Alaska News Digest

The judge who heard arguments in Joe Miller's challenge of the vote count has promised a ruling by tomorrow.

"A decision for Miller could result in thousands of challenged write-in ballots for Sen. Lisa Murkowski being reviewed and lead to a recount"...

Read more at the link.

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The 2011 Anchorage Fur Rendezvous (the "Rondy") will feature a new event: yukigassen, the Japanese snow battle sport which is becoming a big deal in North America.

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There's an editorial in today's paper (I'm sure they'd appreciate yet another link) asserting that opening ANWR to drilling would "feed America's addiction" and pose the potential for another accident like the Gulf of Mexico or the Exxon Valdez.  I'm also sure they'd want to be reminded that both of those accidents happened at sea, and ANWR is a land-based platform.

But don't confuse them with facts; their mind's made up with fantasy and whimsy.

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So how many of you are fed up with Democrats, mostly those defeated in last month's election, crying HUGE crocodile tears about the upcoming "tax cut for the richest Americans"?

Once more, for the record: extending the current tax rate across the board is NOT a "cut" ... it's not a "tax break" ... and it WILL NOT create more debt nor add to the deficit.

You know, that deficit that those self-same Dimocrits have quadrupled over the last 23 months. Just saying.

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A local man who was accused of murdering his friend, then dismembering the body & stuffing the assorted parts in a freezer, was found guilty of murder yesterday

Ya think?

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State wildlife officials have approved a plan for aerial hunting of the wolf packs which have been terrorizing the Alaska Peninsula village of Port Heiden.  'Bout time.

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That's about it for this morning. Thanks for stopping by.