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Steve MacDonald The so-called resistance rallied to defeat a Republican Mayor in Omaha, Nebraska. In what may have been a mild upset victory, Omaha’s Republican Mayor Jean Stothert defeated Bernie Sanders–backed Democrat, Heath Mello. The margin was 53-46. Dave Begley, our man in Omaha (and Council Bluffs), wrote about the Omaha mayor’s race here. He called it … Read more
Regular readers may recall that the prognosis for last year’s French wine crop was not good. A series of late April freezes coated vines with ice that froze and killed new buds. Early reports from the Loire were not hopeful. “In the memory of vignerons, there are two major freezes: 1991 and 1994. This is on … Read more
The alternate title might be, “California Democrats want to Come out of the Communist Closet.” The California government may soon employ openly Communist people in its ranks. The state assembly passed a bill Monday that would repeal a policy that had made being a member of the Communist Party a fireable offense. The legislation was supported … Read more
by Mike Sylvia
This Thursday, May 11, HB614 goes to the New Hampshire Senate floor. We received a bad recommendation from the judiciary committee with a vote of 4-1 to kill the bill. Let’s all push the message on social media, in the press, and our email lists. We can overturn the recommendation by refuting the law enforcement claim that this bill is devastating to their opioid battle.
Remember the fight to block taxpayer-backed loans for Les Otten’s Balsams Boondoggle? The legislature and then Democrat Governor Maggie Hassan gave it their thumbs-up*. Well, it’s still sitting idle while Les hunts for more private investors. That’s not a good sign. But this is. The New Hampshire Department of Transportation is putting the brakes on a … Read more
What a beautiful sound. It’s the primal scream coming from the left when confronted with headlines like this from the Washington Post. EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, … Read more
I was cruising the news looking for content for the New Media Militia when this headline and article at the Union Leader popped up in my Feed Reader. “Injured Mass. man arrested for crashing ATV wile drunk in Hill.”
If he was drunk in a Hill I could see why he was injured but how the hell did he get an ATV in there with him, crash it, and what cunning stratagem made this all possible?
The article never explains that but this is because it is the story about a guy from Hill, MA., who was arrested after suffering serious injury from rolling over an ATV while drunk.
I like the headline though. It made me look.
Update! – Just found another one.
Senator Lou ‘Millennial Gaming’ D’Allesandro rolled the dice again on “legalized casino gambling” in New Hampshire and got crap(s). Casino.org is spinning this as proof that we’re not living up to our state motto.
[su_quote]It was D’Allesandro’s 19th effort to end casino prohibition in the “Live Free or Die State.” He projected that gaming could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new tax revenue for Hartford, but it once again wasn’t to be.[/su_quote]
The repeated failures of Millennial Gaming Lou have come from split legislatures, Democrat majority legislatures, Republican majority legislatures, Republican Legislatures with both Republican and Democrat governors, and even Democrat majority legislatures with Democrat governors. And while we might surmise, from a distance, that the problem is the people and their elected representatives, it might be Lou D’Allesandro’s Casino bill that’s the problem.
Residents in Henniker, folks the powers that be would refer to as troublemakers, have uncovered yet another potential abuse of power in their town.
The planning board, during site plan reviews, has been stipulating operating hours for local businesses. They are telling private business owners how late they can remain open. But there are no laws or ordinances on the books that empower the planning board to designate hours of operation.
So what is a business owner to do if they want to stay open later?
The headline says it all. Scientists ‘More Confident Than Ever’ In Global Warming After Studying The Lack Of It For 15 Years. A new study examining explanations for the 10- to 15-year “hiatus” in global warming has scientists “more confident than ever that human influence is dominant in long-term warming.” “In a time coinciding with high-level political … Read more
On May 2nd, there was a House Party in Sandwich hosted by Freedom New Hampshire (not the town, the non-profit) “to grow support for statewide non-discrimination protections.” That’s a generic way of saying, advance the LGBT agenda through a so-called transgender rights movement.
Two things you ought to know. First, transgenders already have non-discrimination protection under New Hampshire Law so this “movement” is not about that. Second, Freedom New Hampshire has already advanced this agenda in 17 New Hampshire towns. Sandwich will be number eighteen. And when I say town, I mean town, via the local ‘School districts.’
Lou D’Allesandro already has his Casino bill ready for next year but until then. The New Hampshire House has killed 2017’s version of a casino bill, voting “inexpedient to legislate” by an overwhelming 275-82 margin. Cornerstone
If you missed it, Full Day Kindergarten passed the NH House today. (Boo!) Bad news for taxpayers, but… There is still an opportunity to stop it. The Bill must go to the finance committee for a public hearing, where, in theory, it could be stonewalled. There is a Public Hearing: 05/09/2017 02:30 PM LOB 210-211 … Read more
Back in August of 2015 I wrote about the slings, arrows, and outrageous (mis) fortunes that could befall homeowners who took the bait and “bought in” on residential solar installations being peddled by more vendors than you could count.
If you are not scared off by the fly-by-night nature of the vendors, the sketchy nature of the incentives, unrealistic savings promises, or even the 20-year lien on your property, how about the loss of value and hidden taxes resulting from rising electricity rates, from which you will never escape?
In California, about 50,000 homeowners bought into the scheme and now find themselves unable to sell their homes.
And Al Gore was not expected. Organized by groups seeking to ban the production of oil, natural gas, and coal, including 350.org, Sierra Club, and NextGen Climate, the “People’s Climate March” is occurring tomorrow in Washington, D.C., and cities across the country to protest the Trump administration’s environmental policies. With the Washington protest reportedly expected … Read more
From the Daily Beast, Joel Kotkin looks at the arrogance of Blue America. It’s not pretty for them, but it is hilarious for us, and–I am required to say this–we knew this, and we told you so. Here’s but one juicy paragraph. The fondest hope among the blue bourgeoise lies with the demographic eclipse of their … Read more
State Sen. David Watters and State Sen. Jeb Bradley co-wrote a piece in the Union Leader this morning. IT IS A BREATH OF FRESH air when an issue arises that has popular support and allows Democrats and Republicans to reach across the aisle and work together. That is exactly what we are doing right now … Read more
In October of 2015, Dartmouth College had to make a change after getting caught with their little Social Justice Warrior pants around their politically correct ankles. They appointed (ethnomusicologist) Susan Taffe Reed as director of their Native American Program on the basis of her affiliation with the Eastern Delaware Nations a non-profit (as it turns out having nothing to do with actual Native Americans) and her ethnoknowledge of Native American music.
Real “natives” and the SJW’s had a nutter and Taffe-Reed was “stepped down” not because she was unqualified but because the chatter was too much of a distraction. When I wrote about the original circus, I noted that She will be rewarded with some other high paying job at the college. It turns out she was.
Arkansas went on a capital punishment binge recently. They tried to execute eight death row inmates in eleven days because some of the drugs they use were going to expire and they may not be able to get more. Apparently, the companies that make the drugs don’t want them used for lethal injections.
All of the major manufacturers of injectable midazolam have said they do not want their drugs used in executions and most of them have created control systems, including contracts with third-party drug distributors prohibiting the sale of their drugs for use in lethal injections.
Midazolam is a sedative, and if the manufacturers are uncomfortable with this use then as private companies, they should be free to choose with whom they do business. But here’s a curious question? Do any of these same companies make other drugs that might be used for assisted suicide?