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Children and poor families hit hardest
So which Republicans’ voted against private scholarships for poor kids in New Hampshire?
Ann Marie Banfield provided a list, with contact info, and reminds us (On Facebook), a vote against will actually cost taxpayers more. (I talked about it here yesterday.)
The HB370 (repeal) passed 188 to 155 and now moves to the Senate where it had better fail- that’s a hint.)
The lefts list of GOP guerrillas on the jump as well as the entire roll call.
Less than three weeks ago an Islamic assassin attempted to murder Danish journalist and free speech advocate Lars Hedegaard. After missing at point-blank range, the would-be killer and Hedegaard scuffled, after which the guy with the gun ran away.
The reaction of the Scandinavian mainstream media is interesting. It included denouncing Hedegaard and wishing the assassin had been better with a pistol. Here’s some of what Hedegaard has to say about the incident and its aftermath, from today’s Wall Street Journal:
Getting down to brass tacks, this one. Bill Whittle has outdone himself yet again.
Last week we observed that the more train-wrecked-liberal places like California were already preparing for doctor shortages. Medical Doctors are leaving the profession because of growing government interference and the looming price and cost pressures of Obama-Care.
The Progressive State’s solution? Redefine what “Doctor” means until all your oars are manned. (Perhaps a more apt metaphor would be having enough hands to arrange all your deck chairs?)
This week I’d like to give that some perspective with this; from the UK Mail Online.
Roger Goss, co-director of Patient Concern (for Britain’s National Health Service), told The Sun: ‘It is amazing that surgeons don’t always take enough care to guarantee that they are removing the correct testicle.’
Millionaire Democrat Annie ‘I’ll get your gun‘ McKluster get’s out of the kitchen when the property tax questions roll in–walking out of her interview. (Maybe to pay some overdue parking tickets?) WBIN – TV In case you missed it: U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster walked away from an interview with WBIN’s Martin Morenz and refused to answer questions about her … Read more
“It was the White House. It was Obama and Jack Lew and Rob Nabors who went to the Democratic Leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, and said, ‘[the sequester] is the solution.’” -Bob Woodward Graph courtesy of Guy Benson (Now go read the article)
Just wondering.
Apparently, not high at all, for the average person. Seems, though, these odds don’t seem to apply to Chicago or DC or LA gangbangers (H/T: The Blaze)
That’s right, It is time for a new state vegetable. No, I’m not kidding. By a vote of 276-75 the New Hampshire House today voted to change our state vegetable to the White potato.
A few years ago, I was horrified that a young lady had gone to an Ivy League school, a very expensive school, simply to get an early childhood education degree (think: daycare teacher). She was in tears (in the article, that is) over the fact that the money she could earn with that very expensive … Read more
Unlike our Tranparency-in-Chief Obama who has, over and over, promised that his Administration would be the most transparent ever (as in former EPA Head Lisa Jackson using TWO unofficial email address to keep official business, well, opaque to the public), this boss was very transparent as to what would happen:
A southwest Ohio woman says she was fired three days after the November election because she voted for President Barack Obama.
She dared him
The woman has filed a lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court seeking damages starting at $25,000 against Q-Mark Inc. and its president. The Dayton-based company is a sales firm representing manufacturers and defense contractors.
The Dayton Daily News reports that Patricia Kunkle alleges that company President Roberta Gentile told employees last year that Obama supporters would be the first to be terminated if he got re-elected.
He met the dare….how dare he!
The company says she was laid off for economic reasons and cited uncertainty over U.S. defense spending.
Given the sequester and its impact on the military budget AND the uncertainty of whether it will be held off plays a role in any biz decision.
Kunkle had become a full-time employee of the company in May 2012 and says she never received any negative evaluations or disciplinary action.
It isn’t enough that the FCC decided that the Rural Telephone Fee was going to be switched paying for landlines and now to cellphones. It isn’t enough that costs have skyrocketed well beyond even the most “liberal” estimates and that millions have received them that aren’t supposed to (sure, just like with Medicaid, fraud costs are down WHEN YOU AREN’T LOOKING FOR IT!). So how DO all the phones get out to the “needy recipients”? Must be at some Government office with trained and professional social workers who swiftly and efficiently evaluate each and every case decided with deliberateness and thoughtfulness?
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What is it?
Well, it is well known that the Left is going bat crazy in trying to rid the American populace of any guns that are of any consequence in defiance of the real purpose of the Second Amendment – defense against a tyrannical govt. Much has been made that the Founders could not have foreseen modern sporting rifles (aka “the scary looking guns that have Progressives changing their panties often”), so we should be limited to muzzle loading muskets. I thought this observation is truer to the real intent “to have comparable arms to the modern British soldier” – kinda puts that snarky musket comment in different light, eh?
Any ways, we’ve seen all kinds of machinations around the theme of “Progressives don’t trust ordinary law abiding citizens with cool looking guns” whose main technological capability, being semi-automatic, is well over a 100 years old. We’ve seen the list of banned guns, we’ve seen the list of approved guns. We’ve seen the craziness of the number of rounds in a magazine (where 30 rounds for an AR is the STANDARD size, not a high capacity size) to limit them as low as 3 (and NY has made it 7 for any firearm taking a detachable magazine). Cosmetic stuff too – shrouds, foregrips, variable stocks, thumbhole stocks; stuff that have no different in making the basic technology “more lethal”. Gun registries – either legally (as in NY) or de facto (at the national level).
But there have been other stuff proposed that are less well known – but just as useful in removing the ability for lawful citizens to exercise their Second Amendment Rights to contemporary and well known & distributed firearms. So, lets review a few of the more flagrant ones.
From US Senator Diane Feinstein’s S.150 – “To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes”.
The Merrimack School board has released its proposed school calendar for the 2013-2014 school year and is seeking input from parents. You can look at the calendar here. The Board will take up the calendar again at its next meeting, March 4, 2013 where any motions to change the calendar will be considered. Be sure … Read more
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping Rabbits…” —Dame Edith L. Sitwell, Poet and Critic
The Union Leader featured excerpts from the NRA’s Armed Citizen as an Opinion Column Sunday. When I saw the headline, “True Stories from the files of the Armed Citizen,” I was drawn to the article, not because of what it had to say, but in anticipation of what the armchair progressives had to say decided what progressive propaganda and lies were to come forth
I keep wondering – if our military’s main mission to kill people and break, why are they so bent on doing social engineering? I listened to the Eldest and the Youngest (both combat vets – Marine / 101st) as first “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” goes by the board – neither had nice words on that at all. In fact, the report back at the time was that many of those in his squad would not re-enlist (in fact, I remember seeing a recent poll of enlisted which, if true, means that the Army and Marine will have little problem in reaching the Obama downsizing projections). Most recently came the info that women would be able to fill combat roles in the infantry (including the elite forces) – immediately the Youngest’s first retort was “look how beat up my body is from my year of full time combat patrols – at 26. There is no way that a 5’5″ – 130 lb woman is going to consistently ruck a 120 lb pack for miles in the mountains at 8 – 10,000 feet altitude and still be as effective as they guys. Sure, we got hurt and we had all kinds of stress injuries that slowed us down – but I’m 220 and 6’1″ and can better haul that gear.”
He then added – “glad I’m out.”
Well, the soon departing SecDef Leon Panetta has decided to make yet another huge social engineering experiment – and providing an object lesson in Progressive discrimination in how they veiw gays vs straights:
The next meeting of the Lakes Region Tea Party will be Wednesday, February 20 at the Moultonboro Public Library at 7:00 p.m. Main Topic: Granite State Future Facts Discover the real facts about this onerous top-down HUD Sustainable Communities Initiative that aims to give local planning control to the Federal Government. Presentation led by Tim … Read more
Less than two weeks ago the people of the town of Grafton gathered to vote on their annual town budget. In arguing for a 10% reduction in spending—which passed—I explained that…
In April of last year I pointed out what appeared obvious to me. That the small business school scholarship program, eventually passed into law last year–the one New Hampshire Democrats are trying to repeal–could actually save the towns and the state money.
In Merrimack the actual ‘on-paper’ cost per student is well over $14,000.00 each.; total enrollment of 4700 (ish) divided by our roughly 65+ million dollar school budget. If a parent can only take $3,450.00 per child, ($2500.00 average) then the town is still getting paid $11,000.00 dollar per child with no child left to teach.
To see how that looks if we borrow the formula the Super’s letter…
COPUPPSE (Cost of Over-priced Under Performing Public School Education) – PTPR (Pittance of Tuition Parent Receives) = JPSS (Jackpot for Public School System)
Well guess what. Someone on the CATO Institute Blog yesterday, asked Governor Hassan why–if Governor Hassan wants to save taxpayers money–would she also want to repeal a scholarship program that saves taxpayers money on the cost of education?
Headlines from yesterday’s Daily Mail Online: “U.S. Air Force developing terrifying swarms of tiny unmanned drones that can hover, crawl and even kill targets. The Micro Air Vehicles will work in swarms to provide complex surveillance of a battlefield. They can also be armed with incapacitating chemicals, combustible payloads or even explosives ‘for precision targeting capability’.” … Read more