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McMaken: Families Are the Key to Building Alternatives to the State

November 27, 2025November 27, 2025 Ryan McMaken

Libertarians talk a lot about the need to weaken—and even to abolish—the state. And rightly so. But a necessary part of opposing the state is building up other institutions that can challenge state power and offer alternatives to the state. That is, if we are to meaningfully undermine the state, it is necessary to encourage, … Read more

Smoke and Mirrors

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 Katrina Heinrich

In today’s society, the protection of children and families is outpaced by an ever-growing number of consortiums seeking to exploit systems for personal gain. Such organizations represent the worst of profiteers by wrapping themselves in narratives that are designed to gain public support without being transparent. The lack of transparency comes in many forms, existing … Read more

Slippery Slope of Transgenderism Hot Air FI

States Stripping Parental Rights, Leftists Scream “BOOK BANNERS”, Ancient Belief, the ALA And MORE! – Stack of Stuff #46

May 13, 2023 Skip

Yep, I have too many of these kinds of stories just sitting around in tabs and I have to start unloading them. Mostly for my own benefit as we have become, as Steve says, self-referential. With over 50,000 posts since 2006, we’ve probably written something about almost everything that bubbles up in the Venn Diagram … Read more

Proper Aspirations Under the Constitution

October 11, 2020
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Americans can ask no more from their federal government than what they find in the constitution. This is the crux of the differences in our society today. The Marxists demand government control everything. Conservatives say no, that is not America’s system of government.

Promoted from the Comments – “NH is actually not a good place to raise kids anymore.”

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 Skip

I think this needs a bit more play. It is about folks that feel NH is moving away from their deep roots. So we are promoting this comment is from NHNative. It was under Ann Marie’s post: “Teachers, is Your Profession Becoming Obsolete?”

Either we allow the government to play god, or the whole of HB 1162 must be vetoed

July 13, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The proposed change in HB 1162 to the “best interest of the child” will further erode family and empower our problematic family court system.

DESSA, Social Sentinel – RSA 91-A Right To Know demand – student and personal data

June 29, 2020June 25, 2020 Skip

Let me set the stage: Public schools are Government schools – a near-monopoly in the K-12 education space and one can see, by the actions of Selfish Socialist (and bigot) Andru Volinsky, Government and its supporters on the Left (like teachers unions) aren’t about to give that up without a fight.

How COVID-19 Influences the Education System

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 Guest Contributor

COVID-19 is a health crisis that has affected most nations around the world. To manage the spread of this virus, most countries have decided to close all learning institutions. This crisis is making things difficult especially for government heads.

Flores Settlement Agreement Vs. Flores Final Rule

August 25, 2019

The administration is taking further steps to ensure legal immigration. It is moving to close another loophole in the U.S. immigration system. Wednesday this week, the Department of Homeland Security issued the new rule “Flores Final Rule” (FFR).

F-Corporations

March 13, 2019 Ian Underwood

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and now that the Democrats are casting (some might say flailing) around for ways to make society ‘more fair’, it might be the perfect time for someone to try to introduce the appropriate legislation.

Planned Parenthood Video Calls ‘It’ a Baby Seven Times

December 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Planned Parenthood has a “helpful” instructional video series. In ‘How do I talk with my kid about where babies come from?” they discuss pregnancy and families. It is mostly about where ‘babies’ come from – that’s right, baby. It’s not a lump of cells or a fetus. It’s a baby — not once but seven times … Read more

Data Point – Border Crisis responsibility

September 26, 2018June 22, 2018 Skip

It looks like a lot of voters believe like me:

POLL: Most Voters Blame Parents, Not U.S. Government, For Border Crisis

When families are arrested and separated after attempting to enter the United States illegally, 54% of Likely U.S. Voters say the parents are more to blame for breaking the law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 35% believe the federal government is more to blame for enforcing the law. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.

and this:

Liberal Hypocrisy on Separating Children From Parents or Families

September 26, 2018June 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Legal Immigration — Image #: 30916000 The Post-Standard /Landov

The left has settled into its latest anti-Trump narrative. He’s evil because he separates parents and children. That’s funny because an entire progressive social experiment or (experiments) championed and defended by liberals has been separating parents and children for decades. And I’m not talking about abortion.

No fault divorce. Modern Feminism. Glorifying single-motherhood. The infantilzation of boys and men. A Welfare state weaponized by progressives politicians to keep children away from at least one parent. But wait! There’s more!

Leave ‘Traditional’ Marriage in the NHGOP Platform

September 26, 2018April 14, 2018 Carolyn

To advocates for removing “traditional” from marriage in the NHGOP platform.

First, you are guilty of using the most frustrating and pernicious leftist debate tactic.

To try to make your case, you use examples outside the norm – such as families who adopt, grandparents raising their grandchildren, single parents due to the death of a spouse – in an attempt to undermine the norm. It’s no different than those who are pro-abortion trying to undermine opposition to abortion by raising rare cases of rape and incest, or more recently, using the existence of intersex persons to try to undermine natural sex/gender.

Many of us have friends or family whose situation is exactly one of those examples, but their efforts are a compassionate response to a crisis, not something that we should set as a legal standard.

Second, articulating an ideal is not exclusionary.

May 4th GrokTALK! Segment Three – Skip, Steve, Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers and Rick Olson

September 26, 2018May 6, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Here’s segment Two of the May 4, 2013 Grok-a-Saurus, Grok-a-Topia, GrokTastic, Grok-a-Palooza. In the Third segment Skip and Steve have been joined by GrokBloggers (Groksters) Susan Olsen, Mike Rogers, and Rick Olson. Some of the topics include, the Blue Lagoon, Iceland’s Geezers, Making America safe for 6th grade Sex, The Bible, de-nuclearization of families, Sex … Read more