It isn’t just those agencies but others that made my head hurt.  After all, Obama has made it a defining pillar of his foreign policy to make changes here in the US to impress other countries (e.g., “other countries WILL follow our lead at decarbonizing ourselves to save the planet from global cooling warming change chaos”).  Yet, notice the dichotomy – even as he’s aching to disarm civilians (and the Libs are full throated about doing it now by calling for severe restrictions, higher taxes on guns and ammo, and outright calls for total confiscation), look at how these Fed agencies are arming up.  I can see law enforcement, but the Smithsonian??

Since FY 2006, 44 traditionally administrative agencies have spent over $71 million on items like body armor, riot helmets and shields, cannon launchers and police firearms and ammunition, according to federal spending data from watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com.  This comes in addition to the $330 million spent on such equipment in that period by traditional law enforcement agencies like the FBI, Secret Service and Drug Enforcement Administration.

• Nearly $2 million spent by the Department of Veterans Affairs on riot helmets, defender shields, body armor, a “milo return fire cannon system,” armored mobile shields, Kevlar blankets, tactical gear and equipment for crowd control.

Tell me, when is the last time that we heard about a riot at a VA hospital (although, with the abysmal and uncaring outlook on all the vets that didn’t get the care they deserved so that administrators could get bonuses, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear of such)???

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James Madison | National Gazette, March 29, 1792

This term in its particular application means “that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”

In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage.

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Obama has been wearing the same ring for thirty years, as a single man, and then as his wedding ring. According to this report, it is inscribed with the first part of the Islamic Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.”

“…newly published photographs of Obama from the 1980s show that the ring Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as an unmarried student is the same ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the couple’s wedding ceremony in 1992.

Moreover, according to Arabic-language and Islamic experts, the ring Obama has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.”

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Yesterday was the vote on House Bill 582 which would end almost 100 years of state-sanctioned discrimination against Granite Staters. Of course, the majority of Democrats voted against the measure. The party that claims to be for women’s rights, minority rights and gay rights voted to continue allowing the state to discriminate against each of these groups.

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A Macaca monkey who used a cell phone to make selfie’s has lost the potential copyright privileges of those photos according to a Federal Court in California.

Meanwhile, here in NH’s State Supreme Court another monkey, a Metzler monkey, seems to be losing his attempt to hide public information from a public school board member.

When three or more of a five member court are laughing at a monkey’s court case you know that slippery simian has skidded on a banana peel.

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Does the Union Leader consider Sen. Kelly Ayotte to be an ‘actual Republican’? I’d really like to know because the other day they published an editorial titled 11 Conservatives and Trump. In it they posit the notion that all the Republican presidential primary candidates are conservatives (except Trump I suppose) and that those who claim otherwise have moved the goalposts on them.

A group of perennially discontented New Hampshire activists is trying to hijack the Republican Party by kicking out all the actual Republicans.

That’s rich. This field is bottom-heavy with (and supported by) Republicans who will not even defend their own party platform. You know, “the goalposts.” So tell me again, who is it that hijacked what? I contend that it is the Establishment GOP that hijacked the Republican party and a perfect example of this is New Hampshire’s own NHGOPe beloved, Kelly Ayotte.

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Yesterday it was reported that a Manchester woman was stalked and attacked at her apartment complex on her way home from work. The attacker clearly thought the woman was just your regular, everyday elderly woman but boy was he in for a surprise.

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