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Suing "stimulus" at the local level. Despite some local drones, elitist rumpswabs, and even a former advocate for honest and open government calling it "frivolous," local activists have filed a lawsuit questioning the grant process here in Belknap County. It cannot be a good thing as the feds beef up our local police forces with heavy duty paramilitary gear and training– all in the name of "stimulus"– if the required representative oversight and citizen input mechanisms are bypassed. Who controls them? If you think taxation without representation is bad, you probably won’t like representation without representation, either…
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Bagging on Fairpoint. And rightfully so…
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Right to Know Law saves the Tax Cap referendum for Manchester!
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Froma Harrop is a liberal-leaning columnist based in RI’s Providence Journal. Her work is syndicated, and appears in one of our local papers, The Laconia Daily Sun. This is her third appearance on MTNP radio. The thing is, sometimes, we actually find ourselves agreeing with her! One such area is illegal immigration, where we have a degree of common ground. Recently, Froma wrote an interesting piece about this subject, noting that the federal government is trying something novel: actually going after the employers who violate such labor laws! Imagine that… and this is the OBAMA administration. Go figure! We disagree, however, on the government takeover of healthcare. We want to stop it. Ms. Harrop wants Obama to put the petal to the metal and get it done! We’ll chat the good, the bad, and the ugly of health care "reform."
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Following up on the Bristol, RI Independence Day flap where Tea Party activists were told they were not welcome in future parades because someone supposedly with their group was (gasp!) passing out those little Declaration/Constitution handbooks… While last week we learned that the parade committee had issued an apology and a retraction of the ban in the face of an avalanch of negative national publicity, there is still more to the story that is amazing to consider. Chris Kairnes, the person that was handing them out will join us. In an email, he told me that things were tough right from the get-go:
From the very beginning, they told the TEA Party they would not be able to have a sound system, they could not have more than six people on the float, nor could those people dress as Indians, as the Colonists did when they originally boarded the Beaver. This ridiculous attempt to disparage my fellow patriots makes me sick. The fact that they decided to come after me because the TEA Party members were wearing the same t-shirt as me, gives them no right to stop a private citizen from passing out anything, especially the Declaration of Independence on Independence Day.
Amen! I cannot believe that the town claiming to be the most patriotic in America would have the audacity to require a re-write of one of the seminal events of our Founding. We’ll also talk some states’ rights. Lost in the recent shuffle is the news that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in one of the final acts she will take in that position, signed that state’s House Joint 27 Resolution, which
"claims sovereignty for the state under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States."
You go girl!
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NHGOP Communications Director Ryan Williams joins us to discuss what he has found regarding the growing NH scandal involving key Democratic players dubbed "RAILGATE", which gets more interesting by the day. Has New Hampshire’s Democrat majority– led by Gov Lynch– finally met its Waterloo? The NH Watchdog has the complete roundup of this unfolding story. Ryan submitted Right to Know requests that helped reveal some of what is known. Now THAT’S good party activism! With pieces of the new state budget’s revenues and policy tied up in litigation, a heated battle with the state’s labor union, and dropping poll numbers, the Lynch Administration is in the greatest disarray we’ve seen yet.
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