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State to Check 3-Years of Social Media History Before You can Buy a Firearm?

November 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

How does this sound? You want to purchase a firearm. You fill out your form and then wait while local authorities perform a 3-year review of your online/social-media history. Their job is to make sure there is no disqualifying hate speech in there someplace. Sounds Progressive. According to Newsweek, Senator Kevin Palmer is currently working on legislation that … Read more

Churches Could Be Fined for Using Plastic Stirs When Handing Out Free Coffee

November 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

When you vote for someone, they suddenly inherit the super-human ability to know better. Or, more likely, the sort of people who run for public office are just predisposed to be busy-bodies. We know this to be true at every level of government with few exceptions. Down in DC the city council has no exceptions. … Read more

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Decolonizing Thanksgiving: A Toolkit for Combatting Racism in Schools.”

November 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Liberals have been wrecking Thanksgiving for years. In the past, it’s been the DCCC annual ruin Thanksgiving guide/talking points. Your racist, sexist, relatives will spout lies comrades (Lies I tell You!) and here’s what you need to know to set everyone in hearing-distance straight (like ideological conversion therapy). Because that’s how you get invited back … Read more

Election After Action – Part…awe, who really wants to count? Let’s hear from the Jaspercrat

November 16, 2018November 16, 2018 Skip

Let’s set the stage – this is 2006 all over again except the Rs kept the Oval Office this time. Same sad story, though. And yeah, that would be Shawn Jassper, the so-called Republican Speaker of the NH House the first time he was elected by the Democrats (and a small handful of RINOs – … Read more

Girls Can Grow Up to Be Anything…Just Not Conservative

June 28, 2022November 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Elections where minority candidates lose, except in places like (say) New Hampshire, have become an opportunity for the left to wield the nuclear bomb called racism, on (of all people) women. Exit polling where Stacy Abrahams and Andrew Gillum have yet to win (because Democrat voting never ends even after the polls close) showed more white women voting for … Read more

Mr. Trump Reacts to the Words of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on Border Security

November 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

This is funny. It is. Watch as Mr. Trump “reacts” to the remarks of previous presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on the critically important matter of Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Aliens, and American border security. GrokTV

Notable Quote – Roger Simon

November 16, 2018 Skip

“As people scramble to explain the sudden resurgence of socialism not only on America’s college campuses but also in the corridors of political power, it is worth noting the concomitant resurgence of anti-Semitism in those redoubts. The coincidence is not, as the Marxists like to say, an accident. The truth is that unfettered socialism, though based primarily on a demand for the abolition of private property, always comes riding on a current of anti-Semitism.”

Notable Quote – Gnardo Polo

November 16, 2018 Skip

…But I think that part of Trumps success is connecting with what lower class Americans want, and how they think… My wife thinks I’m a huge Trump fan. I’m sure some of my friends do to. But just like a lot of people, I just don’t think he’s as bad a he’s portrayed by the … Read more

Florida Democrat Party Conspired in Advance to Use Forged Ballots in Anticipated Recount

November 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

It looks like the Florida Democrat party was anticipating recounts in advance and had a plan in place to take advantage of it by using ballots that could/would be counted even though they were submitted after the deadline. TALLAHASSEE — A day after Florida’s election left top state races too close to call, a Democratic … Read more

School Punishes Male Gym Teacher For Refusing to Be in Locker Room with Naked Female Minor

February 17, 2022November 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The latest episode of “Progressive Culture Gone Wild” comes to us from a Florida Middle School. Administrators are punishing a male gym coach who refused to “knowingly place himself in a position to observe a minor female in the nude or otherwise in a state of undress.”

Prerequisite 2018 “Winter is Coming” Post

November 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Winter is coming. I know, it’s been cold lately, and plenty of places have had snow already, but no real “snowstorms” to speak of until tomorrow. So, here it is, your prerequisite winter is coming post, and we get our first statewide snowfall of the season – even though it’s still autumn. There is nothing all … Read more

The Central American Caravans of illegal aliens – the Cloward-Piven’ing of the United States

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Skip

Invasion by other means – organized and funded. I’ve written a lot about Cloward and Piven in the past (starting back in 2009) and the political “stunt” they tried in NYC in overwhelming the city via enlarging the number of people on its welfare rolls. The thinking, so these self-identified socialist professors, is that it … Read more

Help Us Grow our Alexa Rank

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Steve MacDonald

We use Alexa to measure our traffic rankings and to compare them to other sites around New Hampshire. But not everyone who visits us is getting counted. We are not all using the Alexa extension in our browsers. If you’d like to help us improve our Alexa ranking a great way to do that is … Read more

The Fox Is Guarding The CNN Nuthouse

November 15, 2018 Johnny Bananas (Fake News Reporter!)

The question any court must answer in the Jim Acosta temper tantrum spectacle trudging towards our favorite method for dealing with non-reality, litigation, is whether Acosta meets the current standard of a “journalist.” In 2018 anyone can be a journalist and the court must admit that. We no longer have the three big TV networks. … Read more

The NH Democrat sweep on Nov. 6th – now we have an economic benchmark

November 15, 2018 Skip

And you can bet that we’ll come back to this over and over and over again during the next two years (reformatted, emphasis mine):

NH unemployment rate drops to 2.6 percent

The Granite State continues its run as having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country with a repeat of last October’s performance. New Hampshire’s preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October was 2.6 percent, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from September and the same rate as October 2017, New Hampshire Employment Security reported Wednesday.

The City of Laconia hasn’t learned that “Hope” is not a strategy

November 15, 2018 Skip

So once again, they go back to the Well of Hope. This is all about an old time theatre which was very popular back in the day and then went down hill from there. From vaudeville to a movie theater to a multiplex to being shuttered for now 18 years, the City decided that it was the one that could revive the fortunes of a downtown that they screwed up back last century with “Urban Renewal” – seldom have the storefronts been full for any kind of time. Instead of learning the hard lessons of trying to be a developer (the stupid project call Lakes Region Business Park which STILL hasn’t sold out the lots after 25 or so years), they decided they could do it again. Again, on Hope (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Hope springs eternal for theater revitalization

There is reason to be optimistic that a much-delayed project to restore the 104-year-old Colonial Theatre will finally get underway next year, Mayor Ed Engler said. The project, intended to breathe new life into downtown Laconia, was originally slated to begin Jan. 1, 2017.

So, already two years late. And it gets worse.

Quick Thought on Steve’s post: One of Life’s Certainties – New Hampshire Democrats Raise Taxes

November 15, 2018 Skip

Here. It’s what Democrats do. Let me remind you of what they did before: they created an $800 million hole in the NH State budget. They spent everything they could – and then more. You see, Democrats are:

They believe in Government directed EVERYTHING – every aspect of our lives. That takes a lot of your money to allow them to do that
While they are always screaming about separation of Church and State, they absolutely conflate the ideas of Government and Charity.

Why the second? they too lazy to get off their Collective butts to do the hard work of creating charities and then canvassing the public at large to fund them. Government means Ruling and Crowding out private charity. When they talk about Public / Private partnerships, you can always know who is in charge and who is about to be embraced and then absorbed (if not de jure, then de facto). Government IS Charity and Charity means Government because ONLY from Government can good things flow, according to their actions. And once again, while they’re out putting their sense of a Collective dystopia Utopia in place, they’ll be setting the stage, once again, for broadbased taxes. Which means that…

Notable Quote – Eammon Butler

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Skip

Peter Berger’s The Capitalist Revolution (1986) shows how capitalism’s features – property, capital goods, free markets, automatic asset allocation and a predictable legal system – make it well suited to promote efficiency and progress. It offers a refuge from political power, unlike socialism, which has to be imposed by force – and the grander the vision, the … Read more

Data Point – Percentage of American babies born out of wedlock 1940-2017

November 15, 2018 Skip

37.8 Percent in Generation That Starts Turning 21 Next Year Was Born to Unwed Moms In the 20-year cohort of American young people who were born in the years from 1998 through 2017 — and will start turning 21 next year — 37.8 percent were born to unmarried mothers, according to data published by the Centers … Read more

Blogline of the Day:

November 15, 2018 Skip

If This Bill Passes, Possessing Pot in Texas Will Be Treated Less Harshly Than Distributing Straws in San Francisco. And this is what passes for public morality these days. Seriously, straws are that evil? (H/T: Instapundit)