Criminalizing Health Care Freedom
RealClearPolitics
November 21, 2009
By Brian Walsh & Hans Spakovsky

...Unless this paternalistic juggernaut is stopped, Americans will lose some of their most fundamental freedoms, and the power of the federal government to impose novel requirements in every facet of our personal lives will have become virtually unlimited.

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'Dear Santa' letters return to North Pole after postmaster general reverses decision
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
November 20, 2009
by Amanda Bohman

FAIRBANK — Santa’s elves in North Pole may want to sharpen their pencils.

The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday that it is resuming a program in which volunteers respond to some of the estimated 150,000 letters to Santa Claus that accumulate at the post office in North Pole.

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This weekend Mark Begich is set to betray Alaskans like no other politician in history.
Alaska Standard
November 20, 2009
By Dan Fagan

This weekend chances are good we will take a giant step toward turning America into a country mirroring European style socialism. Our country will never be the same once government takes over health care and that is exactly what will happen if the Senate passes health care legislation this weekend.

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Many worthy charities to get involved with during holidays
Anchorage Daily Planet
November 21, 2009
Editorial

As the holiday season approaches, we would like to encourage our readers to do what they can to help their neighbors who are less fortunate in the community.

The economic downturn is affecting added numbers of local residents so it is even more critical that we do what we can to help in some way.

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Anchorage Economic Development chief: state needs to work closely with private sector
Anchorage Daily Planet
November 21, 2009
By KIRSTEN ADAMS

The state of Alaska will need to work closely with private sector resource development to compete economically with other Pacific Rim countries, Bill Popp, president of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp., told the Resource Development Council on Thursday.

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Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails
Fox News
November 21, 2009
By Staff

Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British climate research center and leaked years worth of e-mail messages onto the Web, including one with a reference to a plan to "hide the decline" in temperatures.

The Internet is abuzz about the leaked data from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (commonly called Hadley CRU), which has acknowledged the theft of 61MB of confidential data.

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The Day Global Warming Stood Still
IBD.com
November 21, 2009
Editorial

Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December.

It will be a very cold winter of discontent for the warm-mongers.

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The Vacuum Of American Leadership
IBD.com
November 21, 2009
By MARK STEYN

My radio pal Hugh Hewitt said to me on the air the other day that Barack Obama "doesn't know how to be president." It was a low but effective crack, and I didn't pay it much heed. But, after musing on it over the last week or so, it seems to me frighteningly literally true.

I don't just mean social lapses like his latest cringe-making bow, this time to Their Imperial Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan — though that in itself is deeply weird:

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The Killers Within
American Thinker
November 21, 2009
By Bernie Reeves

A time bomb began ticking in the mid-1970s, when the psychiatric and mental health professions went politically correct and identified the mentally ill as "victims" who required advocates. While patients in general do need assistance, the activists turned caring into political action that changed the American cityscape and endangered our well-being.

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Running Man
Wall Street Journal
November 21, 2009
By BARI WEISS

When Meb Keflezighi finished the New York City Marathon in two hours, nine minutes and 15 seconds the morning after Halloween, he became the first American to win the race in 27 years. But some spectators apparently missed the three red letters on his chest as he burst through the tape.

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