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New Hampshire is the No. 3 state in the country for outbound cigarette smuggling, resulting in a revenue windfall, concludes the latest annual report on interstate cigarette smuggling from the Tax Foundation and Mackinac Center for Public Policy. From 2007-2022, New Hampshire earned $955 million in state revenue from cigarette buyers who then smuggled their purchases to … Read more
Governor Sununu is being sued as part of a wrongful arrest claim against him, and today, he was handed his summons to appear in court. The soon-to-be former governor is implicated along with the state police on seven counts, including violating citizens’ First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendment rights. Nine citizens were arrested at an … Read more
Sane people are puzzled over the question of how our Vermont public school system can lose roughly twenty-five percent of its student population since Act 60 “reform” in 1997, yet now cost three times as much – and return worse results for students. But conversations in the Commission on the Future of Education in Vermont … Read more
The House voted today on their speaker for the next two years, and Sherm Packard will retain the gavel. Rep. Kim Rice had mounted a challenge to his leadership for some pretty good reasons, which I have learned. There’s no point in getting into that now, but Packard remains the speaker, and his leadership team … Read more
It is the nature of human beings to wonder about things in the past. Take the Nazis for example. Who were these people who so blindly followed Adolf Hitler into not just the chaos and destruction of a continent-wide war but the murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies, and others? How is it that they … Read more
For fifty years in Washington, we have always heard these simple words from Joe Biden, “My word as a Biden.” We knew it was a matter of time before Joe Biden went back on his promise to Americans and pardoned his troubled son and cash cow, Hunter. The day came on Sunday, and the President … Read more
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts is featured in the most recent edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis. The topic is “Populist Conservatism and Constitutional Order.” He opens with this. The top-down, elitist brand of politics that has dominated the United States since the end of the Cold War—under Republican and Democratic administrations alike—has failed. Yes, we … Read more
I have written several articles labeling the judicial-legal system as one that operates on connections: it’s about who you know, not what you know. A recent article on GraniteGrok by Andrew Cline, titled “Rising Up, Not Against Institutions, but Elitism,” highlights that citizens are not opposed to institutions themselves but rather to the elitism represented … Read more
The transition of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Democrat to Independent to (gasp!) Republican was a popcorn-grabbing sideshow of the 2024 election season — until it became the main event. The defection of Bobby Kennedy to Team Trump was a seismic shift in an already bizarre presidential election, but it also formed a more perfect … Read more
I’m not sure when the trend started, but at some point in the arc of pop culture, T-shirts began to emerge with the message: “I went to [insert name of place], and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.” This sprung a number of variations on the theme: “I went there, did that, but all … Read more
The “Duty to Speak Up” was the theme of this month’s Safety Forum at the Manchester Veteran’s Affairs (VA) Medical Center. The people at the table seemed well-intentioned, but if you’ve read my previous series about what happens to whistleblowers at the VA, you know speaking up leads to an endless loop of broken promises, … Read more
This week, we talk about the war on Thanksgiving, how DEI is harming our students’ mental health, and how Firewood is in the government’s crosshairs.
Walter Block asks us to consider the following case: Suppose someone is shooting at you. He has two babies strapped in front of his body. He is clearly an aggressor and, of course, you have the legal right to shoot back in self-defense. The moral and ethical considerations as to whether you ought to shoot … Read more
Everyone has heard about Joe Biden’s Sunday blanket pardon of his son Hunter. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. Yes, my son, you have, but I am the president. You are forgiven for all real or imagined crimes from January 2014 until today. Amen. Most of the focus has been on how Creepy Joe … Read more
Back in August, I noted that NH Republicans had pulled to a practical parity with the Democrats in voter registration this past year: Interesting. I was actually scurrying around the NH Secretary of State site looking for something else (dang if I can remember now) when I thought this was what I wanted. It wasn’t … Read more
I tuned in to MSNBC on Saturday morning to see what was on its agenda and because I heard they needed viewers. Since the election, only friends and family have tuned in to MSNBC and CNN. Things are so bad that Rachel Maddow had to take a pay cut to $25 million for her one-day-a-week … Read more
In a Report dated December 4th, 2024, the Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic dropped a 520-page report on its investigation into the pandemic and the response. One of the first topics it addressed was whether the virus was zoonotic or engineered. Keep in mind that there are things in this report that the … Read more
The U.S. Supreme Court is sending a chilling message to gun owners when it comes to encounters with police: comply or die. In refusing to hear an appeal in Argueta v. Jaradi, the Supreme Court is allowing a lower court ruling to stand, which threatens to erode Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable use of force by … Read more
The Congressional Select Subcommittee on the COVID pandemic has released its after-action report (520 pages). I’ve just begun to wade into it, but a few things immediately jump off the page. In the investigation of whether the Wuhan Flu was Zoonotic or a lab leak, the report lists five reasons why the lab leak scenario … Read more
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.” That’s why the TAC focuses on educating people about the original meaning of the Constitution, the foundational principles of liberty, and the American Revolution. Nothing fuels our mission more than the faith and financial support of … Read more