He runs away from debates.  He avoids forums.  When he is answering questions, from what I have heard and seen, he’s quite glib in starting to answer and then zig-zagging away off into tangents and not answering the questions directly.  But really, to go hide out in a bathroom to avoid a reporter asking a question on an important issue??

It’s why New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), for example, went to unintentionally amusing lengths to avoid saying anything about the Hobby Lobby ruling. But as Paul Lewis reported, even Christie wasn’t as evasive as former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), now on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.  I found Brown at a table at a restaurant called Priscilla’s, introduced myself as a Guardian reporter and enquired if I could ask him some questions. Brown smiled nervously and replied: “What do you want to ask me about?”

“Hobby Lobby? That would be a start,” I said.

“I’m all set,” he replied. “We’re enjoying ourselves right now.”

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On the dissolving of the  dividing line of public vs private that was a foundational governing philosophy – a bug, not a feature:

…Today, indeed, we confront a transformation in the regulatory state so profound as to indicate a change at the regime level. Today, our regulatory state does not simply promulgate the kind of docile “soft despotism” Tocqueville feared, or blanket the human passions with the kind of bureaucratic uniformity Nietzsche derided as the “coldest of cold monsters.” Instead, as we still struggle to accept, it is aggressively intervening in the intimate details of everyday life as a friend to some kinds of civil liberties but an enemy of others.

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A passenger plane was shot down with military ordinance, at 11:30 est, (turns out with American’s on board).  The perps appeared to be Russian separatists armed with Russian weapons.  his has significant regional and international complications but President “Reset” was too busy to comment…as if he had no idea what to say anyway…

12:50pm EST Motorcade stops at ‘Charcol Pit’ a popular restaurant in Wilmington Delaware.  Mingle.  Photo-ops.  Stores bout Joe Biden.

1:01pm EST President announces that he’s starving.  Orders a 4-ounce “Pit special,” (burger with fries), medium well, lettuce and tomato, drinks a water with lemon.  Eats.

Sometime after 2pm…

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The non-religious are often skeptical towards Christians that say one thing about divorce (“not!”) and doing (“I’m outtahere!”) and in many cases, rightfully so.  David French at The Corner has a good post on this seeming contradiction – but then puts up this chart as part of the explanation:

It’s pretty simple: When it comes to marriage, church attendance matters more than church affiliation.

I’ve often heard the South described as “God-haunted,” in the sense that there are millions of men and women who identify as Christians, who attend church at least semi-regularly, and who at least aspire to live a Christian life as they understand it. Within that “God-haunted” culture is a very large subculture of the “God-fearing,” in the sense that they hold to the orthodox tenets of the faith, attend church regularly, and –furthermore — immerse themselves in the larger life of the church, from Sunday School to mission trips to small-group Bible studies.

It turns out that the God-haunted lifestyle is terrible for marriage. The God-fearing lifestyle is excellent. The reasons are not difficult to discern. 

You know, I have had the perfect title roaming around my head for years:  “Everything in politics I first learned in church”.  

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One of our ‘Grok friends, “K”, decided that she was not going to be one of those that would sit back and just “roll with it” – or like many, retreat into a cocoon of their own making and isolating from the world that seems to be spinning out of control.  With the news of the Obama Administration arrogantly taking the “UAC”s – Unaccompanied Alien Children” (that illegally and blithely walked across our borders, with some of them heavily tattooed and shaving) and shipping them to State after State without notice of the local authorities, she decided that she needed to find out.  What will be a multi-part series begins now with Part 1 (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Hi Skip,

I’ve been reading with great interest your article/s covering the illegal immigration situation.  I am trying to find out what towns/facilities/how many illegals are here.  For your further interest I forward to you my correspondence to Commissioner Toumpas of NH DHHS with copies to the Governor and City Council, which I sent to Steve a while ago for his info.  I just received an email from the Commissioner (because I inquired about a response to my correspondence) that a letter is in the mail, which I will forward to you and Steve.

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Concord Attorney R. James Steiner, a self-proclaimed life-long Republican, has a letter in the Concord Monitor in which he declares his electoral love for Democrat Jeanne Shaheen.

He considers her  bi-partisan, and does not think it a good idea to change leadership midstream.  He plans to vote for her in November.  He’s a Republican for Shaheen.

Jeanne Shaheen’s number one lifetime campaign donor is EMILY’s list which requires support for conception to birth abortion without exception.  Bi partisan?

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About that 22% increase in Exports from New Hampshire you’ve been bragging about, Governor Hassan…its from Bakken-Fracking Shale Oil that didn’t even stop in New Hampshire!?

Business NH Magazine

Export data from the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Commerce updated in June does show NH’s exports increased 20 percent between 2012 and 2013 to $4.2 billion. (Data released earlier this year showed 22 percent growth as originally touted by the governor.) Driving that growth was $673 million in crude oil exports to Canada, making it NH’s second largest export. In fact, crude oil exports to Canada from NH skyrocketed 44,053 percent from $1.5 million in 2012.

The only problem? That crude oil merely travels on a train through NH from other locations to Canada, and most likely never stops here.

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After the U.S. Senate voted down a bill that would attempt to reverse the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling, Governor Hassan thought she’d add her 2 cents in a ridiculous facebook post:

Once again it is clear she never bothered to read the Hobby Lobby case or the SCOTUS ruling.  Once again she continues to treat women like stupid cows who cannot purchase their own birth control.  Birth Control is not a critical health service.  Even if a woman needs to use Plan B because she had unprotected sex, she can easily buy it over the counter at most pharmacies across New Hampshire.   Remember, having sex and using birth control are both choices, as well as buying Plan B.

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Well, between that and eating more beans, you might be healthier!  From the “eweee, but good for you” department:

Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Dementia? Study Says Common Bodily Function Could Keep ‘Em All at Bay

Scientists out of the University of Exeter in the U.K. said harnessing the power of one particular bodily function could prevent cancer, among a host of other diseases, the Western Daily Press noted.  Which one, you ask? (We know you’re asking…)

Flatulence.

More precisely… 

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