Steve MacDonald

Kimberly has a post here in which the NH Department of Safety admits that Police chiefs have abused their power when it comes to discriminating against legal gun owners requesting pistol revolver licenses. The word used with regard to the abuse of power is ‘Seldom.’ Yes, there is abuse but because it is infrequent, we’d rather not do anything to prevent it, and there is certainly no rush to end it.

Seldom. Infrequent. Not common. But present.

How’s-about we casually apply that logic to some other turns of phrase and see how that goes? What if we said, “Police chief’s wives are seldom abused by their husbands”? #CopsWivesMatter?

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The title comes from Mark Steyn’s recent remarks regarding Frau Merkel’s lynching of comedian Jan Boehmermann, for making a joke about the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan didn’t like it. Merkel has set the German Shepherds courts on Boehmermann, and set whatever still passes for free speech in Germany on an even steeper downward slide into obscurity.

So Jan Boehmermann will be put on trial pour encourager les autres. As Barbara Amiel well understood, for every protracted expensive court battle that ends in a free-speech victory there are thousands and thousands of other publishers, editors, writers, comedians, film-makers, playwrights, directors, producers, cartoonists, artists who get the message that discretion is the better part of valour. In my book Lights Out: Free Speech, Islam and the Twilight of the West, I put it this way:

These are the books we will never read, the plays we will never see, the movies that will never be made…

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I was killing some time the other night after cleaning up some backlog on the DVR and decided to see how bad the new Odd Couple was before I slipped away to play Fallout 4. It’s awful, and it is either Matthew Perry’s fault or it is mine.

He looks like he is acting. He sounds like he is acting. Everything his character does appears like acting. There is no suspension of disbelief for me. It was 20 minutes of Matthew Perry doing bad Middle School theater as Oscar Madison.

To be fair, I am willing to admit it might just be me.

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Long story short, a “Republican-owned” lobbying group is pushing Emperor Bloomberg’s gun control agenda in the NH Legislature. If that’s how they want to roll, so be it. It’s their business. But their business is now our business because they are actively lobbying our representatives to advance an anti-liberty pro-gressive agenda.

In light of this it occurs to me that folks like you and I are equally entitled to ‘lobby’ The Dupont Group’s Client list regarding the willingness of their lobbyist to sell other people’s constitutional right to self-defense down the river in exchange for cash.

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So is THIS the Settled Science™?

A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.

The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice.

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Is Planned Parenthood in Concord, New Hampshire preparing to impose a buffer zone outside their Penacook Street warehouse facility? A woman was recently spotted outside the building, “measuring” the property.

New Hampshire passed a buffer zone law in 2015 right before the US Supreme Court struck down a similar law in Massachusetts as unconstitutional.

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The New Hampshire State Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling and ruled in favor of Donna Green in her Right to Know suit against The Earl of Metzler and Timberlane Regional Polizeistaat. You can read the entire decision here. H/T Jorge!

Here’s a snippet.

Accordingly, we conclude that the plaintiff was entitled to the requested documents in electronic format. The trial court’s decision to the contrary was, therefore, in error.

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