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Sunday May 19 | Anchorage Daily News

Players in the Pebble wars

Founder of McKinley Capital Management, an investment firm in Anchorage. He has a big family compound on Lake Clark near the proposed Pebble mine and is a relentless, and wealthy, opponent of the project.

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Related Topix: Anchorage, AK, US Politics, US News, Don Young, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate

Wed May 15, 2013

State Department

Secretary's Remarks: Remarks at the Arctic Council Ministerial Session

Thank you very much, Minister Bildt, and thank you for hosting this important event.

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Related Topix: US Senate, Republican, Lisa Murkowski, US Politics, US News

Mon May 13, 2013

The Huffington Post

Sarah Palin Poll Shows Former Gov. Would Narrowly Lead Primary Field For Alaska Senate

Sarah Palin would have a narrow edge in the GOP primary to challenge Sen. Mark Begich in 2014, according to a poll whose sponsors hope to draft her for the race.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Senator Mark Begich, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, US Governors, Sarah Palin, Matt Mead, Tea Party

Sat May 11, 2013

Free Republic

Rep. Pelosi knocks Republicans' 'obsession' with Benghazi attack

Congressional Republicans are using their Benghazi investigation as political "subterfuge" to distract from other issues, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Saturday.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Senate, Republican

Fri May 10, 2013

Wired

OK, He Didn't Cause Hurricane Katrina. But He Is Guilty of Fraud.

In the history of U.S. military research, there's never been a project with such a combination of big science, high sleaze, and pure conspiratorial strangeness.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Physics, Science, Van Nuys, CA

Wed May 08, 2013

CrimProf Blog

Green on Federal Criminal Discovery Reform

Bruce A. Green has posted Federal Criminal Discovery Reform: A Legislative Approach on SSRN.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Lisa Murkowski

Tue May 07, 2013

Politico

Durbin's defense panel approach

When Sen. Dick Durbin took over the powerful defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee in late January, the Illinois Democrat knew that he had some work to do.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Senator Dick Durbin, Barack Obama, Democrat, Illinois, Illinois Government, Daniel Inouye, Republican, Harry Reid

Sat May 04, 2013

The Huffington Post

White House Celebrates Star Wars Day, Still Refuses To Build A Death Star

A December 2012 "We the People" petition urged the White House to go where it has never gone before by constructing a "Death Star" by 2016 to "strengthen our national defense." The Obama Administration shot down the dreams of Star Wars fans everywhere in January, claiming it "does not support blowing up planets." "I have flown twice over Mount St.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, France, World News, US Governors, Sarah Palin, W., George Bush

Wed May 01, 2013

The Huffington Post

Does Climate Change Drive Prostitution?

The Internets were abuzz this week with tales of how Rep. Barbara Lee , that notorious Berkeley liberal, introduced a resolution claiming that climate change forces women to be prostitutes.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barbara Lee, Republican, US House of Representatives, Dana Rohrabacher, Democrat, Weather, Agriculture, Science, US Senate

McClatchy

Sarah Palin for Senate? Some tea party activists want her to run

Sarah Palin's last elective position in Alaska ended early when in 2009 she abandoned the governorship midway through her first term.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Senator Mark Begich, US Senate, Democrat, Republican, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, US Governors, Sarah Palin

Tue Apr 30, 2013

Switched

Lamar Smith: Science Peer Review Process Would 'Improve' With Political Oversight

The chairman of the House Science Committee on Tuesday defended his controversial draft legislation that would subject the National Science Foundation's peer review process to politics as necessary to "improve" science.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lamar Smith, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Democrat, US Senate

Fri Apr 26, 2013

Switched

Purported 4th-Grade Science Test Says Dinosaurs Lived With Humans

Dinosaurs hung out with humans; God created dinosaurs on the sixth day; the "behemoth" described in the Bible's Book of Job actually refers to a brontosaurus.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics