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“The essence of modern Democratic Progressivism is: You will participate in what we have created for you, and you will comply with the law’s demands.”

NH State Rep Kris Roberts (D): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.”
NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“

Naw, this head honcho of Breath New Hampshire shows that he’s failed.  That’s right, failed.  He can’t do his job to persuade you and I to stop doing what he thinks we should not.  Another NGO Nanny, this one is.  He has an Op-Ed in the (wait for it….wait for it – the Paper of Record For NH Nannies) Concord Monitor.

Fortunately, New Hampshire was one of the first states to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors under 18, and Breathe NH is proud to have been instrumental, along with members of our New Hampshire Youth Network, in helping to pass this law in 2010.

Yup, we couldn’t persuade (or, more likely, trust) stores to voluntarily restrict themselves to selling this merchandise.  Nor persuading parents to monitor their children (no trust there either – mere parents (/sarc)).  And with this, he admits he’s absolutely helpless in doing the same to his actual target audience.  Given the absolute failure, he turns to the force of law.  What a way to be a do-gooder.

But wait!  There’s hope – and once again, he turns to Government FIRST for future answers, so satisfied that only what Government blesses should be tried:

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And call us racists when those of us that value The Rule of Law refuse and fight the entrance of their illegal aliens into our country.  Xenophobes, they say.  Racists, they shout.  Bigots, they believe.  Until it comes to themselves:

MEXICO CITY – A caravan of 290 migrants led by Rev. Alejandro Solalinde left the southeastern Mexican town of Ixtepec on a journey to Mexico City, a march being closely monitored by police, the activist priest told Efe.

After departing on Wednesday morning, the group covered a distance of 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) to El Espinal, a hamlet just outside Juchitan de Zaragoza. Numerous security forces were deployed between those latter two towns in Oaxaca state

On April 10, the Mexican government notified Solalinde that any undocumented foreigners marching in the caravan will be deported.

Authorities also established checkpoints on the roads leading out of Ixtepec and have sought to impede the protest march since last week.

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Yes, yesterday was Tax Day – the day that Progressives celebrate as the epitome of their philosophy of “it’s ours, stupid” (and give thanks to its sub-holiday, the  Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 which allowed the Feds to automatically take your money).  Your money?  The Feds’ money?  So, the Concord Monitor; where do YOU think it stands on this.  Yeah, I know, you get 1 guess and it doesn’t count (full editorial after the jump).  A couple of quick snippets to help your guess:

• The home mortgage interest deduction tops our list. It costs the Treasury about $75 billion per year...Most of this tax break goes to people who don’t need it
• Those deductions cost the Treasury nearly $60 billion per year and their fairness is questionable
• That tax break costs the feds about $150 million a year in lost revenue

See?  Now you know where the Concord Monitor stands on who should have first dibs on the money YOU earn.  By building the phrasing “costs the Treasury” in that fashion, the implication is Government should come first, should be placed first, before you and your family.  Not ONCE in its editorial is from WHOM is that money being taken.  No ONCE is there any outrage of how Government misspends that money.  Not once is there any compassion that perhaps, just perhaps, the people from whom that money is being taken just might actually need it more.

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(Image H/T: Powerline)   Yes, lots of ridicule is being made of her “new and fun” logo (as N.A.F. is what the campaign’s marketing is trying make of a 68 year old coattailer that’s been in politics for 20 years without a singular achievement to point to other than flying 1,000,000 at taxpayer expense while Secretary of State.  (Meh – I did 500,000 as a consultant and my achievements were to make the companies I visited achieve higher ROIs, higher productivity, and increased the velocity of information within organizations – getting the needed information to the right people in the formats they wanted).  Yes, that stylized H with the red (appropriate color) pointed to the right.  Heh- TMEW, when I showed it to her, went “Why is she using a hospital sign?“.

She said a couple of things today in Iowa that is just BEGGING for commentary:

We need to build the economy of tomorrow instead of yesterday

Right – which means we need a more vigorous and vibrant economy which means small businesses and startups.  Wait, wait…..wait, what was it she disdainfully say about such everyday biz folks?  Oh yeah, this:

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I got my drivers license back in 1973 – in fact, in October.  The exact same month that OPEC declared its oil embargo against the US.  One day, gas was 25 cents / gallon.  Then it climbed to 55 cents – hard to take as a high schooler working 10 hours / week part time at $2/hour as a stock boy.  And my first car, a white 1965 Rambler Ambassador (replica to the left) was not exactly a gas miser.

Well, a few decades later and the product of American ingenuity called fracking has turned the tables on OPEC:

OPEC Complains That United States Is Pumping Too Much Oil

Heh!  This from that OPEC was just pure self-seeking (emphasis mine):

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Our first Progressive President, Woodrow Wilson, hated the Founding Fathers – and their documents expressing their Liberty and limited government philosophy:

Hence Wilson argued that the old “Newtonian” vision – fixed rules enshrined in the Constitution and laws – had to give way to the “Darwinian” view of “living constitutions” and the like.

“Government,” Wilson wrote approvingly in his magnum opus, “The State,” “does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.” “No doubt,” he wrote elsewhere, taking dead aim at the Declaration of Independence, “a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle.”

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This past Saturday (I gotta get the videos done – Thank GOD that Steve got the audio done!) we had Jody Underwood, Chair of the Croydon School Board, on to talk about the fight that NH State Education Commissioner Virginia Barry (Ph.D., dontcha know) concerning Cryodon and SAU #43’s use of “school choice” to send its children to the best school for that child – even if it is not a public school.  Well, that action has seemingly unsettled Her Highness of Ed to absolutely no end – how DARE Croydon actually take advantage of the actual words in NH’s state statutes (RSA’s)!

Former NH Supreme Court Justice Chuck Douglas went and (ahem!) took Virginia Barry to school on the law (full Letter after the jump):

Dear Commissioner Barry:

This is in response to your concerns regarding Croydon and SAU #43’s practice of sending pupils to private schools on a limited basis. It is our position that each assignment to a private school has been lawful. Each of your concerns is addressed below.

You cite RSA 193:1 and purport that it says that districts may only assign students to public schools. This is inaccurate. RSA 193:1 defines the duties of parents to ensure school attendance and neither describes the duties districts have nor restricts the assignment ability of districts. In addition to your inaccurate interpretation, you cite to the portion of that statute that states: “A parent of any child at least 6 years of age….shall cause such a child to attend the public school to which the child is assigned.” You fail to cite section (a) of the statute which clearly states that private school attendance is an exception to attending public school.

RSA 193:1:

“Such child shall attend full time when such school is in session unless:

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