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“A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” —Bill Cosby
On 9 March, Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins reported that Former Astronaut and Congressman Giffords husband Mark Kelly, “purchased” an AR-15 and subsequently announced on his Facebook page that he was not going to keep the AR-15, which he has yet to pick up from the store.
Days after making the purchases, Kelly wrote on Facebook: I just had a background check a few days ago
HB 399, the New Hampshire Liberty Act, passed the NH House by a vote of 337-15.
Talk about bi-partisan support! And yes, I am enthusiastic about that. Back on February 18th, I challeneged New Hampshire Democrats to show us what they were made of when it came to the Federal Government, under the guidance of Mr. Obama, giving itself the right to detain people indefinitely and they have spoken.
Dan Itse’s bill would make it a crime for anyone to aid or abet indefinite detention in the Granite State without due process and the Democrat majority House stood up to support that.
Now maybe it’s a no-brainer vote. Perhaps it’s an easy one-off, a gimme. Heck, Democrats voted to nullify National ID back in the day. How hard could this be to support?
Well if it that were true why did 15 New Hampshire reps still vote against it (including one Republican)?
Francis I, the new leader of the catholic church, is likely to get more than a few liberals to jump back on their crazy-train. That’s because he’s a Catholic. No, not your Pelosi-Biden ‘garden variety’ left wing catholic, who claims to be catholic–Pope Francis is an actual C-A-T-H-O-L-I-C. Francis has this crazy idea that marriage has something to do … Read more
As someone who is currently entangled in and fighting the tentacles of Leviathan over various firearm issues and is constantly wiping the red ink from my brow it heartens me that there’s a no-holds bar a$$ kicking consitutionalist in the Senate and he’s throwin’ down, taking names, and outing meaty pieces of Leviathans corpus. Watch … Read more
I couldn’t believe it when I read it. The White House on Thursday launched an audio series to give Americans the sense they’re along for the ride for some of Biden’s behind-the-scenes moments. Dubbed “Being Biden,” the series features photographs of Biden from events that aren’t part of his public schedule. Viewers can listen to Biden narrate … Read more
After years of study Senator Feinstein has identified the real cause of mass killings. Quoting Senator Feinstein,“It’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieHhIqxR7kY) Apparently all we need is a law saying it is no longer legal to hunt (kill) humans using a large capacity magazine. You can probably get bi-partisan … Read more
Barack Obama may be our President, but he is a petty little man who cares more about his power and ideology than people. After months of attempting to blame Republicans for his sequester plan and promising dire consequences, the public didn’t buy it. They said cutting 2.3% from our bloated future spending plan isn’t enough, cut current spending levels by 5%.
Like a spoiled brat, Obama wants to make people suffer for not believing his threats. So, he stops White House tours, he cuts medical care for veterans, including disabled veterans and their families, he releases thousands of criminals to prey on Americans, he goes out of his way to cause pain to others, but for a $500,000 donation to his campaign fund, he gives you a night in the Lincoln Bedroom at taxpayer expense.
We’ve been warned of tainted food as the FDA furloughs workers, thinning ranks as border agents get let go, and fewer Federal prosecutors, and don’t forget about those FAA employees that have to be let go. So why, in the age of sequesteria, has the Federal Government posted job opening to fill 2,596 positions in just the past ten days? … Read more
So what it is about Christianity that Mr. Duncan dislikes so much? For starters, let’s look at that old bugaboo ‘The 10 Commandments”: Does he oppose the one that says we shouldn’t kill? How about the one that says we shouldn’t lie? Or how about the one that says we shouldn’t steal? Or maybe it’s … Read more
“We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.” —Jared Diamond
I had lunch recently with a close friend with whom I attended college some years ago. He continued his education and is now a PhD. He is not a “lefty” sort of guy, but he isn’t a conservative-libertarian either. But with Social Scientists now weighing in on the gun debate, attempt to convey clarity, ambivalence is the net product. In our conversation over lunch he conveyed his thoughts about guns. Specifically, this thought:
“All too often following one of these mass shootings that garners national attention, the attempt to meaningfully discuss solutions to gun violence in America is muted and we fail to find any meaningful consensus regarding what we as a society can do to address gun violence.”
To qualify his remark he added,
If Joe Biden makes a gaffe about domestic violence against women and the entire media industrial complex can hear it…will they make a sound? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-tMwBseyToU
We have all gotten used to the handmade signs set on the overpasses to welcome home the troops after a tour in either Iraq or Afghanistan. Now, a new one?
To the right of the highway sign, see that white sign on the guardrail? If you do not know what that white sign is or says, I believe it is a cousin to the one after the jump. From the email that came to my attention:
“You may not be able to really see this well. See if you can enlarge it without distorting it. I took it while I was driving up to the overpass (not the best idea) but its a picture of a gun and the sign reads “Come and take it”. This is on the overpass just before Shaws in Milford. Wonder how long it will stay there!!!!!”
Molon Labe
“Come and Take Them”.
(H/T: John)
Having just replaced “one of the best ever” with the next to be “one of the best ever” Secretaries of State, President Obama’s foreign policy coups keep coming. President Obama’s “charm offensive” really pays off. North Korea just announced that they have abandoned the Korean War ceasefire agreement and are developing bombs and missiles with which … Read more
It seems like such a simple question. Can the President just kill anyone he wants, based on any criteria he wants, on American soil even if the person is no immediate threat to anyone? And since this question began related to using drones, the question is really, can the President kill someone, and anyone who happens to be nearby the targetted person, even if there is no immediate or imminent threat to anyone?
What does it mean when it takes SIX WEEKS of questions and a HIGHLY PUBLICIZED FILIBUSTER to get an answer to the question?
What is equally frustrating is the fact that 87 Senators apparently don’t care that the President and his administration have dipped and dodged and misinterpreted answering this question. What is really disappointing is that our Senator Ayotte apparently doesn’t seem to care. What was repugnant were the reactions of Senators McCain and Graham to the filibuster.
I think it is appropriate to let our representatives know how you feel about their actions. Hopefully others have also written them. My e-mails follow. I am not particularly happy about these as they are not very constructive, but they express how I feel. I suspect these letters will not make it to the Senators.
I thought Dems and Progressives were all “Trees – Not Towers” all the time: Article 12 Shall the Town vote to authorize the selectmen to enter into a 5 year lease agreement, with an automatic renewal for four (4) automatic give (5) year terms, with AT&T to locate a tower (on town owned property on North … Read more
From the Telegraph, reporting on the Met Office / Hadley Center (one of the leading “climate change” official entities: That would be 0.08 degrees Centigrade, or 0.144 degrees F. Dunno about you folks, but I certainly do not have a thermometer that is reliably accurate to measure that small of a difference! And what are … Read more
The Right opposes Social Security because it is based on the social democratic idea that every person has worth, even if they are too old to work, and that no one should live in poverty.
And so we debate! I received Professor Joseph Schwartz’s opening remarks on the defense of this line written by Maria Svart, National Director of the Democrat Socialists of America. Tomorrow I will post my response:
3/11/13: Prof. Schwartz
The democratic left has always supported collective means of social insurance, such as publicly-funded (through equitable taxation) universal health care, old-age pensions, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance. We support all citizens being covered because both the rich and poor, young and old get sick or disabled and they often don’t have jobs or the purchasing power to cover themselves thru individual insurance. The right has always resisted the implementation of social insurance and always fights to “privatize” it as much as possible, arguing that individuals should have the foresight (and “the freedom”) to insure themselves (or those who pay in more should get better coverage).
[Update: I was just informed that the day after this post originally went up Foster’s Daily Democrat decided to publish Dan Davis’ letter. We take no credit. I’m sure it was just waiting in the slush pile for a space to open up and the timing is coincidental. We do appreciate Foster’s making room on their pages for Dan’s side of that debate and hope it is a trend that will continue on other topics and issues of importance to Granite Staters.]
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The following is a letter from Dan Davis of Kensington to Foster’s Daily Democrat, in defense of Free Staters and the Free State project. According to Dan and NH Seacoast Liberty (where I picked this letter up at Dan’s request), Foster’s has refused to publish it despite publishing editorials critical of the movement.
We think Foster’s can do whatever the hell it wants including being like most other print news outlets that use editorials and letters to the editor to advance their left leaning preferences in ways they might try to hide in their news and other reporting. But in doing so they should expect to be called out for any obvious biased, one-sided, or misleading reporting, especially when they do it in their letters section.
Mr. Davis has done exactly that.
As a lifelong NH resident, I am disappointed with recent Foster’s editorials which incorrectly demonize the Free State Project. The paper continually mischaracterizes the FSP as a monolithic force, whose members are conspiring to “take over NH.”
“We have a responsibility as human beings to do something, to save each other, to save the lives of ourselves, our families, ourfriends, and all of the rest of the people that live on God’s planet. And so while other people will wring their hands over the problem of sugary drinks, in New York City, … Read more
This column came to my attention from Ann Marie Bannfield who as become one of the most knowledgeable and articulate defenders of the need for Educational Freedom, for local control, and an ardent foe of lowered educational/academic standards that have swept our country. Thus, when she emailed out a link to this Op-Ed, I read it. After doing so, it became clear that this is one of the best pieces I have read that simply and plainly call out the real bullies in the educational field. No, not other students but the adults on the other side of the desk in the form of the teachers unions.
The political bullying of NH school children continues BY RICHARD EVANS
I despise bullies.
One of the most profound impressions ever made on me was when, as a young man in the 1980s, I travelled along the border between China and Hong Kong. I vividly remember watching the people on the Chinese side laboring in the rice fields, literally in the shadow of the gun towers which sprouted from the barbed wire at frequent intervals. At the end of the day, my wife and I crossed back to the other side of the wire beyond which lay freedom and prosperity.
For our Chinese guide and the folks in the fields, however, that was a forbidden land. How unimaginably galling it must have been for them to peer through that barrier every day of their lives, and see Nirvana so close and yet so unattainable.
Years later I realized that the most telling feature of any wall is the posture of the guards. The Chinese guards on the border, like their counterparts who once manned the equally dismal Berlin Wall, were not defending their fellow citizens against outside attack. They were facing inwards, preventing escape. Arch bullies, one and all.
Not all walls are physical structures. The wall that has been erected around our public schools is purely economic, yet it traps those it surrounds equally as effectively as any barbed wire. Escape is theoretically feasible, but it comes with a price tag that is beyond the means of most families. To leave is to forgo, for some completely unfathomable reason, all access to a share of the substantial funding that society allocates to education. All of the money must stay behind.