Tune in for FINAL ‘Alaska Talks Liberty’ Radio Show, Featuring Dave Shestokas- Attorney and Constitutional Scholar

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Russ Millette, host of Alaska Talks Liberty, welcomes Dave Shestokas- Attorney and Constitutional Scholar.

TOPIC: Three lawsuits that should doom Obamacare. Based on the Origination Clause Article I Section 7

Click: https://www.shestokas.com/?p=2216 and https://www.shestokas.com/?p=2374

Tune in to his radio show Tuesday, March 18th at 3 PM AK time.

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Editors Note:

Many thanks to Russ Millette for 16 months of dedication to spreading Liberty throughout Alaska and the US. We are saddened to see this show come to an end. Keep up the good fight.

Miller Calls on Begich to Fulfill His Constitutional Duty and Support the ENFORCE the Law Act

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Photo Credit: Breitbart Today, U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller called on Senator Mark Begich to fulfill his constitutional duty and support the ENFORCE the Law Act, which passed handily in the House of Representatives earlier this week.

“The most chilling words this President has stated during his last five-plus years in office are, ‘Where Congress won’t act, I will.’ Nothing could be more antithetical to the government that our Founders established, which created a nation of laws and not of men. A renowned and liberal legal scholar recently testified before Congress that we have reached a ‘constitutional tipping point.’ I agree. The time has long since passed to hold this President accountable for his numerous Constitutional violations,” said Miller.

The list of unconstitutional executive decrees is legion from the dozens of changes to ObamaCare clearly crafted for political gain, to changing our immigration laws, to the re-writing and re-interpreting of the EPA’s authority in order to create new ‘climate change’ laws out of whole cloth, to altering the work requirements for welfare recipients, to refusing to enforce DOMA and thereby appropriating unto himself both the authority of the legislative and the judicial branches of government, this President’s lawless acts threaten the present and future liberty of our nation.

The Constitution of the United States is a document based upon centuries of history in the advance in the cause of liberty. The Founders knew their inheritance as English citizens and as beings created in the image of God and crafted a document to “secure the blessings of liberty” for themselves and future generations. Our inheritance as Americans is the freedom to govern our own lives free from tyrannical rule. This is the truth contained in the Declaration of Independence, the abolishment of the Star Chamber, the Magna Carta, and based upon the laws of nature and nature’s God.

The Constitution divides power among the three branches of government, so ambition would counteract ambition as the document’s ‘Father’ James Madison wrote, and guard against any taking of authority a particular branch does not have. The ENFORCE the Law Act is a powerful and much needed step to restore the balance of power between the branches.

“We have not come through centuries of hard fought gains in the cause of liberty, through war and peace, only to have its cause reversed in our day. I urge Senator Begich to support the swift passage of the ENFORCE the Law Act,” said Miller.

Alaska Sues U.S. Over Its Rejection of Oil Exploration Plan

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Photo Credit: Paxson Woelber/flickrAlaska sued the Obama administration over its rejection of an oil and gas exploration plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as the state seeks to determine the extent of energy resources in the area.

Alaska Governor Sean Parnell said exploration for the coastal plain of the wildlife area was mandated by a federal Alaska land conservation act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refused to review the plan, citing a legal opinion by the Interior Department issued in 1987 claiming provisions of the law had expired, Parnell said in a complaint filed in federal court in Anchorage, Alaska.

“It is both disappointing and disturbing that the Obama administration, which claims that it is pursuing an ‘all of the above’ energy policy, is afraid to let the people of the United States learn more about ANWR’s oil and gas resources,” Parnell, a Republican, said in a statement. “The modern technology that we are seeking to use is responsibly utilized all across the North Slope with extremely limited environmental impact, and would dramatically improve our understanding of ANWR’s resources.”

The state is proposing to study a portion of the reserve known as Area 1002, which Alaska officials said covers 3,000 square miles (4,800 square kilometers) and is less than a tenth of the entire Arctic reserve. Estimates from 30 years ago put the median volume of oil in the refuge at 10.4 billion barrels, according to the state of Alaska.

Read more from this story HERE.

Miller on Club for Growth Endorsement: ‘I Never Expected to be K Street’s Candidate’

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Photo Credit: Breitbart Fairbanks, Alaska. March 12, 2014 – Joe Miller expressed disbelief at the Washington-based Club for Growth’s endorsement of Dan Sullivan in the Alaska senate race earlier today.

“It is unfortunate that Club for Growth would insert themselves into a contested primary to work against advocates of the free market,” Miller said. “But I never expected to be K Street’s candidate. We won the 2010 primary without their help, and we expect to do it again.”

National media has been quick to point out the group’s support of Joe Miller’s candidacy in 2010, but Club for Growth declined to endorse Miller against the most liberal Republican Senator seeking re-election that year. Only after Miller’s stunning primary victory did he receive an endorsement for his run against Democrat Scott McAdams.

Miller continued, “We are undeterred. This is not a time for fair weather friends and sunshine patriots. I am not surprised that an organization thousands of miles from Alaska, inside the Washington DC bubble, may see things differently than the folks on the ground.”

The Miller campaign would like to offer a constructive piece of advice. It may be a good idea to vet candidates before throwing one’s reputation away. It is regretable that Club for Growth would cast their vote for the status quo. Dan Sullivan is just another big government crony capitalist.

Had they done their homework they would have known that Dan Sullivan’s campaign is funded by international finance – to include former President of the World Bank Robert Zoellick; President and CEO of the International Institute of Finance Timothy Adams; former Chairman of the Board of the New York Federal Reserve Stephan Friedman; the wife of former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson; Jeffery Reuben III, CEO of Rockefeller and Company; numerous Goldman Sachs executives; George W. Bush’s Chief of Staff Josh Bolton, etc. In other words, many of the architects of the Big Bank and Wall Street Bailouts that Club for Growth claims to oppose.

In addition to his ties to corporate welfare, Sullivan has clearly supported international welfare and the international community’s shakedown of American taxpayers for billions for the “climate change” scam, and more . . .

“I know my candidacy will not have the backing of Wall Street or K Street. It will also not have the support of the party elite in Washington or in Alaska. To curry favor with the Establishment is not why I am running for U.S. Senate,” said Miller. “I am running because I believe our nation has reached a critical juncture. As I travel the state, I am stirred with hope, because people throughout Alaska get it. They know the path we are on leads to the downfall of our nation, and they want real change, real reform. With their support on Election Day, I will bring their voice and their vote to our nation’s capital.”

Joe Miller is a husband, father, combat veteran, businessman, and advocate for constitutional liberty, who believes in limited government, individual rights, private property, free markets, and the Right to life.

Senator McGuire Introduces Bill to Cover Unborn Under Criminal and Civil Statutes

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The following is an excerpt from her press release:

Senator Lesil McGuire has introduced SB 200, otherwise known as “ Jackson’s Law.”

Jackson’s Law will ensure that parents who lose their unborn children through the unlawful or negligent actions of another person have a path to justice.

This bill would add to the law passed in 2006 that established the unborn can be victims of murder, manslaughter, and criminally negligent homicide in a criminal court and would allow for families to seek civil action in cases of wrongful death.

Alaska is one of only ten states that do not allow the parents of an unborn victim to seek accountability or damages from a guilty party!

Expanding Alaska’s wrongful death statutes will protect parents and provide a path toward healing for families that have experienced the loss of a child.

The bill is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow, March 12th in the Senate Judiciary meeting.

You can show your support by sending an email for the urgent passage of this legislation to [email protected]

Dallas Seavey Pushes Through Windstorm to Win Iditarod (+video)

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Photo Credit: AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob HallinenNOME — Dallas Seavey came from behind to capture his second Iditarod championship in three years early Tuesday morning, mushing his team of seven dogs through a windstorm that knocked Jeff King out of the race and prompted Aliy Zirkle to hole up in Safety for more than two hours.

Seavey, 26, jogged beside his sled down Nome’s Front Street to help his dogs. At one point, he glanced over his shoulder, thinking his dad, defending champion Mitch Seavey, was gaining on him.

After crossing the finish line in record time at 4:04 a.m., Seavey sat on the back of his sled and leaned his head on his handlebar, exhausted.

“Dallas, did you think you could do this?” an Iditarod Insider videographer asked.

“What exactly did I do?”

“You just won the Iditarod, 2014.”

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Read more from this story HERE.

Bush Pilots Keep Alaska Moving

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Photo Credit: Chip Porter/Getty Photo, Getty ImagesWithin moments of entering the plane, I smelled the rich aroma of freshly ground coffee. The java, however, wasn’t being brewed by a flight attendant in the galley, because neither existed on this four-seater floatplane. The coffee was cargo. More on that in a minute.

Through headsets that thankfully muted the engine noise, pilot Paul Norden’s voice crackled, “All right, we’re out of here.” The plane began to race across a runway of water at the Lake Hood Seaplane Base, the largest such airport in the world, an aquatic version of New York’s JFK. A few seconds later, the Cessna 206 was airborne.

In most any other American tourist destination, I’d typically grab a cab. But these planes are the “cabs” of the Alaskan wilderness — and the limos and the supply trucks and the ambulances and vehicles for anything else that needs moving over this gorgeous, unforgiving land.

As the Anchorage skyline quickly disappeared behind us, Norden pointed out myriad lakes and rivers as he headed northwest. Flying only 700 feet above the ground, it was easy to spot an occasional moose — once the pilot pointed it out.

Read more this story HERE.

Lindsey Graham Hopes ‘We Don’t Lose Alaska’

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Photo Credit: Getty ImagesFirst Ukraine, then the Bering Strait?

Sen. Lindsey Graham joked Monday that the U.S. might need to watch out for Russian President Vladimir Putin on our own turf if things continue.

“I just hope we don’t lose Alaska. The more [President Barack] Obama talks to Putin the worse we do,” the South Carolina Republican cracked on “Kilmeade and Friends” on Fox News Radio.

Appearing on the show with his frequent partner in foreign policy, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Graham said the situation in Ukraine is a “defining moment” for Obama and he needs to rally Europe to stand up to Putin.

Read more this story HERE.

Anti-Mushing Group Paints Unfair Portrait of the Iditarod

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Photo Credit: mypubliclands / flickrSled dog mushing as a sport and a recreational activity owes a great deal to the Iditarod. Every aspect of the art and science of sled dog racing has been honed by years of intense competition in this race. Dog harnesses and sleds, training methods and routines, diet and exercise, veterinary care and breeding strategies have all evolved at an unprecedented pace when considering the fact that the partnership between man and sled dog dates back at least 4,000 years.

The Iditarod has evolved as well. Recognizing that preserving the health of the dogs is critical to the sport, the Iditarod’s leadership has sought to provide open access to its athletes, and the veterinary community has responded. These sled dogs are unique in what they do and how they do it, and clinical study after clinical study has been undertaken to advance the science of canine care.

This openness has provided a pathway for animal rights activists. Marjorie Glickman, of Miami, Fla., visited a dog kennel in Alaska and decided to devote her life to ending the Iditarod — and perhaps all dog mushing in Alaska. She founded the Sled Dog Action Coalition (SDAC). Study of this entity, with Ms. Glickman as director, leads to little information aside from the fact that it is based in Miami. No board of directors or staff is noted, nonprofit tax filings are not to be found.

Whether this is an actual organization or merely Ms. Glickman, no national media attention on the Iditarod is safe from comment by the SDAC. If a small-town newspaper in Idaho highlights the adventures of a local musher competing in the Iditarod, the SDAC will most likely cut-and-paste tales of woe into the online comment section and direct readers to the SDAC’s website. And what a website it is.

The SDAC website inundates its visitors with more than 871 bulleted comments designed to create the impression that the Iditarod overflows with inhumane mushers who beat, kick, bite and even eat their dogs. Any aberrant behavior seen in the race’s history is projected onto every current musher. Medical studies that conclude that disease or injury “may” be attributable to the race are headlined stating that the condition “is” attributable to the race. Quotes are taken out of context to further the goal of ending the sport of sled dog racing. Practices of 40 years ago are presented as if they still occur. Even the experiences of mushers not participating in the Iditarod are presented over and over again as if they apply.

What is clearly missing from the SDAC website is perspective. There have been 41,296 individual starts by sled dogs; 852 mushers have completed the Iditarod. Even the sensitive subject of dog deaths needs to be considered against the historical density of sled dogs that have run this race. For illustration, if we assume that all of these dogs average 10 days on the trail, they have spent almost 12 million hours racing. This is hardly scientific, but perhaps it adds context to the claims made by the SDAC.

Ms. Glickman and the Sled Dog Action Coalition wish to end the Iditarod. They actively target sponsors and gleefully report every sponsor who buckles under activist pressure. It is a sad irony that they seek to end the best avenue for continuing to improve the lives of sled dogs. Poor dog yard conditions, the rejection of aberrant behavior and deliberate cruelty will best be addressed by a healthy and responsive Iditarod.

Veterinarian Emi Berger was a volunteer veterinarian and was interviewed by Randi Weiner of The Journal News on March 31, 2011. Ms. Glickman picked 13 words out of a 932-word article. Under the headline “Stomach ulcers are common,” Dr. Berger is quoted; “This year, the most common thing I saw was pneumonia and stomach ulcers.”

I will offer a few more words from Dr. Berger’s interview; “The … questions I get asked all the time are ‘Is it cruel?’ and ‘Are they cold?’ ‘Do they like it?’ When that dog is dropped off, they’ll howl. They want to be out (running). That’s all they want,” she said. “It’s like a Labrador wanting to play ball. It’s the ultimate fun thing for them to do.”

Perhaps Marjorie Glickman missed that quote?

Mike Kinville was born in Sitka, spent 24 years in the Alaska Army National Guard and retired in 2007. He works on Fort Wainwright as a contracted supply technician.

This article was published in-full on Restoring Liberty with permission from Author.

Wells Fargo Gold Train Rides Again!

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Saturday, March 1st, Rod Perry cleared away some mists of time to help thirty thousand Iditarod Race spectators and an international TV audience look back into the glory days of the historic Iditarod Trail. Along with 1984 Iditarod Champ Dean Osmar and his team, Rod performed an Old North reenactment. Leading the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Ceremonial Start out of Anchorage, Rod rode a ouija (weegee) board and steered with a gee pole in front of the great oaken freight sled he, his brother Alan, and Cliff Sisson had just built. The performance demonstrated a freighting method unknown to moderns, but commonly seen during the North’s gold rush era.

Complete with period costuming the men portrayed the legendary Wells Fargo Gold Train. For eight years during Iditarod’s peak production a century ago, Wells Fargo annually mushed the incredible riches of the yearly cleanup over the Iditarod Trail to Seward for ocean shipment south. Those transports were not just bringing out a few nuggets and a little dust in a couple of moose-hide pokes; no, the Wells Fargo Express teams were entrusted to tow out gold by the literal ton worth millions. One year the company’s haul was 3,400 pounds drawn by several teams comprised of forty-six huge, old-breed freighting huskies. And this was anything but a short, daisy-strewn stroll in the park! Especially in the earliest years of the Gold Train, before there was a cut-and-marked trail and resupply points, it was characterized as, “make it all the way through on your own or die in the attempt.” Sleds loaded with thousands of pounds of supplies—mostly bales of dried salmon, rice, bacon and lard for the dogs, plus trail and camp gear, the daring men and their incredible huskies pushed hundreds of miles through blinding blizzards, excruciating sub-zero cold, deep, untracked snows, treacherous thin ice and overflows, and, in the dead of an arctic winter, the crossing of the greatest mountain range on the continent. Over a stretch of the trail that takes today’s Iditarod racers but four days to cover, it once took former Black Hills stagecoach driver Bob Griffis and his intrepid crew over five weeks, sometimes fighting to make as few as six miles a day.

Back in 2011 Rod also led the Ceremonial Start, that time commemorating the centennial of the building of the Iditarod Trail in 1910-1911. He then began thinking of how it could be done more effectively. Our modern races such as the Iditarod and Yukon Quest do bring attention to the old trails. However, they do not come close to conveying what historic trail use looked like. Modern mushers dressed like catalogue fashion plates driving small plastic sleds lightly loaded and traveling at three times the speed of the great freighting dogs of yore would have made a gold-rush-era trailsman blink his eyes in amazement and shake his head in lack of recognition. Being a history buff and hopeless Old North romantic, Rod decided to develop what he hopes will become an annual “Show Before the Show” which would take place in the hour leading up to the Ceremonial Start. As planned, the educational and entertaining spectacle would include historically authentic representations of a half dozen old-time trail users—trapper, freighter, mail carrier, the Wells Fargo Gold Train, an Athabascan family on their way to the Potlatch, and the inimitable Eskimo driver, Split the Wind. So as spectacularly successful as Rod’s portrayal this year was, he hopes it is but the beginning.

Rod Perry, author of the definitive works on Iditarod history, TRAILBREAKERS Pioneering Alaska’s Iditarod, is one of the founding drivers of the first Iditarod Race in 1973. He was appointed in 1979 by the Secretary of the Interior to the Iditarod National Historic Trail Advisory Council. For more written and photo coverage of construction of his historic sled, his run riding the ouija board and steering with the gee pole, and some of his recent newspaper, TV and radio interviews about the sled and run, go to www.rodperry.com and visit Rod’s Blog. More posts will be put up daily throughout the Iditarod Race. The sled is temporarily on display at the Wells Fargo Heritage Museum, C Street and Northern Lights in Anchorage.