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Update: Link to the interview with Chuck Douglas has been fixed. I also have other interviews to put up, but that will be later on today (after all, I have a real job to attend to). Also put in the links to the Boortz site and to the FairTax site. ——————————————————————— Well, this should prove …
Yesterday Pravda-on-the-Merrimack (Concord Monitor) ran an op-ed by Professor Marcus Hurn of Franklin Pierce on civil unions. He makes two points. One is "Civil unions are not like mandatory seatbelts, smoking prohibitions, insurance mandates or the minimum wage. A civil union restrains no one’s liberty. It affects no private contracts." The other is "Unlike some …
In a recent post, I argued that New Hampshire has forfeited its claim on the first in the nation primary because its leftward lurchings have placed it outside the political mainstream. A piece today in RealClearPolitics also observes that New Hampshire has turned into a latte-sipping, Lexus-driving, what-can-government-do-for-me bastion of BLUE political thought. It argues that the New …
THOUGHTS FROM ELSEWHERE ON WHY NH SHOULD NO LONGER BE FIRST Read More »
Several days back, I cross-posted a story on our local blogsite about a grant for items requested by our local fire department under the guise of "homeland security." . Writes Michael Kitch in today’s [the April 26th] Laconia Daily Sun: [Gilford, NH] Deputy Fire Chief John Beland asked the board [selectmen] to authorize the department …
Perhaps now’s the time for somebody to do the right thing… Read More »
Is anybody out there considering the result of increasing the size of NH’s traditionally frugal state government by a whopping 16%? Where does it end? What happens in an economic downturn? I can’t believe I’m pining for the days of an 11% Shaheen budget. Once we giveth, it is impossible to taketh away. Unfortunately, by …
