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im41 has some rules for Bloggers to defeat Libs

He asked a number of bloggers what they believe the “rules” are to help recover what happened in November and in the culture in general.  Here are a few of them:

Of course: Andrew Breitbart:  War!

Atlas Shrugs: A complete reevaluation of the opposition strategy is needed. The Republicans have failed. The Republican Party has failed…..

Moonbattery:  Be relentless. Liberalism is like rust; it never stops corroding every aspect of society. That’s we why can never stop fighting it…

(It’s BigFurHat) – There is no denying that American culture is on the decline. Most people. left and right, agree. Where we split politically is which way the finger of blame points. I think it’s important to be able to lay all societal ills at the feet of progressivism, where it rightly belongs…

(Zilla of the Resistance) – Don’t be afraid. Just tell the truth as you know it to be, because if you are thinking it the odds are that someone else is also thinking it and wishing someone would say it, so say it…

Tim will love this one:

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Paul Harvey: “If I were the Devil”

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” —Paul Harvey

DATELINE: April 3, 1965. Yes. These very words spoken by Paul Harvey were spoken  nearly 48 years ago.

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Paul Harvey, as we knew him, was born Paul Harvey Aurandt, September 4, 1918 in Tulsa Oklahoma. Paul Harvey, was a true conservative, something absent these days from the ABC Radio Networks. Anybody that ever listened to the radio in the 80’s and into the 90’s knew who Paul Harvey was, his distinctive voice. and the tenor of his messages.

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Talk About Having No Idea What A Conservative Is… (Updated Again & Bumped)

John B. Heroux is reported to be a resident of Bedford, New Hampshire, and a chronic contributor to the Union Leader Editorial page (if Google can be trusted), but he has absolutely no idea what a conservative is.  In his recent “Your Turn” contribution to the public discourse (Union Leader) he starts with this:

The first order of business should be to take the party back from the conservatives. Republicans are the minority party, and the party’s success depends on appealing to independent voters and conservative Democrats. The radical Tea Party and the Rush Limbaugh/Ann Coulter faction do not appeal to these voters.

That’s all well and good as opinion–to which he is of course entitled–except that as he proceeds to storm his way down the laundry list of “consevatives” he blames for all that seems to ail him, he fails to name anyone who has actually behaved like a Conservative.

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Notable Quotes: Russell Kirk – John Randolph

Law will change, indeed, with the times; but arbitrary intervention in the process, rude revision upon abstract concepts a la French taste, is a short and nasty way to social caducity.  When a people begin to think that they can improve society infinitely by incessant alteration of positive law, nothing remains settled; every right, every … Read more

Romney Talks De Tocqueville? Huh?

I saw this last night on c-span before the convention and was shocked.  How did the conservative gene skip Mitt?

This is the Romney that should be nominated, check this out:

“If I had to identify what I think is our most serious threat, it wouldn’t be in the economic area.  It wouldn’t be in the political area. It would be in the social area….”  said Romney.  On defining the  start of the problems,  ” ….well you start out with the departure from the fundamental principles on which this country was based… The Declaration of Independence…”

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“I’ve seen the Federal government balloon to proportions that are way beyond everything conceived by the Founders… completely in violation of the 10th Amendment…”

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So, are Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass Conservative heros or zeros for their voting records?

Over at RedState, I learned of this new site, The Madison Project, whose purpose is to measure our Federal Representatives to see if they measure up to their districts.  Put it another way, are they acting as Conservative as their District is, worse, or better.  For instance, if a Rep is very Conservative Republican but is from a very Democrat leaning district, consider them a hero (for as long as they can stay elected, that is).  Or, if they are underperforming (i.e., in a district that is evenly split, but as a Republican, their votes show them to be a squish or vote like a Democrat) consider them a Zero.  Especially when election time comes around:

Worse yet, during every election cycle, nearly every single Republican candidate is quick to promote cherished American values such as free enterprise and individual liberty while out on the campaign trail. However, once elected, a disheartening majority of these elected officials end up abandoning the very principles that got them elected. They talk the conservative talk at home and walk the statist walk in D.C. Worst of all, many of these members of Congress represent strong conservative states and districts. They’ve been able to hide their not-so-conservative performance…until now.

Through conservativevotingrecords.com, the Madison Project is committed to putting an end to this duplicity by exposing Republicans whose liberal voting actions speak louder than their words. Our goal is to give voice to the millions of Americans who demand that their elected representatives govern by conservative values … and to aggressively primary out those that shamelessly pander to them during elections.

Indeed!  So I looked up Frank Guinta (R-NH CD-1) and Charlie Bass (R-NH CD-2; hey didn’t he promise to NOT run this term last time???).  Based on their methodology (using, in part, Club for Growth and Heritage Action scores):

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I can agree with John Hawkins on these!

‘Grok friend John Hawkins from RightWingsNews has a list of 20 things that he, as a Conservative, believes in for his latest TownHall column.  Here’s a few of my Likes – but as always, GRTWT:

1) Any illegal alien caught in this country should be forever barred from legally visiting this country, working here, or becoming an American citizen.

18) The whole purpose of our immigration system should be to benefit the Americans who are already here. Therefore, we should favor the best and brightest emigrants from Western cultures. Other immigrants to this country who get in because of family ties should have someone who’s willing to vouch for them and take care of them if they have hard times. No naturalized American citizens should ever be eligible for food stamps, welfare, school lunches, or any other hand-outs from their fellow citizens.

I don’t care that the reason is to feed his family back home or to provide a better future for their kids (what father or mother wouldn’t if the DREAM act is codified into law?).  If the first act of coming to this country is to flagrantly flount our laws, you do not deserve to be here.  I know too many who have spent the time, money, and heartache to go through our LEGAL immigration system properly (including Grokster Mike who is getting close to being a naturalized citizen!!!) to EVER countenance illegal immigration.

We can thank Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy for changing the rules that Society became responsible for immigrants instead of sponsors or families.  We should go back to 1965 and revoke that change.

2) If you take welfare or food stamps or if your kids have to get free meals at school, you should be ashamed. Your kids should feel ashamed by your failure, too.

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Self-reliance: much better than dependence

A little while ago, Obama took a lot of flak for this (H/T: Weekly Standard):

"I mean, there are a lot of things we can do," Obama said. "The way I think about it is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track."

Now combine that with this from ABC (via The Corner)

At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today, President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.

“The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don’t work even harder than we did in 2008, then we’re going to have a government that tells the American people, ‘you are on your own,’” Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel.

“If you get sick, you’re on your own. If you can’t afford college, you’re on your own. If you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own,” he said. “That’s not the America I believe in. It’s not the America you believe in.”

Do you think that one is related to another?  If being self-reliant is a bad thing, doesn’t that truthfully lead to conditions under which one would become "soft" – lazier, more indolent, and a sense that someone else will take care of things (and I’m not going to touch his unstated and wrong-headed premise that it is only Government that keep us from ‘being on our own" or being "painful")?

A simple example of why he is wrong.

The Eldest, a couple of years ago, called us up and said "I need some help!".  Turns out, the landlord of the house that he and a couple of friends had been renting had been accepting their payments but not paying the mortgage – it was eviction time through no fault of their own.  Of COURSE, we grabbed his stuff, loaded it up, and stuffed it into our house (I keep joking that his stuff is in every room of our house except my bedroom).  Parents are and should be there for their children in times of need – that’s a given.   

Well, we came to a rent agreement as it became obvious that he was not moving out soon; knowing that I’ve got a really bad back and limited physically in what I can do, we also agreed that part of the rent would be "labor in kind" for the things that I could do (but for which I would pay a high penalty later in pain).

To be truthful, it has been a hit or miss situation with…

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RINO OF THE WEEK REPORT

“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” ~Barry Goldwater This weeks RINO OF THE WEEK is 15-term Representative Phyllis M. Katsakiores, Rockingham District 5, Derry. I had to carefully mull over the choices because over the past months the blog … Read more

A RANGE WITH A PICTURESQUE VIEW

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” ~Abraham Lincoln My good friend (former Ward 12 Alderman and State Rep) Keith Hirschmann called me and asked me to tag along over to Henniker for some Saturday … Read more

545 People Are Responsible For The Mess, But They Unite In A Common Con

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”~Plato, Ancient Greek Philosopher

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Charley Reese retired July 29, 2001. Who was Charley Reese? He was a columnist, serving 30 of those years at the Orlando Sentinel.  Characterized best by his plainspoken manner and conservative views,  he was with the Sentinel from 1971–2001, serving as  a writer and other such editorial capacities. King Features Syndicate distributed Charley’s column, which published up to three times a week.

 On February 3, 1984 Charley originally published the column below. This column additionally republished as his final column. Rightfully so and despite being 27 years removed from its orignal publish date, it is no less relevant. 

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

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RINO OF THE WEEK REPORT

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“Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.” ~Barry Goldwater

The RINO of the week is three term House Representative David H. Kidder.  Representative Kidder’s voting record reveals a rank statist who consistently supports governmental intrusion into the lives of Granite State citizens. Like The previous RINO’s Alida Millham and Ken Gould,  Representative Kidder is an enthusiatic advocate of nanny-statism. A common theme of these RINOs is the propensity to wage war on the traditional in-tact family unit. Often referred to as “Rockefeller Republicans”,   David Kidder was ranked by the New Hampshire House Republican Alliance with a whopping score of 42%. Clearly, this is a demonstrated fealty to liberal-progressive principles.

  • Voted against HB 125 a law that would support the right of the Granite State to regulate firearms within its sovereign borders as a state;

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  •  Voted against HB210, commonly referred to as, “Stand Your Ground” Which, “allows a person who is in any place where he or she has a right to be or reasonably believed he or she had a right to be to use deadly force to protect oneself.”
  •  Did Not vote on HB474 (2/15/11)Which would end Labor Union’s ability to compel non-union workers from paying agency fees as a condition of employment;
  •  Voted against CACR 9 affirming that parental rights are a natural right; “Provides that parents have the natural right to control the health, education, and welfare of their children.”
  •  Voted against HB519  A bill repealing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative…a a cap-and-trade system that has raised electricity prices, created a slush fund for the member states, and has no impact on reducing emissions. So Kidder voted for a tax expansion and big government spending.
  •  Voted against HB329 The parental notification bill;
  •  Voted against HB147, the, “Kimberly Cates” Bill which expands the death penalty to murders committed during home invasions and burglaries.
  •  Voted against HB519  A bill repealing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative…a a cap-and-trade system that has raised electricity prices, created a slush fund for the member states, and has no impact on reducing emissions. So Kidder voted for a tax expansion and big government spending.

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The Grok on WGIR – Friday morning edition

Audio:

Once again, the ‘Grok was on the Morning show from 6 – 6:30 with Jeff Chidester and crew to talk about what’s going on in the blogosphere. 

We talked a little about:

  • We also started on education with the erupting scandal that Atlanta’s teachers and administrators have put themselves into over cheating on standardized test scores and why is that any different than the capitalists in the Enron fiasco:

"The Left castigates capitalist for being greedy about profits, and breaking the law and cheating to get them?  So, what’s the difference between that and teachers and administrators lusting after high test scores and breaking the law and cheating to get them?". 

  • How to solve that? The phrase that teachers unions hate to hear:

Students do not deserve a public education; students deserve a publicly funded education.

  • That brings up the other thing that teachers unions hate to hear, Competition, for that’s what will have to happen to rectify our poor national educational scores (and why federalizing schools over local control is a train wreck in process).
  • Intertwined in the above was the discussion that it isn’t capitalism that is to blame, it isn’t the teachers / administrators to blame, but it IS about a lack of individual morality (thank for starting this, Boomers!).
  • Ah yes, the Federal Govt "wisely" using other peoples’ money

On top of the fact that the Stimulus saved jobs but at a cost of $278K, now we hear that some Montana residents have broadband hookups at $7M per household

Other stories I flooded Jeff with but we didn’t get to (the EPA ones are ones that I wish we had had time for) after the jump:

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In the mail: Bringing America Home

Bringing American Home: How American Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back Tom Pauken is a former Ronald Reagan official, long time Republican activist but a conservative with a Capital "C" who is not afraid to name names and kicks butt.  Actually, a lot of butts, especially those from the Bush … Read more

RightOnline vs Netroots Nation – guess who blinked?

One of the last items that happens at the last session of RightOnline is the announcement of where Netroot Nation is going to be next year.  Yes, I typed that right.  The reason for that is the Conservative conference, RightOnline, is held where Netroots Nation will be – Austin, TX and then Pittsburgh, PA followed … Read more

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