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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.

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.

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

Why is Lisa Murkowski working with Senate democrats on women's issues?

Recently the Anchorage Daily News published several letters-to-the-editor and Compass articles concerning human-caused global warming. In each case, the authors of these letters and articles referred to what they described as large majorities or a “consensus” among scientist that humans were the cause of global warming. 

With the Presidential election nearing full swing and it won’t be long until the American people are faced with a stark choice -- do they vote for an incumbent President who consistently stands in the way of developing American made energy or do we head in a new direction with a Republican candidate who is committed to developing America’s enormous resource base?

Have you seen the movie Minority Report?  It seems that many in our society think that the government has psychics working for them, and that enforcement of justice should be done pre-emptively.

Recently, US Fish and Wildlife Service (USF&WS) Regional Director for Alaska, Geoffrey Haskett wrote a stirring defense of listing polar bears as an endangered species. Normally, this sort of defense is supposed to be factual in nature. This one would make a great fantasy short story. Here’s why.