Posted on 06/08/2025 5:03:33 PM PDT by karpov
Deadhorse, Alaska
It’s unusual to find a cabinet-level official—much less three—standing on a makeshift platform amid barren permafrost, enduring “balmy” 20-degree weather, 4,650 miles by road from the White House. It’s a show of commitment to an overlooked yet central theme of this Trump administration—setting free the private economy.
That plank of the Trump agenda has been eclipsed by drama over tariffs and the Republican tax bill, though it is economically as important and moving far faster. Leading it are Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. Joe Biden instituted a “whole of government” effort to regulate; the Trump trio is working together to get government out of the way.
Alaska has become the symbol of the effort, in part because, as Mr. Wright says in an interview, there is “so much upside to unleashing” the state. Because much of Alaska is owned by the federal government, it became a case study during the Biden years of Washington’s power to grind industry to a halt.
Mr. Biden infamously directed more than 70 orders and actions at killing development in the state, with rules that not only blocked access to federal resources but tied the hands of local officials to engage in state projects while simultaneously scaring off investors. Alaska’s pipeline—800 miles long, built to serve bountiful oil fields—operates at a quarter of its capacity. Alaskan timber burns to “save” it from harvesting. Alaska has some of the world’s largest reserves of coal, zinc, gold and lead—which, along with rare-earth minerals, remain trapped in the ground. The Biden team squelched oil, gas, mining, road building, timber, hunting, trapping. Their attitude: Let Alaskans eat tourists.
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Standing outside in 20 degree weather is a nothing for Burgum. That’s T-shirt weather for where he’s from.
The caribou. The pipeline led to an explosion of caribou births after the environmentalists said they’d die. You see they all hung around it as the temperature was warmer so what do you think the amorous ones are gonna do when it’s warm outside? Stupid people out there have a problem getting laid.
I read yesterday that Michael Horowitz, DOJ Inspector General has been tapped by The Federal Reserve Board to be the FED’s IG. The President nominates the members of the Board. The Senate confirms. In most cases, the President nominates Inspector Generals. The President also nominates the Head of the Federal Reserve and is confirmed by the Senate. Is the Federal Reserve different when it comes to appointing Inspector Generals? Why would the President have the authority to nominate the FED Chair and the Board Members, but not the Inspector General of the FED? I haven’t heard anything yet of President Trump nominating anyone to take Horowitz’s place. Horowitz wasn’t all that effective in recommending punishment for FBI/DOJ employees in the aftermath of Crossfire Hurricane, the Mueller Investigation or any of the other shenanigans the Departments got up to during Trump’s four years. He took office during Obama’s administration.
Indeed, I saw programmers going to work (where Doug was in charge and I also worked) in 20 BELOW temps in t-shirts, shorts and flip flops.
It’s only about 150 feet to your car anyway, so no big deal.
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