OPINION: Despite ‘embarrassing’ launch, Alaska’s new Office of Family Life has great potential
Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted as saying that “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” It’s a tidy statement and can, in many cases, be used as an effective guidepost when we’re in
Homer Pride offends woke activists by using ‘white fist’ to promote LGBTQ event
Even hard-left LGBTQ activists have a difficult time keeping up with ever-changing inclusivity and intersectionality protocols. Last month, Homer Pride organizers committed a woke taboo by featuring a white person’s raised fist in its marketing materials
Open Letter to Gov. Dunleavy: ‘The lives of unborn Alaskans are in your hands’
Editor’s note: The State Legislature recently passed an operating budget which gives Gov. Mike Dunleavy the ability to use State Medicaid funds to pay for abortions. The following is an open letter to the governor from longtime Anchorage pro-life advocate
Mat-Su School Board set to address gender pronouns, sex-ed, activism, parent rights
At its May 24 meeting, the Mat-Su School board introduced a handful of policy revisions and updates aimed at strengthening parental rights and curtailing controversial political activism in public schools. The proposed changes will be open for debate, public
Anchorage Library Board will attempt to address teen book on anal sex/porn after chief librarian claims it’s ‘appropriate’
Anchorage’s new chief librarian, Virginia McClure, doesn’t see a problem with young teens reading library books that include graphic instructions on how to have anal sex, explore sexual fantasies and gender identities, create their own personal digital
The collective madness of pandering to delusion cannot long endure
History is a science, every bit as much as physics, chemistry, biology and others. And like them, it goes through various interpretations and analyses, which we call “historiography.” The other sciences keep changing their interpretations, too. Take
Sponsor of Alaska gender ID bill refuses to say whether it lets men shower or undress with girls
Alaska State Rep. Jennie Armstrong (D-Anchorage) was unable to answer a simple question about whether her House Bill 99 would permit biological males to enter women’s shower rooms and undress in front of little girls. Armstrong’s bill seeks to add
Alaska 40 Days for Life recap: ‘Thank you for praying … for an end to the ‘evil of abortion’
By Mary Kemper – 40 Days for Life coordinator A blessed Holy Week to each of you. Thank you for praying with us during these last 40 Days for an end to the evil of abortion. You who prayed from home provided strong support for those who prayed publicly
ON RECORD: 21 Alaska educators who don’t want parents to know of LGBTQ/sex-ed agenda
On rare occasion do Alaska public school educators openly air a distain for conservative parents, religious values or traditional views of morality and human sexuality. The nearly 400 pages of public testimony submitted on House Bill 105, however, provides a
Providence ignores Catholic bishops, continues to offer cross-sex drugs to gender-confused Alaskans
While a new document by the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference (USCCB) clearly forbids Catholic medical facilities from engaging in “gender transition” surgeries or distributing cross-sex drugs, Alaska’s largest Catholic hospital says it will continue
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