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Death of only TRUE First Amendment rally in America? Is “Live Free or Die” DOA?

May 31, 2009

Got an email from Jean Coutu, organizer of the Live Free or Die Rally: The Town’s demands for a site plan review subject to all boards and abutters’ approvals drove in the death nail on the LFOD Rally. Today the ACLU refused to intervene due to firearms being at the rally. We have contacted hundreds [ Read more ]

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We owe, we owe, it’s off to work we go…..drat….

May 31, 2009

President Obama is oft wont to proclaim how bad the Bush Administration was in spending; it seems to be a hobby (habit) now in using that old child’s ruse of trying to deflect a parent’s ire over some ill he has done by stating "But look what Johnny did!" And just like with Johnny, Obama [ Read more ]

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So, you think Obama can run the auto, finance, educational loan, AND healthcare industries?

May 30, 2009

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified." -President Barack Obama, 1/20/09 One of these days, I should take on the last part [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Nancy Pelosi (huh??)

May 30, 2009

Nancy Pelosi in China, 2009: In answering a question from a student about how Pelosi was going to get Americans to cut back on their carbon emissions, the leading Democratic lawmaker said it was important to educate children on how to conserve energy and for citizens to build more environmentally friendly homes. "We have so [ Read more ]

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It always tastes good going down…

May 30, 2009

Here’s the answer to your problems… Dr. Utopia’s sensational new discovery: "ISM." "ISM" will cure any ailment of the body politic… This short film, though made in 1948, is quite relevent given the present times:     [H/T Bob McCarty]

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Coach, AKA Craig T. Nelson: A One Man Tea Party!

May 29, 2009

He played a great part on one of many people’s favorite TV shows, Coach. Now, Craig T. Nelson plays a great part in real life. Appearing on Glenn Beck and  discussing the economic situations in California and at the Federal level, he noted he may end up paying NINETY PERCENT of his income in taxes. He also [ Read more ]

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Safety is no accident.

May 29, 2009

  [H/T Marcus via Kevin on Facebook]

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His word is as good as…

May 28, 2009

Today, our friends at CPR-Action in conjunction with the National Organization for Marriage launched the new television ad “His Word”. Commenting on the ad, CPR-Action Executive Director, Kevin Smith, stated, “From the very moment the Governor introduced this amendment, we believed he did so as cover for having flipped his position on gay marriage.  Much [ Read more ]

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Tainted “stimulus.” Transparency? We don’t need no stinkin’ transparency!

May 28, 2009

As reported in yesterday’s Daily Sun [PDF], Belknap County has once again decided to go the hard route with former Laconia Mayor Tom Tardif and yours truly, declaring that the two of us “don’t know what” we’re “talking about.” While that sentiment as expressed in the front page headline has no doubt excited certain people that [ Read more ]

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Another reason why we lose politically…

May 25, 2009

Here are three posts that do a very good job at discussing why social conservatives may think that they are right, but lose. Too often, to take Christians to task for a bit, we have some folks that are fine and dandy for standing up for what they believe in.  The vast majority do not [ Read more ]

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Waxman / Markey – lots of Government control, lots of new taxes, much loss of liberty

May 25, 2009

Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) & Ed Markey (D-MA), under the guise of saving the planet, are about to unleash the most sweeping curtailing of our liberties and thinning out of our wallets by taxes ever seen in the history of the US.  Instituting these enviros-socialist’s version of a "cap and trade" (or TAX AND PAY, [ Read more ]

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Notable Quote – Ludwig von Mises

May 23, 2009

This one is for Jorge! "In the market of a capitalistic society the common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality." – Ludwig von Mises (The Anti-Capitalism Mentality, Ludwig von Mises, 1956, p. 1.) Each person in a capitalistic [ Read more ]

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The taxpayers have spoken

May 23, 2009

With the vote earlier this week, California taxpayers sent a resounding "NO FURTHER – NO MORE" message to the politicians. Think of it as "Tea Parties writ LARGE".  No longer do taxpayers want to subsidize everything under the sun; no more spending other peoples’ money for their bright (hmm, I may want to rethink that [ Read more ]

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Time to have a Tea Party in his office?

May 22, 2009

Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most argumentative, partisan, and Statists of the Congress.  He has never met an idea that centralizes more power to the government (over allowing citizens to keep it).  Now, he has a whopper of a tool to clout us all with – his idea of protecting us from [ Read more ]

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BOLDLY going where no man has gone before…

May 22, 2009

    Hey, can’t we just turn the channel and turn him into "Lost in Space"? That way, he’d never come back? (H/T: Trouble)

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Obama’s House of Pizza. Coming soon to a neighborhood near… everybody!

May 22, 2009

This is from Chandler at a not so Capitol Idea. How can this NOT be the end result of the present path we’ve charted under the Magic Obama?      

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Notable Quotes – Martin Van Buren

May 22, 2009

(emphasis mine): All communities are apt to look to government for too much.  Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so, especially at periods of sudden embarrassment and distress.  But this ought not to be.  The framers of our excellent Constitution and the [ Read more ]

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Well, er, ah, uh, I guess, er, ah, hmmm, I was a little hasty…

May 21, 2009

Dr. Monica Crowley at the American Daily Review: Early this morning, The Hill was still reporting that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was adamant that the president was holding firm on the decision to close Gitmo. By this afternoon, Gibbs was saying that perhaps it was, in fact, a “hasty decision.” Meaning: The Bama [ Read more ]

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BREAKING NEWS – NH House rejects Gov Lynch’s amended Gay Marriage Bill

May 20, 2009

  Details to follow (probably after work).  This is GREAT news! Senate approved the changes: The New Hampshire Senate has approved changes Gov. John Lynch demanded to sign legislation to make his state the sixth to allow gay marriage. The House is to vote on the changes later today. If it adopts them, Gov. John [ Read more ]

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Don’t leave home without it…

May 19, 2009

 

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