New Hampshire taxpayers should take a few moments to measure the value of their ‘investment” in leadership at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). UNH President Mark Huddleston is the second highest paid Public University President in New England.

Huddleston’s compensation package – which increased 2.7 percent compared to the previous year – consisted of a base salary of $385,000 with a bonus of $107,800, but that total did not include nearly $60,000 in deferred compensation and retirement benefits, nor such perks as living at a university-owned house worth almost $1 million or access to a university car valued as nearly $17,000.

So, what do you, the taxpayer, get in return.

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Well, I guess Eric Estevez really out of this world – Here’s “The man out of this world” Eric Estevez campaigning on the moon for votes:

(H/T: Tom) And here’s the view from the other side:

(H/T: MikeS)  Hmm, “The man out of this world”.  I like that idea, so a question: anyone up for crowdfunding a campaign to keep him campaigning there – forever?  Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Heh!  ROTFLMAO when I saw this – it FITS!  Why?

Advanced technology (er, Esteves’s MIT brain trust?), self-assured (incompetent), pompous (to the point of grating), and can’t shoot straight either. In the end, he loses every time.

Oh, and Looney Tunes is a great description as well.

(H/T: Nana)

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Guess they believe in personally living their beliefs like Al Gore does with global warming (e.g., living big with energy budgets and CO2 emissions that of a neighborhood of “regular” folks). First, let’s start with what “the folk” earn:

The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2014 that: U.S. real (inflation adjusted) median household income was $51,939 in 2013 versus $51,759 in 2012, statistically unchanged. In 2013, real median household income was 8.0 percent lower than in 2007, the year before the latest recession.

Well, there certainly seems to be, just like the “grievance industry”, there’s one for “income inequality (at least in academia):

UC Berkeley ‘income inequality’ experts earn more than $300,000 a year

Several UC Berkeley economics professors who support “income inequality” research each earn more than $300,000 a year, putting them in the top 2 percent of the public university’s salary distribution, according to a recent report by a nonpartisan California think tank. The report pointed out that the prominent scholars leading or advising the Cal Berkeley Center for Equitable Growth are richly compensated as professors, even as the center seeks to research ways to create economic growth that is “fairly shared,” the center’s website states.

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The media is spending more time doing a forensic analysis of Melania's speech than the FBI spent on Hillary's emails.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 20, 2016

Not a perfect comparison. I think the FBI did an extensive investigation but were told to put all in boxes and walk away.

But regardless of what the FBI did or did not do, the media never covered that scandal, or the investigation, at any of its critical junctures, in a manner or to a degree that comes close to their forensic investigation of one paragraph of a convention speech by Melania Trump.

That’s probably the better point. The media is blatant in its bias and this is another example.

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Dave Ridley from #NHEXIT has released a statement on NH House Rep. Al Baldasaro’s remarks about executing Hillary Clinton.

‘NH: Trump advisor’s alleged Hillary-execution statement has stunning, secession-related precedent

NH State Rep Al Baldasaro’s reported controversial comments about executing Hillary Clinton…have an interesting historical precedent in another restless, northern region of the Western World. But the results appear to have been strikingly different.

Tommy Sheppard, a nationalist member of the Scottish Parliament, apparently said this regarding the royal wedding of a relatively harmless Kate Middleton: “Off with their heads.” Unlike Baldasaro, who’s reportedly facing investigation by America’s dreaded secret police, Wikipedia reports that Sheppard merely faced “some criticism.”

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A lot of people think Cruz wins only if Trump loses. I think that's probably wrong. https://t.co/16778crN7g

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 21, 2016

Jonah Goldberg, on the matter of breaking with decorum, as a sampling.

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To set the stage: NH Constitution, articles 2A and 10:

[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

And it was a very positive one! Simply gobsmacked that they printed it all.  The ‘graphs that caught my eye (entire thing after the jump):

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In 2014 Climate Cult Kool Aid Drinking yuppie tourists were going to make a point about global warming because “No Polar ice, dude.” They got stuck in the ice that was always there but that they’d been told was gone and had to be rescued.

It just happened again.

A group of adventurers, sailors, pilots and climate scientists that recently started a journey around the North Pole in an effort to show the lack of ice, has been blocked from further travels by ice.

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