We’ve all been blogging about the effort, spearheaded by a lot of folks who don’t believe someone’s money actually belongs to those that earned it, to organize the fast food industry to a minimum wage of $15/hour for flipping burgers.  Far above the economic worth of that actual job and believing that there would be no retribution – that consumers would be happy to pay much more for the same products, that employers would never mind that extra cost, and that everything else would stay status quo:

Behold “ramifications” (e.g., capitalist systems react and adjust)! Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Epic fail: McDonald’s reacts to ‘Fight for $15’ by placing automated ordering stations at all U.S. locations

From the “best-laid schemes” file comes word that McDonald’s has announced plans to roll out automated kiosks and mobile pay options at all of its U.S. locations, raising questions about the future of its 1.5 million employees in the country and around the globe.  Roughly 500 restaurants in Florida, New York. and California now have the automated ordering stations, and restaurant in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., will be outfitted in 2017, according to CNNMoney.

And why there? Psst: SEIU and the Governor of

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Great balls of “Allehu Akbar” or splish-splash in the baptismal?

Shot: Trump’s selection for National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn

Islam is a political ideology, it is a political ideology. It definitely hides behind this notion of it being a religion.

And I have a very, very tough time because I don’t see a lot of people screaming ‘Jesus Christ’ with hatchets or machetes or rifles shooting up clubs or hatcheting, literally axing families on a train.

Or like they just killed a couple of police officers with a machete. I mean, it’s unbelievable. So we have a problem.

Chaser:  Skip

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Andrew Breitbart famously said “Politics is downstream from culture.  Keep that in mind…and just sigh…

‘Post-truth’ chosen as Oxford Dictionaries word of year

LONDON (AP) — Oxford dictionary editors have chosen their word of the year: “post-truth,” a term sometimes used to describe the current political climate.

Oxford Dictionaries said Wednesday that use of the term rose 2,000 percent between 2015 and 2016, often in discussions of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and the campaign of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. It’s often used in the phrase “post-truth politics” and is defined as belonging to a time in which truth has become irrelevant.

If you are a person that highly values a high standard of morality, that results stem from that and “do the right thing” rather than “the end justifies the means” (which generally means “not much morality present”), this is both dispiriting and dismal.

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That’s what Democrats think, Chris Sununu.  You see, they have totally rejected the Founding Fathers philosophy that our Liberties are most protected when Government, constrained by our Constitutions, stay within the “negative liberties” – what Government CANNOT DO to you.  The flip side is the old European and Socialist model – Government exists to do things for (and TO) you.  Sounds “ok” at the surface level but I guess Chris is forgetting something VERY important (emphasis mine, reformatted)…

Advocates will push for paid family leave this session

Republicans may now control both chambers of the State House and the governorship, but advocates are hopeful a paid family leave law could be on the books at the end of this legislative session. With Governor-elect Chris Sununu saying he would “absolutely” support paid family and medical leave during his campaign while states across the country – including Massachusetts – take a hard look at the proposal, proponents of such a program think bipartisan momentum is here.

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Society only progresses to the degree that its members progress, and the only means a man has to measure his progress is to consider the nature of his internal governance, his conscience. He must consider that which causes him to feel pleasure and that which causes him to feel pain, that which causes him to feel pride and that which causes him to feel guilt, that which causes him joy and that which causes him sadness.

External regulation cannot induce progress.

-Branden Espinoza

(H/T: Cafe Hayek)

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Dan Tamburello, former New Hampshire State Representative, has some words of wisdom and warning to the incoming house Republicans about electing Shawn Jasper as their speaker.

Honorable Members of the General Court,

I am writing to you today to illuminate to you the critical importance of your vote for the Speaker of the New Hampshire House.

Many of you are first term legislators and may not know me personally, so let me give you a little background on myself before I tell you what I think it is you really need to know before you vote on November 30th.

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From the UL (emphasis mine, reformatted):

CONCORD — Republican Gov.-elect Chris Sununu appears to be in agreement with his party’s legislative agenda when it comes to tightening up voting regulations in the state.  Thursday, he took it one step further, saying he would support a bill that would end same-day voter registration in New Hampshire. His comments came during an interview on New Hampshire Pubic Radio, when Sununu was asked about GOP voting initiatives.

“I’ve never been a fan of same-day voter registration, most states don’t have it,” he said. “There’s a reason. It can cause problems.”

We have seen how same-day registrations can be the Trojan Horse in voting – right after previous elections, Ed Naile of CNHT sent out letters (as well as others around NH) to the addresses of “voters” that used that process, they came back “undeliverable”.  That tells us a lot – vote and scoot.  And most likely, laughing at the miserable “safeguards” against fraudulent voting.  Being the foremost “illegal voter hunter”, he’s been reduced to waging this war in the States from whence these folks have established their legal “domiciles”.

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