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Why did Obama’s FDA Ban Trans-Fats…
Once consumers heard about the risks associated with trans fats, they began avoiding them, and businesses consequently stopped using them as much. Between 1980 and 2009, Americans’ consumption of trans fats dropped around a third (as did our intake of saturated fats.) The FDA claims that“trans fat intake among American consumers has declined from 4.6 grams per day in 2003 to about 1 gram per day in 2012.”
Prepared by Frank O’Brien, the Progressives’ 2012 anti-gun messaging primer, I give you one little snippet:
‘According to the Obama administration, in too many neighborhoods “housing choices continue to be constrained through housing discrimination, the operation of housing markets, [and] investment choices by holders of capital.”’ – Marc Thiessen
We’ll be interviewing author Jim Simpson on Saturday about his new book, RedGreen Axis – Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America. As a primer to that I attended and recorded a power-point overview on the book by the author. Here is an excerpt from the Forward. The video is below.
One of the most insidious aspects of the stealthy, subversive activities the Muslim Brotherhood calls “civilization jihad” is the collaborative partnership with the hard Left that enables it. We call this partnership the “red-green axis” – the conjoining of the socialist/communist radicals and the Islamic supremacists that has made the latter’s efforts in the West considerably more successful than would otherwise likely be the case.
In this extraordinary study, investigative reporter Jim Simpson… pulls back the curtain on a practice that has been going on for years with a view to, in President Obama’s words, “fundamentally transform” America.
H/T Kimberly Morin
A little something I found in my inbox: Yeah… we’re living in sane times.
Rachel Dolezal Resigned yesterday as president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Federalist “It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley,” Dolezal wrote. Dolezal, who is a professor of … Read more
…I’ll say it again: Liberals are the aggressors in the culture war. The only shocking thing about that statement is that it ever shocks liberals. On their own terms, they take pride in being “change agents” and “forces of progress.” But the moment anyone attempts to defend themselves against the social-justice warriors, they are treated … Read more
New Hampshire’s Senior Senator, Jeanne Shaheen speaks for every Congressional delegation, and most if not all Democrats in our state, when she talks about New Hampshire being a donor state. For those not versed, it means we give more tax dollars to the Federal Government than it gives back. The Democrats, with Shaheen in the lead, evoke this disparity as justification for whatever legislative gymnastics may be required to correct the described injustice (created, ironically, by generations of like-minded, meddling, top-down, progressives like Jeanne Shaheen).
House Rep Frank Edelblut synthesizes the path to legislative success (and failure?) in under ten minutes; your caucus (your party) needs a vision, and then a legislative strategy to achieve it, but reality is often something very different. (And yes, I forgot the stingers before and after…) Learn more about the 603 Alliance at http://603Alliance.org … Read more
“The administration proposes to change the definition of “technical data” in such a way that mere public discussion of technical gun data–virtually identical to what you can find on any gunowner forum on the Internet–will be treated as a violation of federal weapons export laws. Second, the administration proposes to treat software itself as a … Read more
c/o RedState: The DNC is selling travel mugs. In a special “order in time for Fathers Day” email the official DNC Store offers this item for $30.00. It’s the latest Greatest Democrat Hate for Dads.
“A tyranny based on … deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.” – Albert Einstein
Is your state transportation budget running on fumes? That’s the colorful metaphor most commonly employed when budget writers gather to discuss money for roads and bridges. It elicits a mental picture of a vehicle sputtering to the side of the road, the fuel needle shivering near empty. We then shift to the lone traveler marching … Read more
“The earlier America didn’t need an experienced thug for president. It could rely on its freedom to be a superior, productive society as a trump. For it was the country — not the elites — that beat its rivals. When you let America be itself it simply overwhelmed the opposition. All the cleverness of Hitler … Read more
Stephen Forster has been prohibited from conducting weddings or similar events on his farm by the Town of Henniker based on their interpretation of zoning limitations. The state court has decided in favor or the town. Justice Hicks was the lone dissenter in the opinion. People interested in protecting property rights and legislators looking to amend the law should read it.
The entire court decision can be found here.
HICKS, J., dissenting. It is abundantly clear that none of my four colleagues have spent a summer in East Colebrook, an area where weddings on farms are customary. Today, the majority holds that the trial court properly determined that hosting weddings and like events is not a permitted use in Henniker’s rural residential district. The majority offers two separate and independent rationales for its decision:
The Blaze is reporting that a professional reporter was rejected from the press pool covering her Pants Suitness, Hillarity Clinton. The potential pool reporter prohibited from doing his job was David Martosko, the U.S. political editor for the U.K. ’s Daily Mail. The individual credited with keeping this reporter away from a presidential candidate in … Read more
On June 15, a Committee of Conference on SB 40 met at the NH State House. This Committee met to look at Fetal Homicide bill, SB 40. In a nutshell, the House recently passed HB 560 which offered families the ability to seek justice in the NH court system for a preborn (beginning at eight weeks) killed during a criminal act. Abortion was specifically exempted in this bill.
Meanwhile, the NH State Senate passed SB 40 which contained the following “viability” requirement: “sustained extrauterine survival”. Americans United for Life offered the following testimony at the SB 40 Senate hearing,