A commemoration of the event that is often credited as the first act of rebellion in the American colonies against the British Crown will be held in Weare, NH on Wednesday, April 13, 2016.

On the same day in 1772, Ebenezer Mudgett, a citizen of Weare, led a group of his neighbors to the “Pine Tree Tavern“, owned by Aaron Quimby and “assaulted the offending officials. Their faces blackened with soot, the rioters gave the sheriff one lash with a tree switch for every tree being contested. They then cut off the ears and shaved the manes and tails of Whiting and Quigley’s horses, after which Whiting and Quigly were forced to ride out of town through a gauntlet of jeering townspeople.”

These “offending officials” were

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The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts – not ideology – determine reality.

There are some good points in this statement and most, if not all of it, will irritate a significant number of gender-disorientation leftists, but this might be my favorite.

When an otherwise healthy biological boy believes he is a girl, or an otherwise healthy biological girl believes she is a boy, an objective psychological problem exists that lies in the mind not the body, and it should be treated as such.

Although, this…,

Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.

…is also a winner.

The entire statement follows. Follow the link for references.

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And we have a winner – a new scum bag vote fraudster from the Bernie Sanders 2016 Campaign!

Thanks to Veritas Action and James O’Keefe we have the name of the, are you ready, “National Director of Something or Other” who picks up Australians at the Manchester Airport.

He is mentioned by “Ms. Doyle” at 4:28 in the clip above.

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The MoveOn mountebanks have sent out a link to a video featuring Robert Reich commenting on the current Supreme Court nominee situation and the Senate’s advice.  You remember Mr. Reich, the wee fella in the Clinton administration (the last one, not the looming one). He makes his case with his general thesis being: Those dastardly Republicans claim to cherish the Constitution, but in reality they are undermining it by their actions in the Senate. They “don’t want to fulfill their Constitutional responsibility”. Harrumph, harrumph! If he could reach the desk top, he’d be pounding it I’m sure.

Now, the video is amusing because the medium he uses to make his case is a cartoon.  Which is very prosodic in the poetic sense of the word — something is doing what it is saying. That he’s using a cartoon to convey his cartoonish arguments is fantastic. Say what you want about Mr. Reich, but the fella knows his audience and how to reach them. Keep the syllable count low, the words simple, and use bright colorful pictures. Smiley faces for good. Frowny faces, sad. Meany faces, bad.

The little guy slings

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“GOP Wants ‘To Emasculate Gov’t At Every Possible Turn”

In a lot of cases, yes, the Federal Government should be emasculated – it is too large, too powerful, too intrusive.  The problem is, however, is that it sticks itself into areas into which it has no Constitutional authorization to do.  For instance, where in the Constitution does it say it should be in charge of school breakfasts?  Is that one of the enumerated Powers listed?  And if so, please show me where it is?

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The Administrative State – as I’ve said for years, it is the end goal of Progressives and we see too many Republicans (right, Ovide?) supporting other Republicans in moving the Overton Window leftward in achieving it in diminishing the power of the Legislative Branch by the empowerment of the Executive Branch’s agencies.  The only way to forestall this is to lessen this “Fourth Branch of Government” which in a lot of ways is acting like a complete government on its own: it makes its own rules, enforces its own rules (legislature), its own law enforcement, has its own administrative courts and judges (judiciary) for fines and jail time, and increasingly, levying its own set of fines AND taxes.  And now this (and near the end, lets the BIG cat out of the bag) (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Senate Dem: ‘I fear for the Union’ if Congress limits bureaucratic power

A debate about whether Congress should pass a law that would restrain federal bureaucrats from taking action without clear legal authority provoked one senator to wonder if Congress would be able to handle the extra workload.

Well, isn’t that the ACTUAL problem – that bureaucrats do this BECAUSE

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For the want of a nail, a shoe was lost.  This is not a nail but a huge spike:

“The truth is that modern liberty depends on the power of the purse. All of the great battles in England in the 17th century between the Crown and Parliament turned ultimately on the power of the purse. The members of Parliament were elected at least in part with an eye to achieving a redress of grievances, and that redress was the price they exacted for funding the Crown. Our legislature has given up that power. Our congressional leaders claim – once the election is over – that they have no leverage. If that is really true, then elections do not matter, and a redress of grievances is now beyond the legislature’s power. Absent that capacity, however, the legislature is virtually useless. Absent that capacity, it is contemptible — and let’s face it: the President and those who work under him have showered it with contempt.” Which is why we have Trump.

Paul Rahe is correct – it is amongst the most powerful of the limited tools that the Legislature has over the Executive Branch.  But over the last 100 years, we have seen the Progressives use

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Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.

Ayotte joins the GOP Senate majority

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) got it right when she walked back her open door to Obama’s Supreme Court nominee today stating that she supports Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) position to not consider the nominee and let the people decide.

The people of New Hampshire have one of the most important roles in the presidential nominating process, and New Hampshirites should have their votes count in determining the direction of the Supreme Court for the next twenty years.

Nothing less than the Second Amendment is at risk, as Obama’s nominee has proven in his current judicial role to be a certain vote against the Heller decision overturning this landmark assertion that law-abiding citizens have an individual right to keep and bear arms. Can any thinking person after watching the current president’s constant barrage against guns and gun ownership honestly doubt that repealing Heller would be at the top of his nominee’s agenda?

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Anthony Gockowski from Campus reform sent an email around about a new group on the University of Minnesota-Morris Campus. It’s called ‘Queer Devil Worshipers for a Better Future.’ Note the University approved web address:

  https://umnmorris.collegiatelink.net/organization/queerdevilworshipers

Not much to see on their approved campus web page except for their Oath, Constitution, and Statement of Unfaith. But thanks to Anthony we know what some of their goals are.

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