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Big government is not simply the size of the budget, or the number of federal programs; it is the role the federal government plays in our daily lives.
We at the Lincoln Heritage Institute will not sit idly by and allow bloated bureaucracies, burdensome tax policies, a failing public education system, an out-of-control regulatory system, and a growing disregard for the rule of law to become an accepted way of life.
Our purpose, through public education, is the revitalization and preservation of our traditional political, social, commercial, and legal environment in which the only limits to achievement are individual ability and effort.
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Drill as I Say, Not as I Do |
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by Lene Johansen, Human Events
Environmentalists seldom practice what they preach. Al Gore’s home uses enough electricity to power a small town. And the National Audubon Society permits oil drilling in wildlife sanctuaries. The most emotive argument against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is conservation. The barren coastal plane that is the object of a fierce political battle in Washington is home to 42 mammal species, 36 species of fish, and over 160 species of birds.
Environmental groups such as the National Audubon Society say it will devastate the wildlife in the area. NAS owns several properties in other wildlife refuges. And they permit drilling on their own land. One of these properties is in the Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary in Vermillion County, La., and the other in the Bernard N. Baker Sanctuary in Calhoun County, Michigan.…
Kaktovik is the only community located within the coastal plain of ANWR where the drilling will take place. It consists of about 300 people, most of them Inupiat. The Inupiat economy is mostly based on hunting and fishing. Marie Kaveolook, a resident of Kaktovik, is not impressed with the double standards of the environmental activists. She says the residents have lived here for hundreds of years of “whatever God gave us.”
The community recently added a fire station and clinic, but the ANWR drilling will add much needed jobs to the community. She hopes they will be able to add a nursing home for the elders when the drilling starts. They are currently being sent to homes in Fairbanks and Anchorage, and the roundtrip flight to Fairbanks is prohibitive at $700. She says it was only a few decades ago that the community did not even have light and running water.
“We want progress to come because we have had so much hardship growing up here in the wilderness,” says Marie Kaveolook. “People who want to tell us how to manage our land don’t even know we live here.” |
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