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Last week the national debt reached 35 trillion dollars, a mere seven months after the debt reached 34 trillion dollars. To put this in perspective, the national debt first reached one trillion dollars in October of 1981, almost 200 years after the Constitution’s ratification! The fact that the government was adding one trillion dollars in … Read more
According to the most recent report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy added 114,000 jobs (according to the establishment survey) during July. This was a lackluster number that came in below expectations, and it wasn’t enough to prevent a surge in the unemployment rate up to 4.3 percent. Moreover, the “underemployment” … Read more
Google took a massive hit Monday after a federal judge ruled the company violated U.S. antitrust law through its search business, according to a court filing. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta submitted the ruling, rebuking one of Google’s oldest businesses that the company has spent billions on through exclusive contracts in order to obtain a dominant … Read more
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Multiple civil rights groups from California to Illinois have just joined six New Hampshire state reps in an attempt to protect their citizens from what some call Massachusetts’ misapplication of gun laws. These challenges to the state’s firearms licensing scheme stem in part from the prosecution of two motorists, Dean Donnell and Philip Marquis, who … Read more
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Friday that his office is investigating ActBlue for allegations of fraud across the state. ActBlue is the premier fundraising platform for the Democratic Party and has facilitated billions of dollars in contributions since 2004. Miyares sent a letter to ActBlue warning the organization that it is now under investigation for collecting suspicious … Read more
Former President Donald Trump recently suggested repealing income tax on Social Security benefits. Is it pandering, or is it an idea with merit? Trump wrote on Truth Social, “SENIORS SHOULD NOT PAY TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY!” Whether you think paying income tax on Social Security is appropriate or not, what actually happens? The government levies … Read more
Now that HB 1607, the Baby Safe Haven Bill, has been signed into law, we need New Hampshire Christians and all those dedicated to safeguarding young lives to engage in this important child protection issue. Since the passage of 1607, parents can now surrender infants up to 61 days old to any designated safe haven … Read more
We are living through history. At no time in my life have I experienced what we have witnessed in National politics over the last few weeks? An assassination attempt on a former President and the nominee of our Republican party, a coup against the sitting President by his own Democratic party when facing the inevitable … Read more
Our Secretary of State announced New Hampshire’s first Civic and Voter Education Coordinator in a news release in June. The article reads, “Secretary Scanlan created the position of Civic and Voter Education Coordinator to increase voter engagement efforts within the state.” It would be easy for Granite Staters to read this article, agree with the sentiment … Read more
New Hampshire Right to Life (NHRTL) issues the below comments responding to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s (PPNNE) press release & conference seeking a taxpayer bailout [0]. Jason Hennessey, President of NH Right to Life, said: “Extreme organizations that push to legalize aborting healthy 7, 8, and 9-month children don’t deserve to be bailed … Read more
The political chief of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran. Iranian TV reports he was killed in a raid on his home. The Times of Israel says Prime Minister Netanyahu told the White House of the intention to conduct the operation. Kamala apparently was too busy doing sorority things to take the meeting. There’s … Read more
Police have accused a New Hampshire Bible-believing Christian of posting “criminally threatening, coercive and hateful” messages on the door of a LGBTQ-affirming church in Dover, NH, but it is abundantly clear that the message he posted was based in Biblical Truth and love. Now the Gospel message itself is on trial in New Hampshire District … Read more
A new report released by MassInc and UMass Donahue claims that over 480,000 Massachusetts residents, or 10% of the state’s workforce, are not proficient in English. Is that a sanctuary problem? Do you think it will stay in Massachusetts? The problem comes directly from open borders and illegal immigration. The report states that 480,000 people … Read more
The 2024 Republican platform promises that, if Donald Trump returns to the White House and Republicans gain complete control of Congress, they will reduce inflation. The platform contains some proposals, such as reducing regulations and extending the 2017 tax reductions, that may help lower prices in some sectors and spur economic growth. However, the GOP … Read more
In her essay “Racism,” Ayn Rand argues that racism — which she describes as “the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism” — is incompatible with capitalism and can only be defeated through capitalism. She defines capitalism as “a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property … Read more
President Joe Biden’s time in the White House is mercifully coming to an end. He is now officially a lame duck with six months to go. Biden was a victim here of a corrupt Democratic machine that — along with a complicit media — thought they could pull off a grand election-year deceit, despite his failing cognitive … Read more
There is a reason why the word democracy is not in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, or any of the State Constitutions, yet appears in The Communist Manifesto. Democracy is a precursor of revolution, as precisely stated by G. K. Chesterton: “You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. … Read more
When I was counsel to the New Hampshire Department of Security, I was summoned to federal jury duty. I begged off because an NH statute precluded my position from jury service. The gods in the Federal District decided a state statute did not bind them. I was ordered to appear for federal jury service. The … Read more
Dear Goffstown Republican voters: please don’t elect a Democrat campaigning as a conservative in your upcoming September 10 primary. Yes, he has served on Goffstown boards for many, many years, but is Goffstown better off for it? Back in March, Peter Georgantas, Goffstown’s current Select Board chair, motioned to NOT recommend and then voted against … Read more