All of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a place to protect, not a place to drill for oil.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of America’s last remaining wild landscapes, unspoiled and vast, that exists as it has for millennia. Thankfully, the federal government recently recommended that the refuge’s fragile coastal plain and other important areas should be permanently protected as congressionally designated wilderness areas.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150129/lets-protect-anwr-forever

I think of Alaska and all I see are undereducated people, low thinkers who use too many drugs, drink too much, and abuse women.

If Alaska thinks that what makes it "Man's Country," they are showing the teenage male intellect they've fully evolved having.

It's Buck Wild on Ice.

(all the other opinion pieces in the paper are thanking Obama)



The Alaska delegation would have us think that all Alaskans are "outraged" by the wilderness recommendation and has responded in the media using the language of a "declaration of war." This language connotes the ecology of violence both against our Mother Earth and is related to the high rates of violence that we experience as Alaska Native women. There is a direct correlation, and part of the problem is that we are not creating a culture of caring for one another but instead a divisive and hostile culture. We need to recognize that we are interconnected to one another and are a part of our environment -- not separate, but equal constituents of our planet.

A birthing ground is no place for a battlefield. Each summer up to 40,000 calves from the Porcupine caribou herd are born and nurse on the coastal plain of the refuge. As a mother, I am acutely aware of the conditions we must maintain from womb to birth to ensure the health of mother and child and also that birthing space is sacred. What is sacred anymore in this world? Where is our civility, our humanity as we address these issues? Do we not have a moral obligation to future generations to do all we can to work toward leaving behind a more vibrant, thriving planet that will sustain human life?
http://www.adn.com/article/20150131/birthing-ground-anwr-no-battlefield

Obama sells out Alaska's economic future to mollify his green base

Because of Obama’s glaring disconnect with Alaska, it is no matter to him the state is poised at the edge of a steep fiscal cliff, no matter oil production is stagnant or that prices have plummeted. It is no matter Alaska depends on oil for 90 percent of its revenues, that half the state’s economy and a third of its jobs depend on oil, no matter it is facing a $3.5 billion deficit.

http://www.adn.com/article/20150131/obama-sells-out-alaskas-economic-future-mollify-his-green-base


What an asshole!

anyone? or maybe just 'like' the best comments?

http://www.adn.com/article/20150131/walker-obama-anwr-wilderness-call-violates-statehood-compact-and-anilca

I'm absolutely positive he will read the comments and they will make an impression, hopefully a difference.