Only a quarter of the Army’s officers and enlisted soldiers believe the nation’s largest military branch is headed in the right direction. The most common reasons cited were “ineffective leaders at senior levels” & the military lacking sufficient discipline.
The case of Marine veteran Brandon Raub gets even more outrageous with the FBI admitting it questioned Raub merely because of his Facebook postings, but denying the agency arrested him. Nevertheless, Raub is now sitting in a Richmond psych ward.
Americans outraged over the Obama administration’s requirement that health insurance policies cover contraception and sterilization at no charge are about to get even hotter under the collar. According to CNSNews.com, depending on state law, girls as young as 15 could well be eligible for free surgical sterilizations — even without their parents’ consent.
Alcohol may have been involved in the incident and no one seems to know why the FBI was investigating. Christians consider the Sea of Galilee a holy site as it is where Jesus walked on water and performed other miracles. Congressman claims “momentary lapse in judgment.”
Is there a dark side to federalizing local law enforcement funding? A hidden camera video shows federal grant money creates an incentive for local law enforcement to falsify their crime statistics. The fake stats tell a story that ends up benefiting the local agencies that clamor for the grants, while helping DC sell its story that the border is safer than it really is.
Murkowski, with a long track record of breaking her own word, hopes to convince some of her Republican colleagues to take a page out of her playbook and break their pledges on LOST during the lame duck session of Congress this fall.
The other primary race that is of interest in the Valley is the three-way Republican Primary between Ralph Seekins, Click Bishop and a Valley political newbie, David Eastman. Seekins and Bishop are both well know in the Fairbanks area and Eastman is known more in the Valley. What is unknown is how Bishop will play […]
Alaska’s primary election is one of the most important in the history of our state. Alaska is at a watershed moment when a very small percentage of voters will literally chart the course of the future of our State. This primary will decide if the current gang of Democrats and their minority of Republican enablers will continue to dominate the State Senate and thus further bankrupt Alaska.
Menard has passed only two insignificant bills, the Marmot Day bill, and a bill creating a vanity license plate. She did however passionately fight (but failed) to add a verse to the Alaska State Song. Her own majority member, Senate Finance Chairman Bert Steadman (R) Sitka, said to the Daily News that her presentation on […]
His opponent, Roger Purcell, was the former Mayor of Houston. During his tenure, Houston politics were often in the press, rarely in a positive light. Purcell is most noted for alleged misuse of a police vehicle as mayor, including running lights and sirens while passing vehicles on a road trip to Fairbanks and attempting to […]