Once upon a time, Democrats pilloried USPS. In fact, it was just months ago that the “sub-par postal service” was at the root of hardships suffered by New York City residents. That was then. Now, Democrats have done a complete 180.
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Did You Vote to Send Your Tax Dollars to China?
China is guilty of unleashing a deadly, life-altering virus on the world. Yet, the American taxpayer has sent money to the Chinese government. That’s correct, China has taken American taxpayer dollars as part of the Paycheck Protection Program.
Let My People Go
We should adjust our response based on the data. Instead, we have decided to keep people at home. Everything we have studied about quarantine, typically we quarantine the sick. We have never seen where we quarantine the healthy.
All The FISA Bills Are Bad
We have not unraveled what happened in 2016. It has not been made public. No one has been held accountable. The agencies involved have the whitewash buckets and brushes out. We know to a mathematical certainty that in 2016 the FISA system was abused.
The Benefits and Setbacks Associated with Political Parties
This refers to groupings of individuals working together by sharing a mutual ambition, vision, and goals for their respective communities. The associations could be formed nationally, regionally, or at local levels, meeting habitually, creating platforms representing their specific values and vision. Furthermore, they send their members or representatives to vie for political seats. The prime … Read more
What the unaccountable TCI bureaucrats will do to your fillup at the gas station
Steve has been all over this topic of having yet another gas tax applied to NH residents – this time, like the tax on our electricity (e.g., RGGI), it will be raised by out of state entities:
South Dakota Taxpayers shell out $450k to Declare “We’re on Meth”
File this under #GovernmentFail… a shining example of just how badly people can screw something up when they are spending other people’s money, for the purported benefit of someone else. (See Milton Friedman’s Four Ways to Spend Money.)
Superintendents in New Hampshire are dropping like flies. Here’s how to fix it
Honesty, integrity, ethics, morals are all still qualities you find in a great leader. So what’s going on in New Hampshire?
Spend Early, Spend Often, Give Up Your Freedom
The spending deal agreed to by congressional leaders and the President is appalling. We simply have to stop spending money we do not have. The operating debt currently stands at $22.5 trillion or $68,500 for every person in the country. This deal if implemented will accelerate the growth of the debt. The pocket full of … Read more
Not Stupid… But Very Ignorant
The media should be holding Ocasio-Cortez accountable. She continues her string of profoundly ignorant and hateful statements. She makes her pronouncements often. If she were conservative, male, older, or less photogenic she would be mercilessly pilloried. But the media are no where to be found, they are not doing so. What should we conclude from … Read more
53%… How’s that possible?
What’s going on? Do you ever feel like people who hold beliefs like yours are being assaulted for expressing their views? Whether it is support for the president, belief that more debt and deficits amounts to passing our problems to the next generation, open borders or frustration with an unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government, … Read more
Channeling Thomas Sowell
Discipline and accountability Some years ago Thomas Sowell wrote an article about the utility of discipline and accountability. Come, let’s try to channel a bit of Thomas Sowell. Giving black students in the 1960’s inflated grades when they were admitted with low academic qualifications avoided lots of time wasting hassles for the instructor. Those hassles … Read more
There’s a Stench at the FBI and DOJ
Something is rotten at the FBI and DOJ There’s something wrong at the top of the FBI and DoJ. Is it time to clean out the leadership? Clearly, the nation has an expectation of integrity from the top law enforcement agency in the land. We need accountability for bad acts such as exceeding ones authority, … Read more
Quick Thought: One would think that all Republicans would be voting FOR more Individual Freedoms…use your vote against them
From the NH GOP Platform:
- Support legislation to allow workers to decide the allocation of the portion of their union dues used for political purposes
- We believe in free people, free markets and free enterprise
To that latter point – if unions have the mindset that they can prevent competition and lock potential workers out of jobs, that’s no longer a free labor market. And those locked out of a job because it is a closed shop are no longer free to compete. On those two points, Americans For Prosperity NH (“AFP”) is now about to do the job that the NH GOP continuously fails to do – holding RINOS that stray to supporting the Democrat agenda accountable. From the Union Leader (emphasis mine, reformatted):
Disqus Doodlings – Treehugger is so upset we buy clothes for ourselves….Part 1
Sorry, but I’m no candidate for the “Naked and Afraid” reality show where guys and gals go gallivanting in the wilds buck naked and are expected to survive like our Stone Age ancestors. Thank you, but no thank you; I’ll keep my clothes on. But it seems that Treehugger is PO’d, once again, that we Normals have the temerity to want to buy clothes. This time, they take on the brand “H&M” and berate it, sorta, for its failure because it can’t keep up with what is known as “fast fashion” (unable to keep up with competitors’ abilities to turn over their inventory and bring in fresher, newer styles. And then they berate the “Internet Onlys” because those folks have put themselves beyond these anti-consumerist hacks like Treehugger denizens (emphasis mine):
Meanwhile, brick-and-mortar stores are being shuttered everywhere, which Cline fears will result in a loss of accountability, not to mention the death of our main streets and suburbs (who knew we’d ever lament that?):
“One advantage for activists has been that H&M’s huge brick-and-mortar empire made their efforts to hold it accountable on labor and environmental issues highly visible. As fast fashion moves online, bad actors will become harder to pin down and bad behavior more hidden from view.“
May 25th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – John Hikel
In this segment of GrokTALK! we are joined by John Hikel, NH House Rep, on when government doesn’t work, holding legislators accountable, who the real extremists are, Constitutions, oaths, and obligations and the road back to them if such a road exists. Listen Here http://granitegrok.com/GrokTalk/By-Snippets/05-25-13%20Full%20Podcast.mp3 Download this segment here You can get links to other … Read more
The Icing on The Accountability Cake
c/o Ed Morrissey… In my column today forthe Fiscal Times, I argue that this epidemic of sudden incompetence and ignorance completely undermines the argument for large, activist government. That’s true whether one believes that these executives are either telling the truth or lying about their knowledge and involvement: So what are we to think about … Read more
Crooked Attorney Theroux To Be Next State President of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox
On June 9, “Retired” attorney Linda Theroux will be installed as the State President of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ladies Auxiliary. Established 1914, The Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW set out to serve the American veterans and communities in honor of the sacrifices and commitment of every man and woman who has served in uniform. “We have unwavering support for uncommon heroes,” say Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW national website.
Rand Paul points out the problem. Solution is Legislative Accountability with “Degree of Fecklessness” on vote scoring
“The Secretary shall” do this and “The Secretary shall” do that…a recipe to irrelevancy for our Legislators in the US Congress and Senate. Senator Rand Paul gets it right (emphasis mine):
I, for one, am for immigration reform. … That being said, I’m worried that the bill before us won’t pass. May pass the Senate, may not pass the House. I want to be constructive in making the bill strong enough that conservatives, myself included, conservative Republicans in the House, will vote for this because I think immigration reform is something we should do. In this bill, I’m worried though… it says, well, you have to have a plan to build a fence, but you don’t have to build a fence. And if you don’t have a plan to build a fence, then you get a commission. I don’t know what happens if the commission doesn’t do anything. That’s the story of Washington around here. To me, it’s a little bit like Obamacare, and I hate to bring that up, but 1800 references to the “secretary shall at a later date” decide things. We don’t write bills around here. We should write the bill, we should write the plan, we should do these things to secure the border, whether it be fence, entry-exit, we should write it, not delegate it, because, what’s going to happen in five years, if they don’t do their job — it may not even be them, it may be somebody else who doesn’t do their job in five years — and the border’s not secure, we will be blamed for the next ten million people who come here illegally.
Do we need immigration reform?
Cop Troubles
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.” —Albert Camus
The Union Leader reports today that another Police officer is under arrest. Fired Manchester Police Detective Stephen Coco is charged with two felony counts of conduct after an accident after Bedford Police allege he hit two teens with his police-supplied under cover vehicle and fled the scene. It would also appear that Coco lied when he told investigators he had been home the night of the crash and that no one had used his department issued undercover Nissan Pathfinder that evening.
And certainty followed with sixty-two comments to date, the same usual pejoratives and slurs against the Chief, Police Unions,