Steve MacDonald

Mr. Trump takes Obama’s War Seriously. Hits dozens of ISIS targets on Day 1.

(US DoD) SOUTHWEST ASIA, Jan. 22, 2017 — U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today.

Officials reported details of yesterday’s strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.

Strikes in Syria

Attack, bomber, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 25 strikes consisting of 39 engagements in Syria:

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With 400 House members, the NH Legislature sees its share of bad bills. But HB350 is not just a bad law; it creates problems where none existed in the name of solving a problem that never existed.

This bill prohibits possession of a firearm at a polling place during a federal, state, or municipal election.

I know, your first thought is wow, this will stop all those gun related incidents at New Hampshire polling places, right? Which ones? Great question. There aren’t any. None. There has never been a gun-related incident to my knowledge at a New Hampshire Polling place, ever. But if HB350 were to become law, and I don’t think Gov. Sununu would sign it if it even made it to his desk, these spaces would become gun free zones in New Hampshire.

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The ‘disappearing’ of the Climate Change page at Whitehouse.gov was one of the first changes I heard about yesterday.

Less than an hour after President Trump took the oath of office on Friday, the White House’s webpage on climate change disappeared from the Executive Branch’s main site, the latest sign that the new administration will divert resources – and attention – from the issue.

The removal of the page from the White House’s website came around the same time the site and other Executive Branch digital platforms were overhauled to reflect the new administration.

Instead, we can bask in the glory of this.

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We’ve reported on this before, but the numbers have ticked up a bit. According to this report, as many as 28% of current Federal employees are considering a departure from (cough-cough) Public Service as a result of the election of Donald Trump. That means they’ll quit or retire.

Irony Alert!

If America had known almost a third of the “swamp” would drain itself with Trump’s win might he have won bigger?

Wait. I bet they think this is a threat? As if “we” will somehow be harmed by their departure in any number?

Bwahahahaha!

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Right to Work (RTW) has passed the State Senate and moved on to the New Hampshire House. I learned this while walking past the newspaper stand leaving Wal-Mart today. The Nashua Telegraph lead their report with the words, “Senate passes so-called right to work…”

So-called Right to Work. I laughed out loud.

Yeah, it’s the Nashua Telegraph being the Nashua Telegraph. But it made me wonder. How did other media in New Hampshire lead the story?

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(Notice how Heather Can’t Use Her Last Name, But She Wants YOURS!)

Printed below is your standard MoveOn money raising, data collecting email:

Dear MoveOn member,

I’m Heather C., a MoveOn member and Girl Scouts troop leader, and I started a petition to Sylvia Acevedo, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Girl Scouts of the USA, which says:

By marching in Donald Trump’s inaugural parade, you are failing to live up to Girl Scout of the USA’s values. Please do not make GSUSA party to normalizing racism, misogyny, and fascism. Do not march in the inaugural parade.

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The incoming Sununu administration discovered a $65 million dollar hole at the New Hampshire Department of Inhumanly High Health Services ((NHD(i)HHS)) thanks mostly to expanded Medicaid costs they had not anticipated. Seriously? We here in our humble shop knew it would happen from day one. We knew that the Federal contribution wasn’t “Free Money™.” And we have predicted, some with more diligence than others, that left to its devices it would be the end of New Hampshire’s no tax advantage.

All of these things are true no matter how smart our detractors think they are or the vocabulary used to disagree with us and the NHDHHS Budget bomb is more proof.

Now. If you’d like to see what this will look like down the road, California is proving once again to be an excellent example of what happens when you let liberal ideas and progressive narratives drive your decision making.

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I’m not surprised to hear that on-again-off-again congresscritter Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) is skipping Trump’s Inauguration. She is a partisan hack and a coward. You’ll never find her anywhere she might get seriously challenged. She doesn’t do public events unless she can control them, there will be no questions, or the questions are softballs. The only reason she shows up for “work” at all, that being her taxpayer funded day-job, is because she can sequester herself in the protective custody of Democrats like herself.

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