The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

Palin Signs Deal With Fox News, and We’re All Shocked. Shocked, We Say. (UPDATED)

It wasn’t if, but when.  You can imagine Sarah Palin as an action movie heroine on a large ship that’s about to blow up.  She’s in some kind of red leather suit…she’s running….running…… There it goes!  A huge orange roiling cloud of flame bursts from the hull, and the shock wave of the explosion propels [...]
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Palin Gets the Aluminum! But Will She “Get Motivated?”

Trying to get kids to use seat belts can be a daunting task.  Even when mine were small and told me they had seatbelts on, I always used the “trust but verify” rule.  When driving together as a family, we’d have a carload of four.  And one day wefigured out an ingenious solution.  Putting on seat [...]

Palin Apologizes. And She Doesn’t.

Never one to pass up the opportunity for national media attention, Sarah Palin called in to smitten Greta Van Susteren of Fox News,  to talk about the  arson committed  at the Wasilla church she attends. “I’ll leave it to the pastor to speak to,” Palin says in the FOX interview. “I apologized to the assistant pastor letting him [...]