law enforcement Archives

OPINION: What the Law No Longer Lets Us Do, and Why We Need Change

September 1, 2025 Chief Eric H. Small

(Associated News Service) I’ve worn a badge in Maine for decades, but never have I felt more powerless that I do today – not because the job has changed, but because the law has. Police officers in our state face different challenges than we did when I first joined the force. These include decriminalization without … Read more

NH Conservatives Have a Personnel Problem

February 18, 2025 Ian Huyett

In January, news broke that Shannon Buttermore—a Gilford mother of three—had been denied a kidney transplant by Dartmouth Hitchcock because she refused a COVID vaccine shot. Dartmouth’s actions were an open violation of New Hampshire’s 2022 “Patients Bill of Rights,” which prohibits the denial of medical care on the basis of vaccination status. Although Buttermore had … Read more

Laws We Need: Increasing Officer Safety …

July 7, 2024 Ian Underwood

Years ago, someone working for Ron Paul’s campaign was searched by TSA before getting on a plane,. Because he had a box containing close to $5000 in cash campaign contributions that he was transporting to campaign headquarters, TSA agents detained him, questioned him, and ultimately arrested him.

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Can Deny Your Child a Career in the Military or Law Enforcement

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 Ann Marie Banfield

Anytime a student is seen by a school social worker, school psychologist, or clinical mental health counselor, and services are billed to Medicare or Medicaid by the school, a medical diagnosis code is applied. The medical diagnosis code is referred to as a CPT code, which is a procedure code. This refers to the services being performed. An example would be counseling or therapy.

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Hello, 911….Please Hold

August 24, 2023 Ray Cardello

Most Democrats, except for the Radical Squad members, have worked very hard to distance themselves from the Defund the Police movement that started back in 2017. In those early days, it was fashionable to call for not only defunding the Police but dismantling the Police forces in America.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (04/06/23)?

April 7, 2023 Judy Aron

So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (04/06/23)? We learned that India and NH have good business relations. The Ambassador from India, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, was warmly welcomed to House chambers at the start of House Session, with members of the Senate in attendance. He spoke about the great work India … Read more

Defame, Demoralize, then Defund

February 9, 2021 Op-Ed

Over the last several years, we have seen a scorched earth campaign against law enforcement play out—the degrading and insulting of individual police officers, and coordinated efforts to defund departments.

Oregon’s Gov Promises Police Resources to End Violence in Portland – “Police Resources” say No

September 1, 2020 Steve MacDonald

After three months of encouraging riots and violence by left-wing proxies BLM and Antifa, Oregon Governor Kate Brown has a plan to bring peace to Portland. The only problem is that she didn’t make peace with local sheriffs and police chiefs first and they are saying no, thanks we’re not interested.

The American Left Wants You to Accept That life without Liberty is Worth Living

August 22, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The American Left is pushing hard for a universal acceptance of a simple concept. That life without liberty is worth living. That we should burn down the Constitutional Republic (it’s a classist, white supremacist, racist, colonialist construct anyway) so people can feel safe, note, that I did not say, “be safe.”

Texas School Teacher’s ‘Assignment’ Compares Cops to Klansman and Slave Owners

August 20, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Maybe it’s the union thing. Why else would a Democrat school teacher assume cops are Democrats. They did, after all, compare them to slave owners and Klansman. All Democrats. Except there’s a problem. Recent events have facilitated a #WalkAway movement in law enforcement.

The Land Where Everything is Policed Except Crime

August 13, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Mark Steyn’s title is recycled here without remorse or regret becasue it nails “it” on the head. Please do him the favor a click, and perhaps a listen since we stole the headline, because while he is talking about the UK cops in this instance, there is bleed over into current-day America.

So, Screw BLM? – Biden Picks VP With “knack for targeting minorities and over-sentencing prisoners”

August 12, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Have you noticed the narrative groundswell from the political Left in the past few months? It centers on law enforcement abuse of minorities (while its goals are Marxist). How interesting then that the Democrat Party nominee for VP is a Marxist with a history of using the criminal justice system to abuse minorities.

Lives Don’t Matter to Black Lives Matter

August 11, 2020
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Think the headline is wrong? Read on and meet police officer Joseph Mensah. You can decide for yourself if this says everything a person needs to know. But I think you will understand from their actions that lives don’t matter to BLM.

Virginia’s new Community Policing Law is all ’bout Justice! or Something…

July 7, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Virginia’s new Community Policing Law is all ’bout Justice! The gubmint wants to know about the abuse of force, so police officers in the Old Dominion will be required to document or guess the race, ethnicity, and gender of everyone they pull over. ‘Cuz Social Justice, dammit.

My First Co-Hosting Gig on WSMN 1590 – Our Guest has over 30-Years in Law enforcement

June 24, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Today was the first of what could be many future co-hosting gigs on WSMN 1590. Liz Gabert, the host of ‘Life with Liz’ has invited me to co-host her show one day a month (the 4th Wednesday). She offered more but my schedule does not permit. And today was the first of these co-hosting gigs.

Law Enforcement Appreciation Rally – MicroInterview with Chris Agar

June 23, 2020 Skip

The last MicroInterview that was done after the conclusion of the Law Enforcement Appreciation event… Sidenote: AGAIN, I point out that no State level Democrat elective office candidate or current office holder bothered to show up to express support for law enforcement. I just have to guess that the Seattle CHAZ/CHOP “autonomous zone” is the … Read more