Data Point – Free Trade effect on Economy, Hunger, Environment

“Contrary to the claims that “unfair” foreign competition hurts the jobs at home, the unemployment rate actually fares better in times of higher trade deficits. Bryan Riley and former Ambassador Terry Miller provide further clarification:  When the trade deficit increases, the unemployment rate decreases, and vice versa. For example, in 2009, the U.S. trade deficit … Read more

Common Core won’t improve education

This is a letter I wrote to the Nashua Telegraph.  Their version was edited.   Here is the original.
When President Obama touts “education reform” as one of his accomplishments, most people do not realize that he is referring to the new Common Core State Standards being implemented nationwide, including in New Hampshire.

Governor Lynch and the New Hampshire Board of Education brought this Trojan horse to our public schools.

Common Core was supposed to raise academic standards. However, they are not world class standards but a race to mediocrity.

Under Common Core, by the end of eighth grade students will be two years behind their international counterparts in math. High school graduates will achieve only a seventh-grade reading level.

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Guest Post by NH House Rep. Greg Hill – “Dems misrepresent the education tax credit program.”

 Dems misrepresent the education tax credit program. I attended a candidates’ night last evening in Northfield and listened carefully to the Democratic candidates for state representative and senate. They all opposed the new education tax-credit program (and, oddly, spoke out against voucher programs as well, which aren’t even available to NH parents). The reason the … Read more

Data Point – 2012 Q3 GDP

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today that Q3 GDP ticked upward to 2.0 percent, after clocking in at 1.3 percent in Q2. But that headline number gives only limited amount of information. Here’s a more detailed breakdown from today’s BEA report. It could have been worse: Personal consumption improved to 2.0 percent in the … Read more

“Coquettish waif discussing electoral virginity” – the sequels are coming

That Steve – he certainly has his way with words, eh?  The video that Steve posted of Lena Dunham has received all kinds of attention today from the Right side of the blogosphere – and none of it positive.  Pretty much, it has made the faux Julia by the Obama campaign look tame by comparison.  For all of the sturm und drang by the Left about the War on Women by those of us on the Right, isn’t this much worse treatment?

Like many, when I first saw it, I was speechless – how much lower can these folks go?  Equating voting with sex?  Really?  I know that most would consider me to be a prude – no sex before marriage and only with your spouse.  So to listen to a young lady making double entendres in a loving voice towards Obama – and this is supposed to be Presidential?  Contrast that with George Bush who always wore a jacket and tie in honor of the Office.  Who really has the honor?

Obama saying that voting for him is like giving up one’s virginity? With him?  No, not all the words are there – but that is the intent, full on.

Hip, cool – and promiscuous with a married man.   I grew up before the “hook up” culture – I consider it part of the coarsening of the culture, an abandonment of most sense of morality, and a total lack of self-respect for oneself.  Really?  Sex for voting?  And this presents Obama….how?  And what about Michelle – his wife?  Will this go down as “I did not have sex with that woman” as part of his legacy?  The campaign set this table – and then invited everyone to have a seat.

Anyways, the parodies that you expected are now inbound (and frankly, Steve Crowder does a better than Lena at this…):

And this works well too(#ObamaAbstinence):

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All We Need Now Is The Stained Blue Dress

If you just arrived from another planet to observe US election politics you’d think that Democrats lie to women about how much they care about equality (to get their votes) all the while treating them as helpless sex objects.

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Benghazi-gate reveals the Clintons we all remember…

With their defense team assembled, the Clinton offensive begins. Of course this was prefigured by several Clinton observers (including fellow Groker Steve) because taking a political fall, whether they’re actually responsible for it or not, is anathema to their biology.  That’s like asking Michael Moore to leave some Doritos in the bag. Or like asking … Read more

Obama White House: ‘Home of the Whopper!’

The Washington Post would like Mr. Obama to stop lying.

I know, the Post, whodathunkit?

Problem: The Sequester.  Obama is claiming it was Republicans who proposed it but this is not only ‘not true,’ Obama knows for a fact that the idea originated from his own Advisor – his Director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling.

Obama’s Chief of Staff, Jack Lew, was tasked with convincing Harry Reid to go along with the idea, which The Washington Post emphasises because Lew, like Obama, is lying about it as well.

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Once again, feckless GOPpers hand a Political Correctness club to Democrats and scream “BEAT ME WITH IT!”

So, wasn’t it a horror show when the Left decide to crucify Whoopie Goldberg for her “rape rape” comment – wasn’t that just so trivializing it?  Talk about a War on Women!

“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and when they let him out he was like ‘You know what this guy’s going to give me a hundred years in jail I’m not staying, so that’s why he left.'”

Oh wait, Whoopie is not a Republican – she’s a protected minority with lots of cash, a huge platform, so the Left never even gave it a thought.  And she was talking about Roman Polanski – convicted girl-rapist (girl, being way underaged) – protecting one of the Left’s own.

Sidenote: Oh yeah, before I forget – just in the off case that the NH Democrat Party wants to accuse us again of violating the Left’s their double standard for enforcing Political Correctness?  With former NH Dem Presser Harrell gone home, I guess that leaves Collin Gately (FlapGummer’s replacement) if you want to start something, we’ll certainly oblige you.  In fact, we’d rather enjoy it.

Once again, Republicans have proven themselves to have spines of Silly Putty that have the property of bending backwards at the first sign of Lefty heat and mockery.  And I’m afraid, it’s epidemic amongst the Political Class on the supposed Right.  Stand up to the mullahs over them getting the Bomb?  Check.  Standup to Obama over the budget, sequestration, and cutting of the military?  Check.  Accused of being Politically Incorrect over Life issues by the MSM that hates their guts already?  They fold faster than a deck of cards thrown into acid.  These Political Cowards always seem to forget that the Dem Bullies (who, pretty much, only want to see these high level R Politicos do the Scared Chicken Dance faster than one of Obama imaginary High Speed Trains) do this for fun, for sport, and giggles.

Yeah.  Check.  Double time it if during election season.  Thy name is Cowardice.

“Leave a man behind on the battlefield”? Ask a Marine.  Ask a SEAL.  Ask a Green Beret. 101st / 82nd Airborne.  Ask any other elite military member.  Heck no. You don’t even need to ask the question – it’s embarrassing to even think of asking them.

But it’s easy for an Establishment Republican on the PR battlefield – they can run away faster than I can chug a can of Dew on a 110 degree day.  They act like they are cleaner than a bride in her white dress.  Heaven forbid that a spot of mud even think about staining it with even a spec of mud – after all, THEY are the center of the stage, right?  Like Kelly Ayotte (sigh, my Senator (R-NH), amongst others) are doing to US Senate candidate Richard Murdock.  So, what did he say that was so toxic to restart the herd of the helplessly incourageous (emphasis mine)?

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Calling BS on the BS

Obama is an idiotMr. Obama is now famous for something else.  Using the word Bullsh***er in an interview…when referring to a child’s aptitude for sensing it (in others)…like in his opponents for example.

That must be something the public school system beats out of them then because were it true he’d have never been elected to the office of the President.  No one is full of more BS than Obama.

Take this BS from Obama for example, courtesy of Hot Air...

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Gangnam Style – Palate Cleanser

No point in avoiding it any longer.  This Music Video has penetrated the global culture and inspired hilarity at every level.   My kids make jokes about it.  The internet is cranking out parodies and memes at breakneck speed.  This link has over 531 million views.  And I must confess…I like the song and the video.  … Read more

Obama Flip – Flopper Deluxe

From the more than I dare cross-post file, we get the Obama flip-flopper deluxe from Hot Air.  Video of Dear Leader stating things he has since…evolved on.  It is only evolving when someone else does it. Too bad he’s not evolved past the epic historical failure of the brand of socialist government he favors for … Read more

“Obama-Care To Kill More Jobs as Employers Struggle to Stay in Business”

One provision of Obama-Care requires employers to recognize anyone who works 30 hours a week as a full time employee.

The pertinent section (1513) of the law reads as follows:

(4) Full-time employee

(A) In general

The term “full-time employee” means, with respect to any month, an employee who is employed on average at least 30 hours of service per week.

(B) Hours of service

The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, shall prescribe such regulations, rules, and guidance as may be necessary to determine the hours of service of an employee, including rules for the application of this paragraph to employees who are not compensated on an hourly basis.

Anyone working 30 hours will require employer paid benefits, or the employer will be fined for failure to comply.  SO where’s all that money going to come from?  You and me.

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“Just vote Republican.”

This man has an appointment with destiny....

Regarding the Presidential election…it’s over. There’s little question now that Obama will lose the election. Even with  the news blackout by the mainstream media, the truth is emerging: It is becoming clear that our President left Ambassador Stevens and other Benghazi consulate personnel to die in the Al Qaeda attack on September 11th.

Whether it was a cold calculation by the President, or merely fearful and incompetent dithering, the cover-up is unraveling…disastrously so for Obama and the Democrats.

The only question now is how large Romney’s victory will be, and whether he will have “coattails” to boost other Republicans across the finish line to victory. I here and now predict he will. If I am right, then President Romney will have the White House, and the Republicans will have majorities in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.

The question is…

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Party Of Science and Technology Hits Way-Back Machine For Benghazi Cover-Up

I still have an election 2010 bumper sticker on my car that say’s “Take Back America.”   Last week I saw a bumper sticker, clearly designed to counter that idea “Take American back where?” with a list of dates traveling into antiquity.  The left thinks they are the party of science, progress.  They tell themselves these things to cover up their desire for a failed system of government that in the scope of human history has itself been the rule rather than the exception.  A top down tyranny directed by a chosen few who decide what is best for the rabble.  Forward!

Well the party of technology is at cross-purposes over their cover-up in Benghazi.

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