Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee nixed end-of-life counseling provisions in its version of the health-care bill. Sarah Palin had been criticized for using the phrase "death panels" to describe the government rationing that would inevitably occur under nationalized health care.

The boss, who appears to have taken a break from cruise activities to read the latest online news, points out that in a post on her Facebook page Sarah Palin is much more careful about the facts, and she seems much more sober than Paul Krugman.