Key to the White House: Can Pence declare Trump the winner on Jan. 6?
On Jan. 6 at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, Alaska’s delegation in D.C. – Rep. Don Young, Sen. Dan Sullivan and Sen. Lisa Murkowski – will take part in what could be a hotly contested joint meeting of Congress. On this day, Vice President Mike Pence will oversee
State video suggests raising doubts about the election is akin to ‘misinformation’
Three weeks after discovering that Alaska’s Online Voter Registration System was hacked by nefarious outside actors, the Alaska Division of Elections produced and published a video against what it called dangerous “misinformation” being sowed by those
CORRECTION: Mat-Su Borough Assembly is not seeking to impose a mask mandate
On Nov. 19 the Watchman published an article which suggested that the Mat-Su Borough Assembly was seeking approval from Alaska’s attorney general’s office to impose a borough-wide mask mandate. This was not the case. The article reported on an exchange
Trump is fighting a bloodless coup d’état … and it’s far from over
In this attempt of a stolen presidential election, Americans are facing something much worse than corruption, they are facing a coup d’état, a French term for an overthrow of the properly constituted governmental authority. [Pronounced as in
Gov. Dunleavy and the shootout at the O.K. Corral
As the story goes, when the wagon train master saw the enemy on the horizon, they circled the wagons, loaded their weapons, and fired inwards while the enemy stood outside and watched their self-destruction. On Dec. 3, 2018, Mike Dunleavy was sworn in as
Alaska’s acting AG comments on limits of state power during an emergency
The State of Alaska has expansive powers to enact laws during a state of emergency, but there are limits. Ed Sniffen, the state’s acting attorney general, spoke during a Sept. 22 online townhall where he spelled out the limits of emergency powers Gov. Mike
The ‘equity’ police are really after political power
Both in Alaska and around the country we hear a lot these days about the quest for “equity” in city council meetings, ordinances, proclamations and protest marches. Certain elected officials in Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks have jumped on the equity
Neo-Marxism and Utopian socialism in America today
What practical lessons can we learn from history? There is no simple answer to this question because history is a complex subject. History is not simply a recording of facts and events; and it is not only a logical classification of the collected data in a
Languages reflect our nature as being male and female
The destruction of the arts and beauty seen in the degradation of post-modern culture is also manifested in languages. Each language is a mystery. Any analysis of them shows marvelous nuances, lyrical phonetics, unexpected exceptions and poetic words unique
Supreme Court’s ‘sex’ ruling is not as bad as you think
Last Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the language in the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation. The Bostock v. Clayton County decision has caused considerable uproar among social
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