American Public: gay marriage loses big time to Religious Liberty

After all, freedom of expression is a Constitutionally protected Right.  And given that, here’s what was found:

According to Caddell Associates, which conducted the poll, “[t]here is an overwhelming sense on the part of American voters that they want to find common ground in order to protect both the expression of religious freedom and the rights of gays and lesbians.”  Those that were polled overwhelmingly made clear that they believed that religious individuals’ rights must be protected.

And remember, Pat Caddell was Bill Clinton’s former pollster, so he is Democrat leaning.  A bit more with numbers (emphasis mine):

Read more

I’m not surprised that John Kerry was comfortable in a Communist country

Nope, not at all at his bon mots (un peu de la langue française pour “Lurch” who keeps reminding us he speaks French):  “Thank you for joining us at this truly historic moment, as we prepare to raise the United States flag here at our embassy in Havana, symbolizing the re-establishment of diplomatic relations after 54 … Read more

And this is why we can’t have nice things: Fergus “The Fringe” Cullen

FergusKool-Aid-01Why the Concord Monitor would ask Fergus “The Fringe” Cullen questions; he’s a nitwit that should not have been allowed to be within 100 meters (really, meters, Fergus?) of a reporter with a notebook or a recorder?  After all, this is the NH GOP Chair that suffered the WORST losses in the NH House and Senate EVAH! And the Party’s finances at the time?  And to date, has not been re-elected to the NH GOP Committee since being replaced as chair, by Republican voters, by Papa Smurf.  This dope is supposed to be considered “a political Smart Person”?

This was, what I thought, a decent piece on Corey Lewandowski who is now Trump’s campaign manager and I first met when he was the NH Exec Dir for Americans for Prosperity.  In it, we see that while he lives in ignominy, Cullen still tried to throw manure Corey.  Right, a verifiable loser throwing it at someone who has been verifiably winning:

Read more

Dang, we shoulda made that list – at #241

I’ve never made it a priority to “write for the rankings” – I write for me.  I write because I like to on topics that are of interest to me – else why bother as no one is paying me to do it.  Ditto for the wonderful writers that volunteer their time and talent.  But when someone comes up with a ranking, I do look – just in case I could be surprised.

DougRossAlexaRankingsWell, Doug Ross over at Doug Ross @ Journal (aka http://directorblue.blogspot.in) has such a list – a ranking based on Alexa listings of the top right of center blogsites with those 300 top ones with Alexa global (not just US standings) ranking from 196 for FoxNews.com at #1 to astuteblogger.BlogSpot.com with a ranking of 1664275.

And no, we were not listed.  Shoulda though – for a state level blog in a very small state, our Alexa global ranking is 681,238.  Our US ranking is higher: 243,676 when I looked us up, so we could have ended up on that list at #241 (see image).  That’s with millions upon hundreds of millions in the blogosphere.  I guess we punch, very well, above our weight class – thank you, Readers!

A couple of other things I found out:

Read more

Amusing – what if the country DID split into two; Constitutional and Progressive?

A couple of snippets from Kurt Schlichter at Townhall of a “future history”.  Want a laugh?  Go read the whole thing:

“And to President Clinton,” President Abbot said into the camera, “I ask that you stop your threats of war and allow the Free States of America to separate in peace, and let our two nations remain brothers instead of enemies. Goodnight, and God bless all Americans.”…Now, the two dozen conservative states that had seceded a week ago had done it quickly, peacefully and reluctantly. After Hillary’s hand-picked Supreme Court majority started upholding her flurry of executive orders – she didn’t bother with legislation anymore – there seemed no other choice.

Read more

Are you ready?

The weather last nite promised that the Dog Days of Summer were finally going to arrive here in NH; hot, hazy, humid pretty much all week long.  We’ve been lucky, IMHO, that we’ve had little of “heat waves” (e.g., 3 contigious days of 90+ degrees) for quite some time.  For a guy who waits all summer for February, this has been good news!  This week, however, not so much.  But in a couple of weeks, the weather will be turning nippier and I’ll be able to take out the air conditioners – and get ready for what comes next. I think this is great advice:

And shop the Amazon Emergency Prep Store. Plus, Emergency & Long-Term Storage Food Deals. When bad things happen, it’s good to have food.

Plus, Generators and Portable Power for Storm Season. Though the Insta-Wife was a generator-skeptic when we installed ours, a couple of outages have turned her into a believer.

I’ll add this – I remember the tremendous ice storm we in the North Country had here a few years ago and we were out of power for over 2 weeks – I promised myself and TMEW that we’d be better prepared next time if something like that happened again.

Read more

Fox News Prez Poll – the debate had an effect.

1,008 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 3%.  Would like to have seen a higher number of those polled but it is enough for a quick review (Question 8): It certainly doesn’t seem to have hurt Trump much but it certainly gave Carson and Fiorina, the non-politicians big bumps.  And of the … Read more

A reminder: Planned Parenthood hates babies

From March 2013 – a precursor of the recent and horrible videos showing the actual outlook of how Planned Parenthood’s official spokesman at a Congressional hearing couldn’t have the empathy, the heart, the morality, to say unequivocally that a baby actually born as a result of a botched abortion would be saved by their medical … Read more

A reminder: Planned Parenthood hates babies – Part 3 (for today, anyways)

 

adopt-500x388

Planned Parenthood – the dehumanization of children.  Isn’t that what the Nazis did to the Jews?  And no, I am not breaking Godwin’s Law?  Dehumanize to kill – and then to profit from it. How is this any different than what the Nazis did at their death camps – Nazis harvested even the gold teeth and also experimented on their prisoners.  How, pray tell, is this any different?  They were killed for who they were.

So are these babies – killed for who they would never become.  Because they could.

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

Read more

Blogline of the Day: benefits and flaws

“The free-market system lets you notice the flaws and hides its benefits. All other systems hide the flaws and show the benefits.”

Outsiders take over GOP

That’s the headline at The Hill (via Instapundit) – and I do believe that the Establishment is in full disarray (and anger) over the developments in the 2016 Presidential Primary races.  No, not all are expressing it, or if they are, it is in words that have a heavy, heavy veneer over them.  Yet, there are a lot of Establishmentarians that are full in revolt – and if you watch Fox, you have watched George Will have as much of an emotional meltdown as he ever has.

It’s like they believe they own the Party or something.  They DO believe they own your votes – that is clear.  What did The Hill have to say (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

Outsiders who have never before held political office are dominating the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

If you look at the most recent poll, I would say that fully 5 of the top 7 are certainly either non-politicians or non-establishmentarians: Trump, Carson, Cruz, then Bush (Est.),  Huckabee, Walker, Fiorina.  Am willing to quibble on Huckabee and while Cruz is a sitting senator, he is certainly outside of the DC Repub clique and the Establishment one.

Read more

“…Greatest sins a government…”

“Burn this into your cerebral cortex: The two greatest sins a government can impose on its citizens are to 1) provide for them, because it destroys their souls by creating dependency instead of self-reliance, and 2) take the sweat, hard work and equity of one man and give it to another (e.g., spread the wealth … Read more

Notable Quote – Don Boudreaux

… is from pages 75-76 of Harold Demsetz’s insight-packed and wisdom-filled 1982 volume, Economic, Legal, and Political Dimensions of Competition: The use of a given amount of time and the expenditure of a given sum to search among market alternatives yields a much greater expected increase in welfare to a person consuming in the market place … Read more

BlogHeadline of the Day

On the [in]famous occasion of Obama rewarding the totalitarian regime of the Marxist Castro brothers: The Stars and Stripes Surrender to Castro in Havana

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

In this day of absolute insanity on college campuses (campi?) from the Left’s censorship via Political Correctness, the Obama Administrations destroying the idea of due process when accused and being judged by a jury of your peers (as opposed to an academic Star Chamber), and the feminists’ perpetual victimhood and that the victim MUST always be judged to be innocent and the accused guilty…

…this is the PERFECT defense (Politically correct liberal progressives of the micro-aggressed persuasions heads will explode – in confusion…

Read more

3D-printed semi-automatic gun: liberal anti-gunners heads exploding

I certainly had heard of the first 3D printed gun – which the State Department applied ITAR type regulations upon the uploaded plans to prevent their downloading.  Oops – 100,000 copies of that had already escaped into the wild.  Now, “next version” of that single shot, going to semi-automatic has come out (yes, new materials … Read more

Share to...