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Death of only TRUE First Amendment rally in America? Is “Live Free or Die” DOA?

Got an email from Jean Coutu, organizer of the Live Free or Die Rally: The Town’s demands for a site plan review subject to all boards and abutters’ approvals drove in the death nail on the LFOD Rally. Today the ACLU refused to intervene due to firearms being at the rally. We have contacted hundreds …

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It always tastes good going down…

Here’s the answer to your problems… Dr. Utopia’s sensational new discovery: "ISM." "ISM" will cure any ailment of the body politic… This short film, though made in 1948, is quite relevent given the present times:     [H/T Bob McCarty]

So, you think Obama can run the auto, finance, educational loan, AND healthcare industries?

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified." -President Barack Obama, 1/20/09 One of these days, I should take on the last part …

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Tainted “stimulus.” Transparency? We don’t need no stinkin’ transparency!

As reported in yesterday’s Daily Sun [PDF], Belknap County has once again decided to go the hard route with former Laconia Mayor Tom Tardif and yours truly, declaring that the two of us “don’t know what” we’re “talking about.” While that sentiment as expressed in the front page headline has no doubt excited certain people that …

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His word is as good as…

Today, our friends at CPR-Action in conjunction with the National Organization for Marriage launched the new television ad “His Word”. Commenting on the ad, CPR-Action Executive Director, Kevin Smith, stated, “From the very moment the Governor introduced this amendment, we believed he did so as cover for having flipped his position on gay marriage.  Much …

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