After the 2008 presidential race, where he impressed the country and earned our trust with his measured and thoughtful decision-making ability and stellar judgment in choosing a running mate, he’s ready to go back to D.C. for another six years. Yes, I’m talking about John McCain, and yes my tongue is firmly in cheek. But, [...]

Pop by on your lunch hour TODAY and tell Lisa Murkowski to give back the $124,500 she got from energy lobbyists! Can’t make it?  How about a quick phone call to her Washington office at 202- 224  -6665!   Then leave a comment below. ALASKA GROUPS OPPOSE MURKOWSKI DIRTY AIR ACT January 20 Press Conference Launches TV Ad [...]

Thoughts? ****************************** Markos at Daily Kos: So what will come first? Remember, Brown has to run for reelection in 2012, a presidential year, in one of the top 2-3 most liberal states in the nation. Either Scott Brown alienates ideologically rigid Teabaggers by casting votes with Democrats in order to shore up his standing at [...]

What’s more fun on a Tuesday night than girls’ night out at the fights Anchorage Assembly Meeting?  Nothing, that’s what.  Just hangin’ out in the back row. Mayor Sullivan and Assemblywoman Gray-Jackson talked about the MLK tribute at the Performing Arts Center yesterday.  They said it was a nice ceremony.  I bet the governor agrees.  [...]

Salon.com has some interesting scuttlebutt. According to the website, Sarah Palin’s one time friend, confidante, and Legislative Director will now be running the US senate campaign of the appointed daughter of the former senator turned one-term governor who Palin defeated in the 2006 gubernatorial primary.  Yeah, you’re just going to have to read that last [...]

Normally when I talk about Senator Lisa Murkowski and her dealings with climate change and legislation affecting it, I summon up mental images of her sitting in some subterranean lair in a room full of giant luminous screens and maps, pushing buttons and gleefully chuckling at the cataclysmic end of the world she is about [...]

Who Would Jesus Kill?   Nobody, if I recall correctly. So I wonder what he might have thought of this latest revelation (pardon the pun) from ABC News? Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an [...]

A new poll from CBS News finds that 71% of Americans are not stark raving mad.  At least not yet.

Today the United States celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal. “I Have a Dream” Speech from the March on Washington. “We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.” “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” -The night before he died. [...]

  Today’s the day!  The Shannyn Moore Show – three hours of fun, smart progressive radio – is back, Baby!  And by “back,” I don’t mean a couple hours on a Saturday on the Fox News station where she used to be. I mean BACK – five days a week, three hours a day, Monday [...]

Today’s picture comes to you all the way from Ugashik, Alaska – a lovely fishing hamlet on our scenic west coast. I’m not the only one who can look out the window and enjoy a little fuming from the earth’s mantle.  Behold Chiginagak Volcano, 7000 feet high, and puffing away about 20 miles from the [...]

Professor Rick Steiner who, since before the Exxon Valdez disaster has been known as a critic of the oil industry and a defender of marine conservation, has resigned from the University of Alaska.  The university had stripped him of a NOAA grant because of his outspoken opposition to offshore oil development in the Bristol Bay [...]

Somehow it just seemed like time for some moose.  It’s been a fairly moose-less winter so far, but these two young bulls were around earlier in the fall, just messing around in the yard.  They had a high old time clonking antlers and nudging each other around.  Just hanging out and being guys.  Fun to watch.

OK, here’s the quiz. You are about to see two images. One photograph is of a “porn” star. The other photograph is of a common sense conservative. Your job is to spot the porn.  You know what they say… It’s difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. It’s going to be [...]