With the retirement of Justice Kennedy, Mr. Trump has the opportunity to ‘shape the court’ for decades. Democrats are frantically looking through their narrative junk drawer for a story-line the media can sell to whoever will listen. Outrage for the it-takes-a-village sheeple to robotically regurgitate on social media, at the office ‘watercooler,’ or their neighbor’s “lawns” over the upcoming 4th of July barbequepalooza and beyond.
It Only Took 10 Days to Overtake The Nashua Telegraph
Back on June 18th, I rebooted the battle for dominance among New Hampshire internet ‘media’ footprints. More specifically, our mission to fight our way into the top five.
To get there, or back there, we have a few local newsy-nameplates to vanquish and ten days into the new quest we’ve taken our first “prize.”
“It simply must be “racism” or “sexism” or “homophobia” or “xenophobia””
“And since he was raised to believe that there is no right or wrong, the Modern Liberal at the bottom of the economic strata knows that his failures can’t be the result of anything wrong that he’s done. Since it can’t be anything he’s done, then the only possible explanation for his failure is that … Read more
Executive Council Candidate Jane Cormier Announces The “Real Change or More of the Same” Tour
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jane Cormier Ph: 603-781-5695 Email: Jane@JaneCormier.org Executive Council Candidate Jane Cormier Announces The “Real Change or More of the Same” Tour Hooksett, NH – Executive Council District 4 candidate and Former State Rep. Jane Cormier announced her “Real Change or More of the Same Tour” with over 20 events … Read more
Dover NH Bans 18-20 Year Olds in Possession of Tobacco from their Plantation
Yesterday Dover, New Hampshire raised the age for buying tobacco products to 21. So, beware to anyone under 21 in possession of tobacco. If you wander onto the Dover plantation, you’ll be breaking the law.
The Garrison City will become the first municipality in the state to raise the age to legally possess, use and purchase tobacco products in Dover to 21 years old.
The City Council voted to approve the ordinance change on a 6-1-2 vote, with Ward 4 Councilor Marcia Gasses voting no, Mayor Karen Weston recusing, and Ward 6 Councilor Matthew Keane absent from the meeting.
NH Number One In Child Welfare But That’s Just Not Good Enough
So, about your children?
New Hampshire is the highest-ranked state for children’s well-being, according to a national survey released on Wednesday.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count report, based on data from 2016, ranks New Hampshire first overall and second in economic well-being, with drops in the number of children living in households with high cost burdens and children living in poverty.
Janus vs AFSCME – it’s personal (although it’s not AFSCME, it’s NH SEIU’s local chapter 1984)
UPDATE and bumped: Yay! It looks like the NH Administration is taking this seriously (emphasis mine, reformatted):
The Union Leader obtained a memo Attorney General Gordon MacDonald sent to Administrative Services Commissioner Charles Arlinghaus making it clear that as of the next payroll on July 6 all state workers must give permission to have any fees withheld from their paychecks. “As a result of this decision, the Department of Administrative Services must immediately stop deducting an agency fee from any state employee,” MacDonald wrote.
“No agency fee should be deducted from paychecks issued on that date and thereafter unless the employee has given his or her consent.”
Works for me! Now to get rid of the idea that a union can negotiate for me better than I can; how could they in that they have no idea what is best for me?
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I was talking with a number of folks this morning at a meeting when the word flashed around. My go to blog for SCOTUS decisions is SCOTUSblog.com for their play-by-play calling out of the decisions that are released by The Supreme Court of the United States and the on-the-spot quick analysis of what the decisions mean to “the folks” like me who aren’t lawyers and make no claims no how to be such. Amy Howe summed it up well (all emphasis mine):
Janus vs AFSCME: Let the union hem-hawing on the decision begin!
This will be a running post for a bit as I know that the repercussions are going to last for a while – there’s a whole dump truck load of pebbles that are going to be launched in to the pond and ripple for a long, long time (most will be reformatted, emphasis mine). Let’s start off with this one from the Union Leader :
The court ruled that forcing non-members to pay agency fees to unions whose views they may oppose violates their rights to free speech and free association under the Constitution’s First Amendment. Workers in the public sector who do not want to pay agency fees could start withholding them immediately, said Bill McQuillen, president of the Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire.
“The Supreme Court has spoken and that’s the law of the land,” he said. “It’s an unfortunate decision, as it now makes it more difficult for people to represent the middle-class workers. That having been said, I don’t believe it’s going to have a big impact on our organization because by and large our members want to affiliate with the PFFNH.”
No,
Republican Senate Says “We’ll Get Kennedy’s Replacement Confirmed This Fall”
Democrats are always mad, but at least now they have a reason. Mitch McConnell says the U.S. Senate will have a replacement on board for Justice Kennedy before the November election.
Democrat’s are (believe it or not) playing the hypocrisy card because the GOP balked at moving on Merrick Garland before the Presidential Election in 2016. They demand the same consideration here. Wait until after November.
Dem Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Marchand Wants to Make NH A Sanctuary State
Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Marchand has read the fair-trade responsibly sourced liberal tea leaves. Advocating Far-Left ideas wins Democrat primaries. To that end, he’s decided to share his plan for making New Hampshire into a sanctuary state.
Keep in mind that it is the Sanctuary Status of Lawrence, Massachusetts that makes it the epicenter of opioid and human trafficking into New Hampshire.
Tone-deaf, much?
Progressives – not fine for thee, but great for me!
(H/T: Powerline)
So the union cries crocy tears for badly paid teachers. Union workers? MUCH better
Dues were $7 million, salaries for 38 employees was $5 million – an average of $130K each. From the NEA, we know what NEA affiliated NH teachers earn on average:
- Beginning Teacher Salary: $36,845
- Average Teacher Salary: $49,872
We ALL know that the union bosses are making
PragerU: James O’Keefe from Project Veritas
The job of a journalist is to report facts, add context where necessary, and leave it to the consumer to decide what he thinks. In this video, James O’Keefe, founder and president of Project Veritas, explains why fewer and fewer people trust modern-day “journalism.” (H/T: Project Veritas)
Liberal Justice Elena Kagen Was Appointed In August Before a Mid-Term Election
Remember when the Republican Majority Senate refused to advance Obama Nominee Merrick Garland before the 2016 Presidential Election? The “rule” they invoked was called the Biden Rule.
It was first proposed by Democrat Sen. Joe Biden. But it’s not etched in stone. Not even close.
Doh! The Biden/Schumer rule applies in PRESIDENTIAL election years, and [Democrats] should know, they invented it. McConnell merely applied it in 2016, much to their chagrin. Oh, and since 2018 is a mid-term election, it’s worth remembering Obama got Elena Kagan appointed in August 2010, also a mid-term.
Scott Adams: Vote Republican in 2018 or ‘They’re coming for you next.’
Dilbert creator Scott Adams stopped doing public appearances because, even though he’s not a Republican, he has said things about Mr. Trump’s remarkable persuasion tactics. As such, he doesn’t feel safe. The Trump haters present too much of a threat to his safety.
He thinks that culture could get much worse if Democrats win in November.
Global Warming Part 1: How Liberals Think
By Eddie
(Image H/T: The Editors)
I know what’s going through your mind right now: “What? Liberals think?” As much as this might sound like an oxymoron, how liberals and conservatives come to certain conclusions is instructive. I might as well get this out of the way. I don’t have any special insight as to how liberals really think. I can tell you how I came to my conclusions and I have learned a lot based on responses to my earlier post on the topic of global warming.
For me it started in 2006. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth came out and well, pretty much anything that Al says has got to be true, especially after all the work that he did programming the internet. I don’t think anything that anyone can say after that can convince me otherwise.
Did you actually believe that?
Data Point – Tired of all that WINNING! yet? Hardest hit: Obama
IF true, that would be 2.5 times MORE than Obama’s “get used to the 2% new normal as it will never change” economic results. For those Progressives that are mathematically and economically challenged (I know, I used to tutor them back in the day in college), this is YUUGGGEEE! Now if we can only freeze … Read more
Blogline of the Day – this is what happens when you devolve to being a mere rent-seeker
and stray from your original mission in life, unions:
This is basically Scott Walker on a national level. Of course, if the unions provided value, they wouldn’t have to force people to pay dues.
(H/T: Instapundit)e
UPDATE: let me add this which I bookmarked earlier:
Data Point: Fake News
Nearly all Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (92%) say that traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll. Democrats and non-leaning independents also feel this way, but not nearly to the same extent. 72% agree: media does Fake News. Note that even a majority of Democrats … Read more
Janus vs. AFSCME – a personal take
UPDATE: As the Supreme court just decided for Janus and against the unions, this post is appropriate. Best news? SCOTUS rules that public sector union MUST be opt-in for payments. Essentially, this returns freedom to individuals over the unions; no more paycheck protection for unions.
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“Live Free or Die” – that’s our state motto and unlike many on the Left that find that absolutely abhorrent, it’s one of the reasons why I’ve stayed in the Granite State for over three decades (yep, came for a job, stayed for the motto). The rest of the motto is not one that is repeated too often, that saying from General John Stark to his former soldiers: “Death is not the worst of all evils“. The Progressives here shudder every time it is stated.
For them, life is not to be free in the traditional sense of the word. Freedom is the Collective. Freedom is belonging to such a collective. It also isn’t about remembering history because much of their philosophy regresses back to the mistakes and catastrophes of the 20th and 19th Centuries when Collectivism tried to overwhelm that most radical of American ideals – the idea that the Individual is sovereign and happens to have a government instead of what most of the world’s history and actions show to be the opposite – a country with subjects.