Over at The Blaze is a post about a Mom who watched the MTV VMA show – and saw it for what it was.  She has penned a letter (“penned” sounds so much better than “keyboarded”) and posted it on her blog. In essence, she is drawing a line in the sand for her daughter – and firing a shot against the Progressive values that have so much demeaned the value of self-respect and the value of truly knowing who you are.  Cyrus’s act perfectly shows the effect of the Progressive hard core emphasis on freedom of action (an adaption of Nike’s “just do it” – and do it all) and nary a word of self-limitation on moral grounds.

Remember Andrew Brietbart’s admonition to those of us who wish to change politics back to Constitutional values: “Politics is downstream from politics”.  Here is one Mom’s effort to change that culture for her beloved daughter:

Dear daughter, let Miley Cyrus be a lesson to you.

Yes, this is what happens when you constantly hear everything you do is awesome. This is what happens when people fawn over your every Tweet and Instagram photo. This is what happens when no responsible adult has ever said the word “no,” made you change your clothes before leaving the house, or never spanked your butt for deliberate defiance.

Unlike Progressives that believe every 11 year old has a right to Plan B and the right for her teacher to bring her to Planned Parenthood, this Mom says “here is my line in the sand on your behavior”.  In fact, she goes on to demonstrate that her daughter’s decisions WILL have Mom’s consequences follow through .

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I think a lot of Northeast Republicans were fairly happy when Scott Brown won the special election from “Marsha” Coakley  in MA to fill the Senatorial seat left empty upon the death of Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy a few years ago now.  Occupying “the Peoples’ Seat” (as opposed to the “Kennedy Family Seat”), he pretty much met most expectations – not a Democrat, but not rock solid votes on Republican issues either.  Now, he’s making noises about running for election again – just unsure for what and from where (except for MA Guv, which was on the list but he just ruled out – maybe).  From NH, perhaps, due to his home out on the Seacoast?

Several people took note on him filling in – locally, Karen Testerman did (Note: Karen is an exploratory candidate for NH Gov).  Given that the Laconia Daily Sun only does “pictures of text”, that’s all I’ve got:

But Brown filling in for Bill O’Reilly also caught a national audience as well.

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Activism is increasing, leading up to the Concord City Council BEARCAT vote on Mon Sept 9th.

You may be thinking, “this is Concord, what do I care?” – but this is more than just about Concord – this is about the type of New Hampshire we want to preserve for our children and a chance to push back at the growing, dangerous militarization of Police in our State and Country (courtesy of the Federal Government). The pot is boiling, folks…

You have two options to help in the push-back:

• Come to the Concord School Board meeting tomorrow night Wed Aug 28th 5:30pm, where the Board will discuss their City Council letter of support or opposition to the Vehicle. Initially, they wanted to make this meeting a “private”, “non-public” meeting, so they could discuss their opinion on the BEARCAT away from the public: Facebook Event

• Come to the Concord City Council meeting on Monday, Sept 9th 6:00pm, where they plan to vote on receiving the Federal funds to purchase the Police Assault Vehicle: Facebook Event

Note: The first item below took place yesterday. Over 400 petition signatures were collected over the weekend, in opposition to the BEARCAT.

• This weekend’s BearCat petition drive was a success. We will be submitting the signatures to City at a press conference this afternoon (Monday August 26th) at 3:45 PM in front of City Council Chambers (41 Green Street, Concord). All are welcome to join us.

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Hugh Hewitt (talk show host, author, lecturer, lawyer) has a column in the Washington Examiner today: “Is Obama the worst president ever?”

Since 1979 and the acquiescence of the transfer of Iran to religious zealots with world-enders and Hidden Imam-summoners among them, I didn’t think it was possible for an American president to be ranked below Jimmy Carter on the competence list.

But now we have Obama, with double the years that Carter had to more than double the wreckage of the Carter era. Obama is working on his place in history every day, and every day he is making that ranking more secure.

Earlier in the column, he reviews the cost and lies about Obamacare, the situation in Syria (re: Weapons of Mass Destruction).  Certainly there are a lot of areas in which we have pointed out where things are just upside down and rightside wrong with what this Administration has and is doing.  The key ‘graph in the piece is this:

Obama’s tenure is a vast desert of anti-achievement, a landscape of waste and ruin on every front at home and abroad, save on the ability to mobilize voters who don’t know or don’t care about the state of the country or the world.

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The Arborist, when taking the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office to task for the recent “investigation” that cleared the “voters” who claimed residence at Martha’s Motel for voting purposes then went back home, off to other campaigns, or back to their staffer jobs in DC, makes an important point that should not be overlooked…

“…It is unconstitutional to have dual domicile for the purpose of making your vote worth more than any other law abiding citizens. In effect, the NH AG has created two classes of voter in Arkansas – one who can vote only in Arkansas and one who can select either Arkansas or New Hampshire.”

Not just in Arkansas, either.  Every one of these people, the thousands of college students (and you can make almost any behavior ‘legal’ if you have the votes}, have rights that you do not have courtesy of the New Hampshire Democrat Party and Judge John Lefty Lewis.

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Herein is the difference between people like former Vt. Governor and former Presidential candidate Howard Dean (and pretty much the entire Obama Administrative political appointees and Obama himself).  As Daniel Webster noted “they mean to be masters” – even if they believe their hearts to be “good” and believe in their heart of hears that their motives are only to be seen as pure and “for the common good”.  See what I mean:

On health care, Mr. Cruz said Mr. Obama’s law is a “job killer” that has forced businesses to drop coverage or shift workers to part-time status. He said these changes have an outsized effect on the most vulnerable, including minorities and single moms.

Rising to an oft-repeated challenge, Mr. Cruz offered three health care reforms that Republican may support in lieu of Mr. Obama’ plan.

He said that Americans should be allowed to build up health savings accounts in a tax-advantaged way, that health coverage should be “personal and portable” and divorced from employment, and that consumers should be allowed to purchase health insurance across state lines instead of quarantining policy options to the individual states.

Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, said interstate insurance options is the last thing he wants, arguing some states would pollute the policies that Vermonters and other states have built up and enjoy.

“I don’t want our people buying Texas health insurance,” he told CNN.

Note the totalitarian leanings of Dr. Dean: “I don’t want our people“.  

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The more you look at Obamacare, the more you see that the entire intent is to kill off another industry: healthcare insurance.  I stumbled upon this just a bit ago:

The problem with a 90-day grace period for premium payment is that at the end of it you must pay for three months of premiums, when you couldn’t afford to pay one month in the first place. A lot of people won’t be able to do that, but meanwhile they have been running around with an insurance card receiving health services.

What then? Who is on the hook for those services? HHS has decided to split the baby. The insurance company will have to pay for the first month of non-coverage, but providers (doctors and hospitals) will have to absorb the costs incurred for the second two months. That could be a whole lot of money. The (formerly) insured person will be canceled after three months, but they get to re-enroll again at the end of the year without penalty. (And we were told one of the purposes of this law was to solve the “free-rider” problem. Oh, well.)

Along with paying for services during the first month of the delinquency, the insurer must: 1) notify HHS of the non-payment; 2) notify providers of the possibility of denied claims during the second and third months; 3) notify the insured that he/she is delinquent; 4) continue to collect the advanced tax credit on behalf of the policyholder; 5) return the tax credit for the second and third month to the Treasury; 6) issue a termination notice to the insured at the end of the grace period. Oh, and the carrier must also determine whether the insured has a disability as defined by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and make “reasonable accommodations” for such individuals. These are pretty substantial administrative burdens, and the costs will aggravate the Minimum Loss Ratio requirement for the carrier.

So, how many people do you suppose will do this? I would wager just about everybody. Why not? You can get 12 months of coverage for nine months of premiums and suffer absolutely no penalty.

My head hurts – let’s see if I have this straight:

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Over at Conservative Intel, they’ve posted a list of hate-crime hoaxes. Having recently written about the Dylan Bleier hoax at Oberlin, I figured I should post this list; seeing as they went to all the trouble. The list has links and of the thirteen they share (Bleier would be number fourteen) all but one was perpetrated by a liberal or liberals. Yes, there is a supposed ‘conservative’ hate-crime hoax from 2007.

As Conservative Intel points out, right off the top, hate motivated crime is a real problem that happens to real people, though I question whether adding the word hate deters the crime. The very temples of political correctness and diversity, university campuses, just happen to be the primary breeding ground for hate-crime hoaxes, which are themselves crimes.

To the list…

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Yesssir, a contest!  For nothing says “Success!” for a nitwittish, top-down command and control, IRS-fine-giving billy club of a “We’re from the Government and we’re here to help you” HHS “shh…we care” like having to run a contest to get those youn’uns that don’t need it to sign up and pay three times the premiums just to keep that halo going over the Obamessiah brow:

And just to make sure that this isn’t just the Senior set trying to run a con on them, Obama, Sebelius and the (dum-da-da-TUM!) Young Invincibles (aka the Center for Community Change, Washington DC) decided to get those creative type’s juices going and “send us a video” just like America’s Funniest Videos does (except AFV’s rewards, being a private capitalistic show, actually has decent money for prizes).

Socialism – the political system that REQUIRES propaganda in order to think that there is sugar in the medicine they’re jamming down the throat.

Oh, by the way, did you now know that that Obamacare has its own Obama corpse (Like the US Marine “Navy Corpsemen“)?

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So what else is new?  The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has “cleared” NH State Senator Martha Fuller Clark of harboring non-residents at her voter fraud mansion in Portsmouth.  Big deal!

The AG has been doing this kind of stuff since 1993 that I know of. All the NH AG’s Election Division has done is shift the spotlight to themselves. And it is about time. I am going to keep on exposing non-resident voters until the cows come home.

Let us begin with a quote from the article in the seacoastonline.com:

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