Dartmouth College Campus Police Will Be There…To File the Reports

UK Daily Mail c/o Susan Olsen on Facebook Taylor Woolrich, 20, says the university refused her request to carry a concealed firearm on campus to defend herself from Richard Bennett, 67, who she claims been stalking her since she was 16. Bennett is currently sitting behind bars in California on charges of violating a restraining … Read more

Education Matters – Ann Marie Banfield

I just scooped this up off of YouTube.  Ann Marie Banfield, the occasional GrokTALK! guest and GraniteGrok contributor from Cornerstone Policy Research, talks about the upcoming Aug 11th, Manchester School board meeting and why parents need to be there to talk about the ‘educational standards’ the board is proposing for their children.

Blogline of the Day – Resolve vs Snotty

“His [Obama’s] greatest rhetorical skill turns out to be mockery. The man who once promised to transcend political divisions is an expert at the stinging partisan jab. What Churchill was to thundering statements of resolve, he is to snotty put-downs.” – Rich Lowry (syndicated columnist, National Review editor, TV pundit)  

GIGO Gecko-more proof that Obama’s EPA is killing coal & making electricity prices rise

Laser Beam on Coal JobsGIGO Gecko, a new commenter, decided to challenge my post on rising electricity prices (now at an all time average high) which I peg, in no small part, to the EPA’s new regulations on CO2 emissions that carry out Obama’s promise in closing coal fired electrical generating plants – or cause the to go into bankruptcy.  So much so, several States are banding together in suing the EPA to put a halt do it.  The operational questions are these:

Does, OR SHOULD, a solitary regulatory agency be able to kill off an entire industry?  Should the Administrative State have this power – or is this a usurpation of the responsibilities of Congress?

Which, as we know, decided to NOT take action to this Cap N Trade kill-a-like as it could not agree on the issue.  Which should NEVER been seen, as Obama and other Progressives would have us believe, as a signal to the Executive Branch to do it on its own. – that is not how our political system works.  But GIGO Gecko is aghast that I think that is exactly what is happening, so Lizardly Obama Apologist, this is for you:

“I have never asked for handouts from the people around me or from the government.  I want to pay my own way. I want to work.  I want to feel pride in my work.”

Here, we see a coal miner seeing his government 

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Democrats Obsessed with “Impeaching Obama”

keep-calm-and-impeach-obamaThis will not surprise anyone who spends time inside the sausage factory, but the majority of talk about impeaching President Obama is coming from Democrats.  They are obsessed with using it to fund raise, rile up the base, scare independents away from the GOP, whatever it takes.

But this is a lot like a media flack in a debate asking Mitt Romney his opinion on states banning Birth control?  No states were considering it.  It was a planted question whose purpose was to launch a planned narrative.  The Impeachment thing is no different.

From The Hill c/o Hot Air

Since the start of the 113th Congress last year, Democrats have used the word “impeach” or “impeachment” regarding Obama 86 times, according to a review of the Congressional Record by The Hill.

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A paen to Bubbles’ future

Don’t ask about the title – inside joke.  That person will “get” it. (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

GrokTALK! Aug 2nd, 2014 with Brendan Kelly

Next Up on GrokTALK! Brendan Kelly.  Brendan calls in to discuss his primary race to challenge Carol Shea-Porter in New Hampshire Congressional District One.   We talk candidates, issues, how the press doesn’t take his campaign seriously, and  a lot more… Audio – 30 Min – Brendan Kelly – Candidate NH CD-1 You Can Also … Read more

Still, Progressives don’t understand why we don’t accept their “brilliance”?

Africa is now a country!

Yeah, such a show of brilliance!  For their underlying philosophy is that Government is FULL of smarter people than the rest of us “little people” who not only need but WANT them to lead us.  And that these folks are totally non-partisan to boot. Snort!  First we get our esteemed gaffe-a-matic Vice President Biden wonderfully making a whole continent smaller.  Get the rewrite of the geography books, globes, and charts ready:

“…But gaffe he did, in front of 50 world leaders and their entourages at the event held on the sidelines of President Barack Obama’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.

…Africa is a continent made up of 54 separate countries, including island nations off its coastlines.

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Shades of Ian Underwood – especially when the police start saying it

of the Constitution?During the NH anti-gun bills debates, a gentleman by the name of Ian Underwood gave his testimony  to the NH Legislature on what he saw as a large problem in the legislators’ behavior in ignoring their oaths of fidelity to the NH Constitution:

The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very rule of law itself. After all, if the legislature isn’t going to respect the limits placed on it by the NH Constitution, then why should individuals respect the limits placed on them by that legislature — whether regarding guns, or schools, or traffic laws, or anything else?  

If we’re going to disregard the big rules, why pay any attention to the smaller ones?

The meme is spreading, especially with Obama’s ongoing examples contra the Constitution (“I will act alone”). I have seen and heard it many times now – mostly from those that DO believe that The Rule of Law (once absolute measure of “social justice” as ALL Americans were subject to the same Laws and in the same ways) is a founding Pillar of this Republic that now are frightened.  They are scared that it is being pushed out of the way so as “to make Progress” (as defined by the Left); Progressivism demands that The Rule of Law be ignored, that The Rule of Law must give way to the “pragmatism of the moment” (or crisis, as it might be) – principles be damned.  They know that once ignored,

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Notable Quote – Jonah Goldberg on the ravages of Progressive Woodrow Wilson on America

“I believe it is no exaggeration,” wrote sociologist Robert Nisbet, “to say that the West’s first real experience with totalitarianism — political absolutism extended into every possible area of culture and society, education, religion, industry, the arts, local community and family included, with a kind of terror always waiting in the wings — came with … Read more

About Those ‘Social Issues’

A snippet from Selwyn Duke – American Thinker… rebutting the notion that government should stay out of ‘social issues.’ As I predicted years ago and wrote about here, there now is a movement afoot — one that has received “unbiased” mainstream-media news coverage — to legitimize pedophilia. Moreover, it has co-opted the language of the … Read more

“… when there are only a few of us left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land ..”

The Obama’s hosted 50 leaders from Africa this week, many of them tyrants and dictators. The red carpet was rolled out for Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who shot or jailed virtually all his political opponents, Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh, who threatened to ‘cut off the head’ of any homosexuals in the country and for … Read more

Gov Transparency Site Misses $619 billion, Data They Do Have is Wildly Inaccurate

Doug Powers – Michelle Malkin.com Transparency we can believe in? A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found. And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate, according to the Government Accountability Office, which looked at 2012 spending … Read more

Red Box Review: Divergent

divergent_poster_hqBefore I get all political, let me say that I enjoyed the movie, Divergent.  I liked the characters, and took an interest in their circumstances, even though I had a hard time suspending disbelief with regard to the world they live in.

Divergent is set in a classic post-apocalyptic progressive utopian society.  Human natures and people in general suck so  experts created an isolated society (in what is left of Chicago) where people are divided into groups with specific roles for which they are “best suited.”

You grow up in the faction your parents chose to live and work in until you ‘come of age’ you are given a test that is supposed to tell you to which the five factions you are most mentally predisposed. 

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So, Hamas keeps denying they shoot rockets from civilian areas?

I keep thinking that the Israeli-Hamas war is like that between the idea war between Republicans and Democrats.  Both Hamas and Democrat / Lefties are good at emotional demagoguery relying on both heartstrings and low info population and both pretty much use “its for the children” (albeit in somewhat different ways).  But occasionally, facts do crop up … Read more

Blogline of the Day – Israel vs Hamas

If Hamas got its way in Gaza, it would look a lot like the Islamic State in Iraq. If Israel got its way, Gaza would look a lot like Santa Monica. Just sayin’ . . . – Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit

Celebrate Gary Lambert’s Rigorous 40 Days and 40 Nights of Campaign Finance Review

hand and rainOn July 22nd John DiStaso at NH Journal posted a story about some questionable contributions received by the Lambert campaign.  One-term NH State Senator Gary Lambert is in a primary to challenge Democrat Ann Kuster for congress in NH-CD2.

Lambert for Congress accepted a $1,000 contribution on June 30 from The Palmier Foundation, which is described by its founder, Boston investment firm head Dan Palmier, on his web site, as a “501(c)(3) charitable corporation created for the purpose of ‘giving back.’”

The Internal Revenue Code prohibits 501(c)(3) charitable organizations from contributing to candidates for federal office.

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