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And they are not sounding attack at Obama; you REALLY want to make yourselves political cannon fodder: HUGH HEWITT: My Open Letter To Nev. Sen. Dean Heller, Who Waffled On Scalia Replacement. “I doubt very much I will be supporting your re-election in 2018. I suspect I will support a primary challenger to youor perhaps even … Read more
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.
New show tomorrow but ICYMI, here is last week’s GrokTALK! – February 13th, 2016
Shot: “President Barack Obama will meet dissidents and President Raul Castro in Cuba next month, the White House said on Thursday…” Chaser: O is for Oblivious.
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.
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.
There’s really no way to explain that these people are potential leaders of our planet.
Will more legislation come out or will the Progressives / Statists / Marxists continue to water things down such that this will continue (emphasis mine)?
New Hampshire Senate
News ReleaseFor Immediate Release:
February 18, 2016
Media Contact:
Kate Giaquinto
kate.giaquinto@leg.state.nh.us
(603) 271-3043Carson, Birdsell concerned by lack of protections against drive-by-voting
Concord, NH – In response to a video released depicting election workers providing inaccurate procedural information to voters, Senator Sharon Carson (R-Londonderry) and Senator Regina Birdsell (R-Hampstead) issued the following statements.
“New Hampshire voters deserve to have confidence that their votes count in an election and that they are not diminished by drive-by or out of state voters who decide to cast a ballot in a New Hampshire election. The video depicts campaign workers who suggest using a friend’s in-state address in order for an out-of-state citizen to take part and vote in the New Hampshire primary, despite claiming residency in another state. I urge the Attorney General’s office, who we know has chosen not to place emphasis and deploy recourse on enforcing election laws, to take these claims seriously and engage in a full investigation,” said Senator Sharon Carson (R-Londonderry). “This video clearly indicates a need for tighter and clearer voter eligibility and residency laws in the state providing stronger protections to our voting population.”
The Constitution states that the President is to nominate to the Supreme Court, the Senate is to advise and consent. The two are completely separate and are dependent only in that the President must first nominate. The Senate is to advise and Senator Sasse is about to do so:
“One sub-part of your job is that, when there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court, you have the right to nominate someone to fill it. One sub-part of my job is that I’m supposed to provide advice and consent on who you might nominate. Mr. President, I’m here to provide you some advice on how you would get my consent. I recommend that you take your potential nominee and go and stand in the Rose Garden and have that nominee explicitly repudiate your ‘I have a pen and I have a phone’ theories of executive unilateralism.”
Laying down the gauntlet with a quiet shiv to the ribs at the same time – well done as there is nothing wrong with “strings attached for consent”! Please also note that
No, I’m not talking about the Donald – I AM talking about Bush III to be – John / Juan Ellis Bush. He of what was an amazing amount of campaign cash in his own right from the Bush family donors and a fabulously monied SuperPAC – it was supposed to be the “shock and … Read more
“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
(H/T: CNSNews)
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: “Obama says he’s partly to blame for Washington’s very partisan environment because he could have reached out more to Republicans during his time in office, LA Times reports, citing interview.” —“Obama Says He Could Have Reached Out More to Republicans,” Bloomberg News, February 11th. Unable to resist … Read more
In 1950, female-headed households were 18 percent of the black population. Today it’s close to 70 percent. One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children lived with the biological mother and father. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black households were two-parent households. … Read more
JebBush.com (H/T: Instapundit)
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 –
This week’s Throwback Thursday takes us to June 1st, 2013. JR Hoell was on to talk about education and Charter School funding in the NH Budget. (We also talked about firearms.) The town of Londonderry had a hissy-fit over a ‘little’ fireworks show at Londonderry Fish and Game. There was the Obama Bus, Listening Sessions, … Read more
We continue with the antics of the Attorney General’s office and not just the lack of election transparency but the institutional opposition to clean elections.
The Broken Windows of law enforcement (and voter fraud legislation)? Here’s a CLEAR evidential example of how NH isn’t bothering to do its required policing to keep our votes safe.
Really – DEMOCRATS conspiring to take advantage of the loopholes in our voting laws (that other Democrats put in) as well? Whodda thunk it? Well, it certainly seems like Hugo Palma, the regional field director for the Bernie Sanders campaign thought he’d give it the ole political college try, doesn’t it. Listen to how openly speaks (“No, I voted here”)…
…and then clams up real quick.
It is clear that, once again, true investigative journalism is showing how easily NH’s voter laws can be mocked by those that have no regard for the letter or the spirit of the law. It also shows the contempt in which we should all hold our politicians for doing such a crappy job in writing these laws and for those organizations, like the League of Women Voters and the ACLU, that work hard to undermine them as well with “drive by” lawsuits.
The Democrats are certainly changing the moral landscape – it once was that people had their internal sense of morality to do the right things (and in this case, I would say to vote absentee from where your real domicile is rather than the “one of convenience and platform to do wrong” but I guess Al Gore had it right for today’s Dems: No authorizing legal authority. No law, no foul. Strip away the internal sense of right and wrong – if there is no law to strictly prohibit something, who the heck cares?
Especially if it gives your side an advantage in a world