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NBC New York posted a story on Thursday. A man described as an armed robber showed up at a home in Bound Brook, New Jersey. There was a scuffle. The intruder lost control of the firearm, was shot, and killed. In their tweet, NBC refers to the armed robber as an “unwanted house visitor.” This must be a … Read more
With the exception of the Governor’s office, on most days, the Democrats have complete control of State government. We have a good idea of what they will do with that. Gun ban bills will nibble away at the public space. School choice will suffer. They will try to raise taxes on job creators. There will be … Read more
New York, Maryland, Connecticut, and New Jersey are suing the federal government over tax Reform. The suit seeks to overturn the new 10,000.00 dollar limit on Federal deductions for State and Local Taxes. New York Governor Cuomo claims that,
“The federal government is hell-bent on using New York as a piggy bank to pay for corporate tax cuts and I will not stand for it,” said Andrew Cuomo, New York’s Democratic governor.
He’s got it exactly backward.
Employees and employers have this thing they do where they agree to the value of any given individual contribution to an operation. Left to its own devices the job market and the free market will find parity not just in costs but prices.
It’s a beautiful thing and it works. But Democrats can’t leave anything alone.
They are obsessed with using the government to meddle. Intrusions that result in outcomes opposite to those advertised.
The guy who secretly colluded with anti-fossil-fuel activists to silence global warming skeptics and oil companies has another secret. Democrat New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been accused of abusing women.
New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democrat-dominated state legislature there have passed a law mandating that an estimated one million “assault rifles” must be registered with the police by April 15, 2014. The law was passed in the temporary hysteria…
LaRue Tactical. Olympic Arms. Now a third firearms company, York Arms, is saying that what is bad for civilians is going to be bad for Government entities and Law Enforcement agencies in New York due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new law (hey, he was all but frothing at the mouth to get this, so let him own it!) that all but eliminates gun usage / ownership (when there are no mags that fit the law AND the guns in New York, you have effectively killed the Second Amendment in NY – for now). The Press Release:
Buxton, ME –(Ammoland.com)- Based on the recent legislation in New York, we are prohibited from selling rifles and receivers to residents of New York.
We have chosen to extend that prohibition to all governmental agencies associated with or located within New York.
As a result we have halted sales of rifles, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, machine guns, and silencers to New York governmental agencies.
This part was GREAT:
If Governor Cuomo was Veruca Salt would it sound like this…”I want the stricter gun legislation now Daddy!”
Well he got it, and the State of New York’s Blue-Print, fast tracked gun legislation is the poster child for the “we must do something now” crowd and exemplifies–unintentionally I might add–the kind of “equality” progressives believe they can legislate into existence. Sort of.
There is no exception in the New York Gun bill for New York’s finest meaning that no one, including law enforcement, may use or carry a magazine that holds more than seven rounds of ammunition.
Oops.
“the MinuteMen would have make “the swishing sound heard ’round the world” with the swords they would have been left with in NY”
Well, at least while we can still beat off the attacks of the transplanted Progressives now here in NH who hate people keeping their own money (that’s cheating Government, dontcha know!) and think guns are alive and evil.
SideNote: once again, I note that Progressives seemingly hardwired to NOT leave other people alone. Conservatives: I just want to be a Conservative – just leave me be and I will leave you alone as well. Stop trying to either convert me or absorb me into your Borg unilaterally. You wanna be a Progressive? Great and good for you – go over there where the other Progressives are; we don’t want you and we don’t like your regressive policies enforced upon us. Progressives: I want to be a Progressive – and that means where ever I go, you all have to be Progressives with me – and LIKE IT. I just don’t understand why you Conservatives so dislike us so – all we want to do is make life EASY for you by making all the decisions for you (that you used to do for yourself). What, don’t you like the Utopia I am trying to put you into??
New York Times (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who spent his first two years in office establishing himself as a fiscal conservative, turned left in his third annual address to the Legislature, and sought to reclaim the state’s progressive mantle. Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, had two emotional fulcrums in his sprawling 78-minute address: gun violence and Hurricane Sandy. But most of the speech was devoted to an onslaught of proposals favored by the left wing of his party.
Yup, I think Cuomo so dismayed the base that, given his half way point, time to go full Progressive. After all, without them, he isn’t getting back in. Sure, NY is a Progressive bastion, but hey, he was showing so much “practicality”, he could have almost a moderate Repub. But, here he goes!
In his first Annual Message to Congress in 1790, George Washington said:
”A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.”
Another example of Economic Freedom as measured by the crush of regulation without regard to cost – the story from Hot Air:
Gun microstamping could close American factories
I understand that gun owners’ rights and the Second Amendment haven’t really been a touchstone in this year’s elections, but that doesn’t mean that the battle isn’t still being waged. One story out this month hits pretty close to home for me, both figuratively and literally. It involves the Remington Arms plant located in Ilion, a village in upstate New York. They are currently battling a pending move by the state government which would force them to put laser etched microstamps on the firing pins of all their weapons, driving costs through the roof.
Microstamping, or ballistic imprinting, is a patented process that uses laser technology to engrave a tiny marking of the make, model and serial number on the tip of a gun’s firing pin to allow an imprint of that information on spent cartridge cases. Supporters of the technology say it will be a “game changer,” allowing authorities to quickly identify the registered guns used in crimes. Opponents claim the process is costly, unreliable and may ultimately impact the local economies that heavily depend on the gun industry, including Ilion, N.Y., where Remington Arms maintains a factory, and Hartford, Conn., where Colt’s manufacturing is headquartered.
“Mandatory microstamping would have an immediate impact of a loss of 50 jobs,” New York State Sen. James Seward, a Republican whose district includes Ilion, said, adding that Remington employs 1,100 workers in the town. “You’re talking about a company that has options in other states. Why should they be in a state that’s hostile to legal gun manufacturing? There could be serious negative economic impact with the passage of microstamping and other gun-control laws.”
Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…
Back to “Really, Judd?”
But what is the point, if you govern out of control, at cross-odds to Constitutional philosophy, once you get there, as the Democrats now wish to?
Oops, this time, its Republicans showing a lack of knowledge of Constitutional values – and respect as well. All I can say is that I am really glad that I’m not in NY (or my server). The Daily Caller has the story:
Nearly half of the Republicans serving in the New York State Assembly have proposed legislation that would ban anonymous online comments.
If enacted, the legislation would require websites — including social networks and online newspapers — to remove all anonymous comments that are brought to the attention of administrators.
An anonymous comment could remain if the author “agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.”
Yeah – their version of NH’s HB1704 (sideways) – we will silence speech, particular that which might be critical of others. The Founders had the equivalent problem of anonymous speech back then – only then, it was not computers and servers it was hand operated paper and ink printing presses (re: slow, laborious, and expensive). In fact, if looking at history, we might still be singing “God save the Queen” without that anonymous speech.
Oh, that pesky parchment that is the foundation for all our laws? Was THAT considered? Er, no:
I have a question for progressives. If a fetus is just a lump of tissue, isn’t abortion just another form of plastic surgery?
You can’t even find a Democrat willing to admit the procedure is not elective. It’s woman’s choice, yes?
And if you’ve ever gotten an unwanted earful from some feminis, going on about what pregnancy can do to a woman’s body, appearance is a consideration. That makes it cosmetic, yes?
So if abortion is the elective, cosmetic, removal of unwanted tissue, and not the termination of a human life, why doesn’t the liberal super-state demand the wholesale taxpayer funding of liposuction, nose jobs, and breast implants?
Sorry, trick question. If you are a public school teacher in Buffalo New York, boob jobs are already covered by taxpayer dollars.
You know as well as I that it is only a referendum when a Democrat wins, so the special elections to fill two US House seats, the ones that resulted in two Republican Wins, not a referendum. Dope slap, bitch slap, slam dunk, home run, owned; these are more appropriate descriptions of what happened last night, particularly in the cold blue underbelly of the Big Apple.
I’ve had a thing or two to say about RGGI. Just drop my name and ‘RGGI’ into a search engine and start counting. If you start reading you will notice a trend. RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative, is a broad based tax or fee on all energy and all persons who use it. This tax could increase without anyone every holding a vote, or having a hearing. It was passed by the Democrat majority legislature with that in mind, during New Hampshire’s political experimentation years (democrats were left in charge of everything), and signed by then-and-God-only-knows-why-he-is-still-Governor John Lynch.
(I never call RGGI Reggie, by the way. This makes me think of Reggie Mantle from The Archie’s, which makes me think of Veronica Lodge, who was kind of hot in a post-pre-pubescent animated sort of a way, which might explain my fondness for dark haired women, but probably not. Maybe Isis from the Shazam Isis power hour, or how about Wonder Woman? Did I mention that I don’t call it Reggie?)
RGGI’s proponents claimed it would be good for the environment, which was only true if the "environment" was one littered with taxpayer financed slush funds whose purposes were as ephemeral as the lefts idea of rights or justice. And Carbon trading to reduce emissions was already a well known lie that ten years of cap and trade in Europe had already proved demonstrably false. If we just assume the folks who claim to be the smartest people in every room had to know this–being so damn smart–then this was obviously meant to be yet another large slush fund to be raided by current and future Democrat majorities, all but for two fortuitous events that got in the way of pay day.
First, the left’s nationwide social engineering experiment with housing rights collapsed the economy before the program got up to steam, making the RGGI carbon credits worth progressively less until they are now almost completely worthless. Second, we voted the left-wingers out of office for a ruinous spending agenda and their chronic inability to balance the books despite scores of new taxes and fees, and laying siege to every pile of money within view, public or private.
We wont even get into the left wing law firms that lined up to manage the grants and the distribution of funds for approved projects, or the list of Democrat friendly recipients.