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Steve MacDonald Just gave my daughter “the talk”, where I explain that one day, Joe Biden might place his hands on her shoulders. — Conan O'Brien (@ConanOBrien) February 21, 2015
In a tweet the US State department asked for “solutions you think are critical to countering violent extremism.”
This is the State Department so I’m assuming they do not mean countering the TEA Party, or Right to Life, or Right to Work, that sort of thing.
Senator Tom Cotton correctly took them to mean the ISIS variety of extremism, and made time to Tweet back a few suggestions of his own.
This week we talk about mini-dictator Shawn Jasper and the consent calendar; House leaderships approach to legislation they don’t want to defend; some painful facts about civil Asset Forfeiture and the NH House clerks office, and some good things about Industrial Hemp and Beer with Kevin Bloom and Kirk McNeil. We also talk to Doctor … Read more
By Steve Mac Donald | Watchdog Arena [R]eaders may remember the Gilford school district. They had a parent, William Baer, arrested last year for trying to express concern over sexually explicit material in the classroom. That case was just thrown out, but barely a month later Mr. Baer’s children have discovered that the Gilford School … Read more
Tomorrow on GrokTALK! February 21st, 2015 – Starting at 9 am EST our guests are… Guy Comtois with the legislative update Kevin Bloom and Kirk McNeil on Police Militarization, Poker…and the NH House clerks office. Dr. Girard Gianoli on innovative health care solutions – like refusing 3rd party insurance. Yvonne Dean Baily Republican candidate in … Read more
In case you missed it, last weekend there was supposed to be a Global warming protest at Yale. It should have been warm enough for shorts. Isn’t that what all the “climate models” predicted all those years ago?
(Daily Caller) Yale anti-fossil fuel campaigners have indefinitely postponed a protest that was set for this weekend due to “unfavorable weather conditions and other logistical issues.”
Natural rights. What are they? How do you know what they are? Where do they come from? Whose rights are they and what is governments role with regard to them? Listen to the entire Podcast here Follow us on YouTube, USTREAM, Facebook, and Twitter …and take us with you on iTunes, iHeart Radio, Spreaker, … Read more
Natural rights. What are they? How do you know what they are? Where do they come from? Whose rights are they and what is governments role with regard to them?
Update: I am told that this has been resolved. You no longer need to contact the chair or the committee members about allowing a fair hearing.
Original post on the jump.
CNHT Chairman Ed Naile returns to the show to introduce us to some new names (Jenna Rackovan) in the potential interstate vote fraud rogues gallery. We talk tactics for identifying likely suspects and how to deal with them when your own state shows no interest. Listen to the entire Podcast here Follow us on YouTube, … Read more
He who speak from both sides of his mouth… Efforts to counter violent extremism will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies. – Brrrockobama Meanwhile, back in America, political opponents who are branded as extremist are intimidated out of the process, whenever possible, … Read more
CNHT Chairman Ed Naile returns to the show to introduce us to some new names (Jenna Rackovan) in the potential interstate vote fraud rogues gallery. We talk tactics for identifying likely suspects and how to deal with them when your own state shows no interest.
That’s Jim Geraghty’s title to this bit from the Morning Jolt. My thought? Someone needs to start a Kool Aid Drinkers anonymous program in DC.
Nothing Can Dissuade Obama’s True Believers from Their Heroic Narrative
David Axelrod, Tuesday:
“And I’m proud of the fact that basically you have had an administration in this place for six years in which there hasn’t been a major scandal. And I think that says a lot about the ethical strictures of this administration.”
No major scandal.
Kathy Dunton | GrokWatch News Desk
If you’re a parent of an 8th grader in Rochester, you may have received a letter from the Rochester Middle school last month, informing you that your child has been “selected” to take the NAEP mathematics, reading or science assessments. These assessments were to begin on February 10th, but because of all the snow days and delays, we have had this month, they have not yet been carried out.
On the surface, participating in these assessments may seem harmless to your child, and possibly beneficial to the schools. After all the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have been around since 1969. If you were born in the 60’s or after, you too probably took these assessments with your trusty #2 pencils, intentionally filling out the ovals with answers you knew and playing Eenie Meenie Mynie Mo with the ones you didn’t.
So what is the big deal now? Why am I opting my child out?
nhpr.org is reporting that UNH El Presidente Mark Huddleston has 4000 “advocates” ready to contact their legislators. About what? A desperate University systems desperate want.
They want $100 million dollars in taxpayer handouts and they are $40 million short. The governor’s lousy budget, the one that throws the elderly and mentally handicapped under the bus, only plunders a paltry $13 million-dollar add-on to the $60 million UNH (University Needs Handouts) already gets in their rusty little tin cup every budget cycle.
And what is our reward? Same as before.
Speaker Jasper addresses the House Democratic Caucus. #nhpolitics #nhhousedems pic.twitter.com/MB5tuV4sgF
— Lucy McVitty Weber (@LWMcV) February 18, 2015
Wait…there’s more.
The school district clerk in Litchfield can’t certify the ballot for upcoming town elections. He tells me that the default budget number does not appear to be correct and no one in the School district would talk him through his concerns to a straight answer. If the ballot is not correct he wont sign off on it. He wont swear to its accuracy.
The delay has exhausted so much time that now the AG has come after the clerk for the ballot. If the town does not submit the ballot it can’t be printed and mailed for absentee voters. The AG probably doesn’t care if it has the right numbers – just put it on the ballot and sign it, please, or something bad might happen. The School district attorneys have–quick like a bunny–put a name for their version of “the bad.” Dereliction of duty. Sign or resign.
UCLA Professor of Economics, Lee Ohanian, has some fascinating and unexpected answers with regards to ” what do you mean by rich? And how much is fair?” And yes, the answer will make progressives mad. Prager U
Isn’t that ironic? (Daily Mail.com) The NHS has started to ration hearing aids for the deaf – with thousands of people being offered only one device when experts say they need two. Specialists recommend that patients who are losing their hearing in both ears should be offered two aids, but some NHS authorities have started … Read more
[Quote] Hello, Cultural Marxism: In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary. Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a … Read more