todd palin

“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. And I won’t be buried under their damn flag.” Who said this? Osama bin Laden? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Bill Ayers? Try the founder of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP), a party Todd Palin has been part of.
The quote by AIP founder [...]

The floral essence of the Branchflower report is simple: For the first 18 months of her administration, Palin allowed the resources of her office to be used to further a private grievance against a state employee. Given the almost total lack of cooperation offered by Palin, her attorney general, and nearly a dozen state employees who refused to comply with legislative subpoenas, the report is surprisingly courteous to the governor. It concludes that while Palin was empowered by the state’s constitution to fire Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan without cause, she was nevertheless not free to use her public office to pursue an essentially private vendetta against Wooten, whose misconduct had already been investigated and reprimanded.

As the guilt-by-association game continues in the presidential campaign, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s ties to the Alaska Independence Party are coming under intense scrutiny. Salon.com reports that the founder of AIP, Joe Vogler, asked the Iranian government to sponsor his anti-America speech before the United Nations in 1993.
The speech never happened. Vogler was murdered [...]