Alaska budget debate starts: $3,400 PFD?
Watch: Biden video shows their weird, cabaret Christmas idea
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Check out the graphics: Governor proposes $13.9 billion budget for next fiscal year, $3,400 full PFD
The budget is presented in a way every Alaskan can understand, with the most transparent budget reveal in history as Dunleavy takes the message to the People.
Here’s how the mainstream media spun it:
Cornel West, independent socialist candidate, says he’s on Alaska ballot
He also says that he’ll give a $10,000 Permanent Fund dividend to every Alaskan as part of his universal basic income plan. Oh, and an end to oil. This is one of the most bizarre pair of promises ever, but he is a socialist of the first order, after all.
20% of voters using mailed ballots say they’ve committed fraud
With more cities and states moving to mailed elections, this raises some concerns.
Blue dogs roll over: Impeachment inquiry starts, but Peltola loyal to Biden
She voted to expel Rep. Santos but not to investigate Biden crime family.
State fall revenue forecast released: $6.5 billion
Where money is coming from next year, how much is expected from which bucket.
We appreciate all generous Alaskans who keep this conservative enterprise going!
Watch: White House Christmas video goes vaudeville
A cabaret Christmas is what the White House has in a video released by the First Lady, with no nod to the sacred. Now, it’s just another show, ala Weimer’s Germany.
Question of the week
Interior Republicans Friday Luncheon: Joe Balash, speaker
Joe Balash, senior veep for external affairs at Santos, Ltd, is the Friday lunch speaker for Interior Republicans. Location: Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks. Time: 11:30 am.
United Nations agreement: World must move from fossil fuels by 2050
The agreement isn’t binding but it will invigorate the anti-oil peeps to push harder. Some are talking up nuclear energy as the only viable replacement.
Quote of the day
This day in history
Dec. 15, 1791, the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Bill of Rights, were adopted as a single unit.
Columns
Downing: Starlink bridges rural digital divide, but Biden’s FCC is stuck on stupid
The vindictive FCC wants to go backward, when in fact, redundancy is so important in internet security. But he’s got it in for Elon Musk.
Kelly Tshibaka: Fighting for justice at the Justice Department
Matthew Whitaker has written a book about what the Justice Department deep-staters tried to do (and did) to Donald Trump.
Election integrity analyst says Alaska voter rolls are least accurate
Alaska has more registered voters than adults eligible to vote.
Michael Brown: To accuse Israel of genocide is scandalous
If Israel wanted to take out all Palestinians, it could do so. What Israel is doing in defending itself is not genocide.
Alexander Dolitsky: Israel, homeland of Jewish people for 3,500 years
Pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic protests in our country are shocking. But it also has been predictable: The same protests have been occurring in Europe for years, as immigrants become violent and are reluctant to assimilate with the host country.
Downing’s Daily Caller: Biden scores an own-goal on the Olympics
In The Daily Caller on Sunday, we write about the sticky (no pun intended) situation Biden has made for the International Olympics Committee.
Michael Tavoliero: Is it time to move to partisan municipal elections?
Nonpartisan elections were supposed to help people focus on local problems like potholes, not national agendas. But it’s not turning out that way.
Alex Gimarc: Thinking past the sale on the big plan for decarbonization
And remember, you are the carbon they want to decarbonize.
John Morris: Why Alaska healthcare community sued state
A doctor explains how insurance companies keep jacking up the rates, and then pay doctors less and less. The lawsuit is complicated.
Rick Whitbeck: Alaska Democrats’ platform going against all fossil fuel?
The documents show where the Democrats are taking their party in Alaska, and it is against oil. Oil, you know, the substance that pays for Alaska’s way of life.
Alaska oil: $78.31
Henry Hub gas: $2.39
Alaska North Slope Production: 484,033
Permanent Fund (principal and earnings reserve): $78,097,500,000
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