This is a second installment in a series of commentaries that focus on evidence pointing to criminal fishing activity by an ex-aide to Senator Lisa Murkowski. In the first commentary, I pointed to a FOIA request that resulted in the release of a 42 page NOAA document that showed former Murkowski aide Arne Fuglvog was […]
Something Smells Fishy With Sen. Murkowski, Sen. Snowe and Rep. Frank By Tom Lamb (Red County): Just as mysterious as the orange goo that washed up on the shores of northwest Alaska, a mystery that surrounds an ex-aide to our Senator Lisa Murkowski by the name of Arne Fuglvog is unfolding. Last week, The Anchorage […]
The U.S. labor force is shrinking, as more Americans are giving up hope By Chris Isidore (CNNMoney): Last month, only 58.1% of Americans age 16 and over were employed, a significant drop from before the recession and the lowest since 1983. That’s especially worrisome to economists, who say a steady increase in those dropping out […]
By Gabriella Schwarz (CNN): President Barack Obama’s chief re-election strategist on Sunday blamed Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on tea party conservatives who made raising the federal debt ceiling a political issue. “This is essentially a tea party downgrade,” David Axelrod told the CBS program “Face the Nation.” “The tea […]
Abandoned on the Field as the ‘Nobles’ Surrender By Mark America: The talking points prevailing in the wake of the debt ceiling debacle would have you believe that this deal had been a compromise, and the best for which conservatives and Tea Party ought to have hoped possible. At the end of the debates lies […]
By Herb Titus & William Olson (American Thinker): In a Constitutional Republic of the sort that we thought we had, the process by which laws are made is at least as important as the laws that are enacted. Our Constitution prescribes that law-making process in some detail, but those who voted for the “Budget […]
By Steven Nelson (Daily Caller): Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s longtime fisheries adviser is heading to prison — for illegal fishing. Arne Fuglvog, who was employed as a legislative assistant to Murkowski beginning in 2006, signed a plea agreement on April 8 confessing to violations of the Lacey Act. The act governs the sale of […]
By AWR Hawkins (BigGovernment.com): No one in recent memory has faced the left’s vitriol like Sarah Palin (not even George W. Bush). The over-the-top, asinine attacks she’s received have been so ubiquitous they need not even be relisted here. Just suffice it to say there is a genuine hatred of Palin throughout the MSM, the […]
By JONATHAN ALLEN & JOHN BRESNAHAN (Politico): Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit. Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus […]
by James Taylor (Forbes): NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than alarmist computer models have predicted, reports a new study in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing. The study indicates far less future global warming will occur than […]