Drop Out Rate Result of Changing Methodology

The headline reads Dropout rates below 1%. Eight paragraphs into the love fest we find out what (pat on the back) I was just complaining about a few weeks ago.

Breaking News – WI Senate Votes to strip Collective Bargaining Rights without Dems

On Wednesday night, Republican senators convened and removed fiscal items from the bill so that they could vote on other issues, including the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions. The vote to pass the remaining bill was 18-1.

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Defining Blue Dog Democrats

Once you have written over 1000 of these things, you forget some of the finer points you’ve made. Oh, I don’t mean on positions or policy. I’m a conservative. I base that stuff on a set of fixed standards. Say it 100 different ways but it is still based on the same core values. No, I’m referring to past rhetorical flourishes that strike me as amusing when I come across them. Case in point.

Anyone Know Where Governor Lynch Was Last Weekend?

I’m wondering where New Hampshire’s governor was between the 3rd and 6th of March 2011? Was he somewhere in New Hampshire, or off on other business? Maybe dropping off a Hallmark card of thanks? The donors from Political Outgiving ponied up about 10% of the Lynch campaign haul for 2010. Sometimes an email or a phone call just isn’t enough.

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Is This The Hope And Change You Were Looking For?

So is this the hope and change you were waiting for?

Paul Hodes – Lobbyist?

The Concord Monitor is reporting that Paul Hodes has started a business consultancy. This will have him back and forth to Washington DC for the purpose of connecting northern New England to Washington DC; a lateral move from his role as congressman when he was trying to sign New Hampshire away to Washington DC.

Sebelius Admits to Obamacare Double tap

Double TapFans of the movie Zombieland might understand the post title right away.  In the movie the lead protagonist, "Columbus" has a set of rules he always follows which he believes are the only reason he is still alive after the world is turned into Zombieland by a mutant strain of Mad Cow disease that turns almost everyone into crazed, flesh eating zombies.

Rule #1 is cardio.   You need to be able to run away from Zombies.

Rule # 31 is Check the back seat.  Always look to see if there is a Zombie in the back of the car before you drive away in it.

Rule # 3, beware of bathrooms.  Zombies seem to be able to sense when you are at your weakest.

Rule #18 Limber up.  Wouldn’t want to come up lame.

And Rule #2?  Double Tap.  It is not a waste of ammo to put another round into the head of a zombie to make sure they are down for the count.

So who stumbles into my metaphor but Obama Zombie and Health and Inhuman Services Minister Kathleen Sebelius.  Note to the left–no, I am not suggesting we double tap her, I am suggesting she and the democrats of the 111th congress–and all your lying or deluded selves included– have double-tapped the Taxpayers.  Sebelius has just admitted to a congressional committee that a huge chunk of money they claimed was going to offset the costs of Obamacare is the legislative-accounting equivalent of a double tap.

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GrokTalk! Saturday March 5th, 2011

Kirk McNeil, the new director of “Common Sense for New Hampshire,” will be our guest to talk about HB 442, the Medical Marijuana Bill; and Jordan Ulery the prime sponsor of CACR 6 (2011) which would require that a 2/3 vote is required to pass legislation imposing new or increased taxes or license fees..

Reuters Headline: What The?

Reuters is referring to DOMA, the defense of marriage act, which is not an anti-gay marriage law. It does not prevent a state from passing a same sex marriage law. It is a federal law that allows states to define marriage for themselves and does not require them to recognize any form of marriage which the majority of that states residents may object to.

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Stop Global Warming snow

Ask Jeanne Shaheen – About Diminshed Snowfall

Remember the halcyon days when the science of global warming was settled?  Do you recall the dire warnings from green industry activists “experts” around the world, echoed by prominent herd-animal Democrats, including some from New Hampshire?

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Newt Gingrich – Car Bomber

Chris Matthews being himself–and sorry in advance.  No one should really have to have breakfast and then see Chris Matthews demonstrate civility, but this is just too funny.

At about 50 seconds Matthews, who can’t help himself, announces that Newt ‘looks like a car bomber.’

Some clarification ensues but why bother.  That’s probably the media sound bite of the day.  Unless you want to listen to Michael Moore explain why Rich people’s money belongs to eveyone. (That’s on the jump.)

 

 

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The Real Reason For Raising The Drop Out Age To 18?

I can tell you from long discussions about the various pathways to “graduation” that the goal is more geared toward getting kids through school on paper to make the numbers look good. Any reasonable path to that end is considered a win, but by any traditional standard it is anything but a public school success story.

NH House Republican Legislative Progress Report

The House Republicans, today, issued the following legislative progress report.

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