I first picked up the story of 20-year-old Dartmouth College Student Taylor Woolrich when Susan Olsen posted a link from the UK Daily Mail on Facebook.   The issue was that of a college student with a stalker who had requested the right to carry concealed on campus for her own safety but had been denied.

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Democrats are running as Republicans in Goffstown, NH.  The Town committee knows it.  The Hillsborough County Republican Committee knows it.  Elected Republicans know it, and some have been vocal about the problem.  But no one in Republican party leadership seems willing or able to do anything about it.

This is an ongoing problem in Goffstown, by the way, which we’ll get to eventually, but let us start with something simple.  Barbara J. Griffin.

Barbara J. Griffin is running for the NH House from Goffstown as a Republican.  This is an ideological calling she adopted just before the candidate filing deadline.  She did it because her political agenda would never win her a house seat in that town unless she lied to the voters about who she really is, and what she would do once elected.

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More and more I keep having discussions that I NEVER would have believed that I’d be having a lot with folks that I otherwise find to be very sober and sober-minded.  Topics that I would never thought to hear, which in the past would be considered tin-hat conspiracy theories, are coming up more and more.  So why should I be surprised at this post headline that seems to fit right into what seems to be a never ending series of “dense pack” crisis, one leading to the next one in rapid succession:

Obama presides over unraveling of his predecessors’ foreign policy accomplishments

I am a news and politics junkie – I may not be a an expert on any one topic but I think I know more than just a little about quite a bit.  I can’t, for the life of me, think of a single instance, a single area, in which the US is still seen to be trustworthy, a stalwart ally, taking the good side, and doing a good job.  It seems that Obama has the Midas touch – everything in the foreign policy arena is (or has already) turned into a rusty muffler.  NOwhere has there been success unless it is viewed from the lens of Determined Weakness – everything in the Obama Administration’s term has turned Orwellian in that the good is now an ill, virtue is now a vice, encouragement is now a beat down, rugged individualism is now to be seen as anti-social, success is to be diminished, being on the dole lifts one up as High Victimhood, and voluntary association (& the ability to NOT be associated) has been replaced by forced collectivism. 

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GraniteGrok is both flattered and confused.  The Lambert for Congress campaign recently sent out a mailer in which they referenced a web address attached to a video we posted here.

Along side the link address were additional references supporting the same claim cited as “Ernst & Young Study September 2011, Shapiro McArthur Study June 2009.

The claim in the mailer was that Marilinda Garcia supports 150 Billion in new taxes that would kill over 500,000 American jobs.

This is an incredible claim, and not simply because it is hyperbolic.   It is incredible because the odds of you finding any credible corroboration of the accusation, given the references provided on the mailer are near to nil.

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In a lot of ways, the MSM has brought this upon themselves – plummeting ad revenue and dropping subscriber numbers.  Part of it has been the Internet but to a large degree, and there are no small number of folks that would agree with me, it has been the ever leftward inching that the media outlets have been taking.  In many cases, they’ve also been making sport of conservatives and those on the Right (and Libertarians) who have resisted the communitarianism of today’s “conventional wisdom” of Progressivism.  After all, ask most journalists what they think of the three TEA Party Principles (and not the TEA Party itself) – you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from most, and in a lot of ways the same talking points, from Democrat operatives / activists.  When you insult, repeatedly, half your current potential audience, bad things happen.  Like at the Telegraph:

Longtime Concord reporter Kevin Landrigan laid off by Nashua Telegraph
Newspaper decides to shut its State House Bureau

The Telegraph of Nashua has closed its State House bureau, laying off Kevin Landrigan, a journalistic institution in Concord for a generation. Telegraph editor Phil Kincade in a memo sent to yesterday to the staff said that the decision to close the bureau, “part of the recent newsroom staff adjustments … was an extremely difficult to make, not just because of the hole it creates in our news coverage, but it also means saying goodbye to one of the Telegraph’s most loyal, hard working and respected employees.”

Been there, laid off there during the 80s as the minicomputer industry got “creative destructed” by first the workstation industry which, in turn, got obsoleted by the PC industry.  It’s no fun and it does hurt.  But no room somewhere else from what Kincade is calling their #1 employee? 

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David French over at The Corner has 6 simple reasons why Obama should be trying to defeat ISIS NOW instead of waiting for their Jihad to hit us in a little while:

Let’s make this simple, shall we?

1. Al-Qaeda carried out the deadliest attack on American soil in American historyand the most devastating foreign attack against an American city since the British occupied and burned Washington during the War of 1812.
2. ISIS is more brutal than al-Qaeda.
3. ISIS has more financial resources than al-Qaeda.
4. ISIS controls more territory — and possesses more firepower – than al-Qaeda.
5. ISIS has seized uranium in sufficient quantities to make a radiological weapon, a dirty bomb.
6. The leader of ISIS declared to his former American captors, “See you in New York,” and ISIS militants have pledged to raise the black flag of jihad over the White House.

In other words, ISIS is more capable in every way than the terrorists that hit America so hard on 9/11.

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Part 1.  Judgment time.  The question is, was this good judgment on the part by one of the most powerful elected officials in NH – haranguing other people in a bar simply because he didn’t have the judgment to shut himself off?  In fact, you can hear someone in the video saying exactly that – in wondering if he was a State Rep (not knowing he was a NH State Senator): “They should have shut him off three hours ago!”

“I wish you’d shown me the way to go home
I’m drunk and I oughta to go to bed
I started having drinks about three hours ago
And they went right to my head…”

 Now, please note that I am not passing judgment – at least not at this time.  I don’t drink (other than a single sip of champagne at a wedding or New Years’ party merely to be polite) and there is no alcohol in my house (‘cept maybe a couple of small dusty bottles of cooking sherry in a back kitchen cabinet).  Why?  I am the son of an Irish drunk; I learned

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You’ve probably seen this by now but if not, it is an open letter from Bob Smith for Senate to the Republican National Committee.  The Aug 9th letter points out to the RNC, that they are not supposed to take sides in primaries.  They are fundraising off polling between Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and some guy named Scott Brown, but there are three Republican in a primary t challenge Jeanne Shaheen.

Isn’t that one of those commandments we hear about?  The RNC shalt not fund raise off just one candidate in a primary…unless it is the Democrat.

In this case, the RNC is raising money off polling between one of the three Republican candidates and the Democrat.

Tisk Tisk.

Subject line: Open Letter of Complaint to RNC

For Immediate Release

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Low intelligence estimates have forced our Black American President to have to kill brown people in the Middle East.

No word on how many terrorists will be ‘recruited’ as a result of this latest “The Man” caused contingency operation, but don’t expect any estimates from the ‘situation room’ in Maratha’s Vineyard or from the media.  They stopped real reporting on wars (body counts, the pulse of the Muslim Street) as soon as the light-bringer was immaculated.

Also waiting on clarification as to how these terrorists overthrowing another government are not part of the Arab Spring like they were in Egypt, Libya, and Syria.

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“When you’re part of a society, you can’t separate yourself from the obligations that citizens have”

Independent; rugged individualism; self-responsibility.  The old maxim (quick, good, or cheap) is to pick two and call me back.  Ginsburg can’t as it is obvious, just as the Left believes, those attributes are just archaic.  Sure, they worked when our country was formed and the Constitution was written, but that’s just so old and well, people can’t make it on their own anymore without the help of others.  But the Left goes further than that – to a forced communitariansm in which the Government dragoons you into “helping” or being “charitable” towards others. Doubt me?  This is what she said concerning the Hobby Lobby decision:

“The decision that an employer could refuse to cover contraceptives meant that women would have to take care of that for themselves or the men who cared,” Ginsburg replied. “Contraceptive protection is something that every woman must have access to to control her own destiny,” she added.

What a concept, that “that women would have to take care of…themselves“! For thousands of years, that is the way it was.  But you see,

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Cleveland judge accused of beating wife had 2,500 rounds of ammunition, semi-automatic rifles, sword and smoke grenades in home

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Police confiscated smoke grenades, semi-automatic rifles, a sword, a bulletproof vest and more than 2,500 rounds of ammunition from the home of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Lance Mason’s home, according to a police report.

I.E., lazy.  This Is Supposed To Be A Big Deal – and the headline writer is sure to let us know that.  Not that the judge punched his wife with a closed fist, but that he had what GOD KNOWS is a veritable arms warehouse!   Seriously, must have been an eye opener for the reporter – only drug dealers and other nefarious folks are supposed to have that much!  Thankfully, I can say that while I do know some reporters (that I would also call journalists) that shoot, I’m quite sure that most MSM reporters haven’t a clue.  To a lot of my friends, that might be 4 or 5 trips to the range – on slow days.   I also do know folks that have FAR more than that – especially those that practice a lot for competitions (in fact, WAY, WAY more that other shooters would go “really”???).  But here, this is supposed to be A Big Deal.  No – most of the folks I know that shoot on a regular basis will just shake their heads at this “breathless headline”.  But admittedly, the rest of this is not a good thing (to be complete):

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