REP. KEVIN MCCABE: Pastors we need you. Where is today’s Black-Robed Regiment?
REP. KEVIN MCCABE: Pastors we need you. Where is today’s Black-Robed
OPINION: Alaska education bureaucracy invokes ‘hungry children’ to justify double dipping
Few subjects can shut down a budget discussion faster than feeding kids. It’s the rhetorical trump card of education politics - invoke “hungry children,” and any criticism of fiscal waste is branded cruel. But compassion isn’t the same thing as
OPINION: Radical language wars serve leftist agenda in Alaska and beyond
Controlling the dictionary is more powerful than controlling Congress, because it decides who sounds reasonable before a single vote is
OPINION: Trump, war and the role of religion in America
Give it up, Donald. We voted for you to keep us OUT of wars, and all of yours have been, of course,
OPINION: Deceptive name by liberal Alaska media undercuts ‘Seward’s Folly’ blog
The new "The Seward Folly" website confuses readers with a very similar sounding name to the established conservative blog "Seward's Folly." This is deceptive and it confuses potential
OPINION: Bloated design failures plague Alaska’s public education system
For years, Alaska’s education establishment has perfected the art of crying poverty while sitting atop one of the most bloated bureaucratic structures in the country. The chorus is always the same - “we need more funding” - but the song never changes:
ANALYSIS: Anchorage proposal to tax short-term rentals raises red flags
Anchorage is considering a new short-term rental tax next week. It may appear like an easy fix for housing, but it raises serious questions about fairness, effectiveness, and government
OPINION: Russian explorers forever changed Alaska Native culture
Russian officials did not wish to exterminate the aboriginal northern population, but rather, in cooperation with local Native leaders, to reform them into good and meticulous suppliers of valuable
OPINION: Alaska education lobby evades real reform with ‘Evidence-Based’ talisman
Every time Alaska’s education bureaucracy finds itself cornered by poor results, it reaches for a familiar escape hatch: “evidence-based.” It’s the talisman that turns spending requests into
OPINION: Disturbing Alaska Supreme Court hearing conceals abortion’s brutality
Planned Parenthood brilliantly - but demonically - characterized a bloody, deadly event with the use of the word "care." The language blinds people, including some of these justices, from the objective reality that abortion “care” entails killing
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