Op-Ed 
By Jim Johnson
A special secret meeting was held by NFL owners and players in October 2017. “This was not a “league meeting,” per se, but rather a scramble by both players and owners to try and grab ahold of the kneeling situation that was unfolding, amid President Trump blasting the NFL repeatedly for allowing players to kneel.”
So, it’s President Trump’s fault???
By Cornerstone via Email Update
Important Reminders!
Gender Identity Bill Hearing Tomorrow, Monday, April 16
Tell Your Senator to Vote No on Therapy Ban Bill
Senate Hearing for Gender Identity Bill, HB 1319: Monday, April 16, 1:30 p.m.
Supporters of “gender identity” policy are deeply committed to passing HB 1319, a flawed and dangerous bill. Your presence at Monday’s hearing in opposition to the bill will be important, even if you do not testify aloud. The hearing is scheduled to be in room 100 of the State House.
By NH State Rep Glenn Cordelli
Recently two of my colleagues in the New Hampshire House wrote that Senate Bill 193, the “school voucher” bill, is unconstitutional (Monitor Forum, March 24). I believe that my friends are incorrect, and the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with me.
Let me start out by correcting the repeated line about a voucher bill. SB 193 has nothing to do with vouchers. SB 193 established education savings accounts, which are similar to health savings accounts. The state money that would have gone to the school district to educate the child would instead go to parents so they could find the best education opportunity for their child. That is what this bill is all about – the best education for every New Hampshire child.
The repeating of ACLU talking points on constitutionality does not stand up to the facts.
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jane Cormier
Ph: 603-781-5695
Email: jane4ec@gmail.com
Hooksett, NH – The Honorable Jane Cormier, has announced her run for the Executive Council District 4. “The Executive Council provides many important responsibilities to the citizens of New Hampshire, including the oversight and approval of approximately $5.2 billion dollars of the annual expenditures that are appropriated by the legislature”, said Cormier, who served in the NH House from 2012 – 2014.
By Ken Eyring
There’s a lot going on in our schools. Not all is good.
We have blindly entrusted the education of our children and their malleable, impressionable minds to our public education system. Upon doing so, we expect our children will be provided with an education that is free from ideologies. But that is not always the case, as we saw when the Windham School District joined the organized national protest against the 2nd Amendment on March 14th. I wrote about it last week.
The district stated the protest was “led by students”, but it was actually organized by Women’s March. When our district administration sanctioned the event, our children were not only used as political pawns… they were also introduced to the Womens March organization and a plethora of their other radical ideologies. The group indoctrinates children to be community organizers to advance their radical agendas. This type of indoctrination has long term consequences – and does not belong in our schools. For instance… look at this link; it displays a webpage titled “HOW WE RESIST a discussion series”. The topic for March 24th was “CONFRONTING WHITE SUPREMACY”. I’m disturbed that did not trigger any concerns from the Windham School District Administration.
This is the same Administration that required parents to
By Jim Johnson
So, now David Hogg (self-anointed boy wonder) claims that Hunter Pollack’s omission from speaking at the ‘March for Our Lives’ was merely a “miscommunication.” Hunter Pollack disagrees and surmises his ‘message’ did not fit the “agenda.”
In retrospect, the organized ‘March for Our Lives’ has been a complete travesty.
By Ken Eyring
It appears the Windham School District’s Administration has a double standard regarding when parental approval is deemed appropriate regarding student instruction. In September 2016, parents were required to sign a permission slip before their children would receive a copy of the United States Constitution on Constitution Day (Sept. 17th). That request rightfully raised some eyebrows in town. (And many students were never even offered a copy, even though the district was offered a donated copy for every student in the district…hmmm…)
By Michelle Levell – School Choice for NH
Our motto is “Live Free or Die,” but we don’t have the freedom to choose when it comes to education. Join us in support of SB 193 to give parents and students educational freedom.
Under this program, parents and students will have the opportunity to design an educational program that works for their kids through an education savings account or ESA. These flexible accounts allow parents to fully customize their child’s education to best meet their learning needs through tuition at another public school outside their district, tutoring, online learning, textbooks, educational therapies and other education-related services and products.
by Sen. Regina Birdsell, R-Hampstead, represents District 19.
Legislation comes in all shapes and sizes, including the bill introduced this session that would remove New Hampshire from the national voter Crosscheck program. The bill, SB 349, would repeal the state’s authority to share voter info or data with other states to ensure that each voter casts just one ballot in each election. Protecting voter data from misuse and ensuring the privacy of Granite Staters is essential, we know that this legislation was nothing more than a politicized solution in search of a problem.
The national Crosscheck program originated after the passage of the Help America Vote Act by the United States Congress in 2002. It was a collaborative effort of several secretaries of state across the country to make it easier to compare voter lists in a safe and private manner, to prevent inappropriately cast votes. In each election since many states use Crosscheck to verify that every legal voter receives only one vote as dictated by our Constitution.
By Norm Silber
To set the record straight regarding actions taken by the Gilford Budget Committee under my leadership, the real facts are (a) the Police & Fire budgets were never decreased in any of the prior 4 years; (b) the Fire budget was increased last year and this year to provide for the lease/purchase of a new fire truck (the new fire truck being the subject of heated debate and ultimate disapproval of an outright purchase long before I joined the Budget Committee) and a new fire boat;
By Dave Horvath, Sr.To The Daily Sun,
Gilford may be an affluent town but not everybody in town is affluent. We need people in our elected positions who understand this dynamic. Gilford has many citizens that their only source of income is their Social Security check. Many people who work in the private sector have not seen raises for years on end. Obamacare has cost them dearly. Yet they are asked to keep supporting a never-ending rise in government costs.
This year we have contested positions for all of the Budget Committee seats.
Press Release
Concord, NH – Today the NH Senate adopted a bill, SB 500, amending references to firearms terminology with the unanimous consent of the body. SB 500 received the unanimous recommendation of Ought to Pass from the NH Senate Judiciary Committee.
“I am pleased this common-sense bill updating references to firearms terminology passed the Senate. The committee worked hard on the bill and ultimately came together to offer strong bipartisan support for these measures,” said Senator Kevin Avard (R-Nashua), the bill’s prime sponsor.
Cornerstone Statement
N.H. House Votes on Gender-Policy Bills
Contact: Shannon McGinley, 603-228-4794, cornerstone@nhcornerstone.org
The following statement may be attributed to Shannon McGinley, executive director of Cornerstone Action.
We are saddened and disappointed that the NH House put the feelings of a few over the fundamental rights of all NH citizens. The common good was not served today. The House made two mistakes today in passing HB 1319: it forgot that all New Hampshire residents are already rightfully protected under anti-discrimination law, and it refused to acknowledge that HB 1319 is loaded with unintended consequences.
By Jim Kofalt
Several days ago we reported on Bishop Peter Labasci’s appeal for Catholics to call Congress to ask for amnesty for illegal aliens and the continuation of chain migration policies (because it’s your duty as a Christian, he says).
Now the Diocese of Manchester is joining the call for gun control:
By Jim Kofalt
Last weekend, Catholic priests throughout the state of New Hampshire were ordered by Bishop Peter Labasci to read a letter to parishioners at all Masses. The letter urged Catholics to call Congress and lobby for a “solution” to protect the beneficiaries of DACA from deportation and “unnecessary anxiety.” The letter was accompanied by several handouts prepared by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which included talking points that outlined the proposed solution.
The talking points include statements like “I know that families are not ‘chains’” and explicitly call for “a path to citizenship”. (In other words, amnesty.)
Press Release – Web Link NHGOP Launches “StopTheGunGrab.com” to Fight Attacks on the Second Amendment For Immediate Release: March 5, 2018 Contact: Patrick Hynes, 202-321-5310 CONCORD – NHGOP Chair Jeanie Forrester released the following statement launching “StopTheGunGrab.com” to fight attacks on the Second Amendment: “New Hampshire Democrats are proposing a full-fledged assault on law-abiding gun owners. To … Read more
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By Lynn Murray
As a mother of five children I am deeply disturbed by the actions of the Windham School Board.
I attended public schools as a child. I learned there were reasons for everything we were taught. Everything we learned had a foundation based on logic and reasoning. Everything.
We learned English. We learned about proper nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. We learned through our English lessons how to address people using their proper nouns and pronouns. We learned Math. Addition and subtraction. That 2 + 2 = 4. That 4 – 2 = 2. We learned algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus. We applied math to learn Science. We learned about gravity and how it pulls objects towards the center of the earth. Why apples drop from trees, why our feet stay on the ground, and the moon circles around the earth, and the earth around the sun. We learned Einstein’s theory of relativity; E = MC2. We learned Biology. About cells, hormones and organs. That boys have XY chromosomes and girls have XX chromosomes. And the importance of biological differences between boy parts and girl parts. It was science. It was based on fact. It was irrefutable. Until now.
Now our children are taught that “feelings” are reality. Feelings are a basis to arrive at a scientific conclusion. If a boy feels like (“identifies” as) a girl, then he is a she. That “logic” is being forced down our (and our children’s) throats as irrefutable. And we’re paying for it!!!
By Tony Massahos
…we need re-elect Tom Murray to the Windham School Board.
The recent decision by the Windham School Board to ignore their Policy BGB and bypass the proper process to accept public input before passing Transgender Locker Room Policy JBAB reminds me of the arrogance by the Windham School Board prior to when Mr. Tom Murray was elected.
Making such a serious decision that VIOLATES PARENTAL RIGHTS and injects ANTI-CHRISTIAN RADICAL LIBERAL IDEOLOGIES into our school system to INDOCTRINATE OUR CHILDREN, speaks volumes regarding the TYRANNICAL POWER THAT IS BEING EXERTED BY OUR SCHOOL BOARD onto our precious and impressionable children.
Shame on Dennis Senibaldi, Keleigh McAllister, Rob Breton and Daniel Popovici-Muller for violating the Constitutional Rights of parents and their children they swore to uphold.
By NH House Rep. Josh Moore
We all felt the pain of the families who lost their loved ones in that horrific event in Parkland, FL on Valentine’s Day. I think we can all agree that we never wanted that to happen and we want to do all we can to make sure it never happens again.
Many solutions have been suggested and discussed. Some have been talked about before while others seem relatively new; such as arming teachers or hiring our nation’s veterans to protect our children.
Gun control, mental health, and law enforcement have all been hot topics for the last two weeks. But Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin is the only one I have heard talk about (that taboo topic) family values.