Here is the AP/Breitbart story on the posing of the Dems. Chris Dodd is particularly cute with his "restore the Constitution" blather. What a massive, deceptive, hypocritical squirrel this man sounds like. Bill (I guess I wasn't recruited by a pro baseball team when I was young) Richardson almost did him one better when he called for a federally mandated $40,000 per year minimum wage for teachers.

HAVE ANY OF THESE PEOPLE CONNECTED THE FREE MARKET, FREEDOM, and the LIMITATIONS PLACED ON THE FEDERAL GUB-MENT? ANY OF THEM?.... Hellooooooo?

Foul, sick, distasteful. But important to dissect. Listen to Free Talk Live tomorrow night (6-4-07) to get more. Gard will be with Ian and Mark to get deeper into it. For now, here is the piece on the wonderful saviors of the world in the Democrat party. Nice.

Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias

The Law

Pushing aside the argument of whether the US government should be using taxpayer money to help European nations build a missile defense shield, what does one make of Russian President Vladimir Putin warning that if such a plan is enacted, he will be FORCED to target European cities with nuclear weapons?

This report from the AP tells the tale:

Updated: 2 hours, 24 minutes ago

ROME - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in Eastern Europe would force Moscow to target its weapons against Europe.

The threat, in an interview published Sunday in Italy’s Corriere della Sera and other foreign media, marked one of Putin’s most strident statements to date against the U.S. plans and came just days before he is to join President Bush and other leaders at a Group of Eight summit in Germany.

Congressman Paul was recently interviewed by the insightful Dennis Miller.

A smart listener posted the audio on Youtube:

Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq2Q848P0h8

The NH Constitution states, in Section Two, Article 83, that the state may regulate monopolies and companies that are collusively pricing. This does not include restaurants does it... This does not include bars.

The legislators who voted in favor of this bill have broken their oath to uphold the NH Constitution. Never vote for them, oppose them with every ounce of strength you have, tell others about them. Affirm the sanctity of private contract, and private property.

Here is the story, by John diStaso, of the Union Leader:

Concord – The New Hampshire House today approved a ban on smoking in restaurants, cocktail lounges and some other public places, moving the bill to Gov. John Lynch, who is expected to sign it into law.

EXCELLENT! WELL DONE NHLA AND ALL WHO OPPOSED THIS INSANE BILL!

Here is the report, by John DiStaso, of the NH Union Leader:

Concord – The state Senate late this afternoon rejected mandatory seat belts for all ages, voting 16-8 against passage of House Bill 802.

The vote kept New Hampshire the only state in the country without such a requirement.

The bill had passed the House 153-140 on April 4.

Gov. John Lynch had not given his opinion of the bill, and the Senate vote today saved him from being forced to do so, at least for now.

Six of the 24-member Senate’s 14 Democrats joined all 10 Republicans in rejecting the bill.

As reported late yesterday by the Union Leader, health insurance price controls have been stopped in NH. They should never have been proposed. No free society can afford such irrational and destructive thinking to make its way into a governing body.

Here is the article:

(THANKS Joel Winters!)

IN AN astonishingly clear-headed report, the House Commerce Committee last week recommended killing Senate Bill 220, a bill to establish a committee to decide whether the state should create a commission to impose price controls on health insurance rates.

The Conspiracy will update later today with the result of the possibly disastrous vote on mandatory seatbelt legislation in the NH Senate. Given the makeup of the Senate, it will only be due to outcries from constituents that this piece of noxious regulation is defeated.

You might want to call your Senator's office before 9:30 am.

We will provide the information to you when it becomes available.

In a free nation, businesses are FREE to hire whom they wish.

Coming soon to the Conspiracy, historical facts that support the thesis that there is no constitutional federal role for controlling immigration, that it was designed by the founders to be a state purview. We will also provide a systematic look at why state control of immigration would give us a better economy.

Here is the opening of the Journal piece:

The Legal Visa Crunch
The Senate bill is worse than current law for skilled immigrants.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

The Senate immigration bill continues to take lumps from all political sides, with some criticisms more deserving than others. The vote last week to halve the size of a guest-worker program for low-skilled workers is a big step in the wrong direction; skimping on visas will only lead to more illicit border crossings. But the bill's handling of high-skilled immigration is even more troubling: The proposed changes are worse than current law.

This is one of the most incredible examples of government oppression and backwards thinking in years.

The Bush Administration is actually trying to PREVENT a private beef provider from testing all his herd for Mad Cow Disease. The USDA is taking the man to court, and wants no more than the 1% that it tests!

The USDA is, prima face, absurd, unconstitutional according to a strict reading of the interstate commerce clause (which was designed to stop tariffs by one state on the products of others, not to give the federal government power over all interstate trade), and has often been shown to suppress the incentives for people to be vigilant for their own well-being. There has never been a more obvious example of why the USDA is not only bureaucratic and slothful, but counterproductive and dangerous.

Hazardous to Our Health? FDA Regulation of Health Care Products (Independent Studies in Political Ec

On May 18,2007, Gardner Goldsmith had the opportunity to join Dan Belforti on his radio program “Left, Right, and Correct”, broadcast on 106.1 FM.

They sat down to discuss the dangers of a pair of proposals to amend the NH Constitution in order to place MORE control over education policy in the hands of state politicians. MANY thanks to Dan!

On May 18,2007, Gardner Goldsmith had the opportunity to join Dan Belforti on his radio program “Left, Right, and Correct”, broadcast on 106.1 FM.

They sat down to discuss the dangers of a pair of proposals to amend the NH Constitution in order to place MORE control over education policy in the hands of state politicians. MANY thanks to Dan!

On May 18,2007, Gardner Goldsmith had the opportunity to join Dan Belforti on his radio program “Left, Right, and Correct”, broadcast on 106.1 FM.

They sat down to discuss the dangers of a pair of proposals to amend the NH Constitution in order to place MORE control over education policy in the hands of state politicians. MANY thanks to Dan!

Great Britain will soon initiate a test program for tracking and charging drivers on certain high-traffic routes in England.

While some will worry about the privacy concerns raised by such a system, others may believe that this "pay-as-you-go" system is at least a step closer to a user fee, thus eliminating the subsidization that occurs in most government-run road systems (i.e. drivers and people who rarely, if ever, use a particular system are paying in taxes for that system, and subsidizing those who use it frequently.)

This is true, but must be considered with this caveat: while we agree that the drivers using the roads or train systems that are run by the government are often subsidized by those who do not use them, those costs are already higher than what the free market would charge, so everyone is getting burned. In addition, initiating this "pay-as-you-go" system will merely inspire the government planners to hire more bureaucrats, not decrease costs. Spending will RISE with more money coming into the program run by the government until spending exceeds income, and higher taxes and higher user fees are imposed.

Gard has put together some thoughts on an experience he had on Sunday, May 27. It seemed fitting to post it here:

"My family doesn't have parties on Memorial Day Weekend. We usually do things together and take time to visit the graves of our families in NH and Massachusetts.

"On Sunday, I happened to go with my sister and niece to Borders, one of our favorite haunts. While there, we met an author who was signing copies of his latest book. The man had seen his family driven from their home by the SS in WWII, and their property later taken by the Soviets. He then worked as a jazz drummer in France, and eventually moved to Canada as a young man. During that time, he traveled a great deal for international business, and was eventually imprisoned for three months by Castro. His perseverance was remarkable, and, perhaps, helped inspire him to write his novel, a suspense story about modern terrorism.

Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert

While the federal government continues to decrease the value of the money we make -- to such an extent that now pennies and nickels are worth less in their coin form than if we melt them down for their constituent metals -- Marvel Comics had a great idea: change some US quarters prior to the release of "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" to make them collectible!

Ixnay on that, says the gub-ment. Only WE can mess with money!

Here is the story...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275655,00.html

There is an old adage, "when you see one cockroach, there are a hundred more that are unseen."

Here is the roach:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18886391/

On Thursday, May 24, the NH Senate passed by a vote of 24-0 HB 685, which would pull NH out of the federal REAL ID act. This absolutely phenomenal move stands with the actions of a handful of other states that recognize as absurd the unconstitutional and economically backwards move by the federal government to force the states to adopt federal guidelines for their drivers' licenses. These guidelines would have included private data on the IDs, which would have been needed to board planes and/or trains, or enter federal buildings. The growing groundswell of opposition to this federal move -- the feral brainchild of Jim Sensenbrenner -- represents a push back against Sensenbrenner and people like US Senator Judd Gregg, who sent his acolytes to NH to lobby FOR REAL ID.

Dispensing with the Constitutional questions arising from a federal ban on state and local internet taxation (see cases such as the NY "Miln" case from the 19th century for an example of the byzantine nature of some commerce issues), the Conspiracy needs to draw your attention to the simple economic threat of possible state and local taxation on the internet and wireless devices. In NH, we are no longer immune to big spenders in our state capital. Note this article from CNET for more information, and then tell your US reps and senators what you think!!

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Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax ban

We shall let our friends at Advocacy Ink say it this time.
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What To Do About Gasoline Prices?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her liberal cohorts’ solution to high gasoline prices is to take us back to the fuel shortages and long lines at the pump of the 1970s. As Ronald Reagan said to Jimmy Carter, “There you go again!”

Pelosi Lieutenant, Representative Bart Stupak (D-Michigan) is pushing a bill that provides for the implementation of price controls on gasoline and other hydrocarbon products in the guise of protecting consumers against “price gouging.”

The bill uses the phrase “unconscionably excessive” in relation to a fuel pricing. What is “unconscionably excessive” one may ask? Heaven only knows because the term is defined nowhere in the legislation.

Author and Russian security expert Yuri Felshtinski recently joined Gard while El G filled-in for Jack Heath on NH today, at WTPL 107.7 FM Concord.

Yuri’s book,”Blowing Up Russia” was co-written with Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned by Polonium 210 last year, and accused Putin of directing the act.

Is Putin a friend of the US? Is he a good president for Russia? Listen to the recent interview conducted with author Yuri Felshtinski, located on our sound player.

Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror