(Click image to biggify) The picturesque, but snow-capped volcanoes, composing the Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska’s Aleutian Island chain look suspiciously like an alien world in this August 2010 image from the ASTER camera aboard NASA’s orbiting Terra satellite. The islands contain restless Mt. Cleveland, an active volcano currently being watched to...
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Soapy Smith was born Jefferson Randolph Smith II 1860. He was known as the “king of the frontier confidence men”, due to his reputation as a con man and gambler. He was considered a gangster and the most famous ““slang used by confidence men; a gamble that cannot be lost. “It is...
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Bob Poe, an early bird candidate for Governor of Alaska, took a moment from his busy schedule to answer a list of questions I had for him. Since it’s still too soon to start raising campaign money, Bob Poe has been doing all of his campaigning out of his own pocket. If you follow...
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It’s illegal to break the law… Thanks to the “Corrupt Bastards Club”, Alaska’s most recent troop of legislators felt it necessary to pass new legislation tightening down on ethics-related misconduct. At first glance, this sounds great! Alaska politicians can start trying to win constituent trust back, and everyone lives happily ever after, right? Right?!...
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