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Jim Kofalt and Diane Bitter of the 603 Alliance joined me on Girard at Large this morning to talk about Initiative 18, an ambitious program to recruit and train candidates for the New Hampshire House for the 2018 Elections.
We talked about tools, training, and coordinating with other groups, as well as some of the challenges the program hopes to overcome on the way to securing future Republican Majorities in the New Hampshire House.
Part 2 …
Fat Studies or Weight-Based Oppression could be the new Social Justice Belle of the Ball.
This seminar investigates discourses and politics around the fat body from a performance studies perspective,” the course description states. “How does this ‘f-word’ discipline and regulate bodies in/as public? How do dancers reveal these politics with special clarity? How might fat be a liberating counter-performance?”
What about the adverse social effects of the war on obesity?
Tomorrow morning from 6-9 am Eastern Time I will be guest-hosting the Girard at Large Radio Program on 90.7 FM, WLMW. Susan Olsen and Bob Clegg are along for the ride with Guests Eva Castillo-Turgeon (The ins-and-outs of Immigration), Jim Kofalt and Diane Bitter (603 Alliance -Initiative 18), Kimberly Morin (Politically Buzzed), and whatever else crosses … Read more
Did you know that New Hampshire law forbids initiating sex with someone under the influence of drugs and alcohol? That’s what it says on the “About Alcohol” header of the UNH “Consent and Bystander Intervention” page, which reads,
Alcohol or drugs are often used as a tool for sexual assault. UNH policy and New Hampshire law forbid initiating sex with a person who is incapacitated by the use of alcohol or drugs.
The first statement is very true; the second one is a bit misleading.
In one of my favorite podcasts “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”, Kevin D. Williamson said something that I’ve been thinking about for a long time but could never quite get out very well. So, of course, Kevin being Kevin, voiced it in a much more succinct and intelligent way than anything I would have come up … Read more
You’ve heard the characterization of those serving in the National Guard as weekend warriors or Harley Riders as weekend warriors. Now, the Washington Post gives you: Anarchists as weekend warriors!
I’m not kidding. I’ll start with a tweet by satirist @iowahawkblog:
Punchline: if actually anarchy broke out, they wouldn't survive 30 minuteshttps://t.co/pvo0MGp4k7
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 11, 2017
I just read the Wapo article. The funny thing is the tone of the peace is so tender and gentle, as if they were stroking a cute wittle kitten. Even though they’re talking about, you know rioting, setting stuff on fire, brawls. But it’s all in the name of anti-Trump that it’s, like, cool.
But outside their 9-to-5 jobs, they call themselves anarchists — bucking the system, shunning the government and sometimes even rioting and smashing windows to make a point.
Jonah Goldberg provides a glimpse into one of the better reasons for perseverance at this often-thankless blogging hobby. It’s our frick’n culture too. I’ve been arguing for 20 years that conservatives need to give up on the idea that we should set up a “parallel culture” for the simple reason that it’s our frick’n culture … Read more
Breaking news from Girard at Large,
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has proposed to eliminate the Medicaid rule that prohibits the program from funding sex reassignment surgeries. Disturbingly, while the proposed rule change hasn’t even been heard yet, Girard at Large has obtained a letter sent by the department directly to a minor child enrolled in the NH Healthy Families program. The child to whom this letter was addressed is 11 years old.
According to information contained on the department’s Rulemaking Notice Form:
This proposal amends the rule, by deleting paragraph (g), to remove the categorical prohibition of coverage of gender reassignment surgery.
Taxpayer funded sexual reassignment surgery. I wonder who’ll get behind that?
From The Nation, a little bait for the big fish to nibble on, with a huge hook in it.
There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system. This casts serious doubt on the initial “hack,” as alleged, that led to the very consequential publication of a large store of documents on WikiLeaks last summer.
On a piece titled “Here’s how to take out North Korea’s nukes“, this caught my eye. I believe it to be true (emphasis mine):
…I fear we’ve forgotten what war means. That fear reached a peak a decade ago when American generals blithely repeated the indefensible claim that “counterinsurgency is warfare at the graduate-school level.” No. Counterinsurgency is Kindergarten (complete with political correctness nowadays). D-Day was a doctoral dissertation and the bombing campaign over Germany the preceding master’s thesis.
LEGISLATOR TO ANDREW CUOMO: ““You look at me, Mr. Governor, but you don’t see me. You see my black skin and a woman.” No, he doesn’t see your black skin and that you are a woman. After over a decade of watching politicians evaluating situations, you know what he sees? He sees you in terms of … Read more
Given that I just came home from the Americans For Prosperity NH’s (AFP) Tax Reform meeting at Pittman’s Freight Room in Laconia, this is appropriate. I’ve said for years now that a free marketplace is one where people make decisions that benefit their own self-interest; if something does not add value to their lives, they won’t. The true value of a free marketplace is that it is voluntary – WE decide and not anyone for us.
THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: 6.5 million Americans chose to pay the fine rather than sign up for insurance on the Obamacare exchanges.
Insurance so good, people won’t even buy it under penalty of law.
In a real successful marketplace, people wouldn’t be forced to buy ANY product.
The University of New Hampshire Survey Center’s most recent Granite State Poll shows Governor Chris Sununu with high approval ratings after his first seven months in office. And,
“Nearly three in four Granite Staters feel the state is headed in the right direction, the highest percentage in a decade.”
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Contributor: Kevin Kervick A white student at Evergreen State College filed a bias report against the university after he was asked to change his seat because he is white. The bias investigator recently ruled that his case had merit. This is a victory for common sense. https://youtu.be/sAI4sYchwIw Follow Kevin on YouTube
Sleep was just another opportunity to feel like a Bolshevik. But that is what they want, the believers, the steely ones, that is what they live for: the politicization of sleep. They want politics to be going on everywhere all the time, politics permanent and circumambient. They want the ubiquitization of politics; they want the politicization of sleep. — Amis, Martin, Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
“They want politics to be going on everywhere all the time”, what does that remind you of? Safe spaces? Trigger words? Firing an employee for views not held by a company? Shouting down and silencing people whose view are not your own? Thought crimes?
This totally stinks of today. Where we’re demanded to accept that she is a he and he is a she and the use of the general neutral singular pronoun “he/his” is a slight. Where people wear black, assault people with views different from their own, damage and set ablaze other people’s property and then call themselves… anti-fascists? 2+2=5.
The accused’s lawyer says his client was attacked by a knife wielding assailant, but the first shell casing was on the accused’s property, the second on the victim’s property, near the victim’s body. WEST GOSHEN, Pa. (WPVI) –A man is under arrest, accused of killing his next door neighbor in West Goshen, Chester County. Police have … Read more
Mark Steyn on Tucker Carlson discussing the media’s priorities while a rogue nation threatens a nuclear strike on US territory.
The Washington Times is reporting that President Trumps’ hiring freeze has resulted in 9,000 fewer Federal employees in the first 6-months. Mr. Trump ordered the hiring freeze on his first day in office and embarked on the most ambitious agenda to shrink government since Ronald Reagan. His early success, although modest, is a testament to … Read more
New Hampshire Public radio has a lengthy “report” about why former Quarterback Colin Kaepernick doesn’t have a job. They quote players, experts, and none of them ever gets to the actual point of the problem. A situation that anyone who has every worn a uniform as part of their job ought to understand.
You can’t just do whatever you want in the company uniform because it is a reflection of that business. Period.