Rick Olson

“It is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both…We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.”  —Milton Friedman

Welfare. The word used to be a pejorative. Having grown up in an upper middle class family, some will deign it easy for me, perhaps even elitist, to write this blog. Some will call me a racist or a bigot or insensitive or greedy.  So be it. I do not care a fig. I make no apologies for it.  Milton Friedman never argued morality in society. It was Milton Friedman who once quipped, “Society doesn’t have values. People have values.” 

I recall Eddie Murphy  gyrating on stage, gleefully singing, ” I got some ice cream, you ain’t got none…cuz you on welfare.” 

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“As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking – or lack of thinking.”   —Thomas Sowell

Gun Control. Few of the GOP Presidential Candidates are meaningfully addressing the forward push by progressives to implement gun control. We hear snippets that might cause us to think they are headed in the right direction, but is it enough? I say no. This is Chris Christie’s Gun Control Challenge.

Americans elected a Republican controlled Senate and House, a clear message that the direction of things has run amok. And…they do nothing. No wonder those candidates leading in current polls are of the non-political establishment. This also, is Chris Christie’s Gun Control Challenge.

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   Avoidance. Where is Senator Ayotte? In the past couple years I’ve attended numerous events. The events vary in scope and content. The entire congressional delegation is always invited. I’ve seen Senator Shaheen, Representative Guinta, Representative Kuster. I’ve never seen Senator Ayotte. Who is seen is a nondescript staffer reading monotonously from a sheet of paper. The Staffer apologizes and says, “Regretfully, Senator Ayotte was unable to be here today due to pressing commitments.”

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“Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.”  —Thomas Sowell

New York Anti-gun liberal Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney is leading the charge on HR 2546, a measure if enacted, forces gun owners to buy liability insurance or face a $10,000 fine.

The Firearm Risk Protection Act creates a new kind of insurance for gun owners.

Maloney told Fox News,

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“I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.”—Jeanette Winterson

NRA Stickers evoke an emotional reaction…Carter Gaddis is a newspaper reporter who has a blog called, DadScribe, a blog over-focusing on parental anxiety.

Early this morning, as I sit with my German Shorthaired Pointers, Chloe and Gemma, a friend sent me this link, What Your NRA Decal Says About You

Sipping my coffee, I read the rant…And then I read it again…and I chuckled.  Now, I’ve been at this a very long time, so my personal paradigm insulates me from the visceral emotional reaction this rant likely evoked within my friends at large in the second amendment community.

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Rare is the occasion that I post an entire writing from another, but this is a perspective I simply cannot paraphrase. Literally, this writing must come from the source. I emphasize that because it was in the New York Times that this individual talks about Cecil the Lion. His name is Goodwell Nzou, a native Zimbabwean. His worldview is important when we think about the vile, stupid talking animal crowd raisin hell about Cecil.

Idiots. When presented with facts, idiots are those who stick with their own viewpoints, opinions and paradigms in the face of those hard cold brutish facts. Emotion rules the day and irrational behavior is given teeth. Witness, The killing of Cecil the Lion.

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“Rednecks and Recruiting Stations,” is yet another theme in the liberal Screed. Espoused by the Lamestream media, the purpose remains to leave our recruiters unguarded, unprotected and still vulnerable.  Recruiting stations, despite being a target, are the same now as they were before Chattanooga. This back hand come from the top down: Obama commanded his military command staff to parrot the message to Americans: Stand down.

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“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” —Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Free Stater’s advocacy for open carry forced the issue of police agencies  to be educated on what the law has to say about open carry. Such advocacy also served to set clear boundaries upon which Law enforcement acts regarding open carry.

Despite this uptick in recent years toward open carry, there still remain those

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“Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.”  —Abraham Cahan

Recent polls from Gallup reveal that most Americans believe guns in the home make them safer. Americans believing guns in the home make a safer place has risen to 63%, nearly doubling since 2000, only three in 10 Americans still assert a gun in the home makes it a more dangerous place

Since 1990 crime rates have

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“Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.” — Jack Zipes
https://youtu.be/ZAwqumoO0Ds

California wants your tourism dollars…California needs your tourism dollars…..because they are broke. So the California tourism board makes these catchy little “fairy tale” commercials to separate suckers from their cash…

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“The three rules of journalism are 1. Mislead, 2. Misinform, and 3. Misdirect. The news serves to sever you from reality and keep you in Fantasy Land.” ? Jarod Kintz

Senate Bill 116 was destined for the veto pen. While some will call me negative and pessimistic, I rather think I am being realistic. We’ve seen this pattern before…Like Deja Vu all over again. You have a so-called Republican-dominated Senate….Republican-dominated house, and twelve Republicans who voted no. Most Dems voted no…we knew that…But a few voted yes. At the end of the day, there exists no veto-proof majority. Thus, the bill dies.

One degree of difference

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“A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.” — Hugh Kingsmill

Another day has passed and another two candidates have declared their intent to seek the Republican Presidential Nomination. Governor Chris Christie and Governor Bobby Jindal. Eventually all will come to New Hampshire, so please consider this an open letter of advice to all comers.

I do not care what the hacks and professionally paid handlers tell you. Fact is, if you do not secure the support of the second Amendment constituency, you simply cannot win.

First, do not come here and tell us you support the second amendment if, in prior public offices held, you voted for gun control measures, the assault weapons ban or universal background checks. We fact check that stuff.

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“A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.”  —Socrates

Glib, according to Merriam Websters online dictionary, is defined as,

(words) said or done too easily or carelessly : showing little preparation or thought: speaking in a smooth, easy way that is not sincere

And, that word aptly describes liberals who argue for gun control. “Gliberals”, as I like to call them. These hapless hoplophobes who harp endlessly on about, “sensible gun policy.” Despite the ubiquitous din of that very phrase within the repertoire of anti-gun rhetoric and index of much-favored hyperbole, I still, to this day, don’t have a single f**king clue what that exactly means….exactly. Nor am I any closer since the genesis of its Newtownish universal use.

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“If you’re going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.” —Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

Education Commissioner Virginia Barry, in a February  25 letter to Croydon School Superintendent Cynthia Gallagher advised,

“The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”   —Justice Hugo Black

Vassals of the Feifdoms…oh how they love to rule and oh how we love to let them! Periodically, we hear the din of those who gleefully point out that New Hampshire is not very homogenous. People move here from Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island to  flee the thumb of state and local governments, frequently viewed as rife with the corruption of ineffectual politics. Then…they run for office. The problem is they bring with them an “ala carte” cherry-picking of the crappy politics from which they escaped…here to the Granite State.

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“Charlatanry…No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.”   —Anton Chekhov

Senate Bill 116, An Act repealing the license requirement for carrying a concealed pistol or revolver, is being put through its usual cascade of lies.

Yesterday, Deidre Reynolds took the the pages of the Nashua Telegraph in a Letter to the Editor  opposing of Senate Bill 116.  Titled, “An Act repealing the license requirement for carrying a concealed pistol or revolver.” She shared nothing. All Non-original Charlatanry.

Reynolds claims, “Concealed carry gun law would do more harm than good,” and Reynolds qualifies her opinion sharing with readers that she is a “gun owner.” Reynolds makes three onerous and misleading claims about Senate Bill 116: 1) [this bill] has absolutely nothing to do with women; 2) SB 116 “does away” with licensing; 3)[the bill would] remove Law Enforcement’s ability to deny “licenses” to inappropriate persons – such as criminals, unstable people, domestic abusers and children. Let us deal with each claim….

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“Our intention creates our reality.”  —Wayne Dyer

Democrat House Leader Steve Shurtleff engages on the Second Amendment. Shurtleff took to the pages of the Fishwrapper Concord Monitor on New Years Day to Champion the banning of guns in the Statehouse facilities. Shurtleff writes,

“The House chamber and visitors’ gallery is not an appropriate or necessary place for people to bring their guns.”

The manner in which he writes his opposite editorial, he makes use of the phrase , “widely regarded as commonsense restrictions.”

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