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Sen. Pete Kelly Plans Bill to Keep Signatures Private

KTUU

By The Associated Press

A Fairbanks senator plans to introduce legislation that would keep the names of those who sign initiatives and referenda private.

BLM is creating plan for central and northern Alaska lands

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

By JULIE HERRMANN

 The Bureau of Land Management is creating a plan that will determine the future use of BLM-managed land in central and northern Alaska.

Alarmed?

Anchorage Daily Planet

Editorial

Big Brother is watching in Anchorage – and he wants to get paid. A lot. The city, it turns out, has an ordinance dealing with false alarm signals – in private businesses, in residences, in …

Treadwell Announces Campaign for U.S. Senate

KTUU

By The Associated Press

…..The Republican in an announcement Tuesday says he made the decision following an intense exploratory effort that persuaded him he has the support to build a winning campaign.

Mammoths and microblades

Ketchikan SitNews

By MOLLY RETTIG

On a small hill surrounded by boggy muskeg in the Tanana River Valley, prehistoric skin scrapers made of schist, polished slate tools and glass beads were uncovered in the last week.

Tampa Bay Times Investigation: Did You Know 14 Of America’s 50 Worst Charities Are Police And Firefighter Charities?

Alaska Pride

By Anchorage Activist

…..They focused on these charities because relying heavily on for-profit fundraisers is one of the most inefficient ways to collect donations. Regulators and industry experts widely consider the practice a red flag for bad …

How Democracies Perish, Deathbed Edition

American Thinker

By Daren Jonescu

This is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of How Democracies Perish, an analysis of the spread of world communism by Jean-François Revel, one of freedom’s most serious French defenders since Tocqueville.

Why Some Scientists Embrace the ‘Multiverse’

National Review Online

ByDennis Prager

Last week, in Nice, France, I was privileged to participate along with 30 scholars, mostly scientists and mathematicians, in a conference on the question of whether the universe was designed, or at least …

How to hold Washington accountable using the Racketeer Influence & Corrupt Organizations Act

Canada Free Press

By Marinka Peschmann

Has the U.S. government deprived you of your rights? If so, please do not think that you are helpless or at the mercy of the political justice system anymore. You have legal remedies …

Obamacare’s Unaffordable Consequences

The Patriot Post

By Edwin J. Feulner ·

President Obama’s signature health law is called the Affordable Care Act. In an ironic twist, though, it may prove prohibitively expensive for many low-income Americans.

The 20 Greatest Quotes From Walter Williams

Townhall

By John Hawkins

Walter Williams is a veteran, a professor of economics at George Mason University, a syndicated columnist, a fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh and an author of eight books. Williams has one of the finest minds …

The Loss of Trust

The American Spectator

By Thomas Sowell

Amid all the heated cross-currents of debate about the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program, there is a growing distrust of the Obama administration that makes weighing the costs and benefits of the …

Bill Ayers and His Media Groupies

Accuracy in Media

By Cliff Kincaid

…..Five years ago we began our campaign to tell the truth about the Weather Underground’s bombing campaign against police and civilians with our article, Tribune Covers for Obama’s Terrorist Friends,

A Threatening World

FrontPageMag

by James Carafano, Frank Gaffney, Bill Gertz, and Daniel Pipes

Editor’s note: Below is the video and transcript of the panel discussion “A Threatening World,” featuring Daniel Pipes, Bill Gertz, Frank Gaffney, James Carafano and moderator Michael Finch. …

The Bloody Hands of Barack Obama

American Thinker

By Stella Paul

The Three Whistleblowers at the Benghazi hearing spoke softly, but with the emotional wallop of The Three Tenors.They told the truth, and it blasted like thunder through Obama’s tissue palace of lies.

The (im)moral vision of the NEA

Alaska Policy Forum

By Online Editor

For those of you who were inspired by films like “Won’t Back Down,” “Waiting for Superman,” and “The Lottery,” it is easy to understand the moral vision that school choice paints.

Tech for Mars colony finds applications in Alaska

The Examiner

Associated Press

….Northern Alaska is subject to some of the harshest conditions on the planet. Negative 40 degree weather isn’t uncommon, and strong winds make it even more dangerous to go outside.

Where is the fury over Illinois’ pension lies?

The SEC has given the state of Illinois a good talkin’ to. They essentially got a slap on the wrist for misleading investors on how well their “fixes” to their public employee pensions would work. The pensions are under water…a …

Privacy Refracted through PRISM

Foreign Policy Research Institute

By Lawrence Husick

Twenty years ago, at the dawn of the Internet age, I demonstrated the nascent power of database research to inform, embarrass, and anger a legal colleague. In full public view during a …

Do we have the right to free speech, or don’t we?

Act For America Huston

by actforamericahouston

U. S. Attorney Bill Killian came to Manchester, Tennessee yesterday, to explain things to us. His main purpose? To shut down all criticism of Islam. Killian scolded the crowd, implying that we were …

Calling Islam “Islam”

FrontPage Mag

By Bosch Fawstin

…..I noticed, after the attack this week, that a number of people are using more proper terminology to identify this enemy, which is very important in taking on the enemy.

North Korea lacks means for nuclear strike on US, experts say

Kahleegi Times

Reuters

North Korea’s explicit threats this week to strike the United States with nuclear weapons are rhetorical bluster, as the isolated nation does not yet have the means to make good on them, Western officials and security …

Obama Continues to Violate His Own ‘Stimulus’ Law by Not Releasing Quarterly Reports

The Weekly Standard

By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

….. In its last report, published in 2011, the president’s own Council of Economic Advisors released an estimate showing that, for every $317,000 in “stimulus” spending that had by then gone …

Alaska Governor’s State of the State Address

Presented to the 27th Alaska Legislature

Governor Sean Parnell

……I come before you to discharge a duty as old as our democracy. At the beginning of every legislative session, Alaska’s Constitution requires the Governor to report on the state …