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“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States … Read more
just a test
Dr. Edward Larkin gave a pair of women at the Milford Market Basket More for their Dollar last November when he approached them in the Supermarket parking lot with his “franks and beans” exposed. It turned out to be an unadvertised special, but one that New Hampshire taxpayers continue to pay for. The UNH professor, placed on leave after the incident, is still on the University payroll, collecting $87,375 per year while we wait for the bureaucracy to remember how it is exactly that you fire a State university professor doing nothing on the taxpayer dole.
Bob Nickerson of Sandown had a campaign sign confiscated. It was a Carol Shea-Porter sign he had modified himself to say “Dump Shea-Porter Out Of Congress, Nancy Pelosi’s Lap Dog.” His first mistake seems to have been sending the Seiu-Porter campaign a picture of it. The campaign notified local police based on a state law that prohibits defacing campaign signs, and at the end of it all Bob lost his sign.
In recognition of finding the Bahama’s, public service union employees all across the fruited plain, get a paid day off. I’m not sure we need to “explore” this any further to get to the nexus of thought on the why’s and what for’s in this decision making process.
Yesterday, I fulfilled a promise that I had made and made the long trek up to Wentworth, NH to attend a house event in support of Jeanie Forrester – new to politics, she beat long term politician Fran Wendelboe in the Republican primary in NH Senate District 2 and will be facing Deb Reynolds (the … Read more
Man can not live on politics alone. Sometimes you need something different. This would be that. It is a cat, playing I-Spy. H/T April Swindle– NewsReel Blog
The Cato Institute (a think tank whose focus is in individual liberty, free markets, and Peace. They just came out with their rankings on State Governors based on how Governors have reacted to the current economic conditions vis-a-vis tax policies and state expenditures. Only 4 received the mark of "A" – one of whom came … Read more
Apparently the post Tea Party, can’t we all just get along, moderate, reaching across the aisle movement had its big national Coffee Party Convention this weekend.
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Yeah, that’s what I said.
Hot Air has some actual video of a room (posted here on the jump) with a few people in it. Looks like the seniors got lost on the way to the all expenses paid time-share weekend seminar, or maybe a bus or two missed Foxwoods and just kept going? Like I said. Big….national….convention. Big…..convention.
In doing the interview with Bill O’Brien, we partook of some of the fine victuals to be found at The Draft in Concord, NH. Letting us borrow the upper room made it far easier logistically and allowed us to "break bread" as well – a GRAND old time! We thank Andy and Laurie Sanborn for … Read more
Ambassador John Bolton admits on Fox Business that he’s thinking about running for President. No,Really. Fox News– (H/T Hot Air)
The recent polling done by CrossTarget for Americans For Prosperity (AFP) has too many links to Mahoney to be taken seriously as an outside poll. And while trying to research the poll and the people connected to it, I discovered an almost incestuous collaboration of professional political consultants, and insiders to the Mahoney for congress checkbook that all circle around Americans For Job Security.
CrossTarget, the polling organization, was created by Stephen DeMaura and Patrick Hynes, both connected political insiders. DeMaura is no fan of Guinta, and Hynes works for Mahoney. So why would AFP choose CrossTarget for a poll given these obvious questions of conflict? I have no idea why, but it was a bad call by Lewandowski and it questions AFP’s neutrality on the race if there even is one.
As for Hynes and DeMaura, they have connections to a more complex relationship with current and former members of AJS (maybe there’s no such thing a a former member of AJS) that conveniently lead repeatedly back to Sean Mahoney’s campaign expense report.
My email filter automatically puts any emails from the Binnie Campaign into my Spam folder. That’s just hilarious.
I’m not surprised to hear this. The coffee party (let’s call them CP) was doomed from the start. Why? It was a top down construction of left wing propagandists and those sorts of fabricated movements have needs that the CP could never hope to meet.
It had no core principles to stand on. We know from the CP themselves (see here,) that there was a lack of issues focus but it’s a bigger problem than that. Being a recovered moderate myself I can tell you that when what you think you believe cannot somehow be linked to some consistent metric or core value you don’t actually believe in anything. You risk becoming a leaf and the wind that moves you is as capricious as your most recent whim–be it one that occurs to you on your own or something someone else (the media or a trans-formative figure for example) convinces you of from moment to moment.
Left without an anchor and lacking a reliable lens or filter, everything becomes subject to change; response is based on emotion or selfish wants and personal pleasure–the only answer to every question becomes “will this make me feel good about myself or is this good for me?” But we already have a movement like that, it’s called the new democrat party.
Ultimately we will prevail. A freedom-oriented, dynamic, anti-statist culture is stronger than a repressive, statist one. But only if we fight to defend ours. "If."
Today is my daughter’s 10th Birthday. She shares the day with Roger Clemons, Louis Armstrong, The Queen Mother Elizabeth, Anti-Semite Helen Thomas, Redskins Running Back John Riggins, Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman… …and someone else of note—I can’t seem to remember who though.
I thought these added some value – you may as well:
(H/T: The Enterprise Blog)
Kinda makes you believe that the current crop in Congress just like to see themselves write, eh? the Dodd-Frank bill totally ignores one of the biggest problem of the recent meltdown – HUD telling Fannie and Freddie to lower their standards to subprime levels to give people money to buy houses that they couldn’t afford in the first place (and in no small matter, the Community Reinvestment Act used by ACORN as a gun against the local banks as well).
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In additional to that, how about these stats from the Campaign Spot concerning promises by the present Speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelosi (at whose feet, my two CongressCritters, Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes, worship):
Gitmo will be closed in 12 months. Eighteen months later Gitmo’s not closed nor ever likley to be closed. "We will not rest" until (insert name of thing here). I’m not sure I need to say more. No one rests as much as Obama. In face he rests for a week before he actaully say’s … Read more
From the English language version of the Russian newspaper, Pravda, of all places…pick your favorite! (I admit…I’m a fan of #48 and the SWAT teams who protect us all.)