Love this one from Jamie Smith! While Murkowski and Miller sling the mud, there is at least one adult in the room. Scott McAdams got a signed copy of this great cartoon from the artist while he was in Fairbanks. And just in case you still need a reminder of why this election is so [...]

By Linda Kellen Biegel Sarah Palin’s accusations regarding the “Liberal, Lamestream Media” being “out to get her” are no secret, especially after publication of her first work of fiction, “Going Rogue.” However, there is a less-published (by credible sources) accusation that goes like this: There is a so-called “Alaska Mafia” of Democrats who take orders [...]

By Linda Kellen-Biegel Monday, the blogosphere went crazy over the online release of August 30th’s edition of The New Yorker Magazine.  The attention was over an excellent piece of investigative reporting on Koch Industries and the owners/brothers, Charles and David Koch: The Kochs operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas, and Minnesota, and control some four thousand miles [...]

Day 60 — Deepwater Horizon June 18, 2010 Rick Steiner, Professor Marine conservation biologist, Anchorage Alaska (Advising in the Gulf much of the past 2 months) ———————- As the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico approaches it’s 2-month mark, there are a few points that deserve to be made, as update. The world [...]

OK, Mudflatters…  It’s been a little while since we’ve gone on a group foray into Palin World, but this one I couldn’t resist. This interview was quite something.  The “naughty librarian” is nowhere in sight.  Palin’s latest incarnation is more like the mean librarian.  The one who slams a giant book on the table next to you when [...]

Sen. Mark Begich today met for about half an hour with Elena Kagan, the U.S. Solicitor General who was nominated last month by President Obama to fill the pending vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sen. Begich issued this statement after the cordial meeting: “I found Solicitor General Kagan well informed, keenly interested in Alaska [...]

Sarah has a new blog entry. You’ll need a pair of chest waders and a barf bag to get through it. Blasting the president for not taking control of a free-market corporation reveals frayed tea bag credentials: These decisions and the resulting spill have shaken the public’s confidence in the ability to safely drill. Unless [...]

~Thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more! Beware the Mudflats! Summer’s here, and it’s time for a quick reminder. Beware of the Mudflats!  No, not THESE.  The blog kind is pretty innocuous.  It might raise your blood pressure from time to time, or result in compulsive phone calling or [...]

Just in case you missed it, here’s the White House correspondents dinner with hilarious comedian Barack Obama and some guy.

Remember when Sarah Palin explained that when she said “don’t retreat, reload” she really meant “get out there and vote?”  It got me thinking about this exchange between George Stephanopolous and President Obama discussing Palin’s criticism of Obama’s decision to restrict the use of nuclear weapons.  You remember Sarah Palin, right?  She’s the one that the [...]

Wow. Just, wow. The United States and Russia have agreed to a new nuclear arms treaty that will be signed April 8 in Prague, Czech Republic, President Obama announced Friday after speaking with his Russian counterpart. The treaty substantially cuts the nuclear weapons that the United States and Russia will deploy and will significantly reduce [...]

So, when Sarah Palin talks about Democrats who voted for health care and says that it’s time to RELOAD (in all caps) and refers you to her Facebook page… . . And then she puts a map of Democratic legislators she wants to “target” and indicates them with cross-hairs And then 10 members of Congress [...]

Good morning, America! Funny, I don’t feel like a communist today…  But it does feel strange.  Maybe that’s because Democrats have done something.  They sort of acted a little smidgen like liberals.   Here’s one of my favorite passages about liberals. Republicans have tried to turn “liberal” into a bad word. Well, liberals ended slavery in [...]

As  the nation gears up for the most important vote of the Obama administration, tensions are high, and the “Tea Party” Movement has been kind enough to remove the mask.   Reworking a phrase – “Better to remain silent and be thought a bigot, than to speak and remove all doubt.”  Today the Tea Party spoke [...]

“Bush’s Brain,” advisor Karl Rove had a few words of advice for the Facebook blogger/Fox commentator Sarah Palin today. If she’s getting ready to run for the White House in 2012, she better start now. Politico did not elaborate on how exactly Rove suggested this should occur, but we can assume it means doing a [...]