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“Five secrets of the Legislature’s 2020-21 state budget “

By Drew Cline State budgets are like the Grinch’s Santa sack. They’re huge, unwieldy, and overstuffed with giveaways and surprises. Their contents are a mystery to anyone who doesn’t have hours to crawl inside and unwrap every little package, which is pretty much every normal person. We’re not normal (we like reading budgets), so we’ve done … Read more

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If Trump is Hitler, He’s Pretty Bad at It.

Ever since Hitler and his party of socialist Democrats came along, American Democrats have labeled Republicans as fascists, Nazis, and Hitler. The only reason they didn’t do it sooner is that there was no Hitler. Related: Some Important Reading About This Hitler Business Barry Goldwater was Hitler. Nixon was Hitler. Reagan was Hitler. Both Bushes … Read more

Tolerance and Acceptance or Racism and Marxism

Demonstrate?

The founders, those who wrote the U.S. Constitution, understood people. They knew sometimes there is a need to complain publicly about governmental policies adversely affecting us. The American Revolution began with just such protests. The Declaration of Independence was a 28 item list of grievances against the King. Demonstrations are part of the fabric of … Read more

First Dem debate 2019 night 1

“By their debates, ye shall know them”

OK, I’m plaigerizing, a tad, Matt 7:16 (“Ye shall know them by their fruits”) and I swapped the clauses around, well, just a couple takeaways from the two nights.  I actually missed most of both of them because of meeting but I think that these perfectly summarize the mindset of the mainstream Democrat elected politicians: … Read more

Learn Everywhere is latest step in redesigning NH education

by Fred Bramante (former chairman of the State Board of Education)  | The State Board of Education recently approved rules implementing the Learn Everywhere program proposed by Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut and created by the Legislature last year. These rules are scheduled for a vote on final approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative … Read more

Where Do We Find Ourselves Today?

In America do we have in our society a tight inbred elite rule? Do the people at the top of the heap attend the same boarding schools; the same universities, work in top law firms and investment banks? Are these people part of a group who has known each other since childhood? Perhaps there was … Read more

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Children’s Well-Being is at Stake

by Beth Scaer |

For the second year, the Nashua Pride Festival is featuring a so-called family-friendly drag show in a downtown public park and encouraging all ages to attend.

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Tales from the BudComm – And so, the end of the WinniWagon series

As I reported earlier, the exorbitant fee for food trucks in Gilford are now in line with what Government should be charging for anything – just enough to cover costs and not to make a “profit” (not that government can make a “profit” – for them, it’s a surplus). But as I mentioned, I missed … Read more

Prager U Fascism

“Is Fascism Right or Left?”

Yesterday I put up a “different” Notable Quote listing a few quotes by Benito Mussolini – Il Duce of Italy back in the 1930 and 1940s who aligned himself with Adolph Hitler during WWII as part of the Axis Powers.  I did it because I wanted to show that Fascism is STATE oriented like the … Read more

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