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Have the Dems wrought the same thing here in NH?

August 31, 2008

One of the most bitter political battles this past legislative season was the repeal of the Parental Notification bill here in NH.  Passed by the Dems and a few RINOs, it basically said "the State knows better how to take care of your children; we believe that parents do not have to be notified when [ Read more ]

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Penny ante/ Nickel & Dime / Soak ‘em all NH Democrats

August 29, 2008

I got the following from our friends over at the Moultonboro Citizens Alliance concerning how the looming budget deficit in NH.  Given the rise of 17.5% in the overall budget that the newly empowered Democrats engineered at the last session in Concord, here are a few things that the MCA folks found that the Dems [ Read more ]

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Economy – recession? Er, not really!

August 28, 2008

Recession – two succeeding quarters of negative growth. We’ve been hearing that word, recession, over and over and over again from the media (once again, the mantra of feeling / emotions over facts – hey, it’s an election year – should we expect otherwise from the MSM?). Well, the economy did slow at the end [ Read more ]

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Confirmed – Democrats believe that charity is ONLY via taxes

August 27, 2008

Regular readers understand that one of the issues that drives me nuts are the Liberals that are slowly redefining the word charity (here and here for starters) . In their eyes, no longer is it the case that charity is an individual act of will and kindness that drives a person, or a voluntary grouping [ Read more ]

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Meet The New Press – Podcast for 8/23/08

August 24, 2008

Meet the New Press Podcast  The MTNP Podcast page is brought to you by: .                                                                               Meet The New Press Radio at the speed of the Blogosphere! WEMJ 1490 Saturdays 9am-11am (EDT) Streaming Live! To play (or "stream") a clip now, just click on it.  To download it to your PC, right click on it and [ Read more ]

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Race debate in Central NH. “Negro 101″ Part 2. Striking back…

August 24, 2008

Following up on this previous posting, in which the local Democrats here in Central NH have decided to take a local letter-writer "to task" for daring to be critical of the latest version of Barack Obama and, more importantly to local and state level Dems, daring to use the word "negro". As I noted in the [ Read more ]

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‘Grok Flashback: Our thoughts on PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Joe Biden in April 2007

August 23, 2008

In the leadup to the NH primary, we got to see almost every candidate on both sides of the aisle, Joe Biden being no exception. As we cull through hours of videotape shot during the event for something that might be newsworthy given his selection as Barack Obama’s running mate, we figured some readers might be [ Read more ]

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Democrats ignite race debate in Central NH’s Lakes Region. Part One: “Negro 101″

August 21, 2008

An interesting debate about the "presumptive" Democratic nominee taking place here in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire in our local papers and in cyberspace has escalated into a full blown debate over race, language, and political correctness. It all started when one of the local wags– a Democrat "seasoned citizen"– submitted a letter to [ Read more ]

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Hey, we’ve heard this one before. Maybe NOW it will catch on around here…

August 20, 2008

from Dean Dexter: The Empire Center for New York State Policy has loaded the salaries of all NY state employees on the web… For years all state department head salaries were published by name in the Red Book every biennium, but that ceased in the 1970′s…only the names appear (commissioner, deputiy commissioner, etc.). What a great [ Read more ]

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McCain: “We’re going to achieve energy independence, and we’re going to do it by using every resource at our disposal…”

August 19, 2008

. . The following remarks were made by John McCain on an oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, August 19, 2008:  Americans across our country are hurting because of the cost of energy.  Gas prices are through the roof.  Energy costs have seeped into our grocery bills, making it more expensive to [ Read more ]

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You don’t think the next election matters? Make no mistake… the gun grabbers are on the move.

August 18, 2008

As certain people remain unsure about voting for John McCain, asserting that he is somehow not conservative enough for their liking, they MUST take a serious look at the alternative, and the consequences of a Barack Obama presidency. In addition to what will most likely still be a Democratic-controlled US Congress, classic anti-gun rights liberal [ Read more ]

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Group of 10 energy proposal: “Light on new production/ Heavy on new taxes”

August 15, 2008

. ….…   Late yesterday, the American Petroleum Institute (API) released a letter from their President and CEO, Red Cavaney, that was sent to Capitol Hill about the Group of Ten proposal.  As readers most likely know, the Group of Ten includes five Republican and five Democrat senators who have reached across the aisle to develop [ Read more ]

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Masked cops? Not good…

August 14, 2008

To protect and serve? For many years, visitors to my former business location might have noticed a picture on the wall– torn from a newspaper– of a “police” checkpoint in Serbia. What captured my interest was the caption telling the reader that the picture was of a “police volunteer” manning an urban checkpoint in the early [ Read more ]

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Dubious Behavior on taxes

August 11, 2008

Living here in NH, we have no sales or income tax (that is, yet – Liberal Dems & extremely misguided Republicans want to change that – I predict a real hard charge for a broadbased tax to cover up the fiscal insanity that the Dems in Concord have wreaked upon us lowly citizens-as-ATMs).  Thus, this [ Read more ]

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They are supposed to be the last defense of our Constitution

August 11, 2008

I expect, as an ordinary citizen of the United States, that our Supreme Court would see everything through the lens of the US Constitution.  That is the ultimate standard, and all decisions should be measured against magnificent document.  In its few brief pages, it has help to guide and nourish a fledgling young nation to [ Read more ]

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Dems are upset that companies make profits….

August 8, 2008

Note to the reader – do you know the difference between profit and profit margin? Background:  "Between 2003 and 2007, Exxon paid $64.7 billion in U.S. taxes, exceeding its after-tax U.S. earnings by more than $19 billion.” And Obama wants to institute another windfall profits tax on the oil companies.  Well, just like I said [ Read more ]

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Guest Post: “Take Care Down There…” Guess what? You and I are the enablers when we dutifully pay our taxes.

August 7, 2008

  ..   “Child Abuse by Misinformation” By Donna Garner Between us, my husband and I have spent over 69 years as classroom teachers. We have two children and five grandchildren. Our lives have been centered around loving and caring for children, and we have dedicated ourselves to do what we can to guide them [ Read more ]

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Notable Quotes – Robert Heinlein (again!)

August 7, 2008

No, I don’t always just pull out a book and find these gems; sometimes people send them over (much appreciated!) and sometimes I just stumble upon them.  Like this one from Powerline): I Once Read A Book… …by Robert Heinlein. It was appallingly bad [Note: I liked it and have read it a number of [ Read more ]

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So what’s so bad about me making my own decision about it!

August 6, 2008

Life is JUST SO FREAKIN’ UNFAIR!  When I was young, I once asked my Uncle why he kept so many old clothes in his closet (they were just SO out of style).  His very wise answer was “if you wait long enough, everything comes back into style, so I save money”.  Well, it took me [ Read more ]

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We’re from the government and you think we’re here to do WHAT?

August 5, 2008

And you thought government was here to SERVE… There was a story in all the papers over the weekend about the end of "trashcan mail" for summer residents of an island off the coast of Maine. SUTTON ISLAND, Maine—The U.S. Postal Service has ended a decades-old tradition in which mail was delivered to this small [ Read more ]

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