Do you know how you can tell which lawmakers are from Alaska? They are the ones being investigated by the FBI.

Two senior Republican lawmakers are reportedly under criminal investigation for alleged corruption linked to an Alaska oil services company.

Federal authorities are looking into whether Representative Don Young or Senator Ted Stevens accepted bribes, illegal gratuities or unreported gifts from VECO Corp., an oil field engineering firm in Alaska, the Wall Street Journal wrote, citing unnamed "people close to the case."

It remained unclear what the company may have received in return for the alleged favors, the newspaper said. The firm has won a series of federal government contracts since 2000, including projects to deliver logistics support for arctic research, it said.

Not mentioned in this article, but well known to those of us living here, is that our only other Senator Lisa Murkowski is also being investigated. So that is every single one of our State Representatives in some kind of legal hot water. Oh I can barely hide my pride!

I wish I could say that this is an aberration up here and that most of our politicians are perfectly reasonable and trustworthy individuals, but sadly I cannot. This is actually par for the course up here.