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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Tom Kizzia of the Anchorage Daily News wrote an interesting profile of Todd Palin’s 87-year-old grandmother this week that offers a glimpse at the ties between the Palins, whose story is like many white frontier families, and Native Alaskans.
Kizzia, who wrote a book on native rural village called “The Wake of [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — When Gov. Sarah Palin said during the vice presidential debate Thursday that her family has gone through periods where they’ve been uninsured and she understands what it’s like for Americans “to sit around the kitchen table and try to figure out how are they going to pay out-of-pocket for health care,” she [...]

In a little-noted comment from Thursday’s vice presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin was quick to take credit for a push among some Alaskan lawmakers to pull the state’s investments in Sudan — a recognition of the country’s years-long Darfur genocide:
When I and others in the legislature found out we had some millions of dollars in [...]

Somewhere after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s fourth “Gee” in last night’s vice-presidential debate, I lost it. In writing about the presidential campaign, I think I’ve been fair in calling people out when called for and praising people when they deserve to be praised.
But Palin’s performance last night was more than fodder for a “Saturday Night [...]

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised some eyebrows during Thursday’s debate when she said would like to do more forums “without the filter of the mainstream media telling viewers what they have just heard.”
Some took this as an indication that the she intends to abandon the high-profile interviews that have proved unhelpful to her cause, to [...]

They will raise your taxes.
It’s an old Republican line of attack, but Obama’s latest ad throws it in Sen. John McCain’s face.

It’s safe to say that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin far exceeded the extremely low expectations that most people had for her going into Thursday’s debate.
She made a real effort to go out of her way to play up the “folksy mom/Joe Six-Pack/Washington outsider” angle. Some will find that annoying. But if the anecdotes appearing in [...]

Sen. John McCain devises ingenious plan to prevent terrorists from putting words in Gov. Sarah Palin’s mouth.