Guest Post By: James Simpson

In North Carolina Republicans took over the North Carolina legislature in 2010, and Charlotte ’s popular Republican mayor, Pat McCrory, won the governor’s mansion in 2012. This gave the GOP full control of the state government for the first time since 1898. In 2013 Governor McCrory signed a new voter ID law, and a fairly strong Republican majority, willing to take political risks, took over leadership of the State Board of Elections (SBOE). The Democrats are having fits.

An interesting email received this week offers a window into how Democrats used to rig the voter game.

A History of Voter Fraud
Vote fraud has been a long-standing tradition in Democrat-controlled North Carolina . For example, in 2012 the Democrat-controlled NC State Board of Elections (SBOE) openly, blatantly violated state election law by partnering with the Obama administration in offering illegal online voter registration. The corrupt administration of Democratic Governor Beverly Purdue—who declined to seek a second term rather than face a certain punishing defeat by McCrory in 2012—did nothing.

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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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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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Yes, I will be casting a vote for NH Governor and for the US Senator from NH in the General Election.  More later on whom.  It is very important that you all come to the polls and vote.  Given how the value of our American Citizenship has declined these last 6 years, our Vote is one of the last (and I contend) most valuable artifacts that accrue to we citizens (and even that is under attack, with California and New York rushing along the track that would allow illegal aliens to vote in elections in those states).  And when you vote, I urge you to consider the philosophy of NOT voting from the top down (e.g., Federal candidates, then State candidates, etc.) but, rather, bottom up.  It seems in many ways that our control of our Government may be slipping away (from we ordinary folks to the folks referred to as the Ruling Class); thus, raise the importance of your local races over those higher up: town, county and then onto the “higher level” races.  After all, you can hold the local folks FAR more accountable than you can those in Concord or DC.

And often, they make decisions that affect you faster and deeper than those further away.  And another thing…

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Read carefully and slowly

One year ago, our dedicated military and civilian personnel at the Washington Navy Yard were targeted in an unspeakable act of violence that took the lives of 12 American patriots. As we remember men and women taken from us so senselessly, we keep close their family and friends, stand with the survivors who continue to heal and pay tribute to the first responders who acted with skill and bravery. At the same time, we continue to improve security at our country’s bases and installations to protect our military and civilian personnel who help keep us safe. One year ago, 12 Americans went to work to protect and strengthen the country they loved. Today, we must do the same – rejecting atrocities like these as the new normal and renewing our call for common-sense reforms that respect our traditions while reducing the gun violence that shatters too many American families every day.

Did you catch what I did?

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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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It is a suitable whipping boy when you need it, and a laxative when you want it…

In a May 2013 speech to a military audience at the National Defense University, Mr. Obama portrayed the law (President Bush’s Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution in 2001) as dated and as a potential blank check to get the U.S. into wars.

“The AUMF is now nearly 12 years old,” he said. “Unless we discipline our thinking, our definitions, our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don’t need to fight, or continue to grant presidents unbound powers more suited for traditional armed conflicts between nation states.”

The White House now claims that President Bush’s Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution gives Mr. Obama the unilateral authority to unbind the colon of presidential power, allowing him to use military force in Iraq whenever it pleases him to do so.

Code Pink, to their credit, object to Obama’s “war mongering” but they’ve found that things are different now…

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