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How to be a ‘President for all Americans’ in three easy steps

March 5, 2021 Ian Underwood

Step 1: Claim that a President elected by only about 1/3 of all registered voters, a 221-211 majority in the House, and a 50-50 split in the Senate, represent a ‘mandate for action’. Step 2: Insult tens of millions of Americans by calling them Neanderthals because their views on the proper relationship between citizens and … Read more

Palate Cleanser – Some random thoughts

March 5, 2021 Skip

Sent to me by a Loyal Reader – and just in time, I might add! Some thoughts for the Day: Having plans sounds like a good idea until you have to put on clothes and leave the house. It’s weird being the same age as old people. When I was a kid I wanted to be … Read more

NH Registered Voters – Including Voters From All States Who Vote Here.

March 5, 2021

Today I went to the NH Secretary of State website for some basic figures regarding how many voters are on our checklists. I am impressed at our voter registration participation!!

Friday Open Thread – From SHAMPEACHMENT to Sham Insurrection

March 5, 2021 Skip

From Impeachments rising from sheer political hatred of Trump to Fortress Pelosi because she hates all of us, what to do? Giving rotten food to the National Guard protecting her shriveled butt in DC is no way to reward her SHAM Praetorian Guard isolating our betters from we, the Great Unwashed.

NH Senators Shaheen and Hassan “Vote Against” a 15.00 Per Hour Federal Minimum Wage

March 6, 2021March 5, 2021 Steve MacDonald

The Progressive bid to push the Federal Minimum Wage to fifteen dollars per hour hit a wall in the US Senate. The measure died 58-42 with the help of a handful of Democrats, including New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan.

Correcting The Legacy Media’s Crappy Coverage of the “Windham Election Incident” Selectboard Meeting

March 7, 2021March 5, 2021 Op-Ed

“Those new machines are known as the “ImageCast Precinct” optical scan tabulators. They are manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems.”

Two of the largest news media outlets in New Hampshire could only manage shoddy, half-baked, propaganda-style reporting of the Windham Board of Selectmen meeting held on March 1^st to quell the concerns of Windham voters following a partial recount of three down-ballot contests.

A word about Christopher Maidment besides “Welcome back!”

March 5, 2021 Skip

As many of you know, Christopher “graduated” from GraniteGrok and got a “real” gig over at NH Journal for a while; we wished him good luck even though we knew his byline would be laid to rest. Oh, WAIT!

Sununu - don't need no stinkin constitution

Notable Quote – Calling Gov. Sununu! Calling Gov. Sununu

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Skip

Humility not required, it seems: … I have never met an advocate of government intervention who did not admit, inadvertently, his own capacity for commissariat functions. He always has a plan, to which others must submit, and his certainty that the plan will produce the contemplated results does not permit him to brook criticism. Always … Read more

COVID19 and the Concord Fear Monitor

March 5, 2021 Steve MacDonald

The latest fad is called let my people go. The rescinding of Rona-restrictions is on the rise. But the elites are sensing some separation anxiety. They don’t want to let go of the control, so here comes the Concord Monitor to flatten the rising liberty curve in NH before it starts.

Data Point – Compare and Contrast

March 5, 2021 Skip

SHOT: Steve’s post on the Golden Globe ratings crash: The annual event lost 60% of its viewers compared to last year. It was down to 5.4 million viewers CHASER: Ratings for Donald Trump’s address at CPAC: In contrast, this report: “31 million viewers for Donald Trump’s CPAC speech. And that was just online.” (H/T: Instapundit)

More Royal Decrees for Sununu’s Long Emergency

March 5, 2021 Doris Hohensee

Sununu is at it again, issuing yet more of his unconstitutional Royal Decrees. In the 51 weeks (so far) of his Long Emergency, he’s signed 86 Emergency Orders and 28 Executive Orders. Here are the latest two.

25,000 armed troops to protect businesses

Armed Insurrection? FBI Says There Were No Firearms Confiscated From the Capitol Riot.

March 5, 2021 Steve MacDonald

An FBI official investigating the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol gave testimony before the Senate. There were no firearms confiscations that day. So what about that “armed insurrection” narrative we have listened to it for two months from all the Democrats and the establishment media?

Why I Am On Strike

March 5, 2021March 4, 2021 Norm Silber

I ran for and was elected to the NH House of Representatives (twice) as a Republican. I am not a Republican In Name Only. I support the platform of the New Hampshire Republican Party and I vote in accordance with its principles.

Constitutional Carry Advances in Tennesee Legislature – Liberals Lose Their Minds

March 4, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Tennessee has a lot of liberal crybabies in it. Want to know how I know? Governor Bill Lee has a package of legislation walking its way through the Legislature that includes Constitutional Carry. It would allow any law-abiding gun owner over 21 to carry open or concealed without a permit.

Human Being has No Meaning in Islam

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Steve MacDonald

How is Islam different? In Islam there is no humanity. There is no unitary ethic. There is no Golden Rule. Instead, there is the duality of the believer and the unbeliever. When we look at the ethical statements from the Hadith we see the illustration of duality.

Biden is Releasing Illegal Aliens Who Test Positive for Covid into America

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 NITZAKHON

Do you understand why the Biden Administration is releasing illegal aliens who test positive for COVID19 into the United States? A legal reason for NOT doing so is having an infectious disease. We have immigration law on this point.

Notable Quote – So you think the State is really that SMAHT? Versus the Markets?

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Skip

The premise of superior foresightedness in the State, and the premise of the harmlessness of imposing its will coercively, is as we have noted in orthodox economics about a century old.

A Comment on the Windham AccuVote Machines and Elections

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Op-Ed

Both sides of my family started serving our nation in 1776. Later, a relative would serve with Corporal Abraham Lincoln in Illinois. We had a relative serving with General Hood from Texas, Captain Halstead Burtis, while Major John Burtis served with the 13th NY Infantry.

About Freedom…

March 4, 2021 Op-Ed

Freedom is often talked about, praised, and glorified. We fight wars for freedom, sing songs about freedom, even our New Hampshire state motto pays homage to freedom, “Live free or die.” However, as I go about my duties as a Legislator and State Representative, I have serious concerns.

They Were Wrong. It Was Islam.

March 4, 2021

Islam came from Arabia. When it broke out of its shell in the desert the first place it went was to The Byzantine world. Byzantium was past its prime and well into decay. The Christians of the Byzantine recorded the event as an Arabic invasion. They were wrong. It was Islam.