Data Point – How did the British gun ban do for decreasing gun crime?
Results: #FAIL if I’m reading these charts right. (H/T: QandO)
Results: #FAIL if I’m reading these charts right. (H/T: QandO)
There was an article in the NYT that caught my eye: Clout Diminished, Tea Party Turns to Narrower Issues The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism …
Unable to get elected to the NH Republican State Committee is no impediment for Fergus! Read More »
Here are two pull quotes from the New Hampshire Union Leader that I wanted to share. One is about trust, the other about safety. I think you’ll find them…interesting. In an article on 2013 LSR H-0451 regarding a proposed change to the right to know law, New Hampshire House Democrat Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Penacook, …
…became the law in Oklahoma on November 1, 2012. World doesn’t end. (Note: Open carry has always been legal in New Hampshire; it is guaranteed by the New Hampshire State Constitution. You can read about that from 2nd Amendment hero Sam Cohen of Pro-Gun New Hampshire HERE.)
If you wanted to bring western civilization down, give it a good beating for all its so-called malfeasance, what better way than to make it near impossible to sustain the things that made being a western civilization all it was cracked up to be? Consider that which makes us or any of our allies any …
“Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness,”—David Pietrusza Our Good Friend WARNER TODD-HOUSTON over at Breitbart.com shares this little niblet:
Ugh. Like I said,in order to have their political jones satisfied, Progressives / Socialists / Marxists / Communists have understood for decades that they have to unmoor the American public from their traditional values in order – and in this case, a most important – Parents authority and responsibility. Here’s a quick story that chops …
But who needs a Dad when Government gives you permission to literally screw up! Read More »
Civil Society – that “space” that the Founders cherished that was to be between a limited Government and Individuals. An important foundational part of that future was to be the nuclear family: Mother, Father, children (again, like Capitalism, under attack by Progressives / Socialists / Marxists / Communists for their own greedy political power grab …
A sad commentary: Having to ask Santa for a “Dad”? Read More »
Innovationism: Deirdre McCloskey says somewhere that a better name for capitalism is “innovationism” – innovationism unleashed only in societies in which private property rights are at least reasonably secure, freedom of contract is at least reasonably the norm, markets are at least reasonably free, and (importantly) the multitude of bourgeois merchants and accountants and actuaries …
Taxpayer funded blog commenting? Maybe. If the loquacious Ray Guarino that mercilessly comments on the Nashua Patch, is the same Ray Guarino that’s a Transportation Planner at the Old Colony Planning Council in Brockton, MA, a government entity, then it appears so. It may not be. They may not be the same person, or he’s …