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1. Which House member do you most admire?
Right:
Jeff [...]
I started to read this post by George Joyce over at American Thinker:
Conservative philosopher Roger Scruton has penned what should become known as the most devastating exposé regarding the decades-long but self-deceptive liberal claim to the mantle of “compassion.”
In other words, Scruton’s is the [...]
(emphasis mine)
...children must be taught this over and over again: an effective person must incorporate discipline into his or her life, and a just society must demand responsibility from its citizens.
- Bill O'Reilly, "A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity"
Ah yes, Progressives feeling GREAT about themselves by figuring out a Plan B for the loss of the "Public Option" by allowing those 55+ to "buy into" Medicare.
This is yet again, Feeling Good About Themselves Without Consequences: hey guys, news flash - Medicare is just about broke! And no [...]
Rather, I classify this as an ignoble one:
"A new initiative is being piloted where 'green' patents are given special priority over other patents in the backlogged system. Every day an important green tech innovation is hindered from coming to market is another day we harm our planet and another day [...]
I guess even NH politicians will take money from a Tax Cheat - even the one that is the highest Tax Creator in the land that seems to (very, very slowly) remember that he owns stuff that requires paying taxes on (you [...]
Charles Krauthammer is one of my favorite pundits - and he really knows how to just twist that rhetorical knife, oh, just so carefully. So well, in fact, all of us are still looking well after he has pulled it from his victim's ribs.
Such an edge:
So, we have Obamacare putting the Government in charge of how the Government will order our healthcare (regulations, mandates, taxes) - and just like we saw with the TARP money allowing politicians at the National Level (Obama, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd) to thrust their sticky fingers into the small details [...]
I keep putting these up thinking that the slid has to start slowing down at some point - but my prayers keep being answered! No, I am not one of those that wish him harm except in a political manner. I want his poll numbers, on [...]
The Democrat leadership here in NH (Governor, Executive Council, House, Senate) have increased the spending here in NH by $1.2 Billion the last two budgets -> 17.5% the first time and an additional 12% this last time around. Not only did they crow about a "responsible budget" but had no [...]
Over at Forbes, Richard A. Epstein (ames Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago, The Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and a visiting professor at New York University Law School) has the economic policies of Obama pegged - and not for [...]
Who owns the fruits of your labor?
Certainly, the Government believes that - let me repeat the graph:The graph comes from The American Enterprise [...]
Haven't had a lot of time to do posting either last night for today, or for today - sorry! But this series of "data context" over at The Foresight Institute I think is important - it shows that when data is presented, the context is important. In this case,' [...]
Guest Post by AWR Hawkins:
Former Vice President Al Gore is the most recognizable face of the anthropogenic global warming movement. He has authored books, starred in a documentary, and spoken innumerable times on the supposed threat global warming poses to life’s very existence.
Gone is the [...]
UPDATE: It seems that some of the national politicians are now putting pressure on Secretary Gates to intervene:
Members of Congress, including House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), want Defense Secretary Robert Gates to intervene in the court martial of three Navy SEALs, one of whom is charged with punching [...]Houston Fergus, we have a problem. Actually, I don't, but given how you have described and maligned the TEA Party movement as "the Fringe" to be ignored and ridiculed, you might decide to just "think" about an exploratory run. And then leave it at that. But maybe, you'll at least [...]
Guest post by Ovide Lamontagne
Printed by the Union Leader, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
In a column in the Nov. 29 New Hampshire Sunday News, Rep. Paul Hodes defends and celebrates his vote in favor of the Nancy Pelosi health care bill. His column is the best example yet [...]
Guest post by NH State Senator, Jeb Bradley
Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is just around the corner. The Holidays come quickly and there's so much to do to get ready, but is New Hampshire ready for the budget problems awaiting the Legislature’s return to Concord in January?
Through [...]
CPAs are often portrayed as little men sitting at high accounting desks (think Scrooge) with green eyeshades and black bands around their arms - and not funny. Sometimes, scientists are right up there (down?) with having no sense of humor either. Stereotypical, to be sure.
However, sometimes it is warranted; [...]
Over and over again, all I have heard from the Statists / Progressives / Leftists / Socialists / Liberals / Democrats (er, did I miss anyone - it IS getting to be quite the crowd lately - or a massive effort to keep changing definitions on the rest [...]
No, the TEA Party events have not gone away - they are just starting to morph into more action. That's why you are starting to see more attacks on the TEA Party type folks from those on the Left - they realize that if this momentum by traditional American value [...]
As a follow on to my negative post on Elites, I found that Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Heyak has a similar viewpoint (emphasis mine):
The “Progressive” mindset ignores modern-society’s extraordinary complexity. It’s oblivious to the full, vast range of inescapable trade-offs and unintended consequences unleashed by human actions. [...]
Distorting the Marketplace: rent seeking and "compassion"
The first is "rent seeking" - private sector businesses using government to enhance their revenues by either:
using political contacts to get government contracts, often at the disadvantage of [...]From Make: creation, molding, testing, to liftoff!
A jet powered electric supercar?
Capstone Turbine unleashes their Super car - the CMT-350. Details:
CMT-380, a high performance hybrid electric supercar powered by traditional batteries and an untraditional ultra low emission range extending microturbine, which is essentially like having an ultra-clean and quiet jet [...]
Obamas will spend holidays in Hawaii
Hawaii's home-grown president, Barack Obama, is expected back in Honolulu on Dec. 23, according to sources in Washington.
In a previous Hawaii visit, Barack Obama — then the Democratic candidate for president — spoke to supporters at Keehi Lagoon Park. [...]
Les over at Radioactive Liberty is running a poll to see if you are a Liberal - I flunked (natch)
Chris (also over at Radioactive Liberty) has a modern Pilgrim tale. He also has this pic from his other place, Angry Seafood (she needs a push bar vs [...]
On Afghanistan, Bloggers Aren't Going All The Way With Obama
Plus: Left-Leaners Want More Jobs; Right-Leaners Put In A Word For Deficit Reduction
National Journal has its latest poll out from its blogger stable and they wanted to know:
How much confidence do you have in President Obama's Afghanistan strategyGuest post by Peter Bearse:
For all the long deliberations of a conflicted President, supposedly drawn out so that he could decide what is best for us, we’re confronted with a decision that is in the political self-interest of Barack Obama. Thus, it now falls to Congress to be the institution [...]
In this bold story of Hope & Changes, Joe promises Bo that he never leave his Arab buddy's behind; providing the proper rearing, so tragically denied in childhood. This epic tail is sure to win this year's Oscars for Best Supporting Actor - Joe Bidenmytime, Best Supporting Actress - Nancy [...]
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While I did not support Mitt Romney in the last Presidential, no one can reasonably attack his business acumen (and yes, I disagree with his idea of MassCare). Here's 10 good ideas:
Repair the stimulus. Freeze the funds that [...]Guest post by By Howard Rich
It's already being called the "Second Louisiana Purchase," but the sad truth is that a controversial payoff to U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's home state of Louisiana is among the smallest of the thinly-disguised bribes and kickbacks that are being offered in Washington D.C. [...]
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is one of the TEA Party movement favorite politicians. Why? He harkens back to the Constitution and a more limited goverment. He is one of those politicians that, once in Washington, have not forgotten their conservative roots. In his book, Saving Freedom, he spoke of his [...]
You know, the one who keeps saying that TEA Party type call THEMSELVES "teabaggers" - even AFTER being told that it was a sexual slur??? Yes folks, double standards if you are a Liberal!
Anyways, this caught my eye at NRO on a post that was discussing Democrats at risk [...]
"The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty-for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks, and to yell for [...]
My friend Chan over at WeekendPundit asked for a link
I don't always read what others post here on Weekend Pundit.
... It's my blog and, in the end, it's my responsibility for what's posted here.
It seems that a co-blogger may have gone a smidge over a line' [...]
You know it is bad for Al Gore when this happens....hoisted on his own petard, as it were
Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. OH. OH the irony.
- Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show
(H/T: NewsBusters)
[...]
-President Barack Obama, inauguration, 1/20/09
In the same [...]
-President Barack Obama, inauguration 1/20/09
Dope of the Week - [...]
From the TaxProf:
GOP Introduces Geithner Penalty Waiver Act
Congressmen John Carter (R-TX) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) yesterday introduced the Geithner Penalty Waiver Act, requiring that the IRS assess the same penalty against U.S. taxpayers that came forward in the UBS tax fraud investigation as paid by [...]
My debate with Jim Splaine is along this same line that Dr. Walter E. Williams is making here: our Country was founded on the twin pillars of Classic Liberalism (not to be confused with the philosophy of the current crop of Liberals) - Freedom and Individual Freedom. Why, then, [...]
I received this email from a Left leaning person (supposedly a NH resident but I'm not totally sure; any NH person with any worth wouldn't take such a position!) complaining that because we do not have an income tax here in NH, people are SUFFERING! Because the State refuses to [...]
From NRO and NH's Pundit Extraordinaire:
This Just In! [Mark Steyn]
On this Thanksgiving Day, let us give thanks that the two greatest all-purpose pretexts for government regulation of every single aspect of your life - "health care" and "the environment" - have now converged. Forget the global warming, [...]
Mr. Hodes is NH's CongressCritter for our Congressional District 2 (I'm stuck with Pelosi cheerleader, Carol Shea-Porter in CD-1) that wants to become the Jr. Senator from NH.
As long as you both are insistent that Cap N Trade is flat out going to work here in the US, how about' [...]
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for?
-Thomas Sowell, conservative economic Professor
I previously wrote this:
Jim - I would welcome a debate with you on what is the most fundamental issue separating Progressives / Liberals / Statists and Conservatives / Libertarians / Limited Government folks:
Which sovereignty should pre-eminent: the State or the Individual?
Who works for who?
Well, Rep. Splaine responded [...]
The Left (read Democrats) are always about helping the poor - too bad that they they don't actually ever review their programs to see if:
did it workdo other programs enhance the first one or screw it up?The underlying question that many Conservatives have is: what is poor? Really poor? It' [...]
When Chris Matthews starts to be a doubter, Obama has GOT to know he's in deep sneakers! From Newsbusters:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Will this long deliberation, Anne Kornblut, you've got the tough question here to start with. Whip around here. It took three months to make this decision. Will he' [...]
Filing under "Political Correctness". "Dispostions" have migrated from Schools of Social Work to Schools of Ed. Freedom of Thought? Freedom of Speech? Freedom of Belief?
The philosophy of Individual Freedom is dying in the places where it should be carefully nurtured - in our schools. Seems however, with this nonsense [...]
Well, it is time to haul out the Dope of the Week award and dust off the dust - to an Arizona based Nanny Stater. Yup, one more politician that Knows Better Than The Rest Of Us How To Help The Poor; the story from Phoenix that the City Council [...]
OK, I was waiting for this - Mr. Brunelle from the New Hampshire Democrat Party did the obvious thing and decided to piggyback on Fergus' screed. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to include much in the way of new vocabulary words - true to form, the words angry, radical, extremist, intimidation [...]
Free men - the right to defend themselves is a moral question. "
A gaggle of numbnets who would try to tell me they will dictate where, how, and if I can defend myself"
"Am I weird?"
No, Ted, you're not. We as a society are socializing the bad decisions made' [...]
From an email sent to me yesterday morning:
Starner Jones, MD is a seventh generation Mississippian and wanted to come back to Mississippi after going somewhere else for college and medical school. His extracurricular interests are golf, hunting, fishing and college football.
I earlier posted my thoughts upon hearing Brit Hume's remarks on Fox News Sunday:And it fits - I have yet to see a single policy or action, domestic or foreign, that has yet to actually show strength: massive borrowing will cause our financial demise, [...]
Very interesting visualization map of the transactions conducted on eBay nationwide. Who knew that while eBay started in CA, most of them would be in the eastern part of the US?
To see the actual map as it plays out in real time, click below: [...]
At least, for those that aren't willing to ante up.
When James Pindell first opened up NHPoliticalReport, he made it quite clear that it would be a "pay to play" site after an introductory time period. I traded emails with him asking about the economics of that,' [...]
This is going around the 'Net via email and there is a message here for those that believe in the separation of God and State (based on an unofficial letter to two Baptists - NOT as official government edicts).
President Barack Obama said' [...]
The Statists are all whining that only Government can solve our problems - in this case, at the cost of about $2.8 Trillion (10 year estimate once the actual spending begins and not the "hide the ball" shill game that Obama / Pelosi / Reid are playing).
Guest Post by Andrew Hemingway:
If a tree falls in the woods...
We all know this saying well. We probably recite it on a regular basis but recently I was reminded of this saying and it happened at an odd time. Odd because I found myself viewing a video made [...]
Let's continue to examine his screed of a few days ago:
Sadly, this was not an isolated incident for Lambert, whose chronic angry-at-everyone screeds have made him an isolated figure even among party activists. The only real surprise about the comments is that anyone was listening to notice he crossed [...]
Carol Shea-Porter, NH CongressCritter from NH's CD-1 (Democrat), voted with her mistress, Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to take $500 Billion away from the Medicare program via Obamacare.
After all, the ONLY way to "bend the curve down" is to NOT pay for stuff and with the Boomer generation retirements starting [...]
I saw this article a little while ago but before getting to it, a bit of commenting as it speaks to the battle of philosophy and ideals that we are all in
giving in Socialism - bowing to Collectivism, the Great Centralized StateFighting for the Founders' Vision - of individual Freedom' [...]From an email:
I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.
I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.
- President Barack Obama, [...]
My friend, Warner Todd Huston, found and noted upon this over at Big Government (is there NO WHERE this "Sleep? Who needs sleep??" dude DOESN'T blog):
So, we can do a shout out to Muslims - I'm ok with that; studies have shown that [...]Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."
- George Washington, First President of the United States, General of the Revolutionary War Army
(H/T: Star Parker)
A NH based Progressive has issued a challenge to the TEA Party movement. The question actually is - does that Progressive have the stones to actually participate in a debate? From Blue Hampshire:
(The tea party people, undoubtedly almost all of whom do not belong to the [...]
Bob Chanin, retiring NEA General Counsel, spoke at the NEA's annual meeting in July. He had quite some words, I'd say, for the real purpose of the NEA. Knowing me and knowing the 'Grok, you know where this is going, don't you?
I like reading John Stossel as often he proclaims a down to earth message with common sense appeal. In addition, what he talks about is grounded in results rather then an ideological background. When I saw his column, so apropo for today, it does need [...]
As we celebrate a day of Thanksgiving, a holiday dedicated to giving thanks to God who saw the Pilgrims through their winter's trials in this new land, our United States of America, take in the voices of those young men and women who (by now) are keeping us safe as [...]
Eldest is out of town, Youngest is still at Fort Campbell (hopefully home on leave for Christmas!!!) - so it is just me and TMEW and the four footed wonderdogs (Mr. Laidback and Mr. Its-MY-territory), so we're not cooking a big meal this year.
However, these folks were going to -' [...]
To me, a free market person, this chart from the Enterprise Blog was stunning:
Many Democrats say that Healthcare is the most important issue in the land at this time - why else would the Congress be spending [...]
There is no doubt that with a Marxist outlook, there is no love lost between Obama and his advisors and the business community in general. While there are large corporations that will be profiting from their relationship with the Obama Administration from "kissing up" ("rent-seeking" GE comes to mind, or [...]
From BoingBoing:
With new poll numbers, Rassmussen given the fading news:The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a [...]
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