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OPINION: Despite Murkowski’s protests, the ‘Great Pruning’ is necessary
Donald Trump’s election and the announcement of his choices for cabinet positions have triggered our friends on the left who gnash their teeth and bemoan what has befallen them. Some, like Alaska’s ever-foolish Senator Lisa Murkowski, vow to vote against
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OPINION: Murkowski’s ‘serious’ test for Trump AG pick strains credulity
When Senator Lisa Murkowski, the woman who famously inherited her Senate seat from her father, dismisses Trump’s latest AG choice as “not a serious nomination,” it’s a masterclass in irony, so rich that it should come with a health
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Begich claims victory, but Peltola refuses to concede AK’s U.S. House race
Eleven days after election day, Nick Begich claimed victory over incumbent U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola in a closely contested battle for Alaska’s lone seat in the U.S. House. On Nov. 16, Begich released a statement noting that the nationally respected election
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Three sources of Marxism and its far-left outgrowth
The main theoretical sources of Marxism were (1) German classical philosophy, (2) English classical political economy and (3) French utopian socialism in combination with French revolutionary ideas and the practice of European
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Alaska’s Deep State – A report from the field
The battle against the Deep State didn’t end with Trump’s election; it has only just
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UPDATE: Ranked Choice repeal remains on track to pass
The monumental effort to repeal Alaska’s highly controversial and confusing ranked-choice voting system appears to have succeeded by the narrowest of
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BOB BIRD: It’s time for Alaska to revive the ’90/10’ promise
Because the most sensible argument against Alaskan statehood was our inability to pay for self-government, Congress crafted us a special gift: that oil, gas and coal revenues taken from federal properties would be split, not 50/50 as with the other states,
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11.11 > God Bless the next four years… please.
In the political upset of the century, Donald Trump has retaken the white house, with the US Senate, and unless a suspicious amount of Ranked Choice Ballots come through for Mary Peltola and a few other contested races, the US House. God Bless America that
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OPINION: Is it time for Lt. Gov. Dahlstrom to retire?
Florida, with a population of 20 million, called it a night just four hours after polls closed, while Alaska, a state that could fit its entire voter base into a Tampa Bay neighborhood, is still counting. Seriously, how is it that the state with fewer people
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OPINION: Let the difficult work of reversing neo-Marxist nonsense begin
Clearly, during this 2024 turbulent election, Americans recognized and stood tall against the neo-Marxist ideology of white privilege doctrine, Critical Race Theory, transgenderism, DEI and systemic racism