Really, can a single man, a town-level elected official, ruin an entire State’s reputation?  Or was this an excuse to list a bunch of Republican politicians again (with a single Democrat to be “fair and balanced”?).  Once again, star and ace political reporter, Kevin Landrigan goes uber-Collectivist in damning a whole state of 1.3 million people for the actions of a Senior Citizen (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Analysis: Wolfeboro official’s racist slur about Obama threatens state’s reputation

A Wolfeboro police commissioner’s use of a racial slur against President Barack Obama attracted nationwide attention, and the state’s political leaders joined local residents in calling for his resignation. But that doesn’t mean Robert Copeland, 82, will step down willingly. The longer he lingers, the more harm will be done to New Hampshire’s reputation as a family-friendly, politically savvy, well-educated state, an expert said.  “The problem with this kind of controversy is that once it becomes viral, it threatens to stick as a toxic narrative about what life is like where this man comes from whether it’s accurate or not,” said Dean Spiliotes, civics professor at Southern New Hampshire University and author of the blog nhpoliticalcapital.com.

Actually, at the time he wrote that, Copeland was not resigning.  Tonite, we know he has.  And I think that Spiliotes is off base as well.  Certainly Wolfeboro newbie Janet O’Toole took the opportunity to get her name out there (I wanted to find out where she traveled in from and such, but there were just pages and pages of the same story in Google and I didn’t bother to further bore myself) but that wasn’t the purpose of the hit piece. 

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NH, for its size, has a lot of colleges.  Certainly UNH and Dartmouth get a lot of attention but there are a bunch of colleges dotting the NH landscape.  I keep reading about the “rape epidemic” at our college campuses but I keep wondering: “If the stat is that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted, where are all the watchdog reports on it??”.  Yes, tongue in my own cheek here – but where ARE all of the media reports (newspapers, TV, radio, blogs, social media) reporting them all.  C’mon, with college students making up an inordinate percentage of NH’s population, it should be “a standing head” (headline) that we see all the time – FAR more than what we do.

Well, it seems that “the truth” seems to be different than “conventional wisdom” as portrayed by some that would have us believe otherwise:

Look, there are going to be those that will scream at me “how DARE you!” for even bringing it up.  Public policy cannot be done (GOOD public policy, that is, which should be what all of us that are not pursuing an ideological dogma should be about) just on the back of a few anecdotes.  Violent crimes have been falling for years now and this FBI stat shows that rape is no different.

“The chart above is based on the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports

Obama 2007

“After seven years of an Administration that has stretched our military to the breaking point, ignored deplorable conditions at some VA hospitals, and neglected the planning and preparation necessary to care for our returning heroes, America’s veterans deserve a President who will fight for them not just when it’s easy or convenient, but every hour of every day for the next four years.” (emphasis mine.)

Then-Senator Barack Obama, November 12, 2007

Obama 2012

During Monday’s daily press briefing, press secretary Jay Carney told CNN’s Jim Acosta that the president and his staff were first made aware of the scandal through his network’s coverage of the matter.

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Given recent events in New Hampshire I am curious why the national media isn’t interested in this story about a Local Democrat reported on a Long Island news affiliate.  Three staffers overheard New York State Democrat legislator Ellen Birnbaum, say this…

 “This is a bad neighborhood because African-Americans live there. Very few people would want to go there.”

Locals asked for her to resign but she said she’s not planning on it.  Sound familiar?

So where is the full court press of national “outrage” that was directed at Wolfeboro, New Hampshire?

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Last weekend I traveled through beautiful parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. These nearby beautiful states do all the things that New Hampshire Progressives/Liberals/Socialists complain that New Hampshire doesn’t do. It’s a shame that we have so many unhappy citizens when these Progressive paradises are so close.

Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York have huge governments with many thousands of employees providing almost every imaginable service including helping the truly needy and pretty much anyone else with their hands out.

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Have the basic laws of economics changed? Lew Henry from Gilmanton Iron Works (see his 5/7/2014 letter in the Laconia Daily Sun (laconiadailysun.com)) apparently thinks so and other Progressives, from President Obama to Mitt Romney, agree. They say that raising the minimum wage will create jobs.

Progressives want us to believe that employers who don’t have any jobs for which they are willing to pay $7.25 an hour will hire lots of people to do that same work at $10 per hour. That makes no sense and it doesn’t work. This idea borders on insanity!

If it’s not worth it to you to pay someone $50 to cut your grass, you are not going to hire someone at $65. But the Progressives want you to think that other people will pay $65 even when they wouldn’t pay $50 for the same work.

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Early on in the fight against the government takeover of Health Care (Health Insurance/ObamaCare) the VA was frequently used as an example of what could inevitably happen.  While the VA hospitals are a great idea, in practice, they are like any other government-run entity.  The private sector could do much better for less.  And we predicted, as did many others, that the wait lists for services, and death panels–which is what the wait list becomes after so-and-so decided who gets care when and who does not (for whatever reason)–would follow.

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The Progressive-appeasment muscle memory must have just  kicked-in when NH Senator Jeanne Shaheen wanted to make sure we didn’t confuse Boko Haram with Islam.  Boko Haram, whose full name, translated, means “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad,” kidnapped hundreds of girls and converted them to Islam.  But hey, propagation of the Prophets teachings (Islam) and Jihad (terrorism) should not be confused with terrorism, or Islam, or Boko Haram.    That’s just a coincidence.

You know what else might be a coincidence…?

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Operation American Spring was an event held this weekend in DC that was talking about having 10 – 30 million people show up to protest (Phase 1, below). What was its purpose?  From its website:

Mission: Restoration of Constitutional government, rule of law, freedom, liberty “of the people, by the people, for the people” from despotic and tyrannical federal leadership.

Assumptions: Millions of Americans will participate American veterans and patriots are energized to end the tyranny, lawlessness, and shredding of the US Constitution. Government is not the target, it is sound; corrupt and criminal leadership must be replaced. Those in power could use force against unarmed, peaceful patriots exercising their constitutional rights. Patriots could be harmed, but not expected. There is no hope given today’s technology of secrecy for the effort nor do we want it secret.

Concept of Operations:
Phase 1 – Field millions, as many as ten million, patriots who will assemble in a peaceful, non-violent, physically unarmed (Spiritually/Constitutionally armed), display of unswerving loyalty to the US Constitution and against the incumbent government leadership in Washington D.C., with the mission to replace with law abiding leadership. Go full-bore, no looking back, steadfast in the mission.

Unfortunately for the organizer, Col. Harry Riley, USA (Ret.), instead of a few million people that were expected to show up for this Phase 1 event, the report from Jack Kimball was that only a few hundred showed up yesterday. 

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I understand that a lot of folks are going to be showing up – and why the stricture when all of his rivals are MORE than happy to talk with the media.  That would also include us, GraniteGrok (emphasis mine, reformatted):

FRIDAY, MAY 16: BROWN AND GONH. It should be quite a meeting on Tuesday evening when Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown talks to the membership of one of the largest pro-Second Amendment groups in the state, the Gun Owners of New Hampshire.

The meeting of the GONH board of directors is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. at the Concord Holiday Inn — and Brown should have some ‘splainin’ to do...GONH vice president Ralph DeMicco, owner of Riley’s Gun Shop in Hooksett, said of Brown, “He’s in a tenuous situation. He has a questionable voting record.”. …Brown and DeMicco spoke at the shop when Brown recently visited.  “I have told him that you’re not my first choice, but you’re obviously the party’s first choice,”

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