From the article at the Union Leader (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Women go topless to send message of equality at Hampton Beach

To this ordinary schlub, it just seems that the feminist movement has lost its mind over the rather silly idea that parts of the female body can just be “declared” to be asexual just because they say to.  Sorry ladies, but it just doesn’t work that way.  Saying it:

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Rarely do I repost an entire article little commentary – this will be one of those times as the content and style of the piece is such that it hangs altogether on its own.  To pull a snippet here or another one from there would be a slight to the author and I still haven’t figured out how to do that without spoiling it.  In order for Conservatives to understand what has happened to their country, our country, it is necessary to see the history that is not written down in many places.  While this is far from being a treatise, it is long and it is thorough.  You need to read it (emphasis mine) as it outlines the WHY of Democrat National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Shultz.

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The Quiet Revolution: How the New Left Took Over the Democratic Party

By Scott S. Powell

Frustration with division and gridlock in Washington lead many Americans to impugn both political parties for the current broken and ineffective state of government. There is plenty of blame to go around, but below the surface there has been a quiet revolution going on in only one of the two parties — the Democratic Party — which is the main source of today’s irreconcilable division and moral confusion.

What’s remarkable is how the political and cultural center of American values has collapsed in the last two and a half decades with the Democratic Party having moved dramatically to the left. Recently, Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not explain the difference between the modern Democratic Party platform and that of socialism, while at the same time gushing over the prospect of Socialist Bernie Sanders having a prominent place at the 2016 Democratic Party convention.

If people today could somehow be transported back to the time of Harry Truman and Jack Kennedy, they would swear those standard bearers were Republicans with little in common with today’s Democratic Party. 

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The introduction of the hands-free electronic device ban in New Hampshire is an arbitrary assault on liberty. Readers of these pages will know why. There is no evidence that a ban can accomplish that for which it has been imposed; a reduction in collisions, injuries, and deaths.

So what! The law went in to effect July 1st and yesterday, the Union Leader published a front page story on the ban. What did we learn?

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Prying documents out of school districts in New Hampshire is not like pulling teeth. It’s worse.

A recent example of this is the ongoing struggle for more transparency from Manchester city boards and committees. Contracts for the Superintendent, Asst. Super, and Business administrator for the Manchester School District were amended at the end of July but repeated attempts by the public or local media to obtain them went unfulfilled.

Was the Manchester Board of School Committee willing and ready to vote on them without a single taxpayer seeing a word of what was in those contracts?

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This story from The Blaze is one where one guy, foreseeing what things could go wrong, prepared for a risk he judged rightly that came to be (emphasis mine, reformatted):

As wildfires blaze throughout Washington state, one man simply sat in his living room safe and sound as flames reaching up to 20 feet surrounded his home.  That’s because John Belles built his house, a concrete dome, specifically to withstand anything and everything nature could throw his way in Okanogan County.    According to KPTV-TV, the house hadn’t yet been tested by wildfire. But after the flames passed, the survivalist said there was no damage whatsoever to his home.

I take exception to the “survivalist” innuendo, for isn’t it a fact that anyone alive generally wants to continue to live (er, “survive”)? But it looked like he properly gauged his risk and got it right. He goes on with his recounting:

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Every week there is another offer in the mailbox for a free solar installation. Power your home. Pay zero to the power companies. Sell power back. It’s a Win-win-win (win-win…win). Or is it?

Columnist Sam Asano, writing in the Manchester Union Leader, pointed his flashlight at the offers and discovered something nasty.

The first and the largest issue the signing consumer faces is the fact that once the system gets installed, their residential property would be attached with a 20-year lien. Yes, it is a lien on the property itself, not just on the roof-top solar system. That means the house you are living in, and probably carrying some mortgage on, is now additionally burdened by a lien equal to the install price of the solar system.

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During this weekend’s ‘Defending the American Dream Summit’ in Columbus, Ohio yours truly interviewed Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Avik Roy about Obamacare and Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion. Roy has been on the forefront when it comes to discussing healthcare and Obamacare. During the Summit, Roy sat on a panel called Obamacare called “Sick yet?” Obamacare 2.0 – An Update on How Obamacare and its Medicaid Expansion is Affecting You.

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It looks like this story of the EPA breaching an old gold mine and bespoiling the drinking and irrigation waters of the Animus river – deliberately and after the owner of this defunct mine warned them this might happened – has “legs”.  The EPA’s response was to “ton of bricks” him by threatening him with $35,000 per day fines.  In other words, if you don’t do what we tell you, we will bankrupt you.  Guess that’s the Obama way.

Anyways, a collection of more links:

EPA FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT COERCED MINE OWNER TO GRANT ACCESS

The Environmental Protection Agency isn’t responding to claims by Todd Hennis, owner of the Gold King mine in Colorado that the agency coerced him to grant access to his property. Once taking over, of course, EPA’s incompetent attempts to remove debris created a massive 3 million gallon toxic waste spill from the mine. Hennis told the CBS Denver affiliate that unless he allowed the EPA to have access and authority to conduct operations on the site the agency had threatened him with daily fines of $35,000…Breitbart News asked the EPA on Friday to confirm or deny Hennis’s claim, but has received no reply.

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On Meet The Press this morning, Chuck Todd had two Establishment Republican insiders on: Alex Castellanos and Charlie Black.  A couple of things caught my ear:

•  “Only 20-25% of the party”

They kept on saying that it is only a small part of the Republican electorate that is going for Trump Gosh, what makes them think that this clump of voters will vote Republican in the end?  Once again, I hear this “entitled” viewpoint – those votes are OURS.  What is it that makes these insiders believe that they have a lock on these voters?  Do they view them like the Democrats view the black vote?  As word gets out on this way of looking at THEM, these THEM may get the idea of “sticking it to the Man” politically is not such a bad thing to do.  Why?

Charlie Black goes right into it:

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