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Rep. Young Hits Obama for Seeking Cuts in Missile Defense

Newsmax

By Newsmax Wires

A strong missile defense system is necessary to keep the United States safe from weapons of countries like North Korea, but President Barack Obama is dropping the ball on this issue, says Alaska GOP Rep. …

Palin’s Endorsements Still Work With Underdog Candidates

OTUS News

BY  Shushannah Walshe

If you’re an upstart Republican running for your life in a primary in the middle of the country and hoping beyond hope to gain traction against the “establishment” candidate, who you gonna call? Sarah …

Hold on: Air Force seems to have moved too fast on F-16s

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Editorial

President Obama recently nominated Gen. Mark A. Welsh III to be the next chief  of staff of the Air Force. The nomination might not get  far.
That’s because the nomination of Gen. Welsh might run …

Sixteen Alaska Resource Projects would Create Nearly 20,000 jobs; but AEDC “not optimistic” they will move forward

Alaskanomics.com

by Blythe Campbell

The Anchorage Economic Development Corporation’s (AEDC) 2012 Resource Extraction 10-year Project Projection analyzes planned resource extraction projects in Alaska over the next ten years that have the potential to drive private investment and employment.

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BATF? Again?

Anchorage Daily Planet

Opinion

One would think the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms would have more important things to do than trying to break the law in Alaska. There is the “Fast and Furious” gun walking scandal that …

USDA Hosts Tribal Collaboration Meeting in Nome, Alaska

USDA

Posted by Robert N. Jones

Recently, representatives of USDA and other federal agencies held a collaboration meeting with the federally recognized tribes of the Bering Straits/Norton Sound Region in Alaska.

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Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Contradiction

NRO

By Charles Krauthammer

There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That’s essentially the …

Don’t fear the free market

FreedomPolitics

By Mike  Brownfield

The lingering headline on the front pages this week is that JP Morgan Chase suffered a massive loss on a hedging strategy, costing them $2 billion. That’s no small mistake, and it’s an example of …

Inhofe delivers Senate floor takedown of military ‘green’ agenda

Human Events

by Hope Hodge

The Obama administration is determined to gut the U.S. military in order to fund a far-left environmental agenda, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said during an extended address on the Senate floor this week.

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Schumpeter in the White House

City Journal

By Guy Sorman

The 2012 presidential race will be, in part, a showdown between two different models of economic growth. President Barack Obama and his Democratic administration will defend the once-discredited and now-resurgent theory that government must …

Banks Need More Capital, Not More Rules

Hoover Institution

by Allan H. Meltzer

The J.P. Morgan mistakes that resulted in a loss of $2 billion or more have awakened some senators to the fact that the Dodd-Frank financial-regulation legislation of 2010 did not prevent errors of …

Racism and the PC Inquisition

American Thinker

By John T. Bennett

Monday  last week, The Chronicle of Higher Education announced  that Naomi Schaefer Riley was fired from their blog “Brainstorm” for writing  that black studies programs should be “eliminated” because they are “left-wing  …

Regulation Creep

In the April 2012 issue of The Alaska Miners Association journal there is an interesting article on a form of red tape that is creeping into the oil, gas, and mining permitting process. I’ve heard of Environmental Impact Statements (EIA) …

Teachers Union: Cutting Taxes For “big oil companies” May Lead To Spending Cuts

This last session, when the operating budget was passed out of the House Finance Committee, after the vote, each member of the committee had the opportunity to make comments. The consistent theme across all members of the committee was the …

The Fire Island Pass

It has been demonstrated time and again that the more “environmentally minded” among us use lawsuits to hold up resource development. But, it appears that some projects get a pass.

David Boyle over at the Alaska Policy Forum has an …

Thank You, America

My husband and I greatly enjoyed the STOMP parade Saturday, honoring, welcoming home and thanking thousands of troops. We clapped until our hands hurt, and yelled until we were hoarse.

It wasn’t my first “Thank You” military parade.

The first …

Nanny State Watch: R U Reading This In Yr Car?

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to subjugate every physical choice to the wisdom of the state, the Nannies will have won.

Today, Alaska clarifies a 2008 attempt at outlawing reading or typing from a mobile …

Redistricting Over: 59 of 60 legislators running for reelection

If you generally hate campaign season, you may want to retreat to your bunker this summer. Because of redistricting, 59 of the 60 legislators that make up the Alaska House and Senate will need to run for reelection.

Office Filings

The deadline for filing to run for state office is fast approaching. After some prodding, Division of Elections seems to have gotten their act together enough to post filings in a timely fashion. You can check out the list here…