Poor Meghan McCain. Daddy's little girl knows that the portrait of her and her family coming out in HBO's adaptation of John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's 2008 campaign chronicle Game Change isn't going to be pretty, given what's in the book.

In a posting for The Daily Beast this week,...

In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin -- the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United States -- has taken another cheap shot at First Lady Michelle Obama.

In a passage on...

In yet another rambling speech delivered in the heart of California's Silicon Valley yesterday--one in which she not-so-coincidentally never mentioned a single California Republican candidate by name only three weeks before Election Day--Alaska's former half-governor and the GOP's excuse for professional wrestling, Sarah Palin, took a cheap shot at First...

A few days ago, I was speaking on the telephone with Domonic "Nick" Carney, one of those delightful, special characters that one often encounters from Alaska. The son of a salt-of-the-earth family that made a Grapes of Wrath migration to the Alaska Territory in the 1950s, Carney was one of...

In the aftermath of the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Fox News commentator and 2012 GOP presidential wannabe Sarah Palin talked tough from the sanctity of her Facebook and Twitter accounts about playing "hardball" with BP executives. "[V]erify what BP reports," she proffered in a Facebook...

Two years ago this week, at the biennial convention of the Alaska AFL-CIO in Anchorage, then-Governor Sarah Palin was whisked off by her husband to Ted Stevens International Airport for a flight to Arizona, where Palin met, first with senior advisers to Republican presidential nominee John McCain, and finally McCain...

There is an air of both tragedy and farce as the Arizona Republican primary for the United States Senate comes to a conclusion this Tuesday. Incumbent John McCain -- a venerated war hero and once celebrated presidential candidate -- has been forced into the sludge against an unworthy...

Grammy-Award winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has released a song on her brilliant new album, 100 Miles from Memphis, that takes a critical view of Sarah Palin and the cultural milieu that fuels her presence in American politics.

This is not the first time Crow has addressed the Palin...

One wonders how much gall Sarah Palin can muster in the face of yet another Alaska tragedy.

In the aftermath of the fatal plane crash in rugged western Alaska that took the lives of former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens and four others earlier this week, Palin described Stevens to her...

Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Trust PAC and disgraced Tea Party leader Mark Williams, Sarah Palin has sent the world of Twitter on fire this afternoon, with a series of incendiary Tweets about the proposed Islamic cultural...

Supporters of Joe Miller--the U.S. Senate candidate supported by Sarah Palin in Alaska--carried assault rifles and wore open side arms during a festive community parade this week, while young children marched alongside them.

Miller is running in the GOP primary against incumbent Republican US Senator Lisa Murkowski, a...

There was a troubling interview on CNN's "Reliable Sources" program this weekend--reported widely, including here on the Huffington Post--in which CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan ripped Michael Hastings and his revelatory investigative piece in Rolling Stone that outed General Stanley McChrystal for insubordination and...

Nearly a year after she quit her governorship of Alaska, Sarah Palin was found guilty today of another breach of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act involving her so-called Alaska Fund Trust (AFT), which she established as a private "legal defense fund" while governor.

Timothy Petumenos, independent counsel...

Sarah Palin's erstwhile attorney Thomas Van Flein issued another of his bizarre missives on Palin's Facebook page yesterday in what appeared to be a strange portent of a forthcoming legal ruling ready to crash down on Palin.

In a commentary posted on a judge's recent...

Sarah Palin has been busted for so many lies in the past year and a half, it's become nearly impossible to keep track of them all. Whenever she opens her mouth, she simply cannot stop herself from engaging in duplicities, exaggerations and half-truths that not-so-coincidentally always distort the political record...

Walter J. "Wally" Hickel (1919-2010), the colorful two-time Governor of Alaska and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior under Richard Nixon, had long declared that "I want to be buried standing up so I can fight for what I believe in forever."

He got his wish. At private services held...

The death of Walter J. "Wally" Hickel (1919-2010) in Anchorage this past Friday marks the end of a remarkable era, not only in Alaska, but throughout the entire United States.

The two-time Governor of the Last Frontier (elected once as a Republican in the 1960s, the second time as an...

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- recently dubbed by Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine as the "President of right-wing America" -- and her Anchorage attorney Thomas Van Flein continue to deal in duplicity and fraud in response to findings issued by the Alaska Department of Law regarding...

A ceremony honoring the three Hawaiian princes who first introduced surfing to Santa Cruz--and to the mainland of the Americas--will take place at Lighthouse Point, in Santa Cruz, Friday, April 9 at 11:30 a.m.

A three-dimensional brass plaque, gifted to the City of Santa Cruz by the Royal Hawaiian...

In the face of Sunday night's historic House vote on health-care reform, former Alaska governor and losing VP candidate Sarah Palin -- clearly eyeing a bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination -- has been waxing apoplectic on her Twitter account about the impending legislation.

She also mixed...