Steve MacDonald

Katy Perry is ready to be a mom.  Who gives a damn, you say, fair enough.   But I counter with this.  She says (publicly) that she wants to be a mom but “she doesn’t need a dude, it’s the 21st century.”

Her point is that if she wants a baby she can have one, whether there is a father present in that child’s life or not.

Katy Perry is talented, successful, and filthy rich. Good for her.  She worked hard, created something people would pay for, and made millions.  But many of her fans, or folks who might be inclined to follow her lead when she makes an off the cuff comment like that, are not. 

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Skip remarked on my post about Jeanne Shaheen’s Senate vote to keep the gas tax money the feds scoop out of all 50 states in DC, instead of returning it back to the states where it belongs.  In those remarks he says he slightly disagrees over who is pulling whose strings….

Where I slightly disagree with him is  in the reason why Jeanne Shaheen acts in the manner she does – it is not that Jeanne Shaheen represents “lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats” – she merely uses them soley for who (or actually, what) she represents: a “fundamentally transformed” America (look how she “fundamentally transformed healthcare here in NH with promises akin to Obama’s Obamacare ones that turned out radically wrong) they are merely useful idiots; tools, not constituents.  

Skip and I do not disagree on the goals of the progressive agenda, its destructive nature, or how to turn things around,  but we do appear to disagree in some regard on where or how the power to advance that agenda flows.  I think Shaheen is the useful idiot here so I guess I’d better explain why.

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One of our upcoming guests this week is Ann Cocoran from the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog.  There are a number of excellent resources at the site, including the EAGLE Forum report on how mass legal immigration is certain doom for a Conservative Republican party.  (Phyllis Schlafly founded Eagle Forum, by the way.)

Certain doom?  Yes, and it’s actually just a very simple calculus.

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Charlie Arlinghaus in the Union leader.

Some clever politicians, though, have figured out what might be called an end run. One way they can see more money but not technically vote to raise taxes is to get an administrator to “close a loophole” or “clarify the application of the tax.” Both of these things seem reasonable, but both are open to abuse.

A loophole may exist because of an error in language that didn’t capture legislative intent. But more often, the tax was applied to certain things, with other categories intentionally left out. What gets described as a “loophole” is merely an attempt to extend the tax to things the original law was not meant to tax.

Charlie’s larger point is that this is not how it should be done, but that it is neither new nor necessarily nefarious.

Would that make it politics as usual?  And as an afterthought, how many instances of this sort of bureaucratic end-arounding have occurred  under the willful guidance of Democrat Governors?

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From Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire

Contact:
Derek Dufresne
Derek@RightOnStrategies.com
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(July 30, 2014) – As Congress heads towards its August recess, now is typically the time of year when Members of Congress should be announcing their Town Hall meeting schedule. However, instead of alerting the public of her ‘first-ever’ Town Hall meeting, on Tuesday, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) announced her ‘first-ever’ “What Does Your Granite State Look Like” photo contest. In response to unveiling the photo contest on her Facebook page, Congresswoman Kuster’s constituents responded with critical comments calling on her to finally hold a public forum.

Congresswoman Kuster’s office has not hosted a single Town Hall meeting during her first term in Congress.

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The Democrats in the US Senate, with the help of 15 Republicans shot down a transportation reform amendment that would have…

…devolve(d) the federal highway program to the states, allowing them to keep the vast majority of their gas tax revenues and to make their own transportation infrastructure decisions.

No one who truly believes in limited government would oppose this amendment.

I’d add “anyone with a belief in the benefits of local government and local control” as well.

So of course, Senator Jeanne Shaheen opposed it.

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You may not be a Drudge fan, but they’ve been curating content since before it was cool, and they link to everyone.

A casual reading of stories paints a dismal set of circumstances for the nation and the world.  Allies now hate us.  The civil and military unrest.  We have nothing short of a foreign invasion and border war in process.  Ebola is just a plane ride away, then there’s MERS, and a few others.  A rising China and Russia.  We have been divided domestically and told to hate each other by our ‘leaders.’  Disease, poverty, and higher tax burdens are being spread with plane loads of illegal immigrants.  The false inflation of the stock market is teetering, the dollar is likely to crash with it, the re-inflated housing bubble, the debt bubble, the student loan bubble, and all of it under Obama, shall soon burst in an avalanche of fiscal ruin.

A sovereign state with strong leadership could be our only defense, but here, in New Hampshire, we’ve just learned that there is no state sovereignty in the Granite State any more.

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The Union leader is reporting the Democrats abrupt 180-degee-Kabuki-Dance-Walk-Back of the Hassan Administrations Tax grab.   Long story short–the Hassanistas have “pulled their request off the table,” and Democrats are trying to spin it.

Allow me to cut through the Democrat BS for you.

Hassanista Bureaucrats claimed the existing rules for ground leases have expired.  They are just (innocently?) “going to the legislature” with their proposal to “clarify” the rules for taxing ground leases, you know, because they expired.  That is what they are supposed to do,  mmmm-Kay?   And they say the rules were poorly constructed.

Poorly as in, they didn’t tax as many people or tax them as often as Governor Hassan and the Democrats would have liked?

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