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Barry Brownstein, writing at the Foundation for Economic Education, outlines the problem and abuses of administrative power, right here in New Hampshire, summed up in his closing paragraph.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
“For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
I posit that in our time and in our nation, it is the scourge of
Let me take the Alinsky crowd to school.
And here comes #7!
This is probably a nice “conversation” starter. American and European Antifa members are being attracted to the US-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) due to their anarcho-communist politics, who are in turn persuading the Antifa extremists to fight alongside them in the “Rojova revolution.” Prisonplanet.com reports: Security agencies are concerned that these Antifa members will … Read more
To commemorate Democrat Chris Pappas ‘Considering’ a run for New Hampshire congressional district one (now that Che-Porter is retiring), another Grokster suggested a suitable portrait, of sorts, to frame the potential candidate in the proper context. An image to post above future content about the candidate. And now we have it.
Some letter-writers who criticize my defense of so-called “price gouging” mistakenly assume that I oppose charitable actions to help victims of natural disasters (Letters, Oct. 11). In fact, I applaud any and all outpourings of such generosity. To the extent that big-hearted people make available, at zero or very low prices, additional supplies of goods such as water and propane, the prices of these goods are kept from rising as high as they would rise without such generous giving. This result is entirely commendable.
Yet the very fact that, with every natural disaster, prices of such goods nevertheless rise to levels higher than they were pre-disaster proves that the amounts of goods supplied charitably are insufficient to meet all of the victims’ needs at pre-disaster prices. The resulting rise in prices, therefore, continues to serve the useful function of enticing those people with ordinary-sized hearts to work harder to bring much-needed supplies to the victims and to persuade the victims themselves not to use available supplies frivolously.
A list of 70 odd requirements was issued by the White House on Sunday in response to the Democrats demanding and whining that the Obama Executive Order be “honored” by Trump (and actually want to extend that amnesty to their illegal alien parents that brought these then “kids” into our country illegally AND want to bring other family members in) and legislatively formalize this. The overriding question is “why didn’t you do this when you had supermajorities in the House and Senate AND held the Oval Office?
Some didn’t even let the bodies cool – it is Progressive partisanship at its worst. No time for actual reflection, no time for grief, and no “safe space” for the victims’ families. Instead, even as the bodies were still on the ground, they went full political. AWR Hawkins has the list:
The Democrats cannot stop themselves when it comes to gun control, and proof of it lies in the fact that various Democrats—and/or Democrat surrogates—have voiced support for nine different gun controls since Sunday.
- Ban on Bump Stocks – Sen. Dianne Feinstein is pushing this with her Automatic Fire Prevention Act. She admits that bump stocks are an accessory—that they do not convert semiautomatics into automatics—but she wants to ban them anyway. Her bill explicitly bans any accessory that allows an increase in rate of fire in short bursts but does “not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun.”
- Ban on Trigger Cranks – Sen. Feinstein’s bill bans trigger cranks too. Like the bump stock, trigger cranks are another novelty that gun owners can use to achieve short, rapid bursts of fire. Such cranks allow a gun owner to mimic automatic fire yet do not convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic one.
- Ban on Semiautomatic firearms – Sen. Feinstein voiced support for this ban during her appearance on Face the Nation, and the Washington Post pushed for such a ban two days later.
A Rhode Island Company has convinced the city of Nashua to spend your money.
According to NHPR’s incorrectly named article “Nashua Alderman Unanimously Approve Commuter Rail Memorandum,”
The Tuesday night unanimous approval of the memorandum of understanding means the city can begin work immediately with the Rhode Island-based Boston Surface Railroad Co to create a detailed plan.
I spoke at length about the proposed passenger rail service on Girard at Large a few weeks ago, and how it gets its infrastructure funding.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
-Ronald Reagan (actor, speaker, author, Governor, President of the United States)
In a poll by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), the results should be disheartening. Short changed by their high school educations and then further indoctrinated by the overwhelming Leftist (many outright Marxists) professors, these kids have no idea what their actual birthrights are for being American citizens. Emphasis mine
In the most comprehensive survey on students’ attitudes about free speech to date, FIRE measured student responses to questions about self expression, reactions to expression of other students, guest speakers, and hate speech. Some key findings include:
- 46 percent of students recognize that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, and 48 percent of students think the First Amendment should not protect hate speech.
- Most students (56 percent) support disinviting some guest speakers. Democratic students are 19 percentage points more likely than their Republican peers to agree that there are times a speaker should be disinvited.
- 58 percent of college students think it’s important to be part of a campus community where they are not exposed to intolerant or offensive ideas.
I’m on most of the major Democrat email lists – sometimes as my usual email address and sometimes under others. Most of the stuff is absolute emotion – their titles and content SCREAM emotion: “Women will DIE!”, “They want to put you back in chains!”, “This. Cannot. Happen.”, “LAST CHANCE!” and a recent one, “Poachers will win if this bill passes.” And yes, we are called EVIL.
Those are the calmer ones.
I know, they’ve been pretty violent up to this point, but now they have set a date for the actual revolution. I guess.
ON NOVEMBER 4, 2017:
We will gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country, at first many thousands declaring that this whole regime is illegitimate and that we will not stop until our single demand is met: This Nightmare Must End: the Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!
The Epidemic of Guns is once again on the front burner in the Wake of the recent Las Vegas Tragedy. Epidemic…”Their words, NOT MINE. Late night talk show hosts are weighing in with various and sundry policy statements and rants. Listening to the Kool-Aid drinking cuck liberals, one would get the impression this a huge problem….Literally millions falling from guns…shoot-outs on every street corner (that seems more real in Chicago). So what about it?
The Washington Times has an update on the “take a knee Foundation” doing business as the National Football League. At least two teams are ending such public displays under threat of punishment. The Players association which appears short on Constitutional Scholars these days said, “We should not stifle these discussions and cannot allow our rights to become subservient to the very opinions our Constitution protects. That is what makes us the land of the free and home of the brave.”
Marc Edelman, law professor at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business, said that players working for a private-sector business like the NFL don’t enjoy First Amendment protections while on the job.
No. You don’t. (Update: Goodell thinks it might be time to ask everyone to stand for the National Anthem)
Meanwhile, over in California, Jerry Brown signed the “middle finger to Trump” bill making California a Sanctuary state. ICE responded.
Simple facts regarding the fallacy of gun control as a means of preventing terrorism.
Gun hating progressives want to extreme-vet me if I happen to buy a gun. They also want to collect data on my ammunition purchases.
But a person not born in this country, who is not a citizen, can get a driver’s license, good for five years in NH, ten years in California. That person is not extreme-vetted to buy a car or rent a truck.
If you read nothing else about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, or if you read only one more thing, this should be it: Mark Steyn takes the left to the mat for all the obvious reasons and a few you may have missed. Here’s a snippet. Possibly Lorne [Michaels], Matt [Damon]and Russell [Crowe] have Harvey’s name tattooed … Read more
Occasional podcast guest and friend of the Grok Warner Todd Huston has found himself a target of the “tolerant left™.” After many years as a conservative writer without issue, someone or a pack of someones has taken to vandalizing his home and property.
Over the course of this year, someone in my neighborhood has targeted me. At first, I thought it was just random vandals as the attacks were penny-ante nonsense, but now I am pretty sure it is being done by someone who knows I am a conservative writer who has a body of work stretching back to 2001 and they are trying to intimidate me.
It started early this year when a flag was pulled off my flag-staff and left ripped and in pieces on my lawn.
Two ruined flags, and an egged garage door later, the idea that it might just be hooligans was still a functional explanation. And then something else happened.
If you don’t know, George Soros is the multibillionaire that, when a child, helped the Nazi in their Holocaust death camps. He is known for making money by currency manipulation of sovereign countries. He is an open faucet of money, via a whole gaggle of Progressive “charities” and when followed, it almost looks like money laundering. He’s one of the Left’s biggest donors over the decades. Also, he is no friend of Freedom and actively is working for a single world government and open borders.
In this piece from DC Whispers, he’s at it again. The Democrats talk about Trump in collusion with the Russians? Republicans ought to be yelling about Soros more often as he’s really trying to crush our sovereignty. Here’s one of those times where I do quote quite a bit of that post (reformatted, emphasis mine):
AMERICAN COUP: Big Money Donors Trying To Overthrow Trump Revealed. Here’s The List…
We don’t need you. We have your children – Herrman Goebbels
That second question in the title is from a post I did back in 2009 – and the question has only become more and more important over the last eight years so I suggest that you read it because here is another example of what Progressives in education believe about “truth”:
Two Canadian professors have developed an approach they call “Trojan horse pedagogy” to peddle social justice to otherwise unassuming students. Sal Renshaw and Renee Valiquette, both of whom teach at Nipissing University in Ontario, detailed their extensive “ruse” in a recently published book, boasting that their “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Analysis” class is actually a “social justice” course in disguise… “Our goal in this class is to move both hearts and minds, in part by ‘forcing’ an encounter with at least some knowledges that students have already decided they are not interested in,” Renshaw and Valiquette explain, adding that the classes are “rooted in… post-structural feminist theory.”