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December 2014

Notable Quote – Star Parker

“…America was founded as a nation under God. The whole idea was that there are prior truths originating from our Creator and the role of government is to secure these truths and protect citizens. When the job of government is no longer to protect you but tell you where you can send your child to …

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Alexis De Tocqueville warned us of despotism and tyranny arising in democracies – the Administrative State

Even though French philosopher Alexis De Tocquville toured the nascent American Democracy back in the mid-1800’s, even as he was in wonderment of the strength of its Civil Society (e.g., non-governmental), he was prescient in diagnosing its probable demise in the rise of those that would control the others under the guise of “we’re here …

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Notable Quote – Mark Steyn

  [su_quote style=”default” cite=”” url=”” class=””]..in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced.  If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperment, within government defined parameters, it isn’t free at all.[/su_quote] The [un] Documented Mark Steyn pg 418

So what are the NH State Senate Rogue Republicans and Democrat appointed Speaker Jasper going to do about chopped Fed Medicaid rates?

“…doctors who have been receiving the enhanced payments will see their fees for primary care cut by 43 percent, on average” As Medicaid Rolls Swell, Cuts in Payments to Doctors Threaten Access to Care WASHINGTON — Just as millions of people are gaining insurance through Medicaid, the program is poised to make deep cuts in payments to …

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Moments of Supreme Irony

(Breitbart) In a moment of supreme irony, Michael Mann, the climatologist who constructed the now debunked hockey stick graph designed to make the case for global warming, has today delivered a lecture on “professional ethics for climate scientists”, Watts Up With That has reported.   In another supreme irony Democrat elected Speaker Shawn Jasper, the …

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More schools ditching Michelle Obama’s school lunch Federal Govt “EAT THIS!” program

As I mentioned here, Michelle Obama’s signature act as co-Progressive President is swirling the waste can – and now, more schools (in Wyoming) are dumping her program into the hopper as well (reformatted, emphasis mine): Seven Wyoming schools have decided to go it alone when it comes to serving their kids lunch, saying “goodbye” to the …

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As a former VERY frequent flier I know what my response would have been…

Anti-Police Protesters Make Weary Travelers’ Lives More Difficult with a New Kind of Demonstration Out of the many protests we have seen against police officers since November, there have been various approaches taken. Protesters in Seattle disrupted a tree lighting ceremony and made children cry, for example. Now protesters in St. Louis are trying a new …

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On that washed up, out of touch, irrelevant personage formerly known as Sarah Palin…

Copied in its entirety (reformatted, emphasis mine): ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR: Sarah Palin? For all her detractors’ cries of “irrelevance” and “she’s just a reality show entertainer” (those two being among the nicer epithets), Palin goes on, election cycle after election cycle, populating Congress with her endorsed candidates in a cost-effective manner, and in such numbers …

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