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Schumer referenced inaction on gun control in his exhortation, saying, “[Those people] who were killed and are now in heaven, they would say, ‘do something.’ They wouldn’t say, ‘Let’ wait.’”
1) Talking with dead people is a wee bit creepy, isn’t it?
2) Obama is famous for establishing red lines and then ignoring them. Schumer just walked over a societal redline, but just like with Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassments of the “casting couch” kind, the Left won’t care because DEMOCRAT!
Steve Deputy Dawg Shurtleff isn’t wasting time grabbing some press or political opportunism from a recent tragedy. CONCORD, N.H. —New Hampshire House Democratic Leader Steve Shurtleff said Friday it is time for “bump stock” multi-trigger activators to be outlawed in the Granite State. Shurtleff, a Vietnam veteran who is now in his seventh term in the House, said … Read more
Recent polling shows the NFL, once American’s favorite sport, has plummeted out of favor.
Worse for football, which was already seeing lower TV ratings and empty stadium seats, the month of protests and complaints about them from President Trump drove core fans, men 34-54, away, the most significant indicator that NFL brass aren’t in touch with their base.
The Winston Poll from the Washington-based Winston Group found that the attitude of those fans went from an August rating of 73 percent favorable and 19 percent unfavorable to 42 percent favorable and 47 percent unfavorable, a remarkable turn against the sport.
And it gets worse.
Mexico, which takes in more remittances than any other Latin American country by a wide margin, will likely receive $30.5 billion from the Mexican diaspora living abroad — 6.5 percent more than it did in 2016. About 95 percent of Mexico’s annual remittance haul comes from the U.S., according to Mexican bank BBVA Bancomer. Build that … Read more
These six topics accounted for two-thirds of the administration’s TV news profile in September. While the North Korea crisis received the most attention, this was also the topic with the fewest evaluative comments — just 20 during nearly an hour of coverage — which translates into a large percentage of neutral coverage. I will agree … Read more
Slide Fires and Slippery Slopes. And, the slippery slope is at our door once again. About 96 hours ago, yet another maniac shot up a public venue, killing 59 people. The emotional caterwauling begun almost immediately. Not one single law in existence nor anything proposed would have stopped or thwarted this attack. It did not take two days for a piece of legislation to totally ban the use of slide fire stocks, binary triggers or other like technology to come to the floor.
Wolves make the case against central planning, that is against Socialism and pretty much all the -isms that leave Leftist priapistic.
As is usually the case when the government, or anyone really, gets involved in something in which it has no business, but is arrogantly confident of its positive affects on things, the unforeseen and unintentional consequences blow up in its face like an exploding cigar. Whether it’s
The Trump Administration has just eliminated the ObamaCare contraceptive mandate.
The Trump administration said Friday it will let a vast universe of employers duck Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate by claiming a religious or moral objection, a long-awaited move that will enthuse pro-life conservatives and enrage advocates who say women’s rights to birth control are being threatened.
New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter will stop running for Congress at the end of this term. Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, the first woman elected to Congress from New Hampshire, said Friday she’s retiring at the end of her term. Shea-Porter, 64, said in a statement that “the time has come in my life to pause and … Read more
Jared the former Subway pitch-guy is in jail. Somehow I missed that.
Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle was sentenced Thursday to more than 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges related to child pornography and sexual conduct involving minors.
Fogle faced two counts: traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, and distribution and receipt of child pornography.
Fogel, who is in minimum security prison, has since threatened to sue the parents of one of his underage victims, and been beaten up in the prison yard.
I could probably write a post every week about “driving, ” but for the moment let’s limit this to a discussion about situational awareness and lane departures. Are you aware how often you drift over the yellow line on roads with curves or bends in them?
I know it’s your road, I get that, but as long as you have to let me drive on it, I’d appreciate it if you’d put at least a little extra focus into staying centered in your lane instead of floating over the center into mine.
(H/T: Instapundit)
Bu-Bu-Bu-But Global Warming Global Cooling Climate Chaos Climate Change! Arctic ice extent has been fairly stable since 2007 and is now 500.000 square kilometres (193,000 sq miles) higher than 10 years ago. Hmm, if Global Warming is true, I keep hearing: Ice should melt Ice should increase Kinda covers all the bases so why is … Read more
Former NH Speaker Gene Chandler: “Anyone with an ‘R‘ after their name is a good Republican”
I disagree with that statement (especially those that support the Democrat agenda more than the Republican one). But then again, while Jasper is making it clear that he hates the Free State Project, he also made it clear that the TEA Party wasn’t his BFF either. And just like the Democrats, just like that Progressive Totalitarian Zandra Rice-Hawkins of the uber-Progressive Granite State Progress (that out-of-State funded group trying to turn NH into MA, into NY, or worse, CA), Jassper has made it clear that he hates the Free State Project (and sympathizers) that are in the Republican Party (and are living rent free in his head). (yeah, I know – late to the game again. Too many Shiny Objects….) (reformatted, emphasis mine):
New Hampshire House Speaker Shawn Jasper Thursday doubled down on his belief that the Republican Party should reject the Free State Project, warning that it could “destroy” the party. The Hudson lawmaker spoke to WMUR following a report in this week’s New Hampshire Primary Source political column that he and the chairwoman of the Manchester Republican City Committee, Tammy Simmons, were at odds over whether the GOP should reach out to Free Staters.
The TEA Party was ideologically aligned with GOP Principles – too much so it seemed as it wanted to bring the Republicans not more Rightward but downward – to its actual roots, back to its stated Platform Principles, and to Constitutional principles.
Amazon Prime users pay for a lot of privileges that pay for themselves, especially around the Gift Giving Season. Sure, I like the millions of songs, the streaming television, free reads and loads of other goodies, but what drew me in was free two-day delivery.
It’s a premium service that can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars a year by getting you stuff you want two days after you decide you want it with free 2-day shipping, from a list of millions of items. But it’s not foolproof. Amazon has long had to rely on third-party carriers to keep their two-day delivery promises. Arrangements that cost them a small fortune in refunds a few “gift-giving seasons” ago when volume exceeded capacity. To remedy that the online retail giant has been trying a few things that give them more control over last-mile logistics. They are looking at getting into the package delivery business.
You know, that thing that we used to have? Where the participants involved make their own deals and agreements for mutual benefit? And Government used to just make sure that all of them would live up to their agreements – and not lord over them like Royal Monarchists or Communist apparatchiks in mandating how they will interact ahead of the transactions? Silly me, I used to think that the NH GOP really used to believe in its platform. Like this one (emphasis mine):
According to the FDA, a local bakery that sells granola in Massachusetts and New Hampshire has to change its label. Love is not an ingredient.
In a letter dated Sept. 22 to West Concord, Mass.-based Nashoba Brook Bakery, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took the company to task for a number of food-safety violations and mislabled ingredients. Among them: an ingredient called “love.”
The Tax Foundation has released their 2017 State Business Tax Climate Index, and New Hampshire ranks 7th best in the nation.
That’s impressive considering how poorly the Granite State did in some key categories. It ranked 46th for Corporate taxes (this report does not account for the recent reductions in that tax), 43rd for Property taxes, and 41st for unemployment taxes.
That would be blatant hypocrisy, by the way. OK, admittedly I’m late on this but hey, better late than never.
You’re a Republican operative AND communications guy – did you forget to check the history on your client’s voting record BEFORE sending this (and others) out? Isn’t that just basic standard procedure – protect your client? Patrick Hynes is a Republican operative and comms guy at Hynes Communications – he should know better. Look at this presser:
PRESS RELEASE
SHOT: CBS Legal Exec: No Sympathy For Vegas ‘Because Country Music Fans Often Are Republican.’
A top legal executive at CBS, Hayley Geftman-Gold, said she “is not even sympathetic” for the victims of the shooting at a country music festival at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Sunday night.
“If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” wrote Geftman-Gold on Facebook, perhaps referring to Sandy Hook. “I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”
CHASER: CBS fires vice president who said Vegas victims didn’t deserve sympathy because country music fans ‘often are Republican’