From Russia with love?

From the English language version of the Russian newspaper, Pravda, of all places…pick your favorite! (I admit…I’m a fan of #48 and the SWAT teams who protect us all.)

You tell me…

That was then, this is now, right? But are they not really talking about the Free State of New Hampshire? The last best chance for people who believe in individual freedom, in a world dominated by Obama-type apparatchiks? A world where America itself has gone down the socialist rat hole planned for it by today’s Democrats? … Read more

To think about on July 4th…

The HBO Series, "John Adams", gave us a unique window into the hearts and minds of the Founding Fathers, as people, and as magnificent thinkers.  This scene captures the seriousness and difficulty of convincing 13 independent "countries", to break away from their Motherland, and for all involved to risk capture, torture and death…   Needless … Read more

Calvin Coolidge, July 4th, 1926

In 1926 President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech, an independence day address.  It has just come to may attention, and  I enjoyed it so much I felt obliged to share it.

We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. The coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it the more wonderful. But how our interest and wonder increase when we behold the miracle of the birth of a new nation. It is to pay our tribute of reverence and respect to those who participated in such a mighty event that we annually observe the fourth day of July. Whatever may have been the impression created by the news which went out from this city on that summer day in 1776, there can be no doubt as to the estimate which is now placed upon it. At the end of 150 years the four corners of the earth unite in coming to Philadelphia as to a holy shrine in grateful acknowledgment of a service so great, which a few inspired men here rendered to humanity, that it is still the preeminent support of free government throughout the world.

 

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The Return of Nullification…and not a moment too soon

On November 7, 2009 the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire (RLCNH) hosted Tom Woods, author of "Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse." The RLCNH Forum was a smash hit. I personally bought two copies of the book. Now Woods is … Read more

He’s got that sinking feeling, oh-o-oh, that see-inking feeling…

Here in NH, he’s not as boffo as once was, either: Rasmussen says voters are evenly divided at 50 percent each on whether they approve of the job Obama is doing or not, although 41 percent are in the "strongly" disapprove camp while 32 percent are in the "strongly" approve. Fifty-three percent favor repealing the … Read more

The 7th Annual Porcupine Freedom Festival…

…was just held in northern New Hampshire from June 24th through the 27th. I was there with my wife and grown kid. Every year I resolve to write about the PorcFest (so-nicknamed), and about what I saw and experienced there. And every year I fail. Maybe now’s the time. In snippets.

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Carol Is Still Batting .980

Carol “98%” Shea Porter surprised several people when she offered to co-sponsor HR 1207, the Audit the Fed Resolution.  The bill, sponsored by Republican Ron Paul would require an audit of the not so independent “independent” central bank. 

The hobgoblins who run the Fed were not interested in an audit for obvious reasons.  As the manipulators of monetary policy they were and are responsible for trying to manage the boom bust cycle or more appropriately (and more likely) causing it. But they were still part of the government, so for Carol to step up and make even a token gesture was unexpected. 

Or was it? 

 

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The End Of The Road

Hat in hand, governor Lynch is looking for the feds to bail him out of the accumulated disaster of his administration. On the matter of extending federal unemployment benefits (from this morning’s Union Leader) the governor was emphatic.

Failure to do so (to extend federal benefits) will jeopardize the economic progress we’ve been making, Lynch said, warning that roughly 20,000 people in the state could run out of benefits in the next four months. Next week alone, 938 people will lose their benefits, he said.

Progress?

You have so mismanaged your stewardship of the state budget, been so beholden to years of irresponsible legislative spending and grossly inaccurate revenue projections, that we are incapable of finding even a few million dollars anywhere in our own state of New Hampshire to resolve any problem without further flights of legislative fancy or begging an even more bankrupt federal government for another handout.

You put us here John Lynch. You created this monster.

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McCotter calls for elimination of own Leadership position

Americans want reform.  Americans want less government spending.  Americans want a smaller, more efficient government.  Rep. Thaddeus McCotter knows how to "walk the walk,"  this is why today he has called for the removal of his own leadership position and to return $400k of taxpayer money to the people.  BigGovernment.com has an interesting blog post … Read more

Score another for the 2nd Amendment…

In true Constitutional form, Nottingham, NH passed an ordinance, allowing Town employees to wear their sidearm to work, and on Town property, where legally permitted (for citizens). Some residents are expressing safety and liability concerns, yet Police officers can already wear their sidearm into the building/property. I suggest that the Town offer a safety course, given by … Read more

Democrats “Deem” Next Years Budget In Late Night Vote

  According to Human Events late last night the Democrat majority Congress attached a document which ‘Deemed as passed’ a 1.12 trillion dollar budget.  The document was attached to the War supplemental bill and approved on partisan lines (despite bi-partisan objection) 215-210. It will come as no surprise to New Hampshire residents that Both Paul … Read more

INCREASING LAWLESSNESS IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

While the New York Times and the Washington Post engage in a corrupt, see-no-evil, ongoing cover-up, the truth about the increasingly lawless U.S. "Justice Department" continues to seep out, thanks mostly to the Internet and other alternative media.

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Competence, Mr. President

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified."

            – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09 

This is considered to be ….working? 

Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.

(H/T: The Campaign Spot)

The Progressive ideology posits that Big Government is THE answer to our problems, that simply by getting the brightest and smartest people into Government, they can "guide" us to a social utopia.  That a competent Government can smooth over the ills of everyday life.  Really?  Not if you read this:

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Drop Dead Fed

In the most recent issue of National Review Gary Wolfram, Professors of Economics and Public Policy at Hillsdale College wrote this in regard to Mises and Hayek’s Austrian business-cycle theory.

 

""This theory emphasizes the role of the interest rate in bringing together the plans of producers and consumers. The interest rate is the price of loanable funds — in effect, the price of money — and, like the price of any good or service, it gives producers information about consumers’ behavior and the actions of other producers. For example, if consumers wish to save — to put their money in banks, which lend it out — they will increase the supply of loanable funds, putting downward pressure on the interest rate. Producers can then borrow that money cheaply and invest in capital goods such as machinery, factories, and housing — which they can use to create goods for consumers to buy in the future with the money they have saved. Thus do producers and consumers arrive at the equilibrium interest rate, which matches producers’ plans to invest in capital goods with consumers’ desire to save.

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Why should Christians be involved in government and politics?

Last night, I was at an event at the Word of Life Christian Fellowship Church (Senor Pastor Thomas Peetz, Rev. Ed carnahan, Associate Minister) where we may have seen the rebirth of the Black Robed Regiment.  This was the name given to the clergy at the time of the Revolutionary War that provided much of the intellectual, motivational, and spiritual leadership during the struggle for this new country.  From the shackles of tyranny to the Freedom, it has often been said that without them, we’d still be speaking the King’s English.

The Patriot Pastor – Garrett Lear, a most imposing gentleman (to the left, above) – gave the opening invocation and a sermon.  It struck me so that I found him after the event and asked if I could post what he had read.  It is listed below: 

Why should Christians be involved in government and politics?

Evil men don’t understand the importance of justice, but those who follow the Lord are much concerned about it – Proverbs 28:5.

A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor as a lion or bear attacking them – Proverbs 28:15
With good men in authority people rejoice, but with the wicked in power, they groan – Proverbs 29:2
When rulers are wicked their people are too, but good men will live to see the tyrants downfall – Proverbs 29:16

Where there is ignorance of God, the people run wild, but what a wonderful thing it is for a nation to know and keep His laws – Proverbs 29:18

If the moral, righteous people of our country do not take their responsibility in government, then we leave the doors open for our nation to be governed by the wicked and immoral.

America has a unique form of government that can only work well if…

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INSANE CRETIN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SPENDING MONSTERS!

Have these people no eyes to see what they are doing? Have they no ears to hear? LISTEN, YOU INSANE CRETINOUS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RUBES. Or are you continuing to destroy the American economy because you INTEND to? From over at the Hot Air blog: "As both a tea-party battle cry and a succinct summation of … Read more

Notable Quote – Ann Althouse “Bite Me!”

On Vice-President Jo Biden calling a shop manager a "smartass" for simply asking for lower taxes: Bite me. When the powerful seek to work their will upon us and demand that we be nice about it, that’s the right response: Bite me.  Even if he were the one being nice about it, we shouldn’t have … Read more

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