Notable Quote – Randy Holcombe

Freedom is meaningless if we are only free to make choices that meet with government approval. The Progressive ideology compromises freedom and takes away the individual rights that at one time justified the existence of our American government. Progressivism is a direct attack on freedom. -Prof. Randy Holcombe Of course it is – that’s what Socialism … Read more

Round up of the Elite response to Brexit and brief thoughts on them

That would be the “beta males” referenced by Steve.  I have seen a ton of Chicken Little posts over the last few days so let me put up some snippets here.  However, let me quote David French who put it better than I could what has been causing my head to shake (and ache) over the vote taken in Britain last week in describing what the “Side of History” really means to Progressives and what their version of “progress” has been these last few decades

I’m old enough to remember when history had a side. History, you see, had chosen to progress toward an international order that de-emphasized international sovereignty, elevated a bureaucratic and technocratic elite, and sought to solve international conflict through a combination of moral and economic pressure. Nations caused wars, so nationalism (and even patriotism) had to be set aside. Democracy unleashed bigotry, so “the people” mattered mainly when they agreed with the elite. It was a system that worked remarkably well for the international upper class. Men and women dedicated to commerce enjoyed unprecedented access to international markets. Activists dedicated to social justice could engineer their societies without ever truly facing the accountability of the ballot box. The logic of the system was self-proving. It would triumph through the sheer force of its virtue.

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Is anyone else tired of politicians and gun-grabbers unwilling to say the obvious?

of the Constitution?From the Union Leader:

Kuster said Congress must act to expand background checks for gun sales at shows and online, and if a suspected terrorist is considered too dangerous to fly, they should not be able to buy a gun.

No, it is NOT that “they should not be able to buy a gun” – Annie Kuster is just the latest to be quoted saying it.  Certainly, Kelly Ayotte has been saying it (but Jeanne Shaheen thinks we’re all bad for buying guns and have ill intent). All these self-adoring, pandering, power-hungry “that Constitutional thingie is just dried parchment” control freaks are doing is using the most horrific terrorist acts in recent history (9/11).

They should be tarred and feathered.  All of them.

First, for being said

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BlogLine of the Day – establishing where the blame should be

Listen up, Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte: “Blaming guns for the Islamist murder of 49 people in the Orlando gay club, is like saying that Zyklon B gas was the cause of the Holocausts and not the Nazis:” Yeah, a near miss against Godwin’s Law but it fits.  Just wish that Kelly wasn’t falling for … Read more

This can’t be good as our Republican “Constitutional leaders” are joining with Democrats in allowing bureaucrats taking away our Rights by putting us on a list

And Kelly Ayotte, former NH Attorney General and one that is supposed to know about Rights, has gone full Monty on Collin’s no-due-process-before-but-you-can-petition-a-judge-afterwards law that goes after guns instead the true enemy – Islamic Jihadis. A bureaucrat can take away your Second Amendment Right simply by deeming you “suspicious” – no charges, no evidence, no habeas corpus, no judge, no jury and no law.

Just a bureaucrat “and a pen”.  THIS should make us ALL very nervous knowing that the Feds are metricing their agents to put people on that list (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they’re required to submit at least one report a month. If they don’t, there’s no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignmentsInnocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft … and they did nothing wrong,” said one federal air marshal. These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to maintain this potentially dangerous quota system.

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Calling out uber-Progressive (and crybaby) Annie Kuster in NH 2nd District

Well, it looks like Republican Congressional candidate, Jim Lawrence, has decided that Annie Kuster joining the crybaby “sit in” over gun control (instead of Islamic Jihadi control) was just too good to let go.  WHY do a sit in where YOU ARE LEGALLY ALLOWED TO BE?

Kinda defeats the whole purpose, eh?

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Jim Lawrence to Congresswoman Kuster:
“It’s time to put people over political posturing”

Hudson, NH, June 23, 2016 — Jim Lawrence today called out Congresswoman Kuster on her willingness to put political posturing over the people of the Second Distict. In the last 24 hours Congresswoman Kuster not only joined the Democrats for their political theater “sit-in” on the house floor, but she then also took the opportunity to collect names for fundraising.

Jim released the following statement on the matter:

“What happened in Orlando was a horrific act of terror. Unfortunately, the citizens of New Hampshire are no safer now then they were when Ann Kuster came to Washington. Instead of working for the people of the Second Congressional District, the Congresswoman prefers acts of political theater. Her willingness to trample on the rights of law abiding gun owners across the Granite State so she can pad her campaign coffers is frankly appalling.

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Environmentalists – the NFL folks

VacuumCleanerClimbingThat would be the No Fun League, not the football guys.  I keep saying that the Environmentalists and the Crowd of No – no, you can’t do this and you can’t do that or this other thing.  All in the name of using No energy and Lloyd Alter over at TreeHugger is certainly one of them; the operative word is “sniff” (as in “seriously, you like doing that”?  Well here, he decides to go on a rant, on all things, LG’s vacuum cleaner stunt.  Simply a well known climber strapped a couple to her back and climbed a glass skyscraper in Seoul. His complaint:

The Set Up:

TreeHugger used to have a Waste of Energy Department where we would show silly electric things that could be done manually with no trouble at all, from an electric martini shaker to the Garlic Express. It’s time to bring back the WED as we watch Sierra Blair-Coyle , who can climb anything in the world with her bare hands, instead use two cordless LG vacuum cleaners connected to rubber suction cups to climb up the side of a 460 foot high office building in Seoul.

And The Rant:

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Well, Ed Pierce (Laconia Citizen editor) helps prove where the MSM stands politically

Ed Pierce The Citizen in LaconiaWhat a snob – typical Leftist MSMer who believes that HE has free speech but no one else does?  Once again, we see little tolerance in the news bureau (who 90-95% vote and give campaign donations strictly to Democrats) and reinforcement that the MSM is slanted in both its outlook and actions. “Mr.” Pierce of The Citizen was some unhappy when he read an email from Flanagan (similar to what Jim Lawrence put out) taking Annie Kuster to the woodshed over her “sit-in / Publicity stunt (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Please remove our newspaper from your mailing list immediately.  If this is how Mr. Flanagan is launching his campaign, I seriously recommend some self-reflection. I believe the issue deserves an up and down vote and can’t fault Rep. Kuster for standing up (or sitting down) for something she believes in. Sort of like not giving an up and down vote to the Supreme Court nominee…burying your head in the sand and hoping it will go away, right?

So, a Democrat (and rather way-Left leaning Progressive) can do and speak her mind but a Republican

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Well, that was rather ASSinine, wasn’t it US Senator Jeanne Shaheen?

Jeanne Shaheen Wicked WitchOr rather, the US Federal Government Ambassador to New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen.  Seriously, you REALLY think that I have a semi-automatic rifle to “do bad things”?  H/T to Grokster Kimberly who picked this up at Buzzfeed:

“Well, I think people need to have their voices heard, and what I’ve heard from people in New Hampshire is they think there’s reasonable legislation that we can pass including things like looking at the types of weapons that so easy for people to get,” the New Hampshire Democrat said on Mitchell in the Morning on Monday.

She lives in an echo chamber of her own mind design.  And no, it isn’t as “easy” as she makes it seem if you are buying a gun at retail – there’s NICS plus whatever else an individual State has for its gun laws.   Trust me, if she were to come and talk to the folks that, you know, actually shoot, she’d get a schooling in what’s what.  Like f’instance “Freedom is“.  Simple, that.  Freedom is just that – Freedom; it needs nor requires any explanation or justification (she hates that, btw).  The ability to live without the intrusion and interference from Government snooty noses / busybodies / Holier than thou’s that all have that Progressive “tell” (or tick, your choice) that says “I say you don’t need that”.  Freedom is the ability to tell someone – I don’t HAVE to “need” and you don’t get to tell me otherwise.  Especially when it is a Constitutional Right.  Folks like her have no consideration that my pursuit of Happiness (and real word there should be Property). But that’s what Progressives are – you are only allowed Freedom that we allow that we have determined that will “evolve” you to their idea of a Utopian resident. And she’s willing to lie to get there:

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Guest Post – About Kelly Ayotte and her Constitutional disdain

Senator Ayotte: Thank you for exhibiting your basic misunderstanding of both the NH and US Constitutions with your support of Senator Collins latest bill. Super secret government lists that a person does not know they are on, has no way of getting off the list used to deny that person of multiple natural rights? You … Read more

Blog Question of the Day to all you Multiculturalists out there

If All Cultures Are Equally Valid, Can Iran Kill Gay People? The core of the Left’s slobbering love affair with “Multiculturalism” holds that no culture is any better than any others.  Especially when it comes to their protected identity groups.  Seeing that the LGBT community currently sits atop their totem pole (disclaimer: which WILL change any … Read more

Kelly Ayotte’s words. Second Amendment supporter?

CR rating Sen AyotteHere in NH, Article 2-A says it far better than the Second Amendment:

[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

Words have meanings – certain meanings.  In my understanding, Article 2-A says exactly what the 2nd Amendment  means and far plainer so that the civilian disarmament lobby can’t twist things (never saying that at the time of its writing, for instance, that the “milita” is ALL of us). I’m certainly not an absolutist but given what Kelly Ayotte said tonight on the US Senate Floor, I do wonder what the rest of the Second Amendment supporters are going to do come November

Sidenote: Actually, I lie.  I know exactly what is going to happen – she is going to get Browned.

And we are the LAST people she wants to tick off.  All that has to happen, given the fight for her Senate seat by Maggie Hassan, is she trying to “middle size” herself?  God help her (actually, please don’t) if she decides to go to the center on abortion, given the last election’s treatment of the NH GOP top candidates.  Yet, she, a layer and former Top Lawyer as NH’s Attorney General (and ran, at least at times, as being guided by the Constitution), said these words:

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No, you can’t substitute God for Allah, Mr. President

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” – Barack Hussein Obama, P 261 -“Audacity of Hope.”

Obama sees no Islamic TerrorAndOMITTED

“‘…The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander The Prophet Of Islam”.

So the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said they were going to put out “partial” transcripts of the calls that the Orlando Muslim Jihadist made to 911 – but only partial so as not to further his propaganda (paraphrased).  Well, bless her heart, of course we knew what was coming because she said something BEFORE she mentioned the transcripts – and it all came down to what she called him on Meet The Press ( transcript via RedState). I told TMEW that the terminology switcheroo would not stand even if the fix was in:

LORETTA LYNCH: Yes, I’ll be going to Orlando on Tuesday to continue my briefings in the case. Actually though what we are announcing tomorrow is that the F.B.I. is releasing a partial transcript of the killer’s calls with law enforcement from inside the club. These are the calls with the Orlando P.D. negotiating team who were trying to ascertain who he was, where he was, and why he was doing this, all the while the rescue operations were continuing. That’ll be coming out tomorrow and I’ll be headed to Orlando on Tuesday.

No, the Orlando Muslim Jihadist was not a “killer” – he was a Muslim terrorist.  But hey, Obama is the self-acknowledged smartest person in ANY room and certainly he knows for sure what is both solid Islam (“they aren’t Muslim and that’s not Islam”)  and Christian heterodoxy (“I know better what  the Little Sisters of the Poor’s religious beliefs are than they do – the HHS contraceptive mandate”).  But hey,

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IRS Commissioner John Koskinen: yet again DC Republicans wilt when contemplating hard political decisions –

Targeting Conservative and TEA Party style groups were stonewalled, derailed and otherwise afflicted by a politically weaponized Department of Internal Revenue led by the actions of Lois Lerner (who had done similar things while at the Federal Election Commission).  Up to 426 different groups filed up for tax exempt status and were spit on by US Government bureaucrats simply because these group dissented from the President’s Progressive values – ones that these bureaucrats heartily agreed with and supported. Koskinen was not at the helm when this started but was when hard disks started to mysteriously crash left and right far above what regular MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) stats would posit and mag tapes started to lose their magnetic bits’ magnetic orientation (“erasing the tapes”). That is against the law and was done over and over and the IRS lied repeatedly.  If you are the head of those that do this, you should take responsibility.  Not to mention the snark and contempt he held both us (the general public) and those elected to oversee his department (both House and Senate) during hearings.  He lied.

So what are the Big Campaign Speech’ d DC Republicans going to do?  Are they going to impeach him?

Seriously, you said yes?   HAHAHAHAHAHA – fools, we’re talking about the Republican Party which seemingly can’t outbox a pre-schooler lately…

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The purpose of the Dems and the Media is to continue to destroy the Constitution

constitutionLet’s start with this:

Kerrie Diers (Exec. Dir. of the Nashua (New Hampshire) Regional Planning Commission) doesn’t care much that your land gets in the way of her planning (for your own good as in “WHY do our perceptions of the needs of the Collective have to give way to what Individuals own?”):

  • “Private Property Rights get in the way of good planning“
  • “Private Property Rights won’t let us have the discussions“

In other words, YOUR Rights are getting in the way of THEIR agenda – they cannot let that happen.  

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Notable Quote – Oren Cass

UBI => Universal Basic Income, whereby Government just gives everyone, children and adults, some sum of money every year (e.g., $10,000) A UBI would pose severe practical challenges, which will be discussed later in this article. But even if it could work, it should be rejected on principle. A UBI would redefine the relationship between … Read more

I like the mindset of Texans…

I agree. WE are our own First Responders and we should not outsource our own safety and security to hired help (even as good and fearless as they are, running to the sound of gun shots) – that is what the Second Amendment is about (albeit, in part).  Bataclan, the Chechen school a few years back, San Bernadino, and now Orlando (among others).  Each and every time, a gun free zone.

Would those carrying have prevented

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