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Has UNH Been Misrepresenting Academic Credit-Hours for Decades?

Every Legislator in New Hampshire should or shall receive the letter below alleging  an ongoing misrepresentation of credit-hours by the University of New Hampshire. The letter and report assert that UNH gives extra credit hours compared to the actual amount of instruction and course work. Credit hours affect full-time status, completion of degree programs, grants and aid, …

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MSNBC Has a Poll and 92% Say Yes, People Should Be Allowed To Carry Guns In Public

MSNBC Has a Poll: “Should People Be Allowed To Carry Guns In Public?” As of 2:40pm EST on Dec. 28th,  353,000 votes (92%)  – Yes, The Second Amendment Guarantees it.     14,000 votes ( 4%)  – Only for Self Defense     16,000 votes ( 4%)  – No, It’s too dangerous. Well, there you …

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Guest Post – Harold Turner on Net Metering and Free Markets

This first appeared in the Concord Monitor (reformatted, emphasis mine): First, what is “net metering”? It is the process of using a new “smart meter” to monitor and record the flow of electricity at your home, business or municipal building, both to and from your local electrical utility.  My smart meter has been in place in …

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Hey Statists! Which economic system cures Poverty best?

Continuing on that 23 different types of deoderants, 18 different pairs of sneakers, and people making decisions all on their own and such; yet another post to which Statists would like you not to know (emphasis mine, reformatted): Sorry, Socialists, But Capitalism Is Killing Absolute Poverty To hear the global left these days, you’d think the …

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A Visual Interpretation Of The Budget Deal

First, this gem from 2013 by Branco (with a little amateur rework): Then this timeless number from Nate Beeler, also with a little “help”: 2013, 2015, what difference, at this point, does it make!!

Democrat Jim Webb’s Third Party Presidential Campaign?

Hillary Clinton’s failed vision in Libya & the Arab Spring are foreign policy leadership at its worst. https://t.co/NC80rbKLfP — Jim Webb (@JimWebbUSA) December 26, 2015 Bloomberg | Since dropping out of the race for the Democratic nomination, Webb has continued to maintain his Webb2016 website, which he has updated with posts about the possibilities of an …

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Stupid The Bruce

Susan Bruce has this idea in her head that the First Amendment (presumably to the US Constitution, she might mean something else) protects her Facebook status updates from being deleted. We’re not going to take this space to quibble over her “interpretation” of the law of the land. Instead, Susan, if you do decide to use screen …

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Anecdotal Evidence Flies in the Face of Government’s “Hard Facts”

The November numbers are in; the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that New Hampshire’s unemployment rate is at 3.2%, which compares favorably to the reported national unemployment rate of 5.0%. (See the BLS chart below.) Normally, both of those numbers would be something for us to cheer about, or at the very least, we …

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