“To a large degree Republicans want the courts to be the final arbiter of the major political questions of our time. That way they don’t have to get their hands dirty.”

And then they wonder why we hate them – most of it is because they refuse to do their jobs the way they should.  Instead, they are simply LAZY and INDOLENT – and willing to take the criticism that comes with the job.  Just like the “old NH hand” that told me when I first became politically active:

Don’t make waves and be quiet. Go along and you’ll get along.

That was in 2006 – he lost his seat and the NH Rs lost big time.  Even worse in 2008.  My response is today is “Stand up for something or you will be put down”. And as you have seen, I have not taken his advice to heart – what, NOT fight for Principles?  The outcome is foreordained every time they take his advice and the Rs decide to be very pale pastel (and then shaft those of bold colors).  And in DC, they are about to follow suit on a VERY consequential situation; from Conservative Review, the sad tale of more DC Republicans caving into Obama’s nonsense that that they have to vote on a nominee (mostly on his say so.  All puff and no stuff for these spineless wonders self-assured incompetents (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The fight to block Obama from appointing a radical to the Supreme Court will be the GOP’s Waterloo. The outcome of this imbroglio will by itself determine whether there was any value in electing a GOP Senate in 2014 and whether there is any utility in continuing to invest political capital in this fledgling party.   Sadly, it appears that the tried and tested capitulation game has already begun.

The playbook is the same every time. Even in the face of less consequential political fights, Republicans start out talking tough. Then, leadership allows the weakest liberal members to begin dissenting from the party line and even trash talking the party to the media. Next, leadership says they have to embark on the legislative process to be fair but still oppose the initiative and will personally fight against it. Then, depending on how many votes it needs to pass, they decide whether to throw in with the liberal Republicans.

It’s gotten old and shopworn.  It is the reason why we consider them to be

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Dr. Cooper, co-founder of Liberty Harbor Academy, was a frequent guest on GrokTALK! before she began her battle with pancreatic cancer, something both my father and uncle died from. She fought for two years, which is remarkable, but ended her battle on February 14th, 2016. She will be missed.

Obituary:

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The USDA’s 2015 report on honey producing hives places the number at 2.74 Million, up from around 2.4 million in 2006 and the highest it has been in the past 20 years.

In a WashPo article, reacting to an earlier report in 2015 declared, “Call off the Bee-pocalypse…”

“…the number of honeybee colonies has actually risen since 2006, from 2.4 million to 2.7 million in 2014, according to data tracked by the USDA. The 2014 numbers, which came out earlier this year, show that the number of managed colonies — that is, commercial honey-producing bee colonies managed by human beekeepers — is now the highest it’s been in 20 years.”

How did the bees survive cataclysmic anthropocentric number fudging warming? The Free Market did it…without the government.

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In its entirety, without comment. (I will comment tomorrow on GrokTALK!)

Justice Antonin Scalia was a staunch defender of our Constitution and a brilliant jurist. Through the force of his intellect, he made contributions to our nation that will impact our lives for generations to come, and all Americans join his family in mourning his death.

Justice Scalia’s unexpected passing creates a vacancy on the Supreme Court, which is now ideologically evenly split – four to four – by justices nominated by Democratic and Republican presidents. Supreme Court justices have significant power in our constitutional system of government as they are the final arbiter on the meaning of our Constitution and laws. Empowered with a lifetime appointment, the next nominee is likely to have a significant impact on the court and the people of our country for decades to come.

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It is clear that today’s progressives have the same constitutional contempt as their predecessors. I hope they do not share the racial vision. Black voters ought to demand, at a minimum, that progressives disavow their ugly racist past. They should re-label themselves to something other than progressives, maybe compassionate totalitarians.

If you listen to either Hillary or Bernie, they are out to give everything they can think of to those they believe are “oppressed” (even if they have “self-oppressed” for their status in society for, well, being lazy, underachievers, or just being a screw-up).  They see themselves as the ultimate in compassion – they want to provide anything to everyone and fulfilling the positive rights manifesto of FDR’s Second Bill of Rights in which Government must do things FOR you instead of the Founders vision of negative rights: what government CANNOT do TO you.  The former basically says Government will be responsible for you – the latter keeps Government taking over you.

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WHAT SHOULD WE CALL NONPROFITS THAT GET 99 PERCENT OF THEIR FUNDING FROM GOVERNMENT? Government “tools?” How about government “extensions?” At the Environmental Protection Agency, they’re called “cheap labor sources.” Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has been digging into a massive database of more than 100,000 EPA grants compiled by Open The Books.

He found six non-profits that got 99 percent of their funding from federal grants to provide jobs for seniors doing EPA work, including retired engineers willing to work for the maximum starting pay of $12.27 per hour. Average salary for a full-time EPA engineer in the civil service is nearly $89,000 or $44 per hour.

Now for me, it isn’t about the EPA part of this (although it does concern me and it should for you as well).  As I have recounted before, this goes on all the time where organizations formerly known as charities (as they used to be known as when they were funded voluntarily by those in Civil Society) all pitch politicians (e.g., selectmen, budget committee) at the local level, commissioners at the county level, and at the State and Federal legislatures get pitched as well during budget seasons.

Oh, they come in with lots of stories –

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NH Election law is so porous that a Regional Field Director for a Democrat campaign, who lives in Colorado, can vote in a New Hampshire election, using the campaign office in Manchester as “his domicile.” These vote-thieves are not alone and this happens in every election in NH, by design.  The NH AG demands it, the courts defend it, and the Democrat party, the architects, made it nearly impossible to police it, and they fight to protect our porous elections whenever someone tries to fix it.

Skip had some additional thoughts about the latest revelations here.  I have included the latest Project Veritas NH Election fraud video and transcript again, below. H/T to Ed Naile for the Transcript.

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