While our NH State Senate is erecting various barriers to speech, while using speech to articulate creative excuses for accepting ObamaCare bribes and future tax hikes, the Missouri State Senate just passed SB613.

This act declares as invalid all federal laws that infringe on the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution. Some laws declared invalid under this act include certain taxes, certain registration and tracking laws, certain prohibitions on the possession, ownership, use, or transfer of a specific type of firearm, and confiscation orders.

Wait.  It gets better.

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The Current Concensus view of Economists… is that the CBO is right when it supports their position but wrong where it does not. (Concensus:  When liberals agree on lying to people to get their way.)

“CBO’s estimates of the impact of raising the minimum wage on employment does not reflect the current consensus view of economists,” Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Jason Furman wrote in a blog post. “The bulk of academic studies, have concluded that the effects on employment of minimum wage increases in the range now under consideration are likely to be small to nonexistent.”

The Hill is reporting on CBO data that suggests the Obama minimum wage proclemation will result in the loss of 500,000 jobs by 2016 but could also lift one million workers out of poverty.  The left is praising the latter and dissing the former.

There is something to be said for looking for a way to help people out of poverty, but at what cost?

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Less likely than me, at least.

I took a quick shot at this here, but more details are out so it deserves a second look.

We knew Tea Party types were better at science, and then again–thanks to a Liberal Yale Professor, so this is not at all surprising.   New Research indicates the more Conservative you are the less likely you are to believe that astrology is actual science. (HotAir has an extensive breakdown of the data if you are that interested.)

But it gets better.  (Can you imagine?)

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The Green Goblins are out doing chicken-little imitations about the drought in California. They are blaming the mystical exhaled spirits.  The invisible Green gods that inhabit the sky.

The gods are angry, and they are punishing us by making the globe hotter. And it will keep getting warmer (even though global temperatures are still going down) until we abandon carbon-based energy and give all our money over to progressive political priests and priestesses, who will then calm the angry sky gods with cash grants and interest-free loans to the wind and solar concerns which also just happen to donate that to their political campaigns.

It couldn’t just be the weather, could it?   Well, it could.

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“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”  —Karl Kraus

The Hartford Courant’s Friday editorial takes up the liberal finger-wagging cause of calling for law and order, calling those who have not registered their, “assault weapons”[sic] scofflaws. In an editorial entitled, State Can’t Let Gun Scofflaws Off The Hook, The courant editors write,

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The chasm between gun owners and gun grabbers is as wide as the Classic Western Liberal (which has nothing to do with the current Democrat Party) and Socialists / Big Government / Collectivists (which is, pretty much, the Democrat Party.  The former says “*I* am responsible for me and mine – just give me the Freedom to do so and leave me alone” while the latter says “Outsource your self-responsibility to us and we will protect you – but we will take your Freedom away as well“. Anything else is political spin.  This is the underlying point that the New Castle Promise folks here in NH or the national Moms Demand Action, groups that fit into that second group, just don’t understand – and are willing to deny anyone else to be in the first group.  David French’s response to David Frum captures this well (emphasis mine, reformatted):

In my experience, those individuals who carry do so because they very consciously do not want to belong to the class of citizens that is inherently helpless — totally reliant upon the state to protect not just themselves but their family, friends, and neighbors. If the choice is between protectors and protected, they choose to be protectors.  This identity is often inseparable from the notion that there is no set of government policies — no utopia — that can eliminate from human society the need for immediate protection. People can and will try to hurt others — using whatever means immediately available — and it strikes us as utterly reckless to be unprepared for this reality.

The protected class has a different view. The protected class is a dependent class —

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Like no one else can, ‘Ol Remus sums it up.  In it’s entirety.

‘The Wreck of the Old 1792

We don’t have an economy, we have the wreckage of an economy. It’s studied  as a coroner studies a corpse, to determine when and how it died. And because we believe in equal opportunity idiocy,   medicine men dance around the deceased shaking their rattles and chanting their chants even as the indelicate aroma argues for a  distant venue.   Politicians take the modern view, they understand the bad news is off the charts, so they draw new charts. Economists busy themselves with describing how it came to be and what may be next. As with any fatality, the decisive event is long over and what comes next is as ugly as it is certain.   

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Five years old – and ONLY five years old is the TEA Party movement.  Wildly taunted by the Left as being right wing extremists, racists, homophobes and any other adjectives or names they believe will denigrate or diminish its attraction and influence.  The Democrats are bolstered by their captive MSM who sometimes use exactly the same terminology or couch in finer wording but with the same underlying nuances to influence people from understanding its three Main Principles:

• An adherence to Fiscal Frugality by our elected officials
• A respect and willingness to keep their governance in line with the Letter & Spirit of the Constitution
• Move back to Free Markets

These are hardly “right wing” positions – these are common sense EXCEPT if one is Socialist / Communist / Statist in outlook and action.  These are values that traditionally made and kept America strong – so why is the Left so adamant in tearing them down (er, rhetorical question – we KNOW why they do)?  Yet, their efforts have not accomplished what they desired – each time they proclaim that they have finally killed off this Libery & Freedom movement, Obi-Wan’s words are recalled (“If you strike me down, I will come back twice as strong”).  After all, no matter the light in which it has been presented, it still occupies (heh!) a large share of the political talk.  While I disagree about the “three convictions” listed, they are concerns of many in the movement, especially the first two:

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Over at the Independent Journal Review reports on a new poll; I’ve bulletpointed the high points:

• 64% of Americans say ObamaCare would’ve never passed if Americans had known the truth in 2009.
  • 74% of Republicans
  • 68% of Independents
  • 54% of Democrats

So why do NH State Senators Jeb Bradley, Chuck Morese, Bob Odell, and Nancy Stiles think helping to implement Obama’s Medicaid Expansion is just jiffy? Why do they wish to tarnish (even more!) the Republican brand by playing into the fears of Americans as to the WHY of Obamacare in implementing this in the Live Free or Die State?

Even more troubling, 56% of Americans said ObamaCare was more about the government seizing control of citizens’ lives, versus just 40% who felt Obama’s plan was about improving healthcare.

The Republican Party was once were the Party of Freedom – it’s start was in helping to stop slavery. 

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