By Michelle Levell – School Choice for NH

Our motto is “Live Free or Die,” but we don’t have the freedom to choose when it comes to education. Join us in support of SB 193 to give parents and students educational freedom.

Under this program, parents and students will have the opportunity to design an educational program that works for their kids through an education savings account or ESA. These flexible accounts allow parents to fully customize their child’s education to best meet their learning needs through tuition at another public school outside their district, tutoring, online learning, textbooks, educational therapies and other education-related services and products.

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Parkland is moving Democrat legislators and the media, but as I pointed out here yesterday, I think progressive-ghetto tunnel-vision has catalyzed the inside of a very small bubble.

I think the left is really overreaching on Parkland and the media is making them arrogant. They are going to keep at it the way the kept at it until Hillary lost. It feels like that sort of deep dive into a shallow pool.

The 2016 Election map shows Democrats as a fringe party, but thanks to a very biased media they appear more significant. That has advantages. They can punch above their weight and do. It also misleads them into thinking the nation is with them just because they all agree with each other. But some crucial reports suggest this is not the case.

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by Sen. Regina Birdsell, R-Hampstead, represents District 19.

Legislation comes in all shapes and sizes, including the bill introduced this session that would remove New Hampshire from the national voter Crosscheck program. The bill, SB 349, would repeal the state’s authority to share voter info or data with other states to ensure that each voter casts just one ballot in each election. Protecting voter data from misuse and ensuring the privacy of Granite Staters is essential, we know that this legislation was nothing more than a politicized solution in search of a problem.

The national Crosscheck program originated after the passage of the Help America Vote Act by the United States Congress in 2002. It was a collaborative effort of several secretaries of state across the country to make it easier to compare voter lists in a safe and private manner, to prevent inappropriately cast votes. In each election since many states use Crosscheck to verify that every legal voter receives only one vote as dictated by our Constitution.

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Medicaid costs, said then-Secretary Michael Leavitt, were projected to grow so fast that within 10 years they would “crowd out virtually every other category of spending.” State spending on higher education, infrastructure and safety, he predicted, would all get squeezed.

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Like I said – fair game.

Welcome to Alinsky. And from what I’ve seen in over a decade, once riled and put upon, the Right is much more ingenious in being a Resistance. I look around at the signs of today and there is little creativity when compared to some of the TEA Party signs.

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Letter: Senators condescending in debate on gun amendment

Sometimes for a conservative blogger, the Concord Monitor can’t be beat for finding fodder. The above was from yesterday concerning the Amendment that would allow local School Board make decisions on our Right to keep and bear arms (Article 2-a in the NH Constitution).

What Democrat NH State Senator Hennessey wanted to do is start to unravel the idea that we are a Dillon’s Rule state – the State of NH has primacy and the Towns and Cities in NH are mere political subdivisions. While this can be viewed as a bit disconcerting here in the State whose motto is “Live Free or Die” at that macro level, it would allow The State (at the local level) to monkey with universal Rights simply because of an extremist ideological hatred of firearms wielded by law-abiding citizens to where we wouldn’t really ever know, based on crossing a town/city line, if we were in compliance with the law or magically transformed into jailbait with a turn of one’s tires.

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The heroine, Fentanyl, Carfentanyl problem, crisis, war, however you would like to frame it, has, for our purposes, three positions. First, it is national security crisis. Second, it is a domestic enforcement crisis. And third, it is the addiction-treatment-recovery crisis.

Democrats oppose the first two and demand money for the third.

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Just before 8:30 this morning I let loose on the left’s declaration of war against the second amendment. Knowing that this doesn’t scare nearly as many people as it should, I added what seemed to me to be a natural extension of this assault by bringing up the left’s war on the first amendment. And at the end, I closed the loop.

For years Democrats have suggested gun bans, but now former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says we need to repeal the second amendment. Do you support that? If not, how far are you willing to go and what assurances after the failures in Parkland can you give your constituents about their safety?

This afternoon, the State GOP issued a press release and a video asking the entire Democrat Congressional Delegation, Democrats all, “to denounce recent calls to repeal the Second Amendment.”

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I am so behind on these kinds of “I comment here” and “commented there” type posts, so it’s now time to get a’marching.

The question above was asked over at the Concord Monitor. I’ll give her props for outing herself that she’s terrified of these totally inanimate object, and turn on her for demanding the my Right be cancelled to make her feel “safe”. That’s not my responsibility and if she truly thought about where that Right comes from and plays connect the dots, I might think different of her but I don’t – as an adult, she should have realized this much, much sooner. The failure to do so tells us of her arrested development in believing that she has a Right to outsource the basis of her feelings onto others. Now, at the risk of being accused of having no empathy – it’s not my job nor anyone else’s job to make her safe (unless they are drawing a paycheck directly from her to be her personal bodyguard). What she said that caught my eye (entire Op-Ed after the jump). My response:

“…For the good of all, we each give up a little..”.

Yes, Article 3 speaks to this “[Society, its Organization and Purposes.] When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void.”

Notice it comes after Article 2-a, so it is subordinate to it: “[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.”

At least you make it clear that you are scared of guns. You also have hit on why most of us rebel against calls to turn them in: “Don’t restrict my freedom to have one. In fact, isn’t freedom to pursue things an American tradition? Our right? To be free to pursue our rights, or our desires, without interference – read regulation.”

 

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As reported last week the Vermont legislature is fast-tracking gun ban legislation (s.55) that will do absolutely nothing to stop the crimes for which they claim it is being enacted.

An amended version of the Senate Bill passed the Vermont House this week and goes back to the Senate for review, reconciliation, more press, speeches, and assorted acts of tyranny a govrment engages in before denying legal citizens their natural rights.

There are plenty of supporters because the media has made this the biggest thing since problems were invented, ignoring the failures of government that caused the catalyst for these supposed reforms, while championing those that failed.

Nothing new there. But you don’t see this every day, and never in New Hampshire, at least not from the political NH Police Chiefs Association.

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After Parkland, Democrats feel like they can come out of the closet on gun control. Inside their bubble, the outside world changed. The complete and utter failure of every mechanism they promised would protect us without a right to self-defense failed. Their response to this failure is to claw at your rights, and openly demand a repeal of the second amendment. A wholesale denial of the right to self-defense followed by a seizure by force of law of firearms from the law-abiding public.

Don’t act surprised. That was always the goal. Those of you who didn’t believe it or denied it (called us crazy) must ask why you ever believed them when they said it was not? Then ask yourself, how serious are the same people when they say (and they do say this openly now) that they oppose the right to free speech?

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