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Michael Tavoliero: Administrative state controls nearly every aspect of our lives
Some readers might be wondering, why I have even brought up NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp in previous columns? The case was decided back in 1937. But since then, and because of it, billions of gallons of industrial-strength bureaucracy have poured into every corner of your businesses, homes, and lives, seeping through every crack of federal power and control. Why even think about it?
Biden-Harris plan executive order to disarm citizens
The White House is set to announce executive actions by President Joe Biden in coming days relating to guns. The announcement is being made in coordination with the Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which he created a year ago and which is led by Vice President Kamala Harris, who foreshadowed it in a comment on the White House web page.
Liberal lawyer who designed Alaska’s ranked-choice voting fiasco now finds a Nazi behind every MyPillow
Scott Kendall, the Anchorage-based election lawyer and architect of the current ranked-choice voting system in Alaska, regularly pummels conservatives with various claims that they are fascists, homophobes, or kooks. This week’s target is none other than infomercial-famous businessman Mike Lindell, founder and president of MyPillow, the successful company that sells...
David Boyle: Alaska schools still struggle with reading and math scores, but one school shines
The Department of Education & Early Development recently posted the scores of every Alaska public K-12 school which showed little progress for most districts. The AK STAR, Alaska System of Academic Readiness, shows how our students are doing using Alaska’s standards. These standards now closely align with the National Achievement of Educational Progress test. Now it is much easier for Alaskans to compare our students to other states’ students.
Robert Seitz: Even 10 billion dead crab is not evidence of human-caused global warming
There has been a lot of press on the decline of the crab fishery in the Bering Sea. Most of the articles and presentations about this blame human-caused climate change and marine heat waves. As an engineer, I looked in to these claims to determine how much truth there is...
Two busted in Seward with stash of illegal drugs
Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers executed a search warrant on Sept. 19 at a Seward residence, where they found two people in possession of a large trove of illegal drugs. Michele Spiers, 58, and John Hoogland, 68, had been the subject of an investigation that had started in...
Dunleavy: Russia’s and China’s increasing presence near Alaska may be the new normal
Gov. Mike Dunleavy, in an interview with The Daily Signal publication, said military activity from China and Russia is becoming more frequent along Alaska’s coast. The U.S. military deployed 130 Army airborne soldiers to an island in the Aleutian Chain earlier this month after joint Russia and China exercises started in the North Pacific.
North Pole police take to Facebook to defend why they arrested upset parent at high school
The North Pole Police Department took the unusual step of jumping into the comment thread of a news report on the Fairbanks’ KTVF station’s Facebook page to explain an incident at North Pole High School that ended in the arrest of a parent who was trying to pick his daughter up after school last week.
ActBlue, the money mule app for Mary Peltola and Democrats, is now under congressional investigation
For years, ActBlue has been running what has been described as a money-laundering operation for Democrat candidates. When activist James O’Keefe of O’Keefe Media Group investigated the company, he interviewed dozens of Americans who had never donated to Democrat candidates, but whose names and identities were being logged into the ActBlue online system, showing them making hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. Many of these ActBlue victims were retired people on a fixed income who said they had no ability to have made such donations.
Linda Boyle: The tale of two states’ approaches to Covid shots and treatment this year
Alaska and Florida have taken different approaches to the Covid-19 shot. Although the State of Alaska Department of Health has erased Covid-19 information from its home page, you can still find that information a few clicks further down. You just need to hunt for it. Most of the information it...
Arizona high court rules that those whose citizenship are in question can still vote entire ballot
The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that some 98,000 Arizonans whose citizenship documents are not on file can vote in state and local races as well as federal races this November. The court said that Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and all other Arizona county recorders have no authority to...
Gov. Newsom cracks down on memes and deepfakes in politics, a trend that started in Alaska in 2018
The use of artificial intelligence in spicy political commentary is all the rage this year. As the general election nears, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills that crack down on usage false images or videos in political ads seen in California. Two of the bills relate to the use of movie star images in memes or artificial intelligence. The target of one law is the “deepfake,” in political commentary. Deepfakes are images or sounds that are so real that people cannot distinguish them from reality.
Political shakedown: SEC gunning for Elon Musk, seeking sanctions against majority owner of X
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it will pursue sanctions against Elon Musk after he did not appear in front of the commission tribunal scheduled for the agency’s investigation into his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, now called X. In a nonscientific poll conducted over two days,...
MoveOn Mary: Peltola asks for endorsement of a defund-the-police group backed by Soros
Rep. Mary Peltola has asked MoveOn Political Action, an organization funded by globalist billionaire George Soros, for an endorsement. In her application to the group asking for its endorsement, Peltola told the organization:. “I have demonstrated a strong track record in advancing policies that align with MoveOn’s mission, including advocating...
Arizona outrage: Ranked-choice ballot measure lacks valid signatures, but can be on Nov. 5 ballot
Liberals gaming the system in Arizona to get ranked-choice voting established have won a key victory. Although about 99% of the challenged signatures collected to put ranked-choice voting on the Arizona ballot as a ballot initiative were discovered to be duplicate signatures, and the petition lacks the signatures required by law, a judge has said the initiative can be voted on this November.
Bob Bird: Miracles still happen
This election, if it was honest, should be akin to 1980 and ‘84, when Ronald Reagan blew out the Democrats’ candles. In two elections that had the potential of winning 100 states, he won 94 of them. Or it would be like in 1994, when Republicans took control...
Bob Griffin: Rightsizing the Anchorage School District is essential
There will be 3,000 fewer kids in Anchorage School District facilities in 2029 than there were 50 years earlier in 1979. For the sake of our kids and teachers, we need to stop wasting money on unneeded school buildings and focus those resources into classrooms. According to ASD’s Capital Improvement...
Passings: Alaskan Kyle Parker, law partner at Holland & Hart, and avid fisherman
Anchorage resident Kyle Parker, partner of Holland & Hart, died Thursday after an intense battle with cancer. He was 59. Parker joined Holland & Hart in 2017, bringing with him a team from Crowell & Moring and launching Holland & Hart’s Anchorage office. “Kyle was a perfect fit for H&H, quickly becoming an integral part of the life of the firm,” the company wrote.
Video: Activist Keith Fons arrested after freeing his child from North Pole school where students were being held ‘for their safety’ after school by faculty
On Sept. 18, North Pole High School refused to let students leave the school due to an unspecified “safety threat.”. Students were held behind the doors of the school and crowded into a fish bowl-like setting near the entry. No information was given to parents about why the students were being held for nearly 20 minutes after school.
Document: Air Force now recruiting based on racial quotas to cut white male population in officer corps
Memos and documents first reported by the Daily Caller show that the Air Force is purposefully reducing the number o while males in its officer corps programs. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman CQ Brown’s 2022 memo in 2022 says that the new goal is diversity and inclusion to “better reflect our Nation’s highly talented, diverse, and eligible population.”
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