If a white Conservative did this kind of outright discrimination…

…how long would it take the Left to rip them to shreds? And do it often, loud, and petition for their complete ouster from Society?  The media would be non-stop and indicting anyone that doesn’t toe the Leftist line(s). Marches would be held, trees sacrificed and barrels of ink spilled.  Electrons and pixels would die as gazillions of keyboards would be broken in the fury of it all, all in the goal of completely obliterating that person’s job, family, and life (and there never is any chance of “forgiveness” – only abject calls for groveling that never pay off in absolution).

If nothing else, the Left has perfected the art of the double standard with straight faces.  Two quick examples of when outright discrimination is, well, ignored when done by Progressives.  First up is racist Hillary Clinton (emphasis mine, reformatted):

No Whites Allowed, Clinton Speaks To Press For First Time In 260 Days

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will finally speak in front of members of the press Friday, but only to black and latino journalists.

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A reminder about Jeanne Forrester – she signed the check for the “Medicaid Expansion” Republican scapegoat re-election campaign

Money - SatchelNH Senate Republican Majority PAC logoNo, not NH Rep Joe LaChance (who glorifies himself for being THE point person in the NH House that expanded the scope, reach, intrusion of Government – and, as Kimberly points out with the no work clause, the enlarging of the Democrat Government dependency “hammock”.

No, that role was filled by now retired NH State RINO Senator Nancy Stiles – I can’t tell you the times I was told by the likes of Jeb Bradley and Chuck Morse (and others) that if Republicans DIDN’T get on the Obama Socialist Medicine Train and lick her boots the right way, she’d vote with the Democrats and things WOULD BE MUCH WORSE.  That was the P**** poor reasoning and we all were expected to, in return for this legislative “largesse”, lick their boots (or other parts of their anatomies) in joy and adoration.

Why do I bring this up?  After using Nancy Stiles as the scapegoat over Medicaid Expansion, did the NH Senate Republican Majority (and Incumbent Protection and Racketeering) PAC cast her adrift. Nope!  And guess to whom NH State Senator Jeanne Forrester, Treasurer of

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Military K9 Handler dishes on the “real” Hillary Clinton

Seems to jive well with accounts of Secret Service, other military, and former employees that had “up close and personal” encounters with Hildabeast – all cheery and lightness when the cameras are around and a loathsome person when they aren’t but the “little people” (who are there to protect and serve) are. Eric Bonner, a … Read more

This mirrors what they are doing

My first thought was “seriously”? NRO Is Moving to Facebook Comments So, in this New World where Progressives have politicized everything and are deliberately trying to dissemble the Constitution step by step, National Review’s The Corner is switching from Disqus to FACEBOOK?  I can’t quite wrap my head around this – why would they get … Read more

Australian atheists irate that people claim “Jedi” as a religion

So Many Australians Are Claiming ‘Jedi’ as Their Religion That It’s Becoming a Problem

AustralianAtheistsUpsetAtJediBelieversCouldn’t happen to a better set of sad sacks.  Sure, “Jedi” might be a made up religion like Pastafaranians, but who are they to say there is no God and demand that Government disregard others?  Just so that Australia can be seen as “less religious”?  Is this proselytizing in reverse – or passive-aggressive bullying?

A battle over government, religion, and Star Wars is brewing in Australia. The country will hold their national census on August 9 and a group of people is begging their fellow citizens to not put “Jedi” down as their religion.

Here’s the problem: On the 2011 census (it takes places every five years) 64,390 Australians put “Jedi” down as their religion, an increase of from 58,053 on the 2006 census, according to The Brisbane Times. Numbers like that put “Jedi” right behind Sikh on the list of religions in the country. It seems unlikely that all these people truly believe themselves to be actual Jedi, and most of them make the claim as a harmless way to declare their Star Wars fandom and give the government the middle finger at the same time.

However, a group called the Atheist Foundation of Australia is leading a campaign to

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Notable Quote – Richard Epstein

It is now possible to see how the progressive agenda thwarts the engine for growth in ways that private ingenuity finds it difficult to overcome. The initial observation is that virtually every progressive reform undermines free markets and tends to establish monopolies in labor, agriculture, and other industries. These rules frustrate the free entry into … Read more

“But we can’t let the Democrats win!” says the lady who called me

NHGOP LogoFWIW, it said TD America for the caller ID (TMEW said “what, the bank is now getting political in this election”?

And the lady on the phone who asked for me by my real name (dead giveaway that they’re database calling) started in on this election.  I could tell though, she wasn’t the normal clerk just reading from a script when

She: I want to thank you for all that you’ve done for the Republican and I want….

Me: Don’t you know I left the Republican Party?

She: Oh, so you’ve registered as a Democrat?

Me: No, as an independent.

She: well, you still know that we can’t let the Democrats win this….

I unloaded

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“Complaining is the only thing I have left”

It’s getting to the point where I just don’t know which of these two unTrustworthy, self-assured incompetent, post-Constitutional potentates with delusions of grandeur is the least worse option, egomaniac-wise. For a long time, I would have said Hillary by a pant length but it seems Trump is hell-bent on beating her in the dismal swirl … Read more

Settled science is oh so unsettling

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

dental flossNo, no about climate change this time.  No, it’s not about food and what the government keeps telling us what’s good for us and what’s not (butter bad…no good….fats bad….fats good….carbs good….carbs bad….sheesh).  But now it is flipping on the stuff they said we were supposed to do IF we were eating good or bad (reformatted, emphasis mine):

It’s one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities. Except there’s little proof that flossing works. The federal government has recommended flossing since 1979, first in a surgeon general’s report and later in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans issued every five years. The guidelines must be based on scientific evidence, under the law.

Scientific evidence, the hidey-hole of Progressives that maintain their ideology IS settled science..but!

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It’s like Obama and the Dems wanna play chicken with Zika

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

That there slush fund ain’t gonna fund itself, dontcha know:

As mosquitoes seem to be spreading Zika inside the United States, the Obama administration has been sitting on some of the resources intended to fight the virus.

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Once again, “strings attached” strikes again; Government loves status quo

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)

And you wonder why Government can’t get anything done?  It won’t allow you to get rid of the stuff you don’t want that ya bought with that “free money”.  When are our local chucklehead politicians and bureaucrats learn and internalize that taking your citizens’ tax monies siphoned and recirculated by some government entity is just a bad idea for the future?

I’ve railed about my hamlet’s adverse problems with stuff built long ago and now it’s turned out to just raise the local property tax when a private sector entity would have just said “raze it, it just isn’t worth it anymore”.  Betcha Meredith (NH) is wishing they were private as they just got caught by the short…

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What do teachers and Planned Parenthood (and Maggie Hassan) have in common?

SchoolhouseBehold – they all hate “involved” parents influence of their children:

A spokeswoman for the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Alaska is criticizing the state’s new sex education restrictions that require the curriculum to be approved by local school districts and open to review by parents.

Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii spokeswoman Jessica Cier said the legislation — which is becoming law without Gov. Bill Walker’s signature — is a “crushing blow for comprehensive and medically accurate sexual health education” because it will invite considerable scrutiny of the curriculum by parents and local boards of education.

Like I’ve said before, who owns my children?  According to Cier, it ain’t me and it ain’t you.  And look at that Progressive rail about Power being decentralized – why, how DARE they?  And don’t those local BoEs and parents just KNOW they are absolute rubes that that know nothing?  WE is the experts!

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Post-show: How else do you think the Media has earned the moniker of “Democrats with bylines”?

That last phrase courtesy of Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.  We talked briefly about this state of affairs of the so-called “Press” and their utter contempt towards Republicans and then, Conservatives and Libertarians (Do NOT confuse the latter two groups with the first – I posit that fewer and fewer Republicans are Conservatives (even as they all call themselves that) and can’t stand Libertarians).

This is an example of their “byline” activity.

Two weeks ago at the Republican National Convention (RNC) a grieving mother blasted Hillary Clinton for the debacle of the 2012 Benghazi attack. Last Thursday, at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), grieving parents gave a speech criticizing Donald Trump for his statements against Muslims.

While all the grieving parents deserve sympathy, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows seemed to only care about the parents that showed up at the Democratic Convention. Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazla’s DNC appearance earned 55 minutes, 13 seconds of Big Three network coverage, nearly 50 times more than Pat Smith, whose RNC speech honoring her son earned just 70 seconds of airtime.

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More examples:

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Notable Quote – Prof. Walter Williams

On minimum wage laws: There are many real-world examples of compensating differences. Full-fledged doctors receive hourly pay that ranges between $80 and $157. A brand-new intern earns about $34 an hour. What do you think would happen to a hospital’s willingness to hire an intern if there were a minimum hourly wage for interns of, … Read more

Notable Quote – Milton Friedman

Fair’ is in the eye of the beholder; ‘free’ is the verdict of the market. The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents. -Milton Friedman, Ph.D, economist, … Read more

Data Point – this is “sustainable”?

Makers vs takers.  Producers vs moochers. Look, I’m fine with helping those that REALLY need it but too often (and I’ve been up close to them) able bodied people just milk the system.  But at what point does this break? And then ask – what happens to all those that have become very cozy in the … Read more

Data Point – US Manufacturing

American factories and American workers are making a greater volume of stuff than ever — high-tech, high-value products that are competitive in markets around the world. In the last 20 years, which include enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, real, inflation-adjusted U.S. manufacturing output has … Read more

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