Steve MacDonald

Donald Trump’s budget removes taxpayers from mandatory tithing to the National Endowment for the Arts. Arts advocates in New Hampshire are preparing to mobilize to fight for the one million they stand to lose. But since it’s just a million, why not ask the Clinton’s for it instead? They were huge supporters of the often fringy, offensive, but still taxpayer funded National Endowment for what passes for Arts.

Or, they could bypass the Clintons, who collected somewhere between $10-$25 million from the Saudis and go right to the Kingdom for a handout.

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For Immediate Release
Coalition of NH Taxpayers
8 North Main St #4
Concord NH 03301
March 29, 2017

Concord, NH — The House deadline to pass a budget is April 6th, and the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers is very concerned. Over the past four years, we have seen a net increase under Gov. Hassan of $310 million (2014-15 budget) over the (’12-’13) budget and a $554 million (2016-17) budget over the prior (’14-’15) budget. Now we are facing a House Budget that potentially could be a $700+ million increase.

Now that we are facing the budget horizon, we have seen little evidence that the House is crafting a conservative budget. In fact, it appears that the House is committed to running the State aground financially, and they are preparing to do it, full-steam ahead.

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The New Hampshire Department of Education has released a document listing the cost per pupil for public school education in New Hampshire. The report provides details for each district (or SAU) in the state based on these parameters.

The Cost per Pupil represents, with certain adjustments, current expenditures from all funding sources (local, state and federal) associated with the daily operation of schools. Payments to other school districts and private schools have been subtracted. Revenues from the sales of lunches have also been excluded. Cost per Pupil is calculated by subtracting tuition and transportation from K-12 current operating expenditures, and then dividing by the average daily membership in attendance (ADM-A). The report “State Average Cost Per Pupil and Total Expenditures” identifies which expenditures have been included or excluded. The per pupil amount of all expenditures – operating, tuition, transportation, equipment, construction, interest and non-K-12 expenditures is $17,648.76.

So, how much did it cost to educate one child for one year in your town or school district?

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From a “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 23, 2017” in which she takes a shot at Democrats in the US over the practice/accusations of leaking information.

This is the 5th question asked of her by the media (link above), second-to-last paragraph.

Also, I would like to say that if the practice of leaking information that concerns not just the United States but also Russia, which has become a tradition in Washington in the past few years, continues, there will come a day when the media will publish leaks about the things that Washington asked us to keep secret, for example, things that happened during President Obama’s terms in office. Believe me, this could be very interesting information.

She also questioned CNN’s Reputation.

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The 45 Declared Goals are required reading (and sharing) for anyone who wants to suggest to someone that the Left isn’t just winging it.

[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen – 1963]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS 

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [“]united force[“] to solve economic, political or social problems.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

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Rumor has it that every New Hampshire State House Rep. was supposed to have received this message today.

From: <withheld>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 1:59 PM
To: ~All Representatives
Subject: Block mnomination

Please block the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court Justice. He is unwilling to state his views on many important issues

Thank you
<withheld>
New London,NH

Sent from my iPad

Where do I begin?

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That didn’t take long.  Just yesterday I observed that,

Any legal incidental collection is typically ignored. When it is widely disseminated by the opposing party President and turns up in political hit pieces against his parties opponent, we enter into ugly territory where the uses of that wiretapping are illegal. It suggests a deliberate conspiracy, invites RICO charges and offers a broad range of opportunity for whistleblowers to make deals to avoid time in Federal prison where there are no safe spaces or trigger warnings.

Today I learn that FreedomWatch has notified Congress that they have a deep state whistleblower named Dennis Montgomery  who “left the NSA and CIA with 47 hard drives and over 600 million pages of  information.”

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Democrats are snapping like twigs all over the douchebag-o-sphere.

(Politico) Members of the Donald Trump transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under U.S. government surveillance following November’s presidential election, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday.

It get’s worse for Democrats.

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