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A man’s home is his castle? Not quite…

June 29, 2006

This story from the June 29th Union Leader about a man arrested for using tapes from security cameras installed at his home offers a chilling revealation about private property rights if you think about it for a moment: A Nashua man is facing two felony charges for allegedly using secret video cameras to tape police [ Read more ]

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Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine

June 29, 2006

Recalling the cartoon shorts from “Rocky & Bullwinkle,” let’s join talking-dog Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman on a trip to the not too-distant past using the WABAC (pronounced “way back”) machine: Holding up a Daily Sun from 2005, just after the November Laconia elections, the pet-boy Sherman exclaims, “Look, Mr. Peabody- this Thursday [ Read more ]

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Benefits, Taxes, and Demographics – Pick two and call me back

June 28, 2006

What goes around, comes around.  When President Bush first started to talk about reforming Social Security, his ideas included the personal savings component (like many Federal employees already have) and the indexing of COLAs from the wage price inflation rate to the consumer price index.  As expected, there was a lot of blowback.  The opposition [ Read more ]

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An Income tax is just Giving? You mean it is voluntary?

June 24, 2006

We are lucky in that in the Lakes Region, we have two daily papers for the Lakes Region and one weekly specifically for our town. It has given me ample opportunity to write, as there are quite few Liberals that write in with ideas that they wish to champion. Like the old days in bowling [ Read more ]

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A Possible Turning Point?

June 14, 2006

For the President, it was “perhaps the single busiest day of his whole presidential life, and it came moreover at dead center of what was perhaps his period of deepest gloom and perplexity of spirit. Not only was there political division within his party, and even within his own official family,” the military was unable [ Read more ]

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NH: Lowest Taxed in Nation. So?

June 8, 2006

The June 5th "Citizen" (Laconia,NH) newspaper published an editorial regarding NH’s continued status as having the lowest overall tax burden in the Nation. In it, the paper writes, "Imagine the relief we will feel in knowing the additional taxes we are paying are mitigated by the knowledge that our pockets are being picked at a [ Read more ]

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Good News & Bad News

June 7, 2006

Monday’s Laconia Daily Sun carried a story headlined, “New Hampshire residents pay least local taxes nationally.” The article, reporting on a recent study of 2004 US Census economic data, is at the same time both good news and bad news. The good news is just what the article reports: “New Hampshire residents pay less of [ Read more ]

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