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The Ukraine circus is getting more interesting. No, not Adam Schiff’s Star Chamber on impeachment & circuses. The one in Ukraine. The Office of the Prosecutor General indicted Burisma owner Nikolai Zlochevsky for money laundering. And it points to the Obama White House.
Today, Wednesday, November 20, President Trump further cemented his reform of the federal judiciary when the US Senate confirmed yet another of the President’s picks to a federal circuit court seat Wednesday in a vote that tilts the balance of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to a GOP-appointed majority. The 11th Circuit is now … Read more
Porn addiction, like all addictions, ruin relationships. And like drug use, these are not victimless crimes. And I don’t mean crime in the legal sense. More its impact on the foundation of the culture and the nation. One built on families whose survival demands certain morals and values.
In thinking about the arguments that have been made in support of the recent rejection of $46 million in startup funds for new charter schools in New Hampshire, it helps to understand some basic facts about how school districts and charter schools are funded.
“A place where Ideology reigns over money”? Or, “Scott Dunn’s Taj Mahal” (Scott Dunn being the Town Administrator and the main pusher for Gilford’s new Recycle Center / Transfer Station. Sigh…and now the bill has has come due. But not the one you might think. In the beginning, it sounded OK – time to leave … Read more
I have not lived in Monroe County, New York, for 30 years, but I grew up there, so this caught my eye. The County Legislature has approved a measure that would make it a crime “to annoy” a policeman.
Further treating the idea of consent, he describes consent. A child of an English man and woman born in France is subject to neither the king of England nor the king of France, except as much as they subject to the law of the land.
Democrats are curious creatures. Remember when cigarette taxes couldn’t be lowered because we had to have that revenue? Crisis! Economic collapse! Well, this week Democrats are giving up tobacco revenue to make smoking illegal.
We now know with relatively high confidence why the lefty media has been so protective of Lt Col. Alexander Vindman. He appears to be a leaker and it looks like he is also a liar.
For you folks out there on BudComms how many of the departments, Municipal or School District, have revolving funds? Yeah, a bit wonkier than my normal Tales from the Budcomm (TftBC) posts but this is important. What’s a revolving fund and why am I writing about it?
Congresswoman Ann Kuster recently held an opioid crisis roundtable in New Hampshire (DC). A meeting of stakeholders working out how to get more money from the federal government to address a problem created and exacerbated by Ann Kuster.
We see this delegation and retention of power in Exodus 22. In general, the adjudication of theft is left to society. The theft is brought before the judges to determine guilt and the amount that must be repaid. However, it begins in Exodus 22:2 with the principle that there is no guilt in killing someone who breaks into your house at night.
John Locke having defined what qualifies as a civil society in Chapter Seven. That it is not merely family groups, or master-slave relationships, but is a coming together of equals for mutual benefit and protection. He opened with this declaration which ought to be familiar to the people of New Hampshire.
An MIT-Yale study of government data finds the current population in the country to be 22.1 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. That means we currently have an illegal alien population of about 6.7%. That’s more than one in every 20 people in the country is here illegally. The number of illegal immigrants in the … Read more
File this under #GovernmentFail… a shining example of just how badly people can screw something up when they are spending other people’s money, for the purported benefit of someone else. (See Milton Friedman’s Four Ways to Spend Money.)
Official Palestinian Authority TV has run a blatantly anti-Semitic series that ignores factual history and features an adult man teaching a child how to shoot “the Jews,” and characterizes the Jewish people as “cowards,” rapists, “impure schemers,” and “the enemy.”
Last month, Turning Point USA held an event at UNH in Durham. Charlie Kirk and Senator Rand Paul were the featured speakers. The Patriot Initiative went to get a sense of what students currently think about the culture war. Questions were asked on a few topics facing the nation, including tolerance on college campus. The … Read more
The Democrat impeachment game is always changing but for the moment, it has settled on bribery. Maybe (just maybe) because the word bribery is actually in the constitution. Great. What a huge step forward. And a bigger step back. There is even less evidence of bribery.
The subject of impeachment has always been accompanied by solemn pronouncements. We must invoke it sparingly and not for narrow partisan or political purposes. The use of impeachment is to be for extreme cases; to preserve the Constitution and the rule of law.
