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Monday September 06, 2010




Headline News


Bear deaths in Angoon under investigation - Anchorage Daily News/AP
Cole:
BP again talking about selling Alaska assets, London newspaper reports - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Obama
to propose $50 billiion in infrastructure projects; stimulus continues - Washington Times
Murkowski,
Miller and Sealaska measure - Juneau Empire
As
clock ticks, Bush tax cuts about to expire - NPR
Congressional
charities pulling in corporate cash - NYTimes
Bradner:
Alaskans will get to know Miller, McAdams - Alaska Journal of Commerce
Tea Party
a double edge sword for GOP - NYTimes
Soros
launches frontal assault on Tea Party - Infowars.com
A wall
to remember; Seattle memorial for Japanese WWII internment - Seattle Times
Huge
outpouring of support for Murkowski, aide says - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Why
aren't employers hiring? - NPR
Grisham
on writing as a job - NYTimes
Abused
toddler dies after spending two years in hospital - Chicago Tribune
Housing
woes; let market collapse? - NYTimes
Gas
storage moves ahead; Kenai council OKs rezoning - Kenai Peninsula Clarion
Mexican
drug cartels terrorize, cripple Pemex in parts of Burgos Basin - LATimes
Not
much of a 'summer' for Dems pitching recovery - Washington Times
Dad
bitten as he fends off coyote, saves 2-year-old - NYPost
Valdez
fish derby disqualifies record halibut; honors angler's honesty - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Alaskan Independence Party
picks Michigan militia founder for ballot - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner/AP

Editorials

 

Labor Day

Let’s take a few moments today from our end-of-summer chores to remember the debt we all owe America’s workers for making this great nation what it is now.

Labor Day, though, is a national holiday born in strife. More than a century ago, when a Congress nervous about President Grover Cleveland’s crushing of a nationwide Pullman railroad strike, added it to the calendar.

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The right thing to do

When the U.S. Justice Department without explanation dropped its investigation of sex abuse allegations against Bill Allen many Alaskans were flabbergasted.

But Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan says prosecutors now are examining allegations the former Veco Corp. chief had sex with a 15-year-old prostitute. Allen was a key federal witness in a string of Alaska political corruption cases.

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Run

This will be a long weekend in more than one respect for Bill Walker and Sen. Lisa Murkowski. They both lost their GOP primary election bids, but are considering whether to continue their campaigns either under another party’s banner or as a write-ins.

We urge both of them to continue their campaigns.

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Long way to go

A Rasmussen Reports poll shows Alaskans favoring Republican incumbent Gov. Sean Parnell over Democrat Ethan Berkowitz in the gubernatorial race, but only by a modest 10 percentage points.

A telephone survey Aug. 31 of 500 likely voters in Alaska showed Parnell with 53 percent of the vote, while Berkowitz got 43 percent.  Two percent said they preferred some other candidate, while 2 percent - and, again, we wonder who these folks are - said they were unsure.

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Walker should continue

Bill Walker is thinking about continuing his campaign for governor after finishing as runner-up in the GOP gubernatorial primary by winning about a third of the votes in the six-way race .

He should quickly finish reviewing his options and come to the same conclusion we did: He must continue his race, perhaps as a third-party candidate. The Associated Press, for instance, reported Don Wright of Fairbanks, the Alaskan Independence Party pick, has withdrawn from the race.

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Thanks, Lisa

Alaskans owe Sen. Lisa Murkowski a round of applause for her above-board GOP Senate primary campaign and her years of thoughtful, energetic and dedicated service to this state.

When it would have served her better to sink to her Tea Party Express opponent’s level during the campaign as he mischaracterized her record and shaded the truth more than a little, she did not. She remained above all that.
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That was then . . .

With Joe Miller’s vow to cut federal spending in Alaska if he unseats Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary and goes on to beat his Democrat opponent, you have to wonder if he held that view when he ran for House District 8 and whether he will go on to become his own biggest problem.

Miller says the growing national debt requires belt tightening that should include cutting back on federal dollars Alaska receives. But has he always felt that way?

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News & Commentary

Wrong about human rights

By ROGER PILON

altWhen we think of human-rights problems, most of us imagine arbitrary arrests, political repression, religious persecution, torture, show trials, censorship, and the like. In America, we don't often have those kinds of problems. Even the current controversy over an Islamic center near ground zero isn't about the right to build there; it's about the wisdom of doing so.

All of which made it surprising to learn from the Obama State Department that America does indeed have human-rights problems.

The news came last week in the form of our first report on U.S. human-rights conditions to the U.N. Human Rights Council, submitted pursuant to a U.N. mandate that members conduct self-assessments every four years. According to the State Department, we fall short on "fairness, equality, and dignity" in areas such as education, health, and housing, especially when it comes to women, blacks, Latinos, Muslims, South Asians, American Indians, and gay people.

 

Dismantling America: Part IV

By THOMAS SOWELL

altHow did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very different kind of country, with not only different kinds of policies but very different values and ways of governing?

Something of this magnitude does not happen all at once or in just one administration in Washington. What we are seeing is the culmination of many trends in many aspects of American life that go back for years.

Neither the Constitution of the United States nor the institutions set up by that Constitution are enough to ensure the continuance of a free, self-governing nation. When Benjamin Franklin was asked what members of the Constitution Convention were creating, he replied, "A republic, madam, if you can keep it."

 

Nursing a hangover from a 'tea party'

By WESLEY PRUDEN

altKnocking the 'tea party' is getting to be a full-time job that not even the president of the United States can manage. Glenn Beck, the resident theologian at Fox, and critics who question his American birth are clearly getting Barack Obama's goat.

The pundits and pols on the left first tried the slander that all the tea sippers were not-so-secret racists, or "nativists," or bigots of one category or another, and were given to showing up at rallies with ugly signs demanding that Mr. Obama shut up and leave town before the sheriff arrives with an impeachment indictment. Certain pundits, editorialists, bloviators and bloggers even accused the tea partiers of attacking blacks in their midst.

When that accusation couldn't be proved — rewards were offered to anyone with the proof — the accusations of racism quieted to tolerable decibels. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the right reverends of the high church of racial scammery, retreated for a time to their drawing boards to plot new schemes.

 

Bad climate bill belongs in limbo

By PATRICK J. MICHAELS

altWill a lame duck Congress pass cap-and-trade? Judging from recent news, it might try. But, more likely, all the sound and fury will end up signifying its usual nothing. And it leaves the preferred option, where Congress punts the problem to the EPA, very much alive.

On Aug. 10, the House of Representatives blocked a resolution from Tom Price, R-Ga., that would have prohibited the House from convening a lame duck session after November's election unless there was a national emergency.

Climate Czarina Carol Browner recently suggested that such a bill could "potentially" be passed before the 112th Congress opens for business in January. In the new Congress, the House may very well be under Republican control. Hence the need for a lame duck climate bill.

 

The passing of E-6

By THOMAS SOWELL

altMost people have no idea what "E-6" is. To avid baseball fans, E-6 is the way to record an error by a shortstop on your scorecard. But there is another E-6, in photography. This E-6 is the developer in which color slides are processed.

Recently, I received an e-mail from Chromatics, a photo lab used by professional photographers in Nashville, that they will be discontinuing the developing of color slides and color transparencies in general, after Sept. 9. This was sent to me as an old customer of theirs.

The passing of E-6 is the passing of an era, because it means that so few professional photographers are using color slides and transparencies these days, in this era of digital photography, that a major photo lab does not get enough of this kind of film to develop to make it worthwhile to stock the chemical that is used.

 
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