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So it seems that my Notable Quote – Newt Gingrich has spurred a bit of commentary – which I do like. However, a statement was made, a challenge sprung up, and I found the answer. From Tom F:
Who is really behind those ads in Craigslist that I hear about, offering money for protesters?
Bruce Currie issued the challenge:
Would you post a link to “ads in Craigslist…offering money for protestors”?
So, when I have the interest and the time, I try to oblige:
Like JHo and Rath joining in with the Dem mob? The Libs have been doing this for so long, you’d think they’d know better and attack back. But NeverTrumpers gotta NeverTrump (except for Horn who was against Trump and then when she was taking a shellacking while being NH GOP Chair, flip-flopped. Now she’s flopped … Read more
On American Exceptionalism: Ironically, the human-rights community understands a basic truth about the American historical and spiritual condition that too few others do—which is that while other states have survived and even prospered by a ruthless realpolitik of sorts, America, because it was born as a geographic bounty and also as an ideal, is nothing … Read more
Obamacare is insuring more poor people and uninsuring millions of middle-income people. That suits the Democratic party and many congressional Republicans just fine. They measure social progress in the number of people receiving government assistance. Those struggling to pay their own way evoke little sympathy. Lawmakers of both parties, whose consciences were lacerated by CBO’s … Read more
(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Several ideas, several positions all wrapped into a single video by Star Parker (a black conservative women) who doesn’t care who she ticks off. (H/T: IJR)
“Mr. President, do you want the support of these white nationalists groups that say that they support you? Mr. President? Have you denounced strongly enough?”
– Female report at Presser, Meet the Press 0:07
It takes at least two sides to create a conflict. Not one, two. Watching the Sunday shows you might believe that only one side was in Charlotteville, VA this past weekend. The reporting concentrated on the KKK as a whole and neo-Nazis from whatever groups they happened to belong. Just one side.
On This Week with Georgie George Stephanopoulos, there was not one mention of AntiFA or as you can see with the flags the Industrial Workers of the World group; one of a number of Socialist groups from the Left that ALWAYS seem to have a presence when violence is around. Yet, he and his reporters and panel member just called them “counter protesters.” I guess Georgie forgot all about the Berkeley riots, the Oakland riots, and the Portland riots, eh?
Whitewash much?
“Any movement that burns tiki torches but doesn’t serve Mai-Tais is clearly on the wrong track.” (H/T: Instapundit)
“I think the gap in the country right now is that deep and that real. I think the people on the left have a radically different vision of America’s future than traditional Americans. And I think there’s a small element on the right – which has been there for a long time – which is … Read more
SHOT: (WMUR) former US Senator Gordon Humphrey (then R-NH)
“I think the man, frankly, suffers from mental illness. I think he is unfit to be President”
Humphrey is calling for the president to be declared mentally incapacitated by a panel of doctors and stripped of his executive powers under the 25th Amendment. “I think the man, frankly, suffers from mental illness,” Humphrey said. “I think he is unfit to be president.” The former Republican senator fears Trump is putting the U.S. on a course toward nuclear war with North Korea. “This man is dangerous to our safety. He could cause the deaths of millions by his recklessness and his insane conduct,” Humphrey said.
CHASER: Charlie Martin:
Donald J Trump is President. Really. Won it fair and square, he was inaugurated seven — almost eight — months ago, and very probably is going to be President for another three and a half years.
Minimum.
So, now, children, let’s calm down. All of you people over there saying Trump is unqualified and should be removed? Give it up. He’s qualified by the only qualification that matters: he is over 35, he is a native US citizen, and he won the damned election. The Constitution doesn’t have a clause in it for removal by vote of the media, or because his political opponents don’t like him. The only reason he can be removed Constitutionally is if someone finds high crimes and misdemeanors.
I am getting the impression that we could be at Nov 7, 2020 and the No-Trumpers like
On a piece titled “Here’s how to take out North Korea’s nukes“, this caught my eye. I believe it to be true (emphasis mine):
…I fear we’ve forgotten what war means. That fear reached a peak a decade ago when American generals blithely repeated the indefensible claim that “counterinsurgency is warfare at the graduate-school level.” No. Counterinsurgency is Kindergarten (complete with political correctness nowadays). D-Day was a doctoral dissertation and the bombing campaign over Germany the preceding master’s thesis.
LEGISLATOR TO ANDREW CUOMO: ““You look at me, Mr. Governor, but you don’t see me. You see my black skin and a woman.” No, he doesn’t see your black skin and that you are a woman. After over a decade of watching politicians evaluating situations, you know what he sees? He sees you in terms of … Read more
Given that I just came home from the Americans For Prosperity NH’s (AFP) Tax Reform meeting at Pittman’s Freight Room in Laconia, this is appropriate. I’ve said for years now that a free marketplace is one where people make decisions that benefit their own self-interest; if something does not add value to their lives, they won’t. The true value of a free marketplace is that it is voluntary – WE decide and not anyone for us.
THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: 6.5 million Americans chose to pay the fine rather than sign up for insurance on the Obamacare exchanges.
Insurance so good, people won’t even buy it under penalty of law.
In a real successful marketplace, people wouldn’t be forced to buy ANY product.
Thankfully, TMEW and I have no credit card debt but it seems like others are making up for our lack:
“Credit-card debt in the US rose in June, surpassing the peak set just before the 2008 financial crisis. Outstanding revolving credit, which includes credit-card debt, rose to $1.02 trillion in June, according to a monthly report from the Federal Reserve released Monday. But defaults are rising again for credit cards and auto loans.
After almost 20 years of specializing in document management system, my first thought was “OCR, baby, OCR!”
OK, I think most readers here in NH know about the lawsuit concerning the NH voter list brought by the NH ACLU and NH State Rep Neal Kurk over sending that file to the Trump Administration’s election integrity commission. Well, I guess there was a settlement in this kerfuffle:
NASHUA — The Secretary of State will proceed with the release of information from voter checklists to a presidential commission on election fraud, now that a lawsuit filed by two New Hampshire lawmakers and the ACLU to stop the release has been resolved.
That last bit in the above headline was crafted by blogger and radio host Erick Erickson: “you WILL be made to care” about all kinds of “social justice” demands, nor can you be left alone. You will be forced to take a side, and if you try to be as neutral as Switzerland, you will be condemned. You WILL speak out FOR OUR ISSUE, or you will be excoriated. It isn’t “can’t we just all get along,” rather, it is a demand that you not only recognize but affirm our issue. We’ve been seeing this on college campuses for the last two years as we see these college student twit authoritarians-in-hatching demand that everyone MUST agree with us (Evergreen, Harvard, Mizzou, to just name three).
Here, Ray Buckley does EXACTLY that – acts the bully for his LGBTQrstuvwxyz agenda and seriously, who the heck can keep up with the unending morphing of one group into another as well as the always changing acronyms.
The Administrative State – as Progressives grew and grew government, they knew that they were coming up onto one of the mountain tops of the Progressive philosophy – a technocratic State “guiding” its subjects to a Utopia. For you see, they consider the rest of us to be dolts and deplorables who can’t cope with today’s modern world (which for them started in the 1880s) and must be under the care of a “scientific and non-partisan” bureaucratic set of “experts”. Who needs that pesky Constitution – it just gets in the way of getting things done. No, Progressives are Socialists that believe that the State is greater than the Individual and have been working to put this into action since then. Their capstone, which has allowed “Administrative Law” (e.g., rules and regulations) to go around Constitutional values, was the passage of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 that our Legislators gave their Power, in large degree, to the Executive Branch. Can you say “Legislation without Representation“?
Encapsulated in one tweet:
And this is why we call them “Democrats with bylines” – remember:
The MSM is not Liberty leaning at all. When have you seen them actually promote full on bore individual freedom when they “report” on the news of the day or in opining? Hardly at all, if at all. No, their orientation is that of the Collective and in the idea that Govt knows best
Back in 1975, one of the stupidest fads swept the US and made its “inventor” (marketeer?) a millionaire. That was the “Pet Rock” and he sold millions (yes, MILLIONS) of these inanimate objects as pets – at $3.95 a whack. It came, made a buzz about rocks, and then disappeared as quickly as it showed up on the scene.
Well, just like Hollywood’s issue of running out of any kind of original idea (really, bringing back The Karate Kid as a TV series 30 years later??), so has the Pet Rock. Except now, with all things being “Tactical” (or “tacticool” as some deriders rightly hold), so has the Pet Rock – but now dressed in black:
