Blogline of the Day – on the size of magazines

From Erick Erickson at Redstate: You may think a 30 round magazine is too big. Under the real purpose of the second amendment, a 30 round magazine might be too small. Why?  Well, we’ve answered that question multiple times and in multiple ways.  I’ll let Erick answer it this time: The amendment is not about … Read more

More Scared Shurtleff: “Guns for me but not for thee!’

In response to one of my Scared Shurtleff posts, a reader sent me an email.  In it, he writes “Recently Rep. Stephen Shurtleff, D, Merrick District 11, introduced  HB 113’.  He goes on to say “I find no comfort from Rep. Stephen Shurtleff’s self-centered approach to gun control, because he is exempt from his own … Read more

NH Police Chiefs Have a Gun Raffle To Raise Money

“If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators…” —Ben Stein

Not being a fan of the New Hampshire Association of Chief’s of Police, I now find myself in a peculiar position defending them…Narrowly and singly on this issue, of course. The Chiefs will hold a raffle….”31 days of Guns,” in May, drawing one winner each day.

 Gun Raffles are nothing new in the Granite State. Two organizations I am the leader of  have hosted such gun raffles or “Thirty days of guns,” and the raffles have shown to be lucrative fund raisers for those organizations.

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No Labels is Now New And Improved!!!

No labels new and improved
Now With Even More Bi-partisan BS!

No Labels has grown tired of being No Body, of No Interest, and having No point, so they are “shedding their centrist label.”

For those of you who slept through the first part of this ‘movie,’ No Labels started out under the assumption that we could get a lot more done if we left our political labels at the door.  “Not Left.  Not Right.  Forward.”  That was their slogan.

“Forward,” being a the same historical buzz word for left-leaning progressive socialist publications, should have clued everyone in as to the true purpose of a group founded by progressives from both the right and the left.

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US Environmentalists Caught ‘Doping’ – Stripped of “2012 Hottest Year on Record” Title.

chicken littlePeople who want or need to believe that human activity makes the earth warmer (so their sad, pathetic lives have meaning?) were excited to ‘hear’ that 2012 was the hottest year on record.  It was in the news, I’m sure you must have heard it.

So was it?  Hot?  The hottest year on record? It was hot in the continental US.

But if you defer to the full definition of the term typically used by the Chicken Little Climate Alarmist Community (which is not Anthropogenic “Continental United States” Warming), it was only the 9th hottest year out of the last 34.

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Jonah caught the stupid point – ignored the far more important point

Far be it for me to correct NRO’s Jonah Goldberg, best selling author of TWO books on Progressives (“Tyranny of Cliches” & “Liberal Fascism“) when commenting on something in the news, but I think he went for the “ha-ha” and missed the “ewwww”:

 From the Washington Post’s profile of Bloomberg:

NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg, America’s most prominent and deep-pocketed advocate for gun control, would rather rehabilitate Republicans than oust them.

 “Somebody got them the way they are now,” the mayor of New York said in a recent interview as he sat in the bullpen offices of City Hall, surrounded by a buzzing staff, blinking Bloomberg terminals and clocks telling the same time in each of the five boroughs. “Why can’t you change them?”

 Who knew that the worst part of crossing the Brooklyn Bridge is the jet lag.   I wonder if the mayor has ever said something like, “I’ve got to call the Queens Borough president. What time is it over there?”

 Hmm, what caught my eye was much worse than an ignorant reporter (the WaPo dude, not Jonah that caught him being stupid) – bringing the “ewwww” factor:

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Thanks, Jeanne Shaheen – for raising our healthcare costs TWICE!

Health-insurance premiums have been rising—and consumers will experience another series of price shocks later this year when some see their premiums skyrocket thanks to the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare.

We’ve already seen a lot of premium hikes – mine as gone up 20% this year.  And now, it’s going to get worse?  Glad to see that the Supreme Court decided this was a TAX, aren’t you?  Certainly, the cost of Obamacare is making me sick (yeah, I couldn’t resist) – you?  Especially if you pay for your own plan (you rich guy, you!)?

The reason: The congressional Democrats who crafted the legislation ignored virtually every actuarial principle governing rational insurance pricing. Premiums will soon reflect that disregard—indeed, premiums are already reflecting it.

I have seldom seen a worse pairing of words (congressional and rational) in a single sentence.  But hey, these are the dopes that can’t even pass a budget (any kind of a Federal budget, much less a rational Federal budget (yeah, I’m shaking my head at that one too)).

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Notable Quote – B.W. Hughes, Jr

On The Rule of Law: So few young people today understand that the rule of law is the precondition of an ordered society in which free men and women act in liberty. It is no overstatement to say that, without the rule of law, we cannot have liberty, and that this is a truth, not … Read more

Paint and fireworks: what could go wrong (in Slo-Mo)?

We’ve been doing a LOT of talking about things that go boom – not just because they go boom but for the underlying reason we need them: protection against the real reason why the Second Amendment exists: tyrannical government.  But sometimes, stuff that goes boom is good, if for no other reason that its FUN! … Read more

Hmm, is it legal for Illinois legislators to make US Currency illegal? And register your gold purchases?

Gold Bars

What ever happened to:

THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

A most disturbing post over at Zero Hedge – Illinois legislators think that gold is about on par with guns – you have to register your purchase and you cannot pay in cash (SB3144).  It’s sorta like, well, they want to track who has what. After all, Obama’s Progressive Hero, Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated all private property gold on April 5, 1933 simply by issuing an Executive Order.

“…Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall not pay for the precious metal in cash and shall record the method of payment.” (SB3144)

From the post, this pithy summary:

“So let me get this straight.  First they want gun registration and now precious metal registration?  I’m sure the government would only use such information in our best interests, because as we all know: Your Government Loves You.  Sounds reasonable, after all, only ‘terrorists’ buy guns and gold anyway.”

And you have to do that registration either at a Sheriff’s or Police station.  Gee, do you know what kind of database THEY have access to?  Hint: it ain’t the SEC, the Fed, the IRS, or Treasury.  I wonder whose database you’d end up in if you insisted on cash?

Let Rick Santelli ‘splain it to you:

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Cultural Marxism and the Origins of ‘Modern’ Sexual Morality

Here’s some “light viewing” to go with the morning coffee (eeeee), courtesy of Blogger Adam Cahn. Adam has this posted on his site and provides some bulleted highlights (can I still use the word ‘bulleted?’)  Go check them out whether you think you have time to watch this or not.  Odds are good you’ll make … Read more

“The ordinary people were not happy. They loathed the Emperor’s interference in every detail of their daily lives.”

“Why should they be forbidden to bake ginger-bread just because Joseph thought it bad for the stomach? Why the Imperial edict demanding the breast-feeding of infants? Why the banning of corsets? From these and a thousand other petty regulations, enforced by a secret police, it looked to the Austrians as though Joseph were trying to … Read more

NH Politics with John Burt – John Interviews Bill O’Brien

New Hampshire House Representative John Burt interviews NH House Rep and former New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O’Brien about the new session, proposed laws, Rule 63, and more…(Links to all the discussion topics available here.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HySDVvtN9WU

Irony?

If you gave Exxon Mobil an army, the ability to print their own currency, the power of taxation, the ability to set national energy policy, and executive authority to enforce it, what do you think might happen? If Democrats are to be believed they would do with oil and gas what Barack Obama and the … Read more

New Hampshire Democrats Propose Passing the Highest Beer Tax in New England

NH Democrats look to make New Hampshire Highest Beer tax in New England
NH Democrats have goals. One of them is having the highest beer tax in New England

Whenever you are sitting with ‘friends,” talking about what you could do to help create jobs and improve the economy in New Hampshire, I bet one of the first things you think of is instituting the highest beer tax in all of New England, right?

Well if you happen to be a New Hampshire Democrat that is exactly what you do.

HB 168 …would increase the excise tax on any beer that’s sold in New Hampshire to 40 cents per gallon, a 33% increase.

CBS Boston reports (WBZ) that this would surpass Maine’s 35 cents per gallon, making New Hampshire’s tax the highest in New England.

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