“Respecting the dignity of a human being is giving that person the freedom to choose”

If God loved us enough to give us free will, then why do Progressives

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John Hayward over at Hot Air has a piece that ties a bunch of things together – go read the entire thing (it’s not all that long).  Here’s a few bon mots (emphasis mine):

…The Left doesn’t just craft political strategies to attract single female voters. Liberal policies create them. One of the most significant effects of left-wing social policy has been the decline of marriage. It takes a lot of statistical yoga to argue that the War on Poverty has done anything to “fix” poverty, but viewed as a trillion-dollar effort to dissolve traditional family structure, it’s a roaring success. Virtually everything the Left has done for decades is part of the war on wives.

Want to transform Society?  Just have the Republican Party do what the Nevada Republicans have done – eliminate all references to “social issues“.  Hey buds!  This mean that you are going to cede the entirety of Society to the Dems?  Are you that freaking stupid?  Look back over the last 5 decades and keep in mind Andrew Breitbart’s fundamental understanding of Politics: “Politics is downstream of culture”.  That is to say, society of that culture.  Which the Dems have used their “social issues” policies to change the culture to change the politics.  And you Republican Smartest People in the Room keep saying to knock off the icky Right to Life, marriage, and the like?  Fundamental transformation right out from beneath your feet.  Wave that white flag.  Give up on the only path in which you can even hope to stay even?  We’re already seeing the fruits of that already.

Note to the clueless – no “social issues“?  Really?  Has the Establishment Republican Party done all that magnificently on the FISCAL ISSUES so as to be able to ditch half the battlefield?  If they had, would there have even been a need for the TEA Party uprising??? Sadly, no – why else do you think the phrases “Least Lackeys of the Welfare State” and “Jr. Partners of the Democrats” are floating around more and more?  So, yer just gonna abandon the “abject failure to succeed on” issues to concentrate on the “merely stinking bad performance” ones? 

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“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”  —Will Rogers

I saw the first Scott Brown for Senate campaign ad this morning on the local, “puppies and kitties,” affiliate, Channel 9. Last week, Scott Brown visited Joe Kelly LeVasseur’s Theo’s Restaurant and, “worked the crowd,” Joe tells me.  Slickster, is how I characterized it.

“Carpet Bagger, good for Massachusetts, not New Hampshire, Anti-gun, RINO,” are all characterizations I have heard about Scott Brown from various people. But I think we’ve all seen and heard the bits and bites relating to Scott Brown, thus far.

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I have been following the New Hampshire Political ruling class efforts to stifle political speech for years.  It is a bipartisan effort to erect barriers to free speech.  So what do you call that?  Almost free speech?  Sort of Free speech?  Selective Free speech?  Speech that’s free but only during the calendar days defined by that which free speech exists to protect us from?  Inflation adjusted speech?

How about speech limited by those most threatened by it?  That is exactly what these efforts are, incumbent protection acts.  And there is another one working its way through the NH State Senate House this week (Subcommittee workgroup this Thursday at 10am LOB 308)

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Sean Downey is going to be a regional coordinator for ‘Ready For Hillary’ but guess who else he works for?

WMUR Political Scoop has confirmed that Sean Downey will be working in some capacity in organizing the Northeast for the Super PAC, which has been committed to identifying potential Clinton supporters in 2016 and collecting checks of $25,000 or less.

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Much like the narrative used before, during, and after passage of the bill that bears her name, Lilly Ledbetter Lied.

Ms. Ledbetter has since repeatedly claimed that she only learned she was paid less than her male co-workers at the end of her career,⁴ and then belatedly filed an EEOC complaint. In her testimony before the United States Senate, Ledbetter stated that she “only learned about the discrepancy in [her] pay after nineteen years, and that was with someone leaving me an anonymous note.”⁵ She later made similar claims in speeches at the Democratic National Conventions in 2008⁶ and 2012″

But Ledbetter knew her pay was out of line as early as 1992…

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Update: pic of an impromptu rally just came in from Jerry – after the jump

Jerry Delemus went out to Nevada to stand with Cliven Bundy in confrontation with the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) over grazing land and rights for his cattle.  As I wrote here, he went out and got about an hour’s sleep Saturday night (but much more last nite).  He’s been “assigned” to a group of 25 to 35 others within the “unorganized militia” that is responsible for, in part, in protecting the ranch’s security and protection of the property.

He confirmed the reports that I had seen in the blogosphere of 3 – 5,000 civilians on the premises when he first arrived but that there were just a few hundred still left (still outnumbering the BLM).  His report also confirmed that the BLM agents are very heavily armed, black SUVs, and a gaggle of helicopters patrolling the area.  He said it was quite the scene to see what even a partial demonstration of “the full weight and might of the Federal Government” when they decide that lands they designate will be used ONLY for the purposes that they decide upon.  However, the civilians standing the line are not without their own gear – most folks in full camo, desert equipment, comm gear, hand and long guns.  While he is with an “unorganized militia” of folks that just showed up (“that’s ok, we had an “organization in a day” moment), more formal “irregular militias have shown up – MN, CA, TX, AZ, NV, NH and a whole lotta local folks and horse mounted cowboys. 

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Putin has attacked Ukraine and making mad eyes at the Baltic (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia) in an attempt to reassemble the old Soviet Union.  China is making land demands on Japan and the Philippines.  Kim Jong Un is still playing with nuclear fire, and the Iranian Mullahs have thoughts of hegemony in the Middle East.  Iraq is in turmoil, Turkey is going Islamist, the European is both going broke (a bad thing) and starting to have its own TEA Party movement (ok, a GREAT thing – but not for Obama), Al Queada is uprising in the failed states of Somalia and Yemen, and the Taliban is just tapping its foot in Afghanistan in waiting out Obama’s “end of the good war” deadline even as they are tapping out the competition in Pakistan.  And let’s not forget the failing state to our south, Mexico, where no one seems to know who is in charge – the Federales, the drug lords, or the under siege citizens.

And with all of these major rolling catastrophes, the Obama Administration, in full Nanny mode, thinks this is worth of UN action?  

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