Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 31, 2014 · 5 Comments
If you live in Alaska, you’ve seen that bumper sticker a hundred times if you’ve seen it once. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it when I arrived in the Great Land. As the years passed, I did things I’d never have done if I had stayed in east coast suburbia. I camped in bear country, and wolf country; I sailed in high seas in the Gulf of Alaska; traversed mountain passes with a baby on my back; almost tumbled into a gorge on a 3-wheeler; pulled up my share of halibut from the deep sea; had Thanksgiving in…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Governors Race, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Election 2014, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Nation, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Repro Rights, Republicans, Rural Issues, Sarah Palin, Veterans, Women's Issues · Tags Alaska abortion, Alaska birth control, Alaska family planning, Alaska Girls Kick Ass, Alaska Planned Parenthood, Alaska women vote, Dan Sullivan for Senate, Mark Begich for Senate, Sean Parnell for governor
Posted by Shannyn Moore on October 28, 2014 · 13 Comments
I was about 10 when I heard a sermon I will never forget. The speaker that day drew a few gasps from the congregation of the Homer Christian Church when he disagreed with a passage from the Bible. He quoted from 1 Corinthians, Ch. 13, the passage you often hear at weddings: “Faith, Hope and Love, the greatest of these is love.” “That’s not true,” he said. “The greatest of these is hope.” He explained that his father had committed suicide. There was no shortage of love in their family. His father had simply lost hope that the pain of…
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Category Alaska, Alaska House Race, Alaska Politicos, Bang it, Don Young, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, LGBT, Make it explode, Nation, Native issues, Republicans, Rural Issues, Whackjobbery, Your Head · Tags Don Young, Don Young for Congress, Don Young suicide, Forrest Dunbar for Congress
Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 26, 2014 · 47 Comments
Of course it’s EXCLUSIVE. You think just anyone gets their mitts on a photo of the longest serving member of Congress smoking a cigar on a boat, seemingly about to menace a rubber panda man with a shotgun? And yes. This is real. It was taken this summer, and there is no photoshopping. Let’s be serious. If we were going to make up a photo with Don Young in it, even we wouldn’t have come up with this. And now… it’s all yours. Leave your caption in the comments, and we’ll meme the best ones.
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Category Alaska, Alaska House Race, Alaska Politicos, Don Young, Election 2014, Elections, Fish & Wildlife, Headlines, Nation, Republicans, Scratch it · Tags Alaska Don Young, Don Young congress, Don Young photo
Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 24, 2014 · 10 Comments
Me: Hey, Republican! Would you like some delicious ice cream? Republican: Yes, I would. I love delicious ice cream. What kind? Me: What kind would you like? Republican: Hmmm… Do you have Rocky Road? Me: Yes! Would you like some delicious Rocky Road ice cream? Republican: Mmmmm. Yes, please. Me: Hey, did you know that Barack Obama also enjoys a nice bowl of Rocky Road ice cream? (buzzing short-circuit noise) Republican: I… I… I changed my mind and suddenly remembered that ice cream is from the devil! Me: Hmm. I think it’s a little too warm down there to make…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Barack Obama, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Joe Miller, Mark Begich, Mead Treadwell, Nation, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Sean Parnell, Shake it, Todd Palin, Veterans, Vitamin Democracy, Walker-Mallott Unity Ticket · Tags Alaska Governors Race, Alaska Senate Race, Clare Ross Alaska, Dan Sullivan for Senate, Harry Crawford Alaska, Mark Begich for Senate, Obama Alaska, Sean Parnell Alaska, Walker Mallott Alaska
Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 19, 2014 · 10 Comments
Last week Alaska Congressman Don Young (R) pulled a “Don Young,” and thanks to the magic of the internets and the television, it’s percolated up to the national media. Chris Hayes, on his show All In (see video above), talked about the incident that occurred at the Kodiak fisheries debate, in which Democratic challenger Forrest Dunbar made a terrible terrible mistake… One that could COST HIM HIS LIFE! (<——– Say this in baritone movie promo voice) Forrest Dunbar… touched Don Young. He. Touched. Him. Not a “show me on the doll where Forrest Dunbar touched you” kind of…
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Category Alaska, Alaska House Race, Alaska Politicos, Don Young, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Nation, Rallies and Events, Republicans, Whackjobbery · Tags Alaska congressional race, Alaska congressman don young, Don Young, Don Young Forrest Dunbar, Forrest Dunbar for Congress, Run Forrest Run
Posted by Shannyn Moore on October 13, 2014 · 10 Comments
Earlier this year I received a loose-leaf notebook bulging with documents that detailed the sexual assault coverups and corruption in the Alaska National Guard. I spent a few months compiling information and interviewing as many people as would talk, trying to understand the players and the broad outlines of a mind-blowing scandal with real victims. People talked to me even though they were afraid. Terrified, actually. For years those who had spoken up against crime in the guard had had their careers destroyed. Nevertheless, a handful of brave souls tried to sound the alarm — even going directly the governor…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Governors Race, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, Law & Order, Make it explode, Republicans, Sean Parnell, Skulduggery, Veterans · Tags Alaska Legislature, Alaska national guard, Anna Fairclough, Gabrielle LeDoux, Kevin Meyer, McHugh Pierre, national guard sexual assault, sean parnell coverup, Sean Parnell National Guard, Sean Parnell sexual assault, Senator Pete Kelly, Troopergate, Walt Monegan
Posted by Zach Roberts on October 3, 2014 · 5 Comments
I subscribe to a lot of terrible e-mail lists. One of them is the TeaParty.net’s. I can’t say it’s the worst, but by no means do I enjoy reading their amazingly insane missives. But it’s part of the job, like changing dirty diapers is part of a parent’s job. Every single one of the e-mails is somehow stinkier than the last. Whether it be about 9/11, Benghazi, or Ebola, they all end in a beg for my money. This one, though, ranks currently as the worst. “Restore the Dream” t-shirt with an image of Reagan and King just hurts my brain….
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Category Elections, Headlines, Republicans, Teabaggery · Tags Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, civil rights, disgusting, dream, email, fundraising, I have a dream, king jr., liberals, martin luther king, offensive, Reagan, restore the dream, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Tavis Smiley, Tea Party, voting rights
Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 1, 2014 · 5 Comments
I sat down recently with Gary Johnson, two-term Republican governor of New Mexico (1995-2003), and Libertarian Party nominee for President in 2012. Johnson is also the founder of the SuperPAC, Our America Initiative, which promotes Libertarian-minded causes, and is the CEO of Cannabis Sativa, Inc. He came to Anchorage to speak at a fundraiser for the Yes on 2 campaign which supports ballot initiative 2, to regulate marijuana like alcohol in the state of Alaska. The proposition will be put before the voters on the November 4 ballot. This isn’t Johnson’s first trip to Alaska. In his quest to summit…
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Category Agriculture, Alaska, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Health, Law & Order, Nation, Public Safety, Republicans, Veterans · Tags Alaska legalize pot, Alaska Yes on 2, Governor Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party, Marijuana arrests, Marijuana legalization, Our America Initiative, Regulate Marijuana like alcohol in Alaska, Taylor Bickford, Tom Mahon
Posted by Jeanne Devon on September 30, 2014 · 17 Comments
There’s nothing like a couple polls giving you a slight edge in an Alaskan political race, to make the inexperienced Alaska politician feel a little cocky. U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan has spend the entire election cycle so far dodging accusations he’s a carpetbagger from Ohio, who moved to Alaska for a Senate seat which will be purchased for him by the Koch brothers, and his wealthy family and friends in the Buckeye state. Sullivan turned up Sunday as the dreaded “empty chair” at a candidate forum that was attended by incumbent Senator Mark Begich, and Libertarian candidate Mark Fish. That’s two marks…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Mark Begich, Nation, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Republicans · Tags Alaska Senate Race, Cleveland Dan Sullivan, Dan Sullivan Alaska, Dan Sullivan carpetbagger, Dan Sullivan for Senate, Mark Begich for Senate, Mark Fish for Senate, Ohio Dan Sullivan
Posted by Shannyn Moore on September 21, 2014 · 5 Comments
I was having dinner in New York City a few years ago with some media muckety-mucks. They asked me why I wouldn’t move to The City for work. “I’d be bored,” was my answer. This was another interesting week in Alaska politics and proved sticking around Alaska has been worth the price of admission. The legislative ethics adviser, Reggie Drummond, who just took his job a few months ago, has mysteriously resigned. Perhaps someone took a look at his twitter feed, which included such poetic yarns as “Liberal = industrial sized stupid, put that one in your dictionary” and a…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Governors Race, Alaska Politicos, Election 2014, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, Labor, Oil & Gas, Republicans, Resource Development, SB21, Sean Parnell, Skulduggery, Strategery, Walker-Mallott Unity Ticket · Tags Parnell Sullivan Alaska, Sean Parnell for Govenor, Unity ticket Alaska, Walker for Governor, Walker Mallott