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Morning Update: Pink Hair And A Nose Ring

July 28, 2026 The Morning Update

Today, on your Morning Update, how much different might our perception of the world be if everything were first filtered through the lens of a young liberal woman with pink hair and a nose ring? Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. Ep 227 Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions … Read more

Maine ACLU Denounces ‘Cruel’ Use of New Hampshire Federal Prison to Hold ICE Detainees

June 5, 2026March 13, 2025 Edward Tomic

(Associated News Service) The Maine American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a statement denouncing the use of a New Hampshire federal prison by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain suspected illegal aliens. [RELATED: Maine ACLU Vows to Resist ‘repression and totalitarianism’ of Second Trump Administration…] Last month, media outlets began reporting on a leaked … Read more

Bradley’s Burgess Biomass Boondoggle is Back in the News

June 5, 2026October 31, 2023 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and I agree on several things. Lowering taxes (or eliminating them) is good. Shoring up protections for the right to self-defense is critical. And refusing to fund Berlin’s Burgess Biomass boondoggle was the right thing to do.

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It Would Cost NH at Least 135 million Less to Pay Burgess Biomass Workers to do Nothing Than to Renew the Planned Subsidy

June 5, 2026June 26, 2023 Steve MacDonald

We’ve written about the high cost of NH Biomass energy and the redistribution math that costs ratepayers millions. Well, the Governor has a new bill on his desk that would sweeten the deal, but if this is about jobs, it would cost ratepayers less to pay the workers to do nothing.

Is The Right Learning to Act Like the Left? Drag Queen Story Hour Canceled … Over Security Concerns

June 5, 2026June 9, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Weeks Memorial Library in Lancaster, New Hampshire, was to be the location of a drag queen story hour. Regular readers will have heard – we’ve covered it a few times. One of the featured “queens” was Emoji Nightmare (Justin Marsh), the creator of Cumpstrella.

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So, About Those Porno Books in Public School Libraries…

June 5, 2026December 15, 2022 Skip

As loyal readers know, I have been sending out Right To Know demands to various School Districts around the State for the card catalog for their Schools’ libraries. I considered this small effort to be a “test case” to see how the targeted districts would respond.

SAU 3 Berlin – Well, Shining a Big Flashlight Actually Works!

June 5, 2026November 20, 2022 Skip

In the previous post of this series, SAU 3 Berlin – Trying To Mollify Me That A Card Catalog Isn’t What I Know It To Be (Parsing, Much Parsing), I ended my email to SAU 3’s hired lawyer, Barbara Loughman this way: Right now, you are needlessly spending valuable taxpayer money in stalling for time … Read more

SAU 3 Berlin – Trying To Mollify Me That A Card Catalog Isn’t What I Know It To Be (Parsing, Much Parsing)

June 5, 2026November 19, 2022 Skip

And a wee bit of “I know more about RSA 91-A than he does”. Well, perhaps – she’s a lawyer and I’m not. However, sometimes engineers, who must be MORE precise than lawyers many times, can read simple English used in writing such laws. I will give her an A for trying to move the … Read more

SAU 3 Berlin – Public School Library RTK. Pushback.

June 5, 2026November 16, 2022 Skip

Well, I did make a request for the card catalog for SAU3/Berlin, NH – a single entity that describes the books/other materials that are considered to be the “library collection” (“SAU 3 Berlin – Public School Library RTK“). Sidenote: when dealing with a School District, always, ALWAYS first deal with the School Board members. THEY … Read more

Report: Majority of Left-Wing Protesters – Male, Unemployed, and Live with their Parents.

June 23, 2019 Steve MacDonald

You can lose track of a day looking for paid protesting gigs online. But when you are male, in your twenties, and living with your parents, what’s time mean to you?