Steve MacDonald

Rumor has it that the NH Republican majority Senate is ready to dust off Republican sponsored SB 120, and push it through the legislature.  The democrats could not be happier.

SB 120 is a bill that redefines what a committee is, and what classifies as an expenditure for the purposes of political speech.  And it defines speech in terms of spending.  Democrats might want to observe that if you can limit political speech by limiting spending that spending is equal to speech.  If you are a Republican you might want to note that the Supreme Court has weighed in on this and you are on the wrong side.

If that does not sway you, then how about this?

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How US elections have consequences…for the world

NRO

Then came the waxen Obama soaring on hope and change, the president who would remake the world along the lines envisioned in a college faculty lounge or a Chicago organizing session. Obama was not a Buchananite isolationist who would be easy for Europeans to caricature. Rather, he is a postmodern, postracial progressive, who deeply felt either that traditional U.S. alliances were not worth the commitment, or that the U.S. was properly moving away from its European heritage and thus without any need for special trans-Atlantic relationships, or that an internationally engaged America came at the expense of dollars better spent on redistributive entitlements at home — or all three and more still.

The result is that the Europeans are increasingly bewildered if not a little anxious. They cannot reduce Obama, a man of the Left, to a caricatured Texan who often misunderstands the world, because Obama is an Ivy Leaguer who has never yet understood it.

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See?  Democrats do know what nullification is for.   So, don’t let them tell you that sort of thing is crazy talk.

CONCORD, N.H., February 7, 2014 –  Yesterday, the (Democrat Majority) New Hampshire house approved a bill which deems federal indefinite detention powers unconstitutional, and bans “any activity that aids” the federal government in carrying out such powers. The approval was by a unanimous voice vote.

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Yellow.  As in, Rubber Duck Yellow.  Yes, I have been accused, by a reader, of Yellow Journalism.  OK. I can work with that.  I can work with it because all my data came from local news, who got it from the Nashua police.  If there is other news to be had, no one is sending it to me.  So I figured, at this point, I should recap what we have on Duck-Gate so far, and point back to the original source…again.

So where do we begin?  The Nashua Telegraph drove almost every post I wrote, at least a dozen of them now,  so let’s see what they had to say and why?  What were their sources, and how did I piece them together over time to arrive at the content I produced along the way.

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The top story in the Southern New Hampshire edition of today’s Union Leader; Kimberly Hougton reports– Aldrman: Campbell should step down.

Alderman Ken Siegel, Ward 9, told the New Hampshire Union Leader on Thursday that Campbell, D-Nashua, should follow in his friend’s footsteps and resign in light of the recent duck scandal.

“His actions were not appropriate, and it goes beyond just the killing of the ducks,” Siegel said of Campbell. “This is not about the ducks anymore.”

I’ve been saying it for weeks, obsessing over it–if Telegraph scribbler Kevin Landrigan can be believed.

Question: “‘Why did the Democrat Legislator Cross the Road?”

Answer: “Because he had something to hide.”

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Jonathan Tanguay probably thinks so.

The 10-hour program, called Pono Choices (pono is a Hawaiian word that translates to “the right way”), is designed for youth aged 11 to 13. It has been taught to 1,700 Hawaii middle school children through an $800,000 pilot program.

… that it teaches children about topics such as anal sex, sex with multiple partners and how to put on a condom — using a cucumber or wooden replica of a penis.

Hawaii Reporter.com

So many jokes, so little time…

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WMUR is reporting that NH Senate Leadership has announced a bi-partisan deal to swallow the ObamaCare hook baited with Medicaid money.  Long story short, the Senate Republicans caved.  Legislation will emerge shortly to finalize our submission to our Federal masters.

With all the GOP moderates, it was always a steep uphill battle.   What can I say that I have not already.  This is bad.  Very bad.

So Light ‘em up: Senate Roster

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