Steve MacDonald

The distinction between use and mention is too often ignored and worth a detailed look. Language Log has an excellent article on the topic that begins with this.

Professor Donald Hindley was recently found guilty of racial harassment by Brandeis University for statements that he made in his Fall 2007 Latin American Studies course. The case is discussed in this report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and in a number of blog posts, including this one by Margaret Soltan and this one by Eugene Volokh. Criticism of Brandeis is based in part on what appears to have been an egregiously unfair process, and in part on the nature of the charges against him.

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Tampering with the temperature record is one of many ways the rent-seekers in the Climate Cult keep the gravy flowing, but there are a lot of records. Here’s one, compiled at infoplease.com sourced from the National Climate Data Center in Ashville, NC, showing the hottest recorded day in every U.S. state by year.

If the doomsayers are correct, we should see a frightening number of states with their hottest days ever recorded in recent decades. But we don’t.

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President Trump’s National Security strategy will not include the weather as a threat to the nation.

“Climate change is not identified as a national security threat,” an official said, adding that the position is consistent with Mr. Trump’s decision earlier this year to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord that was signed by President Obama. The official said the importance of “climate and environmental stewardship are discussed” in the plan.

Nazi Trump is one of the worlds staunchest supporters of the Jewish State, so it only makes sense that racist Trump would advance a global security strategy that actually helps brown people.

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Delmar Burridge is the lone sponsor of HB1566. And act prohibiting open carry of a firearm in certain public places. But the title is misleading because the language of the bill suggests a different goal entirely.

The trouble begins right out of the gate.

159:27 Firearms Prohibited in Certain Public Places.
I.  No person shall knowingly and openly carry a loaded or unloaded pistol, revolver, firearm, or other deadly weapon as defined in RSA 625:11, V, whether licensed or unlicensed, upon the person or within any of the person’s possessions owned or within the person’s control in the following places:

Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t ‘or within any of the person’s possessions owned‘ also prohibit carrying concealed?

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In a staff editorial today the Union Leader points out how a series of bills promoted as tax cuts (by Democrats) aren’t tax cuts at all; which is why some Republicans are voting against them.

The Democratic approach would be to keep tax rates high, but carve out ways for taxpayers to avoid them. SB 75 would give tax credits for donations to career and technical education centers.

Of the non-denominational variety, we presume?

I should point out (because the UL didn’t have the bandwidth or the will) that the long list of sponsors for SB 75 includes three Republicans.

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c/o Twitchy the most powerful person in the White House Press Office (a woman) wants to know what was the most underreported story of Mr. Trumps first year in office?

Which is the more underreported story of @POTUS Year One?
-Defeat of ISIS
-Booming Trump economy

— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) December 17, 2017

Some folks added a few more suggestions.

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Originally posted at The New Media Militia.com

The FCC just tossed Obama’s attempt to regulate the Internet. When my daughter asked my opinion I told her, “remember back in antiquity (circa 2015) before New Neutrality? When the internet was a thriving, growing, thing looking for every way possible to get as many eyeballs on its corner of the world wide web? 

“It’ll be just like that, and it will keep getting better.” 

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If you are on the Andy Sanborn (for Congress) email list, you’ll have received this already. For the benefit of others and the trolls, here is a snippet from his email and a pdf of the highlights of the plan.

Attached is the first release of what the conference committee created and what both the House and Senate will be voting on over the next few days.

As you can see, this plan will benefit the people of NH and put more money back in your pocket.

While it is not perfect, this tax reform will make it much easier to file your taxes and spur on the economy to make sure we create more and new jobs.

Embedded PDF on the Jump!

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GraniteGrok has a long history of battling the anti-smoking data monkeys. Their numbers often make no sense or contradict the real-world evidence or just common sense. Today is no different.

The focus of a recent report appears to be almost entirely on, not results or eventual outcomes but on investing in prevention programs based on CDC guidelines; and more specifically, how much of your tobacco settlement money you spend on “prevention.”

According to this report, from Tobacco-Free Kids, New Hampshire ranks 47th for protecting kids from smoking while in contrast, the state of Alaska ranks second best.

Contrast? Sure. The contrast is all about money. At least that’s how it looks.

New Hampshire spent $125,000.00 on tobacco prevention in 2017. Alaska spent 9,493,500.00 (9.5 million). And taken in a vacuum, without any other considerations to health overall welfare of children, the side-by-side numbers look like this.

If we’re talking about the headlines, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free kids pumped this gem up on a national newswire about their report: National Report: New Hampshire Ranks 47th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco.

Meanwhile, 

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On November 28th the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union shared news on Facebook about ACLU Community Organizer Daniel Pontoh’s presentation to Farmington High School students. The subject was social justice activism, and how they can create the change they wish to see in the world and in NH with the passage of the Transgender Bill in the New Hampshire House. The post included two tags. #TransBillNH and Freedom New Hampshire.

So what’s wrong with that? For starters, the TransBill is a lie, Freedom New Hampshire is a nationally funded left-wing pressure group (as is the ACLU), and “Social Justice” is a tool used by the left to socially and culturally re-engineer your children.

Social Justice

The “Social Justice Movement” endorses socialism as a means of redressing the alleged evils of capitalism and producing a programmatic equality that it acknowledges will be purchased at the price of individual liberty and require the manufacture of what totalitarian governments have called “the New Man.”

The Social Justice movement traps your child in an ideological prison that in direct opposition to its advertised purpose (Inclusion and diversity) is intolerant (even within itself) and when triggered, can result in mental health issues and violence. Liberal Democrat Keri Smith abandoned the Social Justice Movement because she saw,

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In the wake of the ABC Fake News that resulted in lying Brian Ross getting an unplanned 4-week “vacation” a new story emerged. Donald Trump Jr. was reported to have received an email from Wikileaks directing him to documents ten days before they were made public.

CNN jumped all over it. But when the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and NBC News published the actual “news” President Trump took to Twitter.

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Recent research has uncovered another one of those ‘water is wet’ discoveries.

A new survey by insurance firm Aviva found that 72 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds believe the term “snowflake” is unfairly applied to millennials. 74 percent of respondents took it a step farther, arguing that they believe the use of the label could have a negative effect on young people’s mental health.

This ranks up there with researchers discovering that oral sex can lead to intercourse among teenagers.

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