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KLAR: Can MAHA Fix The Organic Food Conundrum?

The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement continues to gain both policy and political momentum as the 2026 midterms loom. The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement continues to gain both policy and political momentum as the 2026 midterms loom. By delivering on 2024 campaign promises to improve nutrition and support rural farms, the Republican … Read more

2-16-26 Morning Update

Morning Update: The Balz on Walz

Today, on the morning update, Minni-soda Gov. Tim Walz must have borrowed someone’s Balz because he is actually demanding reparations from the Feds. Get a load of this. Ep. 107 Links: Check Out More Morning Update Here! – Also available on Rumble, Instagram/Reels, and Steve’s Substack. Follow ‘Grok on X – Rumble – Facebook – … Read more

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CARDELLO: When a Politician Says, “Let’s be Honest”…

When a politician says, “Let’s be honest,” you’d better get the fact-checker fired up. When it is Maine’s Secretary of State uttering those words, you can rest assured that what is to follow is a bevy of lies. Shenna Bellows is the first woman to hold that position in Maine and has held it since … Read more

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SMITH: People Not Being Heard; A Disturbing Trend

Robert’s Rules, Mason’s Rules, and Moderator Gary Matteson’s own rules, I won’t get into the weeds or nuts and bolts of operations.  Let’s just say that there’s a common structural design to maintain order.  Maintaining order is vital to avoiding CHAOS, something that a lone wolf dissenting alderman was recently accused of being an agent … Read more

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New Hampshire Constitution Class: Episode 1

Welcome to the first installment in a series covering the articles and history of the New Hampshire Constitution. The class features Local Constitutional “scholar” Dan Itse, with Deb Hobson and Carol Petrusewicz. The discussion covers articles one through five of the New Hampshire Constitution, with the last ten minutes devoted to being in the NH … Read more

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BELCHER: SEL – Revelation of The[ir] Method

Today, we will undertake an explanatory study into the methods, purpose, and origins of Social Emotional Learning. This was instigated by the proclamation by the Governor of New Hampshire celebrating SEL organization ChooSELove, otherwise known as the “Choose Love Movement,” which is deeply embedded in not just New Hampshire public schools, but also in the … Read more

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BANFIELD: School Based Mental Health Clinics are not Working in NH

This week, the New Hampshire House Education Policy and Administration Committee heard testimony on whether the state should withdraw from the Multi-Tiered System of Support for Behavior. Some school staff showed up to oppose this legislation and explained how these mental health practices are working well in their schools. But this legislation wouldn’t end that … Read more

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SHURTLEFF: Honoring  the Memory of George Washington

February 22, 2026, marks the 294th anniversary of the birth of George Washington, who, in this writer’s opinion, was the greatest man born in America. He is rightfully known as the “Father of His Country.”   At his funeral, Major General Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee said that Washington was “first in war, first in peace and first in … Read more

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MACDONALD: Becket Academy in NH and Medicaid Reimbursement

I am not saying there is fraud, just that something seems odd. Becket Academy Inc., Becket Family Services, and New Treks are listed as foreign nonprofit corporations based in Orford, NH (via a PO Box). See also, LIFECONNECTIONS SPECIALIZED SUPPORT SERVICES (Active). “community-based residential, day, and behavioral health services to youth and adults.” A Second … Read more

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KLAR: “Melania” Is the Documentary the Left Loves to Hate.

Doesn’t the left-leaning media know that the more you attack a film, the more you cause it to be pulled from a theatre, the more people will want to see it? This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Critics tried to kill the Melania documentary … Read more

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NE Take: Bad Bunny and Bad Immigration Policy

“Mean” People on the Right Set the Record Straight A. J. and Dexter break down the political motivations behind Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl and how Maine Public is playing politics with an illegal that doesn’t care about breaking the law. Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those … Read more

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MOFFETT: Some Divorced Veterans Need Help – Support HB1263

House Bill 1263 is an act relative to the definition of disposable military retirement pay and the suspension of alimony obligations. Rep. Jim Maggiore (D-North Hampton) sponsored this measure at the request of a constituent. Other co-sponsors include members from both parties, including four current or former GOP committee chairs. The testimonials and correspondence received … Read more

Middle of the road The middle, compromising stance of those called “centrists” or “moderates” is very often mistaken for a balanced and reasonable position. Little else is worse than an entire world tricked into what rationally amounts to crime, thinking it is balanced, realistic, and optimal. The centrist has become convinced that their middle position is the only fair and just stance, and that anything else is imbalanced extremism. The opportunity to rationally examine these assertions has never been as important as it is now. Let us start by realizing that most people do not actually call themselves centrists yet are convinced that their views are a proper mixture of ideas, a negotiation to meet somewhere in the middle, which is what centrism entails. Whether this is a mixture of safety and freedom, socialism and capitalism, or collectivism and individualism, few have admitted that their unique mixture ratio is behind their confidence in their own political views. Most are convinced that they have the right mixture, while they believe those with different views have their mixture somewhat off. How many traditional conservatives are against socialism without realizing that many of their views are based in socialism? They do not put the label of “socialism” on their beloved military, police, and public schools, but these are textbook examples of socialism. How many progressives for wealth distribution via government will truly admit that they want the profit motive to remain as the deep well from which they can perpetually draw? Nearly everyone has a mix, if only so they can satisfy themselves that they are not radical extremists. To further the confusion, there are parallels in our world that suggest to us that a mixture is best, like the alloys of metals being more useful than pure metals alone, or the right temperature being a mixture of not too hot and not too cold. It is intuitive to infer a moderate compromise in social, economic, and political matters. Now let us see the mixture from a different perspective. Engineers do not strive for a healthy balance of both planes that continue to fly and planes that fall from the sky. They are very imbalanced in their view that all planes should continue flying without issue, to every possible extent. We would find it unacceptable if the legal system outwardly promoted a healthy mix of bringing criminals to justice and letting them do whatever they want. The point to see here is that we must not mix poison into our food and call that a healthy balance. No percentage of violent crimes have a fitting place in civilization, same with fraud, corruption, and a long list of wrongful acts. The practice of forceful plunder through the apparatus called “government” is the rational equivalent of criminality, asserting that the ability to do so equates to the right to do so, and dismissing other peaceful means for funding as if they are inferior. No degree of what is rationally criminal is somehow a quality ingredient to mix into one’s political stance, even if the current laws legitimize it. That it comes from the basis of “might makes right” and violates inalienable rights means that justifying any degree of it makes a person complicit with this criminality, which is objectively criminal and evil because objective reality is altered thereby, to the subtraction from objective and measurable well-being. Well-intentioned people of all kinds mix in ideas that are objectively criminal, not seeing with rational eyes because they used the going laws as their only measure for what is just. Even those reaching for higher moral ideology believe in things like city-states and small or local governments as the solution, as if to not have fully admitted that nobody is fit or entitled to rule, whether they are a person or a group. It is the rational that gives us the tools to collaboratively orchestrate law and order, and the same that stands as the constant standard for what is good and evil, what preserves rational rights and what depletes them. If rationalism can reveal what toxic and evil justifications we might have mixed into our views, it can be the tool for helping us clean up our views, even if someone thinks that doing so will amount to extremism. Author: Ben Jarick Ben Jarick is a writer, inventor, entrepreneur and lifelong student.

MACDONALD: Is it Just Me?

If you were jaded about politics and power before the response to the China Virus (say it like Trump; CHI-NUH), odds are good that it metastasized into full-blown cases of “you just can’t trust those f**kers about anything. And you can’t. You never could. Well into my second decade of mouthing off about almost everything, … Read more

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PAYNE: Stealing the Mind of a Nation

The prophetic words of German playwright, poet, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805 pinpointed what has gradually happened in American public schools over the past hundred years:  “ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal the mind of a nation), The blame diminishes as the … Read more

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RICHARD: Taxpayer Funding of Public Education in NH, Rejected!

Introduction The record of the 1850 New Hampshire constitutional convention somehow went missing with no explanation until it was discovered in the state archives in 1980. After it was discovered, the convention record was organized and published in 2005. The state Supreme Court did not have this all-important document when it decided the Claremont decision. … Read more

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BRADLEY: The Bad Bunny Fiasco

The Appalling Press (AP) interviewed Bugs Bunny yesterday about his cousin Big Bad Bunny! After reminding everyone that no one gets to choose their relatives, the World’s funniest and most famous bunny said, “ Looked to my bunny eyes that Big Bad Bunny forgot his ears and his bunny tail.” My cousin, Big Bad Bunny, … Read more

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IMANI: An Open Letter to the God of Islam

It is axiomatic that to be a Muslim, you must believe in Allah by taking him as your one and only lord, accept Muhammad as Allah’s beloved messenger, and take the Quran as a literal work of Allah and a perfect prescription for living. Hard as I tried, I had a terrible time being a … Read more

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