Alaska Topic

All Dressed Up

July 6th, 2009 | 6 Comments

What are we to make of Governor Palin’s rambling, almost incoherent resignation speech?  Other than what we’ve already learned–that she’s clearly not presidential material. Maybe she was just trying to make us forget her performance in the Katie Couric interview. It was always hard for libs like me to understand her appeal. My buddy Scott thinks it’s [...]

Sorry, Ted

April 2nd, 2009 | 4 Comments

Justice Department prosecutors evidently ran amok in their zeal to convict Alaska Senator Ted Stevens of wrongdoing. The prosecutorial misconduct was so great that new Attorney General Eric Holder decided to drop all charges. This doesn’t mean, of course, that Stevens was innocent. We’ll never really know how extensive his abuse of office might have [...]