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A Holly Jolly Christmas with a Touch of Despondency

December 9, 2021December 8, 2021 Op-Ed

The Fox News Christmas Tree was set afire early this morning. The blaze was spectacular. My response has been distressing and demoralizing. Where is my beloved country going? A Christmas Tree? An honored tradition? A symbol of love and redemption? Have we no soul left? What could the motive possibly be? Maybe it was meant … Read more

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Sterilizing America

December 7, 2021 Steve Earle

What is it with this Administration, whose every program and action seems well planned to create failure and disaster?

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Baby, It’s Cold Outside

December 6, 2021 Steve Earle

I’ve been waking up mornings, checking the temperature out on the porch and it’s typically below freezing since it is December. Then I turn the thermostat up a couple of degrees and get on with the day. Betting most of the rest of the people of this nation above the Mason Dixon are pretty much doing the same.

Are You Ready for a 37% Increase in Your County Property Taxes?

December 4, 2021 Norm Silber

Are you ready for a 37% increase in your county property taxes? Belknap County Commissioners Peter Spanos, Hunter Taylor and Glen Waring have proposed a budget for county operations for next year that would raise taxes by 37%. No, that is not a typo.

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Darrell Brooks Jr. – Turning Himself into a Victim? Oh, the Injustice

December 3, 2021 Steve Earle

Poor, poor Darrell Brooks Jr. is still sitting in jail but complaining he is being demonized and dehumanized by authorities. Not even his Mommy has come to visit him in jail (Even so Mom blames the Criminal Justice System for failing her son.)

Another Crisis at Belknap County Nursing Home

November 27, 2021 Op-Ed

Another crisis at the Belknap county nursing home has arisen. It must be dealt with on Monday, Thursday is too late. In a story at the Laconia Daily Sun, Michael Mortensen asked the right question, “why the commissioners were resorting to a special meeting rather than waiting for the commission’s next regularly scheduled meeting on … Read more

Bodily Integrity Is an Inalienable Right, and Here Is the Proof…

November 26, 2021 Op-Ed

Just as the word “privacy” is not explicitly mentioned in the constitution of the U.S.A, but it has long been held as a right implicit in the bill of rights; so too is the right of bodily integrity, a right implicit in the bill of rights!

The Gunstock Master Plan

November 26, 2021 Op-Ed

The Gunstock Area Commission (GAC) is a public body and is required to operate in compliance with RSA 91-A. If they were following the law there would be minutes and notices coming from the Master Planning Committee outlining the work of the committee.

Six Dead and Counting

November 24, 2021 Steve Earle

That stellar hero of the Left, champion of Blacks Lives Matter, and killer of now a sixth victim in the Christian Christmas Parade attack, Darrell Brooks Jr, has been offered bail once again. This time, it is $5 million.

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“Friendsgiving” not “Thanksgiving” ?

November 23, 2021 Op-Ed

Editor’s Note: Yet another attempt by the Left to change our common language out from underneath us?

New Hampshire’s “Mother of Thanksgiving”

November 23, 2021 Op-Ed

Do you remember making hand outline turkey art in elementary school, while learning about how the Pilgrims and the Indians (now called Native Americans) sat down together for a harvest celebration feast at Plimouth Plantation in 1621?

Live Free or Die? Just a Marketing Phrase Now?

January 26, 2025November 22, 2021 John Diefenbach

Greetings from Florida – where we have a REAL governor – NOT a Dictator!!! YES. I read all about Fuhrer Sununu and his jack-booted Police State, er, State Police presence at the (infamous) October meeting, which I shared w/many folks around the country. IMHO, & having lived in NH (for 26-1/2 yrs), NH cannot hold … Read more

My Response to the NH GOP Propaganda Machine

November 22, 2021November 22, 2021 Op-Ed

The NH GOP sent an embarrassingly deceptive email to their members to assist Governor Sununu with his attempted coverup regarding the nine arrests the Governor oversaw on 10/13/21 at the Executive Councilor (EC) meeting.

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Molecular Biologist: When You MIX Politics with Science, the Result Is a Toxic Potion.

November 18, 2021 Op-Ed

SCIENCE: FDA reports and CDC confirms: Sars-COV2 RT-PCR tests have been inaccurate. Unable to differentiate COVID from the common cold, they officially join the scrap heap in December 2021. Were there ever any “super spreaders”?

Hb1169 – So Elected Representative Masquerading as School Board Members Want to Continue to “Silence” Their Constituents?

November 19, 2021November 18, 2021 Skip

According to the National School Board Association, I’m a self-acknowledged Domestic Terrorist. Eighty percent of the Gilford School Board agreed with them (after all, the Left has taught us that Silence is Complicity, right?) when I asked if they thought I was one.

Mike Sylvia Comments to the Belknap County Delegation

November 23, 2021November 17, 2021 Op-Ed

Comments delivered Tuesday, 11/16: We are here tonight to address what has become a hot topic around Belknap county and beyond; Gunstock Mountain Resort.

Sununu Is Not a “Live Free or Die” Champion. He’s a “Live under My Thumb or Die” Champion.

November 16, 2021 Op-Ed

Last November, a week and a half after getting re-elected to his third term as governor, Chris Sununu issued an emergency executive order instituting a masking requirement for everyone in New Hampshire both inside and outside.

Is Someone Putting This School Superintendent Under a Microscope?

November 15, 2021 Skip

Somebody, or some-bodies, are starting to ask questions about Laconia School District Superintendent Steve Tucker. You know, the one that keeps repeating that there is no Critical Race Theory being taught in the Laconia Schools under his watchful gaze? Yeah, people have some questions about that.

BCRC November Meeting – Resolution: Investigation into the October Executive Council Arrests, Therese Grinnell

November 14, 2021 Skip

Wednesday was the November meeting of the Belknap County Republican Committee held at the Gilford Public Library. There were the normal “reports” (not recorded),

BCRC November Meeting – Matt Mowers Makes His Case to Be the New Us Congressman from NH.

November 11, 2021 Skip

Also last night, what will continue for the next year, was another person seeking the NH GOP nomination for US Congress in CD-1 to replace current Democrat Chris Pappas. That would be Matt Mowers taking another run at unseating Chris Pappas from representing NH’s First Congressional District: