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Thomas Jefferson’s Memorial has this as one of its inscriptions:

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”

“Gift of God” – THE anchor point from which our Rights flow.  Not from Man and not from some collective.  Sure, it was a collection of men that wrote the words but they believed, too. They acknowledged that there is a Higher Power from whom our freedom and our liberty flows from.  They wanted to establish that with this fact, who was Man to take them away from the then (and I guess now, given the collectivism we are being dragged into) radicalism that we were not to be subservient to a government – it was to be subservient to we sovereign citizens.  This was one of our foundational values of our Republic as it buttresses their philosophy that it was no longer Kings that had divine right, it was each and every one of us that were sovereign before God and Nature’s God – a singular path to an absolute truth and to which Totalitarians, Communists, and Socialists rail against as they believe Man should serve The State. Think I’m wrong?

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UPDATE: This should have gone up last nite but my laptop’s Wifi quit just before hitting the PUBLISH button.  Anyways, I’ll have another Frank Guinta post going up in a few.

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Deja vu all over again; I thought he might have learned from his involuntary pause in Congressional employment (due in no small measure to his failure to keep his promise to his supporters to do EVERYthing he could to cut Federal Government spending – and then promptly voted for two successful Continuing Resolutions that HIKED spending), but I guess not.  Advance to the NOW – the Main Responsibility of anyone one elected to Congress is:

 I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

So, did he do so, support, defend, bear truth faith, and allegiance?  Ok, can we just try defend – with his vote?

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From his “Thoughts on a Sunday“:

The totalitarians-in-training at Clemson University are calling for stripping everyone on campus of their First Amendment rights, making sure no one can voice opposing viewpoints they may find offensive, or worse, true.

What shocked the Clemson community was the professors’ support of the students’ first demand, which called on the university “to prosecute criminally predatory behaviors and defamatory speech committed by members of the Clemson University community (including, but not limited to, those facilitated by usage of social media).”

Unfortunately this idea is not restricted to Clemson alone. There are plenty of colleges and universities where the same push to censor free speech reside. I remember having a conversation with a college student on the campus of the University of New Hampshire a few of years ago. He was protesting the freedom of people to voice opinions that he found to be “hate speech” and “contrary to progressive beliefs” and a bunch of other such drivel.

And then, I think Chan hit his flashpoint; I would have PAID to see this “slow to anger but then WATCH OUT!” friend:

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Uh-oh, this is going to leave a mark.  Carly Fiorona keeps asking “What is Hillary’s main achievement?” – and it may be “A Big Whopper with a straight face”:

Hillary Clinton’s Top Aides Knew from First Minutes that Benghazi Was a Terrorist Attack, E-mails Disclose

From the very first moments of the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her top aides were advised that the compound was under a terrorist attack. In fact, less than two hours into the attack, they were told that the al-Qaeda affiliate in Libya, Ansar al-Sharia, had claimed responsibility.

These revelations and others are disclosed by a trove of e-mails and other documents pried from the State Department by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The FOIA litigation focuses on Mrs. Clinton’s involvement in the government actions before, during, and after the Benghazi attack, in which Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, was murdered by terrorists. Also killed in the attack were State Department information management officer Sean Smith, and two former Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, who were contract security employees and who had fought heroically, saving numerous American lives. At least ten other Americans were wounded, some quite seriously.

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From the UL (reformatted, emphasis mine):  Warner felon caught with silenced sub-machine pistol, drugs

A car stopped by police for weaving along Route 28 on Thursday led to the arrest of a Warner man on parole who had a silenced sub-machine pistol, a shotgun and drugs.  Gordon Potter, 35, was ordered held on $250,000 cash bail following his arraignment on Friday morning in 10th Circuit Court—Salem Division. Potter was charged with felon in possession of firearms, being in possession of heroin and prescription pills, and making a false report to law enforcement…

During the conversation, the detective spotted a large hunting knife tucked into the side of the seat next to Potter. Police said that Potter became upset with the detective and refused to comply with commands. That prompted several back-up units to respond to the parking lot, police said. Police said officers found a small amount of heroin and prescription pills in Potter’s possession. Potter gave police a false name, but he and Drouin were taken into custody without incident, according to police. Officers searched the car and found a Kel-Tec 5.56 silenced sub-machine pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun in the vehicle.Deputy police Chief Shawn Patten said the type of weapons – especially the silenced pistol – drew concerns from officers given Potter was a convicted felon.

Let’s count the ways:

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Today, I finally get to beat Steve in putting up GrokTALK! – mostly because he’s still in a bus coming home from CPAC 2105.  Speaking of which:

• Segment 1 Part 1 – Grokster Steve talks with Mike and Skip about CPAC and what he observed
• Segment 1 Part 2 – Our Education Updater, Jorge Mesa-Tejada comes on to talk about Classroom size and Teacher – Student ratios (and that those “para-professional” that are hired for a single reason….never seem to leave
• Segment 2 & 3 – NH State Rep Max Abramson comes in to give us an update on what’s happening in the NH House and other sundry matters (after all, we ARE the ADD blogger bunch!)
• Segment 4 – NH State Rep Josh Moore comes in to yak with us all about NH Dept of Ed’s Commissioner Virginia Barry and her issuance of a memo that all but strips parental rights in favor of “The State”

          Steve                                                                  Jorge Mesa-Tejada

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Heh!  I’m not sure I’d want to take that task on – enumerating those kinds of rules.  You see, standing on solid foundations are just so much easier to navigate through life – you never have to worry where you stand.  Or what your stances are.  RINOs?  The moderate middle?  Squishes?  The “just sounds right” crowd?  To me, that would be MUCH harder – just imagine really trying to keep track of your stances / votes of yesterday, last week, last month, last year, last decade and all the times inbetween.  I certainly couldn’t do it – nor would I want to.  And then in some kind of discussion, trying to defend what I can’t remember because I’ve flip-flopped more times John Kerry?  So I thought this at Conservative Review, outlining the attributes of a RINO, was kinda of amusing….

It becomes clearer every day that there are not only two parties in Washington, D.C., but there are also two wings of the Republican Party. Conservatives who fight for limited government, fewer taxes, less regulation, more freedom, devolving federal power to the states, prudent immigration, and constitutional principles…So what guides these powerful liberal Republicans?

Here are the 8 RINO rules:

1. Bait and Switch
This can also be referred to as “politics over principle” or “don’t fight now, fight later”…

2. Show Me the Money
Votes win elections and money is used to get votes, therefore simple calculus tells a RINO that money is the most important thing ever…

3. Fear
This one is simple – they instill fear in you the voter. You don’t want a Democrat in office – do you?

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I just had to chuckle when I read this headline – when are too many letters just silliness?

LGBT acronym not inclusive enough for Wesleyan University, which insists on LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM

…expialidocious!

This is no joke, notes Jennifer Kabbany at College Fix, by which she obviously means it is not intended to be funny. Wesleyan University, she observes (via Powerline’s Steven Hayward), “is now making sure every sexual fetish, whim, kink, orientation, impulse and desire … gets its own capital letter in the ever-growing acronym of the formerly Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer community.”

The new formulation is a mouthful. Repeat after me: LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM, which stands for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderf**k, Polyamourous, Bondage/Disciple, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism.”

Here is the official word from the university’s Office of Residential Life regarding an on-campus facility — a safe house, if you will — called “Open House” that accommodates all … er — “comers”:

Talk about jumping the shark! Heck, how would you design a flag with all that sub-sub-subsetting? Do they really expect ANYone outside of their clique(s) to really want to make sense of that, much less remember it?  Certainly not me – I have FAR better ways to waste my time (and I’ll admit, my memory isn’t as sterling as it once was to boot)  Hey, I have an idea:

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A bit of fun at we Yankees here up North: You might be a New Englander…

Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about New Englanders…

Forget Rednecks …. If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t work there, you live in New England .

If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in New England.

If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in New England.

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