Drowning In Debt

Democrats will blame Bush, but after 2006 they had the power to stop every penny of it. Instead, they stepped on the accelerator. November is coming. We must stop the spending

NH 9-12 Liberty Picnic – General John Stark Birthday Bash – Report Part 2

Part 1 is here. Continuing with the reporting from the Rochester / Dover 9-12 Liberty Picnic, here are two more clips. THis clip is of Diane Gilbert of the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies – she describes how she and her group have waited YEARS for this explosion of interest in the Constitution; she … Read more

Fun With Jan And Carol

Democrats like to make up rules for Republicans which I then do my best to apply to democrats.  In this example we have a donor to Carol Shea Porter who has been up to some questionable behavior.  If Carol doe snot denounce it she is complicit in it.  So pay attention.

Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill)–remember Jan, she’s on that socialist party list–has apparently helped bail out a local Illinois bank outside her district.  What’s wrong with that?  Nothing unless you are one of the small banks in her district that she allowed to fail.  Nothing, unless you know that the bank in question appears to have donated to Senator Dick Durbin, Ms. Schakowsky, Obama and has connections to a distinguished list of Chicago insiders, many of whom are currently hanging with the man at 1600.  Even the Clinton’s and MoveOn.org have roots in SouthShore.  And nothing at all unless that bank just happens to be a bank Jan’s husband used to help him find a way out of his bank kiting scheme before he went to the big house.

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The Cost Of Education

When something doesn’t work, and you are a democrat, well you just keep doing it.  These graphs come to us courtesy of Andrew J. Coulson at Big Government.

Graph one Public education employees vs. student enrollment numbers.

Way out of wack@

Graph number two–on the jump–is the inflation adjusted cost of public K-12 education (that’s taxpayer dollars spent) compared to achievement levels.  (I hope you are ready for this.)

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“Candidates Should Pledge To Keep The NH Presidential Primary Law”

A guest post by Jim Splaine (D-Portsmouth), member, NH House of Representatives:

Candidates Should Pledge To
Keep The NH Presidential Primary Law

"Once upon a time there was something called ‘The New Hampshire First-In-The-Nation Presidential Primary.’"
 
Hopefully that line won’t be written in a future history book, relating a long-lost election process that kicked off with our Presidential Primary.  We have had our "first" status for decades only because we vigorously defend it when it is threatened.  When we begin to negotiate it away, we stumble down the path toward losing it.  Our Primary itself can become past history if we let some politicians put their interests ahead of the interests of democracy.
 
I go back a long way on this cause.  As a little pup in 1960 I passed out brochures in my neighborhood for a young presidential candidate from a next-door state who seemed to talk to my generation, although he seemed mighty old.  In 1968 I supported his younger brother because a needless war was killing my college friends.  In that election, I saw first-hand the importance of our Primary.
 
So in 1975, when our lead-off status was being widely threatened, I sponsored a bill in the NH Legislature that wrote into law that our Primary would be scheduled by the Secretary of State "…7 days or more…" before others.  Through the years I sponsored four updates to that law to protect our tradition, including most recently this past June, to guarantee that we will hold the first primary AND that it would not be followed within a week by any state.
 
Our state law mandates…

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Look For The Union Label

So far this year, $24.7 million in independent spending has been reported to the Federal Election Commission, campaign filings show. Unions have spent 9.7 million (or 39 percent of the total), compared with $6.4 million (26 percent) spent by individuals and 3.4 million spent by corporations.

Target (ing) Gaypocrisy

Target donated money to a pro business PAC, which donated money to a Minnesota Candidate that makes the Gay activists less than merry.  (Can’t exactly say less gay can I?).  And since the "x degrees of fiscal separation" rule is only relevant to anything to the right of Trotsky, the Gender Confusion Corps (pronounced "corpse") has taken it to Target with a vengeance.

(I hope they are not upset with me but I  spent close to $1000.00 dollars at Target this week but if it helps I had a coupon. )

Anyway, in their quest to draw attention to the complex nature of the gender paradox  they have managed to make collective fools out of their collectivist selves.  At the end of a video in which they answer once and for all the age old question of whether people really do just burst into coordinated song and dance in public places like they do in the Musicals, we are treated to large type with the words "Stop Trying To Buy Elections," (see it on the jump) to which I must respond, only if you stop first.

 

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Cost of Government Day

According to the Center for Fiscal Accountability, New Hampshire residents work 226.8 days to pay for the cost of government this year. So go ahead and celebrate. Everything you earn after August 14th is technically yours to keep.
Who would have thought they’d let you keep 138.2 days worth of income from a years worth of work? What a bargain.

Is the Coffee Party Out Of Juice?

Nothing UnderneathI’m not surprised to hear this.  The coffee party (let’s call them CP) was doomed from the start.  Why?  It was a top down construction of left wing propagandists and those sorts of fabricated movements have needs that the CP could never hope to meet.

It had no core principles to stand on.  We know from the CP themselves (see here,) that there was a lack of issues focus but it’s a bigger problem than that.  Being a recovered moderate myself I can tell you that when what you think you believe cannot somehow be linked to some consistent metric or core value you don’t actually believe in anything.  You risk becoming a leaf and the wind that moves you is as capricious as your most recent whim–be it one that occurs to you on your own or something someone else (the media or a trans-formative figure for example) convinces you of from moment to moment.

Left without an anchor and lacking a reliable lens or filter, everything becomes subject to change; response is based on emotion or selfish wants and personal pleasure–the only answer to every question becomes “will this make me feel good about myself or is this good for me?”  But we already have a movement like that, it’s called the new democrat party.

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How Many Employees Do You Have?

After posting this on Wednesday–the discovery that New Hampshire has the third highest number of welfare employees per 100,000 residents in the nation (More than California by the way which, if you noticed is a tiny bit bigger than New Hampshire)–it occurred to me that this may not be the only circumstance in which the … Read more

They Have a Right to Build the Ground Zero Mosque…

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Sure, the US Constitution asserts the right for any religion to build a facility, even if it’s in a location that instigates, insults and disrespects the sacred plot where almost 3000 people were slaughtered in an act of cowardly terrorism.

Fine.  Americans have to deal with this all the time.

As a firm believer and follower of our Constitution, I will never say "they can’t build it".  I will, however, protest and argue, in an attempt to influence public opinion, perhaps applying enough pressure to force them to build it elsewhere.

I will ALSO advocate acts of reciprocation, similar to those shown below…

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Email doodlings – thoughts on the 17th Amendment and why it needs to be repealed

Still more from from an email thread:

It is a tough sell – but if one is going to go Constitutional, and not be 1/2 way about it, you do have to accept that sometimes "tough love" has to be a part of it.  Until I saw Greg’s depiction of what the Amendment had done, I merely thought that a Senator was just like a Congressman – albeit with a different title and only 100 of ’em.  Given what the political climate is today, and the ills that have been set upon us by that repeal (states rights and all that portends), I’d be willing to give up my direct vote to put that part of the Republic back in.

People often whine that Americans are ungovernable – the Founders deliberately made it difficult to get things done and now with Obama and the Progressives ramming all this stuff through, it should be obvious why – and why the brakes have to be reset.  From Betsy’s Page:

That supposed stimulus bill that the Democrats passed yesterday to help fund state workers carries strings telling the states how they must use the money.Specifically, the bill stipulates that federal funds must supplement, not replace, state spending on education. Also, in each state, next year’s spending on elementary and secondary education as a percentage of total state revenues must be equal to or greater than the previous year’s level.

Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi did the math and figured out his state will be…

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Under Norelli’s Rule

Guh!?Yesterday Terie Norelli celebrated my Birthday by taking to the pages of the Keene Sentinel to talk about what a great job the New Hampshire democrat party has been doing with the state.  One of the things she’d like you to believe is that they have created (or saved?) a job friendly environment that has allowed the Granite State to recover more quickly than other states.  But is that really true, and do democrats have anything at all to do with it?

It is a matter of fact that under the left New Hampshire has grown the size of state government and its regulatory nature.  They have increased taxes and fees.  While Ms. Norelli opines all the additional regulations they have added to inspire growth in the job market—and thus the economy—this is like someone handing you a tiny cup of water to put out a raging fire they started and then expecting you to thank them.

About the only thing they can claim is having inherited an ages old State formula that used to create jobs and growth.  One they have tinkered with to the point of destruction.  And things are not–as Norelli would like you to believe– heading in the right direction.

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EMail doodlings – we must be our own leader

Steve put up the video on Ronald Reagan – Stark Differences.  Indeed, the difference shown by the rhetoric of Reagan matched against that of current Progressive Leaders is stark in both syntax and semantics.

It also points up, however, a question: where is today’s Reagan?  There are those that continue to look for "The Next Reagan" and point here, there, and somewhere else.  Then there are those, not seeing a Reagan-to-come throw out the whole notion – AND his conservative philosophy as espoused in that quick clip as well (NH: think Fergus Cullen and others of that ilk).  The latter is just plain stupidity at worst and at best, sound like Democrats when they talk about the Constitution is a "living document" – either way, totally wrong on both counts.  The former is problematic at best, in my eyes, it shows an unwillingness to stand up and shoulder a responsibility that is incumbent upon us all – and not to be placed upon a single leader, as I wrote a bit ago (emphasis added): 

I would turn that around a bit – WE need to become our own leaders as our current ones, by definition, have already failed us.  The one thing that I have learned is that the old adage still rings true: if you want something done right, go do it yourself.

In other words, we have to do it – you have to lead, and I have to lead.  We can no longer shuffle that off to someone else; we must, if we are return to that Founders Vision that made this the greatest country on the face of the earth, all lead – there is no more sitting back onto the couch and no more just being a lowly soldier in the movement.

No more can we just let government, after casting our ballots, run on auto-pilot...

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There’s a reason why…a bloodbath may be coming

It seems that with effectively a one Party rule system in power (i.e., the Progressive Democrats that have been taken over by the hard left Progressives (and remember, Progressivism is nothing except incremental socialism)), all of the  ‘wet dream’ social engineering ideas of theirs have been slapped against the heart of of the American public.  

Individual resourcefulness?  We’ve got a Big Government bureaucrat for to do that for you! Self-governance?  We’ve got a Big Government policy to remove that pesky idea!  Want Government to leave you alone?  Oh, now THAT they have no answer for (except an emphatic "NO! WE have to take care of you!").

I swear, the Progressive favorite phrase has to be "Government intrusion: super-size it!".  After all, their ideas are just. so. great, right?  They think so – the rest of us ain’t groovin’ to it at all:

This has GOT to be giving Progressives that twisted feeling -President Hopey Changey has a rather large problem:

Rasmussen: 

  • 45% of Americans STRONGLY disapprove of Obama
  • 65% of Americans are angry at the Federal Government
  • 60% want Obamacare repealed (w/50% holding repeal is best for the economy) 
  • Generic Republican Congressional candidate has a +12% advantage over Generic Democrat

One of the foundations of Progressive / Liberal thought is that we should allow ourselves to be governed by an elite cadre of "management scientists" that best know what is both good for us and what needs to be done to have an "efficient" society.  It is obvious that they have done everything than can in the time they have had (with Obama’s Presidency and having controlled Congress since 2006).

It is also rather obvious that most of us don’t agree – but the Progressives…

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Pilots And Patriots Defending The Constitution

Christopher Hill is the founder and driving force of Pilots and Patriots defending the constitution, a grass roots group focused on attracting professional pilots (Chris was a fighter Pilot in the Gulf War), and just about anyone who can be a convincing patriot (they accepted me). "Pilots and Patriots Defending the Constitution" is a growing … Read more

Email doodlings – a brief definition of a RINO

In an email thread I’m on, I was asked (since I missed it the first time):

So, I will ask again, What is a true conservative?  What is a RINO?

Here was my brief answer – in two parts:

Here in NH, a RINO is someone that votes contrary to the principles of the NH GOP Platform 70% of the time.  Votes that violate the major precepts of nominal GOP stances (less taxes, less government, more freedom, adherence to the Constitution) on multiple occasions warrants that title as well.

I am willing, at times, to give passes to our representatives on bills that have "traps" in them set by the opposition, whereby a vote that is seemingly cast against the platform was done to keep a worse evil from happening.

A conservative hews to traditional political values known as Constitutional.  Further, traditional cultural values are in the forefront of a conservative’s actions and mindset – which also includes those values stemming from our traditional Judeo-Christian national heritage.

There is the political – AND, in this time of a concentration on fiscal policy and laws made contrary to the Constitution, there is the social.

Go ahead, explain how being a fiscal conservative also allows for such an expansive liberal mantra as our burgeoning welfare / entitlement State? I posit…

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