Trump Ends Illegal ObamaCare Bailout Payments to Insurance Companies

Trump ObamaCare - ending bailoutsIn this day and age, it’s interesting to see all three branches of government agree on something. Bailing out insurance companies against the will of the court and Congress is coming to an end.

The payments had specifically been denied by Congress but President Obama had made them anyway, drawing a rebuke from a court who said he was overstepping his powers. The case has raged for months, and both the Obama and Trump administrations had continued making payments — until now.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, in a statement, said the Justice Department has concluded the judge’s ruling is correct, and there is no valid legal ability to make the payments.

What does this mean for ObamaCare?

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Shea-Porter Chastises Trump For Stopping Illegal Bailout Money To Big Insurance

Not long after we shared the news that Mr. Trump was ending illegal handouts to insurance companies, lame-duck New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is criticizing him for it. Late last night, President Trump announced that he will torpedo the individual insurance market by ordering the government to stop making the Cost-Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments it … Read more

Update: Proposed NH Medicaid Rule Regarding Coverage for “Gender Reassignment”

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Action Item: Contact Members of Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services had its public hearing on September 13 about its proposed rule change to let Medicaid dollars pay for “gender reassignment” surgery. Thanks to all of you who contacted DHHS with your concerns.

Now, the proposed rule will go before the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (JLCAR). Members include state representatives and Senators from both parties. They need to hear from you! 

We do not know when the rule will come before JLCAR, since the committee’s agenda is usually posted only a few days in advance of meetings. Make a note on your calendar that the next scheduled meeting is Thursday, October 19, at 9 a.m. in rooms 306-308 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord.

Right now, before the rule appears on the agenda, please contact committee members. Their contact information is below. Forward a copy of your message to Governor Sununu.

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Quick thought: Hollywood – All that glitters is really nothing more than a crypt. A really bad one.

bone crypt RothwellGlitz. Glamor. Red Carpets. Money galore. A reality all of its own.  And more money.  Power. Privilege.  Klieg lights. The Beauties.

And the strand has been pulled from this ball of ugly yarn. A story land where Life is all fantasy and now we see that those Beautiful People who have been lecturing us Normals for decades have been putting up a shimmering facade that was but a nanometer thick. For all to see, the underside of that fantasy is the crypt that is truly Hollywood has appeared.  In telling us that our values are petty, redneck, old fashioned, and not “hip”, we are now seeing how hypocritical it all really is. Faithfulness, duty, honor, values – you rubes are SO square and behind the times.  And we ARE superior to you – you must adopt the values we tell you to.

Yeah, and your movies are bombing, you can’t come up with an original thought in your collective mind and the message back is “you all suck” and our wallets have been shutting closed (especially this summer season). But you all keep telling us,either yourselves or via your movies that we suck and how dare you not like us!  Humpf!

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Notable Quote – President James Garfield

Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national … Read more

WAIT! I thought NH’s Constitutional Carry was “Settled Law”?

.@marchandsteve tells @nhpr he would move to reinstate concealed carry permit requirement, push for universal background checks #NHpolitics — Michael Brindley (@MWBrindley) October 9, 2017 So, Marchand wants to overturn Constitutional Carry? Does that mean that gay marriage and abortion isn’t really “settled law” and thus is fair game? Good to know, Steve, good to know … Read more

Notable Quote – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”

–Marcus Tullius Cicero

I posit that in our time and in our nation, it is the scourge of

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Twelve Lousy Things To Remember – And They Forgot The Most Important One

Rule number 7Let me take the Alinsky crowd to school.

  1. You are not going to disarm the American public. Every time you try and use a shooting – except in Chicago because you won there, as a wedge issue, the Second Amendment gets stronger. That is why the infantile demand for the elimination of the Second Amendment is your last, desperate, Hail Mary pass.
  2. Trump just tackled the NFL; they look like idiot children wearing mismatched socks.
  3. Your team of Democrat dinosaur leaders spends precious time they could be on The View, waiting for UPS to deliver unmarked packages of special underpants. They lost their edge years ago.
  4. Barry is not your savior. He is a greedy narcissist who abandoned you.
  5. You have the worst perfect loser candidate in history who has morphed into a political canker sore – on both of your lips.
  6. Bernie is a greedy, egomaniacal, socialist – like most socialists. He isn’t even in your party.

And here comes #7!

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Is Antifa Getting Military Training in Syria?

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

Chris Pappas Is Considering a Run for NH-CD1

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.

Notable Quote – Prof. Dan Boudreaux on “Price Gouging”

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.

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“You want DACA? Here are my terms”

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They forgot the word “illegal”

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?

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Never let a crisis go to waste – the Dems are FULL of gun control wishes since Las Vegas

mandalay-bay-hotel2-shootingSome 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.

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Nashua Alderman Vote Unanimously to Spend Other People’s Money

Is Rail a wasteful proposition?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.

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Data Point – College kids don’t know what Free Speech really is

“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)

freedom_of_speechIn 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. 

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Democrats remind us they are the Party of violators

Democrat Party Logo 2015I’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. 

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November 4th Antifa Goes to War

Antifa 1930 and TodayI 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!

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Epidemic of Guns?

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GET RID OF THOSE GUNS!

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?

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