Yep, yet another RSA 91-A-athon from your’s truly on topics and issues I know best. I’ve been putting them off for a while; it’s been a longish past year with TMEW suffering from a 4-month bout with Shingles and then a total knee replacement this past March.
DESSA, Social Sentinel – RSA 91-A Right To Know demand – student and personal data
Let me set the stage: Public schools are Government schools – a near-monopoly in the K-12 education space and one can see, by the actions of Selfish Socialist (and bigot) Andru Volinsky, Government and its supporters on the Left (like teachers unions) aren’t about to give that up without a fight.
And now we’re back to the Scott Dunn Monument to Economic Illiteracy (otherwise known as the Gilford Recycling Center)
I’ve been speaking and writing in opposition to the redoing of the town dump. $1.4 million dollars to create the Gilford Recycling Center, at a time when the recycling marketplace was drying up faster than our lawns this summer.
If leftists get their way on eliminating police, we’ll be in hell
Innovative, well-thought-out leftist reasoning examined. Defund the Police: The positives would be the government saving billions every year. Consider how much tax money we allocate to recruit, train, equip, and supply our police forces. That wouldn’t be the only savings either.
The No. 1 Reason to Re-Elect President Trump & Preserve Control of the Senate
When Chief Justice Roberts was nominated and being considered for confirmation to the Court, the Left opposed his nomination on the grounds that he would be “too conservative” and that he would cement the so-called conservative block on the Court. Well, how’s that worked out so far?
Black Lives Matter Rally in Laconia: A Few Observations
The coverage of the Black Lives Matter Rally in Laconia (Laconia Daily Sun, June 9) is so full of hyperbole and misleading statements that I don’t know whether to be angry or sad.
Let’s turn to the last page, shall we?
The Secret Pollution of Lake Winnipesaukee
The major gem of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire is our famous Lake Winnipesaukee. Its 72 square miles of water are dotted with 274 islands, some larger than others, and many with “camps” or homes on them. To call some of these edifices “camps” might be a major understatement.
Norm Silber Announces Run for State Rep in Gilford & Meredith
Wednesday was the start of the filing period to run for state offices in New Hampshire. Although the General Election is not until November 3, if primary elections are required for any offices they will be held on September 8. A key issue this election cycle will be the level of taxation New Hampshire citizens … Read more
Some Steps to Reduce Voter Fraud
If we really want to have the voter registration laws in New Hampshire mean something as far as ballot integrity, this writer humbly suggests the following steps as solutions: Eliminate same-day registration. Cause the voter checklists to be “closed” a reasonable time before each election, say 30 days or 60 days, after which if you … Read more
Tales from the BudComm – Take down of “my bright idea but paid for by taxpayers”
This should be the last post in this series as my last official meeting was back in January at the Public Hearing for the School District Budget. Officially, I “retired” and did not run for re-election for a fourth term back in March.
Lawyers’ Professional Standards Group Promotes Gun Control Over Protecting Rights
How many lawyers does it take to… stop me if you have heard that joke before? Sadly, what the American Bar Association (ABA) has done recently is no laughing matter. Apparently, currying political favor is more important to the ABA than fulfilling its core mission.
College Student Voting- a new decision
The voter registration laws in New Hampshire are, and have been, at best, illogical, and contradictory at worst. Putting aside for the moment the idiocy of having same-day registration and “open” primaries in which voters not registered to a particular political party can obtain a ballot and vote in a primary of whatever political party … Read more
Preserving our Constitutional Republic
The latest revelations of the Susan Rice memo to herself in the early stages of the attempted coup against the Trump administration before the President even took office has brought to mind the critical importance of the necessity of not only re-electing the President but also maintaining, and perhaps increasing, control of the US Senate. … Read more
The Citizens United decision, the First Amendment, and a short treatise on corporations
One of the candidates in the Republican primary for US Senate has recently surprised most liberty-loving citizens of New Hampshire by supposedly supporting an amendment to the First Amendment of the US Constitution to overturn the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the well-known Citizens United case!
“Who is Your Pick to Win NH’s Congressional District One Republican Primary?”
It’s new poll time as we turn our eye toward the races for the US House of Representatives. We’ll start with District one. We want your opinion. Which Republican primary candidate would you like to see challenge Chris’ Norovirus’ Pappas?
Bloody Kansas Redux
The State of Kansas has an election law requiring documentary proof of citizenship (“DPOC”) for voter registration. Why is this issue important to us in New Hampshire? NH law, RSA 654:1, makes being a citizen of the US one of the essential qualifications for registration to vote. This past Wednesday, April 29, the federal Court … Read more
Denaro Elected State Chairman of NH College Republicans
For Immediate Release: 4/18/2020: MANCHESTER, NH – Today, the New Hampshire Federation of College Republicans are proud to announce that Matt Denaro has been elected Chairman.
A Personal Endorsement- No More Futile Gestures!
Remember the concept of noble but futile gestures, as embodied by the walkout scene in Animal House? As we approach the election season, the question in the primary for the Republican nominee for US Senate comes down to whether we want to make noble but futile gestures or do we actually want to win. I … Read more
The Kung-Flu Weapon?
A little more than 20 years ago, Ken Alibek, a defector from the Soviet Union, exposed the extensive biological warfare activities of the USSR in his book, Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World – Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It. The book is … Read more
Coronavirus in New Hampshire and Belknap County at a Glance
As of close of business 4/6/20 New Hampshire had 715 cases of coronavirus. That means as a state New Hampshire had 53 cases of coronavirus for every 100,000 people. In terms of negative outcomes New Hampshire has had 9 deaths attributed to coronavirus. That means for every 100,000 people in the state there have been … Read more