Missing Alaska Man Found Dead in His Home After a Year

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An Alaska man missing for more than a year was found dead in his home on Monday, according to Anchorage Police. The home had been occupied by renters for nearly a year, but they apparently had no idea the body was in the home, police said.

Samuel E. McAlpine, 37, was last seen March 17, 2013, when he told his mother he was going on a date.

McAlpine’s sister reported him missing 12 days later, Anchorage Police spokeswoman Dani Myren said.

Family members weren’t initially concerned, because he “frequently disappears for weeks at a time” said an e-mail sent by police in August asking for the public’s help in finding McAlpine.

McAlpine was going through a divorce at the time and had moved out of the home he shared with his now ex-wife, Myren said. “They were unable to sell the home, so she rented it out to tenants.”

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Russian Billionaire Backing Sullivan and Other GOP Establishment and Democrat Candidates

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A pro-Putin Russian oligarch, billionaire, and proprietor of Access Industries, has taken a keen interest in the 2014 election cycle, contributing hefty donations to establishment Republicans and Democrats vying for congressional seats in 2014, according to OpenSecrets.org….

[Leonard] Blavatnik has teamed up with Paul Singer, a New York hedge fund billionaire who backs increased immigration and homosexual marriage through his federal fundraising committee, Friends for an American Majority. Blavatnik even reportedly attended a “swanky Colorado retreat” that feted establishment GOP candidates in February, according to The Alaskan Dispatch.

Blavatnik contributed $5,200 (the maximum amount allowed by law) to Daniel S. Sullivan, who’s running for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in Alaska against Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell and Joe Miller. Singer’s Friends for an American Majority also supports Rep. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Rep. Steve Daines in Montana. Blavatnik donated $5,200 to each of them as well.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker also received a total of $13,000 from Blavantik in 2013 — and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earned $32,400, while the National Republican Congressional Committee got $4,800.

Blavatnik and his wife have each donated $32,400 to the Democratic Congressional Committee. They also supported Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner ($5,200), New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen ($2,600), Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins ($2,600), Minnesota Democatic Sen. Al Franken ($5,000) and others.

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Thousands Sign WhiteHouse.gov Petition for Alaska to Secede — to Russia

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By Fox News.

Moscow’s annexation of Crimea was condemned worldwide, but some people in Alaska apparently are yearning for the days when they, too, were part of Mother Russia.

A petition on the White House website created by “S.V.” of Anchorage is calling on Alaskans and others to “vote” for Alaska to secede from the U.S. and become a part of Russia.

In less than a week, the petition, titled “Alaska Back to Russia,” has garnered nearly 30,000 signatures, though it’s unclear where they are from.

“Vote for secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia,” the petition says.

The petition, though strangely worded and difficult to understand, describes how Alaska was originally settled and populated by native Russians.

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It’s Not Just Crimea—Some Alaskans Want to Join Russia, Too

By Elizabeth Kulze.

Now that Putin has successfully annexed Crimea, another group of disgruntled Russian descendants is hoping to return to the Kremlin’s dominion. As of Monday morning, a petition entitled “Alaska Back to Russia” has garnered more than 17,000 signatures since it launched Friday.

An unnamed Anchorage resident created the WhiteHouse.gov appeal, citing the state’s historic and ancestral ties to the world’s largest country. Unfortunately, it’s impossible to determine exactly how many of the signatures are authentic—as opposed to being Putin-employed bots or a ploy to exile Sarah Palin—but the surrounding chatter on Twitter confirms that at least some Russian-Americans are dead serious about secession.

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Aside from the widely accepted theory that North America was settled 15,000 years ago by Siberians who crossed the Bering Strait to enter present-day Alaska, the territory was under Russian rule for almost two centuries before it became the 49th state…

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“Cinderella” Equestrian Team with Alaskan Makes its Way to Improbable Victory

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EquestrianImagine a basketball team advancing to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament by knocking off higher seeds with just six walk-on players who have to pay their own way. While the analogy may not be perfect, that is essentially what the underdog University of Montana Equestrian Team accomplished last weekend by winning their regional championship.

Unlike other schools in their region, the University of Montana Equestrian Team (UMET), which started 14 years ago and is a member team of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA), is not funded by the school, which means the riders have to raise money just to participate in their events. The riders, some of whom had never even been on a horse before joining the squad, have pooled money for gas, raised money to stay in motels, and even had to overcome one of the worst blizzards to hit Missoula in over a decade. The team also only has seven or eight riders, which means they start each event at a disadvantage against schools with three times as many and have no margin for error. The odds are stacked against these lady Grizzlies, but they have kept defying them.

“This year we had several team members who had never been on a horse before, let alone competed in a recognized show,” head coach Katie Lufkin told Breitbart Sports. “We had riders who had only ever been in a western saddle that decided to try English for the first time. These are more reasons why it’s pretty amazing we got the win this year.”

And they will have to defy those odds again just to get an opportunity to be Cinderellas in the next round.

When other teams win regionals, their tickets to the next round — Zones — are punched. But not for Montana’s team, which, like the Jamaican bobsled before the Winter Olympics, is trying to crowdfund (see their page here) their way to Palo Alto to compete in the Zone Championships April 4-6. They need to raise $4,000 to keep their dreams alive. If they can’t raise the money, the clock will strike midnight.

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WATCH – Miller: Establishment Threatened by True Reform Candidates

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A reporter recently asked me to talk about the DC Establishment’s war on tea party candidates. I pointed out that the Establishment sees true reform candidates and those reformers already in the Senate and House, like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Louie Gomert, as a threat to their Big Government, crony capitalist agenda. 

The Establishment elite know I am of that reform mold, and that is why groups like Karl Rove’s Crossroads, Lindsey Graham’s Fund for America’s Future PAC and Freedom’s Frontier PAC, which is being run by Lisa Murkowski’s former campaign spokesman, have sided with my opponents. The Washington elite understand both of these candidates know how to play the DC game.

My opponents are also internationalists who have advocated for government action on climate change and surrendering U.S. sovereignty by adopting the U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty (“LOST”).  
 
I will not dance to the internationalists’ tune. I believe the United States should never surrender its sovereignty to an international body in any capacity, especially one with the power to tax and regulate the people of our great land, as provided for in LOST.
 
“We the people” established the Constitution as the document we would live by and the form of government we would live under, rather than the authoritative edicts of some far away governing body. That is the very reason we fought the Revolutionary War in the first place.
 
If you agree that the United States should never surrender its sovereignty and authority granted by the people to the federal government, stand with our campaign.
 
I share the optimism of Thomas Paine’s words often quoted by Ronald Reagan, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” We can make a difference in our day and in such a way that future generations will look back with gratitude at what we did here.


 

Alaskans Battle for Survival Against Feds’ Protection of Migratory Birds

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For Della Trumble and others in her town of King Cove, Alaska, the Obama administration chose bird feed over their health and safety.

Washington’s refusal to allow a 10-mile gravel road between King Cove and the airport at Cold Bay is a matter of life or death for Alaskans who rely on quick access to airports and hospital flights as much as migratory birds rely on the eel grass that the Interior Department would rather preserve.

The most terrifying day of Ms. Trumble’s life was in 2010 when a small plane carrying her daughter slammed into a makeshift airfield near their home in the remote fishing village.

“It was one of the most frightening things you’ll ever watch in your life. I saw it happen, and I ran down the runway at about 100 miles per hour to get to the plane,” said Ms. Trumble. “Fortunately, everybody was OK. They had sore necks from the impact.”

Not everyone who flies between King Cove, population 965, and the all-weather airport at Cold Bay is so lucky. Nineteen people have died there in airplane crashes, some of them emergency responders and patients attempting to reach the regional hospital in Anchorage.

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Miller Calls Out Begich for Vote to Override Alaskans’ First Amendment Rights

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Joe Miller today urged the United States Supreme Court to protect Americans’ constitutional rights by striking down the ObamaCare contraception mandate. He also called out Senator Mark Begich for not only being the 60th and deciding vote for ObamaCare, but also voting last year to uphold the Department of Health and Human Service’s controversial regulation.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius cases, which address whether the Department of Health and Human Services can require private business owners to provide abortion-inducing drugs, regardless of their religious convictions.

“Alaskans must always remember that Mark Begich was the 60th and deciding vote for ObamaCare, a vote he made contrary to what the majority of the people he is supposed to represent wanted,” said Miller. “Having cast that egregious vote, Begich had the audacity to double-down last March and vote to affirm the HHS contraception mandate, which requires healthcare coverage to include abortion-inducing drugs, regardless of the deeply-held religious beliefs of those paying for the coverage.”

Our nation was founded on the belief in God-given rights. One of our God-given rights, according to both Thomas Jefferson (the author of the Declaration of Independence) and James Madison (the father of the Constitution), is the right to worship and exercise ‘the duty which we owe our Creator’ in a way our conscience directs. The very first right recognized in the Bill of Rights is this freedom: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” According to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, another of our most fundamental rights is the right to life.

“It should come as no surprise to Barack Obama, Kathleen Sebelius or Mark Begich that the owners of Hobby Lobby and other companies around this nation, in seeking to honor and worship God, cannot participate in the taking of human life,” said Miller. “It is my hope that the Supreme Court will see this for what it is, a clear violation of Americans’ First Amendment rights.”

Alaska To Make Drone Assisted Hunting Illegal

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Photo Credit: ubergizmo.comDrones perform spectacularly as the proverbial eye in the sky, but the Alaska Board of Game doesn’t want drones giving hunters an unfair advantage over their UAV-less counterparts.

At its recent meeting, the 7 member Alaska Board of Game unanimously voted in favor of a measure to stop hunters from spotting game through drones, or other similar gadgets.

Alaska Wildlife Troopers believe that this practise isn’t widespread, but with drone technology becoming cheaper, its only a matter of time before hunters start investing in drones.

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Alaskan Police Fatally Shoot Man who Discovered the Body of ‘Into the Wild’ Wanderer

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Photo Credit: APA man fatally shot by authorities in Alaska over the weekend was a moose hunter who found the body of a young wanderer whose story was featured in the movie “Into the Wild,” his nephew said Friday.

Gordon Samel was shot Sunday night after he backed his pickup toward a Wasilla police officer north of Anchorage, Alaska State Troopers said. An investigative report will be provided to the state Department of Law to determine if deadly force was justified by a trooper and a Wasilla police officer, according to troopers.

Samel, 52, was among three hunters who discovered the body of Christopher McCandless in an abandoned bus on the Stampede Trail near the interior Alaska town of Healy in 1992. McCandless was made famous by the book by Jon Krakauer and subsequent film directed by Sean Penn.

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FBI: Alaska Killer Likely Not Tied to Missing Man

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Photo Credit: Anchorage Police / APThe FBI says it’s highly unlikely confessed Alaska serial killer Israel Keyes was connected to the unsolved disappearance of a man in Washington state.

A special episode of Investigation Discovery’s “Dark Minds” TV series airing April 2 says Gilbert Gilman was a potential victim of Keyes, who had been in the region. Gilman disappeared from Olympic National Park in 2006.

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