Search 2,544 pages of released emails here. Background In September of 2008 Aram Roston, then at NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, made several public records requests to the governor of the State of Alaska. Roston sought e-mails dated from January 2007 to September 24, 2008 that were copied to, directed to, or from Todd Palin and seven members of then Governor Sarah Palin’s staff, including Governor Palin. The records provided by the governor’s office consist of 2,544 pages and were subsequently provided to Bill Dedman, an MSNBC.com investigative reporter. In collaboration with MSNBC.com, Crivella West Incorporated, a ...

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has received the dubious distinction of being recognized by Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact for telling The Lie Of The Year.To refresh your memory, here is the lie (posted to her Facebook page) Sarah Palin told:Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."Sarah Palin, Friday, August 7th, 2009.PolitiFact says:Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out ...

Sadly, overt Republicans in the Senate are joining covert Republicans like ultra corrupt Montana Senator Max Baucus to try to block meaningful action to fight Global Warming. While the big money flows in from Big Oil and Big Coal, the planet deteriorates. From a recent Care2 Action Alert email on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund:Global warming is melting glaciers in every region of the world, putting millions of people at risk from floods, droughts and lack of drinking water. Act now to tell the Senate that we need a strong climate change bill. Glaciers are ancient ...

Those who read my blog know that I like smart intelligent people. Sarah Palin isn’t that. I also like movies like Hopscotch with Walter Matthau.  He outsmarts everybody in the movie. Sarah Palin maybe similar. She appeals to raw emotion. Americans have proven over and over again that they (we) elect politicians who appeal to our emotions. We don’t make logical decisions at the ballot box. Palin’s response to Eric Holder’s decision to try KSM in civilian court in NYC was an excellent example of her appeal to raw emotion. There was no thought. No data ...