Don’t we all dream of a system of fair and balanced taxation? But what the heck does that mean? Let’s see if we can work through the question to a solution.
Nepotism in the City of Nashua
The City of Nashua has a little known and unenforced anti-nepotism policy. It exists, presumably, to keep spouses and relatives out of the same departments and to prevent family members from managing family members. A policy to prevent or eliminate favoritism, and essential to ensure fair employment practices.
Yes, Mr. President … Bring Them Home.
This: Nineteen years … nearly two decades. With nothing to show for it … and many American lives lost and many Americans wounded. What the hell are we waiting for? Get our military the hell out of there now. Not only is withdrawal from Afghanistan the right policy, Americans are sorely in need of some … Read more
New Hampshire’s Budget Deficit – Will it be $700 Million?
If you are watching the state budget you understand there is a lot of red ink. Revenues for March were off in the neighborhood of 15%. In April revenues were off more than 35%, actually closer to 40%. In May revenues will be off by about 20%.
Pew Research Unintentionally Proves Democrat Districts Have Higher COVID-19 Body Counts
Ed Morrissey makes what should appear to any sane or sensible person to be the actual point of this graph released by PEW (pew-pew) Research. They claim that their data and this awesome graph they have proves something. It does, just not what they think.
‘Remote’ doesn’t mean ‘online’
Why do so many people assume that ‘remote learning’ is ‘online learning’, and that it has to involve lots of screen time? What ever happened to learning from reading, writing, conversation, activities (like building or fixing things, or practicing an instrument or a sport or an art), and so on? Remote learning just means doing … Read more
Sununu: If there are businesses that are kind of thwarting the guidance, we usually hear about It.
According to this headline, “As More N.H. Businesses Violate Emergency Orders, Sununu Cautions Against ‘Snitching.‘ “It’s a good headline. I clicked on it. Then I read it. And it’s accurate as far as it goes, but it never goes very far.
Stopping Petty Tyrannies Is How We Beat the Serious Ones
My dentist called today with a reminder for an upcoming scheduled appointment. We confirmed the date and time. Then the office worker said the practice requires patients to wear face masks. It made me pause for a moment.
Are Public School Teachers Giving Up on a Normal School Year for 2020-2021 (And is that Bad?)
File this under people send me stuff. A teacher who shall remain anonymous (no relation to me in case you are curious) shared some observations from several teachers’ groups with which they are a member. Summary: people are ALREADY giving up on a typical school year next year.
Really, Union Leader, the House GOP “revolts”???
I would say that Republicans stuck to their guns (in some cases, literally) and said in effect “Decisions have consequences.” Steve Shurtleff, the Democrat Speaker of the NH House, YOU shut the House down and we don’t have to go along with rewriting YOUR rules to make it work.”
If this Map Is Accurate Most of America Should Have Reopened by Now
Map Porn on Reddit has a county map of the entire country. It is divided into thirds by color. It shows where one-third of the COVID deaths occurred (among 4% of the population). The Second third represents 11% of the US Population. And the third – third, well, that would be the rest.
DISQUS Doodlings – the TreeHugger Eco-Socialist may not have a firm grasp on Price
I do like going out to find some debates – I think that all Conservatives should bring our philosophies and ideas into the Arena of Ideas to make the case in places we’d normally not be wanted. Like, as always, TreeHugger. I’m sorta like the Bruce Currie over there with the exception that I never … Read more
How to re-open public schools
About the only thing we can say for sure about the next school year is that it will be very different from previous ones. How can we make the best use of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the bathwater, while keeping a firm grip on the baby?
2005 NIH Journal: “Chloroquine Is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread”
The National Institutes of Health, the agency Dr. Tony Fauchi leads, published research in August of 2005 in their own Virology Journal. The title of the Report? “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.”
Scammers – Can’t Get Much More Blatant Than This
There are other viruses out there besides the Wu Flu. And no small number of them are computer based. Given that I get between 300 to 800 emails a day (more the closer we get to some kind of election when all of the PACs start blasting stuff out), there is always a number of emails that I know to be scammers and n’er-do-wells.
This Meme About California Reminds me of Nashua and Jan Schmidt
First, it speaks to the idiocy of the Progressive Government. Petty and vindictive, with the promotion of things and actions we used to assign stigma to informally protect traditional society from “infections” that twist it into the Left’s own image. In this, I thought of Steve’s post on Jan Schmidt and Nashua.
Not so Great Britain Pays over £9 Million To Wind Farms to Stop Producing Energy
Britain fell for the scheme. That wind and Solar are cleaner and the energy source of the future. Neither of those things is true. And while no one has ever argued that they would be cheaper than fossil fuels, maybe they could have mentioned how you’d have to pay for nothing on top of that.
Op-Ed: For Some Students, a ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Public School Education Just Doesn’t Work
We couldn’t believe what we were hearing a few weeks ago when Nashua’s Executive Councilor Debora Pignatelli stated on WMUR’s Close Up that she believes the education of students at private schools or public charter schools are not “legitimate concerns” of our elected state officials.
Notable Quote – John Tierney
Higgs sees government, as usual, vastly expanding during the crisis, and he’s sure that it will not shrink back to its former scale once the crisis is over. It never does, as he famously documented in his 1987 book, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, and in later works exploring this … Read more
Jan Schmidt – There is No Fine, and Nobody Will get Fined if they Just Wear the Blasted Mask
Jan Schmidt’s Social Media mumblings are the gift that keeps on giving. For example, Nashua instituted an ordinance as an emergency order (text and links here). It requires anyone going into buildings (offices, etc.) in the City to wear a mask over their nose and mouth. Jan says there is no fine, but then she says there is.