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114 Comments | Posted March 3, 2012 | 9:40 AM
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was one of three women in the Senate, along with Susan Collins (R - ME) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) to vote this week for the Blunt Amendment, which would preclude insurance coverage for contraceptives and other medical procedures for which an employer had a moral...
0 Comments | Posted February 23, 2012 | 9:09 AM
Sarah Palin aide Frank Bailey, whose story was published in the tell-all book Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin (Frank Bailey, Ken Morris, Jeanne Devon - Simon & Schuster) has agreed to pay $11,900 in civil penalties to the state of Alaska for publishing revelatory emails he retained from...
2 Comments | Posted February 2, 2012 | 5:27 PM
As the immediate past vice presidential nominee, it's hardly surprising that most people outside Alaska view Sarah Palin as a card-carrying member of the GOP establishment. Despite her husband Todd's seven year dalliance with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, and his quiet conversion to the GOP when his wife decided...
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Sarah Palin, perhaps politics' most high-profile vetting escapee, seems to have a strong opinion on the matter of vetting when it comes to people who are not Sarah Palin. Despite documentation that proves Palin was never vetted (as John McCain and others claim), she is waving the red flag, encouraging...
0 Comments | Posted May 17, 2011 | 4:59 PM
From the moment Sarah Palin's acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue--to which soon was added "thin-skinned" and "vindictive." But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska--the only record she has--shows a very different politician: one who worked...
0 Comments | Posted November 3, 2010 | 1:39 PM

Any hopes of having a clear winner on election night in the U.S. Senate race in Alaska were dashed by the presence of write-in candidate, incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski, who may turn out to...
0 Comments | Posted October 28, 2010 | 6:19 AM
A new poll conducted by Hays Research confirms what we already intuitively know. Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller's candidacy is in big trouble.
The percentage of Alaskans who feel either "somewhat negative" or "very negative" about...
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0 Comments | Posted October 13, 2010 | 5:22 PM
Sorry, Tea Party Sugar Daddy. Looks like your sweetie really isn't that into you. Now, don't get me wrong, he doesn't mind spending your money like a drunken sailor trying to stumble his way into the halls of the nation's capitol, but to be seen with you in public? Well,...
0 Comments | Posted October 8, 2010 | 1:13 PM
Joe Miller - Fiscal conservative, budget balancer, not liverer beyond his means.... and... (wait for it)... buried under mounds of credit card debt, and running a campaign more than $100,000 beyond his means?
Apparently so. Miller, who was supposed to have filed his financial disclosure paperwork for his run for...
0 Comments | Posted October 5, 2010 | 3:07 PM

~Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Patriots Group rally in Wasilla, Alaska on 9/11/10
It has long been speculated that former Alaska governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would mount a bid for the White House in 2012....
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0 Comments | Posted September 10, 2010 | 4:37 PM
So, in Alaska politics, is it all about the money?
Would Joe Miller have beaten Lisa Murkowski if they ran against each other in a general election? Most people say no. The ability of this particular primary to call out the Tea Party faithful, by way of a $600,000 media...
0 Comments | Posted September 8, 2010 | 12:58 AM

Everyone on the political spectrum from far left to moderate right has been in a...
0 Comments | Posted August 27, 2010 | 4:59 PM

There's a hotly contested senate primary still underway in Alaska. The absentee ballots are still coming in, but it looks like Tea Party Express candidate Joe Miller may pull out a squeaker and topple Lisa Murkowski from the...
0 Comments | Posted August 25, 2010 | 4:57 PM

~Senator Lisa Murkowski Campaigning for Senator Ted Stevens in 2008
In 2006, a relatively unknown small town mayor in Alaska toppled the incumbent Republican governor in the primary. Garnering more than 50% of the vote in a three-way race,...
0 Comments | Posted August 20, 2010 | 5:59 PM

Ralph Samuels is a conservative Republican candidate for governor of Alaska. The primary is next Tuesday, and Samuels' new signs are dotting roadsides in Anchorage.
Yes, it's come to this.
Promising not to quit is now a...

32 Comments | Posted March 21, 2012 | 8:44 AM