“…it’s to make sure that Mike Priefer never holds a coaching position again in the NFL, and ideally never coaches at any level.“

That is what Chris Kluwe, gay marriage proponent and now former Minnesota Viking punter, is now desiring for his former coach at the Vikings.  That Priefer should no longer have a way to make a living and provide for his family – belittled, denigrated, stripped of any professional renumeration, no longer able to protect and provide for his family.  That the years spent in learning his craft and finally performing at the highest level of his chosen career should amount to nothing – simply for being against gay marriage.  Simply for disagreeing with Kluwe on this issue. It is not enough to seek an apology (in watching HRC and GLAAD for several years, apologies seemingly just mean “more abasement is required”).

This is Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty all over again –

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Former “long time anti-gunner” and current Detroit Police Chief James Craig, is saying things that will not be well received by the professional left.

“Coming from California (Craig was on the Los Angeles police force for 28 years), where it takes an act of Congress to get a concealed weapon permit, I got to Maine, where they give out lots of CCWs (carrying concealed weapon permits), and I had a stack of CCW permits I was denying; that was my orientation.

“I changed my orientation real quick. Maine is one of the safest places in America. Clearly, suspects knew that good Americans were armed.”

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From whom do our Rights come from, God (or the Deity or Nature’s God) or those running Government?

The Framers of our Constitutional Republic reverently assumed the former along with the belief that if God has granted us our Rights, no man or assemblage of men can (or of more importance, should) revoke those Rights in their names alone.  Thus we are Free for there are boundaries in which our government must not cross.  If it is the former, then there are no Rights at all – merely “grants” from an all too ordinary Government from time to time.  And if that is so, we are not Free, for there is no boundaries at all, as Government (and the power greedy politicians and bureaucrats embedded in it) can arbitrarily to give at one point and then take away at another. 

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“Big Brother is watching you.”  —George Orwell

In January 2013 Rep. Stephen Shurtleff sponsored HB675 “Authorizing and regulating the use of license plate scanning devices.” on 11/25/13 the majority of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted, “Ought to Pass with Amendment #2013-2343h.”

On Friday, January 3, Representative Mark Warden wrote in the Union Leader,

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The superfluous, a very necessary thing. —Voltaire

Fergus Cullen took to the pages of the New Hampshire Union Leader yesterday to throw out the welcome mat for Former Bay State Senator Scott Brown to run against Jeanne Shaheen and to administer a blistering attack on Republicans who do not fit his GOP center-left template.

Cullen continues his amazing ride atop the waves of his highly visible tenure as New Hampshire State GOP chair. Yet, during Cullen’s largely ineffective tenure, Democrats dominated the Governor’s Office, Then The Senate and the House. To be fair, there was a nationwide democratic wave, but we saw no unique vision from Fergus which planted the seeds for good and effective Republican governance and the Elder Sununu had to step in and take the reigns.

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Well, it is the first of the New Year, and what many of us critics saw right from the get-go was going to happen, has happened.  But Progressives kept pooh-poohing it to the point of denial and outright lies – just like my US Senator Jeanne Shaheen as Steve pointed out.

Well, those Progressive seeds that were sown, with Shaheen being a head farmer, are now sprouting.  Congrats, Jeanne (and BFF Obama): meet a couple of examples of people who don’t have coverage, thanks to Obamacare (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can’t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect.  Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they’ve signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren’t taking their word for it.

In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can’t afford.

‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’ a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield.   She was leaving the building without getting a needed chest x-ray.   ‘The people in there told me that since I didn’t have an insurance card, I would be billed for the whole cost of the x-ray,’ Galvez said, her young daughter in tow. ‘It’s not fair – you know, I signed up last week like I was supposed to.’

…A similar situation frustrated Mary, an African-American woman small businesswoman who asked MailOnline not to publish her last name. She was leaving the Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia with two family members.

‘I had chest pains last night, and they took me in the emergency room,’ Mary said. ‘They told me they were going to admit me, but when I told them I hadn’t heard from my insurance company since I signed up, they changed their tune.’

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“The irony is that Obama has said he is going to dedicate himself and the rest of his time in office to fighting inequality,” Krauthammer said. “He actually created the greatest inequality.” The president’s policies of having low interests rates and having the fed pump money into the economy have caused the rich to get richer, Krauthammer said. “That’s why you get the mass discontent in the sense of the economy improving.”

“He is the cause and now he is going to redeem us from the misery that he has contributed to,” Krauthammer added.

Obama is simply employing Marxist class hate and class envy – promising with his “words” to “help” the middle class even as his actual policies are destroying it – leaving only the very poor and the very rich.  Let’s also add in, to items that Krauthammer lists,  the stagnation of the economy that his policies have wrought (rotted?  Could be either) with 10s of thousands of new laws and regulations (chiefly in the areas of paperwork, energy regulation, and job crushing Obamacare).  Two more features – in which Jr. Partner Republicans have a part: 

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“People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.”  —Agnes Repplier

This is the story of a career criminal. He is…or was, rather, 29-year-old Ramon Sedillo of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In 2003, Sedillo and two of his pals snatched an 89-year-old woman’s purse outside a grocery store. Knocked to the ground, the elderly woman succumbed to her injuries and later died.

Sedillo and his cohorts were charged with murder. Defense attorneys for these hoodlums argued the murder charges were unjustified, so instead of murder, Sedillo was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five years in New Mexico State Penitentiary. Sedillo, a known gangster, has been in and out of prison for the past decade.

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Two different countries, two different people; both calling something either Patriotic or anti-Patriotic:

1. Already there are high-profile cases of rich people who’ve left — movie star Gerard Depardieu and France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault of Louis Vuitton, to name but two. And France’s highly prized soccer champions are now vowing to go on strike.  Hollande calls them traitors.
2. Though young people will be forced to pay more under Obamacare, she pushed them to enroll on the exchanges.   “I made my kids sign up because I just said, ‘This is your patriotic duty,’” she said.

The first would be French Prime Minister Francois Hollande who seemingly believes that Patriotism is measured by total abject acceptance of the State taking most of the fruits of one’s labor.   The second would be NBC’s chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman (who really wants a single payer system in the US; a complete healthcare takeover by the Government) who has no problem in conflating signing up for a Government program as Patriotic.

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A likely topic tomorrow, when we have Dr. Betsy McCaughey on GrokTALK! is the unraveling of the next big lie of ObamaCare.

From the New York Post

Like so many other parts of ObamaCare, the reality flies in the face of promises. In this case, it was the one where the president assured us that “you’re not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making.”

Section 1311(h)(1)(B) of the health law gives the secretary of Health and Human Services blanket authority to dictate how doctors treat patients. Not just patients in government programs like Medicare and Medicaid, but patients with private plans they pay for themselves. On Dec. 2, 2013, we learned from the Federal Register that the rules are now being written. Starting in 2015, insurance companies will be barred from doing business with doctors who fail to comply. The rules will be offered in the name of ensuring “health-care quality,” which of course could mean anything.

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Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the woman who shares an anti-TEA Party agenda with more than a few Republicans, was supposed to attend a book signing at St. Anselm College today, but Global warming has chosen to dump a foot of snow on Southern and Central New Hampshire today.

The event has been cancelled, as has the protest scheduled to coincide with the book signing.

The book is titled ‘For the next Generation,’ a notion that any honest Democrat could elucidate on a cocktail napkin.

” You owe us $17 Trillion in Debt and $128 Trillion for unfunded entitlements.  You’re Welcome.”

Schultz and the progressive who actually wrote the book (but does not get to sign it) need 300 plus pages for her nostrum.

If you are wondering what you will be missing by not reading the book, here’s part of a review by Larry Thornberry at the American Spectator.

Leftists wishing a complete treatment of progressive chants, tics, talking points, sacraments, secret handshakes, and calamitous policies can find them in For the Next Generation, a tedious and repetitious 300-page walk through the entire catalogue of leftist delusions. Every failed idea since Rousseau is here lovingly lifted up as part of the path to an American paradise.

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