“But the problem, the 800-pound gorilla sitting calmly in the corner, eating Doritos, and throwing the bags in Putnam’s face is not named. It is the destruction of the traditional two-parent family. Instead of dozens of charts, Putnam needed only one“

And it all stems from that.  I grew up in a broken home and there was no one there to teach me how to be a Dad as I was growing up.  I never learned the real reason why my Mom & Dad split up so I will never know if it was for infidelity or incompatibility.  I do know, regardless of those extreme points, it was a failure of values:  faithfulness, selflessness, love not as an emotion but as a choice of will, responsibility, and other what used to be considered foundational attitudes: those of “the children come before self” and that a promise of “’til death do you part” really was a promise not to be broken.  Yes, a lot of stuff packed in tight.  No, there was no abuse of which I am aware of, so we can let the dog lie.  But I did sense, even as a young boy when it happened, a tad bit of aloneness creeping in.

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Back in October, we called your attention that Seattle decided that it had the right to take from business owners to give to the workers.  And they were JOYOUS about it.  The outright socialist city council member,  Kshama Sawant, put it this way:

“We forced the city establishment to lift the wages of 100,000 low wage workers in Seattle – to transfer $3 billion from business to workers at the bottom of the wage scale over the next 10 years. We did this. Workers did this.

And now we are going to see how Kshama Sawant’s economic experiment is going to fair; it is starting to show exactly what they have done to themselves:

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And that would be Glenn Beck – Allahpundit reports and then opines:

… And who can blame him after the big cave on executive amnesty? Remember, the DHS funding debacle wasn’t just a Republican capitulation to Obama on separation of powers. It was a sham from the beginning, a bogus fight the GOP set up to show conservatives that they’re pretend-serious about resisting Obama but don’t quite have the numbers to force a meaningful confrontation on the issue … even though they now hold a majority of seats in both chambers. How do you keep a party together when the leadership disdains its own base and their priorities and the base knows that and disdains them right back? Is there anything holding it together at this point beyond the simple math involved in coalition-building?

And then he uses one of my questions (“we may not win but you will surely lose”) using different words:

GOP minus tea partiers equals President Hillary, right?

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A bill to allow 30 days for a name or address change to a drivers license or vehicle registration (instead of 10) has undergone a miraculous transformation.  It is now a DOT funding and g’ass’ tax bill.

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Amend the title of the bill by replacing 1 it with the following:

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Former House Rep Emily Sandblade joins us along with Susan Olsen to discuss everything from Hillary Clinton, to what you can learn at Liberty forum, to State Senators, default budgets, The Regular folk and politics, and how liberals are always one twig-snap away from resorting to violence.

Follow us on YouTube, USTREAM, Facebook, and Twitter …and take us with you on iTunes, iHeart Radio, Spreaker, TuneIn, or Stitcher.

Links to previous segments available on the jump

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The world is a mess.  The upper class has more upper and the lower class has more lower and the middle class–whomever those rubes may be–are still struggling.  These are the turbulent times in which we find ourselves (still) after two terms under some fellow named Barack Obama.  After years with complete Democrat majorities in congress, two of those with that Obama-fellow in the oval office,  and 8 years with Harry Reid running a Democrat dominant Senate, there is nothing to show for it but epic spending, massive government overreach, bureaucratic tyranny, double the national debt, and continued economic inequality.

And according to this letter signed by #27NHDemocrats it is time for change.  What is this change they seek?  They’d like to see an ideological clone of Barack Obama run for president.

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And they are not kidding.  We have written about this before – upon hearing ANY kind of disagreement from anyone, they immediately run, not to confront the issue, but to denounce, demonize, and delegitimize that person.  And then they call for banishment.  No, there is no discussion, no debate on the points – they simply wish to destroy.  Remember Brendan Eich?  And we are seeing it again in the case of Lieutenant Commander Wesley Modder, a Navy Chaplain who is being drummed out of the Navy simply for talking about his Biblical religious beliefs concerning marriage and sex (here, here, here, here, here).

Al Gore, former US President and Warmist (who has grown rich selling “carbon indulgences”) is also of the same mind: disagree with me and you will pay:

Former Vice President Al Gore on Friday called onSXSW attendees to punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting “accepted science.”

Trust me – if he could, he’d have ANYONE pay a prices that doesn’t participate in his brand of groupthink.

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Rumor has it that the Jaspercrats will be proposing an amendment to HB 357 today when the bill is exec’d by Finance at 10am (LOB212).  The amendment will be to raise the state gas tax to end years of “one-time” fixes to DOT funding.

This new tax could be proposed by either a Democrat or a Republican (any Jaspercrat will do.)  My sources indicate that leadership is backing the hike without backing it, and finance chair Neal Kurk has said he’d not propose a gas tax hike but he would support it if someone else did.

So the pieces are all in place for ‘republican’ backed hike to the NH gas tax.

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The NH House killed HB 373, dismissing it as another nuisance bill.  The problem?  It was proposed by 4th graders who were in the gallery when it failed.

(NH1) CONCORD – Fourth graders from Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls received a warm welcome at the State House last Thursday. They and their teacher, James Cutting, were guests in the Gallery.

That reception quickly turned chilly as students got a glimpse of the cold, harsh realities of politics in the Granite State.

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[This donation page was for Jerry’s injuries from falling off his roof last March and has nothing to do with events in March 2016]

Many of you already know that Jerry DeLeums has been in the hospital trying to recover from a fractured pelvis and a number of complications related to that.  Because of his injury he will be unable to work for quite some time so a fundraising page has been set up for donations to help Jerry while he if off his feet.

Please take a moment to make a donation today (Link has expired).  Every little bit helps.

Thank you.

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