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If you are looking for a Memorial Day Event in New Hampshire, New Hampshire.com has a list of local events here.
Without the knowledge, there is no respect for Memorial Day I’ve been putting up these kinds of videos for years – kids, young adults, that known little to nothing of our country’s history or of American Exceptionalism. Sure, we have had wars in our past – we are a country born of war. You’d think … Read more
“We have always known that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. It’s worse now, because capture of government is so much more important than it once was. There was a time when there was enough freedom that it hardly mattered which brand of crooks ran government. That has not been true for a long … Read more
I shed a tear There is a bond (even if perceived as a rivalry) between those that have served in our military that I, and most of us, will never share. Looking back, I wish I had to better understand that rivalry, and the respect that is so highly intertwined with it. Brothers in arms … Read more
In 2016 three New England states ranked lowest for seat belt use according to a chart tweeted by the Massachusetts Highway Safety Division this week.
Somewhere pigs are flying… "Liberals think they are tolerant, but often, they aren't," argues @FareedZakaria https://t.co/0urfK127Z3 — CNN (@CNN) May 28, 2017 Twitchy
I’ve been following the demise of Mizzou for a while now. What we need to remember, what every college administration and faculty must understand, is that this happened because of protests started by a poop-swastika nobody ever actually saw. It is the result of a h**t storm of little monsters nurtured and validated by the … Read more
Democrat Jeff Woodburn is upset about Governor Sununu’s plea to save the family of bears in Hopkinton. Conservation officers had planned to shoot them, but now they’ll trap them and relocate them. Woodburn is miffed. I can imagine what’s going through his tiny liberal head right now. If bears had abortion rights that mother bear would never … Read more
Gallup interviewed 1,011 U.S. residents aged 18 or older on May 3-7 and asked them two questions about the moral state of the nation. The first question: “How would you rate the overall state of moral values in this country today—as excellent, good, only fair, or poor.” Most think it’s pretty crappy. Gosh, I wonder … Read more
Here? Yeah, this kinda proves it, yes? Emphasis mine, reformatted: Student funding appeared to play a significant part in students’ responses, with 55 per cent of participants indicating that a drop or cessation of their student funding would make it more likely for them to enter into a sugar baby arrangement. Overall, most participants said they … Read more
UN health agency spends more on travel than on AIDS and malaria combined. According to the Associated Press, the WHO routinely has spent about $200 million a year on travel expenses—more than what it spends to fight AIDS and hepatitis ($70.5 million), tuberculosis ($59 million), and malaria ($61 million) combined. At a time when the … Read more
What’s Wrong With The Cultural Elite: ‘Trump voters see a class that talks equality while living privilege and exuding contempt.’ And that is how you will get more Trump. And perhap worse. (H/T: Instapundit)
I have long railed against the Administrative State with laws that have been passed by both the Feds and State governments that unaccountable bureaucrats can make regulations that have the force of law without going through the Legislative process. This is a failure twice over:
I’ve been covering the push for Universal Healthcare by the Democrat super-majorities in California even as the cost will be TWICE the size of their entire current State budget. But. Get. This. They are passing the bill to do this – WITHOUT (emphasis mine, reformatted):
No funding plan doesn’t stop lawmakers from moving health care bill along.
A California Senate committee tasked with reviewing bills that spend state money passed a $400 billion universal health care proposal Thursday with no funding plan. Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, introduced SB 562, a sweeping overhaul of the state’s health insurance market. He’s also the chair of Senate Appropriations. The committee passed the bill with a 5-2 vote during a fast-paced suspense file hearing, clearing the way for it to be taken up on the Senate floor next week.
There is no doubt, they are slick: (H/T: Dude Perfect via Like Cool)
Well, we certainly know that the NH Association of Chiefs of Police (don’t they look so grand?) are on the side of civilian disarmament. The dirty little secret is that even with all of the training that the Left keeps jamming down our throats, sometimes they aren’t that much better than civilians. Or can be much worse:
San Bernardino Terrorist Attack: Cops Had 10 Percent Hit Rate
San Bernardino County employee Syed Rizwan Farook was hit by at least 27 gunshots while his wife was struck by at least 15 — two to the top of the head — as officers fired about 440 rounds from rifles, shotguns and handguns — which the report found were proper uses of deadly force in self-defense and the defense of others.
Much has been made of a Democrat victory in a recent special election in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. A town that voted, not just for Trump but for just about every Republican on the ticket last November. A legislative State House seat flipped for the first time in forever. Is it a sign that the Democrats are starting their journey out of the wilderness, even though they have yet to win a single special congressional election?
Is it a sign that the Democrats are starting their journey out of the wilderness?
George Will read US Sen. Ben Sasse’s new book. A slice:
In the long-running rivalry between the realist and romantic views of human nature, Sasse is firmly with the former. This aligns him against those who believe that schooling should be “a substitute for parents” as life’s “defining formative institution.” In the progressive view of education with which the philosopher John Dewey imbued the United States’ primary and secondary schools, parents “with their supposedly petty interests in their children as individuals” are deemed retrograde influences, hindering schools’ mission of making malleable young people outfitted with the proper “social consciousness.” Schools should embrace the need of “controlling” students and “the influences by which they are controlled.” Parents must be marginalized lest they interfere with education understood, as Sasse witheringly says, as “not primarily about helping individuals, but rather about molding the collective.”
Once again, I have seen the attitude of teachers openly professing this view directly to parents at a School Board meeting. Even when called out as “stepping over a line” (given that the parents are paying these employees who do not know their place), the teachers GLARED at those that dared to challenge their narrative. End result: it was clear that the students knew better than the parents due to the ministrations of the teachers.
It’s bad enough that politicians DO believe themselves to be above the law when they “carve out” exceptions for themselves when they lay the law down on the rest of us. That “Do Not Call” list? Isn’t it REALLY annoying to get them during supper? Yeah, politicians exempted themselves from it. And here in NH, the political calls are incessant during the political years, especially during the First in the Nation Primary season (which lasts almost 4 years nowadays….sigh). The robocalls are just the worst!
And now the GOP has decided to go there – allowing calls to go right to voicemail and you’ll never know that the call you though was from your family is from a GOP candidate or agency. This goes WELL beyond obnoxious: RNC Lobbying FCC for a New Way to Annoy Us With ‘Ringless’ Voicemail Ads (emphasis mine):
Now there’s possibly a new way to annoy us being reviewed by the FCC. The Republican National Committee is pushing the agency to adopt a new technology that would allow telemarketers to leave prerecorded messages on our voicemail without the phone ever ringing, Recode reports. We would simply get a notification that a voicemail was received, mixed in, of course, with more important voicemails.
The States were to be labs of Democracy where others could learn from their mistakes. Vermont, Colorado, Kentucky, Hawaii, Tennessee; all tried variations of the vaunted end-game of Progressives – universal healthcare – for if you control that, you control people. Sorry, am not buying the argument that all they want to do is “help” people – it is all about taking more Power into themselves. After all, the more “stuff” they have Government do, the less ability, the less Freedom we all have to make decision for ourselves on our own. And isn’t that the purpose of being the “Land of the Free”. And no, contrary to what Progressives believe, being relieved of making our own decisions is not “freedom” – it is infantilization.
But California Progressives, even after learning that putting in CalCare would be TWICE the normal CA State budget in and of itself. I guarantee you that the cost will higher and the taxes needed to support it higher still will not learn from the mistakes and failures of the “labs” coming before them – like Colorado (emphasis mine):
An analysis from the Colorado Health Institute showed that their state’s ColoradoCare proposal would start off with a deficit of over $200 million in its very first year of full operation, even with a three-year headstart on new taxes to launch the system. By the end of the tenth year, the cumulative red ink would have exceeded $7 billion — which would be more than twice the state’s annual GDP.
The solutions for this fiscal meltdown in a single-payer system, CHI noted,