Steve MacDonald

Senator Shaheen has sided with Kermit Gosnell (and his ilk) as one of several co-sponsors to S.1696, a bill designed to undo by federal fiat any state law that defines when life begins or attempts to regulate the abortion industry or abortion providers.   State’s can’t be trusted.  Only distant Federal ‘experts’ and their bureaucratic minions shall handle such matters.

Here are a few prohibitions S. 1696 would place on states…

SEC. 4. PROHIBITED MEASURES AND ACTIONS.

(a) General Prohibitions- The following limitations or requirements are unlawful and shall not be imposed or applied by any government because they single out the provision of abortion services for restrictions that are more burdensome than those restrictions imposed on medically comparable procedures, they do not significantly advance women’s health or the safety of abortion services, and they make abortion services more difficult to access:

(1) A requirement that a medical professional perform specific tests or follow specific medical procedures in connection with the provision of an abortion, unless generally required for the provision of medically comparable procedures.

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Panel of  Scientists says UN Study Retreats, Misleads, and Misinforms

A panel of 50 scientists from 15 countries says the newest report from the United Nations on climate change is filled with concessions that its past predictions were too extreme and contains “at least 13 misleading or untrue statements and 11 further statements that are phrased in such a way that they mislead readers or misrepresent important aspects of the science.”

“Why should we believe what the IPCC predicts, given the model prediction/projection failures, plus manipulation of the data, plus hiding of data, plus false claims that those preparing IPCC reports are experts, plus Climategate in general, plus Glaciergate?” asked Laurence Gould, professor of physics at the University of Hartford, a chapter peer-reviewer for the NIPCC report.

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A while back the town of Merrimack changed how they accepted recycling.  Instead of asking residents to sort it into many different bins they went to single stream.  All recycling can go together.  The town packs it all up and sends it off and someone else sorts it. They did this to get more people to recycle and it worked.

This simplification removed hundreds of tons of waste from the trash (and tipping fees) and moved it into recycling.  More people are recycling more stuff because they no longer have to sort it.  Making it easier increased the amount recycled.  Mission accomplished.

Inside the recycling center, for as long as I can remember, there was also a place to put stuff people thought too good to throw away or that someone else might have a use for.  People left items for others picked them up.  One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, right?

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Big government begets big bureaucracies with budgets the bureaucracies want to see made bigger.  To that end these tin-pot dictators of their pencil-pushing fiefdoms exercise power to whatever extent they can, to the misery of everyone else.  It is what Jefferson meant in the Declaration when he wrote “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”

Most bureaucracies take their cues from their chief executives. No executive in recent memory has erected more “New Offices” to “eat out our substance” than Barack Obama.  Nor has there ever been more evidence in recent memory that these officers exist to intimidate or punish his political enemies.

So why did Obama’s Federal Trade Commission have to strong-arm a small nonprofit representing people who give piano lessons?

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Skip reminds us that GraniteGrok is becoming the scape-goat of choice for NH-GOP failures.  Just like Democrats Republicans to blame someone else for their own shortcomings.  But I’d like to remind the NH-GOP that GraniteGrok covered the Jeanne Shaheen letter to the IRS story more than a year before the state and national party even cared about it.

We stood up for Senator Ayotte on her vote against enhanced background checks, digging furhter and deeper into the connections and colusion surrounding the lefts undeground and above ground movments to use Federal action to undermine local gun laws and local control.  An investigation whose reward was a special kind of abuse and even implied death threats from the progressive tin-foil hat brigade.

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Republicans often promote the idea of supporting amnesty for illegal aliens but the numbers are not in their favor.  Over 70% of Hispanics in the US legally already vote Democrat and have for years.  Amnesty would just make it easier for the 30 million or so illegal immigrants to emerge from the shadows to add their votes to the Democrat tally with more legitimacy.

But, I can see John McAmnesty McCain estblaishment Republicans rubbing his hands together at the thought of getting potentially 9 million votes for the GOP if they just aupport Amnesty in any of its forms.   But that’s not likley.  Defacto amnesty will produce 30 million new Democrat voters and piss off the 25-30% of Hispanics who still vote Republican because they opposed manesty.

We have a reflection of that same brillaint GOP thinking here in New Hampshire.  It is called Illegal voter amnesty.

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Families USA is an ultra-partisan left wing advocacy group and one of the largest health care lobbying organizations in the country.  Until the Democrat party sidelined its rheotric on a national single payer health care program, Families USA was it’s biggest fiscal and vocal supporter, pumping millions into states to advocate for it.  When the left pivoted to what is now ObamaCare, Families USA pivoted with them, running public relations rehab in the wake of the public uprising against the bill before and after its passage.

Families USA is run by a former Clinton apointees,  high ranking members of the SEIU, GLADD, the NCC, and Soros funded projects.  And it has help in the form of local so-called non-profits right here in New Hampshire… and it just received another million to run interference on the Obamare roll-out debacle

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The DCCC has been sending out holiday cheat sheets for years, proof that Democrat voters really are too stupid to know what their own talking points are or how to articulate them.  That’s doubly funny because I know what they are without even looking.

Well this year OFA (Organizing for Acorn Squash) has an instructional video to help you “help millions of Americans get affordable health care, some for the first time.”  By forcing people to buy things they don’t need or want…for the first time.   OK.  I added that last part.

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I support Marilinda Garcia for NH’s Second Congressional District seat 110%.

She’s a social conservative – but, I would judge, pragmatic on libertarian issues – leans libertarian but only leans.

She’s honest, very bright, articulate, attractive in demeanor, very accomplished, a very good speaker, a hard and absolutely reliable worker. She has lot’s of energy. She’s proved herself over and over again in the trenches – in real-life political and legislative warfare – in the NH Hampshire House and around the State House – as a leader of the House’s Real-Republican caucus – and you know what I mean by that.  She’s made her bones.  She needs no further vetting so far as I’m concerned.

Marilinda is the perfect candidate for fiscal conservatives.  She’s the perfect candidate for social conservatives. And, for those libertarians who may doubt her bona-fides – she will never sell the essential tenets of either the NH Constitution or of the Bill of Rights out.

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The Sustainable Communities Initiative, part of Agenda 21, and locally known (in New Hampshire) as Granite State Future, uses Regional planning to con communities into signing on to a host of mandates with the promise or rewards.  The Faustian bargain separates taxpayers from elected decision makers who get cut out of the process and are inevitably forced to meet whatever arbitrary mandates HUD, EPA, and other unelected agencies see fit to force upon them, as it occurs to them to do it, in perpetuity, without elected officials or voters having much if any say, ever.  The end.

One of the primary legs on this many-legged stool is workforce housing and forced neighborhood diversity.  The feds come in and redefine zoning, destroying any existing notion of property rights, to control, adapt, and diversify neighborhoods to their one-size-will-fit-all-or we’ll-fine-you-cookie-cutter centrally planned template.

Well a study just released from the Michigan State University suggests that it wont work and it’s a bad idea, as if we needed a study to tell us that.

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Organizing for Acorn Squash is not alone this holiday season in politicizing the Holiday dinner table.  The DCCC is back with its most recent installment of the DCCC Cheat Sheet.  Emphasis on Cheat.  Why?

You hate the TEA Party, so let me count the ways.

Let’s face it: we all have a crazy Tea Party relative (or two) who just loves bashing President Obama — even on Thanksgiving.

If you’re worried that your Thanksgiving table will start looking like the set of Fox & Friends, we’ve got just the thing for you:

Meanwhile at the MSNBC table…

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