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Letter from Eagle River: Attacks on Kavanaugh not credible

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Dear Editor:

As a deeply concerned Alaskan and a student of history, I am convinced that the attacks on Judge Kavanaugh are as untrue as their convenient timing is suspicious. I look at each of the allegations and ask, True or untrue? If true, why is it likely to be true? And the same for untrue.

I have concluded that the accusers’ claims are incredible – as in, literally, not credible.

On that basis, I can find no reasonable cause for Sen. Lisa Murkowski to vote any other way than for confirmation for Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

~ David M Ciocchi, Eagle River, Alaska

 

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Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

 

Daytime soaps: The Kavanaugh inquisition

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CNN TO OPEN UP STREAM, NOT REQUIRE CABLE ACCESS

AdWeek reports the following television schedule for Thursday’s testimony of Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled for 6 am Alaska Time:

  • PBS NewsHour will report extensively on the Senate Judiciary hearing and testimony from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford on broadcast (check local listings), online and on social.
  • Anchored by managing editor Judy Woodruff with with correspondent Lisa Desjardinsfrom the U.S. Capitol, coverage will extend into PBS NewsHour’s nightly broadcast as well as online at pbs.org/newshour to include a live stream of the hearings on NewsHour’s homepage as well as on FacebookTwitter/PeriscopeYouTube and Ustream.
  • Live coverage on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN.org and the C-SPAN Radio App beginning at 10 a.m. ET.
  • Chief anchor George Stephanopoulos will lead network coverage of the hearing from ABC’s New York news headquarters.
  • World News Tonight anchor David Muir will anchor coverage from Capitol Hill. ABC News senior congressional correspondent Mary Bruce will have live updates.
  • Chief foreign correspondent Terry Moran will be at the Supreme Court with chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega, senior legal correspondent and The View co-host Sunny Hostin, chief legal analyst Dan Abrams and political analyst Cokie Roberts.
  • ABC News coverage of Judge Kavanaugh and Professor Blasey Ford’s Senate testimony will be available on ABCNews.com, Roku, AppleTV, Amazon Fire TV, YouTube and ABC News social channels (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). ABC News Live, the network’s 24/7 breaking news and live events channel, will stream the testimony, and ABC News’ daily newscast “On Location” also will cover the hearing. The episode will post midday, exclusively on Facebook Watch.
  • ABC News Radio  begins live coverage on Thursday, at 6 am Alaska Time with Aaron Katersky anchoring from New York, Karen Travers at the White House, Kenneth Moton on Capitol Hill, ABC News Supreme Court contributor Kate Shaw and ABC news legal analyst Royal Oakes. ABC News Radio will also air a one-hour special beginning at 7:06p.m. ET recapping the day’s events.
  • CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor will be live from Washington D.C.
  • CTM’s Norah O’Donnell, Gayle King, and John Dickerson as well as CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor will lead CBS’ special coverage beginning at 10 a.m. ET, with additional coverage on CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 streaming news service.
  • CBS This Morning will be anchored by O’Donnell from Capitol Hill with King and Dickerson from the network’s Washington bureau.
  • CBS This Morning anchors and CBS Evening News’ Jeff Glor will anchor CBS News’ special report CBS News Coverage of the Kavanaugh Hearings live throughout the day.
  • CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor will broadcast live from the Washington bureau in its usual 2:30 p.m. timeslot Alaska Time.
  • A team of CBS News correspondents will contribute to the division-wide coverage including Nancy Cordes, Jan Crawford, Ed O’Keefe, Weijia Jiang and Paula Reid. CBS News contributors Jodi Kantor and Rikki Klieman will also join the coverage.
  • CBSN will stream coverage led by Vladimir Duthiers and Anne Marie Green starting at 5 am Alaska Time.
  • CBS News’ special coverage at 6 am Alaska Time will be simulcast on CBSN. Additionally, CBSN will continue to deliver original reporting with Tanya Rivero following the end of the hearings and into the evening.
  • The CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor will provide comprehensive coverage on the day’s events.
  • CBS News Radio will provide wall-to-wall coverage of the hearings with Steven Portnoyanchoring from Washington; Steve Dorsey and Leonard Steinhorn will contribute. CBS News Radio will also provide stations with short-form special reports throughout the day.
  • CBS This Morning will begin the day with coverage ahead of the hearings and will also offer an optional additional hour for select stations at 5 a.m. Alaska Time.
  • CBS Newspath, CBS News’ newsgathering organization providing news and information to 200+ CBS affiliates nationwide and to broadcasters around the world, will feature extensive coverage of the hearings throughout the day. Mola Lenghi and Nikole Killion will report from Capitol Hill.
  • CNN’s special coverage of Judge Kavanaugh’s hearing will have Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper anchoring from Washington, D.C. along with Dana Bash, John King, Gloria Borger, Nia-Malika Henderson, Joan Biskupic and Jeffrey Toobin.
  • CNN congressional correspondents Manu Raju, Sunlen Serfaty and Phil Mattingly will be live from Capitol Hill alongside Supreme Court Reporter Ariane De Vouge.
  • CNN will offer wall-to-wall coverage during both Judge Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford’s testimonies and questioning along with in-depth analysis during the hearing’s breaks.
  • CNN will live stream the testimony to the U.S Senate Judiciary Committee beginning at 4:30 am Alaska Time without requiring log-in to a cable provider.
  • The CNN livestream will be available on CNN.com’s homepage and across mobile devices via CNN’s apps for iOS and Android. It can also be viewed on CNNgo (at CNN.com/go on your desktop, smartphone, and iPad, and via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire and Android TV), no log in required. Watch live CNN TV on any device, anywhere.
  • Live coverage on C-SPAN3, C-SPAN.org and the C-SPAN Radio App beginning at 6 am Alaska Time.
  • Fox News Channel will present special live coverage of the hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on Thursday, September 27th at 5 am Alaska Time from Washington DC.
  • Co-anchored by Special Report’s Bret Baier and The Story’s Martha MacCallum, the hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin at 6 am Alaska Time.
  • Additional contributions will be made by Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace, Fox News @ Night’s Shannon Bream, senior political analyst Brit Hume, senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano and FNC contributors Marie Harf and Mollie Hemingway.
  • Live coverage of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s testimonies before the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow at 5:30 am Alaska Time.
  • Coverage will be led by NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, NBC News chief legal correspondent and Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, moderator of Meet the Press and NBC News political director Chuck Todd, Megyn Kelly Today host Megyn Kelly, and NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
  • On MSNBC, coverage begins at 5:50 am Alaska Time with Stephanie Ruhle who will be joined by Brian Williams, host of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, in the lead up to the hearings.
  • Williams will anchor continuing coverage joined by Ruhle, Mitchell, Ali Velshi, Katy Turand a slate of NBC News and MSNBC correspondents throughout the day.
  • NBC News national correspondent Peter Alexander, MSNBC correspondent Garrett Haake, NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt, NBC News chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson, Today news anchor Craig Melvin, NBC News White House correspondents Kelly O’Donnell and Kristen Welker, and NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams will report for both NBC and MSNBC from locations across Washington D.C. including Capitol Hill and the White House.
  • Beginning at 5:30 am Alaska Time, special coverage will stream live on NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, the NBC News app, YouTube, and OTT platforms. NBC News digital reporters including Jon Allen, Dylan Byers, Dartunorro Clark, Danny Cevallos, Carrie Dann, Ken Dilanian, Adam Edelman, Mark Murray, Rebecca Shabad and Jane C. Timm will provide original, digital coverage and analysis and contribute to the live blog.

Governor orders future state signs to include Native language

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TRUTH, RACIAL HEALING, AND GOVERNMENT-TO-GOVERNMENT MANDATED BY AO 300

Gov. Bill Walker signed Administrative Order 300 on Sunday, with specific instructions to state departments, including an order that each department come up for a plan for addressing racism against Alaska Natives.

The order is race-based for indigenous people in Alaska to the exclusion of other races and languages. The order is part of the governor’s linguistic emergency declaration.

Every department is now required to appoint or hire a tribal liaison to work closely with the commissioner and produce a written plan for engaging tribes and something the governor calls the “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) endeavor.”

The plan will include steps to facilitate direct government-to-government relationships between each department and the 229 federally designated Alaska tribes, with specific actions departments will take in the “Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation” process.

Additionally, the governor has ordered all signs that are created, replaced or reprinted for state and local highways, and marine signage, will contain “accurately spelled traditional Alaska Native place names.” The cost of doing this is unknown.

Metlakatla is Maaxłakxaała in Tsimshian; new signage would need to contain both spellings.

The Tlingit name for Juneau is Dzántik’i Héeni, which means Base of the Flounder’s River. It is also the name of one of the middle schools in Juneau.

Glacier Bay is Sit’ Eeti Geeyi, or Bay Taking the place of the Ice or Glacier.

Wrangell is  Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw, while Klukwan is Tlakw Áan.

The Chandalar River is either Teedriinjik and Ch’idriinjik in Yup’ik, but there may be other variations.

Alaskans can be sure the lettering on the signs will be in the English-Latin alphabet with its 26 letters; there were no written languages in Alaska before the arrival of Russians.

The State website got things going with a bilingual welcome that is now featured and it includes an audio version that will help you with pronunciation of “Hello, how are you?”

English was made the official language of the state in 1998 by voter initiative, but House Bill 216 in 2014 made 20 Alaska Native languages also official languages, bringing the total to 21 official languages.

According to the 2007 American Community Survey, 85 percent of Alaskans speak English at home, 4.3 percent speak an Asian language, 3.5 percent speak Spanish, 2 percent speak an Indo-European language other than Spanish or English.

It is documented that 5 percent of Alaskans can speak one of the 22 indigenous languages in Alaska. About 11,000 Alaskans, for example, speak some version of Yup’ik.

Crime town hall report: 115 attend to speak to Dunleavy

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CRIME WAS ON THEIR MINDS AT THE LOUSSAC LIBRARY

When candidate Mark Begich held a crime-focused town hall meeting on Monday in Anchorage, five people attended to speak to the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nominee. It was a disappointing night for the state’s top Democrat.

But on Tuesday, more than 115 people came through the town hall meeting held by Mike Dunleavy, who is clearly the leading candidate for governor.

The crime victims in Anchorage have figured out who the next governor is going to be and came to tell him their stories directly, without the filter of a controlling moderator. This was raw heartache being spoken into the microphone.

Anchorage residents told their stories for two hours at the Wilda Marston Theater in the Loussac Library — stories of how they don’t go to the mailbox anymore without a firearm. Stories about children sleeping in their beds, while drug-addled homeless people lingered 45 feet from their bedroom windows. The city tells parents that the homeless people “have rights too.”

The stories included one from a woman whose boyfriend was murdered, and then her son was later killed in cold blood in downtown Anchorage. She’s still waiting for the trial.

Another story came from a man who had his jet ski stolen in Big Lake, only to be told by law officers that these types of crimes are never solved, even though police know who is doing them.

Dunleavy listened, took notes, and occasionally responded to pointed questions, such as the one posed by Butch Moore, father of a young lady who was killed by her boyfriend, and whose name is now attached to a dating violence prevention law known as Bree’s Law.

Dunleavy said he is trying to understand how policies that sound good on paper affect real people in Alaska.

Laws like SB 91 may have been built on the smooth advice of Outside consultants, but Dunleavy wanted to hear from people who experience crime every day, and how unintended consequences of laws like SB 91 are changing the way they live.

There were no stilted forum questions, no “yes or no” paddles from moderators — just Dunleavy and the people.

One woman described how while having an alarm system installed in her house, thieves tried to steal the security company’s van that was parked in her driveway.

Don Jones, a former candidate for House, said that when he had been going door to door in his district, five out of 10 residents had had their cars stolen in the past few months.

Another woman described a detailed timeline of crime in her Muldoon neighborhood, and another described the devastation she felt as a mother when she was driving through a Muldoon business with her 15-year old daughter, who witnessed someone shooting up drugs in broad daylight.

The evening came to a close before the stories were all told. Dunleavy closed by saying that he wants immediate action when he becomes governor. Although he admitted not having all the answers, he said that after two years if the situation was not improved, he’d consider it a personal failure.

Letter from Anchorage: Mob rule at its worst

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http://mustreadalaska.com/letter-from-prince-of-wales-sen-lisa-will-vote-yes/http://mustreadalaska.com/letter-from-prince-of-wales-sen-lisa-will-vote-yes/Dear Editor,

As a mother of two sons and 5 grandsons I hope they are never accused of sexual abuse by a women with absolutely no collaborating evidence. It seems our world has become one where women never lie and men are nothing but sexual predators.

As a retired principal, I assure you, females are as capable of making things up and lying as any man. This whole fiasco not only sickens me, it makes me very sad that the US Senate confirmation process has become a circus and mockery. I vividly remember the Bork and Thomas confirmation hearings. We have been here before. You cannot show me where a Republican Senator has EVER exhibited such behavior in the confirmation of someone being nominated for a position. It is with disbelief that not ONE Democrat has come forward on behalf of Judge Kavanaugh.

Have they no shame? What happened to the party of my father? He would not recognize it today. It is time for women to stand for the men in their lives. They are all too afraid. This is all about personal destruction against someone who shares our values and believes in the Constitution of the United States.

It is mob rule in its worse form.

~ Judy Eledge, Anchorage

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Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

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Dear Editor,

I wrote to Sen. Lisa Murkowski this morning, to ask her to please listen to the voice of Alaskans.  We are saying please stand with Senate Republicans in voting to support Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination as a Supreme Court Justice. I called her attention to a recent Must Read Alaska poll in which 93 percent voted that she should support the Kavanaugh Nomination.

~ George Lambert, Delta Junction, USCG Retired

Letter from Prince of Wales: Sen. Lisa will vote yes

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Dear Editor,

Everyone including their mother, their grandmother and the Russian Bots (who influenced the election) have said everything that there is to say on the fake sexual abuse allegations against Kavanaugh already.

What hasn’t been talked about much is, how will the confirmation vote go?

Will Kavanaugh Be Confirmed?

Right now the three Republican Senators to watch are Susan Collins of Maine, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. I can’t comment on the other two, as I don’t know much about them. However, I do know quite a bit about Lisa “Murky Waters” Murkowski, who has quite a reputation in the state.

Background

“She is the daughter of former U.S. Senator and Governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski. Before her appointment to the Senate, she served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was eventually elected majority leader. Murkowski was appointed to the U.S. Senate by her father, Frank Murkowski, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become the Governor of Alaska. She completed her father’s unexpired term, which ended in January 2005. She ran for and won a full term in 2004.” [Source: https://infogalactic.com/info/Lisa_Murkowski]

Alaskans have a paradox. We are the most conservative Socialists in the nation.

On one hand, we are fiercely independent, economically sustainable (more or less) and hate federal meddling; don’t ask an Alaskan for their opinion on “The Roadless Rule.”

On the other hand, we are a complete welfare state by the strictest definition. We are heavily dependent on military aid that help support Fairbanks and Anchorage. Southeast, Alaska is heavily dependent on the state capitol remaining in Juneau. Native Corporations are heavily dependent on the Oil and Gas Pipeline to keep their villages going. And we love our Permanent Fund Dividend—don’t ask an Alaskan for their opinion on Governor Walker cutting the PFD in half.

So, while Alaskans as a complete group (including the Natives) hate the D.C. entrenched establishment, we play soft-ball with our politicians when we recognize they are able to keep Alaska fat and flowing with federal fiduciary funds. This is one of the main reasons why Murkowski was able to win her improbable Congressional campaigns:

“She ran for a second term in 2010. She lost the Republican Party nomination to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller. She then ran as a write-in candidate and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the general election,[1] making her the first senator to be elected by write-in vote since Strom Thurmond in 1954, and only the second in U.S. history.[2] Although Sen. Murkowski has won three full terms to the Senate, she has never won a majority of the vote, winning pluralities each time: 48.5% in 2004, 39.5% in 2010 and 44% in 2016.” [Source: https://infogalactic.com/info/Lisa_Murkowski]

Lisa was a brand of politician that we could trust. We knew her father and while he had his issues, he more or mostly-less kept Alaska going through difficult times and it wasn’t much of a stretch to put our trust in another Murkowski.

CUT TO 2018

The reason why the Brett Kavanaugh judicial confirmation is so controversial is because it will solidify a “Right-Wing” tilt in the Supreme Court. This is also why Democrats are throwing everything, including their fake sex abuse victims at the political wall and hoping it will stick.

Lisa Murkowski is now in a pickle because she has to balance two things:

  1. Satisfying the people who put her in office (the Native groups).
  2. Satisfying the rest of the state who are obsessed with pork-barrel spending.

In order to please the first group, she makes the second group mad and if she pleases the second group she may lose her next election due to the first group’s withdrawal of support.

She’s in a lose-lose situation. Right now she is a Republican caucused with the Republican majority in the Senate. Regardless of how the midterms go, the Senate will remain majority Republican. However, if she votes against Kavanaugh the Republicans will forever hold a grudge against her and will strip her of any committees and positions of influence.

If this happens, group two is going to be mad and group one will also be mad in the long term because all their pet projects won’t materialize.

HOW WILL LISA VOTE?

Yes. Lisa Murkowski is going to make a calculated decision and vote in favor. Yes, Native groups voted her into office and they will be furious, however, her office doesn’t expire for another 4 years until 2022–PLENTY OF TIME FOR NATIVES TO FORGET SHE VOTED FOR KAVANAUGH.

Plus, after the midterm elections she will be guaranteed influential positions in the Senate and will have the prime ability to keep flooding Alaska with money and keep everyone happy.

Then come 2022, she will tell the Native groups,

“I know you were upset but look at all the great programs and “XYZ” projects that I brought back to Alaska! I’m the Chair of _________, which is important for the state, and I had to vote for Kavanaugh because that was in the best interest for the State of Alaska.”

I don’t know about the thought process for the Sen. Sullivan, however, after understanding the history of Murkowski she will be a solid vote for Brett Kavanaugh.

~ Arthur Martin, Editor of powreport.com, Prince of Wales Island

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Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

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Letter from Kenai: I support Kavanaugh

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Editor,

The Senate will soon cast a critical vote on the confirmation of President Trump’s new SupremeCourt nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Last year, Republicans, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, stood for the interests of the American people by voting to confirm the president’s first nominee for the bench, Justice Neil Gorsuch. Now, we once again have an opportunity to confirm another justice to the Supreme Court who will uphold the rule of law and protect individual liberties.

Ahead of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote, Senator Murkowski has advocated for “a real,fair analysis” of his qualifications for the Supreme Court. After meeting Kavanaugh, Murkowski said she is looking for a Supreme Court Justice with the character, the intelligence, and the balance to impartially apply the law to the facts of the case.

I believe Judge Kavanaugh would be the ideal judge in the Founding Fathers’ eyes. He respects the Constitution and will uphold the rule of law. Legal scholars from all sides of the political spectrum have publicly praised his qualifications and spoken out in unequivocal support of his nomination.

Those who oppose Judge Kavanaugh do so without a reasonable argument and rely upon fear mongering and character assassination to make their case. They are motivated and mobilized.

Their tactic is to distract; it is ironic and pathetic that this American patriot must endure humiliation in the court of public opinion before he is honored with elevation to the highest court in the land.

Our duty as responsible citizens is to help focus our representative’s attention on the truth of the matter. If you want to see Senator Murkowski once again stand for the American people and not be persuaded by recent bullying tactics, then you must contact her and voice your opinion. Please contact her office immediately — (202) 224-6665 — and tell her that you support confirming Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

It’s that simple. And your participation really does matter!

~ Ben Carpenter, Kenai, Alaska

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Letter from Delta Junction: Vote yes on Kavanaugh

 

The war on men: The sexual politics edition

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MUST READ ALASKA WILL FEATURE KAVANAUGH LETTERS FROM ALASKANS

It started with Sen. Dianne Feinstein making a vague allegation from an anonymous source, relating to an unknown event, at an unspecific time, in an undescribed place, 35 years ago.

Brett Kavanaugh did something, Feinstein said. It was going to be bad. She just couldn’t say what — not just yet.

After a while, the public was given more salacious details. It wasn’t much, but it was enough of a titillating spore for the opposition and its willing media partners to work with to destroy a Supreme Court nominee’s reputation.

The accuser worked with a team of lawyers, and started bargaining with the Senate Judiciary Committee. She wanted a FBI investigation into something that happened to her in high school, 35 years ago. Something that no one else could verify.

It went from an alleged bed-wrestling match [by order of the governor’s Chief of Staff Scott Kendall, this section is hereby removed and I apologize to all victims at his strong advice to do so] to this: Kavanaugh used to arrange gang rapes in college, according to the opposition.

We’ve gone from high school drinking to gang rapes in the course of two weeks, accusing a sitting federal judge, who has had six FBI background investigations during the course of his career, of heinous acts against women. How much lower can it go?

Fashion caters to the sexual being. The Left would have us believe otherwise, but women use sex for advantage as much as men do. They just do it in their own way.

Now, however, we have a sitting federal judge being forced on national TV to tell a Fox News interviewer that he was a virgin until long after college. The media is now asking judges to describe their sex lives?

In the current #metoo era, men’s very spirits are being crushed by the incessant unfounded accusations against them. They are meat for the political grinder of the feminist Left.

Men are, quite simply, under assault. That includes brothers, husbands, sons, and fathers — all are now at risk of being accused.  Many falsely.

Human sexuality is exceedingly complex. It is not entirely about procreation. It is about romance, libido, power, and excitement. It is about everything in life and it is widely exploited in nearly every industry as a way to increase sales, whether they’re selling vacuum cleaners or cars. Sex appeal is as old as when a neanderthal wore tooth necklaces.

After weeks of playing hard to get with the committee, the accuser finally agreed that Sept. 27 is when she may testify. Or maybe not — her communications have slipped back into negotiations with the committee.

The New Yorker, meanwhile, brought forward another allegation, equally unsubstantiated if not more so. And her lawyer accuses the judge of gang rape. The media pounces.

Perhaps the mainstream media still does not understand why so many Americans do, in fact, consider it an enemy. The New Yorker hit job proves the argument: News reporters are by and large an extension of the Democratic Party’s hostile takeover of American centrist values.

Kavanaugh on Monday sent a letter to the committee saying he will not withdraw.

“The coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out,” he wrote. “The vile threats of violence against my family will not drive me out. The last-minute character assassination will not succeed.”

NOW WHAT?

Democrats dragged America into the mud on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.

It is going to take Republicans with grit to put this confirmation into four-wheel drive and pull us out of the ditch, or there will never be another confirmation of a man to the Supreme Court. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski knows how to drive a four-wheeler. This would be a good moment for her to put one in gear. Alaskans would be impressed, as would literally millions of Americans in the Lower 48.

Republicans in the Senate need to remember that Trump got elected because, in part, of the power of the presidency to rein in activist judges on the Supreme Court. If Kavanaugh is not confirmed, the conservative voters of America will not forget.

ALASKANS WRITE LETTERS

Several Alaskans have written to Must Read Alaska asking that their letters to the editor in favor of Kavanaugh be printed here because they are not being printed in the mainstream media.

For the next several days, Must Read Alaska will be printing those letters. They may be sent to Suzanne @ mustreadalaska.com.  (Some letters, but not all, will appear under the “Columns” header on this website. This is essentially a workload issue, as only so many letters can be processed by one person.)