DISQUS Doodlings: Both Jonathan Baird and Dan Williams are wrong about the First Amendment and the NFL

Level the playing fieldBackground: Jonathan Baird works for the Social Security Administration, Dan Williams is a government teacher.  Both work in union dominated workplaces; my opinion stems from that and that both of them get the new NFL policy wrong from different viewpoints.  Mine?  The owners own the teams – they can make policies that their employees have to follow; Baird disagrees (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The new policy outlined by Commissioner Roger Goodell that requires NFL players to stand during the national anthem did not come out of any collective bargaining agreement between the owners and the players. It was a unilateral assertion by management. Up until now, there has been no NFL rule that prohibited players from demonstrating during the national anthem. I am at a loss to understand how the owners think they can enforce a unilateral declaration.

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Quick Thought: One would think that all Republicans would be voting FOR more Individual Freedoms…use your vote against them

Right to workFrom the NH GOP Platform:

  • Support legislation to allow workers to decide the allocation of the portion of their union dues used for political purposes
  • We believe in free people, free markets and free enterprise

To that latter point – if unions have the mindset that they can prevent competition and lock potential workers out of jobs, that’s no longer a free labor market. And those locked out of a job because it is a closed shop are no longer free to compete. On those two points,  Americans For Prosperity NH (“AFP”) is now about to do the job that the NH GOP continuously fails to do – holding RINOS that stray to supporting the Democrat agenda accountable. From the Union Leader (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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Blogline of the Day – when you throw traditional social mores to the curb…

Related: In the middle of a Twitter thread on the MSM’s increasing penchant for doxxing, a Twitter user who goes by the handle “Thomas H. Crown” writes, “Journalists have happened on the fastest way I can identify to drive Americans to say, ‘No, please, rando with a webpage, tell us all about this journalist’s family … Read more

Data Point – “it’s the economy, stupid”

Rising Economy

…Americans love such tales in which the downtrodden succeed, and underdog stories make for great cinema. In real life right now, a lot of economic underdogs in America are growing into a prosperity they did not think possible just a few years ago. Simply put, it’s time for the little guys, the underdogs, to shine. For example, while government dependency expanded massively during the slow growth of the last decade since the Inauguration of Donald Trump almost 2 million people have dropped off of food stamps.

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Oh Good Lord – are the DC Republicans THIS bad that they don’t know what to do???

upside down GOP logoEven this headline from the Daily Mail (yep, a BRITISH newspaper)should make one think: truly, can they govern (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

Senate Republicans are unsure what to do between now and November – so they’re polling THEMSELVES for ideas

Republican Senators are unsure of what to do between now and the November election so they’re polling – themselves. Senators Ted Cruz and Lamar Alexander are quietly circulating an unusual ‘survey’ of their colleagues to ask about their level of support for various legislative proposals, some of them highly controversial. Among the ideas, trying once again to repeal Obamacare, attempting another round of tax cuts, defunding Planned Parenthood, expanding gun rights, and many others. But the odds of any of these proposals coming to the Senate floor for a vote are slim, insiders told Politico, which reported on the unusual poll.

Well, here’s one fer ya – how about just doing the job we expect you to do – like:

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Some Thoughts on the House Bill 1264 Memoranda Filed With the Supreme Court — Part II

courtgavel-tileVOLINSKY and PAPPAS

Volinsky and Pappas devote their memorandum to arguing that the Court should duck the questions transferred by the Governor.  Because I already covered their argument in my discussion of the Attorney General’s memorandum, I will not repeat it here.

STATE SENATE

The State Senate’s attorney, Rick Lehmann, researched the history of the term domicile in Part I, Article 11.  Statements made at the 1974 constitutional convention by the delegates indicate that “[t]he current situation, in which a person can have a domicile in New Hampshire without being a resident is precisely the opposite of the original intent of the amendment’s drafters.”  

In my memorandum, I made a similar point:

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Some Thoughts on the House Bill 1264 Memoranda Filed With the Supreme Court — Part III

clean-electionsDEMOCRAT STATE SENATORS WOODBURN, SOUCY, AND FELTES 

As I discussed in Part I, the primary argument of these Democrat State Senators —like the ACLU and like the Democrat Executive Councilors— is that the Court should not return answers to the questions.  Because I already addressed this argument in my discussion of the Attorney General’s memorandum in Part I, I will not repeat it here.

The Democrat State Senators argue that House Bill 1264 violates Part I, Article 11 because Part I, Article 11 requires the State to maintain two class of domiciliary: resident and nonresident.  This argument is the same argument advanced by the ACLU and so can be answered in the same manner.

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U.S. Senate August Recess Cancelled – Democrat Obstruction Blamed

Dem Obstruction in Senate

The party of progress just got their summer vacation canceled due to their all-out effort to prevent progress.

Senators will receive “a state work period” the first full week of August, but must come back to D.C. after that.

This is bad news for the incumbent Democrat senators since they will not have the ability to campaign during the month. Democrats have 26 seats up for re-election in November along with independent seats in Maine and Vermont, both belonging to senators who caucus with the Democrats.

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Two Subject Classes – Are SUSPECT

voter fraud

New Hampshire has two classes of voters, an undeniable violation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.

We have “qualified voters” who are legally domiciled in our state. And we have “super enfranchised” out-of-state voters who vote here without a legal domicile. They retain an out-of-state domicile as shown in their arrest records – which unlike most election documents in NH, are still public.

Here are Keene State College, NH “Super Enfranchised” registered voters selected at random by the Keene Police Department. They are all still on the City of Keene Voter Checklist as of 6/5/2018.

One is also registered in Connecticut.

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SCOTUS Sides with Christian Baker On Same-Sex Wedding Cake

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission violated a Colorado Baker’s religious liberty when penalized him for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex couple. Washington Times. The 7 to 2 ruling found the Colorado Civil Rights Commission did not view the baker’s case with “religious neutrality.” “The reason and … Read more

Some Thoughts on the HB1264 – Memoranda Filed With the Supreme Court — Part I

vote1Not a comprehensive examination of all memoranda filed with Supreme Court regarding House Bill 1264.  Just some notes I took while reading through them, cleaned up somewhat for public consumption.

SECRETARY OF STATE

The Secretary of State takes no express position on House Bill 1264.  But he appears to agree with the position of the Governor —as I see it— that nonresident college students somehow have a right to vote in New Hampshire and remain nonresidents.  I say this because of the Secretary of State’s characterization of the second question submitted by the Governor: 

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