edited by: Bob DeMaura,
New Hampshire Editor
The battle over the new proposed government insurance program is getting heated up. In fact it does not appear to be about health insurance anymore; but, more about politics. If you support the government run health insurance do you support Obama? If you don’t support it does that make you [...]
Mr. Paul Hodes offered up his wisdom (and cover) on his vote in favor of the democrat health care plan(s) in the Sunday Union Leader. It contained all the usual lies. A list of greater goods all at no additional cost. No fiscal cost. No cost to access. No cost to service. [...]
Russian hackers expose emails that tell of fudging data to show 'global warming' when none exists...
The Science is Settled - Global Warming is a Fraud
Climate Change Cover Up? You'd Better Believe It
Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren involved in unwinding “Climategate” scandal
Glenn Beck Skewers Scientists Involved In ClimateGate
Media Missing the Plot' [...]
November 28, 2009
St Louis Today
Tea partiers score Democrats agenda here
ST. LOUIS — Criticizing the Democrats' health care reform plan, proposed climate change legislation and the media, members of the St. Louis Tea Party coalition gathered at Kiener Plaza on Saturday for their fourth major local rally.
Coalition officials estimated about' [...]
Senator Gregg got a letter from some “religious leaders” whose purpose was clearly to connote a state wide overreaching feeling from people of religion that there is a majority interest in current so-called health care reform and debate as contained in the Senate Bill currently in play. But a cursory view of the [...]
While in Asia two things regarding Mr. Obama that I never saw reported in the press. His "unprecedented" town hall meeting in China was attended by "carefully vetted" young people and no questions were permitted. This makes the meeting itself (Clinton and Bush both held one) not only not unprecedented, [...]
Since 1946, Teachers Used to Politically Restructure America
It is no secret that public education has been influenced by outside forces who have it geared more toward social engineering and the political restructuring of our country, and less toward the teaching of usable skills. Teachers who try to fight this trend [...]
Episode 93: Strong Foundations NH
Lydia chats with Beth McLaure, co-founder of Strong Foundations NH. The Foundation's purpose is to create elementary public charter schools so that children can receive the instruction they need, without experiencing frustration and failure first.
[...]Despite evidence to support the fact that the anthropogenic global warming has recently been exposed as an utter and complete hoax, President Obama will be traveling to Copenhagen to lay out emissions goals for the United States. It is not clear whether he will actually sign away our country's sovereignty, [...]
Here is a quote from a blogger.
"Put it all together the racism, the authoritarianism, the aggressiveness and threats of violence, the bullying, the ignorance, the manipulation, the outright deception, the corporate links and funding and media support and we have something that is by definition a ...
" [...]A city union upset with an Eagle Scout because he did volunteer work they were going to get paid to do, a California town installs license plate reading cameras that will track each car coming in and leaving town, the Downsizer Dispatch, a BART police officer charges suspect with battery [...]
State offices will be closed for both Thanksgiving and Friday; that means the final revenue numbers will hit on Monday, but all indications are the month should come in about as planned.
November is the month which generates the least revenues, so this is no surprise. In fact, the “plan” [...]
Every female New Hampshire legislator has been invited to an event on the morning of December 1stat the Common Man in Concord at 8:45 am. The event is focused on introducing them to “Sisters on the Planet,” a project of Oxfam International, and Oxfam America. Curious minds might ask, who are [...]
by Ed Naile, Chair
I went to Antrim’s Selectman Meeting last night, November 23. Antrim is the town of 2,600 making news for finally admitting it has a huge deficit going back at least to 2006. Between the deficit and money owed for 2009 the total is almost the same [...]
Those old enough will remember Howard Cossell and one of his most famous sportscasting lines, “Down Goes Frazier!”
That’s all I can think of today as I review the latest polls from Rasmussen and Zogby. Only it’s not Frazier, it’s Obama.
Down goes Obama!
Down goes Obama!
As I’ve explained [...]
NMissCommentor.com just broke the news of our lawyers filing a motion to dismiss our charges on appeal:
[...]By Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, Hills. 15
At last Thursday night’s dinner meeting with 18 Manchester area State Representatives at the Back Room, Millenium “principal” William Wortman asserted that the average salary for the 1000 jobs his group would create at the Rockingham Park racino would be $43,000-44,000.
Realizing that [...]
I’ve been laying off Fred Morse for the better part of year mostly because he makes it too easy. Fred is Merrimack’s token socialist wordsmith. Fred writes letters to the editor (of every paper on God’s still-barely--green earth--evil oil, EVIL!) as often as the editors will let him. While I [...]
This article explains why, if we are to restore the republic, we must throw out most of the Congress in 2010.
"These people are stealing this country while we stand and watch. They have violated countless laws, and could be prosecuted, had we the political power. Not only are their policies" [...]
Hints of a 'War Tax' and comical rumors of attention deficit disorder, (that's where people hear Obama say they are going to focus on deficit reduction but no one pays any attention) tell us exactly what the plan is for Afghanistan. Cutting troop levels to save American lives (lives lost [...]
Mo Baxley made a sound bite stab last week at connecting every Republican in the state and chastising anyone who didn't stand up to her expectations of them. I wonder if she feels the same way about liberal progressives?
Take the SEIU for example. They are all about Obama's vision for America because it's [...]
The New Hampshire Women’s lobby wants’ your government to mandate sick pay. State rep John Knowles of Hudson agrees, according to this morning’s UL, claiming that “sometimes government does things for the benefit of all people…” Nikki Murphy from the New Hampshire Women’s lobby says studies show that employers save [...]
Update November 22, 2009:
Woodlands Tea Party has the data on who voted to bring the bill to the floor for discussion. It was a straight party-line vote—-all Dems voted yea, all Repubs nay except Voinovich, R from Ohio, not voting...
House Bill is HR 3692 but it was unclear what ...
[...]Meet the unelected body that will dictate future medical decisions.
Many of you have been alarmed at the latest proclamation that women do not need pap smears or mammograms as often as they had in the past.
It is interesting that while our government administrators are denouncing Sarah Palin and others for [...]
India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, recently released a report purporting western bias on glacial melt--his report claims there is no conclusive evidence to support claims of massive met and an impending loss of Himalayan glaciers.
As a reward for this, the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri called his report "schoolboy" [...]
The Fox news flap is lingering in my memory. I''m trying to reconcile how the White House, which continues to insist it is interested in ideas and opinions "from all sides" can justify calling a news channel an extension of the Republican party--as if this is a bad thing--and still [...]
There is a very contagious virus going around; but, no one can diagnosis it, it is a stealth/secret virus. It is mostly carried by politicians and it is transmitted by biting them in the butt. The behavior of the politicians is they all want to do things behind closed doors [...]
At the end of July 2009 PSNH instituted a rate increase of roughly 10.3%. It was the first major increase since the beginning of the year and reflects (according to PSNH) 2008 Ice storm recovery costs and other costs of doing business. What is more important is that PSNH has [...]
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Increase in Taxes Continues in Concord
Just when you thought that the Democrats at the State House in Concord were done taxing us, here they go again. This week the House Transportation Committee, along strict party lines, voted to pass a bill creating yet another fee–a new driver’s license [...]
Panel Votes to Audit Fed
Sign the petition. HR 1207 and S 604 would audit the Fed. But most agree that the private bank that prints the money should be abolished.
Evidence found on computers in the form of emails between scientists pushing for global warming and Al Gore, who won a Nobel Prize for a power point presentation that was fraught with errors, seem to indicate collusion and construction of data to skew the results in favor of the climate [...]
Today in the Mass Media class I teach, when discussing movies, I mentioned my wife's hypothetical idea for a fiction about Atlantis. Here is an expanded version:
Atlantis 10,000 years ago was in a period of decline much like we are experiencing today. Overreaching government had created an entitlement mentality [...]
Here is an excellent website that rates the educational health of each state in the nation.
US Chamber of Commerce Educational Report Card
Part I of II - Ed and Steve talk about NH and National Issues.
[...]Part II of II - Ed and Steve talk about NH and National Issues.
[...]Many governments of the world's countries have been demanding an equalization of the world's economies by virtue of the institution of a global currency.
Slate
Wall Street Journal
CBS News
Reuters
Would this ever happen and if so, what would it do to our dollar?
Here is what one financial expert [...]
Think the $200 toilet seat was a waste of money? Just wait 'til you read this... The Obama administration is spending $18 MILLION, yes I said MILLION dollars on updating the recovery.gov website -- the place where imaginary job creation numbers and fake districts abound.
And they wonder why we're outraged?!?
ABC [...]
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy marks the one-year anniversary of its Watchdog Project by launching a news and information website designed to deliver the Center's ground-breaking reporting, commentary, and features. NewHampshireWatchdog.org will publish stories from investigative reporter Grant Bosse, Center President Charlie Arlinghaus's weekly column for the [...]
One year ago today, the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy launched the Watchdog Project, promising to bring investigative journalism back to New Hampshire government. Over the past year, we've provided the best coverage of the state budget, the JUA lawsuit, and New Hampshire's implementation of the stimulus package.
A UK man guilty of bringing a gun he found in his back yard to the police station faces at least 5 years in prison, the FDA going after alcohol & caffeine drinks, the Downsizer Dispatch, single mother faces court martial because she has no one to take care of [...]
Bow students were sent to Copenhagen to influence the United State’s support for the UN’s climate change treaty.
NHPR has the story…
Rep Shea-Porter.
It occurs to me that as both a constituent and a political activist opposed to your agenda I have yet to receive an apology from you for having been called a ‘tea bagger.’ Since you do not seem inclined to apologize on your own despite the obvious free time [...]
The House Education Committee (HEC) will meet this Thursday, November 19, at 10:00 a.m. in LOB 207, to hear reports from the five committees that have been assiduously studying home education in New Hampshire, after which there will be a special meeting of the HEAC to discuss the recent rule [...]
The House Education Committee (HEC) will meet this Thursday, November 19, at 10:00 a.m. in LOB 207, to hear reports from the five committees that have been assiduously studying home education in New Hampshire, after which there will be a special meeting of the HEAC to discuss the recent rule [...]
First the caveat. November is by far the least significant month for revenues coming into state coffers. In fact, a negative amount is built in for business taxes (due to refunds) and we’re already ahead on that front.
However, after being exactly on pace for October, real estate transfer taxes (which [...]
Responding to rash of errors in its tracking of the $787 billion stimulus package, the Obama Administration has mounted a defense of its $84 million web boondoggle.
Obama special adviser G. Edward DeSeve writes on the White House website that the errors are minor compared to the overall to the [...]
The way to a legislator’s heart is through his/her stomach.
If nothing else, the Las Vegas based Millenium Company, trying to foist a megamillion casino scheme on New Hampshire’s unsuspecting populace has learned that. Not content with the legislative luncheon it offered on veto day, Millenium is at it again, [...]
Peaceful Tea Party Protesters are attacked and beaten by pro-amnesty supporters with signs bearing the likeness of Che Guevara.
Attackers were members of the anti-capitalist pro-open borders group "ANSWER Florida" and they had responded to this email which said in part:
"That is why we are calling on all people to come" [...]
According to the The Revolutionary Catechism Rule #11: "When a comrade is in danger and the question arises whether he should be saved or not saved, the decision must not be arrived at on the basis of sentiment, but solely in the interests of the revolutionary cause. Therefore, it is" [...]
In short, I am environmentally conscious and believe in sound conservation concepts such as recycling. I don't think we should be dumping chemicals into drinking water supplies or burying mercury in the back yard. I think we should be careful how we dispose of any of the byproducts of production,' [...]
Bill McMorris, who I quoted in this morning's story on the 440 phantom Congressional Districts that received funding under the stimulus.
The site’s monitors, however, are not too savvy about America’s political or geographic landscape. More than $2 million was given to the 99th District of North Dakota, a [...]
According to the federal government's Recovery.gov database, which tracks how state governments are spending the $787 billion stimulus package approved last year, 92.5% of all New Hampshire jobs "created or saved" by the legislation are concentrated in the State Capital of Concord.
[...]Last week the proposed bailout of The Claremont Eagle Times by the State of NH was discussed on FOX’s Glenn Beck Show, by Judge Andrew Napolitano.
The Governor and Council are meeting again this week, Wednesday, 11/18/2009 at the Statehouse. Councilor Ray Wieczorek may be bringing this issue up for [...]
ARLINGTON, VA – As I type from my basement apartment over 800 miles separate me from Adam (in WI) and 2,600 miles stand between me and Jason (in CA). Despite our geographical separation and the conclusion of the on-the-road portion of MHD we’re not done yet! We’ve each had more [...]
ANOTHER RED HAMSPHIRE EXCLUSIVE
Not only will Manchester Mayor-Elect Ted Gatsas endorse former State Rep Terry Pfaff of Hooksett for Gatsas’s District 16 State Senate seat tomorrow, but Gatsas will also serve as campaign chairman for Pfaff.
The announcement will come at the Market Street offices which served as the Gatsas [...]
I had missed this story on Friday. The New York Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration blames to ban alcoholic beverages with caffeine, unless the manufacturer can prove to federal bureaucrats that they are safe.
In a statement, the Food and Drug Administration said it had told [...]
Aristotle International Inc, a political campaign technology company, reports that almost 19,000 of the voters registered in the Granite state are, in fact, dead.
In New Hampshire, there are 18,816 dead people on the voter registration rolls, or 2.5 percent of the total registered voters. There are 105,472 voters that [...]
by Ed Naile
I wonder, was it vocal noise?
Was she racing her Volvo engine or practicing duck calling?
Could it be flatulence?
In any case, inquiring minds want to know.
Why was Madeline Scheck, 21, of 15 Wood Brook Lane, Croton-on-Hudson, New York arrested on October 22, 2009 in [...]
The late Julian Simon once bet doomsayer Paul Erlich that the price of a set of five precious commodities would drop from 1980 to 1990. Erlich thought that our limited resources would dwindle in the face of surging populations. Simon thought that human ingenuity would find ways to improve [...]
Saturday's UL observed that a local paper, the Claremont Villager, is shutting its doors due to declining ad revenue. The money quote? "The re-entry of the (Claremont) Daily Eagle was decisively bad for the Villager.
Nothing government does goes unpunished. It's hard to compete for advertising when the state chooses sides.
So maybe" [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that next year's state budget problems will likely be larger than this year's.
Short-term budget gaps have battered states as revenues plummeted during the recession. Aided by about $250 billion in funds from the stimulus package expected through the end of next year, states managed' [...]
Anne Marie Banfield sat down with Lydia Harmon and Denis Goddard for a chat on Capitol Access, a show that is taped each Thursday at Concord Public TV.
[...]Anne Marie Banfield sat down with Lydia Harmon and Denis Goddard for a chat on Capitol Access, a show that is taped each Thursday at Concord Public TV.
[...]Half of all US children receive food stamps at some point, fruit juice just as bad as soda, a Colorado ski town legalizes marijuana, the Downsizer Dispatch, and inflation.
[...]Remember when Obama told us during his campaign that under his plan of a Cap and Trade system, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"?
According to the Heritage Foundation, it is estimated that fuel prices will increase by 90% and 2,479,000 jobs would be lost while increasing the debt $28,728 per ...
[...]Yes, that's how the Chinese look at him..and they surely ought to know!
[...]Episode 92: International Baccalaureate
Denis and Lydia chat with Ann Marie Banfield, Education Liason for Cornerstone Policy Research. Ms. Banfield discusses the International Baccalaureate program, which was intentionally created to provide a teaching program for "young people whose parents were part of [...] international and multi-national organizations"
[...]That was a close one. Forces in Maine tried to remove our neighbors from the New Hampshire Economic Recovery Coalition by lowering Maine's income tax.
A law that would have lowered the state's income tax but imposed sales taxes on a variety of services is on hold now that [...]
Tom DeRosa asked me to stop by for the NH GOP's weekly podcast. We discussed the cost of downshifting, from the Congress to state budgets, and from the state to local taxpayers.
[...]
Part I of II - Ed and Steve talk about NH and National Issues.
[...]Part II of II - Ed and Steve talk about NH and National Issues.
[...]November 12, 2009steve vaillancourt
Those four most glorious words in the English language, “I told you so”, hardly seem adequate these days as the citizens of Manchester discover what a gigantic boondoggle, a pig in a poke if you will, the civic center (referred to as the centerplex, aka “Dracuplex” [...]
Last month, we noted the efforts of Todd Shepard at the Independence Institute to get members of the Governor's Cabinet in Colorado to file their ethics disclosures, at required by Executive Order.
Then, we found out that Governor Bill Ritter had re-issued the order to require his Cabinet officers [...]
The Concord Monitor asks how much of what goes on at Town Hall should the public have the right to know?
The short answer: nearly everything.
Trouble is, reasonable - and sometimes unreasonable - people can disagree over the specifics. In New Hampshire and across the country, there will always [...]
Our friends at GraniteGrok.com did a nice piece on the joint press conference held Monday by Senator Jeb Bradley, Mayor Frank Guinta, and Commissioner John Stephen.
Listen to this Democrat Party spokesperson NOT answer the questions. And he accuses the Republican Party of 'stale talking points'? Read more...
In case you ever [...]
New Hampshire's 1st District Congressman Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat, was "certainly" sure that the Obama stimulus package was working when she spoke on the Charlie Sherman show on WGIR Radio back in July, but then she was "certainly" not very sure that the stimulus had created jobs when WMUR-NH 9 [...]
Looks like the democrat caucus had another recruiting seminargoing on in Merrimack while General Court member Brain Poznanaski was breaking the law in front of at least 23other law breakers in Bedford. Corey Frugal was fatally stabbed at a house party on Bedford road in Merrimack where police arrested approximately 21 more underage drinkers. [...]
Centralized planning claims another victim: Cuba's energy grid.
Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt "extreme measures" to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes of avoiding the dreaded blackouts that plagued the country following the 1991 collapse of its then-top ally, the Soviet [...]
Well, if you live in the Manchester area anyway. Charlie Arlinghaus will be talking about the Verizon Wireless Arena bonds and municipal retirement stories this evening on "Two Live Joes" on MCAM, Channel 23 from 8:00 to 8:30.
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November 11, 2009
Nashua Telegraph
CONCORD (AP) – New Hampshire’s two senators say the U.S. Senate has approved $350,000 in federal funding for a study on how climate conditions impact alpine areas in the White Mountain National Forest.
The Appalachian Mountain Club, the Mount Washington Observatory and Plymouth State University [...]
Yesterday, we highlighted the fine work being done by the Show-Me Institute to open Missouri government to the public. Today, we look at the Mackinac Center's ongoing battle to shine a light on the hidden workings of Michigan's government. After been given a bill of almost $7 million [...]
Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter we're cheering Saturday after the Pelosi-Care bill passed, but before they voted in favor of that abomination, they tossed seniors under the bus in exchange for future favors (and no doubt campaign contributions) from trial lawyers.
Prior to the final vote the minority party offered up the traditional motion to recommit' [...]
Polls, polls, polls.
Good news, good news, good news, at least if you’re a Republican.
Perhaps the best of all news is that for the 20th consecutive week, Republicans lead in Rasmussen’s generic ballot survey. If the election were held today, 43 percent say they would vote for a Republican [...]
November 8, 2009 update on left-wing violence:
A state worker came to a union hall meeting and was beaten by SEIU workers and landed in the hospital.
An elderly man who came to protest nationalized health care had his pinky finger bitten off by a pro-health care protester after pointing [...]
BIA President Jim Roche writes in the Concord Monitor on the need to examine the costs of the health care bills making their way through Congress.
It's remarkable, therefore, that health care reform under consideration by our congressional delegation in our nation's capitol seems very likely to add to [...]
NH Tea Party Coalition, Steve Mac Donald, CNHT, Steve Vaillancourt, Andrew Manuse, Grant Bosse, NH Capitol Access, Free Minds TV, Lee Quandt, Motor Home Diaries, Freedom in the Hills of NH, Denis Goddard
