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April 5, 2017

Did New Hampshire’s Civil Engineers Just Ask for a Sales or Income Tax?

New Hampshire’s local coven of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE-NH) gave the state a C- on ‘infrastructure.’ The grade was determined by a team of professional engineers from across New Hampshire who assessed 12 categories of infrastructure. And they found that much of the state’s infrastructure requires investment and upgrades to keep up with …

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And the Alt-Left are the new Priests of those Holy Spaces

Tagging onto the back of my previous post is this one by Prof. Victor Davis Hanson (one of my favorite writers),  on more of the new Progressive Religion’s attributes (emphasis mine): The Obama victory of 2008 had a profound effect on the Democratic Party, suggesting that the “power” of getting elected twice gave “truth” to …

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Holy Space? Well, when you no longer believe in God, you’ll believe in something else

And Progressives / Socialists worship Government to bring a “Heaven on Earth” and they have their orthodoxy and liturgy to which there is no dissent including that there can not be anything else before it.  Yeah, I wanna believe that the former Soviet Union, the early Communist China, Viet Nam, Venezuela and of course, North …

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Data Point – Gallup: Fewer Dems To Proud To Be Americans

  “Sixty-seven percent of Democrats say they are “extremely” or “very” proud to be Americans, down 11 percentage points from a year ago. Republicans (92%) and independents (73%) are about as likely now as in 2016 to express such patriotic sentiments.” (H/T: The Blaze)

More Proof Al Gore Didn’t Invent the Internet

Tim Berners-Lee (Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee) has received the computing’s version of the Nobel Prize, the A.M. Turing Award, for inventing the internet. World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee just chalked up another accolade, and it’s one of his greatest yet. The Association for Computing Machinery has given him the 2016 Turing Award, frequently considered the …

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Out-Of State Group Behind Portsmouth Bag Ban Will Keep Pushing Their Agenda

Monday we reported on an attempt by elements in the City of Portsmouth to advance another plastic bag ban. Yesterday, the Portsmouth City Council postponed a vote on the ban pending review by the City Manager. It is unclear what the city manager can do. There is no legislative support or enabling legislation. Correspondent Kimberly Haas from …

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