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Hot Air File this under ‘Bad Idea.’ Emory University Hospital has been told a patient with the Ebola virus will be transferred to its hospital in Atlanta. According to the Associated Press, the patient is an American aid worker, although the individual’s identity was not released due to privacy laws. Emory says it has a … Read more
Who says there is too much money in Washington DC? In a region filled with dog parks, doggy day care, dog walkers, dog-biscuit bakeries and rooftop dog-washing stations, the canine industrial complex has produced another indulgence: Fido fitness. Frolick bills itself as the Washington area’s first sports club for pets. For $50 a month, dogs … Read more
Democrats must be so proud of Shelia Jackson Lee….
On the House floor Wednesday, longtime Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee made the startling claim that “We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had the authority.”
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Well back in 2008, Rep. Lee co-sponsored House Resolution 1258 entitled “Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. “
Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds signature law limiting power of public-employee unions. The decision was 5-2, with Justice Michael Gableman writing the lead opinion, which found that collective bargaining over a contract with an employer is not a fundamental right for public employees under the constitution. Instead, it’s a benefit that lawmakers can extend or restrict as … Read more
The NH AG’s office has ruled that Governor Maggie Hassan broke the law when she accepted a $25,000.00 dollar bribe campaign contribution from the local electrical workers union, and must return $24,000.00 dollars of that bribe contribution. Concord Fishwrap Gov. Maggie Hassan must return $24,000 of a contribution from a labor union’s political committee to … Read more
Given that none of us are Jesus, is this a way you’d like to try to walk on water? Heck, who jumps out of perfectly good airplanes or off mountains? (H/T: Sploid)
Skip remarked on my post about Jeanne Shaheen’s Senate vote to keep the gas tax money the feds scoop out of all 50 states in DC, instead of returning it back to the states where it belongs. In those remarks he says he slightly disagrees over who is pulling whose strings….
Where I slightly disagree with him is in the reason why Jeanne Shaheen acts in the manner she does – it is not that Jeanne Shaheen represents “lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats” – she merely uses them soley for who (or actually, what) she represents: a “fundamentally transformed” America (look how she “fundamentally transformed healthcare here in NH with promises akin to Obama’s Obamacare ones that turned out radically wrong) they are merely useful idiots; tools, not constituents.
Skip and I do not disagree on the goals of the progressive agenda, its destructive nature, or how to turn things around, but we do appear to disagree in some regard on where or how the power to advance that agenda flows. I think Shaheen is the useful idiot here so I guess I’d better explain why.
One of our upcoming guests this week is Ann Cocoran from the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog. There are a number of excellent resources at the site, including the EAGLE Forum report on how mass legal immigration is certain doom for a Conservative Republican party. (Phyllis Schlafly founded Eagle Forum, by the way.)
Certain doom? Yes, and it’s actually just a very simple calculus.
These concealment shelves are awesome. Check out the other stuff as well here.
Katy Perry is ready to be a mom. Who gives a damn, you say, fair enough. But I counter with this. She says (publicly) that she wants to be a mom but “she doesn’t need a dude, it’s the 21st century.”
Her point is that if she wants a baby she can have one, whether there is a father present in that child’s life or not.
Katy Perry is talented, successful, and filthy rich. Good for her. She worked hard, created something people would pay for, and made millions. But many of her fans, or folks who might be inclined to follow her lead when she makes an off the cuff comment like that, are not.
When is this insanity going to end? We find ourselves with yet another New Hampshire Republican office seeker who has donated sums of money to Democrats, buttering both sides of his bread.
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Gubernatorial candidate Walt Havenstein, donating a ton of money to homesteader-RINOs like Charlie Bass and John McCain, as well as to two Democrats (read here).
Now, we see that Executive Council D-5 candidate (and dear friend of Kelly Ayotte) Steve Hattamer has (and continues) to do the same.
Like Havenstein’s Democrats, these are likely friends or old college buddies of Hattamer. But friend or not – these Democrats do damage to our Republic and there is NO EXCUSE for this type of behavior.
Let’s look at Hattamer’s Democrat contributions….shall we?
Steve has a most important post up today where he brings up that Jeanne Shaheen, regardless of her campaign ads or sound bytes, is not really interested in the people of NH (but gets it very slightly wrong). Emphasis mine, a bit of reformatting:
I can’t say it often enough. We need to elect Senators and congress-people who are less interested in taking credit for getting some fraction of our money back and more interested in making sure it never leaves New Hampshire in the first place. We send them to DC to ensure that we, as a state, have the most opportunity to decide our own destiny, be it roads and bridges, health care, education, property rights, or the defense of our natural rights. But Democrats go to DC to do exactly the opposite. They consistently vote to bring more money through DC, to make more decisions in the US capitol, and to keep our tax dollar running through that offshore-bankrupt District of Columbia instead of in Concord or your home town.
This vote is just one more example of who Democrats like Jeanne Shaheen really represent; lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats. Preferably, as far away from us as possible.
Steve is EXACTLY right – the money that is made in NH (which IS earned private property), the wealth that created, should stay in NH and not taken from us. The Founders, with their sense of Federalism that put the States first, would approve of his outlook – me, too. The best control is when local people have it – and not when it is translated to far away. He is right in that Democrats get elected “to make more decisions in the US capitol” than at the State level if elected to the national level. They also do it at the State level – to paraphrase Steve, “to make more decisions in the State capitol, Concord” than at local level if elected to the State level. Correspondingly, it also works at the City or town level than by individual or families make their own decisions.
Where I slightly disagree with him is
Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” by Home Fire (H/T: The Blaze): I am a sucker for a capella groups with extremely tight melodies – and in this arrangement of the song, we get to see the basses front and center. Jealous of their talent – always wanted that basso profundo low voice – that last … Read more
Charlie Arlinghaus in the Union leader.
Some clever politicians, though, have figured out what might be called an end run. One way they can see more money but not technically vote to raise taxes is to get an administrator to “close a loophole” or “clarify the application of the tax.” Both of these things seem reasonable, but both are open to abuse.
A loophole may exist because of an error in language that didn’t capture legislative intent. But more often, the tax was applied to certain things, with other categories intentionally left out. What gets described as a “loophole” is merely an attempt to extend the tax to things the original law was not meant to tax.
Charlie’s larger point is that this is not how it should be done, but that it is neither new nor necessarily nefarious.
Would that make it politics as usual? And as an afterthought, how many instances of this sort of bureaucratic end-arounding have occurred under the willful guidance of Democrat Governors?
Ace “A woman must keep her moral rectitude, she must not laugh out loud in public,” stated the Turkish Vice Prime Minister, Bulent Arinc, sparking a controversy Tuesday in Turkey… You have to wonder what they were laughing at. Our own modern female paladin of a Governor, Maggie Hassan, did just return from a ‘Trade … Read more
From Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire
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(July 30, 2014) – As Congress heads towards its August recess, now is typically the time of year when Members of Congress should be announcing their Town Hall meeting schedule. However, instead of alerting the public of her ‘first-ever’ Town Hall meeting, on Tuesday, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) announced her ‘first-ever’ “What Does Your Granite State Look Like” photo contest. In response to unveiling the photo contest on her Facebook page, Congresswoman Kuster’s constituents responded with critical comments calling on her to finally hold a public forum.
Congresswoman Kuster’s office has not hosted a single Town Hall meeting during her first term in Congress.
The Democrats in the US Senate, with the help of 15 Republicans shot down a transportation reform amendment that would have…
…devolve(d) the federal highway program to the states, allowing them to keep the vast majority of their gas tax revenues and to make their own transportation infrastructure decisions.
No one who truly believes in limited government would oppose this amendment.
I’d add “anyone with a belief in the benefits of local government and local control” as well.
So of course, Senator Jeanne Shaheen opposed it.
Next Up on GrokTALK! Doris Hohensee, who is running against Democrat Betty Lasky for New Hampshire State Senate District 13. We talk about the campaign, jobs, economic growth, education, and teacher’s growing opposition to common core. We touch Federal interference, expanding Granite State commerce and real growth in exports, and where Doris stands on taxes, … Read more
Only the twisted Liberal Identify Politics Culture could create a problem like this.
Next Up on GrokTALK! we do not have Walt Havenstein. He was scheduled but he didn’t show up. I can’t say I blame him. How does refusing to apologize for calling us tea-baggers help his campaign? But we expected as much, and Kevin was happy to fill in. We discuss the culture and its effect … Read more