The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

Going Rogue: Page by Page (A Resource and Links)

Yes, I read Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue – An American Life.  I read it from cover to cover, including all the words.  Why would I do this?  Am I an unabashed masochist?  No.  The answer, my friend, is that I did it so you didn’t have to.  My own copy is marked up in various [...]
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Voices from the Flats – Palin Critic’s Attorney on Being “Named” in Going Rogue

Governor Girl Agoniste By Donald Craig Mitchell Last July in Fairbanks, with Todd smiling at her side and Piper sitting in her lap, Sarah Palin watched Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell take the oath to fill out her term in office as Governor of Alaska. Then she vanished. For the past four months the Forty-Ninth State [...]
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Chapter Three – Drill, Baby, Drill (Part One)

Once again a great beginning. Page 105-106 It’s the middle of winter, and ten degrees below zero. It’s nighttime and it’s dark. It’s Thompson Pass on the way to Valdez. Driving is “treacherous” and this area has very little traffic, hazardous conditions, and an average snow dump of 50 feet in the winter. Sarah Palin [...]