A long quote on the heart of Liberalism and why they hate us and the lives we have chosen for ourselves (emphasis mine).

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Do they really hate ordinary people that much?

Yes, they do.  For liberals, the distinction between the “dumb masses” and their enlightened selves renders life meaningful.  Disdain for ordinary folks is not just an ancillary trait of liberalism.  It is fundamental to the its nature.

At its heart, liberalism is a gnostic religion, and the essence of that religion is the believer’s faith that he possesses the means of changing the world for the better.  The belief that the world must be changed requires there to be a mass of individuals whose lives are in need of change.  Following this logic, it is the liberal, not those deplorables in need of change, who knows what must be changed.  For liberals, there must be a mass of people in need of this knowledge for life to make sense.

Above all, liberalism is a hubristic faith.  Its followers share the fatal flaw of pride in their own intellectual capacity.  This is why liberalism appeals so strongly to those in the knowledge trades: teachers, journalists, writers, psychologists, and social workers. The sense of “knowing more than others” is its strongest attraction – particularly to the young, who otherwise know so little.  Liberalism confers, or seems to confer, almost immediate power and authority to those who embrace it.

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OK, tonite, I’ve got nuttin – but there’s a lotta folks out there that do.  From RedState, Bonchie points out that the Left’s claim to “right to be safe”, especially those of the teen survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School murders that have gone full political, is sheer nonsense. Emphasis mine:

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There is no right to public safety. There are laws which seek to provide that environment, but you can not have a right to something which relies on the positive action of others for it to be exercised. This is the same reason there can never be a right to healthcare. Not because it’s not a noble goal, but because we don’t have a right to force a doctor to treat us.

Even then, it’s not really true that public safety is a primary core function of the constitution. I’m guessing he’s taking that from the often misused general welfare clause, but in noway does that line empower the government to override individual rights. The Bill of Rights supersedes any law or action the government may enact.

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As to be expected, the Left is not letting a crisis go to waste.  They’ve marshalled their forces for the regular emotional political shove that I’ve been watching for years and combining it with “it’s for the children”.  And part of the regular S.O.P for Progressives:

• Work to silence the opposition by any means possible
• Hurt them financially

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As seen on FB (emphasis mine):

Here are some interesting facts (in case you accidentally find someone interested in such things):

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. U.S. population 324,059,091 as of Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:

• 65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – gun violence
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths

So technically, “gun violence” is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?

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All that does is make it nigh onto impossible for the average person to figure out who is goring their wallets.  It doesn’t solve the problem:

Year after year I am saddened to see my town continually divided over the ability or inability of its citizens to afford an increase in our property taxes.

At every town meeting, a group of residents approaches the microphone to explain how they are living on a fixed income and will be forced to move from the town they’ve lived in all their lives if taxes increase. Another group approaches the mic and talks about how we cannot afford not to increase the school budget or town budget to pay for vital building expansions or services. And both groups are right. What’s wrong is the way we are asked to share the burden.

I believe Hampshire citizens know at a gut level that a property tax is not an equitable way to tax people…

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“Hanson also said the debate over gun control needs to be one of facts, not emotions…“

Guns, that is – either open or concealed.  I have to admit, I’m glad to see that the Concord Monitor actually quoted him on this important piece of news and I was unaware of all of his certifications in this area (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Keith Hanson, conservative talk radio show host

..Not only that, but Hanson said Supreme Court cases, such as Warren v. District of Columbia (1981), have found that members of law enforcement do not have an individual duty to protect people.

The only people who can really protect us from mass shootings, Hanson said, is ourselves. He’s supportive of teachers who have demonstrated proficiency with a firearm serving as immediate first responders and force multipliers in an active shooting incident. He argued that a teacher’s innate desire to protect their students from a threat would spur them to act.

“There’s one thing a cursory study of history will tell us, which is that criminals, bullies, thugs and tyrants often only respect one thing, and that’s a force equal to or greater than the force they are capable of using,” Hanson said.

Hanson also said the debate over gun control needs to be one of facts, not emotions,

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By NH State Rep. John Burt

Thursday 2-22-2018 was a great day at the NH State House.

One year ago today Constitutional Carry was signed by Governor Chris Sununu. That is me hugging the Governor. 

If Gramma is late on her property taxes her interest reduction bill just passed the House. The committee vote to kill the bill was 23 to ZERO. Kevin J. Scully, David Bates, Dan Eaton and I overturned the committee and passed the bill.

The Progressive Cult will disagree.

Contrary to the transgender movement’s central claim — that “gender identity” determines whether someone is a man, a woman or something else — Mr. Anderson said the only rationale for determining an organism’s sex is “by that organism’s organization with respect to sexual reproduction.”

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By Les Elder

If anyone knows who had these signs made, they can be placed on private property, and I know people that want them.

But per RSA 664:14 and 664:17 all political advertisements must include identification and signature of the person posting the sign on public property or a State or Town Right of Way. If this information is missing the signs will be removed by the Milton Public Works Department in accordance with State Law.

One could argue that the signs are not political, but an expression of free speech.!

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Reason is reporting on how Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has a history of giving political supporters good-paying “jobs” as rewards. A microscope whose focus gets sharper as details continue to emerge about the events on that tragic day when seventeen people died.

When Coral Springs police officers arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on February 14 in the midst of the school shooting crisis, many officers were surprised to find not only that Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, the armed school resource officer, had not entered the building, but that three other Broward County Sheriff’s deputies were also outside the school and had not entered, Coral Springs sources tell CNN. The deputies had their pistols drawn and were behind their vehicles, the sources said, and not one of them had gone into the school.

Now back to that Reason article.

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Purdue University has an online writing and grammar resource that tells students to avoid using words with ‘man’ in them because such terms are sexist. But based on the reporting at Campus Reform, I don’t think they’ve quite got the hang of it.

Hence, instead of writing “mankind,” the OWL suggests that students write “humanity,” people,” or “human beings.”

So mankind is inappropriate, but humanity and human being are acceptable?

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Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Individual Transported by Ambulance from Manchester Planned Parenthood

New Hampshire Right to Life was informed today of an individual who was taken away by ambulance from the Planned Parenthood facility in Manchester on Wednesday, February 21st around 12:30 pm. According to eyewitnesses, this person was carried out on a gurney with a sheet covering his or her face. New Hampshire Right to Life has obtained video evidence of the person being placed in the ambulance. According to the Manchester Fire Activity Log, the call is listed as “Unknown Status.” Planned Parenthood was performing surgical abortions when this incident occurred.

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By NH State Rep. Norm Silber

For about 40 years before becoming a permanent resident of Gilford, I lived and practiced law in the Miami area, so I have some significant familiarity with Florida law.

The recent Parkland school shooting has produced a lot of discussion about how and why it happened and how a similar event in the future could be prevented.  However, much of the discussion and calls for “action” have missed many important facts, distinct from the emotions of the moment.

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