Steve MacDonald

Democrat Terry McAuliffe is running for Governor of Virginia.  His position on the ‘second amendment’ is the standard, liberal, I support hunting and skeet shooting (which have nothing to do with the 2nd Am) but we need to do something about gun violence answer.  (And he is certain that the increase in law abiding gun owners–who submitted to background checks–is irrelevant to the fact that in conjunction with the surge in legal gun ownership, crime in Virgina has gone down.)  What should we do about gun-violence™ despite these facts, candidate McAuliffe?

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Update: Fixed Link to case

In early August a firearms/right to carry case was settled in the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts that has some significant ramifications but that has been grossly under-reported, if it has been reported at all.

Nashua, New Hampshire resident and Federally Licensed Firearms dealer Jay E. Simkin (Attorney Penny Dean), successfully overturned a lower court decision that had sustained the revocation of his unrestricted non-resident Massachusetts firearms carry permit.

Long story short, the state revoked his temporary nonresident Class A unrestricted license to carry firearms in Massachusetts on the grounds that he was no longer a “suitable person” because he had, in their view, exceeded his stated purpose for claiming to need the license and because…employees of the medical office where he sought treatment, and where the complaint leading to revocation originated, were “alarmed” and “concerned for their safety” at the sight of his weapons.

Let’s review the facts of the case.

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Former NH State House Rep. Robert Kingsbury passed away recently.  On the whole, his brief contribution to liberty was well regarded.  But like anyone who dares set foot in the game, there were instances where he presented some ideas that caught the eye of his liberal opponents.

I didn’t know him, so I can’t comment about his age or clarity in this role he chose to take so late in life, but I did see the “obituary” at Misecellany: blue and I’d question just about everything they appear to be focusing on with regard to Kingsbury.

First, they suggest that having something a Republican did, reported on Think Progress, is making “National headlines.”  The Think Progress article gives a hat tip to Working America Blog–(no kidding, who?) both of which reference the Concord Monitor.  There are bathrooms in Manhattan that have more flushes in a day than the Monitor has subscribers.  I’d hardly call that making ‘National headlines.’   National headlines?  More people would have seen it scrawled on that bathroom wall.

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The Pentagon just issued back to back $7 billion dollar awards, $14 billion total, that’s $14,000,000,000.00, for…wind and solar projects. ($7 bill here, and another $7 bill there.)

This must be the change we were looking for.  After the Department of Energy wasted close to a trillion on green energy boondoggles, a majority of which have failed, gone bankrupt, or into hiding, and producing nothing with your hard earned dollars but debt, and not even those good middle class American jobs we kept hearing about, it was time to put the shovel in some other government departments hand.  Enter the DoD.  And who better?  But what about the Sequester?

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Democrat House Rep Stephen Shurtleff might best be known to you as the guy who tried to repeal stand your ground in the Granite State (Just search him on the Grok and bathe in the cool refreshing cascade of link love heaped upon the man).  Seems he had another bill we did not talk about, that got kicked around and is now coming up for air in a full committee work session tomorrow (yes, 9/11) in L.O.B room 204.

The full Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee will meet to discuss HB 675, a bill to authorize license plate scanning cameras in New Hampshire.

What is remarkable about the bill, and what it attempts to allow, is that just a few years ago in 2007 the majority Democrat House and Senate, and then Democrat governor Lynch, passed and signed into law, a bill prohibiting the use of these very things.

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This picture appeared in my news feed this morning, above which was the name of US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (OFA- NH).  She was looking for folks to tell the GOP to stop the obstruction.  No specifics mind you, just the regurgitation of There were thousands of comments.  Most of the ones I saw were not supportive of flattering.  But in my quick scan I did not see the response I though should have been given, so I added a few remarks of my own.  (paraphrasing)

• Perhaps Senator Shaheen could tell us when the Senate will stop obstructing the budget process?
• Since Senator Jeanne Shaheen was elected the federal budget and the total deficit have almost doubled.  What is the GOP Obstructing.
• Since Senator Jeanne Shaheen was elected congress has delegated most of its authority to the executive branch.

Now,  I’ve got my own caption for that picture….

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