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A Font Deserves More Faith than The Party Platform (among other things)

Jennifer Horn started out as a Tea Party Conservative. Defend the Constitution. Fight the Establishment Ruling Class. No Government Health Care, blah blah blah. That very quickly went by the wayside. Way (way way way way) by the wayside. She’s still faithful to Times Roman 12pt, though. Feel free to take that wherever you like.  

The constitutionality of education savings accounts

By NH State Rep Glenn Cordelli

Recently two of my colleagues in the New Hampshire House wrote that Senate Bill 193, the “school voucher” bill, is unconstitutional (Monitor Forum, March 24). I believe that my friends are incorrect, and the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with me.

Let me start out by correcting the repeated line about a voucher bill. SB 193 has nothing to do with vouchers. SB 193 established education savings accounts, which are similar to health savings accounts. The state money that would have gone to the school district to educate the child would instead go to parents so they could find the best education opportunity for their child. That is what this bill is all about – the best education for every New Hampshire child.

The repeating of ACLU talking points on constitutionality does not stand up to the facts. 

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Marsy’s Law – When Everyone is a Victim, No One Is

Nicole Fortune joins me to discuss a proposed amendment to the constitution (CACR22) known as Marsy’s law. A change sold as victims rights that are actually bad for victims, bad for privacy, bad for the accused, but good for government. Listen to find out why. Visit the blog post for this episode to find more ways … Read more

Ideologies do not belong in schools (Part 2)

By Ken Eyring

WSD-LogoThere’s a lot going on in our schools. Not all is good.

We have blindly entrusted the education of our children and their malleable, impressionable minds to our public education system. Upon doing so, we expect our children will be provided with an education that is free from ideologies. But that is not always the case, as we saw when the Windham School District joined the organized national protest against the 2nd Amendment on March 14th. I wrote about it last week.

The district stated the protest was “led by students”, but it was actually organized by Women’s March. When our district administration sanctioned the event, our children were not only used as political pawns… they were also introduced to the Womens March organization and a plethora of their other radical ideologies. The group indoctrinates children to be community organizers to advance their radical agendas. This type of indoctrination has long term consequences – and does not belong in our schools. For instance… look at this link; it displays a webpage titled “HOW WE RESIST a discussion series”. The topic for March 24th was “CONFRONTING WHITE SUPREMACY”. I’m disturbed that did not trigger any concerns from the Windham School District Administration.

This is the same Administration that required parents to 

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Due Process Under Attack

Lead by Democrats (and Radicalized Republican moderates) the Feds and progressives are taking every opportunity to kill due process wherever they can.  

Limiting Principles? What Limiting Principles?

We continue with Mike Farris, on the political abandonment of the limiting principles of the constitution. How we got here. How we get back. Then it’s on to the Iran treaty and how 4 presidential candidates (from the US Senate) violated the constitution when they voted to change the rules for ratifying treaties.    

Ending Religious Liberty

Constitutional appellate litigator Mike Farris joins us to discuss the US Supreme Court’s Same Sex Marriage ruling, and how it is an attack on self government, and individual rights. We also discuss the constitution’s binding role, the next layer of law that must follow this ruling, and how it must infringe on religious freedom.   … Read more

GrokTALK! July 18th, 2015

This week our guests are Lawrence McQuillan (Independent Institute), Mike Farris (Constitutional appellate litigator), Dan Hynes (Religious Liberty), and Max Abramson (on NH’s dumbest laws)  

603 Alliance – Congressman Steve King

Congressman Steve King (R- Iowa) speaks at the 603 Alliance Grassroots Summit about restoring American exceptionalism, defending the constitution, respect for the rule of law, the need to defeat radical Islam, and more    

GrokTALK! Interview with Senator Ted Cruz

This is the interview Senator Ted Cruz called “..the most substantive, serious conversation I’ve had in terms of a discussion of the issues,”  and he went on to “complement the degree of depth we got into on constitutional issues.” Here’s the interview.  

Liberty Forum part VII – Alvin and the Constitution

Alvin C, who generously donated to the cause so we could buy a new headset for the program,  joins us for a conversation about the rule of Law and the constitution as the highest law.  We also touch on keeping your oath, King v. Burwell, and why words need to mean something.    

“Reward our friends and punish our enemies” – are we now in the final push in “breaking us” to Fundamentally Transform” us?

Commerce Claws the rest of the Constitution?I have been scared for a while now – for our Constitutional Republic built on our Constitution and its Classical Western Liberal values (not to be confused by the very illiberal Liberals who absconded with yet another word, placing their own definition on it (like gay)).  It has been under assault for decades but from what we have seen over the last five years, over the last eight months, over the last week, the pace has only increased.  Obama said just before his first inauguration that his goal was to fundamentally transform the United States.  From Wilson to FDR to LBJ, and now to Obama.

Each is tied to each other by their hatred of the US Constitution.  Wilson was very open about it, and wrote about it.  FDR wanted his Second Bill of Rights that would change, forever, the Founders Vision that the best government was the least government.  Instead, it would have become that “positive rights” that would have had Government give Rights to people instead of the “negative Rights” that keeps Government from doing things TO you.  FDR set the table with his New Deal that helped to start that transformation.  Face it, look at the uncoupling of the nuclear family to its intergenerational extended one – no longer did the children affirm their bonds to their parents once the latter become unable to provide or care for themselves – Government would and did step in.  Parents could be “independent” for years with Social Security.

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Belknap County Conservative Republicans’ Family Fun Day – interview with Don Walker

After doing GrokTALK! first thing in the morning in Concord, I headed up to Laconia to Funspot where the Belknap County Conservative Republicans were having their Family Fun Day – under the tent, free food, and opening up their arms to the public at large to talk about the Republican Party Platform, Constitutional values, and conservative values.  One example of their literature contained information on their mission, who they are, where they stand, and an answer to those that disagree that their group should even exist (full info after the jump).  While I was there, I took the opportunity to get a couple of interviews.  This first one with is long time conservative activist and co-founder of the group, Don Walker:

  

Technical note: normally I just use a shotgun mic on the camera but the ambient noise level was just too high for that configuration.  Instead, we were wearing headsets due to the noise level and then trying to pipe that into the camera via a soundboard – something I have seldomly done in the past.  Post-processing, it became clear that one of the cables used to do this went bad – I apologize to Susan Olsen and Colette Worseman as their interviews were too static-y to use, and I had to edit Greg Moore’s near the end as well.

You know, I can’t remember the last time that the “official” Belknap County Republican Committee had such an event – estimates were that between 125 – 175 people came over at some point during the day.

Our Mission:

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Did uber-Obama confident put a pin into the Progressive ballon and made it go “Pop!”?

I know I keep harping on this but one of the main tenets of Progressivism is to bring about the Administrative State – a place in time where expert technocrats “guide” the rest of us through our lives.  These are unelected, unaccountable, and most likely, unapproachable bureaucrats working in a centralized government situation sitting down to make sure that we all know our place in order to have “an ordered and efficient” government (‘the country as machine and we all know our Borg cog place in it”).  Obama, more than any other President since FDR, has embraced and declared (“fundamentally transform the United States”) this to be his philosophy.

Expert technocrats – only experts will staff governments.  That is the hallmark claim: “we know it all” – and as we have lately seen, it does have multiple uses.  However, it is expected that the Administrative State, if it is to organize and run Society, is even “better” than Society?  That’s why it was a Mtn Dew snort out the nose moment when I read this from David Axelrod, uber-confidant to Progressive Prez Obama, on why these mega-scandals are all happening at once and why it isn’t Obama’s fault:

“Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,”

Boggled, I was.  Here it was – an uber-Progressive saying that “Government is too big to manage”.  What an outstanding gaffe that undercuts the entire raison d’etre for Progressivism.  In one sentence, Axlerod:

  • says that the brightest President not only is NOT the Smartest President EVAH (peace be upon him) (see here, too)
  • validates what Conservatives have been saying for years; Government, as Reagan (a Progressive’s arch-enemy) once said, is the problem

If something is too vast, it is too big to manage and certainly too big to manage properly.  And if the Smartest President EVAH (peace be upon him) can’t manage it well, well, who could?  Well, the Founders “have an app for that!”

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Guest post by NH State Rep. Mike Sylvia: “The Power of Words”

The Power of Words

Words are important as they transmit ideas. Santa Claus: I just stuck a fat bearded man in a red suit into your mind. Sorry, you’ll get over it soon enough. Of course, I didn’t do it by myself, you had a lot of training when you were a child to get that image of the red suited man into your head. I just used the words to conjure him up in your mind. He may have even come with some memories that you associate with him.

We use words to transmit ideas and if the person to whom you are speaking has a similar set of ideas and associations, then you’ll need fewer words to communicate your ideas or concepts. As we share ideas and reduce many words into simpler phrases, we need to be careful not to introduce a faulty concept. Sometime ideas can be intentionally twisted by a skilled propagandist; other times, a simple error enters naturally – it would be hard to tell the difference.

A lie repeated frequently whether intentionally or accidentally will appear (over time) to become the truth. Propagandists know this and use the technique. Sometimes the lies that we accept are just simple shortcuts.

We know and believe that we are created with inalienable rights; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We also know that the Constitution established the government with the intent of protecting our inalienable rights. You will notice here that it is the people that created the Constitution which established the government.

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Honoring your Oath? Others seem to believe your oath to the Constitution is not mere words. Here’s another one: Accountability

Accountability – a most hated word in politics.  Oh sure, whoever the Political Class doesn’t like will be held to such (after all, they wield the power).  But they never like it when the masses play the “turnabout fair play” game (or journalists, from what I seem, but I repeat myself as many in journalism are now card carrying members of the Political Class).  Oh to be sure, we hear the high minded platitudes about “elections are when voters hold us accountable”  – but some don’t like it when we do.  However, what to do during the “in-between” times when recalls are not an option and you think that someone has violated their promise to voters?  Hmm, this seems to be novel (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Verified Complaint of Breach of Oath of Office and Conspiracy against Rights

Emergency Verified Complaint

Against

1) Stephen Shurtleff – (see Exhibit “A” – HB135)
2) 12 members of the New Hampshire House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
3) 189 members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (see Exhibit “B” – March 27th, 2013 Yea Votes)

For

Breach of Oath of Office

and
Violation of 18 USC § 241 – Conspiracy against Rights

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” Thomas Jefferson 1820

I, ________________________ one of the People of New Hampshire, come forward to complain against Stephen Shurtleff and 188 other members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives for Breaching their Oaths of Office and Conspiring against My Rights. I hereby present facts known and unknown to you in support of this complaint.

1. Stephen Shurtleff, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, for the purpose of “accepting the trust” according to Article 84 of the New Hampshire Constitution, has sworn or affirmed the following Oaths.

More of the document after the jump.  So, why SHOULDN’T we hold our elected and appointed officials accountable for the words they utter as the first action of their terms, and to use those solemn words against which to measure their future actions?  Shouldn’t they ALWAYS be mindful of what they have promised?

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Tyranny? Proper Role of Govt for a Senator demanding Fox Sports to not to air NASCAR race because of NRA sponsorship?

“Nice network and race series you have there – shame if something happened to it (if the Feds were to start looking at them)”

NRA 500I wanted to start this post off with “Have guns become the new pornography that must be silenced?” but that would miss the nuance of the Progressive mind that ALL things that run counter to the Progressive making “progress” IS considered pornography – and thus, be discredited, maligned and eventually eliminated.  Constitutionally protected?  Makes no difference – FORWARD!  Free speech / First Amendment?  Makes no difference – FORWARD!

That you have a sitting US Senator (Democrat) trying to lean forward in silence the opposition to achieve a Progressive Political Milestone?  Forward to Tyranny worthy of a Banana Republic:

The National Rifle Association-sponsored NASCAR race slated for this weekend is “inappropriate in the immediate wake of the Newtown massacre,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, wrote to the race’s broadcaster on Thursday.

No, we are no longer in the “immediate wake” of using dead children for political children – Senator, when will the Left stop using dead children as politicial pawns?

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The Paleo Party

Some say fire keep cave too warm. Some say fire make CO2-bad. Other say need permit to start fire.
Some say fire keep cave too warm. Some say fire make CO2-bad. Other say need permit to start fire.  No fire before certain time.  Can’t burn this in fire. Make sure fire 50 feet from cave.

The thing the Democrat Party wants the most is to convince us that it is in our best interest, regardless of the interest, to let the government manage as much of our community and our lives as possible.  Cost is, of course, no object (because it is not their money).  But this is the oldest idea of government known to man and the dominate feature of centuries of thugocracies where most of the people living in them lived in fear and poverty while a small select few lived safe and well.

This is not progress.  This is not forward. But it explains the modern Democrat disdain for the US Constitution, for that document was built for the sole purpose of creating a government that was not like any other in human history.  It suggested that while we do have some common interests, that we are far better at caring for and defending ourselves and each other, locally, than any centralized monarch, oligarchy, or puppet parliament.  And they were correct.

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Hey Dan Ffeiffer, senior adviser to Obama, you are completely wrong!

Dan Ffeiffer, senior adviser to Obama gave his opinion as to where Republican Senators should be looking for answers on how to vote on the Progressive gun control legislation that will be brought up soon for a vote: “If you remember, during the State of the Union, with the families of Newtown in the audience, … Read more

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