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Sen. Kathy Sgambati’s as drafted an “abortion notification bill,” as Tom Fahey of the Union Leader describes it in his State House Dome column. Fahey writes: The state has had no parental notification law on abortions for minors since the Legislature repealed its flawed statute last year.A new abortion notification bill would require a girl …
We have all giggled about Concord’s more absurd initiatives (state-funding for adult diapers, fines for losing your helium balloons) and cringed at its devious ones (repealing the parental notification law, civil unions). But this latest legislative push—which occurs as state spending continues to climb out of control and with no solution to the school funding …
Former Governor Jeanne Shaheen’s entry into the Democratic Senate primary has caused Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand to bow out. That’s too bad, though it is a judicious decision, certainly. Marchand is a bright and savvy politician who appears to be genuinely interested in doing what he believes is right for his community and state. I …
New Hampshire Republican State Chairman Fergus Cullen explains Gov. John Lynch’s failure to steward a constitutional amendment on education funding through the legislature this way in a press release: “Governor John Lynch’s weakness as a leader has finally caught up with him. A leader cannot punt on issue after issue and expect people to follow …
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The CNN/WMUR-sponsored Democrat debate captured the bulk of New Hampshire headlines yesterday and today, but Granite State Democrats assembled in Concord on Sunday during their regular mid-year convention and in at least one way, this convention was far more newsworthy of the two events. According to Gary Rayno of the New Hampshire Union Leader: …
The New Hampshire Senate’s budget writers seem to have taken their jobs a little more seriously than their colleagues in the New Hampshire House. But only a little. Gone from the Senate version of the budget is the 30-cents per thousand tax hike on the sale of property. The Senate appears to have pared down …
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Obese low-budget filmmaker Michael Moore has moved onto attacking private health insurance. Cindy Sheehan has retired from the role of anti-war spokesmom. And Rosie O’Donnell has slunk away from “The View” a laughing-stock. Red State’s “haystacks” asks: Who’s YOUR fave to run the anti-war movement now? I respectfully submit the name of our own first …
As stories file in about the murder of Corporal Bruce McKay, I am sad to report that I have become a “crime voter.” The murder of Corp. McKay began officially to push me in that direction, but then an evening visitor at my front door sent me over the edge. Seems one of my neighbors …
Ron Tunning was our guest this weekend on Meet the New Press (you can listen to the discussion here). Ron is the chairman of the local Democrat committee. He is also a fierce advocate of gay marriage. I—as you can clearly tell in the Podcast—am not. I am just as adamant in my defense of …
Fellow Granite Staters Mark Steyn and Jay Tea have weighed in with some perspective on the murder of Corporal Bruce McKay, to which I can add very little if anything. My only contribution is that events like this one tend to catalyze political debates and I suspect it will not be long before our Democrat-controlled …
