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“Barack Obama is learning what it is like to be a tree falling in a forest. Only with the tree, no one is around to hear it. With Barack Obama, no one cares anymore.” – Erick Erickson, RedState Managing Editor, talk show host, lawyer
“The annual State of the Union pageant is a hideous, dispiriting, ugly, monotonous, un-American, un-republican, anti-democratic, dreary, backward, monarchical, retch-inducing, depressing, shameful, crypto-imperial display of official self-aggrandizement and piteous toadying, a black Mass during which every unholy order of teacup totalitarian and cringing courtier gathers under the towering dome of a faux-Roman temple to listen … Read more
Media Matters sent out an email in response to an item in the Manchester Union Leader that was their follow up to what we’d been writing about someone voting for Caitlin Ann Legacki in Manchester in Nov 2012 when she says she was not here. She was working in Missouri.
Greetings,
I wanted to make sure that you had seen our latest on how The New Hampshire Union Leader cited anecdotal evidence from past elections to revive the misleading threat of voter fraud.
Manchester Union Leader
At a public hearing on House Bill 1400 Tuesday, Norelli told the House Election Law Committee the state’s first-in-the-nation primary is a source of great pride and has put New Hampshire at the center of many historic events.
“The formation of this commission is an important step to position our state to maximize the benefits of the 100th anniversary,” Norelli said. “By planning ahead we can ensure that we properly honor and commemorate this moment in our state’s history and utilize the opportunity to promote civic participation.”
H/T Judy Aron
Charlie Arlinghaus, writing in the Union Leader, talks about stagnation in New Hampshire becoming “the new normal.” In the course of his discourse on the years before and during our current stasis, business tax reform appears to coincide with job growth before the lost decade, and a lack of business tax reform for a lack … Read more
Rich has been keeping City Clerk Matt Normand busy answering questions about the Manchester voter checklist. Rich reports that there were 231 people registered to vote from 1200 Elm Street in 2012 and not one of them had an affidavit challenged. But as Ed points out, the way the laws were written by Democrats, challenging … Read more
There will be a hearing on HB 1508, a bill to terminate New Hampshire’s participation in Common Core.
From Ann Marie Banfield via Facebook
IT IS URGENT that we get as MANY PEOPLE to attend this hearing next THURSDAY (11:30am at the Legislative Office Building room 207)
Bring your friends and neighbors !! We need to FILL up the ROOM.
| Next/Last Comm: | HOUSE EDUCATION |
| Next/Last Hearing: | 02/06/2014 at 11:30 AM LOB 207 |
Full text of the Bill on the Jump
Forbes has an interesting article on incentives and doctors in the age of ObamaCare.
We all know about the PR campaign in which supporters of the Patient Affordable Care Act were willing to accuse doctors of being no better than unscrupulous used car salesman or as confidence men in lab coats. They were portrayed as ordering unnecessary surgery but Democrats were going to stop that.
(If you didn’t know lawyers are predominantly left wing, more government, greater complexity, Democrat supporting institutions.)
No Democrat ever admitted publicly, to my knowledge, that the fear of lawsuits promulgated by lawyers and supported by the left’s unwillingness to address tort reform, practically forced doctors to be overly cautious, while also driving up health care costs to allow physicians to compensate for higher rates on malpractice insurance (caused by the ease by which they could be sued and found guilty or forced to settle)–another requirement brought on by a lawsuit-happy ambulance chasing, legal culture.
Get hurt, hit it big – with lawsuit lotto (while your lawyer(s) get 30%.)
Well ObamaCare creates a different set of problems (in the form of government incentives) for doctors.
The Latest from Prager University Question: Which American institution—one that prides itself on being open, democratic, and diverse—punishes its members severely for offering unpopular opinions, while it offers them a very narrow, limited worldview? Answer: Universities. Once the vanguard of open debate and free speech, colleges have become a place where alternative thinking goes to … Read more
Hats off to DJ Dave the engineer extraordinaire for Girard at Large. When Rich started talking about the voter registration habits of Democrat Caitlin Legacki, who is now confirmed as registered to vote in New Hampshire, Missouri, and North Carolina, Dave said…
“So then she’s not a Free Stater, she’s a Three Stater.”
Thank you Dave. That will be coming in very handy.
I now dub the Democrats campaign-gypsy, multi-registration, state-buffet style, vote wherever you like, or wherever they need you most, even if you never planned on living there, ballot fraud endeavor — the “Three State Project.”
Here’s Rich (and Dave) on Vote Fraud being a reality in Manchester.
Listen to Girard at Large hr 1 1-28-14
New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith has entered the Republican Primary to challenge Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. See what Bob has to say about the race, the party, DC, Senator Shaheen, term limits and the problem with DC staffers, why he’s the guy for NH in 2014, and what he thinks is important for New Hampshire. Segment … Read more
Oh yeah, WE”RE supposed to trust THEM, but they don’t trust US. Got it. Got a name for that, too: Totalitarianism (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
DCE’s (Weekend Pundit) “Thoughts on a Sunday” is a mandatory read for me every week. This week, this gem:
I saw this in a comment to a piece I linked to yesterday and I knew I had to work it into another post. I think it amply demonstrates that even if all wealth was distributed equally, the outcome would not be equal, something the Left still refuses to recognize.
If you took all the wealth in America, converted it all to cash, and gave everyone an equal amount, within a few years the ones who had nothing before will have nothing again while those rich before would be again. Look at how many lottery winners go broke while so many wealthy had been bankrupt. Some people are just good at generating wealth, and it’s not something that you can learn in school.
Indeed. Having a lot of money is not the same thing as being wealthy as it is more a state of mind and action than having someone just dump a lot of money into your bank account. Remaining wealthy takes work, something which many of the chronic poor have no experience. Too many of them have had things handed to them by the government their entire lives.
This is the nub of the actual problem – literally, “what are you going to do“? Seriously, that is THE question to ask: how do you life your life and is it conducive to be successful?
Our vote-fraud Rosetta Stone, sorry Caitlin I know you said you didn’t vote in New Hampshire, but I’m also sorry to say that you did because…
…you are registered to vote in at least three states now for certain and someone knew you were not here in NH and stole someone’s vote using your name….
As previously noted someone voted for Caitlin in New Hampshire because she was still registered to vote here (six years after only being here a few months in 2008) and they could. She is also registered in North Carolina-since 2009–(and still is), though as noted previously, no one tried to vote as her from NC 2012, but they could have. And now we know for certain that the Precision Strategies employee–who is now in DC (and likely registered there as well), is still registered to vote in Missouri, where she would have voted in 2012 while running Claire McCaskill ‘s re-election campaign.
It is clear that the Editors have not really read the bill on which they are trying to opine: HB 1589. But that is not the bigger weakness of their editorial. Their words (emphasis mine, reformatted):
…Other bills such as House Bill 1589 seem to overreach but raise issues worth legislative discussions. This bill would extend the reach of background checks to online gun sales and those by private individuals.
Seem to overreach? Well now, buckos, you show your ignorance well before throwing the stones of that ignorance.
Foster’s continue:
Big Peace -“out of step” (and out of touch):
While UKIP hasn’t yet mustered up any elected members of the UK Parliament, the party this week registered as Britain’s most favoured political organisation, scoring 27 percentage points ahead of the left-wing Labour Party’s 26 and the Conservative Party’s 25 percent.
UKIP is also expected to take a huge chunk of seats at the upcoming European Parliamentary elections in May, promising more Eurosceptic Members (MEPs) who will no doubt argue for a return of sovereignty to national governments across the continent, away from the bureaucratic talons of the European Union.
I guess that the phrase “State Sovereignty” works both across the pond as well as here. In both cases, we are seeing the war going on between those that want even MORE Government (in the ill believed notion that “Govt CAN heal all problems”) and those that believe they can solve their own problem (but aren’t allow to)
Recently, The Economist referred to UKIP as Britain’s Tea Party, a nod towards the party’s libertarian leanings. Nigel Farage once again upset the UK establishment this week by calling for a repeal of the UK’s ban on handguns, initially introduced in 1996 after the mass shooting in Dunblane, Scotland.
The Independent reported Sunday that the finding of their favourability poll was a “surprise,” further proof of the fact that much like the United States, Britain’s political and media establishments are increasingly out of step with public opinion.
I’ve been on this mudball for a few decades now, and in each and everyone of them,
Sadly, this cartoon parody is true – Crony Capitalism is not capitalism at all, merely the collusion of politicians willing to “listen” to Big Biz’s / Special Interest Group’s lobbyists to influence legislation in rent-seeking “favors” that distorts the true marketplace and shift the advantages to themselves. Go over to Kronies.com for more and find … Read more
Pure Selfishness. And yes, I do get upset over this kind of person and that my Government, via its policies, encourages it.
(H/T: Independent Journal Review)
Video Auto plays on the jump!
(To the theme of The Beverly Hillbillies) Caitlin was a girl, Legacki her last name Dealing lots of snark, is how she earned her fame Then one year she was at too many polls And out of the web came a tumbling trolls Bloggers that is and – just as snarky too Well the next … Read more