The current Law: A legal FFL (e.g. gun shop) must have all buyers fill out a Form 4473 which asks if that person is legally able to purchase the firearm. If a purchaser marks that they are a prohibited person, the FFL is not to sell the firearm under Federal Penalty of REALLY REALLY bad … Read more
First this: the Democrats in the House are all about protecting dogs (emphasis mine, reformatted): The New Hampshire House passed a bill to include household pets in orders protecting victims of domestic violence. The bill expands the orders to include pets in cases involving stalking and domestic violence. The bill would allow judges to grant … Read more
Someone, bless their heart, has compiled a well-sourced (their words) list of 519 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, corruption, law-breaking and cronyism. I am posting it as is with the understanding that it may take me days or even weeks to go through it, if I ever do manage to get through it. I encourage … Read more
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.” —Voltaire Last week, as I was reading Londonderry Patch, I came across Marc Fortier’s October 29 entry entitled, “Assault Weapons Ban, Higher Speed Limits and Gambling“. Fortin writes, “New Hampshire lawmakers will debate these and other controversial issues in the upcoming legislative session.” Fortier also … Read more
From Pro-Gun NH, an example of someone who would be in jail if it wasn’t for the passage of the “Stand Your Ground” law simply for trying to protect his family member in a public space. I keep hearing that we are “not to worry – this is not a problem in NH” with the … Read more
Accountability – a most hated word in politics. Oh sure, whoever the Political Class doesn’t like will be held to such (after all, they wield the power). But they never like it when the masses play the “turnabout fair play” game (or journalists, from what I seem, but I repeat myself as many in journalism … Read more
The emails are coming in! The latest from Randy, Robert Jursik, and JR Hoell: From Randy: I believe life begins at conception the constitution is the law of the land the 2nd amendment is a prescription for communism I have faith in GOD and I believe educating our children is more important than unions. I … Read more
New Hampshire’s SB500, which gives murders and violent sex-offenders an early parole and release from prison, has many people scratching their heads. Leigh MacNeil, NH House candidate in Merrimack County, District 4, would like to weigh in on this issue.
. Former Congressman Jeb Bradley is featured in today’s GraniteGok Congressional Candidate Q & A Series. He is one of the two Republicans seeking the nomination for NH’s 1st Congressional District. As with the others that have participated, we thank Jeb for taking time to answer these questions and further continue to appreciate his acknowledgment of the … Read more
After listening to the podcast partly about abuses of tax payers by the IRS from Meet The New Press Sat., it reminded me of two articles I had written that were published in the Monitor on Nov. 7 and 27, 2006 respectfully. Here they are for your reading pleasure. Plus, it’s a rainy, lazy … Read more
With each year’s passage, we get the annual listings of all the great new laws that go into effect at the stroke of midnight. Here in NH, the one that stands out the most is the new tough child molester law that allows judges to sentence first time offenders to a minimum of 25 years, with … Read more
In this week’s radio address, President Bush talks about the economy. It is no secret that the economy is humming along at a pretty good clip at the moment and jobs are generally available to those who want to work. Additionally, opportunities abound for those with the entrepreneurial drive to make it on their own. … Read more
Here is my weekly Exercising the First column for the July 27th Laconia Daily Sun: . There has been much talk of late as to whether we are in the early stages of a new world war. I believe we are. Some have been calling it the “third world war.” I see it more as the … Read more