Back in July we were warning people about the influences of (so-called Republican) Bill Greiner (with much respect and admiration to the years of similar warnings that preceded ours).

There are plenty of stories about Bill using his money and political influence to undermine Republicans for office in Bedford or elsewhere, so no one should be surprised to see his name attached to another round of stories about ‘Republicans” supporting Democrats.

Greiner is implicated in putting up signs for Democrat Executive Council candidate Chris Pappas on his commercial property,  along with signs for Republican gubernatorial candidate Walt Havenstein, with ties to similar pairings around the town of Bedford.

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NH State Senate Candidate George Lambert joins us in-studio to talk about the issues and his race against Democrat Donna Soucy in State Senate District 18.

We start with how Soucy is giving George free advertising when she campaign’s against him. Then we discuss personal responsibility with regard to risk and why the state so often over steps its authority on the matter, people’s understanding of what laws actually govern them, what makes up district 18, and the over under on the General election.

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Jeanne Shaheen recently voted to make dissent illegal.   She, and 47 other US Senators, all Democrats, moved to empower congress to decide what, when, where, and how often, someone could engage in dissent. (aka; political speech they do not like.)

Democrats in New Hampshire were predictably mum.  No outrage.  But why would they be outraged?  They’ve been trying to silence dissent for years.

The Democrat objection to the TEA party is not just ideological–most Democrats have no clue what the TEA Party supports.  They have been told that the TEA Party opposes something Democrats want so they must be silenced.

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So true, so true:

Along with the above story, there’s this from Powerline digging into the lies the watermelon environmentalists tell themselves in order to keep working to impoverish everyone….except themselves.

There’s an old line that environmentalists are “watermelons”–green on the outside, red on the inside. A lot of environmentalists will take great offense if you say this: No no! We like economic growth and capitalism just fine! We just want it to be “sustainable,” whatever that means. And don’t ask for specificity about what “sustainability” means in detail, unless you have a lot of time and a full bottle of hootch handy. Before long you’ll figure out that “sustainable” is just a code word for green things we like, and that it has no rigor whatsoever aside from old-fashioned factor-efficiency, which economists figured out over a century ago at least.

But anyway, environmentalists resist being called socialists.

Yet that is exactly what many of them are. They’ve just donned camouflage by using the environment as an excuse to institute socialism by a different means

WP is a mandatory

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“Today’s guest is House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi who will be interviewed by our panel of Jim VandeHei of Politico, Nia-Malika Henderson of the Washington Post, and…Rush Limbaugh.”

That was a line from a post that really kinds was smacking MTP’s new host, Chuck Todd, for effectively living up to Won’s notion that he has to be the center of attraction even as pre-taking over the show, the NBC News head said it shouldn’t be:

“…new vision for “Meet the Press” includes adding a regular panel of journalists who will question guests, something of a return to the venerable show’s original format. “The show needs more edge,” she said. “It needs to be consequential. I think the show had become a talking shop that raked over the cold embers of what had gone on the previous week. The one-on-one conversation belongs to a decade ago.”

Gosh, a better brand of TV opinion journalism?  They’d actually be

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[Adam] Smith’s chief concern was not so much with what man might occasionally achieve when he was at his best but that he should have as little opportunity as possible to do harm when he was at his worst.  It would scarcely be too much to claim that the main merit of individualism which he and his contemporaries advocated is that it is a system under which bad men can do least harm.  It is a social system which does not depend for its functioning on our finding good men for running it, or on all men becoming better than they now are, but which makes use of men in all their given variety and complexity, sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes intelligent and more often stupid.

– F.A. Hayek (economist, author, Professor)

The Founders were similar in their…

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And it all stems from Obama’s worldview and where America fits into it; the problem of ISIS brings it into focus again:

The Obama personal hesitation stems, unfortunately, from reasons unrelated to the military and political issues. Part of his problem is that he cannot bring himself to acknowledge that he was wrong to oppose the Iraqi surge in 2006, and wrong to pull out American troops from Iraq as President. A strong president learns from his past mistakes, but Obama does not.

One reason for his dogged persistence lies in his flawed world view, which deep down, regards the United States (and Israel) as akin to colonial powers, whose actions should always be examined under a presumption of distrust.

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In this segment we are joined by Andrew Langer, president of the Institute for Liberty. The institute for Liberty engages in small business advocacy and exposing executive branch overreach.

In today’s interview we discuss the limiting effect of the current cable televisions broadcast monopoly, broadcast rights, local control, and how content providers and creators could thrive in a more open marketplace. We also explore the cost of the regulatory state on small business, consumers, and the economy.

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This Sunday at the Grappone Center in Concord, New Hampshire, the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies (NHCCS.org) is celebrating Constitution Day 2014.

Doors open at noon and the event runs from 1pm to 8pm.   You must pre-register, which you can do here.

There are two seminar sessions.  Dinner will be served.  Michigan Circuit Court Judge Michael Warren will speak, as well as Constitutional Atty., Joe Bartozzi, and CNHT Chairman Ed Naile.

Vendors welcome.

GraniteGrok will also be there so come to Concord for Constitution Day and stop by our table to see us while you are there.

A pdf of the the flyer and the program are available on the jump.

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When Pres Obama says I hv pen and ph if Congress won't I will he's like the Roosevelts he considers Constitution a nuisance

— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) September 15, 2014

And the Roosevelts and Obama are not the only ones; from my Progressives and the Proper Role of Government post, let me remind you that we can see the disdain for it rolling down their chins:

• NH State Rep. Debra DeSimone (R): “The Constitution is a guideline”
• NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D): “I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.

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Ace of Spades has a great query with regard to the left and their so-called superior social-consciousness narrative.   The high and mighty Nanny-Staters are always appealing to everyone to volunteer time or money to their local (see also global) “community.”

[su_quote] There have been a lot of claims that Obama supporters would pledge to give more selflessly of themselves on behalf of others. Michele Obama famously claimed that Obama won’t permit you to be complacent about all the evils in the world. So here’s my question:

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The caption for the photo on page one of Wednesday’s (9/10/2014) Laconia Daily Sun (laconiadailysun.com) describes the Thomas-Burchell race for County Commissioner as “symbolic of … the poison relationship between the Belknap County commissioners and the controlling majority of the Belknap County Convention”.

The “poison” was created by the Belknap County Commissioners and their special interest supporters in response to the County Convention lawfully and Constitutionally exercising their duties to control the Belknap County appropriations to meet the needs of the county and to reflect the wishes of the voters of Belknap County who object to continually increasing county spending and an outrageously expensive 5-Star jail proposal.

The County Commissioners frequently shifted money in the approved County budget.  They have reportedly over-spent by over $200,000 in some areas by shorting funds in other areas.  This shift has been contrary to the lawful budget and without the approval (required for shifting funds) of the County Convention.  The recent court decision indicated that these actions by the County Commissioners were illegal.

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