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The Magic of Per-Student Cost

Are your state representatives smarter than fifth-graders? Here’s a word problem that even a fifth-grader should be able to solve: A boat ferries passengers across a lake.  Ten people want to ride it together.  The captain says:  It costs me $100 to run the boat, so you’ll have to pay an average of $10 each. … Read more

NH GOP Annual Meeting – Another Observation From A Loyal Reader

As a Merrimack County GOP Committee member, who was credentialed to attend this fiasco, it went exactly like anyone with a brain would know it would go; and, the mere fact that out of the starting gate 50 people voted “multiple” times on a yes or no “monkey” survey, was when this meeting needed to adjourn.

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Disney Gets It Right

The other day, I was watching some Disney classic movies with some kids.  At the beginning of The Jungle Book, I was startled to see the following, on a blue screen: This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.  These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.  Rather than remove this … Read more

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CACR3 – Uninformed and Unnecessary

So there is a proposed constitutional amendment that would remove the Blaine language from the State Constitution. The Blaine language is found in Article 83 and provides that the State may not financially support religious schools: [Art.] 83. [Encouragement of Literature, etc.; Control of Corporations, Monopolies, etc.] … no money raised by taxation shall ever be … Read more

Stasi: The East German Secret Police. An Account

Hubertus Knabe was one of the East German citizens surveilled by the Stasi. Hubertus Knabe has called for a more outspoken anti-communism in German society, and has particularly called upon the SPD party to identify with its anti-communist tradition as part of its democratic legacy. He has pointed out that social democrats were the first … Read more

Stasi: The East German Secret Police. An Overview

Surveillance States were long used to repress citizens by State Actors. An examination of the Stasi will illustrate for us the parallels we are now seeing in the words and deeds of our government, Big tech and other corporations in America. But first…a historic overview of the Stasi.

Stasi was the colloquial name for the East German Secret Police. More formally, the, “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, “(MfS) Ministry for State Security. Additionally, Stasi was referred to as, “Staatssicherheitsdienst,” (SSD) or, State Security Service. The Stasi was the internal Security arm of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). This was the East German Secret Police that operated from 1951 until 1989 until the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Seal of the German Democratic Republic (GDR)

The MfS motto effectively conveyed their mission: “Shield and sword of the Party.” (Schild und Schwert der Partei)Party, referring to the “Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, (SED) or, the, “East German Communist Party,” formed in April of 1946 with the merger of the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

The SED was the single dominant party for the German Democratic Republic. A Marxist-Leninist political party that remained in power from its formation post World War II and remaining in power until its dissolution in 1989.

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