Indoctrination and Free Speech

This morning on Girard at Large (part one of two) Rich and I discussed the leftward decline of SNHU, the search for a higher Ed solution that doesn’t come with as much social justice baggage (indoctrination boot camps), and how some schools obsessed with progressive “diversity” indoctrination find themselves losing money from declining enrollment.

Obama May Purchase Sea-Level Property on Martha’s Vineyard

On August 30th, Realtor.com reported speculation that the Obamas, former President, and the Mrs., are interested in two parcels along Red Gate Road in Martha’s Vineyard. Both are water-front abutting the sea and or Squibnocket pond, which will become part of the Atlantic should more than a decade of scaremongering from the Climatologist in chief come to … Read more

Hurricane Update from Tampa

We should get another update this morning, which I’ll add below this one but here’s Merrimack, NH storm chaser Josh Moore outside in Tampa last night leaning into 80 mph gusts with rain.

Ask Martha How She Does It

Apparently, the City of Portsmouth has a problem with people renting out apartments through Airbnb. “Officials do not track Airbnb rentals specifically, and city attorney Robert Sullivan says he estimates the total number of cease and desist orders issued this year for short-term rentals is less than 10.” “Sullivan explained on Thursday that unless something … Read more

Keene State Announces 5.5 Million Dollar Deficit – Guess Why?

It takes the Keene Sentinel 12 paragraphs to explain why the State college has a 5.5 million dollar hole in its budget this year. Ricaurte attributed the drop in revenue to lower-than-expected enrollment numbers, which she said are down a projected 9 percent for the current academic year. Fewer first-year students. That sounds familiar. I wonder … Read more

Notable Quote – John P. Warren

…Those imperfections are key to our continual search for true north beneath all the stars of good and evil. Those who forced our birth in 1776, carried with them bigotry and brutality, class and criminality. Yet, propelled as they were by a natural law embedded within them by an Almighty God, they struggled toward that more perfect union we still seek today.

Progressives do not see it that way, however. For them, it all gets down to one and only one principle for them: Government or God.

To make their world a reality, they must topple God, his Commandments, and the natural law undergirding our social mores. Slowly, surely, they have lured us from the pews into a segmented milieu where an hour of weekly worship is erased in favor self-absorption. Would that Sunday morning’s runners, ball-players, video games players, and social media mavens remember our dependence upon Him who gave us life, and act like it! Ironically, progressives have made self the current god in order to force their common good upon us all when disunity so fragments us we crave their solution to chaos.

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Notable Quote – The essence and foundation of capitalism

How can I help you today

For one thing, mutually advantageous exchange is not the worst ethical school. It is better than the violent pride of aristocrats or the violent insolence of bureaucrats. And in economic liberalism, the human desire to excel is provided millions of honorable paths, from model railway building to show business, as against in illiberal societies the narrow path to eminence at the court or politburo or army. We do not lose our souls in commerce, but cultivate them. The military, admired nowadays even in liberal societies, is commended daily for its “service.” But every economic act among consenting adults is service. The ethical habits of commerce are expressed daily in the way an American shopkeeper greets his customer: “How can I help you?”

-Deirdre McCloskey ( “The Core of Liberty Is Economic Liberty”)

BeCAUSE we have Freedom, we have

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Be Sure to Tune in Tomorrow Morning at 8:40 AM ET

Another Monday and another trip to the super secret studios to talk about the New Media, Free Speech, GraniteGrok, and politics in NH and the Nation. Tune in at 8:40 am ET to hear what’s on tap this week with the New Media Militia on Girard at Large or 90.7 FM WLMW.

Data Point – Are you ready?

National Preparedness MonthWith hurricane Harvey and Irma sucking up most of the cable news programs and it also being National Preparedness Month, I figured a coupla more data points might get someone’s attention that otherwise is part of that group that goes “Disaster??!?!?  Quick, get to the grocery store / gas station!”.

  • Stat 1: Federal spending on disasters increased 6698% from 1953 to 2009 (1)
    Stat 2: Only 39% of individuals have a basic emergency plan (2)
  • Stat 3: 75% of health care workers claim to be unprepared (2)
  • Stat 4: 44% of Americans don’t have first-aid kits in their homes (3)
  • Stat 5: The survival rate for CPR has been calculated at 20% (4)
  • Stat 6: 42% of Americans do not know an immediate family members phone number (5)
  • Stat 7: Over half of Americans do not have copies of their critical documents (3)

Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative (Print Book) by National Academies, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.
FEMA surveys
CDC surveys
AHA statistics
Pew Research Center

We’re lucky here in the Northeast this time around –

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Oberlin Follows Mizzou and Evergreen – Enrollment Drops, Financial Woes

OBERLIN COLLEGEOberlin College is at the forefront of social justice outrage hoaxes but until recently had not reported any real-world consequences. See what I did there? Real world? Mizzou went full-stupid with their fake outrage which cost themand cost them and cost them, and then cost them some more.

Evergreen took it to another level, and now they are paying the price. And now the snowflakes at fragile artsy Oberlin have set themselves up to fail with their hoaxes and nonsense which (you should think to their drama-queen delight) parents and potential future students have been watching.

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A Tale of Two Types of Voters

Licenses and IDsThe Concord paper serves a city that has a ton of people who work for or have a family member who works for the government. They like a news source that makes them feel happy and secure. Well, they have it in spades with the local paper.

Take this poorly crafted, but standard, attack article about the devious motives of a person who only wanted to put to rest all the allegations of voter fraud in New Hampshire. The story writer attempts to expose House Speaker Shawn Jasper for asking the Secretary of State to match the secret statewide database with NH DMV records of who has a valid driver’s license in NH.

There you have Speaker Jasper’s crime;

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Right To Know – when Government turns on the Citizens that own it

NH Right To KnowThe ‘Grok chronicled the efforts of co-founder Doug Lambert and friend Tom Tardiff when the Belknap County Delegation wanted to hide how they voted for the new County Sheriff Wiggins.  When the Delegation voted in secret, the 91-A demand was given, and the Delegation refused.  It eventually went to court where Doug and Tom, pro se (acting as their own lawyers), were victorious and proved that the “Peoples’ work” must be done in public. This ruling set a precedent that has been used in some subsequent Right To Know (RTK) court decisions.

The problem is that if our government decides to NOT abide by both the letter and the spirit of the law and starts stalling tactics, starts to hide data, or outright refuses to obey the law, what’s a citizen to do?  

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Notable Quote – Steve Horowitz

The laws of economics are not suspended in an emergency, no matter what the laws of politicians attempt to do. When goods are more scarce, they will be costly to obtain, whether those costs are in terms of money or something else. The importance of letting market prices do their job and determining who gets … Read more

Congressman Proposes Bill to Control Speech

orwell-free-speech (1)Maryland Congressman Anthony Brown has proposed legislation that would force every American college to define rules for acceptable speech. It includes federal money for small schools that need assistance in meeting the laws reporting and enforcement requirements. Rules that, if not followed could result in schools losing other federal dollars.

The Supreme Court should save us all a lot of bother and drop Mr. Brown a note before he says another word.

Dear Congressman Brown. Please see emphasized text in item one.  US Constitution. Bill of Rights. First Amendment,

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