Going Rogue. It's cute. It's sassy. It's mavericky. The title of Sarah Palin's memoir is designed to sell books. If it had been titled Everything I Need to Know I Learned Playing Point Guard for the Wasilla High School Girls Basketball Team, it might not have had quite the same...

No, not that governor. The new one.

In what Alaskans hope is not becoming a longstanding tradition, the governor just dissed the President of the United States. No, he didn't accuse him of "pallin' around with terrorists" or criticize him during a speaking engagement in a foreign country. He decided...

After the McCain-Palin ticket went down in a ball of flames last year, there was a strange period of time when we didn't quite know what to do up here. Palin lost. She was back in Alaska, slogging through the dull days as governor, attempting unsuccessfully to deal with the...

And the ironies just won't stop. This week we find ourselves listening to Sarah Palin complaining that her almost son-in-law Levi Johnston a) is desperate for attention, b) is capitalizing from showing off his body and c) is a big fat liar. So says the spotlight-craving, truth-challenged former beauty pageant...

Going Rogue is the title of Sarah Palin's soon-to-be released memoir. It's cute, it's catchy and it will sell some books. The 400-page tome will hit the shelves on November 17th, with a massive first printing of 1.5 million copies. And each one of those book jackets is another jab...

Alaska Senator and self-described "Moderate Democrat" Mark Begich had a town hall meeting on health care reform while he was back in Anchorage this weekend. He had already conducted two such meetings, but had been getting pressure to have another one. The last two happened earlier in the summer before...

So, in case you missed the story, Sarah Palin auctioned off a dinner with herself for charity recently on eBay. The winner was one Ms. Cathy Maples, owner of a defense contracting company, Republican, and staunch Palin supporter. She's even met Sarah Palin twice before. And, it's interesting to note...

Think of it as a second chance. Or a second course in the "Dinner with Sarah Palin" eBay auction that you thought was already history.

Here's a quick recap for those of you who haven't been playing along at home.

Sarah Palin decides to auction off dinner with herself with...

I got a phone call from my oldest friend yesterday. We've been friends since nursery school, stayed best friends in grade school, high school, college and beyond. We were the kind of friends that had hundreds of "in jokes" and we passed notes and talked on the phone more than...

I have a confession to make. I've been watching the Sarah Palin Ebay charity dinner auction with somewhat of an obsession. Who would be willing to bid $25,000 or more for dinner with Sarah Palin? Newsworthy? Probably not. More important things to think about? You betcha. But I've been doing...

What a difference a year makes. A year ago today, after being stunned by McCain's VP pick, I had finished writing a piece called "What Is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan's Perspective." It's hard to imagine a time when the country was asking "Sarah Who?" but it was only one...

On my 21st birthday, I woke up in the morning and drove to Dairy Queen. I got soft serve vanilla ice cream with strawberry topping and I ate it for breakfast. Why? When I was a child I asked once if I could have ice cream for breakfast, and my...

Former Governor Sarah Palin's rejection of almost $29 million in federal stimulus money designated for energy efficiency projects was overturned today in a special session of the Alaska State Legislature. The vote was 45-14 in favor of accepting the money. Had it not been approved, Alaska would have been the...

"Leave his kids alone!"

Thus spake the ex-almost-one-term governor of Alaska. She was talking about newly installed Acting Governor Sean Parnell and his "nice family." And the media, obediently heeding her hand-wringing plea, has not invaded Alaska to seek out the innocent children of Governor Parnell, even though he...

The blogosphere in Alaska is on fire this morning after explosive new allegations about former governor Sarah Palin and ex-First Dude Todd. Reports say among other things, that divorce is in the air, although the Palin's continue to appear together in public.

The story, first reported by The Immoral...

A lawsuit was filed Wednesday claiming that all the permits obtained by the giant proposed Pebble Mine violate the Alaska constitution. Skulduggery surrounding Pebble Mine? Imagine that.

On the receiving end of these legal accusations is the State Department of Natural Resources. The suit was filed on behalf...

Sunday July 26, at 3pm Alaska time, Governor Sarah Palin stepped down from her position as governor. The full transcript of her rambling, 2300-word farewell address is below.

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What an absolutely beautiful day it...

The Alaska Fund Trust, the most hubristically-named piece of legal defense fundraising in the state of Alaska, has felt the sunshine of scrutiny, and it isn't holding up too well. It seems as though the Associated Press got its hands on some interesting information involving an ethics complaint against...

There is an old expression which says, "In a crisis, do nothing." Wise words indeed, which means that soon-to-be-ex-governor Sarah Palin no doubt would never heed them. She's sort of adopted another philosophy. It's more like, "In a crisis, fly off the handle, be reactionary and threaten to sue someone...

On the morning of August 29, 2008, minutes after the stunning news of the Vice Presidential nomination, I wrote a post entitled "What Is McCain Thinking? One Alaskan's Perspective," and my humble little blog was never the same. And now, less than a year later, the strange saga...