder what John McCain’s reaction was when he heard about this latest scandal to affect his running mate.

First Dude Todd Palin has decided to thumb his nose at a subpoena directing him to testify at the Troopergate hearing. His lawyer responded to the document by sending a letter stating that he objected to the proceedings and he wouldn’t be showing up to testify.

Unfortunately, the Alaska state legislature doesn’t have a lot of pull in getting witnesses to show up to testify. A $500 fine is about the extent of the consequences Todd Palin will face, and only when the legislature reconvenes in January of next year.

Maybe the lawmakers’ first order of business should be to give that piece of legislation a lot more teeth by increasing the penalties for ignoring a subpoena. Todd Palin’s actions also beg the question, “What does the First Dude have to hide?”

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The folks at the National Enquirer have been kept busy digging up dirt about V.P. nominee Sarah Palin and her family. The latest is that Palin’s oldest son, Track, was addicted to the painkiller OxyContin. Apparently, he was snorting it, eating it, injecting it, and smoking it in addition to using marijuana and alcohol.

Track decided to take a step that other troubled young people have taken in the past: he joined the military. Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old mother-to-be, is allegedly no stranger to the party lifestyle herself. The Enquirer’s unnamed source stated:

Bristol was a huge stoner and drinker. I’ve seen her smoke pot and get drunk and make out with so many guys. All the guys would brag that the just made out with Bristol.

Sounds like the Palin family is not as picture perfect as some people would like us to believe.

You know you’ve become a celebrity when a popular celebrity blog like PopCrunch creates a giant photo gallery and features it on their front page. And doesn’t the picture above totally look paparazzi?

Anyway, check out this photo gallery with hot pics of Sarah Palin.

Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin wanted pregnant daughter Bristol to get married to her boyfriend before the news broke, the National Enquirer is reporting. Palin wanted Bristol to get hitched up before the Republican Party’s National Convention, but Bristol had other plans.

Bristol refused to get with the program and a verbal battle ensued. The announcement that the governor’s daughter was doing a Jamie Lynn Spears came shortly after the Enquirer contacted her office to give her the heads up that they were going to run the story.

Sounds like the guv is not as full-on warm and fuzzy supportive as the recent press release would have us believe.

The Palin Family

Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is about to become a grandmother, thanks to her 17-year-old daughter Bristol being in the family way. The teen is about five months along and is apparently planning to marry the baby’s father.

The statement from the McCain camp read as follows:

“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us,” the statement read.

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.”

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media, respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

Wouldn’t you have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the parents-to-be told the folks about this?