Some of the latest polling from RCP, if your curious…

NH – Suffolk: Trump 27, Kasich 12, Cruz 12, Bush 11, Rubio 10, Christie 6, Carson 5, Fiorina 4, Paul 2, Huckabee 0, Santorum 0

NH – NBC/WSJ/Marist: Trump 31, Cruz 12, Rubio 11, Kasich 11, Bush 8,  Christie 7, Carson 5, Paul 4, Fiorina 4, Huckabee 1, Santorum 0

Iowa – Gravis: 31, Cruz 27, Rubio 13, Carson 7, Bush 6, Kasich 4, Christie 3, Fiorina 3, Paul 2, Huckabee 2, Santorum 1

National – IBD/TIPP: Trump 31, Cruz 21, Rubio 10, Carson 9, Bush 5, Paul 4, Kasich 2, Fiorina 2, Christie 1, Huckabee 1,  Santorum 1

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Yesterday the New Hampshire House Health and Human Services Committee held a public hearing on re-authorizing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion (they renamed it to the Health Protection Plan because a majority of Granite Staters disapprove of Obamacare). The hearing was to discuss House Bill 1696 which re-authorizes Medicaid Expansion through 2020.

The original plan was supposed to sunset when federal funds went below 100%. Legislators lied to New Hampshire. The federal funds will indeed be dipping below the 100% in 2017 but they were in the house pushing a re-authorization rather than the sunset it as promised.

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… scratch that.

I heard about this William F. Buckley quote but didn’t read it until a few days ago.  And since that time, I’ve had a chance to chew on it.

Parts of Buckley’s statement do seem to fit, do they not?  Especially the reference to Trump’s vanity.  And regardless of what one thinks about Trump’s style — effusive self-aggrandizement, the maundering occasionally incoherent free-verse, the combative elbows-out swagger — the criticism regarding “a successful business man” in this quote rings fair in my view… at least it did on first glance.  Now, I’m not so sure.

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Due to the votes of courageous Executive Councilors Wheeler, Kenney, and Sununu, taxpayer funding is no longer flowing to Planned Parenthood health centers here in NH. Under the continued scandals and propaganda, the Progressives in New Hampshire are working hard to put Planned Parenthood hands BACK into your pockets.  Quite amazing to be sure.  There are many parts to this puzzle, so hang on.

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The Washington Monument Syndrome is the typical response when a bureaucracy is denied its funding – it ALWAYS goes after the most newest and brightest Shiny Object – and then either deny access to it by taxpayers (e.g., close the W.M. to tourists) or declare DISASTER if their funding is denied.  And in this case, monies not under the control of anyone but by them.  Only a part from the Nashua Telegraph (paywall), but enough:

Nashua, Manchester narcotic units threatened by cut in funds

Oh NO!  Those dreaded city councilors / Mayors / Budget Committees – how DARE they not fund their departments to fit their needs to defend their citizens!  Why those cheap…..oh wait:

NASHUA – The federal government’s decision to freeze payments to local and state law enforcement agencies from its Asset Forfeiture Program could cripple the Nashua and Manchester narcotics units and others statewide at a time when the heroin and opioid epidemic is rampant, their police chiefs said Wednesday.

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My electric bill has the average monthly temperate on it. It actually has last years average monthly temperature and this year’s. I have at least 7 year’s worth of this data available to me.  So I collected it, generated an annual average temperature for each year, and plotted it out above.

Based on this data the 12-month average temperature is not rising.

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