Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, May the 27th.

I'm David Plotz, the ender of Slate.

I am here with a special treat.

Emily Bazelon is back in Washington for the second week in a row.

Hello, Emily.

I'm glad to hear.

Hello, Slate Senior, Under Emily Bazelon.

And joining us in the chair to my right, the chair that is only to my right because that's where it is.

It reflects nothing about John's actual political views, which are a ciphered all of us, is John Dickerson Slate's chief political correspondent.

Hello, John.

Hello, David.

We're going to talk this week about the 2012 Republican race and Sarah Palin in particular.

We're going to talk about the interesting House election in New York this week.

We're a Democratic candidate won a special election to the House in an extremely Republican district. Do you know her name? Huxel. That's very well done. Hocul. I can't pronounce it either. Hoshel? Hoshel. This is the problem with what I, yeah. Hohel. I think I'm probably wrong, too. Can we just call her DSK instance? Hocel?

And then the third topic will be a Supreme Court decision this week about California prisons.

So, John, let us start with you and with politics and with the lovely former Governor Palin,

who has made her dramatic entrance, her, you know, claws bared.

Mama Grizzly is coming out of hibernation.

Presidential race, right, it's spring.

Hibernation is over.

So what happened to Sarah Palin?

Well, she announced on Friday, Thursday, sorry, that she was going to, she's going to do something called a One Nation

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