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Double-Plus Newspeak

Reprinted in its entirety from Seacoastonline.com “We were reminded that democracy, as the founders warned, is fragile.” – J. Dennis Robinson

Larger is the New Smaller

Suppose some people come to your home and tell you that, since you have too much money, and they don’t have enough, you have to give them some of yours; and if you don’t, they’ll hurt you.  If they do this regularly, they don’t even need to continue with the threats, since the ongoing threat …

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AP Makes it Official – We’re Covering Up for the Rioters

This is a constant refrain from me – the Left is always trying to bastardize, redefine, and weaponize what used to be our common language to move their agenda forward. You name it, any word that’s now used in politics has a far different meaning to the Left than we Normals.

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Kindergarten Experts? Seriously?

Remember when a student who needed to repeat a grade in school would be ‘held back’, rather than promoted with the rest of his cohort?  Apparently there’s a new term for that:  ‘Expert’.

NHGOP’s Orwellian Adventure

After several fine speeches about teamwork and unity at the convention this Saturday, things didn’t go so smoothly – here’s how: We have to divide the party in order to unite it (Jim Foley’s rant from the podium, and Wayne MacDOnald’s attack on bloggers.) We have to hide the vote count in order to prove …

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