PragerU: James O’Keefe from Project Veritas

The job of a journalist is to report facts, add context where necessary, and leave it to the consumer to decide what he thinks. In this video, James O’Keefe, founder and president of Project Veritas, explains why fewer and fewer people trust modern-day “journalism.” (H/T: Project Veritas)

Liberal Justice Elena Kagen Was Appointed In August Before a Mid-Term Election

Elena KagenRemember when the Republican Majority Senate refused to advance Obama Nominee Merrick Garland before the 2016 Presidential Election? The “rule” they invoked was called the Biden Rule.

It was first proposed by Democrat Sen. Joe Biden. But it’s not etched in stone. Not even close.

From Red State.

Doh!  The Biden/Schumer rule applies in PRESIDENTIAL election years, and [Democrats] should know, they invented it.  McConnell merely applied it in 2016, much to their chagrin.  Oh, and since 2018 is a mid-term election, it’s worth remembering Obama got Elena Kagan appointed in August 2010, also a mid-term. 

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Breaking News: Mandatory Union Dues Violate First Amendment

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For these reasons, States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees. The First Amendment is violated when money is taken from nonconsenting employees for a public-sector union; employees must choose to support the union before anything is taken from them. Accordingly, neither an agency fee nor any other form of payment to a public-sector union may be deducted from an employee, nor may any other attempt be made to collect such a payment, unless the employee affirmatively consents to pay.

More from the opinion on the jump.

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Governor Sununu Gets Punked By Boy In A Man Bun

C Sununu and Man Boy Bun BenNew voter rights “Super-enfranchised” student voters activist, Ben Kremer, DOB 02/02/1997 of 15 Goulart Drive in Bozrah, Connecticut 06334-1114 played our New Hampshire Governor like a one string banjo in this YouTube video.

Super-enfranchised voter Ben Kremer had a small statement he wanted to deliver to our governor about how much he wanted to make sure his voting rights to be registered in two states were upheld. Sadly, Governor Sununu agreed.

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Trump Will Get to Nominate a Replacement for Justice Kennedy – He’s Retiring!

kennedy-retiredJustice Anthony Kennedy is retiring. Mr. Trump will get to choose his replacement. And, wouldn’t it be nice if he had a Senate Majority to help him out with that?

SCOTUS Blog

Justice Anthony Kennedy announced today that he would retire from the Supreme Court, effective July 31. In a letter to President Donald Trump, Kennedy wrote that “it is the highest of honors to serve on this Court,” and he expressed his “profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know, interpret, and defend the Constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises.”

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Data Point – Tired of all that WINNING! yet? Hardest hit: Obama

IF true, that would be 2.5 times MORE than Obama’s “get used to the 2% new normal as it will never change” economic results.  For those Progressives that are mathematically and economically challenged (I know, I used to tutor them back in the day in college), this is YUUGGGEEE!  Now if we can only freeze … Read more

Data Point: Fake News

Nearly all Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (92%) say that traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll. Democrats and non-leaning independents also feel this way, but not nearly to the same extent. 72% agree: media does Fake News. Note that even a majority of Democrats … Read more

Janus vs. AFSCME – a personal take

John_Stark_statue,_Concord_NHUPDATE: As the Supreme court just decided for Janus and against the unions, this post is appropriate.  Best news? SCOTUS rules that public sector union MUST be opt-in for payments.   Essentially, this returns freedom to individuals over the unions; no more paycheck protection for unions.

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“Live Free or Die” – that’s our state motto and unlike many on the Left that find that absolutely abhorrent, it’s one of the reasons why I’ve stayed in the Granite State for over three decades (yep, came for a job, stayed for the motto).  The rest of the motto is not one that is repeated too often, that saying from General John Stark to his former soldiers: “Death is not the worst of all evils“. The Progressives here shudder every time it is stated.

For them, life is not to be free in the traditional sense of the word.  Freedom is the Collective.  Freedom is belonging to such a collective.  It also isn’t about remembering history because much of their philosophy regresses back to the mistakes and catastrophes of the 20th and 19th Centuries when Collectivism tried to overwhelm that most radical of American ideals – the idea that the Individual is sovereign and happens to have a government instead of what most of the world’s history and actions show to be the opposite – a country with subjects.

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Failure – a great illustration why Govt should stay out of the marketplace and work only within its constraints

sticker shock MilkPravda on the Merrimack – that’s what we oft call the Concord Monitor because it almost always advocates for MORE government to solve whatever problem ails us – and here, doubles down when a government policy just isn’t working at all. This time, it is about Government trying to control the marketplace for that common table victual – milk.  Simple milk. It’s putting family farms out of business so what does the Fishwrap do?  That’s right – doubles down.  Notice what its LAST resort happens to be (emphasis mine):

Dairy farms are disappearing, as Taylor told our sister paper, the Valley News, where he once served as managing editor, because a federal program sets the price of milk but does not control the supply. When milk prices drop, farmers add more cows to offset the loss, which then keeps prices down. Milk prices that averaged $24 per hundredweight in 2014 have fallen to $15, less than the cost of production.

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Blogline of the Day – but REAL (Spanish) socialists can.

When a Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party government is tougher on uncontrolled mass immigration than our own Democratic Party, you know that the Dems have painted themselves into a corner.  No wonder the U.S. media are ignoring this story. Remember, when a number of top level Democrats couldn’t tell anyone what the difference was between them and Socialists, the … Read more

Data Point – It looks like the New Normal tax/regulation regime is starting to work

Despite President Trump’s tit-for-tat trade barbs, America’s CEOs are not wasting anytime in taking advantage of his tax reform plan. Over $300 billion was repatriated to the U.S. in the first quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) — the most on record.

“U.S. firms that used to build their factories overseas in order to avoid U.S. taxes, they stopped in their tracks because of the tax bill, they are bringing all the money home,” said Kevin Hassett, chair of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, during an interview on FOX Business’ Varney & Co. in June.
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The BEA notes the main driver of the repatriation surge is that companies are no longer taxed on foreign earnings when returning the funds to the U.S. “We fixed that really, really stupid thing” said Hassett. By comparison just $38 billion was repatriated during the same period a year ago.

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I just thought I’d leave this here…not all is rainbows

Celebrating Gay Pride Month Pity the gay community.  They had their thunder stolen by crying kids at the border.  But, retailers are offering many gay pride pieces of merchandise.  H&M, Levi Strauss, Primark and my favorite- Target’s rainbow-themed “Pride Narwhal- are all the rage this month.  But a funny thing happened along the way to the … Read more

Blogline of the Day – About Maggie “The Red” Hassan’s intern, Keene State student Caitlin Marriott

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“She can spend the week at the Red Hen signing autographs. ” – WZ

(The DC restaurant whose owner told Trump’s Press Secretary and family to leave, and when they did, followed Sarah Sander’s family to another restaurant and organized a mob scene there as well).

The fact that she is only getting suspended for a week says more about Maggie Hassan than Caitlin Marriott.  Sorry (no, NOT! sorry) but if

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“The Modern Liberal is history’s Greatest Victim”

“Despite having been born into a world as close to paradise as any human being since Adam and Eve, the Modern Liberal is still somehow convinced that he’s history’s greatest victim. In fact, according to the exhaustive research of then-Liberal statistician Arthur C. Brooks, the Democratic Party is now nothing more than a “coalition of … Read more

Seven New Hampshire House Republicans Try To Silence Political Speech They Don’t Like

Only you can keep RINOs out of Concord

American’s for Prosperity in New Hampshire has been doing some issues advocacy. Alerting the residents of seven House Districts held by sitting (r)epublicans that their elected officials opposed Right to Work.

The seven “Republican” House Reps are mad at AFP for daring to let voters, who might not otherwise notice, know how they voted. So they wrote a letter to the Secretary of State and the State’s Attorney General questioning AFP-New Hampshire status as a nonprofit 501(c)4.

Put another way; this truth could hurt them politically and rather than explain their votes to constituents they’ve taken the liberal road to silence an inconvenient exercise of free speech.

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Breaking: Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Mr. Trump has the constitutional authority to institute his thrice proposed travel ban. President Trump’s travel ban is both legal and constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, reversing a series of anti-Trump decisions by lower courts and delivering a landmark win for the White House. The justices, in … Read more

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