I found a fine glossy piece of mail in my mailbox today, addressed to my wife. It promotes Senator Ayotte’s environmental street cred as a way to build a mailing list. The purveyors want you to “say thank you” to the Senator for her defense of statist environmental policy the environment. By defense, they mean her vocal support for executive action and use of the bureaucracy to place a shadow tax on electricity forever without legislative consequence under the Obama Clean Power Plan.

The problem is, of course, that if you support that, you aren’t really a Republican even if you have registered as one. You are a Democrat, a progressive, and – like the sponsors of the mailer – on a mission to advance a centrally planned statist agenda whether you mean to or not.

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Pitiful, simply pitiful.  Here we have a college co-ed, a national spokesdweeb for the Million Student Day to Demand Silly Stuff Because They Don’t Want To Pay For It (aka “Student Million March”), made the fatal mistake of coming onto a show where the host understands how to ask very simple questions.  Students want:

• Free College (“It should be a Right!”)
• $15/hr minimum wage
• Total loan forgiveness (to the tune of $1.2 Trillion)

You do need to listen to this sad sack of a superficial simpleton – I present Keely Martin, completely adrift in things economic:

Apparently, this Free Rider has never learned the moral of TANSTAAFL. Neil Cavuto (Fox News, 4pm) EVISERATES her even as she stands there with the sharp edge of a single question: “And how is that going to be paid“?

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Yes, the split between the “We can govern Big Government better than the Democrats” Republicans versus those that actually believe in “Smaller Government” and are willing to work for it.  Jeffrey Lord at Conservative Review has some bon mots on who is in which camp and why the former is as deadly as the Democrats (loved the enumeration of all those moderate Republicans that won the Presidency; reformatted, emphasis mine):

Sayeth Ohio Governor John Kasich:

“Philosophy doesn’t work when you run something.”

Kasich’s assertion came in the middle of a discussion on bank bailouts, but coming as it did in the middle of the GOP Fox Business Debate, the moment crystallized exactly what has gone wrong with the Republican Party.

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That would be, once again, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, a socialist / Progressive activists from out of state and running Granite State Progress that is bound and determined to turn the State of NH into just another progressive state talking about the Koch Brothers libertarian political activism and always ignoring or skirting the fact that she espouses “only for me but not for thee” political attitude – only HER side with HER side’s money is allowed to do anything.

A group of about 10 activists, students and local volunteers protested outside before the event as well.

“We’re here to say we’re not going to be part of your marketing tour,” Zandra Rice Hawkins of Granite State Progress told the New Hampshire Union Leader. “How can our local legislators compete with millions of dollars being poured in for policies that hurt average Granite Staters?”

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I remember watching the Bell’s Rocketbelt years and years ago when I was much younger and dreamed about having one – very cool until I got older and smarter and really learned it was really expensive, the fuel was rather volatile (hydrogen peroxide) and could only fly a handful of seconds.  However, there may be a REAL one “just around the corner” that may make a lot of dreamers sit up and take notice:

Jetpack Aviation is the brainchild and passion project of Australian businessman David Mayman. “I’ve been flying it off the public radar for some time,” Mayman told us this morning. “It was time to bring it out of the closet, so to speak. I’ve spent my life in software and mining and fairly sensible occupations, but my overriding passion has been to build a jetpack, since I was very young. Nelson Tyler and I got together 10 years ago –he’s an extraordinary engineer and inventor based in Hollywood. And that’s really what’s made it possible.”

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And when you manipulate definitions of common words and socially suppress even the speaking of ideas that “cause hurt and pain”, you win the argument because any opposing ideas, philosophies, or arguments can no longer even be expressed.  Doubt me?  Just listen to Bruce Jenner’s own words (emphasis mine, reformatted):

BRUCE JENNER: MEDIA CAN’T SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT ME ‘BECAUSE THEN THEY’D BE HOMOPHOBIC

Being honored as one of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year in New York on Monday, Bruce Jenner praised political correctness for silencing critics of his gender transition.  Addressing a crowd at Carnegie Hall, the former Olympian said his June Vanity Fair cover story changed the conversation within the transgender community, and noted critics of his life choices had been silenced by labels.  “No longer can the media say bad things about you because then they’d be homophobic,” he said.

Ah – truth wins out; don’t like the idea that people disagree with you?  Simple, easy-peazy, eh, just silence them?  Just adopt the

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(H/T: Liberal Logic 101) Who works for who in the “Land of the Free”? If I am working such that most of my money is going to the Government, am I a citizen or a serf? Emphasis mine:

Thank the Democrats for dropping their mask in showing (and legislating) you that they truly believe your money really should belong to them.  You know who REALLY believes this?

Socialists.  Like the two running for President (maybe two and a third?).

Remember Phil Mickelson,

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Kasich uses debate as opportunity to irritate voters

Yeah, pretty much that’s what he did.  I had to run down to MA yesterday afternoon / evening and just barely got back in time to watch the main (versus the “kids table”) Republican Presidential debate last night.  Glad I did – much better questions, answers, and back and forth on Fox Business News than the previous ones (including Fox News).  But I will agree with the headline – Kasich was a putz.  I tweeted out the debate and here’s a couple of my flash thoughts on Kasich.  Best one was the last one:

#GROK #NHPOLITICS #GOPDEBATE Cruz,Rubio,Carly best on facts. Carson-where was he? Rand better, Jeb didn't fix it & Kasich self-torpedoed

— GraniteGrok (@GraniteGrok) November 11, 2015

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Here we have a ‘Citizen’ (video below). A veteran. He’s mad because Carly Fiorina cut jobs to save a company (while competitors collapsed around her). This just pisses him off. He neither knows nor cares if Fiorina saved tens of thousands of other jobs and a company that would go on to employ people for decades when other tech giants went belly up and unemployed everyone working for them. That’s not the proper narrative but he’s either unaware or doesn’t care. And he’s so mad he wants to strangle her (Fiorina)… and upon hearing this, Hillary Clinton laughs. She laughs.

I am reminded of some Democrats here in New Hampshire, and of one on particular, running for the US Senate, who also think violence against ‘opponents’ is funny.

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