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Grafton County Commissioner and Commission chairman Martha McLeod has been making quite the splash on our pages. She is on the record as being less than enthusiastic about removing illegal aliens or helping the Federal government enforce the law. Two weeks later, people who wanted to listen in but could not attend discovered the Zoom version … Read more
The proposed reduction in the biennial taxpayer bailout of the University System of New Hampshire (for our purposes, UNH) has the donkeys up in a snit. I can’t see why. UNH makes notoriously poor spending decisions, too numerous to mention again (there are a few here if you scroll down). Suffice to say, there’s plenty … Read more
Barring evidence to the contrary, we should assume that New Hampshire Dems are on board with the national movement to defend illegal alien gang members before actual Americans or Granite Staters. They are, after all, just water carriers for whatever the DC narrative mills concoct and their Handmaiden media repeat. This lends itself to creative … Read more
My state relies far too much on Federal handouts, but I have long advocated for a divorce from that arrangement. A Sugar Daddy can be demanding when you are on the Federal dole because it can claim to represent (or look out for) the interests of those whose money it is giving away. DOGE has … Read more
Last year, I started sharing Grok content on LinkedIn. It’s hit or miss as far as it goes. Sometimes, we receive a decent number of views and clicks, and at other times, we don’t. It’s become a habit, so I continue to do it. One thing is obvious. There is nothing I am sharing that … Read more
Ask Whiny Dems If Judges Are Above The Law Democrats are losing their minds over the Trump Administration keeping its promise to enforce all the laws passed by Congress. If you are looking for a more colloquial reference, try every cop show or procedural in which obstruction is an arrestable offense. Interfering with a federal … Read more
Democrats want to ban the right of civilians to own and carry firearms. Period. Calling it Common Sense, or labeling their legislative actions as such is just marketing. I’d call it good marketing but no sane person would want any government to have all the guns. Democrats do. You do the math. Burlington, Vermont, has … Read more
A Colorado think tank has released a report on homelessness after four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and nine of the top ten states with the worst homelessness increases are Democrat-run States. The outlier is North Dakota, which might be due for a rebound in the right direction now that Mr. Trump has … Read more
Joe Biden, like his former VP, has decided that they’ve rested enough. It’s time to get back out there in front of the people and…help Republicans win elections. Kamala came out with the Institute for Stuff and Junk, and now, Auto-Pen Joe is trying to sell his presidency in search of another payday. I know, you … Read more
The Wind Industry has to decide if it can survive four years of Donald Trump. I am here to tell you that the prognosis is not good, and that this makes me happy. The executive orders, dropping out of climate agreements, terminating taxpayer-backed prop-ups without which it can’t compete, and putting the green energy giant … Read more
Three Chinese nationals, two of them here illegally, two of whom were living in Nashua, have been sentenced for operating a gift card fraud scheme. “These individuals were part of a Chinese transnational criminal organization that used a complex scheme to steal and launder millions of dollars through gift card theft,” Michael J. Krol, special … Read more
If you can get past the stock progressive narratives littered across Gary Rayno’s latest contribution to InDepth New Hampshire, you’ll find…nothing. Well, irony isn’t exactly nothing. He presumes to be challenging the New Hampshire legislature’s integrity. The big question is whether members are representing the best interests of their constituents. He begins by lamenting the … Read more
Spying on Americans was never in doubt, but the Obama Administration weaponized the government and numerous intelligence agencies to do so domestically. Obama spied on everyone. Our allies, Congress, the Press that loved him, and you and I. This expanded into the censorship industrial complex, which employed spying to selectively locate and silence opinions the … Read more
The political left is still light years ahead of Republicans when it comes to repeating a thing so often that it becomes accepted as fact. It comes naturally to their jack-booted Orwellian proclivities and is foundational to the movement’s goals. And while the political right isn’t without its own skillset, beating the left at this … Read more
The controversial woke Pope has passed. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at his residence after an extended illness, the Vatican has announced. He was 88. Francis ascended to the Papacy on March 13, 2013, after the unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was … Read more
Greetings, ‘Grok fans, I wanted to take a moment to provide some updates on ‘Grok-related things. The first is a reported issue with Cloudflare blocking reader access to the website. Cloudflare is a layer of protection on the server/host side that we never see, but a recent update caused an issue for at least one … Read more
The political Left in America has once again bet its future on fear. They want you to believe that the current Administration will deprive you of benefits to which it insists you are entitled. Among these are Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and the like. The party of the welfare state is rallying anyone who will … Read more
Vermont approved a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive freedom, but not from the State Department of Child and Youth Services. And why the heck not? As I’ve suggested more than once, as written, there’s a lot of room to mess with the original purpose, which was to protect abortion. …if some judge declares the unborn a … Read more
The COVID circus exposed how broken both the government and healthcare are, and to their credit, some states are attempting to address the wrongs and stop them from recurring. But it is a piecemeal process. Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are so well tested and safe that they ought to be over the counter, but even if … Read more
On May 3rd, I have the honor and privilege of being the keynote speaker at the Sullivan County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Dinner. I encourage you to support the committee and join us for dinner. And you’ll get to meet me and listen to whatever it is I decide to talk about for twenty minutes. I haven’t … Read more