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From the Women’s Defense League On Thursday, the full New Hampshire House of Representatives shot down two gun control bills that were voted Inexpedient to Legislate out of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. House Bill 56 The first bill was HB 56 – requiring a background check and mandatory waiting period during certain … Read more
We learned that as our committees are cranking out bills, we’ll be taking a break next week and then going full steam every Thursday in March. Today we tackled 31 bills and were graced with the attendance of about 204 Republicans and 165 Democrats in the House. I’ll just be giving a report today of … Read more
New Hampshire is a great place with a low overall tax burden, high quality of life, low poverty, and excellent average wages, and it is one of the safest places to live in America. It also has a lot of secrets buried under the porch, in the basement, and in the backyard. Once Upon A … Read more
UPDATE – They have changed the exec session to February 26th. The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee is scheduled to vote on HB 159 – aka – the ‘gun confiscation bill’, in an executive session, on Friday, February 21st. You can read more about the bill here. You can find even more information about it here. An amendment … Read more
In hour one, a quick report on “National Not My President Day,” followed by Rep. Michael Grainger on his bill to eliminate annual passenger vehicle inspections in New Hampshire. In hour two, longtime Grok contributor Claire Best joins the program to discuss the web of NH connections from judges to AGs, to the NGOs who … Read more
I was recently asked: How would you go about eliminating public schools? I think we would eliminate public schools in the same way that we would eliminate public oil refineries, and public farms and ranches, and public grocery stores, and… Oh, wait, we don’t have those, do we? We don’t have those, because we have … Read more
In January, news broke that Shannon Buttermore—a Gilford mother of three—had been denied a kidney transplant by Dartmouth Hitchcock because she refused a COVID vaccine shot. Dartmouth’s actions were an open violation of New Hampshire’s 2022 “Patients Bill of Rights,” which prohibits the denial of medical care on the basis of vaccination status. Although Buttermore had … Read more
Protect Due Process, Protect Our Rights House Bill 159 (HB 159) and the Senate version SB 144, dubbed “Bradley’s Law,” is presented as a well-intentioned fix to keep guns away from the violently mentally ill. Its sponsor, Chairman Terry Roy, claims it’s a necessary step to close a loophole exposed by the tragic murder of … Read more
If you’d like to take a walk down memory lane, New Hampshire has a colorful relationship with allowing boys and men to play girls and women’s sports. From flag lawsuits to sexual predator relatives, there’s no shortage of soap-opera-level intrigue. One consistent thing is the effort by activists to save women’s sports and that of … Read more
Part 1 went rather long (even for me), so I decided to split the remainder into this post. To recap, Gilford School Board Superintendent Kirk Beitler stated the following when High School Principal Anthony Sperazzo announced the formation (and seeking official backing thereof) of a new student club called “Prism” – a “safe space for … Read more
If you are reading this, it has been sixteen days since the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) was publicly informed of the need to submit corrected campaign finance reports to the Secretary of State’s Office to account for missing expenditures totaling nearly $170,000.00. If you’ve been following the story, you’ll know that, according to … Read more
There’s a rumor going around that there is a web site where people with Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs) can go to find people who need things like printers, or musical instruments, or martial arts gear. Holders of EFA accounts can use them to buy things that have been approved (by the Children’s Scholarship Fund, which … Read more
Important Hearings this Week Support Parents Rights & Women’s Privacy The Parents’ Bill of Rights is back. The House version (HB10), sponsored by Speaker Sherm Packard, will have a hearing on Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 PM in the Children and Family Law Committee (Legislative Office Building Room 206-208). This bill affirms that parents have a … Read more
From the Women’s Defense League On Thursday, February 20th, the full New Hampshire House will vote on two gun control bills we’ve already told you about: HB – 352 The Voter Suppression gun control bill and HB – 56 The End Gun Safety training and hurry-up-and-wait to practice your rights bill. Both bills were voted Inexpedient to Legislate out of the … Read more
Ten Democrats and two ‘republicans’ have sponsored a bill to create a committee whose job it would be “to study the feasibility and implementation of certain state house complex safety and security procedures.” It sounds benign enough, but if you read HB477—once you get past the bits about how the committee shall be comprised—the proposed … Read more
First, let me say for the record that any Republican that supports a new tax or the expansion of Big Government is really a Democrat. We all know that the latter gobbles up such bills like flies on fresh excrement. No matter how noble or popular the objective is, taxation is still theft. SB255 establishes … Read more
The Subtitle that’s driving this: “Tolerance is fine but acceptance is the goal.” Title IX simply reads: Title IX simply reads: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving … Read more
Last year several parents, including myself, began warning school administrators about a child sexual predator attending the high school girl’s soccer games. Several parents went to work to not only warn administrators, but to address the court system that allowed Marc Jacques to roam freely at these soccer games. FROM THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE: Marc … Read more
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Consider this an open letter to the House Election Law committee, which I’ve already emailed several members of. If you happen to live in Hollis, Brookline, Mason or Greenville, pay close attention because HB 130 (relative to the arrangement of candidates on primary election ballots) has only one sponsor, and he’s YOUR rep. Good afternoon, … Read more