As a visiting midwest (ish) tourist, before moving to New Hampshire in 1990, I took the occasional trip to Hampton Beach. Good times. What I didn’t know then was that a few years later in 1995, 2500 experts got together and decided they could make a comfortable living if they said things like in 25 years, “most of the beaches on the East Coast would be gone.”
For all those on the Left that keep harping she won the popular vote
Here’s her participation trophy – and that’s about all it means. Sure, that what she got (pretty much the margin came from Californiastan) but it never has and continues to never matter thanks to the Founders glorious mechanism called the Electoral College whose purpose was EXACTLY to not let the larger States determine the Presidential … Read more
Data Point – If it were still up to Obama’s policies, you’d have frozen pipes right about now
Coal to the rescue as record cold grips the East That’s right – the natural resource that Obama declared war against (his promise to bankrupt any new coal fired electrical plant) from before his first inauguration. He poured billions of our tax dollars into “renewables” that basically only renewed the wealth of the politically connected … Read more
Data Point – ICE deportations of interior illegal immigrants on the rise
DHS: Deportations of Illegal Aliens Living Across U.S. Increase 37 Percent Under Trump Overall, Trump’s ICE agency in the full Fiscal Year of 2017 deported 226,119 illegal aliens, including those caught at the southern border and those arrested and deported from the interior of the U.S. This is a slight decrease from the Fiscal Year … Read more
Best female UN Ambassador since Jeane Kirkpatrick!
I had been hoping for John Bolton but Nikki Haley has performed magnificently in putting America (and our interests) First instead of playing footsies in the UN swamp. Really like the “taking names” bit and no longer playing the kumbaya “one big world family” farce. (H/T: Powerline)
Will NH all Democrat female contingent protest Willie Singletary like they did Roy Moore?
After all, at every turn our all Democrat Congressional delegation (e.g., Jeanne “Obamacare” Shaheen, Maggie “The Red” Hassan, Annie “I’m the most Progressive” Kuster, and Carol SEIU-Porter) denounced Republiacn Judge Ray Moore who was running to fill former US Senator and now US Attorney General Jeff Session’s Senate seat from Alabama on the basis of the allegations of sexual harassment. Frankly, I’m betting that it was mostly because he said he’d really support Trump’s agenda and would be a reliable vote. But now, we may really find out if the sexual harassment part was primary because now one of their own (a Democrat) is planning on running for Congress from Pennsylvania (emphasis mine):
A former Philadelphia judge named Willie Singletary has been in the public eye for quite a while and unfortunately for him, it’s not all been good. First, he was forced to resign after it was discovered that he sexually harassed a city cashier and sent her pictures of his genitals. He was suspected, and forced to resign after an investigation revealed some unsavory details.
Part II – ACLU Article on Student Voters in NH Sets the Standard for Stupid
For reasons we won’t go into today ruling class institutions in New Hampshire like vote fraud. They like it so much that nary a one, in their ambling defense of dirty elections, wonders why out-of-state students can’t use an absentee ballot to vote like any typical person temporarily displaced from the address the IRS will come looking if they commit tax fraud.
One of those “institutions” is the NH-ACLU. They think they know better and a few weeks back one of their lawyers made a laughable defense for vote fraud in an article titled, ‘Residence’ voting bill has an economic impact.
Ed took a wack at the legal stupidity last week. This week I’m here to poke some more holes in their defense.
Yes, America can still be saved
NY Times
On December 25th, the New York Times published an editorial by liberal columnist, Paul Krugman. It was entitled “America Is Not Yet Lost,” and it was a message wrapped in hope, but filled with hate.
Still fuming about the 2016 election and its aftermath, Krugman ranted that Donald Trump has proven himself unfit for office – morally and intellectually, and that the Republican Party is composed of “cynical apparatchiks, willing to sell out every principle – and every shred of dignity – as long as donors get big tax cuts.”
He had no kind words for the media, either – the conservative media, that is – which, he argued, has given up even the pretense of doing real reporting. He failed to mention the Pew Research study showing that negative coverage of Trump in his first 60 days was three times that of Barack Obama during the same period.
NH GOP Increases Calls for Resignation of State Rep Guilty of Assaulting a Citizen
Yesterday, the New Hampshire Republican Party renewed calls for the resignation of state representative Katherine Rogers (D-Concord). Rogers is the representative who recently pleaded guilty to assaulting a volunteer during a ballot recount last year.
While most people believe Rogers should resign for her deplorable behavior of physically assaulting a citizen, the New Hampshire Democrat party has remained silent on the matter. In fact, according to the Concord Patch, they were there supporting her “guilty” plea:
A contingent of elected Democrats and other activists were in attendance to support Rogers including Ray Buckley, the chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, Minority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Concord, Kris Schultz, D-Concord, Ken Roos, a labor activist, state Rep. Tim Horrigan, D-Durham, and others.
Why did NHPR Leave out the ‘Sex’?
Todd Bookman, writing for New Hampshire Public Radio, left something out of his report on HB1319. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ed Butler (D- Harts Location) modifies RSA 354: A to include a definition of transgender and adds the words “gender identity” in the statute in twenty-nine places.
That’s how many times the law lists those things against which thou shalt not discriminate.
Bookman notes that the “New Hampshire statute currently bars discrimination based on factors including age, race, religion and national origin.” But that’s not how they appear in the statue in any of the twenty-nine relevant occurrences.
The 2016 Election Explained One Day Before it Happened
If you want an in-depth understanding of the 2016 election won by Donald Trump – and you are interested in one that was published one day BEFORE the Trump landslide, here it is.
For more than two years the American people, in a great majority, from left to right, have been in revolt against the political class and the financial elites in America. It is a revolt with historic parallels, most closely resembling the Jacksonian revolution of the 1820s. It is an uprising. It is a peaceful uprising of a people who see a country in decline and see nothing but failure in the performance of their leadership institutions. And they have signaled their intent to take back their country and to reclaim their sovereignty.
Email Doodlings – “You will be made to care”
“There are two sides to bigotry. There are those who openly oppose it, and then those who foster it. People who stay silent in the face of this bigotry provide quiet support for it.
I have no idea how I got put onto the “Cinema Libre Studio”‘s (that would be “Free Cinema” – will they be sending out free tickets? I rather think not) email list but such as is it. Given my response to their email, I don’t think that I’ll be on it for long. I’ve bolded the part of this victim filled inbound email that caught my attention (and look at who is starring in it – CAIR and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter…and nary a word that it is those of the Jewish faith that are most discriminated against (anti-Semitism anyone?):
Trump’s CDC Word Ban and the Reality for Minorities
THE UNAMERICAN STRUGGLE
Los Angeles, CA, December 19, 2017 (Newswire.com) – Winner of the Award of Merit at indieFEST Film Awards and Best Political Documentary at Atlanta Docufest, THE UNAMERICAN STRUGGLE documentary is the first examination of the rise in hate crimes and bigoted rhetoric since the election of Donald J. Trump.
Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that hate crimes had increased by nearly 5% since 2015 in their annual Incidents of Hate report. The report recorded that 5,818 “single-bias” incidents occurred, in which one or more offense types, or incidents, were motivated by the same bias. Of those, 59.2% were motivated by a racial, ethnic and/or ancestry bias; 19.7% by a religious bias; 17.7% by a sexual orientation bias; and 3.3% by a gender identity, disability or gender bias.
For activists on the front line of the identity politics movement, this rise in hate crimes is not a surprise, and many of them feel the numbers are underreported.
Disqus Doodlings – Another Govt Rent-Seeker for Govt run PAID Family Leave – HB 628 – Dr. Oge Young – Part 2
Of course I can’t just leave this issue with just a post – I left a couple of comments where I hope Dr. Oge “Big Government” Young (seemingly both a rent-seeker and someone that believes that Government can and should solve all ills – sure thing, sport). Sure, it was the primary bit for the post but I went a bit further:
“Creating a family and medical leave insurance system would ensure workers the benefits they need and help businesses of all sizes be more competitive.” Really?
Benefits used to be voluntarily offered by companies above and beyond what one receives as a salary or wage (that is, until Government decided to mandate them as with Obamacare). And in this case, the legislation MANDATES that employees take part (a la Obamacare) – where’s the Live Free or Die choice in that?
Further, if this was such a lovely idea to make businesses “more competitive”,
The world economy explained with two cows – Part 8 French Capitalism
So, when do they actually work to EARN that new cow? Or is it always that someone else is on the hook to give it to you (three guess who THAT’s supposed to be!)? (H/T: Pinterest)
Quick Thought – don’t consider burglery as a profession when…
Tattoos gave away David Hamilton, 19, according to police. A city man has been charged with receiving stolen property in the burglary of a Hooksett gun shop last year. Tattoos gave away David Hamilton, 19, according to police. “Newly developed images from the burglary depicted a male with distinct tattoos holding one of the stolen firearms,” the … Read more
Data Point – Schools keep growing (by adding “overhead”)
If an average classroom size is about 25 students and we multiply that by the average spending, that gives us $275,000 per year per classroom. If you’re in a school with 40 classrooms that’s $11 million per year to run a school. “But Kira, not all that money is for the classroom. What about principals, staff, and other administrators at the district and state level? Surely those things suck some money out of the classroom.” You have pinpointed the exact problem. Indeed, much of that money does get funneled to staff and off-site administration. So much that in many places administrative costs have massively outpaced school population growth. In some states, like Louisiana, the public school population actually decreased even as administrative hires exponentially increased.
From 1950 to 2009 the student population increased by 95% while school personnel grew by 386%. In contrast, teacher hirings increased by just 252% while administrators and other school staff increased by a shocking 702%.
The actual post started from a very different place and wound up here – go read it. I will tell you how LITTLE
Another Govt Rent-Seeker for Govt run PAID Family Leave – HB 628 – Dr. Oge Young – Part 1
HB 628: Paid family and medical leave
SurPRISE! Yet another Op-Ed in the Concord Monitor genuflecting at the Altar of Big Govt: “Pray, give us this “benefit” even as we could do it ourselves? Once again, supplication from one whose industry very well could be sucking at yet another teat of Government (you know, the medical part of Family and MEDICAL Leave Insurance system). Golly, who’d a thunk that a past Prez of the NH Medical Society would be holding out the tip jar? Notice how he starts out with the “gifting” part first – who DOESN’T want a brand new goody (especially of the lion’s share of the cost comes from others) (reformatted, emphasis mine). Just like Steve Duprey, here’s the hand on the take right off the bat:
Creating a family and medical leave insurance system would ensure workers the benefits they need and help businesses of all sizes be more competitive. More than 100 New Hampshire businesses, including Concord Hospital, have signed a letter asking our lawmakers to pass HB 628.
That’s right, give me some of that old time religion Govt money!
New Hampshire Democrats vs. Freezing Weather
The Democrat’s unwavering commitment and dedication to an environmental policy that promotes wind and solar energy over fossil fuels could mean that many of them will freeze to death over the next week. Please say a prayer for them, even though they’d make fun of you for doing it.
There Can Be No Indigenous People’s Day – The North American Continent Doesn’t Have Any
A Democrat lawmaker has proposed legislation to follow Durham, New Hampshire’s lead and change Columbus Day to ‘Indigenous People’s’ Day. I’ve already offered my thoughts on the matter at great length so I won’t repeat those here.
Tales from the BudComm – “Do you see what I see?”
Yes, I am deliberately being shameless in “culturally appropriating” a line from a well beloved Christmas carol – deal with it because FREEDOM! That’s what Americans do – take from other cultures (after all, there’s plenty to “borrow” from) and repurpose it to make our culture better. But here, the question fits as now the massive flurry of subcommittee meetings and report writing has calmed down and one can actually start to sit down and meditate, cogitate, and try to do something more than a surface cursory level analysis. Like “how come it costs so much?”