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What Is The Effect Of Politics On Students?

Politics is a combination of social practice and discourse in which the forms and methods of managing society, public groups, and the relations related to the exercise of power are implemented. Politics is an important subject for students who study in colleges and universities. Of course, if you want to go deeper in politics, you … Read more

Whichever way she goes from here Pelosi is now the face of impeachment


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Trump seems to have been delivered an impeachment inquiry package under his Christmas tree. It’s likely to contain one of two things. Under option one, it contains objective evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors. That would mean a job change and a pay raise.

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What Attorney General Barr Has Told Us

McCabe Should Be Prosecuted

Former FBI Deputy Director and Acting Director Andrew McCabe appears likely to be prosecuted. McCabe should be prosecuted. Here is why he deserves prosecution on charges of lying to investigators. Here’s what we know. Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen has rejected a request by McCabe to block prosecution. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia … Read more

53%… How’s that possible?

What’s going on? Do you ever feel like people who hold beliefs like yours are being assaulted for expressing their views? Whether it is support for the president, belief that more debt and deficits amounts to passing our problems to the next generation, open borders or frustration with an unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government, … Read more

House Bill 114: A Study in Contrast

What is House Bill 114 House bill 114 is a measure prohibiting the state from entering into or enforcing agreements concerning sales tax collection with other states. It is a response to the Wayfair decision which came down from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) last June. The measure was sponsored by Republican … Read more

NH House Republicans Announce More Leadership Positions

NH House Republican Caucus CONCORD – House Republican Leader Dick Hinch (R-Merrimack) released a list of appointments to his leadership team today. Hinch was officially appointed Republican (Minority) Leader by newly elected Speaker Shurtleff on Wednesday, December 5th, and had previously been elected by the House Republican Caucus as their choice for Speaker on November … Read more

NH House Republican Minority Announces “Leadership” Positions

Republicans limp into the next session of the New Hampshire Legislature in the minority where it will become vital for them to stick together. A strong united front (In the NH House) will do more to peel off the necessary Democrat votes than the bevy of Republican aisle crossers we’ve been plagued with these past few … Read more

GrokTALK! – Where is Your Legislative Strategy?

House Rep Frank Edelblut synthesizes the path to legislative success (and failure?) in under ten minutes; your caucus (your party) needs a vision, and then a legislative strategy to achieve it, but reality is often something very different. (And yes, I forgot the stingers before and after…) Learn more about the 603 Alliance at http://603Alliance.org … Read more

Obama Doesn’t Want Dictatorial Power over Sequester Cuts

Email and social media have been burning up with cries and moans about the US Senate giving Obama dictatorial power.

What they actually tried to do was to give him complete control over the Sequester cuts.  Only the Sequester cuts.  But all 85 Billion. Obama could pick and choose what got cut without having to concern himself with congress.  He could save head start, border patrol, firefighters, and instead pick low priority programs or the jobs of redundant pencil pushers.

He said he’d veto it.

Given the chance to lead, he voted present.  He is either incapable, or unwilling to lead.  Or, more likely, leading presents too many risks to his real agenda, which has nothing to do with protecting and defending America as he claims and everything to do with protecting Obama.

Added video the jump; Charles Krauthammer on Fox News

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Blogosphere Line of the Day!

Once again, NJ Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has exceeded expections.  Since his campaign (and subsequent elevation to Governor), his YouTubes have become Internet sensations.  Now I’m betting that as a surrogate for Mitt Romney, he will continue to keep Obama “in the dark room”; “This is a guy who literally is walking around in a … Read more

Revenue Prediction

No, I’m not going to guess how New Hampshire will fare on tax revenue. I am going to predict how democrats will respond to the news of a surplus and business tax revenues over estimate.

Smoke Em or Eat Em

Cigarette Taxes up in smokeDemocrats thought they had something for a minute.  After the GOP majority reduced the cigarette tax the revenue didn’t shoot right up the next day.  It actually did not shoot up the first month either.  Naturally this made knees jerk all over the party headquarters and the muttering began about how decreasing the tax forced us to reduce valuable government services.  (Women, children, and public union employees hit hardest.)

The media permitted them their druthers, for good or ill, and it became a matter of public record that the NHDP had embarked on a nah-nah told you so PR campaign about taxing tobacco products.

Then tobacco revenues went up.  They went up 1.8 Million ahead of plan last month.  What was more important was that this increase ended what the NH House majority claims was a five year downward trend.  2011 minus five carry the tax deduction…well, since just about the time the democrat majority experiment began. (And hey, someone please call Rep Christine"Nostradamus" Hamm, D-Hopkinton, and rub it in her face.)

So why bring it up?  One  month, 1.8 million over plan, not that much really.  I mention it because Big Government.com just posted a piece that references data from the CDC and other sources on the ongoing futility of using cigarette taxes as a source of state revenue.  Smoking is still on the decrease, which is good.  I count myself among the legions of former smokers, though cost was not then a factor.  The number of cigarettes smoked per day is down, which is also good but reductive from a revenue perspective.  And a majority of cigarette tax increases never really produce the expected revenue.  This is partly due to the affects of taxation, and to some degree due (apparently) to smuggling.  High taxation and regulation lead to illegal behavior–which adds costs to deal with the "crime " created by them–so feel free to postulate the downsides yourselves; but raising taxes is no guarantee of more revenue, so I think it is time for another discussion about tobacco taxes, and why we need a long term plan to cut them until they are not taxed at all.

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New Hampshire Exceptional, Yet Again.

Stopping the spending and the out of control growth was and is exactly what you need and want from your US congress, but cannot yet achieve with a Democrat Senate and a Democrat President. And you will never get it as long as the left controls any those parts of your Federal government.

What’s Good For The Goose..

Tom Fahey quotes our confused friend Harrell Kirstein, Spokesperchild of the New Hampshire democrat party in regard to Bill O’Brien’s choices for leadership positions in the NH House. (I have to call Harrell the Spokesperchild from now on. Spokesperson has the word ‘son’ in it and we know how sensitive Harrell’s spleen is.)

Freshman Get A Voice

November 9, 2010 Dear Freshman Member–Elect, As you prepare to come to Washington for Orientation during the week of November 14th, we wanted to bring to your attention the various leadership opportunities available to your class.  The incoming GOP freshman class for the 112th Congress is no ordinary freshman class, and this is no ordinary … Read more

Not so fast….

I received an email yesterday from the Republican Party of New Hampshire.  I am registered Republican, and have subscribed to the NH GOP’s mailing list.

The opening paragraph goes like this:

"Our Republican leadership team did a great job in setting the table for the November Elections.  We recruited more candidates for state office than the opposition party for the first time in 4 years, and our candidates are really good candidates!"

While it is true that more Republican candidates filed than Democrats (and that we have "really good" candidates), I feel a little unsettled by the notion that the GOP seems to be taking much of the "recruiting" credit.

From my vantage point, it looks like the majority of candidates filed on their own accord, not because of any GOP recruiting.  In fact, I would say that a large number of the "first time" candidates are part of, or are very sympathetic with the 912, Tea Party, Libertarian, or Free State mindsets.  They have simply had enough, deciding on their own, or at the request of friends, to be part of the correction.

I think it would benefit the established GOP to show a bit more humility towards this phenomenon, else feel a potential backlash of a significant part of their “membership”.

I would have started off the email with…

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