Data Point – Record taxes through August 2017

Running Government beyond our means?  The kicker: “At the same time that the federal government was collecting a record $2,966,172,000,000 in tax revenues, it was spending $3,639,882,000,000—and, thus, running a deficit of $673,711,000,000.” Yet, a deal was made last week to put no limit on the Debt Ceiling – the first day after the bill was … Read more

Palate Cleanser – this is magnificent!

I love watching these Rube Goldberg machine setups in action.  However, there is SO much going on, you have to hit the gear (lower right corner of the video) and slow the video down.  Even at 75% speed, there’s an awful lot going on. (H/T: Sploid)

Data Point – How much is in YOUR wallet?

Here’s the percentage of the 8,000 survey respondents who have: $0 saved: 39 percent Less than $1,000 saved: 18 percent $1,000 to $4,999 saved: 12 percent $5,000 to $9,999 saved: 6 percent $10,000 or more saved: 25 percent (H/T: CNBC)

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen – goes full Socialist and anti-Constitution in one breath: Single Payer healthcare

Jeanne Shaheen Wicked Witch

So Jeanne Shaheen shows:

  • Her contempt for the US Constitution
  • Her complete lack of qualification to be a US Senator  due to not knowing what a Right is
  • Her complete willingness to, yet again, make taxpayers further into indentured servants
  • And like the best that Progressives can show – NEVER once has she said ANYTHING about how Government would pay for Single Payer Healthcare

To wit:

For the first time, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen supported single-payer legislation, signing on Wednesday as a co-sponsor of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Act of 2017. “I support the Medicare for All Act because I believe that health care should be a fundamental right in this country,” Shaheen said.

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“How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster”

I do have to hand it to Elon Musk – the power behind Solar City, Tesla, and SpaceX – he’s created this micro-collage of the hundreds of millions of dollars that he invested in blowing up rockets in developing what seems to becoming a normal thing – landing a rocket so that it can be … Read more

Notable Quote – Derek Hunter

…Remember when people used to let things go? When people would just get along, not hunt for secret meanings behind actions and ways to be offended for the sake of being offended? Thanks to the progressive left that day is done.

These guys [Progressives and SJWs -Skip] suck the joy out of everything. The simple things, the complex things – everything is now fertile ground for being offended, for outrage, for an opportunity to attack Republicans, especially President Trump.

Being a victim is now a coveted status on the political left, so liberals aspire to it by creating asinine things such as “microaggressions.” A microaggression, for the sane among you who haven’t heard of this form of self-martyrdom, is an affront (racist, sexist, homophobic, pick your liberal trope) so small neither the person committing it, nor the person on the receiving end of it, can notice it.

Derek Hunter

Progressives have sucked the joy out of everything by making everything political.  NOTHING is off

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Blogline of the Day – that lazy long gun!

H&K guns have killed more than 2 million people? By themselves? I have 1 rifle and it won’t even take out the trash. (H/T: The Truth About Guns)

Has it come to this?

How far will the Left force the rest of us to go for “equality”? (H/T: Powerline)

Hey, NH Republican legislators – would ONE of you submit an LSR on this?

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Just to drive the anti-gunners like NH State Rep Katherine Rogers (D, AntiConstitution) absolutely bonkers!

“If Democrats really believe that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System doesn’t interfere “in any way” with people’s constitutional rights to own a gun, doesn’t it follow that the same system would not constitute an infringement on people’s right to vote? This would give Republicans a system for stopping vote fraud and Democrats a system that they have already vigorously endorsed.”

John Lott

Yet, we see our “quack quartet” (Shea-Porter, Hassan, Shaheen, Kuster: is it because they are all uber-feminists, all Democrats, or died in the wool Progressives?) doing everything and Chuckles Buckley screaming about “VOTER SUPPRESSION!!!!” yet have no compulsion about putting the screws gun owners (and Rogers as well) without nary a “thank you, ma’am”.

While there is an ordering to the

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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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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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Not always, Mr. Obama

I’m on all KINDS of Democrat email lists, under a bunch of email addresses, just so I can keep up with what they are kvetching and hollaring about.  Most of it I consider pure and absolute dribble but it must be effective with their base because almost all of the emails seem to be totally … Read more

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

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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