The Manchester Board of School Committee is reconvening on Monday, February 8 to reconsider its transgender policy. The committee recently voted for a policy that allows male students that claim to have a female gender identity to access female bathrooms and locker rooms and compete in female sports.
Jim O’Connell Attacks Parents Concerned Over School Transgender Student Policy
At-Large Manchester School Board member Jim O’Connell, a Democrat, is lashing out and lying to parents about a policy the board recently adopted on transgender students.
Choice Within Public Schools, An Alternative to Education Savings Accounts
Every school is accountable to those who fund it. Private schools are accountable to the parents who fund them. If they start taking public funding, via Education Savings Accounts, then they must be accountable to the State.
Manchester School Board to Revisit Controversial Policy on Transgender Students
A controversial policy that bars school officials from informing parents that their children identify as transgendered in school and mandates access to the bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams the student “identifies with” will be back before the Board of School Committee at its meeting on February 8th.
The NH GOP is Attempting to Overturn The Election of Grafton County Republican Committee Officers
The NH GOP is attempting to overturn the election of Grafton County Republican Committee Officers which took place at a meeting on Jan 11th called by Randy Subjeck (whom the NH GOP recognized as the legitimate Chairman).
HB20 – A Sincere Discussion About Equity in Education Begins With Education Freedom.
There was a lot of discussion about discrimination in the hearing on HB 20, The Richard “Dick” Hinch Education Freedom Accounts bill. To that point, T. Willard Fair is president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of Greater Miami. He is a Civil Rights leader who advocates for school choice.
Article V – The Summation
Article V empowers states to limit the federal government and is the megaphone for the peoples’ voice. This is the final part of a how-to manual on limiting the federal government, skipping congress, and going straight to the Constitution.
Alert: Zoning Legislation Affecting Your Town
Dear Friends, there is still time to send your email testimony to the House Municipal and County Government Committee to ask them to OPPOSE HB 586! The committee met this morning but hasn’t made a decision on whether to recommend passage (OTP) or recommend defeat (ITL) and is still taking testimony.
Mental Health: Creating More Bureaucracy Instead of Treating Children
Do you want another bureaucratic position created at the New Hampshire Department of Education? One that would work with school counselors but not treat the children who desperately need services?
‘Green Leap Forward’
In the book Mao’s Great Famine, author Frank Dikötter describes in vivid detail the period between 1958 and 1962 where an estimated 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved, or beaten to death in a mad rush to overtake the Western world as measured by agricultural and industrial outputs.
Teachers Union Blocks Remote Learning on “Snow Days”
If you’re wondering why, in a world where remote learning has become the norm, snow means the cancelation of school in the city of Manchester, look no further than the Manchester Education Association.
HB 20, “Education Freedom Accounts,” Will Usher In Private/Home School Regulation and Broad Based Taxes
After the long pandemic year, thousands of parents are beyond frustrated with “remote” and “hybrid” instruction for their children. As a result, thousands of students have already left public schools, and many parents are desperately looking for alternative ways to give their children an adequate education.
Your State House 1/29/21
To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, & Pittsfield: This week, my committee held hybrid hearings on eight bills related to the state pension system. I and four other members were together in the Legislative Office Building (following restaurant rules, so masks are optional when seated and distanced); the rest were remote. It went better than … Read more
NH GOP Annual Meeting – Another Observation From A Loyal Reader
As a Merrimack County GOP Committee member, who was credentialed to attend this fiasco, it went exactly like anyone with a brain would know it would go; and, the mere fact that out of the starting gate 50 people voted “multiple” times on a yes or no “monkey” survey, was when this meeting needed to adjourn.
Stasi: The East German Secret Police. An Overview
Surveillance States were long used to repress citizens by State Actors. An examination of the Stasi will illustrate for us the parallels we are now seeing in the words and deeds of our government, Big tech and other corporations in America. But first…a historic overview of the Stasi.
Stasi was the colloquial name for the East German Secret Police. More formally, the, “Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, “(MfS) Ministry for State Security. Additionally, Stasi was referred to as, “Staatssicherheitsdienst,” (SSD) or, State Security Service. The Stasi was the internal Security arm of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). This was the East German Secret Police that operated from 1951 until 1989 until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The MfS motto effectively conveyed their mission: “Shield and sword of the Party.” (Schild und Schwert der Partei)Party, referring to the “Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, (SED) or, the, “East German Communist Party,” formed in April of 1946 with the merger of the Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
The SED was the single dominant party for the German Democratic Republic. A Marxist-Leninist political party that remained in power from its formation post World War II and remaining in power until its dissolution in 1989.
Unlocking Propaganda With Lily Tang Williams
Lily Tang Williams, now a successful American businesswoman, grew up in communist China under Mao. Lily plans to explain her experiences with propaganda in China and how that relates to the current push for governments to centralize control over our lives.
Camp Constitution is Accepting Applications for 2021
We are pleased to announce that we are taking applications for our 13th annual family camp which runs from Sunday, July 18 to Friday, July 23. This year’s camp returns to the Singing Hills Christian Camp and Conference Center in Plainfield, NH.
The NH GOP Has Lost the Consent of the Governed
Still no apology from the NH GOP, i.e. Chair Stephen Stepanek or Vice-Chair Pam Tucker, for the disrespectful mismanagement and violation of the rules of order during the Jan. 23rd virtual NH GOP meeting to elect state party officers.
NH RNC – An Organization Intent on Denying Due Process to Its Members
Somewhat like the DNC and a sizeable number in the US Legislature, the NH GOP denied my right to vote at the Jan. 23rd online meeting because of their own problems operating an online election.
When You’re Winning, Keep Doing What You’re Doing
Last month, the 603 Alliance endorsed Steve Stepanek and Pam Tucker for re-election as the Chair and Vice-Chair of the NHGOP, respectively. We stand firmly behind that endorsement, despite recent attempts by their challengers to dismiss Stepanek’s and Tucker’s remarkable accomplishments of the past two years.