Steve MacDonald

The Santa Monica shooting spree is an excellent example of why the eggs anti-self defense Democrats and their stage props are advocating for don’t do any of the things they insist they will.  California has everything a background bill supporter could want and then some, and it still failed to address the root problem that lead to the tragedy.  All their legislation would do, as we have said over and over, is leave law abiding citizens unarmed, increasing the number of target rich environments for some lunatic shooter to take range practice in.

Because we cannot all carry 200 pound police officers on our backs, and as citizens we are responsible for securing our own peace, security, and by extension–happiness and prosperity, which with few exceptions includes the right of citizens arrest, it behooves the law-abiding citizen militia to act responsibly in husbanding that peace when no other alternatives present themselves.  Even in California where…

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The only think I dislike more than having a progressive Democrat try to sell me their stupid narrative is when a progressive Republican tries it.  And that is exactly what the Gang of 5 was doing when they sent their pro-immigration bill op-ed to the Laconia Daily Sun.  (Turning us from “not a gun blog” into “not an immigration blog” overnight.)

While I have already fisked their letter, and Skip and Don have also weighed in, I wanted to take a second pass at offering up some reference material that demonstrates–or at least suggests–that skipping border enforcement, even just kicking it down the road, before implementing the legalization component, would be a disaster for the establishment Republicans, who clearly believe that supporting this will win them enough love and affection to secure their votes.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

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As a quick followup to the Global Warming antics of Senator Jeanne Shaheen that I remarked on here, it looks like another sacred scaremongering cow in her misinformation crusade continues to lay down to die.  New Hampshire snow sports tourism is riding a ten year high…

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Alpine ski areas recorded a total of 2,276,370 alpine skier and snowboarder visits, a 20.9 percent increase from the prior winter. and a 4.7 percent increase over the 10-year average.

Cross-country areas also had a very successful winter, hosting 151,276 visits, a 57.2 percent increase from the prior winter. and a 14.8 percent increase over the 10-year average.

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Talking about Maple Syrup and Maple Syrup production has become an annual affair, only because the ideologically motivated New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D- EMILY’s List), used the sticky stuff as part of a charade to pull at voters ignorant heart-strings.   Had she never brought it up I’d have little or no reason to mention it all.  But the fact that she was wrong, demands that we add yet more content for Goggle to unearth whenever folks enter the search terms “Shaheen, Maple Syrup.”

To preface, five years ago, Shaheen cried wolf that Global Warming™ was set to doom New Hampshire’s Maple Syrup production, cost jobs, ruin tourism,  blah blah..BS, BS…hasn’t happened.  Not happening.

And the USDA has just announced that this year Maple Syrup producers set a record, producing 70% over last year.

To put that in it’s proper context you have to know a few things.  First, in 2011 production hit a 76 year high not seen since 1920’s (apx 120,000 gallons just in NH).  Last years production was down 36% from the record year (76,000 in NH), and this year production in NH hit 124,000 gallons, up 63% from last year, and several percent higher than the record year that proceeded it.  Not exactly what you’d call an industry suffering from the so-called effects of Global Warming.

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