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“1. U.S. manufacturing corporations are on track to earn record profits in 2011, of about $600 billion based on data available from the U.S. Census through the third quarter (see chart above). That’s an increase of 22 percent from 2010, and more than four times the 4.8 percent increase in profits for all U.S. corporations in 2011. It’s also double the $300 billion of manufacturing profits in 2009 and almost 15 percent higher than the previous record of $525 billion in 2006.
Remember: the Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen. And we are seeing this played now in the MSM as it is too explosive of a hack job by Obama to go unnoticed. This is not a topic that is going to go away any time soon – given the nature of Obama and HHS Secretary Sebelius on the Catholic church’s theology that contraception and abortion is sinful, it speaks to the very heart of American Rights – the Right to believe what one wishes without Government interference. Now, I am not Catholic (in fact, being an evangelical Christian, I have some major problems with some of their theology) but I defend their right to believe what they do and will defend them. Yet, this roughshod attack is what happens with an overgrown Government too Big for our britches when Government has to force compliance.
Progressives are ALL about Government staying out of their “private lives”. For years, all we heard was that Republicans want to tell you what to do in your bedroom. Fair enough, but is their use of Government to force me to pay for “the fun in their private lives” an infringement of my private life? And worse, how is their use of Government to force me to reject a core religious belief ? And THAT seems to be the logic that always escapes these nitwits – while they are all about setting things up so that some “identity / victim / special interest group” has the “freedom” to act as they wish without bearing the cost of that freedom, they never will acknowledge that in doing so, they “freely” (sorry, bad joke) have no problem in taking away freedom from the many to service the few. And they never, ever will admit that’s the shell game they play in buying off one group against another.
Well, over at Blue Hampshire, Granite Gnome decided to tried to come up with a defense of this indefensible cliff.
You want to register? No ID needed. Even if you use the names of star quarterbacks! Lovely! “We are not the police“…… Who else is getting disenfranchised today? After what happened here in NH, why hasn’t the MSM been digging into this with all of their armies of investigative reporters, fact checkers, editors, and political … Read more
I could not believe my ears and eyes when I watched this video of her giving advice to the Egyptians as their “Arab Spring” moment moves onward and they begin the process of creating a their new Mubarek-less State (will that be a great tradeoff for the US with the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists controlling 75% of the new Parliament? Does anyone disagree that the operative phrase is going to be “Shar’iah Law”?). Given Bader Ginsburg’s status as one of THE defenders of the US Constitution, I could only shake my head. I expected more – much more. Sure, if one is a law lecturer, a legal scholar (which the Justices are, no doubt), I would not have been as surprised (slightly annoyed, but not surprised). But not only did I (and I would posit most Americans as well), expect her to be that scholar and more, and one that would have been championing the checks and balances, the simplicity of our Constitution.
From MEMRI, the short form:
Here is a longer version that was posted by the US Embassy in Cairo of the interview:
Yeah, pretty much as expected: when voting on an amendment that would have banned earmarks (and hopefully, the corruption and self-serving pandering that often comes from it), we had a disparity in voting from our two US Senators. As far as I am concerned, earmarks are nothing but giveaways to the politically connected. Beseech a … Read more
OK, this video is politically incorrect and NRSFW (Not Really Safe For Work). Done by a rapper “Chapter”, I just thought it fit in well with my post on NH HB1658 (“limiting financial assistance for mothers who have additional children while receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).”). Do I consider it a parody or satire of the subject?
No. Again, at the risk of continuously sounding like a broken record (yeah, old school here), I heard it personally: have a baby, get a check. and if you notice in the video, the rather stark absence of men – mothers and their children, but where are the baby daddies (as to, you know, real husbands and fathers):
“We earnestly hope that you will put women’s health before partisan politics and reconsider this decision for the sake of the women who depend on both your organizations for access to the health care they need.”
One of the saddest (or is that sadistic?) things I have watched this week has been the pilloring of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure – private charity that specializes in fighting breast cancer. Simply by stating that they were going to withdraw their $600,000 or so donation that they have given to the abortion mill Planned Parenthood, all heck has broken loose on the Left – how DARE a private charity stop funding one of Holy Chalices of Secular Progressivism? As this snippet from Hot Air points out, it isn’t about the good they have done over the years (about $2 billion in charitable giving) but who it was that was no longer going to get their donation:
(H/T: Powerline)
In my opinion, public education has gone down a path of disaster in many ways – too many teaching methodologies that are not much more than somebody’s fad idea instead of being verifiably certified effective, teachers who believe their mission is to indoctrinate students with “a worldview” instead of teaching subject basics well, and unions that want you to simply believe that higher salaries and perks are an instant panacea to what they’ve been doing the last 30 years.
So, DO watch this of a high school student asking other students some simple, basic American Civics and geography questions. Watch the utter cluelessness (with the exception of one young lady) and the blank stares of these high schoolers when the mic is offered in their general direction.
(H/T: The Blaze)
Well prepared and taught by their teachers, eh? The problem for parents and taxpayers is…
“In the grey line, Nomura economists have adjusted the unemployment rate for the number of discouraged workers who have left the labor force and therefore count as unemployed in this alternative measure. (And yes, they do take into account demographic trends by age group that would influence those leaving, the largest of which is retiring … Read more
(H/T: ohgizmo)
Dr. Leo Sandy (aka “the nutty professor”), I guess, had a problem with my rebuttal in the Laconia Daily Sun and decided to try to lambast me (his full Letter after the jump):
U.S. Public Law 107-243 is as invalid as the Jim Crow laws of the south used to be because both are based on false premises. History is full of bad laws that were changed only after being broken. I’m sure the Saudis who attacked the World Trade Center had their own versions of these laws as well, and their cause was equally unjustified.
Mr. Murphy is engaging in concrete, black/white, either/or, dualistic thinking that is one of the greatest obstacle to world peace. Absolute sovereignty and total world government are both abhorrent structures as far as I’m concerned.
He seems to have a problem when things are the way he wishes (really, a Congressional Law is “Jim Crow”….so of course, I answered!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW HAMPSHIRE PLANNED PARENTHOOD HEALTH CENTERS DO NOT PROVIDE MAMMOGRAMS February, 2, 2012 – In the face of massive defunding and decreasing public opinion, Planned Parenthood and their allies have spent the past two weeks attacking the New Hampshire state legislature and the Susan G. Komen Foundation. They have falsely claimed that … Read more
“…it is not just a matter of “women’s health” and it makes no difference if “birth control is universal“. From Left leaning Politico:
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) confronted Obama during a trip to the Granite State before the GOP primary, urging him to provide contraceptive coverage. Obama told her that he was sympathetic but had made no final decision.
It wasn’t until Jan. 20 that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the administration’s decision, sparking the firestorm from the bishops and the GOP presidential field.
“It’s very disturbing to me that his decision has been distorted and misinterpreted,” Shaheen told POLITICO. “It’s an issue of women’s health. Birth control is nearly universal in the country. I don’t understand why this is such a big issue.”
No, you wouldn’t, nor does it seem, that you want to. And not it is not an issue of women’s health. It is all about a Progressive mindset that Government has can tell its citizens your religious beliefs are subordinate to our decrees. It is all about Government telling its citizens that the Constitution does not matter on one of the issues that laid the foundation of our Country. It is all about Government turning the relationship of American citizens to their Government. It is all about losing the consent of the Governed…or actually, ignoring that it is a necessary component of American Exceptionalism, and making a crass political decision that beliefs of an unprotected minority are of no account.
“U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) explains how big government is making it harder for Americans to find jobs and more difficult for small businesses to succeed. When big government puts too many burdens on America’s economy, it forces jobs and investment overseas instead of here at home. It also makes it harder for middle … Read more
Anyways, I just thought I bring this up topic of Voter Fraud again as this afternoon at lunch, I went down to file the paperwork to run for elected office again. Well, given this topic of Voter ID, I wanted to find out if someone could come in and sign up to run – under … Read more
Wings. Chicken wings. Taste good, look good – create mess. Wonderful for Superbowl fare. Normally, great for napkin / paper towel manufacturers too! If you’re apt to combine the Superbowl and wings, well, this video is here for you: “this is how to eat a chicken wing with one hand with little to no mess. … Read more
I really had to shake my head over this, I really can’t believe that Hillary Clinton actually said this: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday accused the Syrian regime of a “divide-and-conquer strategy” aimed at setting the country’s religious and ethnic groups against each other. Really? The leading Democrat women in the nation actually … Read more
Both Steve and I had posts on HB1658, so when a local Democrat, Kate Miller (rather frustrated from having been tossed from the NH House in 2010 and has been writing very shrewish Letters to the Editor ever since) decided to decry even more “intrusion” into womens’ lives, I could not help myself:
“Laughter does the soul good”, or so the old adage goes. In that case, my soul is well indeed, especially after reading the latest dismalocumentary from Kate Miller (who seemingly is still smarting after being thrown out of the NH House for being a Democrat extremist by voters in 2010). Her personal jeremiad in attempting to paint the Republicans to where she’s already been cast borders on hysterical these last few months! One would think that she works in a plastics factory (the way she keeps grasping at straws)!
From RedState: “Conscience is the most sacred of all property.” (James Madison)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Are we Christians next to be tossed into Obama’s secular version of the Fiery Furnace simply for holding to religiously based beliefs other than what he is trying to establish with his latest Obamacare ruling? Certainly the Roman Catholic Church is square in his gunsights of the new Obamacare regulations set by Health and Human Services Sebelius. Yet, does not Obama understand that religious freedom was a prime impetus for the establishment of our country? Or just ignoring it to consolidate his power as he did in direct opposition to the Constitution when he has appointed unaccountable czars, has made “recess” appointments by unilaterally declaring the Senate in recess (even as it was not), and unilaterally changed large swaths of how Americans have to behave (shades of tin-plated despots everywhere). And all he has to do is use his Executive levers of powers of an overlarge Federal Government that has grown from the laziness of a Congress that refuses to take up its own responsibilities under and to the Constitution?