Posts Tagged ‘Alaska’

Ice Melts: Land Rises

Filed under: Environment — by Will Kirkland 05/18/2009 @ 7:25:28 AM
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In a fascinating article on the front page of Monday’s NY Times, Cornelia Dean reports on a little predicted effect of global warming: rising land mass!

Global warming conjures images … [Keep reading >>]

Exxon Valdez: 20 Years Ago and Still Ugly

Filed under: Energy | Environment — by Will Kirkland 03/25/2009 @ 7:34:04 AM
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20th Anniversary Exxon Valdez Oil Spill … [Keep reading >>]

Stevens Loses

Filed under: Politics | Republicans — by Will Kirkland 11/18/2008 @ 10:41:02 PM
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Yippee!

“Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and Alaska icon who couldn’t survive … [Keep reading >>]

Senatorial Updates

Filed under: Democrats | Politics | Republicans — by Will Kirkland 11/17/2008 @ 5:09:06 PM
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Looks like Begich will be the new Senator from Alaska. Votes should all be counted by Tuesday afternoon. Franken-Coleman headed for a re-count with lawyers battling for every … [Keep reading >>]

Stevens Falling Behind

Filed under: Democrats | Politics | Republicans — by Will Kirkland 11/15/2008 @ 2:44:32 PM
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“Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is in grave danger of losing re-election after Mark Begich widened his lead to 1,022 votes Friday.

More than 90 percent of the votes are now counted, … [Keep reading >>]

Begich Still Beating Stevens

Filed under: Elections — by Will Kirkland 11/13/2008 @ 10:18:38 PM
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814 votes in Alaska

Alaska-based GOP pollster David Dittman, who worked for Sen. Ted Stevens during this year’s primary race, believes Democratic challenger Mark Begich is all but certain to expand … [Keep reading >>]

Stevens Falls Behind

Filed under: Elections — by Will Kirkland 11/12/2008 @ 11:21:16 PM
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Mark Begich made a dramatic comeback Wednesday to overtake Ted Stevens for the lead in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.

Begich, who was losing after election night, now leads Stevens by 814 … [Keep reading >>]

Alaska: More Votes to be Counted

Filed under: Election Protection | Elections — by Will Kirkland 11/10/2008 @ 11:02:51 PM
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In the on-going saga of Alaska’s “missing” votes — fewer Alaskans seem to have voted on Tuesday last, than voted 4 years ago, a situation that seems unexplainable to almost … [Keep reading >>]

Very Strange Voting in Alaska

Filed under: Election Protection | Elections — by Will Kirkland 11/6/2008 @ 9:39:07 PM
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Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com is on to this, and Rachel Maddow had him on tonight to say so.

Something very very odd happened in the Alaska election. Silver … [Keep reading >>]

Palin Facing New Questions

Filed under: Politics — by Will Kirkland 11/5/2008 @ 7:46:21 AM
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Palin faces questions, different landscape when she returns to Alaska.

“All the alliances she used to get things done have been shattered,” said Kate Troll, executive director of the Alaska Conservation … [Keep reading >>]

Lawsuit to Derail Troopergate Fails

Filed under: Presidential 2008 — by Will Kirkland 10/2/2008 @ 8:52:38 PM
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“Sorry to interrupt the Republican “Non-Implosion is Victory” party, but there was some breaking news in Anchorage tonight that came out a couple minutes before the debate.

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Wolf Shooting and Poll Dropping

Filed under: Presidential 2008 — by Will Kirkland 09/19/2008 @ 9:33:50 PM
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These are the recent number for Palin popularity, done for DailyKos by Research 2000

Approve Disapprove No Opinion

9/11: 52 … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Tom Paine

---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795


RepublicanGomorrah

Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.


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