Rick Olson

“Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties – provided we’re only talking about criminals.”   —Ann Coulter

Jamaal Moore, who had a considerable criminal history was shot after attempting to flee the scene of a robbery and a high speed chase through a residential neighborhood.  Five offenders, including Moore, “piled out” of the car, and attempted to run. Moore and a police officer fought. Moore threw the officer to the ground twice. “The officer was thrown around like a rag doll,” Police said.An officer warned that Moore had a gun. Moore then went after a female officer and who fired twice, killing Moore.

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“Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.”   —Donald Rumsfeld

The Deceptively named, “Mayors Against Illegal Guns,” came rolling into Concord New Hampshire last week by proxy of the infamous, “No More Names” Bus Tour where local anti-gun zealots take turns reading from Salon.com’s Gun Death Tally List. The front page banner in the website declares….

“6,305 ‘Americans’ have been ‘murdered’ with guns since Newtown…” At first blush, reasonable people immediately think of Chase Kowalski, Age 7 or Daniel Barden, Age 7, or Caroline Previdi, Age 6, all innocent victims in the Newtown Massacre on December 14. Perhaps people also think of others such as a 20-year-old mother of a two-year-old son, Evevana Monique-Marie Galloway, Grand Rapids Michigan. All of whom were victims of heinous criminal acts by others…with guns…These are genuine victims.

The average person would not likely contemplate the notion that people like Kevin Bailey, Jason Letts, Troy Evan Gordon, Romero Roberto Moya  or Melvin Duane Fletcher, would have made the list. These are criminals, all of whom have one thing in common: They were all shot and killed by Police during violent crimes or confrontations with Police. 

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A half truth is a whole lie. —Yiddish Proverb

“6,236 Americans have been ‘murdered’ with guns since Newtown,” reads the website of No More Names. What’s in a number?, I ask…This detestable bus with its detestable crowd came to Concord on Tuesday. Anti-second amendment State Reps showed up holding signs passed out by the hacks from the bus tour. Mary Beth Walz, Stephen Shurtleff, Bob Perry, Mo Baxley were just the immediate few observed there.

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“I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.”   —Kurt Sutter

Arrogance.  Is it appropriate to post a “non-governmental event” with a clear left wing bias in a New Hampshire Official State Publication?  A publication paid for by Granite State Taxpayers? Most would say, “no” not appropriate. And most House members would say no as well. That does not even phase Representative Stephen Shurtleff or Representative Deanna Rollo. The House Journal Entry (at 1534)  below reads as follows:

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“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”   —Felix Adler

Tamerlan Tsarnaev. We all know the name. He was a Terrorist on American soil. He killed three people and injured 264 others. He then got into a gunfight with Police and blew himself up with a bomb. His brother ran him over with a car as he was fleeing. The only bullets being shot at Tamerlan Tsarnaev were Police Bullets.

Yet, when we go to Nanny Bloomberg’s “No More Names” website, a banner at the top declares, “6,166 Americans have been murdered with guns since Newtown.”  So, why is Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s name read aloud at the No More Names Rally?  And while they are at it, How many of those names are gangsters shooting it out with each other on the streets of Chicago or Los Angeles?

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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.   —E. O. Wilson

When this issue broke on the radio talk show and blogosphere arena. I was absolutely sick to my stomach. Awash in disappointment and dismay, I just could not believe what I was seeing and reading…I read it again…and again. I found myself so disheartened that so many of my colleagues out there were characterizing Wounded Warrior Project in the column of people and causes I loathe and despise. “Somebody please…say it ain’t so!” I am begging here.

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“I put the costume on and said ‘It’s not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,’ so it’s all good.”   —Chris Hemsworth

I awoke this morning and schlubbed my way to the Kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee. The television was on and the ad caught my attention. Had some uniformed third-world tin-pot dictator had taken to the air waves to deliver a message to America?  As I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, I learned the character was an unnamed police chief in another one of Bloomberg’s anti-Kelly Ayotte ads. His name was not given anywhere in the ad. A quick web search revealed however,  the chiefly tin horn dressed in all the Gaddafi-styled regalia was

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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?   —Frederic Bastiat

Around 2:45 am this past Sunday morning, a Lake Avenue resident called 911  to report individuals outside his apartment while arming himself with a handgun. Thereafter, the apartment door was kicked open, two men rushed in and charged at resident, according to Manchester Police . The resident open-fired killing one of the intruders. A second unknown intruder fled the scene and it is believed the second assailant was not shot.

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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”  —Ambrose Bierce

Nashua Alderman at large Lori Wilshire seeks an ordinance in Nashua that would ban new establishments from selling alcohol within 500 feet of a school. Wilshire openly admitted tot he Nashua Telegraph her  intent was to block the Nashua VFW Post 483 from placing its post in the  Crown Hill Fire Station, located next to Dr. Norman W. Crisp Elementary School. Wilshire finds it, “just terrible,”  that Veterans of Foreign Wars would engage in the selling of Libations  next to a school.  Just “terrible,”  oh the scandal…So much so that Alderman at Large Wilshire thinks Nashua should ban it and has put forth a measure to do exactly that. You don’t say, Lori?

Nashua Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire is also the business manager for the Nashua Children’s home.

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