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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

Summary of the Governor Wentworth Regional School District Board Meeting 6/5/2023

June 8, 2023 Skip

Editor’s Note: We encourage involved parents and citizens to send these kinds of meeting notes to us so we all can see if there are trends that we otherwise wouldn’t be able to be aware of. Thanks!

Governor’s Ranked on COVID Response (Mine Got an ‘F’)

February 1, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Michael Betrus writing at The Brownstone Institue, has a piece titled, “Grading the Governors: Who Locked Down and Who Opened.”

The Dartmouth College “Weapons” Policy Needs to Pick Its Words More Precisely

January 19, 2022 Skip

I’m supposed to be heading up to Dartmouth College to livestream the Dartmouth College Republicans / Turning Point USA’s panel discussion with Andy Ngo and Gabe Nadales on Extremism in America. Specifically Antifa.

Excuse Me Bedford: Your School Administrators Need to Follow the Law

January 8, 2022 Ann Marie Banfield

This is just an fyi to the parents in Bedford. Now that it looks like your school is becoming a mental health facility for your children, you need to be aware of federal law. Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires your consent on any assessment or treatment when it comes to the mental health of your children.

Did Maggie Hassan Say The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason?

December 13, 2021 Skip

I’m on lots of Democrat email lists in various ways. Maggie “The Red” Hassan is no different. So this caught my eye: “$1 today is worth more than $1 next year.”

Gilford School Board – 6/8/21 Masks, Dillon’s Rule State, Policy JBAB, Powers, Rights

June 16, 2021 Skip

Last Tuesday was the latest Gilford School Board Meeting. While it wasn’t quite as contentious as what has been happening elsewhere in NH lately, I’d like to think that I’m trying to point out that School Board members aren’t doing their due diligence from a Legal / Policy standpoint.

Proposed Manchester School Transgender Policy Opens Bathrooms, Locker Rooms and Sports to the Opposite Sex, Keeps Parents in the Dark

January 23, 2021 Steve MacDonald

The Manchester Board of School Committee will take up a proposed policy on transgender students at its meeting on Monday, January 25, 2021. (Starts on page 26 of the agenda.) On a 4 to 1 vote, the policy was approved by the board’s Committee on Policy on January 12, 2021.

The Cost of Lockdowns

January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Public Health Tyranny never sleeps, so we must continue to share evidence that it is not just tyranny, but government oppression for no positive gain.

These Are Not the Results of Experts at Anything but Failure

December 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

If the title looks familiar, it’s a sentence from this post, published a few hours earlier. The point? The people holding the reins to the public health trumps all sleigh are lousy at the job.

Hammers and Nails: Stop Treating COVID As If it is Equally Dangerous to Everybody

December 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

In the October issue of Imprimis, Jay Bhattachary, a is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, explores a Compassionate ANTI-COVID strategy. It’s a great read, and he makes a point that stood out as one we make almost daily.

SDGANH: Home Schooling Model Policy

December 15, 2020 Op-Ed

The New Hampshire School Boards Association (NHSBA) recently provided to their member boards a draft of Policy IHBG regarding home education. Granite State Home Educators (GSHE) did an analysis of the NHSBA policy draft and found that their proposed policy has several problematic components.

Rebuild NH COVID-19 Legislators Policy Summit

July 15, 2024December 8, 2020 Steve MacDonald

On Monday, November 30th, RebuildNH hosted and live-streamed their COVID-19 Legislators Policy Summit. This event brought together experts to address issues such as “lockdown effectiveness, herd immunity, unintended consequences, contact tracing and mass testing, face coverings, and more.”

Will Spreading Lots of Crap Fertilize the Garden?

December 4, 2020
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In 2020 we spread a lot of political crap. But will it fertilize the garden? Okay, so which way will we go? The election was a month ago. We now have some perspective. Maybe we can offer some observations about the state of our politics. Your job here is to put on your mask and read on.

Regulation … Love it or Hate it … Fair Results

November 9, 2020

Whenever we have a change in control of our political process it is reasonable to expect a change in legislative output. If we assume the prior statement is true N.H. should see noticeable change in the output of the political process. We have flipped the N.H. House, N.H. Senate, and Executive Council.

How Deadly is Covid? … Does Policy Reflect it?

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

When the World Health Organization (WHO) said in early March about 3% of people who get COVID die from it, they were wrong by at least one order of magnitude. The COVID fatality rate actually has turned out to be between 0.2% – 0.3%.

Facebook and Twitter Impose Censorship

October 21, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Last week we saw Facebook and Twitter impose censorship on a New York Post story. The story is regarding Hunter Biden. Facebook has an audience of 2.7 billion people worldwide. Twitter is the largest news source worldwide today.

Message from Minneapolis

August 3, 2020

Minneapolis is not yet at Chicago’s level of crime but violent crime is surging. Give it some time. They have determination, no commonsense, and are trying very hard. And it looks as though they are on the path to “success.”

NotableQuote – a two-fer by Dan Henninger

June 8, 2020 Skip

Emphasis mine. No Guardrails (paywall, 1993) ..In our time, the United States suffers every day of the week because there are now so many marginalized people among us who don’t understand the rules, who don’t think that rules of personal or civil conduct apply to them, who have no notion of self-control. As the saying … Read more