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.

[Art.] 22. [Free Speech; Liberty of the Press.] Free speech and liberty of the press are essential to the security of freedom in a state: They ought, therefore, to be inviolably preserved.

Speech is speech – in the sight of the Founders, there was no “political” speech, there was no “hate” speech, there is no “hurtful” speech – merely speech.  But certainly there are those that believe that THEY have the ability to limit the catagory of speech they don’t like simply because they use Political Correctness to add an adjective in front of “speech”. Certainly, NH Rebellion belongs to this coterie of constrainers.

Former NH Supreme Court Justice John Broderick and Daniel Weeks came on CLOSEUP last week to represent NH Rebellion – the group that leans more Democrat than Republican in that it is all about being all about overthrowing the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that finally took a common sense action in helping to restoring the true meaning of the First Amendment.  Both said a couple of things with which I saw a twisting of the above inviolate foundational law of our Constitutional Republic:

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“The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.”  -David Foster Wallace

Run. Hide. Fight. That is the name of a new video being promoted by Law Enforcement all around the country in the wake of active shooter attacks. The video tells us about the number of shooter attacks and then advises that, “Just like fire drills…and earth quake preparedness, making a plan in advance can make all the difference.”

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By Rep. GREG HILL, Rep. JR HOELL and MICHAEL BALBONI for the Concord Monitor:

New Hampshire parents want the best for their children, and that includes a great K-12 education.

The state’s public schools provide a conducive learning environment for most of its children, but for some children, the local school does not meet educational needs. They are at increased risk of falling behind or, worse, not graduating high school.

For these children, an alternative learning environment is necessary. For some with special needs, this means taxpayer-funded placement in a private school designed to provide an appropriate learning environment structured to best meet the child’s physical and educational needs. For others, a nearby chartered public school provides the learning environment best suited for the child. And for some, school districts wanting the best for their children have contracted with private schools. Coe-Brown and Pinkerton Academy are examples where public funds pay tuition for students attending these schools.

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By Rep. VICTORIA SULLIVAN for the Concord Monitor:

As the home of the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, New Hampshire residents are going to have plenty of opportunities in the coming months to find out where national, state and local candidates stand on critical policies. If they value their pocketbooks and want federal agencies to operate within their legal jurisdiction, their first concern should be the Environmental Protection Agency’s costly and illegal carbon reduction plan.

In an obvious effort to shore up his environmental legacy, President Obama and the EPA are backing an expensive scheme to reduce carbon emissions by power generators. Disappointingly, New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster has chosen to support the president’s efforts and leave the fate of our electricity system up to bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

However, attorneys general and elected officials from 27 states are not standing by while the president flouts the rule of law to cement his legacy. They have filed a federal lawsuit against the EPA based on the fact that the Clean Air Act specifically forbids it from regulating emissions from existing power plants.

We need protection from a plan that will

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From Pat Buchanan at Townhall (reformatted, emphasis mine):

And the media have played right into Trump’s hand.

They constantly denounce him as grossly insensitive for what he has said about women, Mexicans, Muslims, McCain and a reporter with a disability. Such crimes against decency, says the press, disqualify Trump as a candidate for president.  Yet, when they demand he apologize, Trump doubles down. And when they demand that Republicans repudiate him, the GOP base replies:

And this is the part that seems exclusive to the base – and NOT the Republican Establishment:

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After the Union Leader endorsed Chris Christie a New Jersey Paper has some things to say. Next thing you know, there is this cute little back and forth going on.

Tom Moran –Star Ledger :  Union Leader didn’t know the New Jersey governor’s full record.

Grant Bosse – Union Leader: “At this point, the Star-Ledger is like Chris Christie’s crazy ex-girlfriend,” Bosse said. “They dated him in 2013, they broke up with him last year, and now they’re going around town bad-mouthing anyone he takes out to dinner.”

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Fungus’ Cullen, probably at the behest of the NHGOPe inner circle, challenged Donald Trump’s eligibility to be on the NH Primary ballot. The Ballot commission tossed the challenge out, according to WMUR, in about two minutes. (emphasis mine)

CONCORD, N.H. —The state Ballot Law Commission on Tuesday quickly threw out a former New Hampshire Republican Party chairman’s challenge to Donald Trump’s eligibility to be on the GOP first-in-the-nation primary ballot.

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The Union Leader has endorsed Gov. Chris Christie for the Republican nomination as have Jeff Chidester and Donna Sytek, suggesting, if nothing else, and interesting range of “appeal.”

While we are fans of what has come to be known as Chris Christie Porn–the videos of town-hall style meetings where Gov. Christie straight talks his way through and over the left’s union machine–no one on the Grok that I know of is endorsing him. Nothing personal, there are just more conservative, pro-liberty candidates to choose from and we are who we claim to be, Conservatarians.

Despite that, I feel obligated to give the endorsements a fair shake; has the polling needle moved? Was this a fist bump or a “missed” bump?

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Government employee goes on shooting rampage…

REDLANDS, Calif. — Law enforcement officials have identified Syed Rizwan Farook as one of the suspected shooters who attacked a center for the disabled in San Bernardino, Calif. 

“…it is Syed Rizwan Farook, an environmental health specialist at the San Bernardino County Health Department, whom the police named Wednesday night as the shooting suspect.”

Some more details from NBC

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Once again disarmed citizens in a gun free zone were left helpless. The left’s response to the tragedy is more gun laws but if it were not for “more gun laws” someone or several someones at the event might have been armed.

Ask yourself this question. If law abiding gun owners were armed and present when the thugs arrived would the thugs have lived long enough to get shot by the police hours later?

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