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Another NH Democrat pines for a “walkable” history most of us have already rejected

That would be  NH State Rep Ivy Vann (D-Peterborough) – whose heart seemingly aches for the times of city or town life that many left many decades ago – but has no problem in using Government to impose her notion of “town Utopia”.  No kidding – she tells us this in a self-contradictory “puff piece” …

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San Francisco Regulates Last Gun Shop in City Out Of Business

Because – Guns! Situated in the prominent city heart of Mission Street, High Bridge Arms was founded in the mid-1950s by Bob Chow, who competed in the 1948 Olympics 25-yard pistol shooting event. By some accounts a Bay Area institution, it has long been a tourist destination – specially for members of the law enforcement …

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This, from Socialist Bernie Sanders, caught my ear on Sunday’s This Week talking head show

Certainly ole’ Bernie is tapping into something on the hard Left – proving what a lot of us on the Right have been saying for a while: the center of the Democrat Party is now outright Socialist.  And step by step, over the decades, they have been using the Law & Regulation stick to transform …

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“The Tao of Poo”

Too good not to print in it’s entirety. Via Ace. “Every day, many of us look around and frankly wonder what’s going on in this country of ours. It’s obvious that President Obama has been a disaster for the country, but there is endless speculation as to the nature of the disaster, whether it’s incidental …

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I Hope You Are Not ‘Married’ to the Idea of Ending Marriage Licenses (Left Wing Plot)

A number of deeply committed lefty central planners have longed to put an end to state issued marriage certificates because they believe it will empower the government to define all standards of social behavior and relationships. Take note, libertarians: central planners like Fineman view state recognition of marriage as the “institutional protection” for family autonomy and …

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Constitution: no Progressives values it (unless as a tactic)

Paul Moreno over at American Spectator has a post whose title didn’t do all that much for me but the subtitle did:   Progressives succeeded where the Confederates failed.  While to most of the population, the Civil War was about slavery, it really was about differing interpretations of the Constitution.  And the desire to take those …

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Blog Observation of the Day – no State if no cops

 When Law Students Distrust The Police: “And here a peculiarly ironic dissonance arises. My students, for the most part, are a liberal bunch. That makes them, among other things, enthusiasts of the regulatory state. But if they increasingly mistrust the police, it’s hard to know who’s supposed to enforce all the shiny new laws they …

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One cannot “force” acceptance & respect merely by passing a law demanding it

“People feel like they’re under siege and that the terms of the debate are now you either applaud it or you’re a bigot.” – Former US Education Secretary Bill Bennet (author, talk show host) ******** Headline at NH1 (emphasis mine): Lobby says NH needs law to impose acceptance of transgenders Once again, Progressives through identity …

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The Professor sums up today’s King vs Burwell SCOTUScare decision pithily

A somewhat more extended summary is that Congress may explicitly lie to the public even in the very words it uses in its statutes, and robed legislators will excuse and reinforce these lies. – Prof. Don Boudreaux Yes, one more big step towards complete Statism – the Progressives’ wet dream of Utopia by which our Elites tell …

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