Letting you brush your teeth, plant a shrub, or mow your lawn without a regulator over your shoulder. Deciding what your child should eat for lunch.  Paying a few cents less per gallon for gas. Allowing you to own chickens. Un-scrambling the Kudzu of the bureaucracy.  Letting you have and use a rain barrel.  That you might be able to buy and pay for your own health insurance.  Taking responsibility for your own children’s education!  And reminding everyone that the government is paid for by taking money from people like you and I who work very hard to earn it and that it is easier to keep an eye on how it is spent when that money stays closer to your towns and cities.  Yes, all of these ‘extremist ‘aka-Kitchen Table” ideas’ are being stuffed into the heads of every-day citizens by liberty minded people who dare to think that you can take  a step without the state spying o your every move, guiding your path and pace, and picking your pocket to pay for the privilege of having your life micr0managed by idiots elected ‘experts’ and their cadre of government officers.

This, we are told, cannot be allowed to continue, and any effort to suggest it, let alone edit the rols of government to loosen your bonds in deemed subversive by the professional left.

To them, that “Liberty menace” is real, because it stands in the way of bigger budgets and larger governmen; and the Democrats at GraniteState Progress and the ‘OUR State Project’ (or is that OUR Out of State funded) Project, are here to defend us from them.

Join Now! (Yes, another recruitment poster was in order–on the jump).

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The Democrats promised that if you disarm, the government will protect you, but they lied.  Six more people are dead and thirteen injured (in Santa Barbra), all of whom either believed the government’s lie, or were prohibited from arming themselves as a matter of policy.  They followed the rules, and in return they were injured or killed.  They were disarmed and left to the will of criminals until someone who was allowed to carry a gun could be found and summoned to defend them.

In Chicago, where the biggest liars seem to come from, dozens die every week because they were promised that if they disarm, the government will protect them.  But in fact, the only places where people are least likely to die at the hands of criminals are the places where the people refuse to trust the government’s lie about the government protecting them.

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We are a 1% family – but for a different reason other than the current (and stupid) “financial inequality” Progressive debate roiling political discourse.  No, we are not part of that 1% (and not the 10% either – keep sliding downscale, folks).  No, we are the 1% because the Eldest and the Youngest have served in our armed forces (US Marines and US Army, respectively).  We are one of the relatively small number of families who have had an immediate family member serve, and we have two (three, if one wishes to count the Eldest’s girlfriend – she served in the US Navy).

I sit here on the couch, in the still quiet of the morning and by myself (with one of our two dogs cuddled up next to me) and think, once again, “I am the lucky one”.  Both came home (Iraq and Afghanistan) and in both cases, TMEW and I had the pleasure and excitement of greeting them after hours long flights in Bangor, ME where many of the overseas flights stopped for refueling.  Sure, they had to get back on and head to their bases, but we got to see them – and some of the changes that the theater of war had wrought.

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The OUR State Project is looking to blacklist candidates and then smear them in the court of public opinion.   Cynthia Chase and Susan Bruce are founding members so, no surprises there.

They have been promoting  meetings (on social media) held at the offices of the progressive lobbying outfit Granite State Progress, in Concord, which ties them to GSP’s out-of-state millionaires and dark money.   And now OSP is trying to distance themselves from GraniteState progress. Not directly affiliated?  That’s not going to fly?

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Steve Duprey is the NH GOP Committeeman from NH.  Pretty much he was short (as he promised) as most of what he had to say was “newsy”.   But there was one thing that caught my ear:

…we are the Party of good ideas, of Limited Government, of Liberty and great solutions. Let’s never lose sight of that, and if we don’t…we’ll be able to come together and we will take back everything we lost in the past.

Once again (pattern, right), we hear the hint of “fall in line, you all out there”. He has a point; primaries oft are raucous and acrimonious events – some feelings and attitudes never heal and any sense of Kumbyahness is sometimes just the sound of lips moving.  But he does have the assumption that primary hatchets will be turned into general election door knockers.  The other assumption is that of “Limited Government, of Liberty and great solutions“.

The question is “Does the general electorate

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Those crazy Progressives at GraniteState Progress are harboring their very own McCarthyesque “Liberty Menace” movement.  It’s called the “OUR State Project” and it’s like our very own little ‘Red Scare!’ right here in New Hampshire.

They will be looking behind the bushes for anyone who exhibits personal responsibility or that dares to openly suspect that people don’t need the government to do everything for them.  Anyone who even appears to present a threat to the New Hampshire Democrat Party Agenda will be black listed, marked with the “Liberty letter,” and paraded in the court of public opinion as threats to Democracy.

But, I didn’t think the Brown Shirts at “OUR State Project” NH would spend any of GSP’s Democracy Alliance out-of-state stash on “marketing material” suited to their actual mission, so I thought I’d lend a hand.

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