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In a recent Keene Sentinel letter to the editor, a resident suggests the new legislature stop giving any RGGI money back to ratepayers. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a broad-based tax on electricity consumers. It can rise or fall without any elected official ever casting a vote. And it makes electricity more expensive.
BY Rodger Paxton Even though some research studies make you say “We knew that already!”, our side can use them as indisputable evidence against the horrors of big government. Living under communism makes countries poorer and less healthy for decades, according to a recent landmark study. Researchers testing historical connections between cultures found that whether a … Read more
If you didn’t know we have an Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion. They just released a list of recommendations, and it can be summed up as follows. Add “Gender Identity” to 16 different exiting RSA’s. Create a separate anti-discrimination law for “students.” Add more public transportation. Spend more tax dollars on the New Hampshire’s … Read more
by The 603 Alliance: The so-called ‘Women’s March’ (which refuses to include conservative or pro-life women) has become too extreme even for many of the left wing activists who run the event at the state level. Virulent anti-Semitism among the organization’s leaders (typified by Linda Sarsour’s statement urging American Muslims not to “humanize” Jews) have led … Read more
Last year I received a manila envelope in the mail. It was from Texas. A fella down there sent me examples of the Texas Voter Registration form a person who speaks Spanish could use. These were meant for to me understand how election laws work in that state. I include three examples of what was … Read more
The Koch brothers are not paying me to oppose the goofy Climate Cult in New Hampshire. I do it because progressives are using weather to socialize government. I share my observations to keep Climate Confidence schemers out of my pockets. Yours too. So, when I wrote (during New Hampshire’s “CO2 driven” Man-made drought) that the state … Read more
Bernie Sanders hasn’t formally announced for 2020. But he’s already got a ground game in place. It makes sense for the aging communist to run again. Liz Warren has already announced her pre-announcement. She’s running. With both trying to occupy the same ideological space this early in the race I’m calling it the pasty White Slate … Read more
This regarding what was described as a “suspicious package” found at the headquarters of the New Hampshire Democrats a few weeks ago: I agree with everything except the wishful thinking that Ray Buckley Democrats are “friends” of the GOP. The Ray Buckley Democrats have called themselves “the resistance” since the 2016 election, which means they … Read more
This: Paranoia is a symptom of various mental illness, such as psychosis. So we have the Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party calling the other party mentally ill. And the reaction of the New Hampshire press? Essentially, a yawn. But can you imagine the reaction if the Chairman of the New Hampshire GOP called … Read more
The Fraser Institute’s 2018 Report on Economic Freedom of North America is out. It measures the extent to which the policies of individual provinces and states were supportive of economic freedom, the ability of individuals to act in the economic sphere free of undue restrictions. America is ahead of Canada once again. And for all indices, New Hampshire is now number one for economic freedom in all of North America.
New Hampshire has had more vehicle related-deaths since passing the Hands-free “cellphone” ban. A law restricting behavior we were told was killing our kids. More or less. Granite Stater’s using smartphones and hand-held devices were distracted. This caused crashes which resulted in fatalities. But since the law went into effect in 2015, the only change … Read more
With the exception of the Governor’s office, on most days, the Democrats have complete control of State government. We have a good idea of what they will do with that. Gun ban bills will nibble away at the public space. School choice will suffer. They will try to raise taxes on job creators. There will be … Read more
New Hampshire has had excellent employment numbers all summer long and now they are even better. According to the Department of Employment Security, the Granite State is still plumbing record territory. Seasonally adjusted estimates for November 2018 placed the number of employed residents at 743,860, an increase of 1,170 from the previous month and an … Read more
To Democrats, everything should be subject to taxation including free speech. California has plans to tax text messaging according to the Bay Area’s Mercury News. The specifics of tax collection are unclear. The likelihood being the tax will be applied as a flat tax with regulators saying it “could be applied retroactively for five years.” This could also mean higher cellular service charges.
A Chinese couple living in Concord, New Hampshire has been indicted for sex trafficking. Charges include conspiracy to engage in interstate prostitution, and fraud. The husband and wife are accused of entrapping newly arrived Chinese women with no money or contacts to have sex with clients. The girls were told they had to work off the cost … Read more
In the last legisaltive session the New Hampshire (Republican Majority™) legislature overrode Governor Sununu’s veto of the Biomass bailout Bill. SB365 forces electricity providers like Eversource to pay above market rates for power from wood-burning plants. That increase is passed on to consumers.
This: #ClimateChange “the biggest top threat to our national security”? Only if you are living in an alternative universe where China does not exist. In the actual universe we inhabit, China is working toward becoming the world’s preeminent military and economic power. “Since the accession of Xi Jinping to leadership in Beijing five years ago, … Read more
The conventional wisdom has long been that the New Hampshire GOP needs a State Chairman who can unify the Party’s factions. You know, the venerable “we need to focus on what unites us, not divides us” yada yada yada. The problem is that the divide between the NeverTrumpers and the rest of us dwarfs whatever … Read more
This: While St. Hilaire was ultimately confirmed, it was on a straight party-line vote: The two Democrats on the council voiced their opposition to the confirmation, including Councilor Chris Pappas, the congressman-elect for New Hampshire’s 1st District. “This individual must be beyond reproach,” he said. ” They must be prepared for this position. And I … Read more
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