In addition to Cornerstone, American Principles Project was a sponsoring member for this “Practical Federalism” forum.  Chair of APP, Sean Fieler, spoke to the crowd on “The Politics of Easy Money”

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What would be a formal political event in NH without Presidential candidates being present and circling around a microphone like a pride of lions around an antelope on the Serengeti??  Three showed up and each is in two parts:

• Segments 9 & 10:  US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Parts 1 & 2
• Segments 11 & 12: former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Parts 1 & 2
• Segments 15 & 16 former US Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) Parts 1 & 2

Segment 9 – Ted Cruz

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I have been reading Stanley Kurtz, Ph.D for years – first on research on Obama during the latter’s first Presidential run (which told me all I needed to know and NOTHING has transpired to any of that proved wrong and then on the evilness of Regionalism – that practices of setting in levels of “governance” that obviate our traditional American levels of authority by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats by seizing the levers of power of zoning and land use – he speaks to how that is now morphing into Education.  Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, tells a poignant and heartbreaking tale of how the bureaucracy of the Feds EPA and other assorted bureaucracies are putting him out of business – and without any input from those that SHOULD be creating Law – legislators.

Stanley Kurtz                                              Robert Murray

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The last segment for the event was a panel discussion on Winning Back Our County by two of the previous speakers joined by

• Emmett McGroarty, Esq (American Principles Project
• Ann Marie Banfield, Education liaison for Cornerstone
• Jamie Gass, Ed. Director, Pioneer Institute

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In concluding the entire day’s activities, Jeff Chidester gave his closing remarks to those still there at the end:

In large part, this was due to a lot of people there to hear Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, and Rick Santorum – the Presidential candidates.  Yes, many did show up for the beginning (more or less) and the room was filled to standing room well before those three showed up but it was clear the exits were seeing more activity the longer the event went on after the Wannabees had left.  This I can understand – at least they are trying to understand what the candidates are about on the issues.  For a lot of people, that may be all of the “dip into the political pool” they can stand – and I can’t say I blame them.  I, as a political blogger, news junkie, and philosophical in outlook, really got a lot out of the event – but it isn’t for most.  So all I have to do is convince another couple of percent of folks to be willing to jump right in and….

On the other hand, there was the Press…

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That was the headline at Breitbart / National Security.  I was at lunch when Bibi Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel spoke (after the jump) at the UN during this “terrorist” / backslapping self-congratulations over the “Iran will never get a nuke” conference.  I was mesmerized over how he constructed that speech and thought that his 45 seconds of silence was an absolute condemnation of the UN on a country it created in response to the Holocaust of WWII – and in my estimation, what seems to be the road to Holocaust 2.0:

“Seventy years after the murder of 6 million Jews, Iran’s rulers promise to destroy my country, murder my people, and the response from this body, the response from nearly every one of the governments represented here has been absolutely nothing,” Netanyahu said. “Utter silence. Deafening silence.”

But I draw your attention to the words of President Obama over the shooting at Umpqua Community College and the unfortunate tragedy that is.  Although I heartily disagree with his premises and his continued implication that we are less of a country because we won’t act like other countries.

Sidenote: yet another Progressive that thinks Europe is superior to the US; if you really think that, just GO there and leave the rest of us alone instead of continuously trying to drag us into being a socialist country where their freedoms and Rights pale in comparison to ours.  I reject that “safety & security” should trump Freedom

Yet, isn’t he being two-faced as

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A most lively show with folks we like to yak with – Jane Cormier (President, NH Right to Life) and Jody and Ian Underwood come in to talk about how the State of NH Board of Education is bullying their wee town of Croyden over the townfolks given parents the chance to have school choice with taxpayer monies.  And yes, we make sport of NH bureaucracies spouting RSAs to ordinary folks – which has nothing to do with the subjects at hand.

And these are our supposed betters and Smart People?

• Pre-show: the usual odds and ends, fodderall, and cleaning up the normal techie stuff
• Segment 1: Jane Cormier, President of NH Right to Life comes on to talk with Groksters Steve, Mike, and Skip
• Segment 2: Ian and Jody Underwood come in to yak with us.  Jody, being the Chair of the Croydon School Board, relates how the NH State Board of Education is trying to mess up “local control” by negating the townfolks efforts at letting parents have school choice when children are in need.
• Segment 3: Coming soon!
• Segment 4: Coming soon!

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Time was running short so Diane Bitter only had a few minutes to make the case for the 603 Alliance and its mission to try to split the moderate vote with a good conservative candidate coming out of their caucus.  That was followed by a Q & A session with the evenings’ Speakers taking questions from the audience – especially on an Article V Constitutional convention.

             603 Alliance                                          Part 1, Speakers’ Panel

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Before the main Ballroom events at the Portsmouth Harborside Sheraton started, there were four breakout sessions held in other rooms.  One of the speakers was Ed Naile, Chair of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers, and his topic was an update on Voter Fraud.

Part 1                                    Part 2

Part 3:                                    Part 4:

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After the dinner time (ok, before it ended), Rich Girard bounded back onto the stage and set the schedule for the rest of the evening.  Then he introduced former NH State Rep Jane Cormier to give her rendition of our first national anthem: “Chester”.  After that, Pete Hinkle had some time to talk about general announcements for the NHCCS as well as to give the Loyalty award to Bill McNally.

Dr. Jehle followed that with his talk in “Interpositional Oration”:

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Following Ben Krim’s address, Dr. Vieira took the stage to talk about the changing of our representative Republic into that which I have written about for years (trust me, he makes the FAR more scholarly argument than I could EVAH hope to do): the warning about Progressivism’ Administrative State why by we no longer rule ourselves but by government bureaucrats that are both unelected and unaccountable.  And with the Obama Administration’s years, increasingly they are also unassailable by we ordinary folks.  Again, who is supposed to be the Public Master and the public servant?  His address is broken into 4 parts of about 15 minutes apiece.

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Long day yesterday but worth it the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies (“NHCCS”) Constitution Day.  Got the chance to finally talk with people roaming around a bit instead of always behind the camera but did get a couple of interviews while running around checking cameras in some of the session rooms (as opposed to just being in the ballroom where the main session didn’t start until 4pm).  It seems that the Master of Ceremonies, Rich Girard, had a similar problem – the subsidiary sessions had their on M.C.s so he and I sat down for a chat:

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