Why is it that only the places that can't possibly survive on their own are filled with secessionists? The states screaming the most about states rights and how bad the fed is are the ones sucking the hardest at the federal teats.

Screw them! I say lets sell Alaska to Canada for a couple billion. They can have their sour crude, too hard to process anyway.

Dirk

It's just as logical to call the Civil War the "War of Southern Surrender" as anything else.

I cannot wait for this election to end. How is it that overnigt, people become the moral equivalent of Jeffrey Dahmer just because they run for political office and have a D or R by their name. William Ayers appears to be a reformed terrorist. As far as I know he hasn't commited any crimes, robbed any banks or attacked anyone within the last 30 years. He is a part of the estabishment of Chicago and has tried to do some good in the remaining years of his life. I wouldn't nominate him for the Presidential Medal of Freedom but he is clearly not harming anyone. But instead of believing in the power of redemption the man is used as a national punching bag in the rights endless war on the 1960's. Sarah Palin is the former mayor of a small town in Alaska. She hangs out with a bunch of wacko people straight out of Northern Exposure. Their ideas are looney, but they are not violent, not harming anyone. Her so called extreme positions on guns are held by the current President and Vice President and a large majority of people in this country. A large enough group that the Democratic party won't even say the words gun control without diving for cover. Lighten up people, stop demonizing your opponents. And you wonder why no one wants to run for public office.

I Just saw Max Blumenthal on the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. Max, thank you for speaking to Sarah Palin's pals! She and John "insane" are wasting so much time on this crazy smear campaign stuff and it is refreshing to see someone speak the truth about those goof balls who are throwing stones out of their 9 glass houses....

Zenger wanted to know what the AIP party platforms were before and after 1995 when Todd Palin was a member. Here is your link...

http://www.americasblood.com/2008/09/02/the-alaska-independence-party-aip-platform-circa-1993-1996-2/

I hope this of some help.

Now about myself. An independent registered voter, born and raised in Anchorage, before this was a state. I vote for the best candidate, not a party affiliation. I did vote for Ms. Palin in 2006 for governor, but won't do that again. That to me was my biggest mistake voting ever. My goof.

This state is a great, a wonderful place to raise your family, with a smorgasboard of things to do year round. It is just too bad that we've been overrun by political scandal, much of it coming from our Republican party. Too bad, because at one time, those guys we voted in were good, decent people, who have since sold us down the road for a few dollars. The CBC (corrupt bastard's club) is nothing but these guys. Luckily most are in jail right now, and more will be coming. I certainly hope that once Mr. Stevens and Mr. Young get done with their legal problems, we have "new blood" in Washington by then. Right now, I say, get rid of the bad apples and get on with being the America I was raised to love and protect. It's too bad they don't see the same future for America. Alaska is just part of America, not a separate country.

I find it very interesting that Chryson quotes the US Constitution to defend his right to bear arms. I thought he did not want to be part of the US.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this article. I hope it goes to mainsteam media. We need to hear this in papers and TV and Radio.

With all the negative and hate crimes that Sarah is sending to her following, I think the people of the USA need to know where and what she is coming from. That is terrifying for me for the USA. After reading your article, I can see a pattern from her campaign for Governor and Mayor in Alaska repeating it as a candidate for VP. I can only hope and pray that the citizens of the USA also see this. What really worries me is that people who are sucked into her speeches really believe this and creates a society that takes us back decades for democracy and hate crimes and more importantly the view that "Love thy neighbor as Thyself" is not supported by Sarah Palin. That in itself does not bode well for her religious views. My God believes in peace and not war. My God does not attack people with lies to promote their own political agenda. Sarah - I ask you to dispute this. Tell me that your God says that you have to attack with lies. Tell me that your past does not support the USA with your radical ties. Have you sold your soul to gain political gain? I think so and I think that all of the real Christians who believe in what Jesus taught about love cannot support you in this radical view.

Thank you, thank you Racheal of MSNBC. For being brave enough to expose the truth or at least the begining of the truth. My gut told me, the first time I saw her that something was wrong, wink wink, youbetcha. Not a way for a VP to behave, and Joe Sixpack?? She makes 3 times in one year what the average Alaskan makes. Like others have asked, how does this get into the main stream news media? Americans need to know about this. PALS?? Not hardly, how bout bed partners?? Changing the Alaskan constitution to make it easier to establish militant groups? Isnt that treason? But now, what about Sarah the adulteress? She was named as co respondent in at least one divorce in Alaska. It involved one of her business associates and is easy enough to track down for verification. Good christian woman that she is and people including mainstream church people support her?? I wonder what they would do if their 11 year old daughter was raped and brutalized. Who do these people think they are? Even God Almighty gives us, no he demands that we have free will, free choice. But we are going to let an adulteress, a traitor to this country tell us what we need or that Barack is a 'bad' person? So once again, how do we get this information into mainstream media. I think that the Obama-Biden campaign have way to much knowledge to get into this sort of cat fight but AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW so lets keep digging and YES< the report is out tomorrow and gossip has it that "Todd didnt do her any favors with his written testimony" Poor Poor SArah, GOODBYE and u may want to start thinking about where you are going to live after you are impeached in Alaska.