Lifelong marriage is an act of defiance against all of the difficulties of life, from the catastrophic to the mundane. In marriage, men and women promise themselves to one another, and tell fate to go to hell. The traditional promises that solemnize a marriage are some of the greatest assertions of human agency, and therefore of human dignity, possible. Our freedom is not realized in the possibility that we might do anything, but in doing what we have said we will do. Human freedom is consummated in the voluntary self-limitation of the promise made and fulfilled. In the making and keeping of promises, we assert ourselves against the world and the future as acting agents, not mere reactive beings responding to circumstance. The power of oaths in legend, literature, and law is due to their assertion of free human choice and will within the cosmos.

As Hannah Arendt observed, it is the making and keeping of promises, along with forgiveness, that put an end to reaction and allow us to begin something new. Seen from this perspective, marriage vows are not an ending that establishes a static state, but a beginning that allows something new to flourish. In keeping our marriage vows, we renew our freedom and dignity as acting agents while uniting the two halves of the human race in a union that continues it.

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Strap yourselves in ladies and gentleman. National Review has a story that is as massive in length as it is in importance.  A long, detailed look at Obama, Democrats, and the Clinton Campaign, their activities, and the effort to smear Trump too, for lack of a better term, to keep themselves from getting caught and to protect the progressive wreckage of Obama’s legacy.

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The first thing you need to know about SB412 (and why you should praise its passage in the state Senate) is that the mopes in Henniker don’t like it. And here’s why.

No municipality shall adopt an ordinance, bylaw, definition, or policy regarding agritourism activities that conflict with the definition of agritourism in RSA 21:34-a.

Further, it creates a Commissioner of Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food Dispute Board where farmers can petition the board and obtain a ruling to decide if the municipal ordinance regarding agritourism conflicts with RSA 21:34-a.

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The left has labeled itself as ‘The resistance’ but when you consider what they are resisting it’s not flattering so let’s consider it.

The Resistance is resiting free speech. They want the government to limit speech, compel speech, to have power over the spoken and written word and the mediums used to convey it. Another word for that is fascism.

The Resistance wants the ruling class to have a monopoly on force.

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Many of the students who participated in the Women’s March organized National Walkout are victims of Progressive pressure politics. Others are misinformed cattle used as mules for Liberal narratives. More than we can imagine were just happy to leave the building and go outside.  And a small portion of them can see the forest for the trees.

The second amendment is an enumeration of a natural right that the State shall not deny law-abiding citizens.

There’s one more narrative we need to explore in the wake of the National Walkout.

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There is nothing even close to an Ivy League education to set one apart from the deplorables. You can look anyone in the eye and say, “I graduated from, blah, blah, blah,” and not have to prove you have a clue about anything. It is automatically assumed you must be intelligent.

Take Robby Mook for example. He just delivered a stunning example of his I.Q. to a reporter on some podcast. In four simple sentences, he exposes to the world how much he learned in college, and in life, as a national campaign manager for a presidential candidate.

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That’s what I overheard a few years ago at our town’s Deliberative Session between two teachers who I later found out were union leaders.  OK, so they didn’t say that parenthetical phrase but as I have written before, the costs of our schools (all over the state) are far outstripping the growth in students.  Sure, some districts do have some population increases but most are not.  The upward costs are not being driven by those items that go directly to student – it is for ever-increasing teacher salaries.

I’ll ask: have you ever heard a union say “hey, we’ll take less because the kids need more paper, pens, pencils, art supplies, science supplies” and the like because it’s “for the children”?  I will say that I never have but certainly I’ve heard the kvetching from taxpayers (unless they or a family member are drawing a paycheck from said districts) lamenting that while THEIR take-home pay goes down (generally healthcare, taxes, et al) it always seems they have to pay more to make the teachers “whole”.  Fairness?  Nope – that’s what unions do – rent-seek from others beyond what they otherwise could do.

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If I’ve said it once I’ve said it dozens of times and more likely hundreds, there’s no such thing as hate speech. It doesn’t exist but in the minds of people looking for an opportunity to create a legal precedent to ban speech with which they disagree. Speech they hate.

The Democrats proved this repeatedly by either their open support or stubborn refusal to denounce individuals, groups or actions that use violence and intimidation to silence speech (that contradicts their worldview). And in January Germany did something for which the American left is desperate. The government implemented a law that allows those in power to decide what is hateful and make tech companies remove it from the internet.

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Yesterday, there was a “National Walkout Day” held by students across the country. The walkout was supposedly to remember the 17 students who were killed in Parkland, Florida. While many students did indeed honor these students, others chose to use the walkout to push for gun control.

These students have every right to be frustrated and angry that their government completely failed to protect them, over and over again. There were armed guards at the school but they weren’t at the door, watching as students came into the building. The police who showed up at the shooting, didn’t even go into the building to stop the killer. Yes, these students have every right to be angry.

Unfortunately, their anger has been co-opted and re-directed by the left. Rather than direct them to demand they be protected like court houses, state houses and congress, the left is pushing them to demand more gun control on law-abiding citizens and the Women’s March, who has completely co-opted the “movement,” is actually telling students to demand they become LESS safe in their schools.

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An effort by Democrats to use public schools as a wedge issue to disarm law abiding citizens failed in the New Hampshire Senate this week.

In a party-line vote, the Senate Education Committee voted down an amendment that would have allowed individual school boards to prohibit guns on school grounds and school buses.

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I sent a Right to Know request to NH’s Secretary of State asking for an opportunity to review public documents regarding how many non-citizen Green Card holders are on the NH Statewide Checklist. Each state is required to keep track of that small item. The non-citizen Green Gard holders who are voting would then, supposedly, be “caught.”

It would be a nice number to have if you wanted to look at any possible voter fraud in our state – being that non-US citizens are not supposed to be voting in any of our elections – as of this time. Our NH State Supreme Court might find a new right to vote for non-US citizens in the future but as of now, we are just letting non-NH citizens vote for us.

Here is the response.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) rose on the Senate floor on Tuesday and gave a speech admonishing Republicans in Congress for not acting on what he presented as their constitutional duty to stand up to the president. “A congressional party that is wholly subservient to the political interests of the president is failing fundamentally to fulfill its constitutional obligation,” Schumer said. “Congress is supposed to be a separate, equal branch of government,” he said.

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Of COURSE you must remember Sandra Fluke – we wrote about her often enough (Steve: ‘Sandra ““I can’t afford my own 9$/month birth control pills” Fluke) who turned the word “access” (it is available and I can buy it) into meaning “I want it – you have to buy it for me; if it ain’t free for me, I have no access to it” never understanding or acknowledging that she believes she should have a free ride on the backs of others for her “fun”.

Enter in Sherry Frost.

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Student Walk-outs from School took place all across the nation. Watching the Lame Stream Media, one would think this was an epic effort. Well, It was. This wasn’t an individual effort reflecting student’s voices. No, this was an event organized by left wing teachers and school administrators all across the nation.

I received a phone call from my daughter yesterday afternoon. She lives in Pennsylvania. She was angry. The kids came home from school and shared that their teachers, “compelled them,” to participate in a “march to memorialize the students lost at Parkland.” The kids weren’t given an option not to participate.

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Regional Planning Commissions are unaccountable bodies of busy-bodies who operate outside the usual rules for political interference in your day to day life. They get access to and spend public money, and can serve as a pipeline for Federal political class priorities. They are also notoriously progressive, so when the Nashua Regional Planning Commission sets up a Nashua Regional Transportation Survey, the magic words that pop into your head should be how we get from here to ‘Commuter Rail.’

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The New Hampshire house took up HCR 11 today, A Resolution urging a pardon of Gerald “Jerry” DeLemus. Why?

The court tossed out the government’s case because it (basically) hid evidence and lied. Gerry is only sitting in prison because the prosecutor badgered him into a plea deal before that ruling was ever made and he is now stuck there.

HCR11 was nothing more than a resolution stating that the NH House would like the Government to consider a pardon, given the circumstances. The NH House said no. Hell No, and goodnight.

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