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Yesterday, the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on House Bill 1739 (HB 1739), AN ACT prohibiting female genital mutilation.  The hearing was led by testimony from the bill’s main sponsor, Representative Victoria Sullivan (R-Manchester).

Sullivan spoke about the barbaric practice and explained that female genital mutilation (FGM) is not a religious-based practice but that it is cultural based:

According to the World Health Organization, there is no medical reason to have this procedure. It is considered a human rights violation. FGM is not a religious ritual as is commonly thought. In fact, it pre-dates most organized religion. This is a cultural practice that mutilates the genitals of young girls as a way to control their sexuality. This barbaric procedure often results in severe bleeding, lifelong problems urinating, infections, painful intercourse, cysts later in life, complications in childbirth, increased risk of newborn fatalities and death of the mother during delivery.

Sullivan’s goal is to protect young girls from this horrific practice that is both physically and emotionally damaging to them for the rest of their lives.

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The greatest, freest industrial power in history can do a lot better than “ObamaCare.” And while it could never go away fast enough, the nibbling began with add-ons in Tax Reform, and the left isn’t ignoring the threat to their sinister plan to socialize medicine in the United States.

To that end, they are promoting a new proposal that would repeal ObamaCare and replace it with something worse.

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A shooting threat against Hanover High School has been traced to a 14-year-old girl in Canada.

A plucky berg in California and its Mayor Pro-tem, a descendant of Japanese immigrants, has moved to protect local businesses from the trap set by the state.

Los Alamitos, the second smallest city in Orange County, just passed a huge ordinance asserting the city’s compliance with the United States Constitution. Specifically, in an unprecedented yet necessary state, the council voted to opt out of the immoral, unconstitutional mandates of SB 54, aka the California “Values” Act or Sanctuary State law.

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Holding two different views on essentially the same underlying philosophy:

“My favorite thing about the gun control debate in America is that the exact same people who insist that buying a gun at a store, which at a minimum requires a government-issued ID and background check, is too easy will also tell you that requiring an ID to vote is an impossibly high hurdle to expect average people to overcome.”

“Are you really who you say you are” is really the

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A state that is using the “death by a thousand cuts” in killing the Second Amendment Rights in their State has summed up the idea of no ID needed to vote here: 

Laws??  We don’t need no stinkin’ laws!  After all, they just put an illegal alien into a post in their State Government (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Lizbeth Mateo, an illegal alien and citizen of Mexico who came to the country with her parents when she was 14, is the first [illegal] undocumented person to be appointed to a statewide government job in the United States. The job, to serve on the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee, is an official government position that seeks to aid poor and “underserved communities” in gaining access to college. Mateo’s appointed was approved by the California Senate Rules Committee Wednesday.  In a statement, Mateo said illegal aliens are “underrepresented” in government. “While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made.”

Gosh, I just can’t understand WHY they are “underrepresented” with

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(reformatted, emphasis mine):

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed House Bill 1510, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks of gestation, on Monday in a closed ceremony attended by legislative supporters and abortion opponents…and was slapped with a lawsuit less than an hour later. The law and responding challenge set up a confrontation sought by abortion opponents [SIC – I think that should have been “future murderers – Skip], who are hoping federal courts will ultimately prohibit abortions before a fetus is viable. Current federal law does not.  Some legal experts have said a change in the law is unlikely unless the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court changes in a way that favors abortion opponents.

“We are saving more of the unborn than any state in America, and what better thing can we do?” Bryant said in a video his office posted on social media.

Note that line:  who are hoping federal courts will ultimately prohibit abortions before a fetus is viable. Current federal law does not. Once again we see the Left, having failed in the Legislative process, turn to the courts, packed with like minded judges, to have them rule “legislatively” from the bench.  What should be done is to rule on the letter of the law and what is actually written and not rule on words that aren’t there BY DESIGN AND PASSAGE and “rule in” words out of thin air.

Oh, that viable part?

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At 2 1/2, he’s learning quick – he knows his way around TMEW’s iPad like nobody’s business.  It’s Sesame Street all the time – he’s in love (like many his age) with Elmo.  Elmo brushing teeth. He gets his own toothbrush out and brushes in time to the music.  And at one point, each and every time he watches it, Michelle Obama comes in view.  As I write this, he’s doing what TMEW noticed a bit ago…

…yes, he turns her it off.  Absolutely NO prodding by either me or TMEW to do so – Bwahahahahahaha!

Speaking of the Grandson – tomorrow is going to be a great day…

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The combined online readership of the Berlin and Conway Daily Sun.com have (only briefly, we hope) knocked us out of fifth place in our list of Alexa Rankings in this March update. But not by much. And not for long.

We’ve experienced another month of exponential growth in unique visitors and page views. Some percentage of those will be using the Alexa add-on in their browsers (hint-hint) which helps out ranking with this globally recognized metric.

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Kurt Schlichter has a new piece at Townhall titled, “The Joy and Necessity of Driving Liberals Nuts,” which is not at all unlike what we do around here. With pleasure, I might add.

But is that all this is? Is our movement simply about slamming the people we’re annoyed at and nothing more?

Of course not.

Napoleon (allegedly) warned that you should never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, and dismissing your opponent – especially one who snatched away the presidency from The Smartest Women in the History of Ever – is always a grave strategic error. But we can safely discuss it here because they won’t listen.

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A few years ago Mount Holyoke College announced it would no longer permit any presentation of The Vagina Monologues because,

“at its core, the show offers an extremely narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman … Gender is a wide and varied experience, one that cannot simply be reduced to biological or anatomical distinctions, and many of us who have participated in the show have grown increasingly uncomfortable presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive.”

Fast forward to now, and the College has taken another “small” step toward eliminating other forms of thinking which are inherently reductionist and exclusive.

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FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is getting all sorts of love from the left after Jeff Sessions fired him Saturday, a day before he could earn a full pension. And he’s got things to say to the media, which is great because McCabe is so dirty the more he talks the longer the rope with which he’ll hang himself.

But before we get back to any of that we need to get to this.

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A little more perspective on the political “wisdom” of yutes.

…[E]ven if students really were disproportionately likely to be victims of gun violence, that would not be a good reason to give special credence to their policy views. Personally experiencing a horrific event or being at disproportionate risk of suffering one, doesn’t necessarily give you special insight into how to prevent such tragedies from occurring.

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