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SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LYNCH AMENDMENT

March 30, 2007

Here are some questions for the Governor about his constitutional amendment that he would rather not answer. Governor, your amendment states at the outset that, “In fulfillment of the duty to cherish public schools set forth in the preceding Article, the general court shall define an adequate education, regularly determine the total statewide cost thereof [ Read more ]

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REAP THE WHIRLWIND, LAWYER DAVE

March 30, 2007

Dave Hess thinks the definition of an adequate education passed by the House is just horrible.  Well, Dave, weren’t you one of those pounding his fist on the table, no-no-no we have to define adequacy, when some of use were arguing that the Legislature was under no obligation to define an adequate education.  Having sowed the wind, [ Read more ]

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KEOUGH KICKS LYNCH’S BUTT

March 30, 2007

The Union Leader runs dueling editorials on the Lynch amendment by Bruce Keough and Governor Empty-Suit.  If this were boxing, it would have been stopped in the first round.  Lynch offers nothing but inane sound-bites to support his amendment, while Keough systematically tears the amendment to shreds.  Well done, Mr. Keough, well done.

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IN CASE THERE WAS ANY DOUBT

March 29, 2007

left that the Lynch Amendment is a Trojan Horse for the income tax, it has been endorsed by the rabidly pro-income tax Concord Monitor.

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THE FALSE CHOICE

March 28, 2007

The Democrat spin coming out of Concord is that either you’re in favor of the Lynch amendment or you’re in favor of an income tax.  In the words of State Senator Martha Fuller Clark, “If the Legislature and the citizens defeat this amendment, they are saying the state should fund the full cost of education.” [ Read more ]

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And your taxes go to…..

March 28, 2007

And who says our present system is NOT progressive.  From NRO: The Tax Foundation folks grouped together all federal, state, and local government spending and revenues. Then they looked at the net effect on income quintiles. The results confirmed the extent to which American government has become a redistribution scheme. The bottom 20 percent of [ Read more ]

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SOME INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ABOUT EDUCATION FUNDING

March 26, 2007

It’s about time that some of the myths being ventilated about education funding get cleared up.  So let’s start with three that are particularly relevant to the current legislative effort to define an adequate education by the Court’s July 1, 2007 deadline: Myth #1:  “If the Legislature doesn’t define an adequate education, the Supreme Court [ Read more ]

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How do you define “double-dipping?”

March 26, 2007

My friend former Laconia Mayor Tom Tardif has long been concerned about the treatment of so-called "detail work" here in NH. You know- you see it all the time at construction sites, church parking lots, and concert events. While in any other circumstance, such work arrangements would be properly considered "subcontracted" labor, it’s not so [ Read more ]

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AN OPEN LETTER TO FERGUS CULLEN

March 25, 2007

You’re not “taking a position for or against the Lynch proposal at this time”?  You have got to be kidding!  If the New Hampshire GOP would actually consider supporting a constitutional amendment that writes the misbegotten Claremont decisions into the state constitution, that destroys local control of schools, and that greases the skids for an [ Read more ]

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Easter Bunnies need not apply…

March 25, 2007

Every so often, a story comes along that really makes you wonder if it can possibly be true at all. You know, a tidbit so deliciously obvious in proving some point that it must be made up. Most of these stories tend to be related to either political correctness or culture. So it is with [ Read more ]

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A DOG, AND A DOG WITH DIFFERENT FLEAS

March 23, 2007

              Governor Lynch’s proposed constitutional amendment is, to quote Gordon Gekko, a dog.  What it doesn’t do is bad enough; what it does do is even worse.             The Lynch amendment does nothing to get the courts out of education policy and funding. Unless the Governor is planning on handing out blank checks to [ Read more ]

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Do you believe in relative or absolute morality?

March 23, 2007

Last week, we briefly discussed General Peter Pace’s comment that he believed that homosexuality was immoral.  Needless to say, conservative religious groups praised his statement; obviously homosexual rights groups decried it. It all comes down to your sense of morality, and where that sense of morality stems from.  Is it a case of religious training, [ Read more ]

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Does he wear a tinfoil hat to prevent “them” from reading his brain waves?

March 19, 2007

Is it any wonder that the devastated city of New Orleans is still a mess? Is it really George Bush’s fault, or might it be possible that the hapless city’s Mayor Ray Nagin is the cause? And when you consider that the city’s voters reelected him, should we have a whole lot of sympathy? Consider [ Read more ]

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Another entry in the “Some things are just too delicious to pass up” dept.

March 18, 2007

I know that I am but a layman when it comes to weather observations and the like, but I still do not believe for an instant that man contributes in a big way to any global warming that might be occuring. I know that the AlGore automatons will state with a straight face that a big, [ Read more ]

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HERE IS THE RAY BUCKLEY YOUTUBE VIDEO

March 17, 2007

that caused Paul Hodes to drop his support for Buckley’s bid to become Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party. WARNING: THE VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT. [update] ***COMMENT BY DOUG: I don’t see what all the fuss is about. After watching the video and considering the Democrat agenda, I think Buckley’s the PERFECT guy to [ Read more ]

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It’s about parental rights, not abortion.

March 13, 2007

In the Sunday Union Leader, Tom Fahey, writing in the "Under the Dome" column reports that the bill to repeal NH’s parental notification law will come up for reconsideration. The parental notification issue isn’t going away soon. Just one day after the House passed a repeal of the law requiring a parent to be notified [ Read more ]

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HOYAS RULE

March 11, 2007

Georgetown crushed Pitt yesterday to win the Big East title for the first time since 1989. 

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THE SECOND AMENDMENT LIVES

March 11, 2007

Check out this opinion by Judge Laurence Silberman.  Reasoning from the text of the Second Amendment and the contemporary understanding, he concludes that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.  Then compare it to the dissent.  Who’s right?  At the risk of simplifying matters, it depends on whether the Supreme Court precedent [ Read more ]

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GO MIKE GO

March 10, 2007

Mike Biundo continues to hammer away at Governor Empty-Suit:  "But as the legislature scrambles to acquiesce to an improper Court ruling and its arrogant imposition of a deadline to define ‘adequacy’, Lynch is embracing an education spending plan that he, himself, agreed was ‘unconstitutional’ based on the court’s ruling. ‘One can’t blame Governor Lynch if [ Read more ]

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NAME THE NAMES, FERGUS

March 9, 2007

"Cullen said Buckley accuser Rep. Steve Vaillancourt ‘is about as much a Republican as Anna Nicole Smith was a natural blond. The fact is, Ray Buckley was wronged.’" Kudos to Fergus for calling out a RINO; something his predecessors never would do. NOW SHOW SOME REAL POLITICAL COURAGE, Fergus.  What you said about Vaillancourt’s Republican [ Read more ]

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