With the Left all a twitter about the news of Flynn’s statement of lying to the FBI, never forget that the late US Senator Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, that “lion” of the Democrat Senate caucus, actually did connive and collude with Russians (the Communist Soviets at the time) to keep Ronald Reagan from being re-elected as President even as he was thinking about running for the Presidency himself:

Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy had “selfish political and ideological motives” when he made secret overtures to the Soviet Union’s spy agency during the Cold War to thwart then-President Ronald Reagan’s re-election, a Reagan biographer said in an interview with The Daily Signal.

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Court Says Two Women Cannot Conceive a Child, Same-Sex Divorcee Shouts ‘Discrimination!’

Again, who says the Left is the side that believes in Science and Reality?

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The US Senate has passed a tax reform package. The Washington Post’s opening paragraph is a predictable spin on the left-wing narrative. Yuge breaks for corporations, a mixed bag for everyone else.

Over at Red State, where they’ve been critical of Trump and this plan (and the Senate) for months, the tone was a bit different.

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The big news for the media and their Democrat allies is that Michael Flynn lied to the FBI about Russia.

The bad news (for the left) is that it doesn’t matter. ABC News, which went yard trying to nail Flynn and Trump to the left’s Russia Collusion secular cross has issued a correction that damn near invalidates the entire collusion narrative they reported above it.

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It’s no secret that Obama and Clinton hate each other. HATE. EACH. OTHER. But party and power mean a lot to the left, so they used each other to get what they wanted. More party. More power.

The Clinton’s have been, more or less, the face of the party since Bill was elected. Hillary’s loss presents an opportunity for change, and we know how much Democrats love change. And we know how much Obama loves change. And the Obama’s would like to see some change.

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In a November 29th staff editorial, the Union Leader, while trying to poke New Hampshire’s All Gurl Kongressional Delegation, lent a hand and a good word to No Labels, a left-wing group pretending to be centrist.

None of the four members of New Hampshire’s Congressional delegation has yet joined the Problem Solvers Caucus. There are other ways to work across the aisle. 

But on the big issues of health care and tax reform, New Hampshire’s federal officials have effectively taken their votes off the table. They seem more interested in proving how opposed they are to President Trump than accepting that Republicans should actually get something out of a political compromise.

Reality check. Democrat Congressional “help” only takes the form of making sure Republicans pass things that don’t “fix” anything or that advance Democrat priorities. And oh, by the way, that is what No Labels are all about.

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In the wake of Matt Lauer’s termination, and the self-immolation underway on the left, the news is littered with exciting tidbits from long-time liberal hypocrites about other long-time liberal hypocrites, like this.

On ABC News’ “This Week,” veteran journalist Cokie Roberts made a rather revealing admission in the wake of accusations from women that far-left Rep. John Conyers had assaulted them.

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by Rep. Mike Sylvia

The shell game continues on County Drive. It’s understandable that this sleight of hand would lead to errors in the Laconia Daily Sun’s article covering the Belknap County budget.

Commissioner DeVoy, according to the Sun, said: “…it was poor budget management on the part of the delegation that helped create the current bleak fiscal situation for the county.”

While I’ll agree that ‘poor budget management’ is involved, the fact is the delegation appropriates funds, and the county administration is tasked with budget management. It would be helpful if the administration would keep their spending to monies that had actually been appropriated as opposed to finding ways to spend money which had not been appropriated.

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Each year, the Budget Committee devolves into sub-committees to handle each area or department of both the Town and the School District.  Yesterday was dedicated to three such meetings for me on the School Board budget: Federal Projects, Food Service, and “District Wide” maintenance.

Now those of you that have been reading the ‘Grok for a while know that one of my big bugaboos is the combination of TANSTAAFL and “free money” – the former being “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” (H/T: Robert Heinlein) and the “free money” really isn’t – somewhere someone is paying state or federal taxes in order for my hamlet to get “free money.”  I dunno about your elected or appointed officials but mine can very seldom put those two concepts together in a cogent fashion.  Actually, TANSTAAFL doesn’t seem to be in their vocabulary but “free money” often is.

Well, our Assistant Superintendent for Business (chief bean counter) Scott Isabelle decided a bit of bamboozling was in order (paraphrasing here):

Of our total budget, we only have to raise X number dollars via taxes as Federal/State grants take care of the rest.

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No one makes fun of the left like The People’s cube, and in keeping with that tradition they provided the above image as a guideline to help the regular folk figure out the difference between your run-of-the-mill left-wing fascist and your run-of-the-mill leftist ‘antifascist.’

Antifascists movements, historically, are communist/socialist affairs, who operate identically; use intimidation and violence to advance your political agenda.

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Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Sales of new, single-family U.S. homes reached their highest level in ten years due to an increase in housing demand across the country.
The Commerce Department released a report Monday stating that home sales rose 6.2 percent, the highest increase since October 2007, according to Bloomberg Markets…Reuters polled several economists who originally predicted that new home sales, which comprise 11 percent of all home sales, would decline by six percent last month. Instead, new home sales have continued to increase for three months straight.

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