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Torn from the headlines at HotAir.com, a question of epic and historical weight. Why won’t Democrats let their campaign workers unionize?
When workers on one self-proclaimed progressive’s congressional campaign decided to unionize, they ran into “classic union busting” tactics, according [to] a former staffer, who asked that he and the campaign remain anonymous for fear of jeopardizing future job prospects.
Ed Morrissey adds,
By Cornerstone via Email Update
Important Reminders!
Gender Identity Bill Hearing Tomorrow, Monday, April 16
Tell Your Senator to Vote No on Therapy Ban Bill
Senate Hearing for Gender Identity Bill, HB 1319: Monday, April 16, 1:30 p.m.
Supporters of “gender identity” policy are deeply committed to passing HB 1319, a flawed and dangerous bill. Your presence at Monday’s hearing in opposition to the bill will be important, even if you do not testify aloud. The hearing is scheduled to be in room 100 of the State House.
Global Warming. Liberal logic at its best. “The warming is causing cooling” “Increased snowfall may offset rises in ocean levels” “Antarctic ice gain is caused by Arctic ice loss” I guess when you have a narrative to follow,
…Progressives have this crazy idea of what real choice is? This is supposed to be the height of intellectual honesty? And how crazier is it that we let them get away with it? (H/T: Powerline)
By NH State Rep Glenn Cordelli
Recently two of my colleagues in the New Hampshire House wrote that Senate Bill 193, the “school voucher” bill, is unconstitutional (Monitor Forum, March 24). I believe that my friends are incorrect, and the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with me.
Let me start out by correcting the repeated line about a voucher bill. SB 193 has nothing to do with vouchers. SB 193 established education savings accounts, which are similar to health savings accounts. The state money that would have gone to the school district to educate the child would instead go to parents so they could find the best education opportunity for their child. That is what this bill is all about – the best education for every New Hampshire child.
The repeating of ACLU talking points on constitutionality does not stand up to the facts.
New Hampshire’s Congressional delegation is unified in its defense of the Granite State from efforts to make online purchases taxable. Their primary objection, and I’ll use Senator Shaheen as my whipping donkey for this, is the burden it puts on small business owners.
As a former small business owner, I know that most small businesses operate on small profit margins and struggle to keep overhead low. That’s especially true for small online retailers. It is unacceptable to impose major new administrative costs on small businesses while making it harder to compete with big-box retailers.
When the left tells you that women are a protected class, they are lying. Women who march in lockstep with the left’s narrow agenda are protected as long as they keep up. This is true for blacks, gays, trans, cis, Metrosexual-pajama-boys, bearded-Marxists, or any designer state of being manufactured by the liberal ministry of identity and progress.
You are not ‘protected’ based on who you want to have sex with or the color your skin. You are only special if you advocate one set of ideas which they define. It’s their Dogma or the dog house. Failure to comport excommunicates you to slave-class status. You become less than human, no longer entitled to your own words, thoughts, or even the rights they define and dispense.
They’ve even got stormtroopers to make sure everyone knows this and women don’t get a pass just because they are women.
A few months ago we planned an evening out. Frank Sinatra Night at Tuscan Kitchen in Salem. Get dressed up. Dine on some excellent Italian food (4 courses) and listen to a Frank Sinatra impersonator.
What could go wrong?
As you’ll likely know by now, I had a heart attack Monday. I came home Thursday. But sitting and listening is well within my very limited post-cardiac-event wheelhouse (and the Tuscan Kitchen in Salem has an elevator so no long staircases) so we went.
It. Was. Awesome.
To advocates for removing “traditional” from marriage in the NHGOP platform.
First, you are guilty of using the most frustrating and pernicious leftist debate tactic.
To try to make your case, you use examples outside the norm – such as families who adopt, grandparents raising their grandchildren, single parents due to the death of a spouse – in an attempt to undermine the norm. It’s no different than those who are pro-abortion trying to undermine opposition to abortion by raising rare cases of rape and incest, or more recently, using the existence of intersex persons to try to undermine natural sex/gender.
Many of us have friends or family whose situation is exactly one of those examples, but their efforts are a compassionate response to a crisis, not something that we should set as a legal standard.
Second, articulating an ideal is not exclusionary.
Earlier this week, the Executive Council voted on a $4.1 million scholarship plan.
The program, approved by legislators last year, will provide for scholarship funding for 23 post-secondary institutions and training programs. Open to any New Hampshire high school graduates who are eligible to receive Pell Grants, the scholarships are set to be available for the next school year.
Backpagecom CEO Carl Ferrer has rolled on his cofounders and executives admitting that he, “conspired with other Backpage principals … to find ways to knowingly facilitate the state-law prostitution crimes being committed by Backpage’s customers.” The site is charged with money laundering, prostitution, sex trafficking and child sex trafficking.
The Women’s March official response to shutting down backpage.com? No.
The New Hampshire House voted 184-146 to advance Senate Bill 500, housekeeping legislation meant to clean up the language in firearms statutes in the GraniteState.
Unlike the State Senate where approval was unanimous SB500 did not garner overwhelming bipartisan support in the NH House. In fact, it received very little support from House Democrats with 139 of the 146 no votes coming from the left.
State Senate refuses to roll back school nurse requirements
NH State Senator Woodburn basically just said exactly that about who controls the standards for school nurses:
“We need to have school nurses who are on top of the details and know what’s going on,” said Sen. Jeff Woodburn, D-Whitefield, in opposition to the rollback. “We settled this issue last year. The policy has been set. We need to keep the policy and not be flip-flopping all over the place every two years.”
Yet, when it comes to guns on school properties, these same Progressive Democrats were some upset that they didn’t get their way with NH State Senator Hennessey’s amendment to allow local School Boards, wern’t they? You see, they KNOW that most School Boards, being one of the foxholes that defend the Liberal mantras, would agree with them and carry out the NH Senate Democrats in banning guns on their premises. So LET them have control, we BELIEVE in local control!
Yeah, right – until they don’t.
Seems like the Earl of Metzler is coming up against “the rabble” (normally called students and people paying his salary) more and more. So he has arbitrarily decided to become like those college campuses that haven’t the foggiest idea of what the First Amendment Free Speech clause is all about. Instead – he “deigns” to decide who can speak, where they can speak, where they can speak, and when they disagree with him, not to speak at all. Free Speech? Ah, outmoded like the Second Amendment! After all, “safety” is the bugaboo of tyrants and totalitarians (and those that threaten Power) everywhere (reformatted, emphasis mine):
The superintendent of the Timberlane Regional School District is defending his decision to have a small group of student demonstrators removed from school grounds during a peaceful protest over possible staffing cuts Wednesday night. Approximately 15 to 20 students and adults with signs of support gathered outside the school administrative offices at 30 Greenough Road around 6:30 p.m., but police ordered them to leave the property and move their vehicles out of the parking lot. The demonstration was held amid uncertainty over whether dozens of teachers and other staff members will get pink slips because of a budget shortfall. Plaistow resident Kathy Slade — one of the adults who participated in the protest — said they had to park elsewhere because they were told they were not allowed to park on school property, including at the high school next door even though it was after hours. “I wasn’t surprised, but I was disappointed,” she said.
Metzler said the reason why he didn’t allow the demonstrators on school property was because the group had not communicated with him directly before the event to explain exactly what was planned and how many people would be participating. Metzler said if the organizers “took the responsible precautions and notified us, we certainly would have assisted,” he said. Metzler said it all came down to the safety of students and protecting school buildings and property.
How DARE they violate his Royalness, his Royal Washington Monument Syndrome tactic, and his Royal Property –
246 years ago today, Hillsborough County royal Sheriff Benjamin Whiting and Deputy John Quigley rode up to South Weare, NH from Hollis, to issue a warrant for the arrest of Ebenezer Mudgett and others, for the crime of cutting trees greater than 12 inches diameter on their own property. They stayed the night at a … Read more
This is interesting. For the second time in a few years, a federal court has ruled that illegal immigrants can sue American employers that refuse to hire them because they require workers to be U.S. citizens or legal residents (green card holders). The latest blow to the rule of law was delivered by an Obama-appointed … Read more
Part 1 is here. In Part 2 over at Treehugger, Chris Howard decided to deride shopping altogether:
Masturshopping.
Shopping for self pleasure, not want or need.
Well, he took the bait and answer my question of “And how is “shopping for pleasure” different than “want”? I see no difference at all”. I still see no real difference between want and “self pleasure” – you’re still buying a product and in this case, fashion items. Now, me no know fashion from shinola – I generally don’t care unless it is for professional reasons in meeting with clients so I don’t have a dog in the actual fight of why H&M is tubing itself. I do have problems with activists going after companies simply to give them hard times based on difference on ideologies. But he did answer back; and I’m still puzzled over a distinction without a difference:
Republican Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signs significant gun restrictions into law
So…why bother voting GOP any more?
Great, just yet one more “thing” to add to the growing pile. It’s that second one that’s the line to pay attention to. If the GOP won’t protect the Second, why bother? If their actions give truth to this:
why bother? If they spend like Democrat Socialists (re: the Omnibus trillion plus bill, making drunk sailors look like the Wise Men), why bother? If they can’t bother to pay attention to the Constitution (“compromising” with Democrats to put further restrictions on political speech), why bother? If elected GOP officials (both in govt and within the Party) keep willfully violating the GOP Platform (like Jeb Bradley did here in NH by first pushing for enacting Obamacare and then pushing to keep it going; sorry, handholding Constitutional Carry is an insufficient “hiding shield” for everything else you’ve done), why bother?
I could go on and on – but you all already know
Who does this sound like? “Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.” – V.I. Lenin And when the … Read more