Who knew that New York would look to New Hampshire for inspiration on its abortion laws? A vote in Albany by the New York Senate does just that, 46 years to the day after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down with a thud the twin decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Next stop: the …
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Two and a half weeks into the six-year Senate term with which her constituents entrusted her, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has announced that she’s setting her sights on a different field of play. Bring on the 2020 presidential campaign. Granite Grok’s Steve MacDonald has already outlined Sen. Harris’s distaste for the First Amendment and her …
Update, 3:25 p.m.: Secretary of State Bill Gardner has been re-elected to another term by the New Hampshire House and Senate. Gardner prevailed over Colin Van Ostern 209-205, with one “scatter” vote. With 415 legislators present and voting (House and Senate combined), 208 votes were needed for victory. Vote was by secret ballot.
(Update: second ballot resulted in a Gardner victory.) In the first ballot by House and Senate members for New Hampshire Secretary of State this afternoon, with 209 votes needed to win, Sec. of State Bill Gardner got 208 votes to Colin Van Ostern’s 207. One vote was “scattered,” and with a secret ballot, there’s no …
The final recount from the state election concluded late this afternoon, confirming a victory for Democrat Jon Morgan in State Senate district 23 over Sen. Bill Gannon.
Happy Tuesday! Congratulations to the Red Sox, again. Never gets old. I love it that Steve Pearce was named MVP, although I’d have had no reason to complain if David Price had gotten the nod. That brings me to the best headline from Game 5, and I shall brook no dispute. Well, maybe a little, …
[Update, 10/30/18: a reader has expressed concern that my phrasing below – “to unseat so-and-so” – implied a done deal. Not my intention! All these races are very much up in the air. But make no mistake: the challengers listed below are not just running for office. They’re running to throw other people OUT of …
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced today that she is stepping back from public life altogether, now that she has been diagnosed with dementia, “probably Alzheimer’s disease.” She used the announcement to make a plea that we do something in particular for our kids and each other: teach civics. “I’ve seen first-hand …
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A handful of times each year, something comes along that makes it worth my while to get to a movie theater. Right now, Gosnell is that something. Why am I eager to watch once more a film that I saw in a special screening only a few weeks ago? Read my full review below – especially if …
As I write this, Sen. Susan Collins has just announced her support of Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. As I listened to her thoughtful and lengthy statement, I couldn’t quite forget the quote (possibly apocryphal) attributed to Dwight Eisenhower: “I made two mistakes and both of them are sitting on the Supreme Court.” Translation: …
