~And they would’ve got away with it too… if it weren’t for that pesky Constitution! The question is “school choice.” That’s what they call it, anyway. Anchorage is fortunate in that there is already a great network of 27 charter schools available for those who want a public school alternative. And America is fortunate that [...]

It’s been a busy week for Herman “Blinky” Cain. All that dodging and deflecting, all the blinking and stuttering, doing interviews and trying to keep stories straight… grueling work, that. And now he’s added a new activity to his already busy calendar – blaming. No, he’s not blaming the women he sexually harassed (although he [...]

Many have commented on Herman Cain’s vigorous denial of sexual harassment allegations on Fox News the other day. As I watched the interview, something struck me. As someone who is intrigued by nonverbal communication of all sorts, I found myself mesmerized not by what Cain was saying, but by what he was doing. Blinking. I [...]

The past two budgets have included $84 million for a bridge…to somewhere in Alaska. Senators Wielechowski and French have written a letter to the Alaska Railroad with some concerns. ANCHORAGE- Today, Senators Bill Wielechowski and Hollis French are calling on Alaska Railroad officials to ensure steel products made only in America are used to build [...]

Oy. Bristol “abstinence” Palin and Levi “Playgirl” Johnston have apparently buried the hatchet, and plan to start a new life together. The young sweethearts announced their reconciliation, and engagement to be wed on the pages of US Weekly Magazine. And no, they didn’t tell the ex-half-governor before hand.  She learned it from the newsstand, unless [...]

Well, here’s the new fence. It’s quite the… fencetrosity. The whole thing has the look of someone taking an already high fence, and then finding another fence like it only of a different color, and stapling that fence on to the other fence, only a couple feet higher, creating some kind of awkward layered fence [...]

Time to pop the corn, folks.  Joe McGinniss, author of the epic political best-seller The Selling of the President about Richard Nixon, Going to Extremes about the Alaskan pipeline days, and others has his sights set on Sarah Palin. She will be the subject of his next book, and now she’s also… his neighbor. McGinniss is also [...]

Sarah Palin’s “other” TV show is already plagued with scandal.  I’m shocked.  Shocked, I say. Her Foxumentary “Real American Stories” is…. wait for it… fake. The show was touted as Sarah Palin interviewing celebrities including Toby Keith, Jack Welch (formerly of GE), and rapper LL Cool J.   The show debuts tomorrow. Only one problem.  LL [...]

One of the more interesting Assembly races coming up next week is Paul Honeman v. Adam Trombley. In this race, I have to say I like Paul Honeman. Those whose opinions I trust that know him personally say he’s an upstanding guy, a straight shooter, non-partisan in every sense of the word, and looking to [...]

  Thick and fast they came at last, and more and more and more!   The “Sarah Palin Effect” From The Catholic Register- A good education and a good job are no barrier to believing in a personal God, according to a University of Toronto sociologist.   But the American-born professor also warns that a close [...]

Whew!  Tuesday Night at the Fights (aka the Anchorage Assembly Meeting) was quite the event. It may not have seemed so to the casual observer, but as we all know, you dear Mudflatters are certainly not casual observers. You know that tonight there were two resolutions on the floor dealing with Mayor Dan Sullivan’s failure [...]

Let’s see… I know there were 10 of them.  (Counting on my fingers) Water to blood, flies, frogs,  death of the first born, ….hmm.  Oh, and diseased livestock, lice…. umm…..thunder and hail, darkness.  And boils.  Who could forget the boils?  That leaves one.  A plague of….. LOCUSTS!  That’s it!  And not only are locusts a [...]

It was a few weeks ago, and it was  a day like most days.  I was having my first cup of coffee, settling in at my desk, and my eye landed on a stack of mail.  On top of the stack was an envelope, and on the envelope was my name, hand written.  I didn’t see a return [...]

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 [...]