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In part from The Hill:

…Obama said that there are “a lot of law abiding, responsible gun owners” that use guns for protection, sport or as part of a tradition. But he added that upping background check requirements on gun purchasers is a policy that everyone should endorse.

“It is not violating anybody’s rights that if you want to purchase a gun, it should be at least your responsibility to get a background check so we know you were not a violent felon or that you don’t currently have a restraining order on you because committed domestic abuse.”

Once again, I dryly note his word usage – tell me, Mr. Obama, what

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Talking on Fox News Sunday about the Ferguson report and the “disparate outcomes” on arrest records

Kim Strassal: Are we going to trust the Justice Department?  Again, Eric Holder came out and said we’re not stop until we fix these things here.

Neera Tanden (Center for American Progress): Yes, we should not stop until we fix things here.

Strassal: But does anyone think that the Justice Dept. is best positioned to do be doing that?

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Intolerant is the word (back story here) – believe as we say or retribution will come pretty much sums up the story of Brendan Eich who lost the CEO position at Mozilla / Firefox simply because he gave a donation years earlier to a pro-traditional marriage group during California’s Prop 8.  Thus, upon seeing this news seemed like proper Karma:

An incredibly shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status

Mozilla’s Firefox is in danger of making the endangered species list for browsers.

…In the last 12 months, Firefox’s user share — an estimate of the portion of all those who reach the Internet via a desktop browser — has plummeted by 34%. Since Firefox crested at 25.1% in April 2010, Firefox has lost 13.5 percentage points, or 54% of its peak share.

At Firefox’s 12-month average rate of decline, Mozilla’s desktop browser will slip under the 10% bar in June, joining other third-tier applications like Apple’s Safari (with just a 4.8% user share in February) and Opera Software’s Opera (1.1%). If the trend continues, Firefox on the desktop could drop below 8% as soon as October.

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Thanks Majority Leader Jack Flanagan for siding against the majority of your Party’s members in the NH House and voting with the Democrats.

I just heard about this bill late this afternoon – our Legislature, led by the Democrat appointed Speaker of the House Jasper and his Jaspercrats joined with pretty much all the Democrats to prohibit minors from using a tanning bed.  Once again, sticking their noses into a place where they really shouldn’t.  But, then again, that’s what Progressives do (from both Parties):

NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“

HOUSE BILL 136

AN ACT prohibiting tanning facilities from tanning persons under 18 years of age.

SPONSORS: Rep. Barnes, Rock 8; Rep. Azarian, Rock 8
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

ANALYSIS: This bill makes it unlawful for a person under the age of 18 to use a tanning device at a registered tanning facility in this state.

It is also HOW they did it that burnt my toast – and it should your’s as well.

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UPDATE: This should have gone up last nite but my laptop’s Wifi quit just before hitting the PUBLISH button.  Anyways, I’ll have another Frank Guinta post going up in a few.

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Deja vu all over again; I thought he might have learned from his involuntary pause in Congressional employment (due in no small measure to his failure to keep his promise to his supporters to do EVERYthing he could to cut Federal Government spending – and then promptly voted for two successful Continuing Resolutions that HIKED spending), but I guess not.  Advance to the NOW – the Main Responsibility of anyone one elected to Congress is:

 I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

So, did he do so, support, defend, bear truth faith, and allegiance?  Ok, can we just try defend – with his vote?

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From his “Thoughts on a Sunday“:

The totalitarians-in-training at Clemson University are calling for stripping everyone on campus of their First Amendment rights, making sure no one can voice opposing viewpoints they may find offensive, or worse, true.

What shocked the Clemson community was the professors’ support of the students’ first demand, which called on the university “to prosecute criminally predatory behaviors and defamatory speech committed by members of the Clemson University community (including, but not limited to, those facilitated by usage of social media).”

Unfortunately this idea is not restricted to Clemson alone. There are plenty of colleges and universities where the same push to censor free speech reside. I remember having a conversation with a college student on the campus of the University of New Hampshire a few of years ago. He was protesting the freedom of people to voice opinions that he found to be “hate speech” and “contrary to progressive beliefs” and a bunch of other such drivel.

And then, I think Chan hit his flashpoint; I would have PAID to see this “slow to anger but then WATCH OUT!” friend:

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And thanks to IRS Commissioner Koskonin (you know, the Obama hack that kept on insisting that the Lois Lerner emails were gone, got all indignant when challenged on it, and remains indignant when shown they existed all along), we have a perfect example of the Washington Monument Syndrome (whereby when not getting all they want of taxpayer monies, they decide to take their peevishness out on said taxpayers – e.g., they close down the most famous tourist spot in DC: the Washington Monument):

Here’s a letter to the D.C.-based WTOP Radio:

You report that the IRS is cutting back on “customer service.”  Pleading poverty because of the budget cuts it must endure as a result of Congressional displeasure with its recent mistreatment of many of its ‘customers,’ the IRS moans that it simply has too few resources now to adequately man its customer-service phone lines.  The IRS’s message to its ‘customers’ is clear: tell your representatives to increase our funding or we’ll make your lives even more miserable than we already do.

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Methinks you’re forgetting ONE little detail here:

“I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the lawless and unconstitutional actions of this president. … I believe this decision—considering where we are—is the right one for this team, and the right one for this country,” Boehner said, according to the source. “The good news is that the president’s executive action has been stopped, for now. This matter will continue to be litigated in the courts, where we have our best chance of winning this fight.”

Given Obama’s penchant for doing what he pleases now that he has “flexibility” , I think a lot of folks are thinking “Hey, Obama wouldn’t DARE disobey the courts!”.  Me?  Not so much – I think he’s perfectly willing to do so.  And what’s Boehner and McConnell going to do then?  Not much – they’ve already sworn off impeachment and we’ve just seen them watch Obama steal their Power of the Purse.  Flapping their gums ain’t gonna do anything – Obama has just taken their lunch – and ours.

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Thomas Jefferson’s Memorial has this as one of its inscriptions:

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

“Gift of God” – THE anchor point from which our Rights flow.  Not from Man and not from some collective.  Sure, it was a collection of men that wrote the words but they believed, too. They acknowledged that there is a Higher Power from whom our freedom and our liberty flows from.  They wanted to establish that with this fact, who was Man to take them away from the then (and I guess now, given the collectivism we are being dragged into) radicalism that we were not to be subservient to a government – it was to be subservient to we sovereign citizens.  This was one of our foundational values of our Republic as it buttresses their philosophy that it was no longer Kings that had divine right, it was each and every one of us that were sovereign before God and Nature’s God – a singular path to an absolute truth and to which Totalitarians, Communists, and Socialists rail against as they believe Man should serve The State. Think I’m wrong?

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