NH AG to Challenge Judge Lewis Decision On Domicile

I confess I am surprised.  The New Hampshire Attorney General will appeal the decision earlier this week,  that would have suspended the new voter registration requirements for Domicile to vote in New Hampshire.

One quick note: The articel suggests that the ruling had no affect on the Voter ID law, but I would take issue with that.  On paper the ID law is not affected, but if domicile does not matter, then Voter ID does not do everything it is intended to do.  The point of Voter ID is to ensure that the person voting is the person they claim to be; a legal, eligible voter, and state resident of the precinct in which they are voting.  If it makes no difference where you are from, then all the ID law does is affirm that the out of state voter stealing New Hampshire votes is who they say they are.  I have called it a blow to Voter ID law because I believe it is.  And I’m not alone.

To quote Secretary of State Bill Gardner, who apparently supports the Domicile law as passed…

“You can be a resident of many places but with domicile, you are establishing one unique place as your home to the exclusion of all others,” Gardner said. “If you establish domicile here, it means something, it means you have certain rights and responsibilities.”

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Michelle Obama’s nationalized school lunch menu – a bit more

Steve has done good work in covering the fiasco-in-progress (here and here), so I have just a bit to add to the story: One government official tried to put the blame on the students. “One thing I think we need to keep in mind as kids say they’re still hungry is that many children aren’t … Read more

Words of Wisdom – even for Jan Schmidt

Advice from a 90 year old wise guy.  Read them – and yes, very wise advice.  This one is my favorite: 41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have, not what you think you need. This one is great advice for all – but certainly for a certain Progressive over at … Read more

Blogline of the Day: on Free Speech

Glen Reynolds of Instapundit (emphasis mine): DOES THE U.S. “OVERVALUE” FREE SPEECH? No, I think we undervalue kicking the ass of people who oppose it. Indeed – the response of our President, our Secretary of State, and the others in the Obama Administration (and the Democrat Operatives with bylines in the MSM) have been on … Read more

Deal Struck – Real NFL Refs Back on the Field Tonight!

CNN Reports that the ‘Real” Refs of the NFL, yeah it kind of is like reality TV isn’t it (with the exception that it really is real) will be back on the field starting tonight. “Our officials will be back on the field starting tomorrow night,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said. “We appreciate the commitment of … Read more

Our destructive government schools…

For the sake of our kids, the government schools monopoly must be ended.

…and why we desperately need competition and alternatives.

This from today’s Wall Street Journal (bless those WSJ editorial pages!) where the owner of an employment agency writes in to explain that there are “jobs going begging” because applicants lack extraordinarily basic skills that public schools have failed to inculcate.

Those “skills”? Well, it’s almost ridiculous to use that label, since they’re so fundamental to being a self-responsible, functioning adult…but here they are anyway:

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Equality of Outcome is Irreconcilable with the Human Condition.

What Democrats suggest they want is not possible.  Equality of outcome is irreconcilable with the human condition.  As long as there is private property someone will always have something more or something  better than someone else.  People are and always will be and come from different circumstances, they will think and behave differently.  And all the things that make them who they are define the nature in which they will approach labor.   And there can be no equality of labor.

Someone will always be better at the same task than someone else.  They might be smarter, faster, stronger, more intellectuality agile, have a better eye, a steadier hand, they may try harder to please, or demonstrate some other acuity that separates them and their performance from others.  And because you cannot mandate the outcome of labor, you can never regulate equality, except to limit it by force, to the lowest common denominator, where the best anyone is permitted to be is the weakest link in the chain.  It is only in this manner that Government can affect an equality of outcome, by force.

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Calling all 2012 NHGOP Delegates!

To NHGOP Liberty & Freedom Delegates:

I am pleased to have publicly endorsed the proposed NHGOP platform, which I believe to be a document that very eloquently articulates our values as Republicans (particularly in the Statement of Principles portion). I applaud the members of the platform committee for their diligent work and I look forward to meeting with all of you on Saturday to adopt it as our next party platform.

That said, there are still amendments that I would like to see to this platform, and I have submitted those suggestions to members of the platform committee. I hope they will consider these friendly amendments, and I hope you will consider supporting them as well:

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Rows of ‘O’s

Thanks to Grok contributor Mike Rogers, wherever he may be today, for sending this around.  I proudly post it in his name. (with a slight mod by me.)

Royal Treatment

king-obama-and-queen-michelle-antoinette-let-them-eat-cakeAuthor Robert Keith Gray has written a book called ‘Presidential Perks gone Royal.   In his book  he points out that the amount of tax money spent on this First Family,I’ll call it the Obama Dynasty, has risen tremendously.

For perspective, last year, according to Gray, Britain spent 57.8 Million to keep up appearances for entire Royal Family.  Americans spent 1.4 Billion on the Obama Presidency.  (That’s just for one year.)

Gray told The Daily Caller that the $1.4 billion spent on the Obama family last year is the “total cost of the presidency,” factoring the cost of the “biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever,” a 50 percent increase in the numbers of appointed czars and an Air Force One “running with the frequency of a scheduled air line.”

To quote Mel Brooks.  “Its good to be the king.“

Why I may vote Democrat….

Time to vote Dem?

I’m thinking that I may just have to vote Democrat in the upcoming election.

There are many reasons why.

Here are some of them….

1. I may vote Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene…

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Where Does Hannah Rivers Actually “Live?” (Hint: It doesn’t matter)

Where does Hanna Rivers actually live and does it matter--for voting purposesDomicile, Domicile, where for art thou Domicile?  Or perhaps, ” A transient Domicile by any other name would be as….whatever.”  If you are an out of state college student where you live doesn’t matter, so where you vote does not matter either, and when I say doesn’t matter, I mean it doesn’t matter where in New Hampshire.

Case in point.  The ACLU and League of Women Voters petition, the one that Judge John Lewis more or less just signed off on in the blink of an eye, lists the first petitioner as Hannah Rivers.  On the petition she lists her ‘residence’ as Durham New Hampshire.  But she hails from Raymond Nebraska, has a drivers license issued by the state of Nebraska and, presumably, wants to vote in Durham in November.

Question:  So can out of state students just pick and choose which towns or cities they can vote in, based–presumably–on wherever the Democrat party or their liberal professors,  need a ballot box stuffed?

[Update: Edited to affect the relevance of my source information and my source.]

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Is NH Superior Court Justice John Lewis’ Wife Named Cindy? (Updated and bumped)

[Update: Yes, Virgina, Democrat donor Cindy Lewis, IS Judge Lewis’ wife.  I wonder what other left wing connections we will find if we keep looking?]

Judge John ‘The Fixer” Lewis threw the State constitution under the bus when he announced Monday that, ‘Hell yeah out of state students with no plans to remain in New Hampshire can and should vote here…even on amendments to the New Hampshire State Constitution.

Nothing quite like a judge who is probably sworn to protect it, doing their part to make sure anyone from anywhere gets to vote on what goes in it.

In the interest of public disclosure, seeing as this particular judge from Durham, very promptly decided the matter in the favor of left leaning advocacy groups representing a traditionally Democrat voting block, wishing to exert outside influence on local elections, I went looking for some campaign donation history on the Lewis family.

If Cindy Lewis of Durham NH is Judge Lewis’ wife, well we’ve got something to talk about.

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“We are going to cure cancer…”

New Hampshire's Torch of Freedom, as seen from the Maine seacoast....

One of the great things about my chosen home of New Hampshire—like a majority of people in the state, it’s not where I grew up—is the extraordinary number of friends and people I get to visit and talk to (thank you RLCNH and GraniteGrok.com and NH GOP).

One such conversation recently was a true eye-opener. Scary even….

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Grokster Mike has become a cartoon!

Heh!  Mike is out at a tradeshow where there is a cartoonist, Doug Shannon,  hard at work – and Mike got cartoonized: Not bad, Mike, not bad at all….I think his smile is MUCH broader in real life.  But I do think the cartoonist caught his mischeviousness, though….

Pat Condell: I think

“Let me get this straight.  We’re supposed to show tolerance and respect for a religion that doesn’t know the meaning of either word and goes out of its way to prove it every day?”

“All week we’ve heard Muslims telling us that we in the West need to understand how important the prophet is to them.  We do understand, and we don’t care… we don’t give a damn about your feelings.  Our feelings are more important, and our feelings tell us that we’re sick to the back teeth of hearing about your religion, so stick a sock in it.”

Respect is earned in the West – not demanded. It is also a two way street – when Muslims think it is one way only and that our Rights are something to be sacrificed on your Alter of an Honor-Society.  Of COURSE there are Dhimmis in the West that will bow so low that you Islamists might think they are showing respect. Or, at least the Dhimmis think they are showing something akin to “respect”.  You Islamists know better – their Neville Chamberlin show-alikeis merely a mask of something more dangerous to us: fear.  You smell weakness in our elected American leaders, Barry and Hillary – you’re smiling as half of your work is already accomplished. That commercial that the State Department ran in Pakistan of President Obama and Sec. of State Hillary prostrating themselves over an American exercising their First Amendment Right was not just a waste of $70K of taxpayers monies, they merely showed us how partisan they are – and not on the side of the traditional American way of life.  Free Speech means being able to say what we want, when we want, where we want, and about what we want – and whether it offends you or not.

And they are embarrassed about it. And that is the saddest thing of all.

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