Op-Ed: Civil War

Sent in by a loyal reader, emphasis mine.

A few days ago Jack Minzey, head of the Department of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein, sent out the final chapter that was the last of his works. Jack passed away last 8 April 2018.

How do civil wars happen?

Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting
election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.

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“The design and intent of our government” – A Series

Following is a communication to some of my fellows in the General Court (Legislature) of the State of New Hampshire.  For those of you who don’t know me, I have spent the last eighteen years in the Legislature.  Most of my time has been spent on the Committee on Children and Family Law, because I see it as the quintessential liberty Committee.  If you understand that the concept a man’s home is his castle is a fundamental doctrine of common law, realize that every issue that committee deals with broaches the castle walls.  The only term that I was not on Children and Family Law, I was Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Review and Statutory Recodification.  In 2006, after my arguments were used to convince the Legislature to call itself into Session vis a vis defending its powers against encroachments by the Judiciary, I  was convinced by my mentor in the Legislature to write a commentary on the Constitutions of the State of New Hampshire.  I gained national attention for my Resolution, HCR6, “Affirming States Rights Based on Jeffersonian Principles”.

Today I find myself not running for office, in order to relocate and reorder our lives after the death of our youngest son.  For the first time in 20 years there are no sign on the road side announcing my candidacy.  So the question arises, what is my political activity for the next two years.

I have settled on a general plan.

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I love It When The Left Proves Me Right

militant-snowflakeThe really good news is that the Fifth Circuit has rejected a constitutional challenge to campus carry in Texas. The State allows concealed permit holders to carry on college campuses which got some professorial panties in a bunch. The law did not let the Profs prohibit concealed firearms in their own classrooms (some administrative areas on campus are still verboten), so they sued claiming “the law and policy violate(s) the First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

The Court tossed it out, but what’s that got to do with the left proving me right? Plenty.

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GUEST POST: Maura Sullivan Cannot be Trusted as a Member of Congress

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By Al MacArthur, Jr.

Welcome to late summer when the campaign signs are in full bloom. It is also that wonderful time of year when our homes are invaded with political ads on television and radio. The anti-gun folks are spending a ton of money on  advertisements jamming their nauseating message down out collective throats. School children are also getting into the act with callsing for stricter laws to prevent gun violence. The news piece starts out with a young lady saying, “going back to school means going back to action for gun violence protection.” (in case you missed it, you can see the segment at WMUR).

Why wait until its back to school time to start talking about this? Not a peep out of you kids for 2½ months and now it’s important to speak out. You say you want the schools to be “gun free” zones. Well kids, here is an excerpt from Antonia Okafor, opinion contributor, The Hill.com, 02/22/18:

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Maura Sullivan gets dumped by a fellow Marine: “dainty holding an AR-15”

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“As a Marine watching that ad, I had to cringe,” retired USMC Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Jane Duff said on NRA TV Wednesday. “She might as well have said ‘Oooh, it looks scary!’”

Democrat candidate for Congress in NH CD-1 Maura Sullivan is lying by omission, IMHO, by making it sound like she was in the thick of things in Fallujah – in the Infantry and using “US Marines” as a buttress from being confronted on it.   Michael Graham from NH Journal goes on Cam & Co to talk about how this Democrat candidate for Congress (and carpetbagger bringing in YUGE amounts of out of state $$$ in doing so) Maura Sullivan is trying conflate the most popular civilian rifle platform with an actual military firearm – KNOWING the difference between the two is vast. Once again, a gun grabber is campaigning on taking away, we who are law-abiding citizens, our legally purchased firearms.

“SCARY”!!!!

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“Granite Grok” has NOT endorsed a Candidate in New Hampshire CD-1

“Granite Grok.com” has NOT endorsed a candidate in New Hampshire Congressional District one (NH CD-1).  Both Eddie Edwards and Andy Sanborn have been interviewed (at great length) by members of our team, but neither candidate has been endorsed. Please also understand that our individual authors are free to write for or against any candidate they … Read more

Desperation Looms in the Executive Council District 4 Primary

By NH House Rep. Barbra Comtois

Executive Council District 4 Republican Candidate Jane Cormier (the underdog) has had many of her large 4×8 signs stolen or damaged.

Who is so afraid of her that they would commit a federal crime to steal her signs?  Her opponent’s signs remain intact as do the Democrat signs. So what is it they fear? Do they think that stealing her signs will silence her supporters?  What has she done to deserve this?  She is out campaigning with heart and has to fight the media, the establishment, and more, to get her name out there.

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I continue to get Stuff – I think it is time for a bit of a fisking: Alan Rice of the NH Firearms Coalition

“I’ll let you skip the self-reflection bit and make it plain – how could you, as President, allow somebody that rates an “F” that marks him as an anti-gunner, on your Board?”

Ah yes, Alan Rice of the NH Firearms Coalition (“NHFC”) is starting to feel some heat.  Like I said before, if you want to judge candidates for office (either newbies just running for the first time or those that have proven voting / legislative histories) simply because they won’t bother with either your questions or you survey in toto, you deserve a continued beat-down.  What a schmuck!

So, one person complained – and got this in return. I’ll let Alan Rice figure out what a fisking is – I’m not sure he understands the phrase “self-evident” either.  I will clue him in that the items I’m talking about by putting them in bold them; I’m sure that even he might “get it”.

From: “Alan M. Rice, President, NHFC Inc.” <arice=nhfc-ontarget.org@mail182.sea22.mcdlv.net> on behalf of “Alan M. Rice, President, NHFC Inc.” <arice@nhfc-ontarget.org>
Reply-To: “Alan M. Rice, President, NHFC Inc.” <arice@nhfc-ontarget.org>
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 5:05 PM
To:<redacted>
Subject: Acting like the DC swamp and they’re not even there yet…

Does he even know how this comes off? 

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“Tolerant” Left Goes After Queer Eye Star Who Says ‘Not All Republicans Are Racist’

It cannot be emphasized enough that liberal governance will be a reflection of its priorities. To bring that point home consider the recent plight of a homosexual Democrat television personality (HDTP) who dared to suggest that the left shouldn’t go too far left.

Van Ness noted that “luckily” more than a few “extreme right people won yesterday,” which he said means “center left candidates” can reclaim control of the House of Representatives and Senate as well as state legislatures.

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Racism?

I had to register a vehicle, birth month and all, so I went down to the town hall (because I love standing in lines) to get the vehicle registration renewed. Yes, I know you can do it via email and online. I missed it, and when it turned up (after a lengthy search of my very-crowded in-box), it made more sense to mosey on down to the clerk’s office.

Where requiring photo ID helps prevent fraud, or something.

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Has NH CD-2 Candidate Dr. Stewart Levenson read the Constitution, Declaration, and contemplated on “The Proper Role of Govt”?

Dr. Levenson on WMUR News on 8/13 at 6pm, shows us a rather parochial and patriarchal view citizens in his own words:

The top issue is our approach to government; it’s broken.  We have to get rid of the career politicians. I blew the whistle on the corruption and inept care at the VA and I’ll do the same in Washington.  We need to get rid of the career politicians to put people in, do the job the people elected them to do, who will take care of their needs, who will represent them. We don’t have representation now in NH. We have congress people that are beholden to the  big Corporation s to California to outside interests.

Now, I realize that in being a doctor, he takes care of people – that’s his worldview and we need people like that. But is it the Proper Role of Government to “take care of their needs”?

Absolutely not.

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Party like it’s 1854

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There’s a lot of discussion just now about Eddie Edwards’s decision to pull out of the first Republican Congressional District 1 (CD1) debate rather than sign a pledge to support the eventual primary winner.

Is he showing ‘character’, and ‘standing up for his principles’, by refusing to sign the pledge?  That’s one way of looking at it.  Another is that he’s indicating a basic misunderstanding of what a political party is for, and what it means to belong to one.  He’s not alone. 

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Why Democrats Don’t Trust You With Guns…

The typical Democrat reaction to anything relating to guns tells you a lot about them. Human beings filter things through the lens of their personal worldview and firearms are a great example of this.

The Democrat narrative claims that people can’t be trusted with firearms because at any moment they might snap and shoot everyone around them. In New Hampshire, a common theme when Liberals are trying to restrict firearms by limiting the places they can be carried is the old ‘Blood in the Streets’ narrative.

We can’t let them (continue to carry firearms here or there) it’ll be a wild west shoot out! Blood in the Streets!

It never happens but they do it anyway. Why?

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Is Edwards just another fake Conservative?

Eddie Edwards announced that won’t participate in the Republican primary debate tonight because he refuses to commit to supporting Andy Sanborn should Sanborn win the Republican primary in the First Congressional District.  How can anyone claiming to be a Conservative not fight to elect a Republican, let alone a proven Conservative Republican, versus what promises to be another leftist Democrat?

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Hmm, he really wants to run again? Slurp…

Bumped from 2/16/18.  Yep, Dave Boutin threw his hat in the ring and is running against newcomer Bill Kuch – a real bonafide Conservative. Well, if Boutin’s hat is in the ring, I think we have a few anchors and anvils to add to his load.  And guess what?  They’re as valid now as when we first dropped them back in 2013/2014.  Boutin is a straight get-along-go-along GOPe-er that toes the Establishment line – he knows where his campaign money comes from.  So, consider this just the first one – we’ve got PLENTY!

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I forgot to mention this a bit ago, so here it is:

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Josh Moore: The Culture War

It has been my honor to serve as State Representative of the beautiful town of Merrimack for the last four years. During that time I served on the house education committee. I fought for the rights of parents in education, choice for all children, and for the teaching of civics to be a priority in our schools. I fought for core values outside of education such as marriage, the sanctity of life, and the protection of our second amendment rights.

I entered office seeking unity with my party. However, I quickly realized that finding common ground on our most basic platform principles, like fiscal responsibility, was difficult. This past session, with a majority in both houses and a Republican governor, we still lost the fight on right-to-work, Medicaid expansion, and other fiscal and social issues.

I began to examine the fact that we, the conservative Republicans, kept losing essential votes, and where the problems within our government originated.

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Have You Seen Me? Selective Vanishing of Campaign Signs Seems Suspicious.

Someone appears to be taking Jane Cormier’s Campaign signs but not the signs of her primary opponent. I mean, they’re right next to each other. One day they are both there, neither blocking the view of the other and the next – Jane’s sign is gone.

DOT doesn’t have them so who is taking them from high traffic areas and what do they have against Jane going to Concord to save taxpayers a little money?

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Fixing schools: Is money really the issue?

A phrase we heard a lot the other night at Andru Volinsky’s traveling show was ‘fix it’, as in: ‘Some states have fixed it’, ‘The legislature doesn’t have the political will to fix it’, and so on.

Which raises the question:  Does something actually need to be fixed?

This needs to be asked, because whenever there is a conversation about reducing spending on government schools, we hear this argument:  ‘New Hampshire’s schools are among the best in the nation’, the implication being that this is a result of our willingness to spend so much on them (about $15,300 per pupil, well above the national average of $11,800).

That doesn’t sound like something that needs to be fixed, does it? 

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