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MacDonald: Dems Didn’t Want Guns In Bars But Bar Drinks On the Street is a Winner

June 4, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Democrat cities with crime problems are forever making excuses while claiming to seek remedies. Their solutions inevitably make matters worse because the problem is Democrats. If you want more crime, elect them and keep them. Burlington, Vermont, has a crime problem because of “Democrats.” They defunded the police in 2020/2021, invited the homeless, illegals, and … Read more

Why NH Might Make Limited Social Drinking Legal in Some Public Places

February 23, 2025 Andrew Cline

The American Prohibition Museum is not in Chicago but tucked into an old brick building in Savannah, Ga., just off Congress Street. A $29.91 ticket to the museum comes with a drink at the adjacent speakeasy. In most American cities, that would be a perfect finish to a trip through the Prohibition era. Not in … Read more

How about The ‘Health Benefits’ of Less Government?

August 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Did you know that Joe Biden has a health Czar? His name is Dr. George Koob, and he’s doing a terrible job. Joe is a frikkin’ wreck. Wait, my bad. Koob’s gig isn’t Health Czarin’ Biden; it is the rest of us (I thought that was the Surgeon General’s Job?).

Driving Under The Influence: Dangers That You Might Not Be Aware Of

April 26, 2021 Guest Contributor

In the United States, an estimated 28 people lose their lives due to automobile accidents with alcohol as a contributing factor. That is equivalent to one person every 52 minutes – less than one hour! In 2019, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported the lowest percentage of deaths (10,142) since 1982. These deaths … Read more

To-Go Beer & Wine Coming to a Bar near You!

March 17, 2020 Christopher Maidment

Since the Government decided to ban dining in at restaurants, many bars, pubs, taverns, and eateries have been a tad anxious. Understandably, of course. Looking at an uncertain future for your business, bills, personal income, and your employees is an anxiety causing event and makes even veteran business owners uneasy. Some State Reps got to … Read more

Gun Control is about Obama’s Political Agenda, not Saving Lives

September 26, 2018February 12, 2013 Don

President Obama says, “If it only saves one life….” Then he promotes gun restrictions that will kill more law abiding Americans than they save.

If it were really his goal, President Obama could do many things that actually save lives.

Closing the border and removing the incentives for people to come or stay here illegally would annually save hundreds of lives and thousands from becoming violent crime victims.

He could lead the charge against smoking which kills approximately 449,000 Americans annually, including approximately 44,000 who die from second hand smoke (source: Centers for Disease Control). Thus, about four times as many people are killed by America’s 43 million smokers as by America’s 80 million gun owners. Guns also often save innocent lives, smoking only harms people.

The Push For More Taxes On Adult Beverages Continues…

September 26, 2018January 25, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Tym Rourke, the person most likely to coordinate the spending of the tax money, is advocating for more revenue, so that he might–we can only assume–help spend it. Rourke is the Chairman of the Governors Commission on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention, Intervention and Treatment in New Hampshire, and he insists that because New Hampshire sells so much damn alcohol, even profiting from its aggressive promotion, that the state has a moral obligation to offset any downsides here in New Hampshire.

What’s next, a tax on hammers to cover time lost to thumb related injuries, or taxing shower curtains to defer lost productivity due to bathing accidents?

How About a Cocktail Tax?

September 26, 2018January 19, 2013 Steve MacDonald

A social services advocacy group called New Futures recently promoted a study that suggested a cost recovery tax per drink on all cocktails in New Hampshire. They (or the study they promoted) claim that excessive drinking costs the state as much as 1.15 billion per year. The tax could/would, help offset those costs.

New Hampshire has a large percentage of the population that drinks alcohol but the primary source of the expense appears to be binge drinking, which I have discovered is another moving target on the social sciences spectrum. According to the CDC, binge drinking (for women) was recently changed–for reporting purposes–to four or more drinks on any one occasion.

That’s like calling binge-shopping visiting four or more stores on any one occasion. Women can sit and talk for hours making four drinks more like one per hour, which in the real world is called “nursing.”

Drinking At Dartmouth

September 26, 2018December 4, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Image Credit: Dartmouth Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, agrees that Dartmouth has a drinking problem, but that prosecuting underage drinkers is not the answer, Melanie Plenda reports in today’s Union Leader.

This comes on the heels of yet another incident where someone served alcohol to minors. So right away we can see the error of Dartmouth college President Jim Yong Kim. The problem (in this case) is not so much that the police are punishing underage drinkers, but that they are trying to punish people on his campus who serve alcohol to a minor, in this case a seventeen year old high school student.

Perhaps Dartmouth would like to follow Harvard’s lead?