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And DANGEROUSLY wrong to boot. At Steve’s post “Has Nashua Democrat Rep. Ken Gidge Found a Magic Money Tree?“, Horrigan The Uber-Progressive decided to haul out that old Leftism meme that Government can’t be wrong because WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT:
The United States of America is a republic: we ARE the government. I am not saying the government is perfect, I am not saying it’s not too big, but it’s not some alien enemy force.
Usually Horrigan’s comments are totally off-topic and irrelevant but here he brings up a totally falsity (to coin a word) similar to the Democrat “Government is that thing we all belong to” (and to many of us on the right, it confirms what the Left has done with Govt – it now owns us with no choices). We ARE the government has that same whiff of collectivism with a dash of “because we ARE, we cannot be wrong, can we?”
The problem, is that it is a totally false premise: we are NOT the Government and nor did the Founders ever have this as a vision. And he laid in the rebuttal to his argument in his own comment.
This is really cool.
In Iceland, some 67 percent of babies are born to parents who are not married. A combination of generous social programs and a secular society have all but made nuptials obsolete—while giving rise to a unique culture of independent motherhood.
Glenn at Instapundit just threw that up there without comment but I just can’t resist.
Years ago, I offered to expand my home so as to have my Mom and step-dad move in with us and I will admit that there self-interest there – I got tired of getting the 3am phone call of “Eldon is hardly breathing again!” (he had COPD). It was always “Mom, did you call 911?” answered by “No, I called you first”. While I generally beat the ambulance, I felt it would be more effective for them to be closer (er, we lived in the same town and she was only 10 minutes away). But the pushback was always
ICYMI – on May 7th, 2016, we welcome David French (National Review), Robert Pondiscio (Thomas B. Fordham Institute), Carrie Severino (Judicial Crisis Network) and New Hampshire’s own Jim Lawrence.
There are numerous social and economic advantages to getting married, particularly for men.
Looks like the Plagiarizing Pretendian Liz Warren, with zero American Indian blood, is actually a distant relative of a member of the local militia tasked with removing the Cherokee from their homes.
Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee–the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.
The American Revolution wasn’t fought for plunder or conquest, but for the ideas that people can govern themselves and have inherent (by birth) rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For these ideas, wealthy, prominent Americans, prospering under British rule, pledged/risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor … and many endured hardships during the revolution they began.
The US Constitution defined a government that implemented those ideas, enabling self-government (through elected representatives) and protecting peoples’ inherent rights.
Some people have various criticisms of the Constitution, e.g., it allowed slavery, although it authorized Congress to abolish it after 1808, and it didn’t enable women to vote; but the Constitution provided an amendment process for providing fixes and addressing future needs.
In our first century, Americans became the wealthiest and freest people in the world; millions immigrated to pursue their American dreams. Then things changed. Professional politicians, who saw government as their path to wealth and power, replaced citizen legislators who served briefly then returned home.
Bosse is the Editorial Editor at the UL and decided to both call out UNH students, who are in serious knowledge deficit, and ridicule them. Seriously, has secondary education quality dropped so low that they can’t even do the intellectual equivalent of just playing tic-tac-toe and figure out “if you do this, how does it affect this other thing?”. This caught my eye:
Do they have the courage of their own convictions? Are they willing to divest from fossil fuels themselves?
They should refuse to ride in gasoline-powered cars, or electric vehicles recharged by a grid powered by coal and natural gas. They should put down their phones and tablets made with components shipped from around the world in bulky freighters. They should do their homework by candlelight, using pen and paper. And when they sit at their fancy electric dining table, and eat their food grown hundreds and thousands of miles away, they should realize they too are profiting from the fossil fuel industry.
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009)
What POSSIBLY go wrong? I guess the Ban The Box activists are going to be proud of this – the real question is whether or not they are willing to personally take responsibility, fiscally or otherwise, if what a lot of us thinking, happens:
FEDS HIRED A CREDIT CARD FRAUD FELON FRESH OUT OF PRISON, NOW HE RUNS A BIG VA PURCHASING UNIT: Trust me, friends, the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group’s Luke Rosiak did not make up this story that captures pretty much everything that is wrong with the Department of Veterans Affairs (and probably the federal bureaucracy in general as well).
Front page, Union Leader. The Nashua Delegation to the New Hampshire House don’t get no respect. Someone cut the money for yet another (other, other) rail study from the transportation budget and they are unhappy. As a preventative to future acts of injustice ‘Nashua’ is considering a hired gun. A paid lobbyist to…do what the Nashua Delegation to the New Hampshire House was elected to do in the Legislature. Convince them that the $4 million dollars for the rail study “is not taxpayer money.”
Seriously.
I’m as dismayed as most conservative out there I suspect. Waking up beneath a clock with Trumps smirk on its face, dripping from a branch. Then peeking out a hanging window to watch sharks in grass and elephants on surf. Surreal times indeed.
Now what to do.
I wasn’t a Trump guy. There were indeed candidates who I wholeheartedly, steadfastly refused to vote for– Bush comes to mind. But Trump wasn’t one of those. I never really was able to pick out exactly where he stood on any issue or policy, really. But he’s going to be it. The chess piece to thwart the evil queen.
Now what?
I’m not sure what to make of all this yet. I’m hopeful that he can win, at least I think I am anyway. But then you hear what he says. The government needs to do this and do that and do the other thing, great airports, bigger military, we can’t let company’s leave. On and on. The guy sounds like a Big Government guy who does not understand or acknowledge the limitations placed on the government by the constitution. That’s the scary thing.
Delusional is a close second. (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. I am betting that all of the groups that … Read more
“But don’t forget: this is called the Republican party. It’s not called the Conservative Party. You know, there are Conservative parties. This is called the Republican party.” -Donald Trump (presumptive GOP Presidential nominee, 2016)
I watched this during This Week and went “yeah? – this is some big unknown revelation? Please”.
“There are some other trends at work. In the last few decades there has been a growing divide in the United States when it comes to how many recruits different regions provide. A disproportionate number of recruits come from the southern and the Rocky Mountain states. The northeast, upper Midwest, and west coast are much more difficult to recruit from and the recruits are not as good (less education, overweight, bad attitudes).
Recruiters have the hardest time in urban areas. Back in 2005, the Department of Defense concluded that urban high schools were the source of most problems. Not because of leftist teachers in some of those schools trying to keep recruiters out, but because so many potential recruits had to be turned down because of the poor education they had received in those schools. While only a fifth of Americans live outside cities and suburbs, nearly half of the qualified recruits come from these rural areas. What’s strange about all this is that the rural areas spend much less, per pupil, on education but get much better results than urban schools. Part of this can be attributed to differences in cost of living, but a lot of it has to do with simply getting more done with less. Per capita, young people in rural areas are over 20 percent more likely to join the army, than those of the same age in urban areas.
Who would have ever thought the two presumptive nominees for a Presidential election would be Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt politician in United States history and Donald Trump, a reality television chump who bloviates bullsh*t on a regular basis?
Well that didn’t take long. As predicted by, well everyone with any common sense, it looks like the free for all non-gender changing room and bathroom policy at Target made a young girl a target of a… Peeping Tom! Surprise!! DFW: Frisco PD: Man records girl in dressing room https://t.co/IWZXqmjXSo — FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) … Read more
Republican State Senator Jeanie Forrester (now a candidate for Governor) has a few vote skeletons in her closet, so she needs to up her street cred with the base. One such effort, a campaign video of her at a range, shooting a pink firearm (29% rating from the NHFC), invited some exercise of the first amendment on Facebook. I thought I’d join in–with apologies to Aerosmith for modifying some of the lyrics to Janie’s Got a Gun. That’s right. Jeanie’s got a gun…complete with cheap shots.
