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Went to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon today where they had McAdams and Miller, the nominees for US Senate. It was a question and answer format, not a debate, and the questions were pretty good. Each candidate got a five minute opening statement then each got questions directed at him from the moderator. Then each got to ask the other questions and the other | Read More »
Vassar has written that the fundament of our ordered liberty is the ability to build a home and pass it on to your children. I agree with that notion fundamentally. The original phrase was, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Property. As far as I can tell, I am the first member of my lineal family in America who has ever made a mortgage payment | Read More »
If I were advising Lisa Murkowski, and for all you know I am, this is what I’d do. The Libertarians need a candidate to get 3% so they can stay on the general election ballot. Lisa can do that, so their interests coincide. So, Lisa Murkowski becomes the Libertarian nominee for US Senate. At first I was thinking the Libertarians wouldn’t do it, but staying | Read More »
Among the more common epitaphs in Alaska are: “Controlled Flight Into Terrain” and “VFR Flight Into IFR Conditions.” We Alaskans fly a lot! And most of us have spent more than a few hours pacing the floor waiting for the “I’m there” phone call or pacing the airport waiting for the late plane to get in. Sometimes they don’t. I spent a couple of the | Read More »
This diary is just a ramble; I’m thinking it out as I write it. I just spent the last few days taking my wife to Anchorage to start her new federal job on Monday, August 2. Yeah, that federal goverment, the one Comrade Obama runs. Nota bene: I am not in Anchorage with her. For those of you not familiar with Alaska, to get from | Read More »
There’s a recommended diary on here right now demonizing Woodrow Wilson as the root of the Progressive evil. Ok, there’s plenty to not like about WW and, especially, his darling wife, but WW is one Helluva ways from Comrade Obama or Rahmbo Emmanuel. The original Progressives were 19th Century activists who recoiled at some of the abuses of the unfettered capitalism of that day. Some | Read More »
This is the lead story in the Anchorage Daily News today: http://www.adn.com/2010/05/09/1270587/traffic-takes-unusual-toll-on.html Part of me really likes living in a place where a story like this can be above the fold in the State’s largest newspaper. Wolves are everywhere in Alaska. Sometimes I can hear them howling in the woods around my house. There was a black one that locals named Romeo who inhabited the mud | Read More »
Two term Governor of Alaska and President Nixon’s first Secretary of the Interior, Walter Hickel died last evening. The Anchorage Daily News’ story is here” http://www.adn.com/2010/05/07/1268751/hickel-dead-at-age-90.html If you’ve ever seen pictures of the Anchorage skyline, the golden brown building near the Cook Inlet waterfront is his most visible monument, the Captain Cook hotel, which he built before the rubble was even cleaned up from the | Read More »
I just spent two and a half days as Sergeant at Arms for the Republican Party of Alaska’s State Convention. The good news is that the current state of affairs both nationally and in our state has brought a lot of new people into political activity, including taking an active part in running the Party by becoming convention delegates. The bad news is that many | Read More »
On April 9, 1865, the mortal remains of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States’ Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. R. E. Lee, commanding, battered itself in futility against the encircling Yankee troops under Gen. U. S. Grant. When told by his subordinates that they could do no more with their weak and hungry force, Lee did what he would rather die a thousand times | Read More »
I really don’t remember just how I came upon RedState in April of 2006. It was a smaller and quieter place back then and after a few weeks I “knew” pretty much everyone who posted with any regularity, even the lefties who were tolerated and a troll or two that seemed to be kept around for entertainment. The fact that it was a moderated site | Read More »
OK, this is another piece of Red on Blue about personnel management and union relations in government. It is long, boring, and you need to know it. You have to set out some rules immediately. The first rule is that you and yours have to be Caesar’s wife, beyond even the suspicion of reproach. The rule used to be that if it didn’t involve a | Read More »
OK, wild words were flying around almost a year ago, too. Unlike most here, I have some experience, at least ancestrally, with defying the United States. Every one of my military aged ancestors fought for the Provisional Army of the Confederate States and I can, like any Southerer for whom the past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past, can rattle off their units, their commanders, and | Read More »
There was a tragic event in a small Alaska village a couple of days ago; a young female teacher went on a run outside the village after work. In Alaska “outside the village” is wilderness that would be unimaginable to most of you. A few hours later a couple of men returning to the village on their snow machines saw blood in the trail and | Read More »
Ok, this is another excerpt from Red on Blue that I’m about finished with. It is long and for some it will be boring, but for all of you who really, really want to eliminate government departments, this is your chance to see how they actually work and what you can do to make them work better. The format is kinda sucky but it | Read More »
The travails of Toyota and Honda are assuming a familiar pattern; the full wrath of the federal government and the UAW/AFL-CIO has been turned on them. Either because of their corporate culture or out of fear of further and more draconian government action, the companies are curling into fetal position and whimpering apologies. That, of course, is precisely the wrong thing to do because it | Read More »
This is prompted by a discussion I had with Vassar and others yesterday. Some of it will be familiar to those of you who’ve read my stuff over the years. So, I’m sporting another excerpt from “Red on Blue.” Have a taste and let me have your comments and criticism. When you take office, somebody who gave or raised money for you is going to | Read More »
Comrade Obama was put up by whatever shadowy financiers and rainmakers put him up to NOT be Bill Clinton. Bill and Hill became good little communists smoking dope in Ivy League dorm rooms back in the ’60s. It’s been largely forgotten but Bill’s got just as many questionable associates as Barry from his youthful political indiscretions. He’s still got a trip to the old Soviet | Read More »
My wife is in Anchorage tending to closing up my youngest stepson’s apartment, servicing and storing his car, and the miscellany of stopping one kind of life and starting another. He did three years of active duty as an Army infantryman and has been out for about a year. I can’t say I’m real proud of how he’s acquitted himself in civilian life but he’s | Read More »
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 »
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