Alaska's Republican Lieutenant Governor's Debate in Ketchikan on Friday

Three Republican Candidates for Lieutenant Governor will be in Ketchikan for a Candidate's Forum at the Ted Ferry Civic Center on Friday, July 30 at 6pm. The event is hosted by the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce, District 1 Republicans and First City Republican Women's Club.

Lieutenant Governor Candidates Eddie Burke, Jay Ramras and Mead Treadwell have all agreed to be our guests in Ketchikan to allow the voters in our area to ask them questions on issues that are important to them.

On Saturday, August 7 at the Ted Ferry Civic Center at 6 pm there will be a Republican Governor's Forum. Scheduled for this forum are Republican Governor Candidates Sam Little, Ralph Samuels and Bill Walker.

Written questions are being solicited from community members for the first part of the forum. The second half will include written questions taken from the audience that evening. Submit questions in advance to the Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce: info@ketchikanchamberofcommerce.com

The Taxes Are Coming!

The Tax Tsunami On The Horizon

Posted 07/21/2010 06:41 PM ET

Fiscal Policy: Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the country back on the right track. But unless something's done soon, the new year will also come with a raft of tax hikes — including a return of the death tax — that will be real killers... more here

Health Care Model In Flux?

Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care

By SARAH LYALL

Published: July 24, 2010

LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate... more here

Regular Folks United

Journolist

Just Say No to the Energy Bill!

Son of Cap and Tax

The destructive fine print in Harry Reid's energy bill.

In the Mad Mad Mad Mad World that is Senate energy politics, Democrats want a climate bill, really they do, even as they deny that they favor a climate bill at all. "Those words are not in my vocabulary," Majority Leader Harry Reid said last week when asked about cap and trade. Meanwhile, the White House, green groups and industry will continue their closed-door negotiations until the moment the bill comes to the floor as early as Monday... more here

Politically Correct Health Care Records

And they told us that electronic records were necessary to keep health care records accurate.

Obama's Electronic Health Records Czar: HIV Status and Abortions Need Not be Included

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

(CNSNews.com) – Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration's National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said on Tuesday that patients can choose to omit procedures such as abortions and positive HIV tests from the electronic health records (EHR) that every American is supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the economic stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year... more here

How Government Intervention Kills Jobs

Dealergate, social justice & the Obama job-killing machine

By Michelle Malkin • July 21, 2010 03:48 AM

Everything you need to know about the nightmare of government-controlled businesses can be found in a damning new inspector general’s report on Dealergate. The independent review of how and why the Obama administration forced Chrysler and General Motors to oversee mass closures of car dealerships across the country reveals grisly incompetence, fatal bureaucratic hubris and Big Labor cronyism... more here

Will Atlas Shrug?

Atlas Shrugged's Timeless Moral: Profit-Making Is Virtue, Not Vice

By YARON BROOK

Posted 07/20/2010 06:44 PM ET

In the years leading up to 2008—09's financial meltdown, government control over mortgages, interest rates and America's banking system was at an all-time high.

And yet when crisis struck, free enterprise took the blame.

The cure, therefore, was to give government even wider powers. Washington can now bail out any company, fire CEOs, override contracts and print billions of dollars to "stimulate" the economy — all in the name of the public interest. The result? Our deficits and debt continue to mount, and there's a real possibility of a future like Greece's.

This is the state of our world today. It's remarkably similar to the state of the world in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," a mystery story about a future America whose economy is disintegrating and whose government is accumulating power faster than anyone thought possible.... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/540970/201007201844/Atlas-Shruggeds-Timeless-Moral-Profit-Making-Is-Virtue-Not-Vice.aspx

Shirley Sherrod, March 27 NAACP

Shirley Sherrod's speech at the NAACP.

Left on Wright

Stating the Obvious...

Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright

By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller | Published: 1:15 AM 07/20/2010

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate... read more

The Great Deception

July 18, 2010

White House: We lied when we denied the insurance mandate was a tax

Rick Moran

Faced with the probability that the Supreme Court would deep six Obamacare due to the unconstitutionality of the individual mandate for all Americans to buy insurance, the Obama administration has switched gears and is now saying that their critics were right; that the mandate is, in fact, a tax; .... more here

Remember this discussion?

Or this one?

Larry Kudlow on Job Creation

Business Knows More than Obama

A Commentary By Lawrence Kudlow

Saturday, July 17, 2010

The clash between business and the administration has become the high-drama news story of the summer. Business leaders have slammed the White House over policies they regard as hostile to jobs, including taxes, trade and all manner of new regulations. And amidst a subpar and virtually jobless recovery, their grievances have resonated with the electorate.... more here

Is the TEA Party Racist?

Come and find out. Those who would make false accusations about us have forgotten one important thing; there are video cameras at these meetings. And what they have captured tell a very different story....

Hilary Shelton of the NAACP asks the TEA Party to repudiate racism. OK. We’ll show you how we repudiate racism....

Think Progress put out a video to prove that there is racism in the TEA Party. But, this video has been proven to be manufactured propaganda. Come and see it refuted here.

Playing the race card will backfire against the left. Dick Morris tells us why here.

Lincoln, Thank You

Lincoln or Kagan

A Commentary by Tony Blankley

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

... it could be said that no one can rightly be called an American legal scholar who does not understand that the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are the animating purposes of all our laws -- of the law. They are the soul of our Constitution. Without those rights, the body of law is a corpse -- a soulless, purposeless, manipulable, disposable, dead, material thing. If Ms. Kagan does not know that, then she knows nothing of our law... read more

Depression Economy

Read "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shlaes for more understanding of how FDR's policies - so similar to this administration's policies - caused a prolongation of the great depression.

Obama Economy Sends Americans to Their Mattresses

A Commentary By Michael Barone

Monday, July 12, 2010

Government policies designed to stimulate the economy seem to be having the opposite effect. Consumers aren't buying, businesses aren't hiring, and those fortunate enough to have some cash on hand don't seem to be investing... read more here

50% Rate Obama’s Economic Performance As Poor

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Obama administration officials continue to insist that the economy is showing signs of improvement, but most voters aren’t buying it... read more here

Nightmare Care

ObamaCare: Dream Turned Nightmare

Posted 07/09/2010 07:02 PM ET

Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and John Barrasso of Wyoming are the only two members of the U.S. Senate with M.D.s, and their prognosis in the report, titled "Bad Medicine: a Check-up on the New Federal Health Law," is far from good... more here

The President's One-Man Death Panel

Posted 07/08/2010 06:59 PM ET

Health Care: The president recess-appoints a fan of rationing and Britain's National Health Service to direct one-third of American health care... more here

It's More Than Lame

Call or write your congressman and let them know that this strategy will get more of them kicked out in 2012. We will NOT forget!

The Obama-Pelosi Lame Duck Strategy

Union 'card-check,' cap and trade, and so much more.

JULY 9, 2010

The rush to recess gives Democrats little time to pass any major laws. That's why there have been signs in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session to muscle through bills in December they don't want to defend before November. Retiring or defeated members of Congress would then be able to vote for sweeping legislation without any fear of voter retaliation.... more here

Liberals Disappointed In President

He's Done Everything Wrong

by Mort Zuckerman

Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days.

I’m very disappointed. We endorsed him. I voted for him. I supported him publicly and privately... more here

American's Not Behind the Law Suit Against Arizona

56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Voters by a two-to-one margin oppose the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court.... more here

Lawsuit Against Arizona Highlights the Fed's Incompetence

The Hollow Case Against Arizona

Posted 07/07/2010 06:48 PM ET

Law: After smearing Arizona's immigration law as racial profiling, the Justice Department has issued its lawsuit against the state. But it's not about civil rights anymore. It's about a federal "right" to not enforce U.S. law... read more

We Still Favor Repeal of The New Health Care Law

Health Care Law

60% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, Just 41% See Repeal as Likely

Monday, July 05, 2010

Sixty percent (60%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the recently passed health care law, including 49% who Strongly Favor repeal.... read more

Another "Demon Pass"

This is an outrage! Call your Senator!

House Democrats ‘Deem’ Faux $1.1 Trillion Budget ‘as Passed’

by Connie Hair

07/02/2010

Last night, as part of a procedural vote on the emergency war supplemental bill, House Democrats attached a document that "deemed as passed" a non-existent $1.12 trillion budget. The execution of the "deeming" document allows Democrats to start spending money for Fiscal Year 2011 without the pesky constraints of a budget.... http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37893

Justice Department Instructs Attorneys to Ignore Black on White Racial Crimes

Ex-Official Accuses Justice Department of Racial Bias in Black Panther Case

Published July 06, 2010

| FoxNews.com

In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/ex-official-accuses-justice-department-racial-bias-black-panther-case/

View the original video here...

Happy Independence Day From the Ketchikan Tea Party!

Is This Health Care Bill "Rational"?

Health law risks turning away sick

By Julian Pecquet - 07/01/10 07:13 PM ET

Administration officials insist they can make changes to the program to ensure it lasts until 2014, and that it may not have to turn away sick people. Officials said the administration could also consider reducing benefits under the program, or redistributing funds between state pools. But they acknowledged turning some people away was also a possibility.... http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/106887-health-law-risks-turning-away-sick

Kagan Has Trouble With the Declaration of Independence

Call your congressmen to let them know that you want a filibuster! We need to know more about this woman and what she really does believe before putting her on the Supreme Court.

Nancy Pelosi's Plan for Creating Jobs

The Last Refuge Of The Incompetent

Posted 07/01/2010 07:01 PM ET

On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said unemployment checks create "jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name." We are not making this up. This is what passes for economic wisdom in the Democratic Party... http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/539183/201007011901/The-Last-Refuge-Of-The-Incompetent.aspx