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This would be the race between incumbent (and re-elected) Ted Cruz and his Progressive / Socialist opponent, Robert Francis (“Beto”) O’Rourke. The former being the real Hispanic and the latter being the Irishman deciding he would identify as a Hispanic because the means justifies the end in Progressive politics. You know, like lilly white Elizabeth … Read more
The Tennessee Star picked up something that I had written at the very end of this post:
If the NH Republican Party wants to win, and win Consistently, act like you believe in the Platform. Speak like you do and at each and every turn. Vote like you do at each and every opportunity. And Legislate like there’s no tomorrow because two days ago was that “no more tomorrow” – and you blew it
It’s another way to combine two of my favorite memes”
Well, you know what the rest of that line is, right? I do agree with Jon that money is not the root of the NH GOP problems – but it is rather easy to point to as an overall symptom:
The silver lining is a timetable in which the membership of the Republican State Committee picks a new chairman in late January. Incumbent Wayne MacDonald of Derry took over a party last July that had $650 in the bank, $14,000 in bills and $48,000 in long-term debts.
“This isn’t any one person’s fault, especially Wayne, who was handed a bag of crap at the 11th hour,” posted Jon DiPietro, a conservative activist from Manchester. “But we had better get it fixed. There’s a presidential election in two years and it’s going to be here in the blink of an eye.”
Why, what is the problem here? His immediate predecessor was Jeanne Forrester – and he was the Vice-Chair so he knew about the problem. Now, the point of this post is not Wayne. It IS about
Given the “complexion” of our incoming New Hampshire legislature, we should take a moment to revisit a phrase you’ll be hearing a lot more around the Granite State. “Free money.” ‘Free money’ is taxes for which (the individual using the term) did not have to “vote” to collect them. Someone else, further away and more difficult … Read more
State Senator Jeb Bradley’s take on the midterms: “Governor Sununu had no coattails and didn’t campaign with House and Senate members. He is going to pay a price for that certainly,” Bradley said. “He won, but Sununu under-performed; there’s no question about it. We did fine with in-state fundraising but we’re going to have to … Read more
In the wake of any reported “hate crime,” it is important to remember that the majority of these have an annoying habit of turning out to be self-inflicted, often in a desperate effort to get attention. College campuses don’t hold a monopoly on this behavior, but they do tend to produce a majority of them. A … Read more
Meadowstone Farm has since removed the pictures from Instagram, but before that happened, they were very proud of what they’d done. So, what did they do? They picked up Republican campaign signs from wherever they found them and cut them in half, then temporarily repurposed them – if for no other reason than to show everyone on … Read more
by Jon DiPietro Nobody asked me what the NH GOP’s biggest problem is. And few, if any, will care what I have to say. But that’s OK because I’ve been through this before in another volunteer organization and I know how change works. More on that later. In this article, I’m going to answer the … Read more
State Sen. Jeb Bradley didn’t lose last Tuesday but you will. He’s got a lot more company in the State Senate than the last session with Democrats in the Majority. Together they can advance legislation like SB466. (Union Leader) State Sen. Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, is among those hoping the state mounts a vigorous defense of the biomass … Read more
Like I said – great place to hone your debating skill and watch the Collectivist mind thought in process. And Gaia worship….and did I say Collectivism? This one started off OK and then devolved into a quick shot of inanity:
Money can’t fix circadian rhythm problems. Sunlight and freedom can
Circadian rhythm lighting products won’t fix body clock problems. Circadian rhythms have been making the news lately. Humans (and animals, and plants) have circadian rhythms — wake and sleep cycles programmed into every cell. These inner clocks tell us when to wake up, and when to fall asleep. And humans seem determined to ignore them, causing us all kinds of problems, from inability to concentrate to sleep problems to depression.
OK, fair enough – TMEW, among other things, suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder when the days gets shorter so I know what the author, Ilana Strauss, is talking about and the first parts of her post are ok for the most part. However, the inanity comes when she says that employers should put up with basically anything that would “mitigate” the folks that share this disorder:
“Tell me again why it should be legal for an employer to pay a wage that doesn’t cover living expenses? Freedom to exploit is freedom to kill, and it does.”
That was a comment, in part” from Annie Cass from a post “3 concepts from ‘Your Money or Your Life‘ that blew my mind” about thriftiness:
Now, I don’t necessarily agree with some of the basic premises but it did have some good information. But of course, Cass comes with the Marxist screed:
I think that my friend John Hawkin’s new site is going to be a PIA to feminists everywhere. Well, actually they bring it upon themselves – like with this!
Seriously, if you are going around thinking that EVERY man wearing sunglasses is oogling you with evil intent:
After all, as former President (and no longer the worst President in history) Jimmy Carter once said:
A comment on the news that men were putting themselves between the shooter and the women at the Thousand Oaks, CA nightclub: Social justice warriors, feminists and self hating men love nothing better than to ramble on about “toxic masculinity,” by which they mean all masculinity….until something happens and they need a man to step … Read more
Lost in the election noise was a report from NHBR last week that Brookstone’s bankruptcy was “official.” The chain, headquartered in Merrimack, New Hampshire, had fallen on hard times, attracting our attention when a reader tried to argue that the Granite State’s tax system was to blame for companies like Brookstone going out of business. … Read more
Michael Graham has some excellent reporting on Granite State voter turnout at NHJournal, but the number(s) that got my attention were for student voting. Up by 29% to 55% depending on the town. That’s huge. Yesterday Ed Naile noted that he’d like to talk to anyone interested in how 90,000 college students are allowed to … Read more
Democrats in Florida and Georgia are crying racism because voters rejected two people of color running for statewide office. “At issue is the defeat of Andrew Gillum in the Florida governor’s race and of Stacey Abrams in the Georgia governor’s race.” Do New Hampshire Democrats want to weigh in for or against the arguments of their … Read more
If I remember correctly health care was a big issue for the Left in the mid-terms. That got me thinking about women’s health. This lead to a passing memory about the contradiction between Democrat health care policies and Democrat rhetoric when it comes to that particular anatomical feature on biological women that is the acute … Read more
Many years of fake news supporting radical Socialist/Communist/Marxist celebrities and politicians calling for intimidation and threats against freedom loving Americans have led to verbal and physical attacks against conservatives all across the nation in an effort to stifle Constitutional freedoms – and our God-given Rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This past … Read more
I have a Negron lapel pin I intend to wear until it wears out. If I can find an Edwards pin, I will wear that as well. And when anyone asks me why I am wearing the lapel pins, or still have a Negron sign on my property I can tell them, “It signifies that … Read more
The veto override of SB365, the Biomass bailout Bill, was a lesson in the mechanics of progressive thinking. The idea was to make everyone else pay more for electricity to save some jobs. One-thousand jobs. If that’s acceptable what’s to stop the government from using that excuse for any other occupation? With a small increase in the … Read more