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What the market does is to reduce greatly the range of issues that must be decided through political means, and thereby to minimize the extent to which government need participate directly in the game. The characteristic feature of action through political channels is that it tends to require or enforce substantial conformity. The great advantage … Read more
(H/T: Heritage Foundation)
In our last question, we were curious to see why Andy Sanborn thought about State Government and if the State Agencies in the Executive Branch were doing the right things and in the right ways. Continuing on in that vein, we then extended that question to try to understand why no one else had yet … Read more
Having gone over the preliminaries questions of “have you done this before” and ‘why are you running” with Jane Cormier (running for the NH House in Belknap 8 – Alton, Barnstead, and Gilmanton), from her answers came the next two questions (heh! It is ALWAYS better to ask questions from what people themselves have already … Read more
Maybe you’ve heard about Gary Harrington, of Eagle Point, Oregon, and his battle with local officials over his rural collection of rainwater? (yes, that kind of water…from the sky)
I’m sorry! Not his battle – I meant his arrest, 9-count misdemeanor conviction, sentencing of 30 days in jail, and $1500 fine.
Think it can’t happen here?
A 2008 Obama voter interviews her 2012 self…. http://youtu.be/WbX5EwSp_W8
Subtitle: Once again, Progressive hypocrisy…..Do I say and not what I do, and never mind that other hand….
OR: Ya gotta love it – siphoning off taxpayer money for private interest groups for their hobby.
OK, just one more (I promise): FOLLOW THE MONEY!
And in this case, LOTS of money followed Judith Spang, (NH State Representative from Durhan, Democrat). While Ken Eyring of the Southern NH 9-12 group is defending our property rights against Durham Democrat Judith Spang, I got a tip in from a loyal reader concerning NH Rep. Spang:
The US Agriculture office 2 Madbury Road, Durham, NH paid Judith over $500,000 for a wetlands easement on her land in Merrimack County so if we all own some of the water draining from her land do we get paid also?
Really – half a million water-bucks? She gets to “sell” her private property for sake of keeping water clean! So, I googled her (all emphasis mine) and found a pattern:
From Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart.com The Golfer in Chief has passed 100 rounds, and in one week managed 21 campaign events. He has attended 163 fundraisers in his re-election campaign, according to Lehay, and then some. So he’s busy. Too busy to do his job? Consider this evidence: He’s not received an economic briefing … Read more
Back in 2007, when the New Hampshire legislature was dominated by Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, and all other sorts of flotsam and jetsam, something interesting happened: They nullified a federal law…..Gasp! Yes, sir, they certainly did. New Hampshire’s HB 685 nullified the REAL ID Act, passed in 2005 and signed into law by George W Bush, … Read more
From NECN MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain is returning to New Hampshire to discuss looming defense spending cuts. The Arizona senator, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham will discuss defense spending cuts approved by Congress at a town hall meeting in Merrimack on Tuesday. The … Read more
I wrote about this back on July 9th. The Manchester School board voted to cut transportation funding as part of a deal to find the cash to put teachers back on the payroll. At the end of the day, cuts made to public school jobs were reinstated at the expense of school choice and charter … Read more
Has anyone seen The Dark Knight Rises? I haven’t. Not that I have anything against Batman. It’s just not a movie that was on my A-List (and nothing need be said about the killings last week in Colorado; this is about the movie, not the apparently insane killer).
Now it is.
In today’s Wall Street Journal, novelist and PJ Media contributor Andrew Klavan has a fascinating interpretation of the movie. In the Journal column, Batman Battles the Politics of Resentment Klavan shows the movie to be “a bold apologia for free-market capitalism [and] a graphic depiction of the tyranny and violence inherent in every radical leftist movement….”
Thanks to the NHTPC, I found a video in which Carol Che-Porter, then candidate for Congress (beating Jeb Bradley shortly after), spoke at a NH Tea Party rally! Yes, it’s true! Gadsden flags were flying, tri-corner hats were worn, and such liberty-loving creatures as Rep. Neal Kurk, Elbert Bicknell (GONH), Katherine Albrecht, and former State … Read more
WordPress ate my post….
Sorry. I tried to add links from reports released in 2012 to the previous post and WordPress nuked me. I lost some stuff. It was a regular Shakespearean tragedy. But I’m not giving up so let’s try this again.
New Hampshire is awesome and despite “TEA party Republicans” eliminating the 800 million dollar deficit Democrats admitted to leaving (without raising taxes,) writing a state budget that came in 1% under actual revenue (without all the tears and chest pounding and left-wing make-believe), and even after they added money to the Health and Human Services budget over the previous budget (shhh, that’s a secret), we are still one of the best places in the nation to live. As if you didn’t know that.
Point being, the narrative from the Democrats is the sacrifice of women and children on the TEA Party alter, and that is simply not the case. In the 2012 reports New Hampshire is number one on children and families, number two on health, and number 1 to 3 on safety in the nation depending on which factors you look at.
Republicans didn’t sacrifice anything but the bad spending and revenue practices left by the departing Democrats. The Republicans returned us to the kind of stewardship that got us where we are today and saved us from the brink of broad based taxes which would have been the beginning of the end of New Hampshire’s dominance at the top of almost every leading indicator of overall quality of life.
To heck with the chatter, how about some links…
Aw, cry me a river of tears! I got this from a friend (wink, wink) from the National Director for Socialist Youths division of the Democrat Socialists of America. Does anyone else see the irony in the plea ( reformatted, emphasis mine) Invest Your Socialist Cash in the Future: Youth Scholarship Fund Running Low If … Read more
SING it! (And watch it through to the end…to the end of…the countdown.)
Marko Kloos wrote this piece in March of 2007. It is worth sharing over and over. Please enjoy….
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
Susan Olsen is one of our folks that works behind the scenes here at the ‘Grok and does not post all that often. However, she is well known in the activisit community and has just had the Smart Girl Politics Activist of the Year bestowed upon her! The rest of us are thrilled for her! … Read more