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Democrat “Role Model” California Wants a New Tax on Drinking Water

January 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

If we’ve said it once we’ve said it a thousand times. When it comes to Democrats and your money there is “no enough.” No matter what you make they can find a way to take it and spend it. Just look at California. It’s a regulatory nightmare. Complete with the unsustainable spending that goes with long … Read more

Trump’s Afghanistan: Wipe Out the Taliban’s Funding Mechanisms

January 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The Trump administration has been working with the Afghan military to cripple a major funding source of the Taliban. Opium. The terrorist group generates an estimated 60% of its funding for weapons from the drug trade. But they’ve been forced to seek alternate revenue streams. US and Afghan forces keep bombing the poppy fields and drug labs. … Read more

Ted Cruz: Make El Chapo Guzman Pay for the Wall

January 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Ted Cruz has a plan to provide funding for the Wall. Make a Mexican Drug lord pay for it. Cruz has reintroduced the Ensuring Lawful Collection of Hidden Assets to Provide Order Act, or EL CHAPO Act, to Congress. The bill would designate any money and assets seized from notorious gangster Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and allocate … Read more

Optics: Democrats Party in Puerto Rico While Government Workers Miss First Check

January 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Thirty-nine House Democrats are partying with 109 Lobbyists at a resort in Puerto Rico. On a day “government workers” furloughed by a shutdown missed their first paycheck. Talk about the optics. The Left has been milking that sad cow for days.

Enviros hate it when you point this out – even if with a smile

January 13, 2019January 13, 2019 Skip

Given that the northern part of NH borders on Canada, this oft is the same deal in the winter time. (H/T: Powerline)

Another Female Student Who Cried Rape Charged for False Accusation

January 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

A few years ago the Obama administration decided to make rape political. It issued guidance suggesting 1 in 5 women in college were being sexually assaulted. It had nothing to do with sexual assault. Democrats could care less about women, even the ones who vote for them.

Making “Conservatives” Out of Perfectly Fine Liberals

January 13, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Kira Davis has a great piece at Townhall.com. She examines a trend brought on by the radicalization of the left. The growing number of perfectly fine liberals who are being pushed to the right. People who vote Democrat, from famous Hollywood types to your own friends and neighbors, who have become targets of the progressive-mob and the far-left agenda.

Why Is Redistribution Needed?

January 17, 2019January 13, 2019

Redistribution by government is primarily the result of interest groups using the political process to have resources transferred their way. Whether we are willing to admit it or not, this is independent of whether redistribution has an eye toward inequality reduction or not. We have reached a point where we are satisfied with justifications for … Read more

Somebody just put a fork in this for the sake of the taxpayers being used as an ATM, PLEASE!

January 12, 2019 Skip

It’s always great to make economic bets with other peoples’ money because then HOPE does become a strategy which is the BEST reason why Government shouldn’t play in the private sector (or try to redefine “private” to be “public”; reformatted, emphasis mine): Colonial Theatre, cable TV before City Council Monday LACONIA — Mayor Ed Engler … Read more

Blogline of the Day – Democrats, once again, are demonstrating their bigotry against People of Faith

January 12, 2019 Skip

“Democrats now freely display the sort of anti-Catholic bigotry that JFK was thought to have vanquished in the 1960 presidential campaign.” And why is it? Easy. ANYTHING that presents a challenge to the power or primacy of The State must be downrated, stigmatized, made to be of no account “in our modern society, and defeated. … Read more

The Silence of the Sununu

January 12, 2019 Ed Mosca

This: What NHPR means by “Roll Back Voter Residency Restrictions” is repealing House Bill 1264 and once again allowing out-of-State college students to vote in New Hampshire elections while remaining residents of their home States. In other words, these college students will once again have a special, privileged status under the law, under which they … Read more

Progressives – counting the pennies, not the Benjamins

January 12, 2019January 12, 2019 Skip

Of course they want Medicare for all – by eliminating ALL private insurance plans, you’ll never know how many of your Benjamins are going into that Democrat truck. So not only do they get your money but you WILL be totally dependent on the Federal government. Healthcare ISN’T their aim; it IS that you will … Read more

The Real Reason The Left Wants to Raise Taxes on “the Rich”

January 12, 2019 Ed Mosca

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (“AOC”) recently proposed raising the top marginal income tax rate to 70 percent to pay for her “Green New Deal.” This rate would apply to income over $10 million. So how much would AOC’s new tax bracket raise? According to the Washington Post, at the most $72 billion a year. To … Read more

‘Drop the class immediately if you are triggered by free speech’

January 12, 2019 Skip

I made sure, on the first day of my class last semester, to tell my students that I was not politically correct. I also told them that, unlike a lot of professors nowadays from what I read, that I will never take class time to preach my politics to them – only occasionally using an … Read more

While We’re Mitigating PFAS in Our Water – Dental Floss Raised PFAS in Humans

January 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The latest bugbear in the environmental contamination business is PFOA’s. These are part of a family of chemicals called PFAS. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The EPA notes that, PFOA and PFOS have been the most extensively produced and studied of these chemicals. Both chemicals are very persistent in the environment and in the human body … Read more

Mass. Court Ruling Bans Breathalyzer Results in Drunk Driving Cases

January 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It’s a case that goes back at least as far as 2011. The Massachusetts State Police Office of Alcohol Testing is implicated in a scandal to hide faulty Breathalyzer equipment. Initial questions related to inconsistencies were blamed on operator error. But the problem didn’t go away and several local Massachusetts DA’s stopped accepting the results as evidence. And … Read more

Part III: Will Market Competition Solve These Issues?

January 12, 2019

Who Done it? Luigi Zingales is an Italian born MIT doctorate, now Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of two widely reviewed books: “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists” and “Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity”. Economic and financial journals have published his work extensively. He has … Read more

Judge Orders Taxpayers to Pay for Sex-Reassignment Surgery of Convicted Child Sex-Offender

January 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

A judge has ruled that the State of Idaho must pay for the sexual resignment surgery of a convicted child sex abuser. In his ruling Judge B. Lynn Winmill writes that the Idaho Department of Correction’s (IDOC) refusal to fund the pedophile’s sex-change surgery puts him at risk of irreparable harm. A psychiatrist… diagnosed Edmo with “gender dysphoria” and … Read more

Minority Leader Dick Hinch – “I don’t believe it is unreasonable for us to require that those who participate in our elections be residents of our state,”

January 12, 2019 Op-Ed

CONCORD, NH- House Republican Leader Dick Hinch (R-Merrimack) released the following statement in response to public hearings held Thursday on HB105, relative to domicile residency, voter registration, and investigation of voter verification letters and HB106, relative to the terms “resident,” “inhabitant,” “residence,” and “residency.” “HB106 seeks to repeal common sense legislation that the State just … Read more

As many as 15 Dead* After Hamas Rocket ‘Factory’ in Gaza Explodes

January 12, 2019January 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

An unknown number of Hamas terrorists are dead and several others injured after a workplace accident in Rafa, on the Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed anti-colonialist Arab group was facilitating their latest messaging strategy for Isreal when a man-caused disaster resulted in the liberation of at least three buildings and their occupants. Local media reported the blast … Read more