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September 2012

“Hello There, Voter!”

This is really funny. Michele and I went to a great movie yesterday afternoon with Bruce Willis in it (Looper). When we came out, I found a little…sticker on my van’s driver-side window. You know, one of those little Post-It notes you use in the office? Here it is….

As the people of California destroy their state…

…could there be a place for their escaping businesses in New Hampshire? Read an interesting book review of “Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State — How California is Destroying itself, and Why it Matters.” (As is often the case, the commentary following the article is even more enlightening than the review itself.) (h/t to Instapundit.)

How to start a Fight – Part 3

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, “I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.” I bought her a bathroom scale. And then the fight started……

Cardinal Dolan Teaches “The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” to the Democrats

After the Democrats had dug themselves a hole, by first deciding to hold an Islamic Jumah at the DNC, and piling on by Obama refusing to have Cardinal Dolan say a prayer at the event before relenting, and then the shameful exclusion of references to God and Jerusalem from the Party Platform, and even more …

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“Promised Land” – It’s Fracking Paid for in Part By Arab Oil & Gas Interests

About Uber-leftist Matt Damon’s new film about the evil American oil and gas industry… A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United …

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Notable Quote(s): James Fenimore Cooper – Double Tap!

“Liberty, like equality, is a word more used than understood.  Perfect and absolute liberty is as incompatible with the existence of society, as equality of condition.” And… “If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.” – James Fenimore Cooper

Ask Carol Shea-Porter About Tapping Into Wireless Left-Wing Hypocrisy

Ask Carol Shea-Porter, well–ask any New Hampshire Democrat actually, about warrant-less wire taps.  Remember those?  The Democrats got all wound up about them under a previous president, but lets be honest; it was not because they really gave a damn about your rights or your privacy. They got wound up because they viewed it as …

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Copart Adds Facility in New Hampshire

From the Motely Fool.com Copart Adds Facility in New Hampshire DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Copart, Inc. (Nasdaq: CPRT  ) , a leading real-time online vehicle auction company, today announced the opening of its new 17 acre facility in Webster, New Hampshire. This latest addition to Copart’s footprint represents the company’s first facility in the state of New Hampshire …

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