This from Instapundit on the topic of someone in the act of carry at work:

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Oklahoma City beheading: Will jihad-style attack boost ‘bring gun to work’ laws? “Moore Police Sgt. Jeremy Lewis told the Associated Press that Vaughan’s decision to carry a weapon to work made a big difference in the outcome of the attack. The situation ‘could have gotten a lot worse’ if Vaughan didn’t have this gun, said Sgt. Lewis. ‘This was not going to stop if [Vaughan] didn’t stop it.’”

Plus, some no-nonsense thoughts from Tam: “While a gun in the parking lot might be a few minutes closer than the gun in the holster of a responding cop, the fastest response is the gun you have on your person right then.”

The Natural Right of Self-Defense.  I do dryly notice that Moms Demand Action’s FB page has NOTHING about the Oklahoma beheading where a good guy with a gun on the premises stopped a second Mom from losing her head. Nein, nadda, nothing, zippo.

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 “We can’t let divisions between conservatives cause us to forfeit elections to big government.”

In the midterms “everything is at stake,” he [Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)] added, and “arguments within the family” should be laid to rest to get the party past the finish line. “The appropriate time for it has passed, at least until after the general election,” the senator said, noting that once the GOP gets the majority the party can then have “robust discussion about what our priorities should be.”

Seriously??  You don’t know what you’re gonna do until you win?? Even just to say that before the election?  And then they wonder we in the base keep having WTF thoughts?  This is supposed to engender Trust? You want us to vote for you and you don’t know what you are going to do?? Is it only me that thinks this makes sense??

Winning is merely a precursor – it is what you do afterwards that is most important.

So according to Cornyn, we in the base are just supposed to

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Need proof that you can’t just vote anywhere you feel like it?  There’s a US Supreme Court Case that Indiana won to prevent non-residents from stealing votes, but if you’d like something more recent, we’ve got this – much closer to home.

(Christina “Tita”) Ayala allegedly voted in various Bridgeport (CT) Democratic Town Committee elections, a municipal primary election and a state primary election between 2009 and 2012 in districts inconsistent with the location of her residence, according to the release. She is also accused of voting in the Bridgeport state general election in 2012 in a district where she didn’t live.

Where she didn’t live?  I wonder how they figured out where she did live?   Drivers license? An address on a paycheck?  The address at the bank where she puts that check?   The address on her tax returns?  That place they send the letter to call her jury duty?

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Twinkies disappeared for a while as the bakery (et al) unions overplayed their hands in a power struggle as in who gets to effectively run a company – the company’s owners / managers or the unions (note I didn’t say workers).  The unions wanted control and they wanted more money.  However, in the public marketplace, the consumer makes the final rule and when the profits could not sustain the greedy unions, the company went under (and afterwards, a box of twinkies went for big bucks on eBay).  And now, are we seeing the same thing by the Post Office unions?

The U.S. Postal Service must hire 9,000 employees over the next three months to staff regional part-time post offices as part of a settlement it negotiated with the American Postal Workers Union. The new postal employees will be working at offices that are open for four to six hours a day.

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” beat me, smear me, dirty tricks me, despise me, ostracize me “

I get inundated with eblasts from all kinds of groups including the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committee – to elect Republicans to the US House) and most of them are trying to pry money out of my wallet (like running GraniteGrok is cost-free?).  But this line takes the cake:

• President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid are spending MILLIONS to smear conservatives in the 50 most critical races across the nation.

Bolding of conservatives is by me.  Heck, it hasn’t just been by the Dems, dudes, national level Republicans have acted in the exact same manner.  So did the Establishment Republicans here in NH; we’ve seen that deal before.  The most extreme example, once again, was done by NH State Senator Chuck Morse and NH State Senator Jeb Bradley in steering a ton of money to prop up two of their Insider Senate Circle that scarcely could be considered to be conservative: NH State Senator David “I was too drunk to know” Boutin and NH State Senator Nancy “There was no Supreme Court ruling to make Medicaid Expansion optional!” Stiles.  Tons of money for these two hacks in attacking their truly Conservative opponents whose only “political sin” was to actually take the NH GOP Platform seriously (as opposed to the propped up incumbents).

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State House Dome:

“Right-to-work, or forbidding unions from charging non-members agency fees for negotiating and administering collective bargaining agreements, will also be back next session.  During the 2011-2012 term, lawmakers battled over the issue – which was promoted by House Speaker Bill O’Brien – more than two times before the Senate called a halt to the maneuvering by simply refusing to take it up any more.”

Frankly, if we ARE the Land of the Free and we do cherish the Constitution (First Amendment, Right to Free Association), I have no problem with people voluntarily banding together for whatever reason.  What I do protest is the FORCING of association simply because one wishes to make a living and provide for their families.  It should not be that to sit in a particular chair or at a designated bench or doing some set of tasks that your future is determined by union bosses that, often, are more interested in just power and changing everyone else’s lives (e.g., look at the list of political issues that the NEA or AFT involved themselves in that have NOTHING to do with teaching).

If I was the next Republican Speaker of the NH House dealing with this issue, I would simply emulate 

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