Marc Thiessen, a right-wing sage at the Washington Post, provided many specifics last week in a column headlined “How Trump can win in Alaska: The president has the right plan for his summit with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine.”
Almost every line in his column was wrong, except for this one, “Putin’s goal is to buy more time.”
Read MoreAs more than $1 billion worth of U.S. military aircraft flew over Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Sullivan recorded the scene on his phone and could be heard saying to himself, “Take that Vladimir,” as Putin strolled over the red carpet.
Read MoreAdam Crum, who has been running for governor for months as a state employee, claims he understands the “function of government, the function of the Legislature, the important things to the private sector, so I'll have a functioning government up and running faster than anybody else.”
But he doesn’t seen to understand one of the core functions of the state Department of Revenue, where he was commissioner until last week.
Read MorePresident Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed to hold a World War II summit in Fairbanks in 1943, thinking the choice would be acceptable to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Stalin claimed he liked the idea of meeting in Fairbanks, a gathering that would have changed the history of Alaska.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump, 79, who is clearly slipping, said twice during a meeting with reporters Monday that he was “going to Russia” this week.
He is not going to Russia. He is coming to Alaska. He didn’t correct himself.
Read More“Mr Putin seems to have achieved this diplomatic triumph simply by skilfully playing his recent negotiations with American envoys. It was a familiar pattern for Mr Trump—hard rhetoric, then soft climbdown and more breathing space for the Kremlin,” The Economist reported.
Read MoreOn the day that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. canceled $500 million in vaccine research, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan could have said something in a public appearance with him about his reckless attack on national health care that puts lives at risk.
But they didn’t. They showered him with compliments.
Read More“Mr. Wood’s contracts with the state do not render him ineligible for appointment any more than other members of the Alaska Judicial Council with contracts under which they are entitled to payment by the state,” wrote attorneys Claire Keneally and Robert Kutchin on Taylor’s behalf.
This legal reasoning would not be out of place in the third grade, where a child breaking the rules defends himself by claiming that the other kid broke the rules and got away with it.
Read MoreSens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan could have tried to prevent RFK’s confirmation, but they sided with ignorance and arrogance in elevating this crackpot to a position of power. Kennedy is in Alaska this week and Alaska senators are helping him spread his anti-vaccine nonsense by what they choose to say and what they refuse to say.
Read MoreGov. Mike Dunleavy, who has excelled in making state government less efficient, has ordered state agencies to declare that natural resource permit applications should be approved automatically if the state misses a deadline to take action.
The oil companies, the mining companies and the cruise ship companies will be happy to hear of Dunleavy’s carte blanche initiative.
It’s the latest terrible idea from Dunleavy, contained in an administrative order that is even worse.
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