On the campaign trail last year, Alaska's Republican governor, Sarah Palin, sold herself as a crusading reformer who despised earmarks--those federal ...
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
I wrote this bit of doggerel a while ago but only just got around to making it hyperdoggerel by equipping the stanza numbers with links. (Warning: VI...
Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
by Rep. Les Gara Over the past few weeks we Alaskans have been scratching our heads over the interesting claims the McCain campai...
ProPublica | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
When Lois Epstein approached Gov. Sarah Palin during a July 2007 meeting, she says she had a simple request: pull the plug on the construction of a $2...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
This little bit of viral videography contains perhaps one too many pop-cultural references than are actually necessary, but it gets its point across e...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
Hate to be, you know, comparing the top of one ticket with the number two spot on the other ticket, but since one of the cases being put forth in Sara...
ProPublica | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has portrayed herself as a foe of pork-barrel spending, pointing in particular to her role in killing the $398 million "Bridge...
Los Angeles Times | Tom Hamburger and Maeve Reston, | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics
John McCain got it wrong Friday when he asserted that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had not requested any earmarks, the spending directiv...
NY Times | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
In speech after speech to crowds in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in recent days, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, has...
CNN | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics
Republican presidential candidate John McCain criticized two his future running mate's hometown projects in broadsides in 2001 against congressional "...
Politico | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics
Senator John McCain recently told reporters that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has "learned that earmarks are bad." But not that bad, apparently. Accor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
Gov. Ed Rendell decried a double standard in the treatment of Sarah Palin on Monday, saying that if it was he who was at the center of the "troopergat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics
On the campaign trail Saturday, Gov. Sarah Palin defended her record on earmarks and spending claiming - per ABC's Jake Tapper - that she "championed ...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barack Obama made his first direct criticism of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Saturday, saying she pre...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
While a debate rages over how honest Sarah Palin has been in stating her opposition to the infamous Bridge To Nowhere, another massive, widely-critici...
Washington Independent | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
Digging through Wasilla's municipal records is a lesson in the very essence of tedium. You've got pages of proposals to rename streets, assess sewers,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
One of John McCain's main selling points as a government reformer is that the Arizona Senator sure hates him some earmarks. He hates them so much tha...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
It looks like Sarah Palin's claim to represent a cleaner brand of politics could be about to take a bruising. The Washington Post reports today that,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
News continues to break regarding vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin that could, in the long term, pose serious problems to one of the main thrus...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: A round of thanks is due Homer, Alaska's Charlie Stock, who notes that the original image I provided totally Swift-Boated the wrong bridge! I...
The Atlantic | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
A few days before John Kerry introduced John Edwards as his running mate, a select few members of Kerry's research staff were given five names, told ...
Mother Jones | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics