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3. The chart above shows the Department of Energy’s estimates of CO2 emissions per capita from 1973 to 2040. Total energy-related carbon emissions are expected to fall to a 20-year low this year, and on a per-capita basis will be the lowest since at least 1973 when the Department of Energy’s data begins. From the … Read more
And the last installment of the Rye Republican Panel Discussions on the voting results of November 6th:
Contagious Volunteerism A family of Organizations?
The grassroots within the Right of the Political aisle formed the TEA Party – Taxed Enough Already. As being pointed out this morning on the talking head shows, if we go over the Fiscal Cliff, there are more than a few states, combined with Fed taxes that will take effect, will have residents that will … Read more
From the NY Times: (H/T: Instapundit)
Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality. Morality can exist only in a free society; it can exist to the extent that freedom exists. Only to the extent that men have the power of choice can they be said to choose the good. – Henry Hazlitt (H/T: Cafe Hayek)
David Lang is the President of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire (PFFNH). The PFFNH has a mission, beyond the obvious one of representing fire fighters, and that is to elect Democrats and progressive (r)epublicans, the latter in places that are unlikely to vote for a ‘D.’
This is a union that has invested no small sum in cash and man hours to elect and keep Democrats in power in New Hampshire. So when I learned that the guy in charge of that union had just received the Nackey Loeb First Amendment Award I though it was a joke.
A cunning legerdemain is in the works, and, if it were me, I’d follow and do what Obama is doing. Think about the Fiscal Cliff/Sequestration for a moment. Faultless tax increases and faultless spending cuts, and, more importantly, among those spending cuts are juicy, delicious Defense cuts. This is a big spending Democrat’s wet dream. If you don’t believe me, ask Howard Dean, who said that the Fiscal Cliff:
“…is actually the best deal progressive Democrats are going to get. And here’s why. One, we get the Clinton tax rates on everybody. Will it cause a problem? Yes. There will be a short recession, and it will be painful. But two, we get Defense cuts. Republicans are never going to agree to that. And three, there are some human services cuts, which we’re not going to like. But it’s the least possible damage.”
So, if I was a big spender turned on by the sloppy inefficiencies of big government, why the heck would I not want to go over the cliff? And does anyone deny that Kaptain O is a big spender? The guy has racked up over $6 trillion in debt in one term and is on track to rack up more debt than all the other presidents combined. What’s even more impressive is that he has nothing to show for it! Try to do that if you’re fiscally prudent. You can’t. It can’t be done unless you’re awash in other people’s money and blow through it like a Secret Service agent blowing through a line of cocaine off a hooker’s belly. So, if I were a Obama, I’d do what I could to guarantee we careen well over the cliff and land somewhere well beyond the slope–pull a Thelma and Louise and jettison 80 mph into the canyon.
The Rye Republicans held their second set of discussions concerning the Nov 6th vote and invited to be on that panel addressing a packed room of Rye area Republicans were the following and the topics they were asked to cover: Jack Thorsen (Portmouth City Coucilor andNH GOP area vice-chair) – The 11/6/12 General Election – … Read more
As stated in the last post, four panelists spoke as Diane Bitter, Rye Republican Chair moderated. Again, the panelists: Jack Thorsen (Portmouth City Coucilor andNH GOP area vice-chair) – The 11/6/12 General Election – results of the voting process and how the counting is handled NH State Rep. Regina Birdsell – Voting Laws, who is … Read more
I have chopped up the videos of the Question and Answer period into different posts (as there were a number of topics on which there were questions). Please note that sometimes the video title “might” not be quite accurate in that often, as these things go, the discussion of the original question quickly morphs to other tangents. But hey, it’s better that way when you are the panelist / audience member than the video editor!):
Use of Obama DB Low Info Voters / Same Day Registrations
The other videos and previous videos from the day after the jump:
Continuing on with the Q & A session from yesterday’s Panel Discussion:
“Grok, help us! Frustration with NH GOP
Remember, there is a reason why the Left is redefining the language that Government no longer “spends” but “invests”. They hate the idea that investments in the private sector can do far better than Government spending, so they (as in many other areas) try to equate the two so as to totally blur any difference … Read more
“being democratically elected doesn’t mean everything you do thereafter is by definition democratic“ My mind immediately filled in the next line that could have been there: “Being elected as a Republican doesn’t mean everything you do thereafter is by definition, Republican in philosophy” (H/T: Twitter via Instapundit)
Who’d a thunk it? The recent marijuana legalization victories in Washington state and Colorado are outstandingly good news for the U.S. Constitution.
Why? Because they underline the facts that James Madison stated in 1788: “”The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.”
So does the Constitution empower the federal government to regulate or outlaw the use or possession of certain substances, such as…alcoholic beverages?
Of course not! That’s why…
Who IS this guy?
Well, he’s a candidate for chairman of the New Hampshire state Republican Party, and his support appears to be growing among multiple parts of the party, including the rank-and-file. Why? There seems to be a growing recognition that…
(H/T: loyal reader)
Now that the the NH Democrat Party controls the Governor’s office and a big majority in the NH House? Supporting data after the jump
For all of the sturm und drang of the last session about cutting into the bone and “shafting the vulnerable”, all we see is reducing spending to that before the Democrats (when they controlled the NH House and NH Senate) injected spending that was unsustainble. What is not sustainable. Fortunately, former Bill O’Brien saw the political snare of having to raise a broadbased tax to keep that artificially heightened spending high and took the responsible road of “living within one’s means”.
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” —Paul Harvey
DATELINE: April 3, 1965. Yes. These very words spoken by Paul Harvey were spoken nearly 48 years ago.
http://youtu.be/H3Az0okaHig
Paul Harvey, as we knew him, was born Paul Harvey Aurandt, September 4, 1918 in Tulsa Oklahoma. Paul Harvey, was a true conservative, something absent these days from the ABC Radio Networks. Anybody that ever listened to the radio in the 80’s and into the 90’s knew who Paul Harvey was, his distinctive voice. and the tenor of his messages.