GOP drama in the last frontier:

Joe Miller went rogue long before Sarah Palin. Miller, 43, grew up in Kansas, but came to Alaska “by choice” in 1994, after taking a degree from Yale Law School and picking up a Bronze Star in Desert Storm. After a childhood of hunting and fishing, “the can-do attitude, the rough living, the great outdoors — it had a magnetizing pull,” he says. Yet now, instead of trudging through the woods near his Fairbanks home, rifle in hand, Miller is gunning for a new challenge: the U.S. Senate. In his way stands Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a seven-year incumbent, who is up in the polls — by more than 30 points in the latest public survey — and up at the bank, with millions ready to be shelled out as the August 24 GOP Senate primary approaches. Miller, a former judicial officer with a scruffy beard, shrugs off the poll numbers and the cash gap. “The momentum is on our side,” he says. “Senator Murkowski knows that she is vulnerable.”

Miller has been endorsed by Sarah Palin. You can read the rest of his NRO interview here.