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May 3, 2013
Whither Joe Miller?

Why is Joe Miller, a self-professed staunch defender of liberty, a TEA Party favorite, and someone who has reported to be in the middle of the recent internal wars within the Alaska Republican Party for the last three years a bad idea for Alaska? Answer? 

Joe Miller announced setting up an exploratory committee for a possible run for US Senate in 2014 against Mark Begich. While glorious news to the Millerites and Paulians he has ingratiated himself with over the last couple years, I am skeptical that this is anything but bad news for the rest of Alaska.

April 14, 2013
Knik Arm Bridge

When you invite auditors into your business, it is always a good idea to make sure that their assumptions and your assumptions match. Such is the problem with the Legislative Audit Agency’s audit of the proposed Knik Arm Bridge that was so gleefully reported by the local fish wrapper and democrats in opposition to it last week.

When you invite auditors into your business, it is always a good idea to make sure that their assumptions and your assumptions match. Such is the problem with the Legislative Audit Agency’s audit of the proposed Knik Arm Bridge that was so gleefully reported by the local fish wrapper and democrats in opposition to it last week.

April 3, 2013
Thoughts on Education Vouchers

Last November’s election was a watershed for Alaska. Not only do we have the opportunity to overturn the stunning mistake made during the Palin years of gouging North Slope oil producers with a dangerously high tax rate, but we have a conservative majority in the legislature that is willing to address other festering issues. One of those issues is education.

Last November’s election was a watershed for Alaska. Not only do we have the opportunity to overturn the stunning mistake made during the Palin years of gouging North Slope oil producers with a dangerously high tax rate, but we have a conservative majority in the legislature that is willing to address other festering issues.

March 19, 2013
Mr. Begich Goes to Juneau

Our Boy Senator made his yearly address to the Alaska Legislature a couple weeks ago. In it, he fired the first rounds in defense of the seat he won after the leftist lawyers in the (In)Justice Department wrongly convicted Ted Stevens in 2008.

Our Boy Senator made his yearly address to the Alaska Legislature a couple weeks ago. In it, he fired the first rounds in defense of the seat he won after the leftist lawyers in the (In)Justice Department wrongly convicted Ted Stevens in 2008.

March 4, 2013
The President Who Cried Wolf

I got to thinking about how Washington deals with budgets and how the rest of us do. Listening to the incessant caterwauling, threats and scaremongering from Obama over the sequester last week led me to an attempt to try to put this all in perspective.

I got to thinking about how Washington deals with budgets and how the rest of us do. Listening to the incessant caterwauling, threats and scaremongering from Obama over the sequester last week led me to an attempt to try to put this all in perspective.

February 26, 2013
Wastewater Discharge

Clean water and clean air standards have long been a large caliber club used by greens to beat businesses, state and local governments about the head and shoulders. They offer the perfect opportunity to demagogue anything that is released into the watershed or the atmosphere, for who could possibly be against clean air or clean water.

Clean water and clean air standards have long been a large caliber club used by greens to beat businesses, state and local governments about the head and shoulders. They offer the perfect opportunity to demagogue anything that is released into the watershed or the atmosphere, for who could possibly be against clean air or clean water.

February 20, 2013
A Word from the New Alaska Republican Party Chair

A copy of Chairwoman Debbie Brown's statement to the Anchorage Republican Women's Club Lincoln Day Dinner.

February 14, 2013
Let Them Eat Cake

Our Federal Masters a couple weeks ago announced that there would be no road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to connect King Cove with the Cold Bay Airport. Obama’s Loathsome Cowboy Ken Salazar did the deed. Predictably, the Alaska congressional delegation went apoplectic. But, as usual, the back story is more interesting. 

February 8, 2013
NR Exclusive: Mayor Sullivan Sets Hard Line With Unions

Sullivan has moved to end unions' ability to strike and arbitrate among other changes to muni collective bargaining code.

Dan Sullivan has launched what may very well be the first offensive of a conservative war on public employee unions in Alaska.  

February 8, 2013
Public Policy Polling's "Alaska Survey"

Public Policy Polling's survey of questions no one in Alaska is asking.

In case you were wondering about impossible match-ups for the 2016 Presidential election, along with some other meaningless political information, Public Policy Polling today released some answers to questions no one in Alaska is asking.

February 7, 2013
Anchorage's 2013 Economic Forecast

Among a littany of other studies, the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation releases an annual economic forecast. Their 2013 report, available now, is a great synopsis of Anchorage-specific data on growth within industries, population totals, and unemployment rates.

February 7, 2013
Understanding ASPCA's Media Blitz

Anybody else wonder why we suddenly have been treated to a massive wave of ads by ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and the Humane Society?

February 6, 2013
Alaska Not Impressed with REI's Sally Jewell for Interior

By now the news of Obama's nomination of Sally Jewell, the current President and CEO of every hippie's favorite outdoor gear store, REI, to head the Department of the Interior has reached those of us in the Tundra. We're not impressed.

February 5, 2013
Access Road Denied to King Cove

Despite local support, Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected a plan today to build a one-lane medical access road to the Cold Bay airport for residents of the remote Aleutian village of King Cove.

Earlier today Secretary of Interior, Ken Salazar, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rejected a plan to build a one-lane medical access road to the Cold Bay airport for residents of the remote Aleutian village of King Cove.

January 29, 2013
THE TRIAL OF RUSS MILLETTE

To watch it live click here!!!!!!

January 28, 2013
Letter From Millette Lawyer Wayne Anthony Ross to GOP Central Committee

A letter from Millette's lawyer to GOP board members on the day of the trial.  Includes interesting tidbits.

July 7, 2012
The Dismal Science of Baseline Budgeting

Any time a democrat starts talking about stimulus spending, start watching your wallet.

Today’s article is a short excursion into the dismal science and black art of congressional budgeting and why there was not a single stimulus, but multiple passed since 2007 – which account for most of the yearly $1.4 trillion spending deficit.

July 1, 2012
Anyone Down For a Constitutional Convention?

What is in a constitution?

June 28, 2012
Can The New City Clerk Figure Out How To Use MS Word?

Ok, so Anchorage has hired a new clerk.  Is it too much to ask that the new clerk crack the cutting edge technology that is MS Word?  Don't worry. This isn't going to be a long rant, and this isn't huge issue, but it does bother me.

June 21, 2012
UAA Caught Lying About Shootout Money
June 19, 2012
Frankenfish

The Alaska Congressional Delegation once again embraces protectionism rather than the free market.

June 18, 2012
A Statute and a Pledge

Alaska faces a comparable and equally dire fiscal crisis to that which has developed at the federal level. Due to current excessive state government spending, future Alaskans are facing a lower standard of living than present day Alaskans. As a consequence, Alaska needs its own state level statute restricting excessive spending and may benefit from a pledge to support it.

May 15, 2012
Lower Standards & The Alaska GOP

The question must be asked, “Why does Chairman-Elect Russ Millette not have to meet the same standards he will be enforcing on candidates?”

 

Six years ago Alaska Republicans had had enough. They were tired of candidates for state office flip-flopping between political parties based on which way the electoral winds were blowing.

 

You might call this the Menard phenomena since Linda and Curt Menard made this wavering a regular practice during their long public careers in the Mat-Su.

May 11, 2012
Alaska’s political immaturity: Why we aren’t ready for The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind brings the author’s Moral Foundations Theory to America’s political discussion, arguing that our political debates are often intractable because our political views are associated with six areas of taste developed over such a long period of time that there is little we can do to change the mind of our political opponents. 

Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind brings the author’s Moral Foundations Theory to America’s political discussion, arguing that our political debates are often intractable because our political views are associated with six areas of taste developed over such a long period of time that there is little we can do to change the mind of our political opponents.

May 8, 2012
Fish Farming In Alaska - Time to Embrace It

Chilean fish farming is a growing competitior for Alaskan salmon.