My wife and I have friends in Belgium. We have visited there many times. One of our friends has a daughter we have known since she was two and who is now twenty. I walked her to school one morning and stayed with her until the teachers gathered all the kids up and took them inside. The building was like any other commercial property on the street except it had a play yard.

When I got back, I commented that Yasmine was lucky to have a school so close and her mother told me she picked that school because it was close and Yasmine liked it. Apparently, citizens in Belgium can pick and choose the school where their kids go.

Imagine the horror that would ensue in the American government school monopoly if that was true here?

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From May 4th, 2009, Jeanne Shaheen for New Hampshire.

“In New Hampshire, we are already seeing the effects of climate change. Winters are warmer; snowfall is declining (although I know it doesn’t seem that way after this winter); and spring is arriving on average a week earlier than at the turn of the 20th century. As a result, our forests are changing and our wildlife habitats have been affected.

We could toss a few more “it doesn’t seem that way” winters since 2009, including this one. Which, according to Michael Mann the godfather of Mann-made global warming is “exactly what we should expect.”

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SHOT: uber-Progressive Keith Ellison, Democrat Congressman (D-MN) and DNC Deputy Chair endorses Antifa

https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/948657342308147202

Antifa is a far-left group that uses violence to achieve progressive political ends, including starting riots and fires at the University of California, Berkeley. While the group claims to be anti-Fascist, they routinely shut down the speech of people they disagree with. Antifa clashed with far-right protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year…According to Bray, it is acceptable to use violence against “fascism” because what he considers to be fascist ideas — like those shared by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopolous — aren’t worthy of debate.

CHASER: Antifa Website Posts Directions for Sabotaging ATMs After Anarchists ‘Wreck’ Nearly 20 in Portland

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The effort to put pressure on sanctuary cities hopped back into the news cycle this week following remarks by Thomas Homan, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

We need to hold these politicians accountable for their actions,” Thomas Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told Fox News. “This isn’t the America I grew up in. We got to take these sanctuary cities on. We got to take them to court. And we got to start charging some of these politicians with crimes.”

And yes, the Feds have that authority.

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Yesterday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to pass Senate Bill 193 (SB 193), AN ACT establishing education freedom savings accounts for students. The goal of the bill is to allow parents, who choose to set up an Education Freedom Savings Account (ESA), to receive a small portion of the taxpayer dollars they are already paying to the state back, to use for their child’s educational needs as they see fit.

There’s been a lot of lies and misinformation spread by Democrats and of course, New Hampshire Unions, but the main purpose of the bill is to allow children to have the best education possible. Not every parent can afford to pay high property taxes, which are mostly spent on local public schools, and then turn around and pay tuition to send their child to a private school that best serves their child’s needs.

ESAs will help give parents more choices for their children if they are not in a public school that is meeting their child’s needs. Some children thrive in public schools, others do not. A parent knows better than a government official, their child’s educational needs. SB 193, is another option for parents, especially those who cannot afford to send their children elsewhere.

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“Paint me” like one of your Trotskyite ‘girls.’

“…from time to time, American colleges and universities are subject to witness hate speech or activity that is disguised as free speech. Such has been the case in recent weeks at several colleges and universities in San Antonio and throughout Texas.

As members of the Higher Education Council of San Antonio (HECSA), we — the presidents of colleges and universities throughout this community and supporters — feel that it is important for us to speak out and make a distinction between diversity of thought and disingenuous misrepresentation of free speech.

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News Release
For Immediate Release:

Birdsell pleased by Senate support of common sense voting laws

Concord, NH – Today, the Senate passed HB 372, a bill which would clarify the definitions of residency and domicile as it pertains to voting. Senator Regina Birdsell (R-Hampstead) issued the following statement:

“I am pleased to see HB 372 passed the New Hampshire Senate today. With the support of Secretary of State Bill Gardner, this legislation clarifies where one may vote, without changing the requirements for voting eligibility in the state of New Hampshire.”
“Free and open elections are essential to supporting democracy and in a state where elections are separated by very few votes, each one is critically important. By clarifying the definitions of residency and domicile we are making our elections more accessible by offering individuals’ greater ease in understanding the requirements surrounding New Hampshire elections as well as aligning our state with the voting laws in our neighboring New England states.”

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To the Editor:

Americans could almost be excused for believing the lie that the Trump tax cuts would harm poor and middle-income Americans because Democrat politicians and the mainstream media have been lying about it so persistently, enthusiastically, and authoritatively. But rational Americans have learned to question everything that Democrats, including most of the mainstream media, say.

The Trump tax cut will benefit poor and middle-income Americans; even the Washington Post admits that about 8 in every 10 Americans will see a tax cut next year. Working Americans should see the benefit in their February paychecks. Only about 5 percent of Americans, almost exclusively people with incomes in the top 10-15 percent, will have a tax increase.

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Yep, still unwinding the stack and will be for quite some time.  Couldn’t let this one go by without a quick thought and glad to see that Chris Sununu put a stake into this gawd-awful idea that Republican (you know, the Party of LESSER and cheaper government??) Executive Councilor Russell Prescott wanted to raise the tolls simply to speed up already planned highway fixes (if you’d stop raiding the Highway fund* you’da been there by now):

Gov. Sununu says he won’t allow highway toll increase

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This has been sitting in my stack of stuff since mid-December, so it’s time to FIFO the stack. Our Democrat Congressional Coven just can’t seem to let go of the idea that Government has to do everything for everybody at every time.  Especially troubling to them is if Government ratchets up the regulatory environment, it can NEVER EVER be loosened.

Like with Net Neutrality. 

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Sometimes you need the right goal to get people motivated. New Media is no different. So, in my quest to encourage more liking, sharing, tweeting, and writing, I went looking for a goal. Something we could work towards as a group. And I settled on our Alexa Rank.

What is Alexa Tracking and how did we stack up?

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The only thing that triggers Democrats more than saying the word “Trump” is suggesting that they shouldn’t be taking money from you and giving it to Planned Parenthood. They’re apoplectic at the thought. Some Neo-Feminists will sit and knit if you put Trump and Planned Parenthood (women’s health, etc) in the same sentence. And women knitting might be the least feminist thing after staying home and baking cookies.

So what will they make of this?

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The media splash stories in large font types “above the fold” when pipeline failures fit their progressive narrative. But we never hear a peep out of them when the source of those failures is a man (woman, whatever)-caused disasters at the hands of liberal Eco-Terrorists.

In October 2016, a group of five demonstrators cut through padlocks and chains to enter the flow stations of the Dakota Access Pipeline.  Dubbed Valve Turners, they shut off the pipeline’s valves, temporarily stopping the flow of oil through the pipeline.  Local law enforcement officials in North Dakota apprehended the group. A court found two of the protestors guilty of felony charges, two more are awaiting trial, and a fifth was found guilty of second-degree burglary.

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