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Confusion To The Enemy!

February 5, 2020 Norm Silber

Tuesday’s Iowa Democrat Party’s so-called “caucus” fiasco brought to mind a famous legend from the state in which I formerly lived, Florida. The legend arose from a truly legendary figure, the late Edward Ball. Ed Ball, who died in 1981, was a Virginia-born, notoriously irascible Jacksonville businessman and power broker, who became a brother-in-law to … Read more

Dems Wear Traditional Klan Colors to SOTU While Trump Announces Record Low Black Unemployment

February 5, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Democrats are bitter clingers. Not Max Klinger, though there could have been a man in that congressional audience wearing women’s white. No, I mean bitter clingers. Bitter the way a child glares at someone else who has the toy they say they wanted.

Grafton NH Police Chief Proposes 2A infringements

Grafton NH Police Chief Proposes 2A Restrictions

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020

UPDATE 4:59 PM: Chief Poitras has clarified to the author that he is “not in support of the hypothetical [he] asked about and [he doesn’t] think it would be advantageous for the 2A.” He said that as a fellow gun owner, gun control is not his goal and he was simply reaching out to his … Read more

KY ‘Red Flag Law’ Protest Triggers Liberal Media

February 2, 2020

“How many ‘Red Flags’ Do You See in These Photos from Kentucky Gun Owners Swarming the Capitol?” is the headline from Yahoo! News, who shared an Equire post about the protests in Frankfurt on Friday. One thing is certain, the protestors that gathered to oppose a Red Flag Law in KY certainly triggered the liberal … Read more

The Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement Comes to COOS COUNTY New Hampshire.

June 5, 2026January 31, 2020 Op-Ed

It is rather sad that a Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms (both the Second Amendment and Article 2-A) must be defended in this manner. But a tyrannical Government will never admit to being such – and it will always use phrases such as “common sense,” “safety and security,” “for the common good,” “keeping firearms out of the hands that shouldn’t have them.”

Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on HB1675 (caring for newborns)

April 30, 2026January 31, 2020 Phyllis Woods

This was my testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on HB1675, just one of the four abortion bills they held hearings on this week. I wanted to speak to this specifically because I had won a hard-fought battle to pass a Born Alive Infants Protection Act when I was in the House. It was unclear … Read more

NH Career Academy Enrollment Opens

January 30, 2020

The New Hampshire Career Academy enrollment opened yesterday. So, what it is, and why do we care? It’s a charter school embedded into NH’s Community College system that’s open to high school seniors. Career Academy is “built on a premise of win-win in which students gain exciting career pathway opportunities and employers and CCSNH are … Read more

BOLO – White Sedan w/ Bernie Sticker

January 29, 2020

The State Police issued a BOLO (be on the lookout) for a small white sedan with Massachusetts plates and a Bernie for President sticker on it. It is reported that three black males are wanted for an armed home invasion in Bow, New Hampshire. They were reportedly armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a … Read more

Education Tax Credits Survive Senate Committee

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020

New Hampshire’s Education Tax Credits survive Senate Committee, unanimously. The New Hampshire Senate Ways & Means Committee held a hearing this morning on the Education Tax Credits. Well, they heard a bill to alter the program, that is. All five members of the Committee voted to ITL (kill) the bill. They are: Majority Leader Dan … Read more

Republican Wins “Closely Watched” Special Election in Texas Democrats Labeled a Bellwether

January 29, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Now that the Democrats have lost what was billed as a Bellwether special election, the narrative will be “actually, it didn’t matter.” It was a Republican seat in a district Trump won by 10 points. Okay, then why did the Left dump gobs of cash to try and flip it if it didn’t matter?

Another Opportunity to Save Women’s Sports

January 29, 2020 Beth Scaer

The second public hearing for HB 1251, the “Save Women’s Sports Bill” is scheduled for Tuesday, February 4 at 1 pm in the House Education Committee in the Legislative Office Building (LOB), Room 207. Only those who signed up to testify at the first hearing and didn’t have a chance to speak will be allowed to testify.

City of Nashua Mishandled Abatements

January 28, 2020 Laurie Ortolano

After the KRT Appraisal assessment update in 2018, almost 400 abatements were filed with the City.The City was unable to handle the workload, so they hired KRT Appraisal to review 52 of the residential abatement requests.

My Testimony on CACR 14

April 30, 2026January 28, 2020 Phyllis Woods

Good Afternoon Madam Chair & members of the committee: I oppose the passage of this amendment and ask the committee to consider the following in their deliberations. Under the proposed language of this amendment, making medical choices fundamental to the “human condition” if adopted would mean that an unborn child would possess the same right … Read more

Is NH the Next Virginia?

January 27, 2020 Op-Ed

Did Governor Sununu think the 22,000 pro-gun, constitution-loving people who showed up in Virginia were actually supporters of anti-gun legislation, or does he think, like governor Northam, that we no longer matter?

Your State House 1/27/2020

January 12, 2025January 27, 2020 Carol McGuire

This week, we continued with a heavy load of public hearings on new bills. I presented my HB 1648, which legalizes private use of cannabis and growing it for personal use. Unlike previous bills, there is no allowance for commercial sales: no regulation, no taxes, no fees, and the prohibition on selling cannabis (also on … Read more

Constitutional Convention: Yea or Nay?

January 27, 2020

In 2012 New Hampshire’s legislature passed a Concurrent Resolution requesting an Article V Constitutional Convention of States, one of the two ways to amend the Constitution. ‘We’ did this, requesting a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution, in 1979 also, and a handful of times before that for other various reasons. On Wednesday, the … Read more

NH House Rep Jan Schmidt Mocks Natural Rights

January 26, 2020 Stephen Scaer

Nashua resident Beth Scaer pleaded with Schmidt in the Nashua Politics group on Facebook to end her assault on the First Amendment by withdrawing her bill HB 1159, a bill which would silence political dissent. “Jan, how about you stop trying to take away our God-given and Constitutionally-protected rights?” she asked.

An Amendment to Enshrine the Death Penalty in the New Hampshire Constitution

January 26, 2020 Beth Scaer

My testimony to the NH House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, in opposition to constitutional amendment CACR 14.

That would be Leo Plante: “Dublin Republican seeks state office in Cheshire House District 9”

January 24, 2020 Skip

A defense of the true meaning of “Life Free or Die”. I was surprised to see that the Keene Sentinel ran a rather even handed piece on a rather new ‘Grok Friend of ours (he even asked us to come and speak to the Dublin Area GOP!), Leo Plante. It’s tough out there in that … Read more

A Modest Proposal: Equal Treatment Under the (NHGOP’s) Law

January 24, 2020 Jim Kofalt

Shortly after last year’s NHGOP Annual Meeting, I wrote a post entitled Identity Politics on the NHGOP eBoard. The accompanying photo cited George Orwell: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.