Vasser’s diary on “Thinking the Unthinkable” got me thinking. Several have posted about the various labels we can apply to our enemies and which they apply to themselves. Liberal is a word they long applied to themselves to avoid the stigma that was attached to “progressive,” which was merely code for communist by the ’30s, and they certainly couldn’t use socialist or communist and get | Read More »
So, way back in February when the news was all about Aah-nold getting a grip on those CA state employee unions and furloughing employees to save money I wrote this: http://www.redstate.com/achance/2009/02/07/californias-forced-time-off-plan/ Today, I read in the McClatchey rag, Anchorage’s California based newspaper, this: http://www.adn.com/nation/story/1075115.html I missed it a bit because I’m not real up on CA’s wierd public labor laws and they got it from | Read More »
“Sarah From Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar” is a new book about former Governor Palin and the VP Campaign. The writers are two reporters who covered her extensively during the campaign and then came back to Alaska for further research. I haven’t read it yet, but I know all the people quoted in the linked Juneau Empire article | Read More »
Those of you who know my stuff know that I have long advocated that Republicans boycott the axes of evil from Boston to DC and from Seattle to San Diego. Nobody in any of those places is ever going to support a Republican and every thing you say and do gets filtered through a hostile left wing media. Republicans should make news in the places where | Read More »
Now I’m from the generation that most of you think destroyed America. I was educated by the National Defense Education Act and did Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll in the ’60s. I left college as a dope-smoking, FM radio listening, liberal Democrat. Then I met Life. But no matter what many of you think of people of my generation, I pretty much did it | Read More »
On October 18, 1867, the United States took possession of Russian America. The rather meager ceremony took place in the Capital of Russian America, Sitka. Some of the Russian structures of that day still remain and there is still a considerable Russian Orthodox religious presence in the State. Other than Russian and Russian-derived surnames among the Aleuts and some Southeastern Indians, there is little to | Read More »
From Statehood in 1959, Alaska had the standard federal style system of decentralized personnel administration based in the operating departments with a central Personnel agency setting policy and providing some oversight and audit. The system was governed by statute and regulation and was state of the art in the late 1940s. Pay was set by legislative enactment except in the ferry system which had collective | Read More »
OK, it’s after midnight ’cause I’ve been writing a brief so I can make some money. Holocaust is one of those words that has been thrown around until it is now some shapeless, meaningless hunk of something. There really was a Holocaust or Shoah, the Hebrew term for it. I’m not an academic historian and I’m working from memory, so save the nitpicking; if you | Read More »
Whether it is his flaccid foreign policy, his constant attempts to curry favor by deprecating our Country, or his refusal to actually take a firm position on anything, Comrade Obama is being true to his makers: The Harvard School of Law. It is ironclad dogma at Hahvud that any policy development or bargaining be based on identification of issues and commonalities rather than on taking | Read More »
Promoted from diaries. – Moe Lane For those who haven’t read my bio, my background is in collective bargaining and employee relations. I cut my teeth on the union side as an understudy to an old-time liberal Democrat trade unionist. His mantra was, “Before they do anything, make sure they think about what you’ll do about it.” After a stint in the private sector, I went | Read More »
OK, I promised I’d do this. It’s the middle of the night and I can’t sleep. Had a bunch of dental work done Friday, I’m allergic to the painkiller the Doc gave me, and he’s been off all weekend and doesn’t work Mondays, so I’m in just the right mood. You’ve all heard me talk about the “shadow government” that the Democrats have. This work | Read More »
It’s the title of a Neil Sedaka song from a long, long time ago; before most of you were even a gleam in someone’s eyes. I’m not a Buchanan fan, but Pat Buchanan has a piece out that bears some attention. It’s titled, “Is America Coming Apart?” You can read it here if you want: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=109478 I submit that America isn’t coming apart; it is apart. | Read More »
Marxist, socialist, communist, Leninist, Stalinist, Trotskyite are all being thrown around fast and loose and often wrongly. So, let us get our communists sorted out. I only know the broad strokes and bright colors about the old time, hard line communists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. In that era you have the inheritors of Marx and Hegel and lots of talk of | Read More »
September 3, 1949; ten years after Germany invaded Poland, a little less than four years after the war ended, the same year the hydrogen bomb was invented. The H-bomb and I had a good run together. I came into the World dirt poor but I didn’t know it for a long time. In rural Georgia in those days heritage and social status meant a lot | Read More »
The National Extortion, er, Education, Association is a, perhaps the, bulwark of the Democrat Party. As many as a third or even more of the delegates at a Democrat National Convention are NEA members most years. It is fair to say that most here and most having conservative/Republican views do not share the worldview of the NEA and at most tolerate sending our children to | Read More »
Those words come down to us from FDR’s ’37 Inaugural Address: “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” In those days America was in the transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy. The South had been abandoned after 1876 except for its potential to be exploited. Appalachia was the poster child, followed closely by the Dust Bowl of the Great Plains. | Read More »
One of the things I did in my sojourn into the Peoples’ Republic of Mexifornia was read books. One of the books I read was “Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America” by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev. Everyone here should read this book! It is dry as dirt academic history based on Vassiliev’s notes from his research in | Read More »
Here’s some excerpts from a presser he did yesterday in Anchorage: http://community.adn.com/adn/node/142631 Unlike some recent Alaska governors, Gov. Parnell is a thoroughly low-key, conservative, in several senses of that word, Republican politician. There will be no glitz and no flash-bangs in a Parnell Administration; the guy probably has pin stripe PJs. I did not support him when he ran against Don Young because I thought | Read More »
Now this doesn’t mean much to those of you down in the 30s and 40s, that’s degrees of lattitude, but for those of us in the 50s and 60s, June 21st or so means something. The summer soltice brings me 18 hours and change of Sun above the horizon daylight, and it never really gets dark overnight, such as night is; as I write this | Read More »
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