Soldotna’s St. Patrick’s Day parade is on
The annual St. Patrick’s Day parade will again take to the streets of Soldotna. The yearly celebration was cancelled in 2020 due to Covid concerns, but restored last year, and is on again in 2022. Organized by the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce, the event
Alaskan trucker aims to keep rolling with D.C. convoy ‘until we win’
Randy Jackson, a trucker from Haines, Alaska, said he plans to continue standing in solidarity with the hundreds of truckers and thousands of supporters from across the nation who have gathered outside Washington, D.C. They are demanding an end to the Biden
How World Wars begin
Only a madman wants war. Governments, knowing that most of its citizens are not mad, say the right things. Only God can read into the sincerity of hearts, but despite posturing, guarantees and public statements, history shows us that secret agreements,
Russia beats its own to intimidate strangers
“Beat your own so that strangers are afraid of you.” This is a common Russian expression, which literally means, “beat your friends, so your enemies will be scared of you.” In Russian culture the phrase is often used to condemn someone’s behavior.
Parents aim to sue Anchorage School Board members over mask mandate
Anchorage School Board members who voted to impose mask mandates on more than 42,000 area students may soon be in legal trouble. A group of concerned Anchorage parents is employing an innovative legal strategy to hold the six left-leaning members of the
Alaska’s Vital Interest in Ukraine
At first blush, one might ask why Alaskans should be concerned about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine is not a healthy functioning democracy by western standards. It is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), therefore there is
Dear Sitka Assembly: Abandon the sinking ship of mandatory masking
Masks didn’t work prior to Covid, and don’t work in the age of Covid. That fact has never changed. I don’t fault you for being unable or unwilling to recognize that fact last summer, but now that yesterday’s proponents of masks are jumping their
Poetry is key to grasping the soul of Russian culture
History teaches us that nations, in some ways, are like people. While having many things in common, each is unique. As with people, a nation’s behavior is often understood in terms of the psychological attitudes and style that characterize its personality.
The next-gen socialists seek a dictatorship of the anti-proletariat
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, founders of communism or “international socialism,” made a big deal of the working class or “proletariat.” They predicted that an imminent worldwide revolution would throw off the ruling class of royalists,
Planned Parenthood activists help shape Alaska’s mandated youth sex-ed classes
Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in Alaska, claims it recently participated in a contract with the state to review and provide feedback on the Alaska Safe Children’s Act curriculum, a mandatory course taught to all public school
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