Ed Naile, please take note: Voter ID

Heh! (emphasis mine):

Huffington Post: “Eight out of the 16 states that have held primaries or caucuses so far have implemented new voter ID or other restrictive voting laws since 2010. Democratic turnout has dropped 37 percent overall in those eight states, but just 13 percent in the states that didn’t enact new voter restrictions. To put it another way, Democratic voter turnout was 285 percent worse in states with new voter ID laws.”

To be fair, compared to both current Republican votes and to 2008 / 2012 Democrat primaries, votership is down and is being attributed to Democrat listlessness and apathy.  Why not?  The Party that touted itself as being young, invigorated, skin color diverse has devolved to shoving two decrepit, old, whites who both have done pretty much nothing except reveal the Democrat Party to be indistinguishable from the Socialist Party (and by their own admission, too!). 

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Notable Quote – Philip Hamburger

The relevance of absolute power for administrative law became more clear when one realizes that Anglo-American law has a history of an extra- and supralegal power in what what known as the “prerogative.”  This was the name of the power claimed by the English kings, and it corresponds to the administrative power claimed by the … Read more

Notable Quote – Dependency

We now have a country based on government dependence. Heritage Foundation research fellow Robert Rector said, “Clearly there’s a group of people who are not in the labor force, and 10 years ago they would have been. Now they’re relying on food stamps.” When we have a government full of enablers telling people that they … Read more

Blogline of the Day – yep, we’re a monotonous bunch

From the beginning, this vandalism and arson incident has seemed… odd. Open carry supporters are sometimes acerbic, and sometimes get arrested in incidents of civil disobedience, but with one notable exception, they are typically monotonously law-abiding. Actually, living here in NH, open carry is no big deal – if you can own a firearm, you … Read more

So whom will stonewall whom?

Shot:

Stonewall: State Dept may not finish review of Top Secret Clinton emails until after election

One of the last issues to be resolved after all of Hillary Clinton’s emails are released is what to do about the Top Secret ones which the public will never see. The obvious question for the FBI to deal with is if there was any wrongdoing which would further add to a potential criminal case. But nothing can happen until the State Department finishes evaluating the super secret material and determine if it was classified at birth and if it represented a threat to national security and a violation of the rules.

Chaser:

Hillary Email Indictment Watch: State Department Staffer Given Immunity

…This is big news. People don’t get immunity deals from the federal government unless they have something big. And it would appear the Justice Department has something big because they have just given immunity to a familiar player in the email scandal:

…In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said: “As we have said since last summer, Secretary Clinton has been cooperating with the Department of Justice’s security inquiry, including offering in August to meet with them to assist their efforts if needed.”

Clinton is the one that is using the phrase “security inquiry” – the FBI that is doing the investigation doesn’t “do” security inquiries, they do criminal investigations.  And those are not done on “hardware”, they are done on “wetware” – people.  And for as much as a robot she plays during this campaign, she is wetware (I think).

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Breaking News: Jerry Delemus taken into custody by the FBI

DeLemusDetails are sketchy and will be updated.  Apparently, the FBI, in full tactical gear, have raided the Delemus’s and taken Jerry into custody.  My source is saying that he may be in transit to Concord for arraignment with the the “presumption” is over his involvement in the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014 – I am thinking this is a reaction to the recently concluded situation in Oregon.  However, this is speculation. UPDATE 2: word just received that he will be arraigned at the Federal Courthouse in Concord at 4pm on a Nevada warrant and then / may be transported to Nevada afterwards.

The FBI had twice asked for meetings (10 days ago,a 9:30am and when they didn’t show up, a 1pm), so my source says, at a Dunkin Donuts in Rochester and both times failed both times to show up because of “fear for their safety” (pure balderdash IMHO).

UPDATE 4: Post-hearing info.

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Dr. Ben Carson’s statement

Actually, we may see for the first time, a candidate’s “halfway pregnant”; below is the official statement from Dr. Ben Carson that Mike alluded to here.  The problem is that while he will not be in tomorrow night’s GOP debate and says that he can’t win, he HASN’T formally “suspended” his campaign.  So the resulting questions … Read more

Data Point – “The Democrats to the Left”

Abstracts from the Washington Examiner (and H/T to AEI): Overall: Republicans who identify as “conservative” increased from 62 percent in 2000 to 68 percent in 2015 (+8). Democrats who identify as “liberal” increased from 29 percent in 2000 to 45 percent in 2015 (+16). White Democrats who identify as liberal nearly doubled from 28 percent to … Read more

Notable Quote – George Will

“No. It turns out the faculty clubs and student safe spaces of American campuses are just not big enough to nominate a president. The Democratic Party’s base consists of minorities and public employees, particularly teachers and AFSCME and all the rest. They are really serious about keeping control of the government because their livelihood depends … Read more

Blogline of the Day – that there’s right funny!

‘Trump Doesn’t Have Any More Core Principles than a Kardashian Marriage’ C’mon, put the politics aside for a moment – it IS a good line!  And if you’re a Trump supporter, put someone else there. (H/T: The Corner)

Trifecta: Twitter giving the middle finger to Conservative users.

“…and Twitter has the reputation for being this, just this little jack-booted pit of Political Correctness, then their stock is gonna continue to tank.” “I think that’s what they want us to do.  I’m just going to keep on poking them in the eye until I get banned”. (H/T: Instapundit)

BlogHeadline of the Day: Union Leader’s Joe McQuaid and Grant Bosse hit hardest

Christie Told Newspaper He Would Never Endorse Trump Chris Christie’s biggest break in the New Hampshire primary came when the only statewide paper, the Union Leader, endorsed him. In part, the paper said, it was to save the country from the egregious Donald Trump, whom it compared to the bullying mogul “Biff” in “Back to the … Read more

“Academia Is Losing Its Mind” – can anyone tell me what this means?

Sheesh!  I know that I have the tendency to to write long, have run-on sentences, and lose my train of thought in mid thought as I write from time to time.  But this? I have read this four times and STILL have only one conclusion: “Self-delusion and self-discipline inhibits the reflective self, the postmodern membrane, … Read more

Bernie Supporter can’t defend the morality of taking other peoples’ stuff

Brazen.  Unashamed. Selfish. Proud, even, of Bernie supporter, Erin Billbray, of the absolute willingness to take the hard earned money from those that they are now targeting.  I just watched this clip from Fox Business Network anchor Stuart Varney interview this thief and just couldn’t believe the absolute ease of how the phrase “redistributing the income in this country” rolled off her lips.  She makes Varney’s point of “taking it off me” for him – unabashedly and not a whit of regret:

“I really believe in his vision for the working class, expanding the middle class, and redistributing the income in this country,” proclaimed Bilbray, who has committed to supporting Sanders at the convention.

This is technically slavery – making others work for you and your desires and wants for free.  These Communists / Socialists (yes, it is all about “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”) are all about destroying the Right to Private Property.  This is a pillar of maximal individual Liberty – destroy that idea and freedom will die.  Why?

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Blogline of the Day – If they had done their job correctly…

Just a reminder; If “mainstream Republicans” had fought as hard against Obama in 2008 and 2012, they wouldn’t have to worry about Trump now. Or if they did their jobs right when in office, they wouldn’t have created the vacuum that has their base questioning “and we vote for them…..why?”.  They have brought him (and … Read more

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