Steve MacDonald

Grab your ‘shovels’ and mount your “plows” ladies and gentleman because it’s time to move some snowflakes. The Supreme Court has unanimously confirmed that there is no hate Speech exception to the first amendment. Justice Kennedy writing for four justices said,

A law found to discriminate based on viewpoint is an “egregious form of content discrimination,” which is “presumptively unconstitutional.” … A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.

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When Donald Trump announced his administration’s departure from the Paris Climate Accords the usual suspects came out and said the usual things. The Democrats, environmental left, and the media have been grinding their anti-Trump axes on this for weeks, all the while forgetting to mention how they are also siding with Big Oil.

Big Oil does not want Mr. Trump to back out of that agreement. Big Oil Loves the Paris Accords.

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Joe Sweeney, as chair of the New Hampshire Young Republicans, has a seat on the New Hampshire Republican State Party Executive Committee (EC). Less than a week ago the NHGOP hired him as deputy Political director.

The NHGOP By-Laws prohibit voting members of the Executive Council from being on salary except for the State Party Chairman.

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New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) published a report yesterday titled, Gray Seals, Once Hunted, Are Thriving In New England.

Once a popular target for hunters who could collect bounties from Massachusetts for their kills, the species swelled after hunting the beasts was outlawed.

“Past surveys based on traditional methods of counting, using occupied aircraft to survey seals on beaches, islands and seasonal ice cover, counted about 15,000 seals off the southeastern Massachusetts coast,” David W. Johnson, a professor of marine conservation ecology at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, said in a statement.

“Our technology-aided aerial survey, which used Google Earth imagery in conjunction with telemetry data from tagged animals, suggests the number is much larger — between 30,000 and 50,000,” he adds, calling it a “conservation success.”

Does that mean that this 2012 climate change collectible flash card from Defenders of Wildlife is rubbish?

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Remember when the Climate Cult said our children would never see snow in New Hampshire because of Global Warming but the snow wouldn’t cooperate, so it was decided that all that snow was caused by Global Warming? The same thing is happening with sea ice in the Arctic.

Large Canadian Arctic climate change study canceled due to climate change (ISYN)

“Considering the severe ice conditions and the increasing demand for Search And Rescue operations (SAR) and ice escort, we decided to cancel the BaySys mission.

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A white male with a rifle took a few shots at Republicans yesterday in Virgina.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington on Wednesday, wounding several people including senior Republican leader Steve Scalise before he was taken into custody, police and witnesses said.

Phil Kerpen has been sharing the contents of “alleged shooter” James Hodgkinson Facebook page, and he sounds like your average, narrative spewing, cookie-cutter, rubber-stamp, run-of-the-mill Democrat.

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6/13/2017
CONTACT: Press@andysanborn.com

STATE SENATOR ANDY SANBORN ANNOUNCES RUN FOR CONGRESS
A proven conservative Republican who can win and keep the seat

BEDFORD, NH – State Senator Andy Sanborn (R – Bedford), Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, announced Tuesday that he will run for United States Congress in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District. His announcement video can be seen here.

A reluctant politician, Sanborn’s efforts in the legislature have been founded on not wanting to be like all the other politicians, but wanting to defend everyday people from the heavy hand of government and the political class.

“I’ve gained New Hampshire voters’ trust by listening to their real needs and working for them,” Sanborn said. “You can be a proven conservative and win if you deliver results that put people before politics. That’s what I’ve done.”

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 A Professor at a Kansas College is leaving her post because a law permitting people to carry firearms on campus is taking effect.

A Wichita State University professor is resigning over a Kansas campus open-carry law that is set to take effect this summer.

“Clear, open, critical discussion cannot take place in an environment of threat and fear,” Deborah Ballard-Reisch wrote in a letter to University President John Bardo. “Guns on campus will make it that much more difficult for them to feel safe,” she wrote.

How long has Dr. Ballard-Reisch tolerated Diversity, Inclusive Excellence, and other Social Justice programs on campus? These curricula exist to prohibit ‘clear, open, critical discussion‘ by not just encouraging an “environment of threat and fear” but tolerating it.

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Evergreen State College has been SJW moonbat central for the past two weeks, where the inmates have taken over the asylum.

The public state college near Olympia has become a national caricature of intolerant campus liberalism in both The New York Times and Fox News. At least one professor has been harangued and classes disrupted by shouting mobs of students accusing the famously progressive campus of “systemic racism.”

That coverage apparently has incited anonymous threats of mass murder, resulting in the campus being closed for three days. In the critical last week of school, students have been deprived of learning by extremes on the left and right.

So “impressed” are the parents of potential future caricatures of liberal intolerance that Evergreen might be nevergreen. Enrollment has plummeted. The school is fighting for its life.

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Today, in a letter to the editor of New Hampshire Business Review, Peter J. Griffin, the NH Railroad Revitalization Association President, considers what at first appears to be a rhetorical question. “How will tourists get to New Hampshire?” How is this a problem?

Mr. Griffin bemoans the loss of days past when public transportation (trains) brought “tourists” into the Granite State.

I wanted to get to New Hampshire. I could not because there were little or no public transportation connections to New Hampshire tourist destinations, so I took the train to Rockport, Mass.- where I spent money.

That is how it remains. There is not a tourist destination in NH accessible from the Boston area by public transportation.

Not to belittle the larger point but how did New Hampshire manage to report 38.4 million tourist visits and $5.4 Billion dollars in revenue in 2015 without public transportation?

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Last night, by a 3-2 vote, the Candia School Board repealed a controversial Transgender Policy passed during the dark days of the Obama Administration, and it’s flirtation with threatening money for districts that did not comply with its wishes. A policy pushed on local school districts by the New Hampshire School Board Association.

Hadn’t you heard? That’s because no one is reporting this repeal except Rich Girard.

If you search the RSS feeds of local media, you find nothing.

If you Google it, you get links to old stories about the passage of the policy followed by Rich’s show page for the Girard at Large Radio Program.

AP? Google Alerts? Nope.

Freedom New Hampshire, the nationally funded group that ran a pressure campaign to get Candia board members to retain the policy has nothing to say about the vote as of lunchtime today.

Nothing.

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For almost two decades I have been documenting voter fraud in NH. And along with this effort to show how much voter fraud exists in our state I get the usual complaints from progressives and others who support voter fraud that furthers their cause or candidate.

Here is how they do it.

One of the standard responses of any progressive, when voter fraud is shown to be a problem, is the one you get with almost any discussion with a liberal. They always claim, “no one has proven it to me.”

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