Convicted domestic terrorist Schaeffer Cox is getting a new sentence hearing.

Courtesy of the Newsminer: 

A panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges has reversed one of Fairbanks militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox's convictions but affirmed others. 

A six-page unpublished memorandum filed on Tuesday states Cox will get a new sentencing hearing. It's not yet clear whether the decision will affect his total prison sentence of 26 years. 

Cox, 34, was a one-time Alaska Legislature candidate and leader of a Fairbanks gun rights organization until his arrest in 2011. He has advocated the "sovereign citizen" ideology that disavows the legitimacy of the U.S. government, although he has rejected the label as a pejorative term in writings from prison. 

This week's appeals court ruling came less than two weeks after three appeals court judges heard oral arguments in Cox's case in an Anchorage courtroom. 

Cox is serving his sentence at a federal prison in Illinois after an Anchorage jury convicted him in 2012 on charges including conspiracy to murder federal officials, solicitation to murder federal officials and charges of owning illegal weapons.

It is very unlikely that this new sentence will have any significant impact on Schaeffer's prison time.

If you want to learn more about this you can actually read a great new book about the case called "The Blood of Patriots," written by Bill "Dropzone" Fulton and fellow Alaska blogger Jeanne Devon.

I received an early copy and read it a few months back.

It is a gripping tale, full of heretofore unknown details, and after reading it you will want Schaeffer Cox to stay in jail for as long as possible.

(You can order your copy here.)

If a Right Wing convention fails in the woods, and nobody notices it, does anybody get teabagged?

Okay so as all of you know I skipped attending this Wasilla nutjob convention this weekend.

Instead I went to see the new X-Men movie, which I HIGHLY recommend, so I feel I made the better choice.

However I figured I would go ahead and do a follow up post on whatever was written up by whatever poor reporter was sent to cover this "event."

So I waited. And I waited. And I waited.

Nothing, nada, zilch.

I checked ADN. Not a word.

I checked Alaska Dispatch. Only the sound of crickets.

Well since its a small event I thought perhaps the Fairbanks Newsminer and Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman might cover it.

Nope, they did not even seem to notice.

Well surely Sarah Palin will post something on her Facebook page about it, after all it is down the street, and it features Teabaggers speaking in the sports center she had built to honor her ex-lover.

Not a peep.

So then I began to wonder, was the damn thing held at all?

So I went to their site. Where I see this:

So apparently they held a straw poll. But how many people were even there to vote in it?

Absolutely NO idea!

So I thought about it, and decided that this is probably very telling.

After all if an uber Right Wing convention, held in the backyard of the person who is arguably most responsible for the formation of the Tea Party, garners ABSOLUTELY no interest from the media, and in fact does not even attract Palin herself, then I think we can assume that for all intents and purposes the Tea Party is over.

Damn, am I glad I didn't waste my time driving all the way out to Wasilla yesterday.