By Elstun Lauesen Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley first discovered the astonishing genetic similarity between two species in the mid 1970s, when they compared proteins in humans and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and found that they were 99 percent identical. Further experiments by the same team showed that 98.5 percent of DNA sequences are [...]

~”Oh, my” thought Alice as she peeked through the looking glass. Here on the other side, things are very strange… particularly this new set of talking points about Alaska hire… Curioser and curiouser… As you can imagine, the oil tax structure loomed large in people’s minds during the testimony last Saturday before the Anchorage caucus [...]

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 his time working for the State of Alaska [...]

There’s that old question about elected officials. Would you want to sit down and have a beer with them? It’s a lousy litmus test when it comes to picking a President, but it turns out to be a fascinating sociological tool when applied to the two great American political movements of our time – The [...]

This little nugget was not seen on the TV broadcast. It may be because it’s a spoof… or not. The intertubes are in dispute. But the story goes that during a commercial break at the Grammy Awards last night, six time award winning vocalist Adele, who swept every category she was nominated for, sang a [...]

Well, look who came to CPAC. CPAC is the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference where conservatives of all stripes come together to wallow in varying degrees of narrow-mindedness, religious zeal, military might, fiscal conservatism, and social backwardness. There are usually some internal squabbles about things like LGBT rights, and how they do or don’t fit [...]

Alaska is a land of character and characters – colorful folks who’ve become deliciously quirky icons and who, like the late Uncle Ted Stevens, and the current Don Young, are mixed bags. Sure, the Congressman for All Alaska is admirably unafraid of his party’s leadership in DC. It’s always great to see him thumb his [...]

It’s always nice to report good news, and today’s news was really good. The Mudflats has had ongoing coverage of the protests against the Anchorage Hilton and the Anchorage Sheraton, and on Friday a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Remington Hospitality (which demonstrates none.) ~The President of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka in Alaska [...]

By Shannyn Moore When I was 33, Mom and Pop Moore were staying with me. Mom was undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for breast cancer. For those of you who have been around a loved one with cancer, I don’t have to explain. For those of you who haven’t, nothing can prepare you for it. It [...]

The only thing more humiliating than a public figure’s gargantuan screwup-by-retweet (see above) is an alert citizen grabbing a screen shot of it before the perp’s hapless attempt to scrub it. When not embarrassing herself on Twitter, Karen Handel, the now famous, Palin-endorsed former gubernatorial candidate and reactionary from Georgia, has been busy making liars [...]

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 to run for office, Sarah [...]

March 10 on HBO. Prepare for the deliciousness! Trailer Preview 2

By Thomas Dewar The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed corporations. —Thomas Jefferson ALEC is a dating service for state legislators and corporations. —Ed Muir, AFT Who Is ALEC? If you really want to know who and what is behind something [...]

It’s time to put a couple fresh plump Florida oranges in a tube sock, and let the beating begin. All week long, Americans have been treated to the horrifying yet compelling spectacle of the two frontrunners in the GOP race for their party’s nomination pummeling each other like Roman gladiators before the bloodthirsty crowd. The [...]

by Linda Kellen Biegel Last school year, I wrote a post about the proposed cuts in the Anchorage School District budget and how they would affect a family of a middle school student. It was then I became aware of the outrageous fees Mayor Dan Sullivan was charging the school district–for example: 100% of the [...]