Suddenly, NH progressives are all about pledges. That appears to be their newest marching order to prevent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen from getting the pummeling she deserves for being Barack Obama’s vote for ObamaCare – DemocratCare for those who have watched it evolve from HillaryCare.

The Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers has had to listen to smarmy attacks on our Taxpayer Protection Pledge for years. Liberals never liked pledges before the one Shaheen so desperately wants Scott Brown to take. It is called the “People’s Pledge.”

My, my, I would think that a Taxpayer Protection Pledge was the real people’s pledge!

This People’s Pledge is all about “dark money” in politics. That means out-of-state money in this NH campaign. And it explains the silly anti- big money in politics warrant articles sprinkled around NH last week at Town Meetings.

Senator Shaheen likes the out-of-state money that got her elected, along with the out-of-state college votes. But let that out-of-state money help out an opponent and the shrieking begins. No one is to remember the total avoidance of the economy crushing ObamaCare fiasco Shaheen still supports?

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As we all know a year ago Phil Consentino was FIRED from his position as police chief, and elderly affairs director, and he was fired for cause. What most Atkinsonians do not know is what that cause was. He was fired pursuant to a sexual harassment complaint from a female employee. It was investigated by a third-party firm, and the selectman, immediately upon reading their findings, decided to fire Consentino for CAUSE.

The accusers eight page complaint detailed almost 5 years of repeated sexual harassment from Consentino. YEARS of innuendo, suggestive comments, suggestive gestures, touching her, smelling her hair, groping himself in front of her, staring at her while touching himself, were all painstakingly detailed in her complaint.

I would ask what kind of pig would treat a woman this way, particularly a woman who works next to his wife, but we now know the answer to that question.

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Women who carry firearms and are encouraged to learn how to use them have a significant advantage over those who have been disarmed by pro-rape Democrats and their Republican abettors.   Weight, strength, even numbers are no guarantee that a woman is an easy target for sexual assault.   She is no longer just another victim.

I don’t have the numbers but it doesn’t take a genius to figure it out.

Rape is most likely to occur where attackers know that women are most helpless.

In a state like new Hampshire, which values the right to self-defense, violent crime is consistently one of the lowest in the nation.  The majority of sexual assaults that do occur here happen in places (say…on or near college campuses) where prohibitions against firearms are not just advertised, but glorified by pro-rape Democrats.   Would-be attackers know these women have been disarmed by Democrats so the odds of a successful attack are greatly improved.

But that’s never enough.  Not for Democrats and their water-carriers.

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This is interesting.  And Hat Tip to Rich Girard for prying it out of the Bedford School district, and Ann Marie Banfield for sharing.  It is a survey for ages 9 to 11 and is called the  DAP_Preteen Sample Survey.

It asks your children to rate 58 statements from between “not at all” to “Almost always.”  The important point here is that Taxpayers are paying for this stuff.

Here’s a screen grab of the PDF.  (Read Superintendent Tim Mays remarks to Rich with regard to the survey on the jump)

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I think this goes in the “Let’s make up a problem to solve” file.

The New Hampshire House…for clarity that means Democrats, just passed a tax on paint.

Retailers will be required by law to assess this tax to be determined by the Paint-tax-Tsar on every container of interior or exterior paint that is 5 gallons or less.

The money will be used to finance a new bureaucracy whose role it will be to collect unused paint and paint containers and to steward them to an environmental Nirvana.

My town dump does that already without another tax for a Paint Stewardship Program.

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Bill HB 1670

The House members got a 5 page amendment to this bill yesterday – and the House rules are being broken by the House Majority – call it Tyranny of the Majority.  A Mobocracy by Democrats (shades of Obama current activities, and the mobocracy that gave us Obamacare).

The rules state that any bill that has a taxing component must have a hearing in a tax related Committee.  It hasn’t. The rules state that there must be a public hearing where members of the general public (that would be you and I) could testify for and against.  There hasn’t been.  It is a Democrat tax feeding frenzy – and they are ignoring the rules to make it happen.  Not only are they suspending or ignoring the House Rules but also Part 2 Article 24 of the NH Constitution (by Speaker Terrie Norelli).

The Republican minority protested this move by the majority.  Norelli knows that she only needs a majority + 1 and then maintains she can do what she wants.  Several Republicans, per the rules, rushed up with written protests – and that’s when the Mob Rule started.  The motion to protest was

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Parker Gilbert, who is not from around here, was told by someone in the Democrat Party that he could vote here.  In November of 2012 he did just that, voting from his dorm room at Dartmouth, in Hanover New Hampshire.  Thousands of college students have been similarly instructed by Democrat activists, elected officials, liberal professors, and even town moderators, for years.

Parker Gilbert, however, is going to trial for rape, allegedly committed in a dorm room like the one he used as his ‘residence’ when he registered and voted in November 2012.  Being charged with rape, as Ed pointed out here, has a sudden cleansing effect on all previous notions of “residency.”

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Catching up on some reading and came across this in Imprimus (Jan 2014).  While the article has to do with the idea that the TEA Party needs to go to the next level of political theory and practice to truly accomplish their goals (limited government, fiscal frugality, and Constitutional bounds), it gives an idea of why Democrats / Progressives / Socialists hate the idea of a revolution (emphasis mine):

In a way, you can see how dangerous Obamacare is by noticing how it has brought out the worst in liberals—which is evident in how they have responded to the Tea Party. Liberal impatience with partisanship—that is, with people who oppose their plans—arises from the fact that in contemporary liberalism, there is no publicly acknowledged right of revolution. That may seem like a strange thing to say, but if one looks at some of the political theorists who were most important to modern or statist liberalism—Kant and Hegel in Germany, say, or Woodrow Wilson here in the United States—they are usually quite explicit in rejecting a right of revolution. In their view, a people always has in the long run the government it deserves. So there’s no right of the people to “abolish,” as the Declaration of Independence proclaims, the prevailing form of government and substitute a better one. In particular, there is no conceivable right to overturn contemporary liberalism itself; as liberals today are so fond of saying, there is no turning back the clock. To liberals the Tea Party appears, well, bonkers, precisely because it recalls the American Revolution, and in doing so implies that it might not be such a bad thing to have another revolution—or at least a second installment of the original—in order to roll back the bad government that is damaging both the safety and happiness of the American people.

Which is why every time, it seems, that we on the Right here in NH talk about the NH Constitution’s Article 10…

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Oh, look! Democrat talking-points were wrong again.

Health insurance premiums have risen more after Obamacare than the average premium increases over the eight years before it became law, according to the private health exchange eHealthInsurance.

The individual market for health insurance has seen premiums rise by 39 percent since February 2013, eHealth reports.

Premiums under ObamaCare in one year rise faster than the previous eight combined.  Democrats at work!

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For those not so good at the math, if everyone ‘worked’ for the government there would be nothing to tax to pay anyone. And by ‘worked’ we can mean employed or on the payroll of–as in living off money provided solely by the state.

If everyone relied on government for their means they would have no means.  There would be no ‘means.’ No one would earn anything.  This is important, because far too many people (most of them Democrats) fail to understand this.

Without private, productive wealth, government cannot exist.

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