Mat-Su Assembly ordinances look to protect gun rights
In an effort to safeguard gun rights for area residents, the Mat-Su Borough Assembly will hear public testimony on two separate firearms resolutions at its May 17 regular meeting. The first item declares the borough’s opposition to using any of its funds to
Alaskan Independence Party wants to repatriate entire Permanent Fund in silver
Voltaire famously said, “Fiat currency always eventually returns to its intrinsic value – zero.” Last month, the Alaskan Independence Party voted in favor of a resolution calling for the full repatriation of the Permanent Fund, and into physical
How to vote? AK Family Council congressional candidate survey comes out May 3
Today is the deadline for U.S. House candidates in Alaska looking to replace the late Don Young to get their responses in to our Values Voter Guide – our survey on key questions of life, liberty and essential freedoms like parental rights and
The Gateway Pundit warns that Alaska’s elections are a sham
The Gateway Pundit, one of the top 150 websites in America, has just published an article warning that Alaska’s upcoming mail-in special primary election is ripe for fraud. Everyone listed on Alaska’s massively bloated voter rolls has been sent a
OPINION: Alaska GOP wages war on free speech within the party
Last weekend the Alaska Republican Party met in Fairbanks for their bi-annual convention to discuss the party platform, consider endorsements and pass resolutions. One of the resolutions put forward by Big Lake Representative Kevin McCabe roundly
Anchorage Assemblyman Weddleton concedes to conservative challenger
John Weddleton, a member of the Anchorage Assembly’s leftist majority for the past six years, has conceded to conservative challenger Randy Sulte. At the last official vote count, on April 8, Sulte was ahead by roughly 450 votes over Weddleton – 7,924 to
Tshibaka calls Murkowski’s vote for Supreme Court pick ‘heartbreaking and offensive’
U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka blasted Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s April 7 vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. Murkowski was one of three Republicans to break ranks with their party and join all 50 Democrats in confirming
The wisdom I gleaned along a Kiev river reverberates today
Anatoly Mikhailovich Mikisha was a talented and accomplished mathematician in his late 30s. He was a rocket scientist, working in the Moscow Aviation Institute in the 1960s and 1970s – the years I knew and communicated with him. At that time, it was the
Alaskans can’t let Rep. Kreiss-Tomkins kill vax discrimination bill without fight
Sen. Lora Reinbold’s bill (SB 156), which seeks to outlaw vaccine-based discrimination, passed the State Senate with bipartisan support last month. Since March 18 it has languished – untouched and unheard – in a State House Committee chaired by
Anchorage students trained to embrace woke political activism
Under the stated aim of empowering youth to better engage the democratic process, Anchorage Youth Vote has spent the past two decades encouraging Anchorage School District students to embrace a litany of far-left political causes. Youth Vote was founded by
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