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Murkowski Pushes Keystone in GOP Weekly Address

During the GOP Weekly Address on Saturday, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged President Obama to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, arguing that the GOP Congress has “already started” following the president’s call to pass an infrastructure bill. Transcript (via ABC

EPA Proposes Huge Land Grab

EPA Proposes Huge Land Grab

The Environmental Protection Agency has come up with a way to execute one of the biggest land grabs by the federal government ever perpetrated on the American public.  On Tuesday, the EPA proposed a change to the Clean Water Act

Kelly and Giffords lobby in Alaska for gun control

Kelly and Giffords lobby in Alaska for gun control

(AP) Kelly and Giffords lobby in Alaska for gun controlBy DAN JOLINGAssociated PressANCHORAGE, AlaskaAlaska might seem a hard place to sell a gun control message in a state where subsistence hunting is for many a way of life, and where

Alaska GOP Power Struggle Remains Unresolved

Alaska GOP Power Struggle Remains Unresolved

On Thursday night, the executive committee of the Alaska Republican Party met to consider charges of rules violations brought against incoming chairman Russ Millette. While the charges were aired, the meeting left the matter unresolved until February 1, the day Millette

Solyndra Redux: Feds Prep Another Round of 'Green Energy' Loans

Solyndra Redux: Feds Prep Another Round of 'Green Energy' Loans

WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) —The U.S. Energy Department said it is preparing to approve more federal loan guarantees for green energy projects. The development comes amid controversy over the Obama administration’s clean energy investments, after California solar-panel firm Solyndra, recipient

Alaska Supreme Court Throws Out Miller Claims

From the Associated Press: The Alaska Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision in the disputed U.S. Senate race, saying the state correctly counted write-in votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski. It is now up to Republican Joe Miller

The Missile Next Time

No one seems to know who launched what appears to have been a ballistic missile – and by one account “a big missile” at that – from a point some thirty-five miles off the California coast on Monday evening. About

Liberals Hate the First Amendment

My own politics began to mature while in college when simply publishing a letter to the editor from a student the academic Left rightly saw as an enemy resulted in their launching an all out effort to destroy my reputation.

Murkowski Casts New Challengers as Dyslexiaphobic

Looking increasingly like the liberal Washington, DC politician critics so often accuse her of being, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski invoked the state’s largest minority group… and dyslexics to cast a number of new challengers for the Alaska Senate seat as

AP: Write-ins Flood Alaska Senate Race List

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The number of write-in candidates for Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat has swelled to about 150 amid an effort by conservatives to target the write-in candidacy of GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The number by Thursday’s write-in deadline

Democrats Call Lisa Murkowski A Liar

All the while, Lisa Murkowski’s campaign has been engaged in a smear campaign against Joe Miller. Now, out of the blue, Democrats come out and call her an outright liar? It was troubling when Murkowski broke her word to voters

GOP's History Repeats Itself

In the lead-up to the 1972 elections, then-Vice President Spiro Agnew headed up something called “Operation Switch” at President Nixon’s request. His mission was to help get Southern Democratic elected officials more comfortable with Republican conservative values than their own

Senator Lisa Murkowski – Sore Loser

In addition to 2010 clearly being the Year of the Tea Party, a good sub-headline is the Year of the Sore Loser. The Republican establishment elites are angry because they keep losing campaigns. The latest example of a “Sore Loser”

Monday Open Thread: Alaska Edition

Last week, Senate candidate Joe Miller rocked the political world by taking an early lead against GOP incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski. This week, absentee ballots will be counted to determine the final winner. No matter what happens, an important point