Zandra Rice Hawkins is — what did I call her –just another paid progressive lobbyist hiding in the issue-advocacy bunker and a full-time Democrat party operative.  All she knows is the party narrative.  How else could she have embarrassed herself so badly in front of so many people at the SB 116 hearing on Thursday?

Consider her premise.  The presence of concealed firearms increases the likelihood that an everyday disagreement will escalate in to a shoot out.  There is no evidence of this and FBI statistics bear this out year after year, right here in New Hampshire where we consistently have one of the lowest homicide rates in the nation; and in neighboring Vermont also one of the lowest—-where they have constitutional carry already!

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An adaption from that old saw of “If you are going to kill the King, KILL THE KING!” – do the deed and do it quick or the King WILL retaliate and will do it at the price of your life (and those that helped, and perhaps with a few others thrown in a la “will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?“).  Here we see the country of Jordon, whose 26 year old pilot was captured by ISIS, waging war – no pattycake in the future of the ISIS prisoners they hold:

‘Kill our pilot and we’ll execute ALL your prisoners’: Jordan ‘says it will hang its ISIS captives’ if airman hostage is dead

Jordan has threatened to fast-track the execution of a would-be suicide bomber the Islamic State is trying to free if the terror group kills its captured pilot, it was reported today. The government has apparently warned that Sajida al-Rishawi and other jailed ISIS commanders would be ‘quickly judged and sentenced’ in revenge for Muath al-Kaseasbeh’s death.

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Steve put up the video of Ted Cruz interviewing Obama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch.  I listened to it and was amazed at how much “no answer’ answers the nominee can get away with.  And as the commenters to his post agher here. Paul Mirengoff of Powerline was live-blogging the Loretta Lynch hearing today and wrote this on Senator Vitter’s questions – and it caught my eye (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Vitter asks for the statutory basis for having the decisions on deportation made by DHS when the statute says its to be made by DoJ. Lynch won’t answer.  Vitter turns to mandatory minimums. They are in the statute, so why shouldn’t they be enforced whether we agree with them or not? Lynch cites limited resources and the need to prioritize.  But, as Vitter says, this makes the mandatory minimums non-mandatory and allows bureaucrats to override Congress.

This is the defining characteristic of Holder’s lawless reign at DoJ. And in no instance today has Lynch shown any discomfort with it. Indeed, as just occurred in response to Vitter, she has embraced it.

How many Republican Senators will accept this lawlessness by voting to confirm Lynch? The answer, it appears, is more than enough to confirm Lynch.

As a former NH AG, Kelly Ayotte was appointed twice to enforce The Law.

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Like all good Progressives, the fronts for former NYC mayor (and billionaire) Bloomberg called Everytown and Moms Demand Action have no compunction about screaming for Government to take everyone’s guns away – the quintessential Progressive tactic of punishing everyone for the sins of the few.  They go after Joe Six-pack – the guys and gals that are law abiding that simply wish to use their Second Amendment Right.  For the former, it is only about guns, for the latter, it IS about the Constitution.  Thus, there is no compromise for truth be told, the Bloomberg astro-turf groups will always find one more reason to not stop and say “this is enough” for like most Progressives (re: taxes), there is never enough in and for their demands.  We know the ideology reigns supreme because we HARDLY here them speak about this kind of gun violence.  From the LA Times piece talking about violence – gang violence:

Violence tied to gangs remained the leading motive for homicides in L.A., at 160 killings, or about 62% of the city’s total — up from 145 such killings in 2013. The LAPD’s 77^th Street Division saw a 59% increase in gang-related homicides (16 more killings) compared with 2013, which Beck attributed to a couple of “strong gang conflicts.”

Street killings are linked to gang violence, Beck said, which can help explain why more than half (about 53%) of the city’s homicides occurred on a street or sidewalk.

“If we could eliminate gang homicides, 

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In today’s Granite Status was this piece about what the Warren B. Rudman Center wants: Bringing campaigning back to the living room (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The executive director of the Warren B. Rudman Center is working to crystallize some of what makes the New Hampshire Primary so special in a series of public forums.
The ingredients: Ideas, access and engaging, close conversations with leaders.  “People are craving facts and some sense of civil discourse,” Broderick says.

I don’t see this as a big surprise.  What did surprise me was near the end of the article was this piece of pablum pie-in-the-sky:

Snowe, the author of “Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix The Stalemate in Congress,” said at the Rudman Center that Republicans and Democrats need to spend more time working across the aisle and less time working the donor phonebanks.

Snowe, the author of “Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix The Stalemate in Congress,” said at the Rudman Center that Republicans and Democrats need to spend more time working across the aisle and less time working the donor phonebanks.  “I think we have to jettison the red and blue state approach and unite under the red, white and blue because that’s what it’s about,” Snowe said. “It’s about the entire country.”

I have the same thing to say here that I said to someone in active in NH politics tonite concerning

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“The presence of concealed guns increases the risk that an everyday disagreement will escalate into shootouts,” said Zandra Rice-Hawkins of the (out of state funded progressive)  advocacy group Granite State Progress.

I added the “out of state funded progressive” part because that happens to be right on target.  But if Zandra Fruit-loops Hawkins from the out of state funded progressive advocacy group Granite State Progress, wants to be taken seriously about the completely fabricated  “constitutional carry will lead to shoot-outs” meme, then she’d better have a list of them for the State of Vermont.

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Yesterday was the Senate Judiciary Committee on SB 116. A bill that makes getting a pistol license optional, allowing legal gun owners to concealed carry without having to go through the license process. There was 4.5 hours of testimony throughout the day. Only four people stood in opposition to the bill and three of them were paid representatives of organizations; the fourth was a person who doesn’t believe in individual rights over the ‘collective’.

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I assume it is still OK to say  Allahu akbar!?

From: Carlos Van Meek 
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:06 AM
To: AJE-Newsdesk; AJE-Output; AJE-DC-Newsroom
Subject: Terrorists, Militants, Fighters and then some… 
 

All: We manage our words carefully around here. So I’d like to bring to your attention some key words that have a tendency of tripping us up. This is straight out of our Style Guide. All media outlets have one of those. So do we. If you’d like to amend, change, tweak.. pls write to Dan Hawaleshka direct who is compiling the updates to the Style Guide and they will be considered based on merit. No mass replies to this email, pls. 

EXTREMIST – Do not use. Avoid characterizing people. Often their actions do the work for the viewer. Could write ‘violent group’ if we’re reporting on Boko Haram agreeing to negotiate with the government. In other words, reporting on a violent group that’s in the news for a non-violent reason.

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The Intimidation continues from the Earl of Metzler and Timberlane Regional School District.

School Board member Donna Green writes (in comments beneath this post):

“Timberlane is considering revising their policy on public participation at school board meetings to limit public comment to only those items on the agenda. In my nearly one year of service on the board, I’ve not been able to get a single one of my agenda requests on a regular meeting agenda. Good luck to members of the public requesting agenda time. Last week one citizen did so and was denied.”

(Video on the jump.  Donna has the complete timeline of relevant events here.)

After this citizen was denied his request, a letter was mailed to him from the SAU’s law firm instructing him to stop communicating with the superintendent. (Letter also on the jump)

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When David Corn, a far Left Progressive writing at  Mother Jones, said that Mitt Romney was (in so many words) a closet Progressive, it left me rather unenthused. After all, a Progressive wanting Mitt – this is what I as a “base” Conservatarian, wants to hear about a guy that I resignedly voted for in the last election (more an anti-vote against Obama versus a throat rendering roar of approval for Mitt).  Extremely nice guy, successful guy, but one who leans more towards Big Government than what I’m comfortable at all with (the epitome of the “Big Government but just slower than the Democrats” kind of Establishment Republican).  And now, Nancy Pelosi???

Pelosi: I hope Romney is the GOP nominee

Mitt Romney has attracted an unlikely supporter in his possible 2016 White House bid: Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).  Asked if Romney has any shot at defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016, Pelosi told The Hill, “No, no. I mean, he might be a nice person — no offense, no offense — [but] let’s save you time.”. A smiling Pelosi added, “Let me put it this way — I hope he’s their nominee.”

Now obviously this could be a Brer Rabbit / briar patch moment – after all, the Democrats beat him the last time (and frankly, I think he beat himself the first time in the Primary).  Do they think

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