Here is a good one: Ross Berry criticizes union leadership on X for not representing union workers. The irony apparently escapes Berry. Berry and his fellow Republican “leaders,” Jason Osborne, Joe Sweeney, etc., do NOT represent Republicans.
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Will New Hampshire Libertarians Reelect Maggie Hassan … They Just Might
Latest from Trafalger. The Libertarian candidate may pull enough votes to allow Hassan to squeeze out a win. The Libertarian candidate in Arizona understood this was happening there and withdrew and ENDORSED Blake Masters.
How a Church Directory Lead To Outrage
A lot of people move to New Hampshire to find liberty. Whether they are liberty conservatives, libertarians, free-staters, or simply ex-Californians, the number of people who identify with the Live Free or Die ethos that makes New Hampshire a unique destination appears to be growing.
Free Staters Cannot Be Lumped Together in One Category
Regarding the recent letter by Rep. Mike Bordes: Oh, come on, Mike! Libertarians represent more like what the Republican Party used to be back in the day than the current real RINOS who don’t stand for freedom and fiscal responsibility and our state and country constitutions.
Is She Saying That We, the People, Are Extremists?
Regarding the letter by Linda Terwilliger about voting for candidates that support public schools, nothing to see here but gas lighting. I certainly don’t know who Ms. Terwilliger is. I wonder, does she work for a non-governmental organization? The public school system? Who is the “we” she speaks of?
Republicans vs Libertarians Hockey Game to Benefit the Children’s Scholarship Fund of NH
There is a charity hockey game coming up soon to benefit the Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF). This fund can help grant parents more freedom to choose schools they believe will benefit their children more than what their zip code allows.
A Founder of the Free State Project Says, “I’m Everything Wrong with the Conservative Movement” …
This is amusing. A Founding Father of the free state project, Dr. Jason Sorens, has announced that I’m everything that’s wrong with the conservative movement today. Everything? That seems like a lot.
A Few Thoughts on Sun-King Sununu’s Rant Against “Libertarians”
Steve has a must-read post up about a rant by New Hampshire’s selfie-obsessed Sun King Chris I-Am-The-Constitution Sununu in which, using Steve’s words, Sununu declares that: … if you disagree [with the Sun-King], leave the [Republican] Party [because that disagreement shows you are a Libertarian, not a Republican] and join the Libertarians. … A few … Read more
Sununu – “Libertarians Are Not Republicans” and if You Don’t Like His Republican Party, Leave (Audio)
Chris Sununu is talking about 2022. He’s making a pitch about Republican unity. Well, he thinks he’s doing that. What he’s actually doing is promoting party affiliation purity. To use Pandemic-parlance, he’s defining essential and non-essential Republicans.
We Need to Fight Back Against Corporatism, and Corporatarians and Corporatists.
Last weekend, more than 100 corporate leaders … from companies such as United Airlines, American Airlines, AMC Theaters, Levi Strauss … met to discuss how to coordinate their opposition to State voter integrity laws. If you think this was a “one-off,” think again. As Ned Ryun recently explained in American Greatness: One reason we have … Read more
Anarchists and Leftists Share a Common Blind Spot – Ignoring Human Nature
This is not the first time I’ve broached this topic and baby it won’t be the last. And not just because I live in the Free State of New Hampshire. The one the Free State Project anointed for the Libertarian invasion. The movement to encourage Americans to pack up and emigrate to the Granite State. At least a … Read more
New Hampshire Ballot: Libertarians Lose Access, Ask “What Next?” (I have the Answer)
The major parties, in the interest of less competition, require New Hampshire Libertarians to obtain at least 4% of the vote in any election to retain access to the ballot. That means being able to register and run as a Libertarian on the printed ballot. In the 2018 election they came up short. The 2018 … Read more
Notable Quote – Tom Palmer
“As you go through life, chances are almost 100 percent that you act like a libertarian. You might ask what it means to “act like a libertarian.” It’s not that complicated. You don’t hit other people when their behavior displeases you. You don’t take their stuff. You don’t lie to them to trick them into letting you take their stuff, or defraud them, or knowingly give them directions that cause them to drive off of a bridge. You’re just not that kind of a person.
And in the Free Town of Grafton…a story of abuse of small-town government power
A month or two ago I blogged about those magnificent small-government activists of Grafton, New Hampshire. That was when an alliance…
As Glenn Reynolds says, ‘Heh’
Via Instapundit: “This is probably why John McCain and Lindsay Graham have their panties in a wad: Rand Paul filibuster energizes Tea Party against GOP establishment.” Meanwhile, seen on Facebook:
Silver Circle, the Movie
I believe the very first showing of this extraordinary movie was in the Live Free or Die state of New Hampshire. The people who worked on creating it have attended the Free State Project’s Porcupine Freedom Festival every year. Great artists. Even greater political truth-tellers. Hercules movie star and LA truth-teller Kevin Sorbo has worked … Read more
Stupidity, Civility, And The Continued Assault on Free Staters
This was originally part of my previous post on pull quotes I found amusing but turned into something else that would have distracted from the previous post being purposefully short and the other quotes getting a shot a some discussion.
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In the Union Leader article, “Free State Movement Not Embraced by All Granite Stater’s” once you get past the “No Sh**” moment presented by the title of the article, or the fact that this is written like some kind of hit-piece on Republican Mark Warden, and the Second amendment, and Liberty, we can focus on a quote from Democrat Aaron Gill, who having lost to “Free Stater” Mark Warden in an election where state Democrats were winning seats as if Obama could just give them away…
“I’m gay, and I didn’t want the government telling me I couldn’t get married,” Gill said. “But after a while I learned that the world doesn’t function that way. I guess I was really a Democrat all along but just didn’t realize it.”
There are Free Stater’s who are Democrats, or didn’t you know that?
We let Democrats define the terms of our defeat
When Democrats set the terms of the 2012 campaign for state and federal offices, Republican leaders blew their horns about jobs and the economy and counted on their position of strength and the glaring weaknesses in their enemy’s lines to secure victory. Republicans lost because they forgot to tell the troops about the Democratic weaknesses. Democrats took advantage of the oversight and rolled over the field.
Democratic victories last Tuesday quite simply reflected a tactical failure of top-ticket Republicans to defend the party’s message. This wasn’t a failure of Republican principles, but a failure to define and defend Republican principles. Democrats successfully distracted voters with complete fabrications of reality, and Republicans let them do it without response.
Predictably, Republican Party leaders assumed that the people had enough of the social issues and wanted to focus on the economy instead—and by in large, Republicans successfully governed on economic recovery issues during the past two years. Democrats understood the visceral nature of social issues and successfully tarnished liberty as the enemy of their carefully crafted relationship between business and government. Republicans didn’t respond, despite the prescient need. They thought that by ignoring the problem it would go away.
Libertarians – some might be the “Cloward-Pivens of the Right this election”?
This may not sit well…. Actually, what I wrote below I did before stumbling on this: “The Cloward – Pivens of the Right” where the topic is about a Libertarian that will be voting for Johnson and will not even consider a vote against Obama:
The fact that his vote might end up causing Romney to lose and Obama to win is irrelevant to this man. He and others of his ilk, who might be addressed by Bill Whittle’s video [here -Skip] but who close themselves to its message and who look instead to the imminent arrival of an economic apocalypse, have more in common with the far left than they think they do. They are the Cloward-Pivenistas [who willingly almost drove New York City into bankruptcy; more here -Skip] of the right. They believe that, if things get bad enough, the system will break down and enough people will see the light and then the true conservative dawn will break.
Cloward and Piven thought the breakdown would lead people towards the leftist light. People like Susanamantha’s friend think it will be the light on the right. But the idea is similar: endure (or even cause) pain now for future gain….Both sides are idealists, Don Quixotes if you will (although perhaps that’s being unfair to the Don) against the rest of us plodding Sancho Panzas. It’s an old story, isn’t it? A perfectionistic idealism is where the Don Quixotes on the right meet those on the left, in a dangerous no man’s land. The ones on the right could well end up encouraging the triumph of what they most hate.
It seems to me that the full bore / hard core Libertarians (“HCLs”) on this list (which, after all is the REPUBLICAN Liberty Caucus and not the LIBERTARIAN Liberty Caucus – I could not resist) are turning out to be not Libertarians concerning this election but Nihilists.
Given that their more favored candidates absolutely bombed out during the primary and have gotten no traction since, you folks are all deciding to go home and pout. Given that the expected Home Run At Bat (perhaps expected given the tremendous gains that Libertarians had here in NH in 2010) has turned out in THIS election to be the Biggest Whiff since Casey in Mudville in actual candidate attraction to the general electorate (as opposed to other Libertarians), all I am hearing is a massive hissy fit. Instead of treating it as a double or triple in 2010 and knowing that sometimes that only singles or strikeouts happen, if you can’t get that four bagger, then the game is rigged, the umps stink, and the ball has lard on it. So effectively, you all are going to throw your votes away. Period. That is how you all are coming across (and that means you Jane – I saw some of the NHTEAParty tweets and retweets during the debates you sent and utterly cringed).
Romney versus the libertarians? Here’s where I stand.
Well, well, it seems that a last-minute storm has been brewed up by my posting about libertarians who are refusing to vote for Romney tomorrow. You can see it—and the video that prompted the posting—HERE. That caused quite a bit of reaction, both here and on Facebook, which in turn caused Grokster Skip Murphy to jump into the fray ‘with THIS POSTING after the Project’s redoubtable Chis Lawless opined that “The video wasn’t that much a convincer to be honest.” And that caused me to revisit my own reasoning and assumptions that impel me to vote for Romney tomorrow…which causes me to say this: