Steve MacDonald

Mike’s picture is certainly better (One post down if you please), but I thought I’d add the vote for those interested.

Congratulations to British voters for freeing themselves from at least one oppressive unresponsive bureaucracy.

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It is not illegal in New Hampshire to use firecrackers. But if you want them you have to buy them outside the state because it is illegal to sell firecrackers in the state of New Hampshire. You have to drive to Maine or other states to get them.

House Bill 1266 resolved that bizarre contradiction, or would have had Democrat governor Maggie Hassan not vetoed it. Max Abramson brought this to our attention last Saturday in our legislative update segment, which you can find below.

As the story goes, only one fireworks retailer spoke out against the bill. He owns fireworks stores in New Hampshire and Maine. His Maine stores sell firecrackers to New Hampshire residents who want them.

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Since 9/11/2001 the media has been on a mission to protect the sorts of people most likely to commit acts of violence and terror in the name of Jihad–and anyone who might look like them. To aid and abet this free public relations effort there are printed guidelines. Yes, most of us are aware that these things exist for the press, but it’s always nice, every now and again, to take a few of them out for a walk in the sunshine.

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Guidelines for Countering Racial, Ethnic and Religious Profiling, first disseminated by the Society of Professional Journalists(SPJ) immediately after the 9/11 terror attack, exposes how members of the media are instructed to skew stories about Islamic terrorism.

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Here’s a nifty bit of science for you. A graph of temperatures going back 4000 years before SUV’s (BSUV). Alright, it’s 4000 years BP (Before Present) but it might as well be BSUV given that SUV’s (our poster child for reckless western abuse of cheap abundant energy) are only a fraction of the end of this graph wild ride.

Read this for the notes and details about the graph and other events it may not reflect. There is an 18,000 year temperature analysis and timeline here.

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Last week we discovered a New Hampshire House “tradition” of which no one else appears to have been aware. The permanent record, the written history of what is said and done in the lower chamber of the Granite State’s Legislative body, is subject to random acts of review before becoming permanent. There are plenty of reasons to be bothered by this, not the least of which is that the most recent excision was based on the words being “too political.”

That’s right. We’ve got a room filled with 400 politicians–give or take–and the litmus for edits to the permanent record is whether or not something is too political?

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The rules of “the game” are what they are, but that is no reason not to use these situations as learning opportunities. Here’s another one.

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