President Trump starts off 2020 having presided over a lower average unemployment rate than any president at a comparable point in office in recorded history.
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Data Point – Average unemployment rate by President
Notable Quote – Deirdre McCloskey
The High Liberal [Progressivism/Socialism -Skip] story is, in a few brief mottos to stand for a rich intellectual tradition since the 1880s: Modern life is complicated, and so we need government to regulate.
Solar Power Plant: Scorching Birds and One Billion Dollars
It wasn’t bad enough that the solar thermal plant, Ivanpah, which cost $2.2 Billion to scorch birds, got the environmentalists all in uproars about desert flora and fauna, it scorched a lot of money as well.
Palate Cleanser: Let’s see how old you are – did you recognize them BOTH right away?
There is truth in these two line: There is nothing new under the sun What comes around goes around Frankly, I really don’t care what happens to the Prince and Markle. It just shows that Royalty aren’t always selected for their brain power and some women are just plain jerks in separating their husbands from … Read more
Gov. Sununu tells the NH House and Senate what his fiscal positions are for 2020 and 2021
This letter was sent to us by a loyal reader and NH State Representative. It outlines some red lines that Soucy and Shurtleff should not cross. Emphasis is mine.
Proving Once Again That Journalists Are Mouthpieces for Socialists
We Conservatives want the other side to keep talking and talking and talking – and the Left lives to silence their opponents. It is becoming clear that “journalists” are becoming the shock troops for the socialists Cancel Movement, where only the “approved” speech can be uttered.
So Steve Duprey has hired RightVoter to keep his NH GOP Committeeman seat? Wanna do a GrokGauntlet with us?
The timing couldn’t have been better as yesterday, the news came out that incumbent Committeeman Steve Duprey hired the Republican outfit, RightVoter, to manage his campaign to keep that position. The reason why I mentioned timing is that Chris Ager, the current Hillsborough County Chair and candidate to replace Steve Duprey, dared to enter our … Read more
Notable Quote – James Buchanan and Roger Congleton
It is evident that a constraint or limit on the taxing power or authority of government means little unless this constraint is also accompanied by constraints on the spending power. If a government can implement direct transfers in a discriminatory manner, then members of any ruling coalition can capture for themselves any desired share of … Read more
Can NH State Representative Deb Stevens (D-Nashua) understand this kind of math?
As shown by the attack on the Texas church, guns can SAVE lives as well as take them. Unfortunately, in NH State Rep Deb Stevens fevered imagination, no one that owns a gun has good intentions unless they have a Government ID.
Data Point – ALL Democrats are now the country’s best gun sales guy?
The surge of gun buying by Americans of all stripes, in all parts to the country continues, and took a big jump last month. As the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports, December 2019 adjusted NICS background check totals — a good indicator of retail gun purchases in the US — increased 15.1 % from a … Read more
On Democrats Praising a Terrorist who Killed Hundreds of Americans
“As someone who went toe-to-toe with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Afghanistan, I can assure you that Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani got exactly what he deserved when he perished in a U.S. drone strike. What he certainly doesn’t deserve is praise from Democrat lawmakers who would rather mourn a war criminal than credit … Read more
It may be a stalemate with Iran but the US is sending heavy military assets to the region
Popular Mechanics has a round-up post listing all of the assets it knows about that are being sent over to the Middle East. I’d suggest reading the post but here’s a bulleted list:
Blogline of the Day – Straws, straws; the Democrats need straws!
Note: there may be several of these today so don’t be surprised if this gets updated with more. Democrats Grasping At Straws To Impeach Trump Now Regret Banning Straws. “We started grasping for straws but suddenly realized we had banned them a while back,” a downcast Nancy Pelosi told reporters. “We really should have seen … Read more
A way to force them to “Honor your oath”? A Remonstrance on HB 687-FN (Extreme Protection Orders)
If the voters themselves don’t care, we’re done for. Or at least I thought we were for how else does one hold a politician that refuses to honor their oath? Surprise!”
Spoiler: Remonstrance.
RED ALERT! SB469 – Local town noise ordinances to kill ranges, kills off automatic weapons firing, affects shooting exercises
YIKES, who knew that such a short bill (put in by Democrats) could wreak so much damage on shooting sports? It’s almost like that want to regulate shooting ranges out of existence!
NH State Rep Deb Stevens: PLEASE keep talking and talking and talking and…
She just keeps proving our point – the more she talks, the more we report on her talking. Kimberly’s post had the first tranche on NH State Rep Deb Stevens‘s totally unhinged rant about those of us on the Right are on the edge of started Civil War II.
The “obvious and simple system of natural liberty.”
The supreme and inestimable merit of the exchange mechanism is that it enables a vast number of people to cooperate in the use of means to achieve ends as far as their interests are mutual, without arguing or in any way agreeing about either the ends or the methods of achieving them.
Gilford School Board: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” – Part 4
And at last night’s School Board meeting, they did – passed the Transgender and gender non-conforming students policy unanimously except for one of the Gilmanton School Board members in dissension. Even after it was pointed out during the Public Comment session #1 that there were STILL internal and diametrically opposing inconsistencies within the policy – … Read more
Gilford School Board: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” – Part 3
Well, the Gilford School Board meeting is tonite and it is likely that unless the Board is convinced that there is more to which they can be subjected to legal action, they will vote in Policy JBAB, the transgender and gender non-conforming policy that makes those suffering from gender dysphoria a new protected class. The … Read more
NASA has pictures of the Australian fires.
Rather grisly, as I look at them. While there are similar fires out West here in the US, we rarely see much more than a few acres at a time here in the Northeast corner of the US (in New England). NASA has a couple of birds in space taking pics – here’s a few … Read more