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Alaska Freedom Fair and Convention

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Because of all the corruption going on in the Republican Party and other facets of government, that led to the establishment of an official charter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) here in Alaska. The Alaska Republican Assembly was recognized as an official certified charter in record time.

As President Ronald Reagan said, “The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.” Our mission is to release that dream.

An elemental requirement for freedom and success in life is a job, and so the Alaska Republican Assembly supports the mandate in the Alaska State Constitution to develop and use our natural resources.

The American dream rests on the opportunity to work hard in a profession or job that inspires us and enables us to pursue prosperity and freedom for ourselves and our families without government intrusion and over-regulation. The wisdom of President Reagan speaks again when he said, “We are a nation of freedom, living under God, believing all citizens must have the opportunity to grow, create wealth, and build a better life for those who follow. If we live up to those moral values, we can keep the American dream alive for our children and our grandchildren, and America will remain mankind’s best hope.”

The Alaska Republican Assembly is working to bring committed conservative men and women to leadership in the Republican party, to take back the Senate and the Presidency and promote the return of fiscal sanity, rule of law, and common sense. We support candidates who reflect the spirit of America’s core values in their beliefs and actions, and who will serve in uncompromising accord with those values. We want to unite conservative Americans, increase grassroots involvement, revitalize our party, and turn it into an electoral powerhouse that Americans can embrace once again.

It is with great anticipation that on May 24, 2014, the Alaska Republican Assembly will host the Alaska Freedom Fair & Convention at the Menard Center in Wasilla. Pastor Rafael Cruz, father of US Senator Ted Cruz, will be our keynote speaker. NFRA President Sharon Angle, Pacific NW NFRA Vice President Willes Lee, and Sheriff Richard Mack, author and motivational speaker, will join Pastor Cruz in leading the Convention.

Sharron Angle served as a Nevada State Assemblywoman and garnered 45% of the vote as the Republican Nominee when she ran for U.S. Senate challenging Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2010. Willes Lee has been a prominent conservative as a Hawaiian Republican, HRP chairman, and state candidate. Sheriff Richard Mack is a former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, and a two-time candidate for United States Congress.

We are especially honored to have Pastor Rafael Cruz join us at our Alaska Freedom Fair & Convention. Rafael Cruz is a powerful example of the American Dream. Born in Cuba, Rafael lived and suffered under a cruel, oppressive dictator. He began fighting Batista’s regime as a teenager and was imprisoned and tortured. In 1957 Rafael was able to leave Cuba and arrived in Texas with nothing but the clothes on his back and one hundred dollars hidden on his person. He got a job as a dishwasher, worked his way through the University of Texas, while learning English and later built a small business.

Rafael Cruz became active in conservative politics as a grassroots activist during the 1980 Presidential Campaign of Ronald Reagan. He is an ordained minister, sharing the word of God in churches and pastors conferences throughout the United States. His son, Ted Cruz, is a U.S. Senator from Texas. When Ted was a child growing up in Houston, Rafael would tell him, “When we faced oppression in Cuba, I had a place to flee to. If we lose our freedom here, where do we go?” It was because of his father’s inspiration that Ted Cruz ran and has become a champion for freedom in the US Senate.

Every person who values a self-governing society must participate in governance, or a small minority of professional politicians will govern—and may do so without reflecting the core values of the people. We the people—we the individuals—must get involved at the grassroots level now to stop the unprecedented loss of freedom and political corruption America is enduring.

Please feel free to pass it on to any individual, organization or business who believes in the concept of freedom, free enterprise, and liberty in all facets of life. Tickets are available online or at the door. Also you can find out more about the AKRA by visiting our website at https://www.alaskara.com.

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Alaska Man Faces 99 Years In State Troopers’ Murders

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Photo Credit: Department of Public Safety

Photo Credit: Department of Public Safety

A grand jury in Fairbanks on Thursday indicated Nathanial Kangas on six felony counts in the deaths of two Alaska State troopers.

The Office of Special Prosecutions says in a release that the 20-year-old Kangas is charged with two counts each of first- and second-degree murder in the May 1 deaths of Sgt. Scott Johnson and Trooper Gabe Rich in Tanana. He was also indicted on assault and evidence tampering charges.

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Miller Applauds Alaska Libertarians for Schooling Begich in Liberty

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Photo Credit: Senate Democrats / Flickr

Republican US Senate Candidate Joe Miller today responded to a recent statement from Alaska Libertarian Party Chair Michael Chambers regarding Senator Mark Begich’s recent mischaracterization of the libertarian movement in an interview with CBS News.

“I appreciate the fact that the Alaska Libertarian Party is speaking out on the important issues facing our state and nation,” Miller said. “What we don’t need more of is Mark Begich’s progressive ideology masquerading under the banner of liberty. True libertarianism is grounded in Constitutional liberty, and I am proud to share those values with the Alaska Libertarian Party.”

Begich attempted to align himself with libertarianism by suggesting that as Alaskans “we’re very libertarian . . . and we don’t think that government should be interfering in our personal and private lives.”

Alaska Libertarian Party Chair Michael Chambers responded with the following:

“Senator Begich, allow me to define the vast majority of libertarians for your educational benefit, as you seem to be confused:

1. I know of no Alaskan libertarian who would remotely support the government takeover of our healthcare industry.

2. I know of no Alaskan libertarian who would vote to confirm:
• Eric Holder – anti-gun
• Elena Kagan – anti-gun
• Sonia Sotomayor – anti-gun

3. I know of no Alaskan libertarian who supports:
• Common Core
• Federal Department of Education
• suppression of parental rights in education

4. I know of no Alaskan libertarian who would vote to support and advocate:
• The IRS in any malignant manifestation
• NDAA and the suspension of habeas corpus
• NSA invasion of our personal effects
• The Patriot Act

5. No Alaskan libertarian I know would advocate globalist policies like:
• The United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty
• TPP – Trans Pacific Partnerships
• UN Treaties having any jurisdiction or precedence over the US Constitution.

Certainly, there are a few libertarians who may support the socialist policies you advocate, but to infer that you are ‘libertarian’ in any of your political representations is to vacate any measure of truth.”

Miller concluded, “These are momentous times, and it is imperative that we transcend partisan frames of reference. The only way we can push back federal tyranny is for all Alaskans of good will to unite under the banner of Constitutional Liberty.”

Joe Miller is a husband, father, combat veteran, and advocate of Constitutional liberty who believes in individual rights, private property, free markets and the sanctity of human life.

For media inquiries contact Randy DeSoto at 907-888-8216 or [email protected].

Alaska Hunter Bags World Record Grizzly Bear

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Photo Credit: Fox News

Photo Credit: Fox News

Larry Fitzgerald and some pals were moose hunting near Fairbanks, Alaska, when they came across fresh bear tracks in the snow. Three hours later, the auto body man had taken down the grizzly that left the prints, an enormous bruin that stood nearly 9 feet tall and earned Fitzgerald a place in the record books.

Although Fitzgerald shot the bear last September, Boone and Crockett, which certifies hunting records, has only now determined the grizzly, with a skull measuring 27 and 6/16ths inches, is the biggest ever taken down by a hunter, and the second largest grizzly ever documented. Only a grizzly skull found by an Alaska taxidermist in 1976 was bigger than that of the bear Fitzgerald bagged.

“I’m not really a trophy hunter, or anything,” Fitzgerald, 35, told FoxNews.com. “But I guess it is kind of cool.”

Fitzgerald brought down the bear from 20 yards, with one shot to the neck from his Sako 300 rifle. He said he knew from the tracks he was on the trail of a massive grizzly, but only learned this week that he held a world record.

“We knew it was big,” he said. “It was a rush.”

Read more from this story HERE.

TRAGEDY: 2 Alaska State Troopers Killed

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Two Alaska State Troopers were shot and killed Thursday when they were conducting an investigation in the Interior Alaska village of Tanana, the agency and a local shopkeeper said.

Killed were Sgt. Patrick “Scott” Johnson and trooper Gabriel “Gabe” Rich,” agency spokeswoman Megan Peters said in a release. Both worked out of the troopers’ Fairbanks rural service unit.

Troopers have released few details about the incident in the isolated community located about 130 miles west of Fairbanks, other than saying one person has been detained. No roads lead to Tanana and travel there is mainly by aircraft. Residents live a largely subsistence lifestyle.

The troopers had gone to Tanana to follow up on a Wednesday night report that someone “had brandished a firearm in the village,” Peters said, adding she didn’t immediately have any further details of what happened.

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Internal Memos Reveal EPA Worked Behind the Scenes to Kill Alaska Mine Project

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Photo Credit: Fox News


The Environmental Protection Agency came under fire Thursday after new emails surfaced that allegedly show government officials worked in secret with tribal leaders and other environmental groups to preemptively oppose the controversial Pebble Mine project in Alaska before a review was even conducted.

The internal memos published by The Washington Times show EPA officials working behind the scenes as early as 2008 to kill the gold and copper mine project — two years before any scientific study or survey was conducted looking into the environmental impact.

“As you know I feel that both of these projects (Chuitna and Pebble) merit consideration of a 404C veto,” EPA official Phillip North wrote, according to the emails.

North, according to the Times, pushed to have the mine’s veto added to the agenda of a 2009 agency retreat.

But the EPA announced in 2011there would be a neutral and scientific review of the mining project. At the time, they said that concerns raised by environmental groups and local tribes would be investigated, but that no decision had been made.

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Feds Consider Taking Alaska Tribal Land into Trust

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Photo Credit: Paxson Woelber / flickr

The U.S. Department of Interior announced this week that it will consider taking Alaska tribal land into trust.

The move could lead to pockets of “Indian country,” where tribal courts and governments would have authority to create their own laws and justice systems, the Anchorage Daily News reported (https://is.gd/bUHu9y).

Currently, the only Indian country community with a reservation in the state is Metlakatla, in southeast Alaska.

The state opposes the move.

A judge in Washington, D.C., last year agreed with Alaska Native tribes, supported by nonprofit law firms, which sued in federal court saying the Interior Department should have been taking land into trust years ago.

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Alaska Supreme Court says Tax Exemptions Cannot Be Denied to Gay Couples

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Photo Credit: Mel Green / Creative Commons

Photo Credit: Mel Green / Creative Commons

Same-sex couples in Alaska must receive certain property tax exemptions given to married couples, despite a ban on gay marriage, the state Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

The decision in a lawsuit brought by three Anchorage same-sex couples represented a blow to the state, which had prevented gay and lesbian couples from taking advantage of a tax break for senior citizens and disabled veterans that, in some circumstances, takes into account marital status.

The ruling follows high-profile victories in recent months by gays and lesbians seeking the right to wed in several U.S. states.

Marriage rights have been extended to gay couples in 17 states and the District of Columbia in a trend that gained momentum when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last June that legally married same-sex couples nationwide are eligible for federal benefits.

In 1998, Alaska voters amended the state’s constitution to restrict marriage to between a man and a woman.

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Alaska: Neighbors Prepare for Natural Disasters with Emergency Watch

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Photo Credit: Your Alaska Link

When a natural disaster does strike, neighbors are going to be your closest source for help. Some streets are sticking together and making plans as part of the emergency watch program.

For many Alaskans having an emergency kit is not a priority,”wouldn’t it be better to just have that stuff at home?” said Michelle Torres, Public Information Officer for the Office of Emergency Management in Anchorage.

This program is designed specifically for the state’s largest city. The three major concerns are earthquakes, winter weather and wild fires, ” who in the neighborhood has tools, who in the neighborhood has a generator? does somebody know first aid or cpr?” said Torres.

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Alaskan Polar Bears Threatened…By Too Much Spring Ice

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Photo Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service / AP

Photo Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service / AP

Five meters of ice– about 16 feet thick – is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea region along Alaska’s Arctic coast, according to Dr. Susan J. Crockford, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia who has studied polar bears for most of her 35-year career.

That’s because the thick ice ridges could prevent ringed seals, the bears’ major prey, from creating breathing holes they need to survive in the frigid waters, Crockford told CNSNews.com.

“Prompted by reports of the heaviest sea ice conditions on the East Coast ‘in decades’ and news that ice on the Great Lakes is, for mid-April, the worst it’s been since records began, I took a close look at the ice thickness charts for the Arctic,” Crockford noted in her Polar Bear Science blog on April 18th.

“Sea ice charts aren’t a guarantee that this heavy spring ice phenomenon is developing in the Beaufort, but they could be a warning,” she wrote, noting that they “don’t bode well” for the Beaufort bears.

“What happens is that really thick ice moves in because currents and winds from Greenland and the Canadian islands push it against the shore,” Crockford told CNSNews.com.

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