Over and over again, all I have heard from the Statists / Progressives / Leftists / Socialists / Liberals / Democrats (er, did I miss anyone - it IS getting to be quite the crowd lately - or a massive effort to keep changing definitions on the rest [...]
No, the TEA Party events have not gone away - they are just starting to morph into more action. That's why you are starting to see more attacks on the TEA Party type folks from those on the Left - they realize that if this momentum by traditional American value [...]
As a follow on to my negative post on Elites, I found that Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Heyak has a similar viewpoint (emphasis mine):
The “Progressive” mindset ignores modern-society’s extraordinary complexity. It’s oblivious to the full, vast range of inescapable trade-offs and unintended consequences unleashed by human actions. [...]
Prior to September 25th 2009 Nashua Rep Brian Poznanski (D-Budweiser) filed an LSR (2010-H-2523-R) that would have allowed underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution for breaking the State laws on alcohol. So what exactly does "allowing underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution" really mean? [...]
Prior to September 25th 2009 Nashua Rep Brian Poznanski (D-Budweiser) filed an LSR (2010-H-2523-R) that would have allowed underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution for breaking the State laws on alcohol. So what exactly does "allowing underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution" really mean? [...]
Prior to September 25th 2009 Nashua Rep Brian Poznanski (D-Budweiser) filed an LSR (2010-H-2523-R) that would have allowed underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution for breaking the State laws on alcohol. So what exactly does "allowing underage drinkers to seek medical help without fear of prosecution" really mean? [...]
NASA Climate Project – code name: Hire Your Wife
Here we go. Another climate chicken-little scam.
Meet Mark Schoelberl, one the world's most cited climate authorities regarding humankind’s effect on our Earth's atmosphere, and Barbara Schoelberl his website wiz wife.
Mark Schoelberl WAS the chief scientist at NASA’s Earth Sciences Division and leader [...]
The democrats have made their "next move" in the fiscal water boarding of New Hampshire. LLC profits used as compensation will now be taxed like dividends. On the face of it we are asked to see it as a fair and equitable change to place all businesses on the same playing field [...]
The democrats have made their "next move" in the fiscal water boarding of New Hampshire. LLC profits used as compensation will now be taxed like dividends. On the face of it we are asked to see it as a fair and equitable change to place all businesses on the same playing field [...]
The democrats have made their "next move" in the fiscal water boarding of New Hampshire. LLC profits used as compensation will now be taxed like dividends. On the face of it we are asked to see it as a fair and equitable change to place all businesses on the same playing field [...]
Distorting the Marketplace: rent seeking and "compassion"
The first is "rent seeking" - private sector businesses using government to enhance their revenues by either:
using political contacts to get government contracts, often at the disadvantage of [...]
We're en route today to the hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea on California's Central Coast, for a weekend of wine, Christmas shopping, oysters, galleries, beaches, hot coffee and cold cream, and photography--in between dreams of owning one of the town's mossy hermitages, many of which are so aged' [...]
From Make: creation, molding, testing, to liftoff!
A jet powered electric supercar?
Capstone Turbine unleashes their Super car - the CMT-350. Details:
CMT-380, a high performance hybrid electric supercar powered by traditional batteries and an untraditional ultra low emission range extending microturbine, which is essentially like having an ultra-clean and quiet jet [...]
Obamas will spend holidays in Hawaii
Hawaii's home-grown president, Barack Obama, is expected back in Honolulu on Dec. 23, according to sources in Washington.
In a previous Hawaii visit, Barack Obama — then the Democratic candidate for president — spoke to supporters at Keehi Lagoon Park. [...]
House Homeland security chairman Rep Bennie Thompson is under investigation in relation to donations to his campaign from credit card companies after he announced that the House was considering expensive new security rules. Rep Thompson found $15,000 more in his wallet from the Visa and Master card type folks. No legislation has [...]
House Homeland security chairman Rep Bennie Thompson is under investigation in relation to donations to his campaign from credit card companies after he announced that the House was considering expensive new security rules. Rep Thompson found $15,000 more in his wallet from the Visa and Master card type folks. No legislation has [...]
An article that appeared in the Union Leader that I think was so poorly written I couldn’t finish it. The pot was literally boiling over with drivel. It was probably consuming valuable oxygen as well.
Robin Comstock: Manchester-area businesses support commuter rail.
“Hear that sound, New Hampshire? Opportunity is knocking in the [...]
The vote scheduled by the Senate Education Committee this week on HB 509, requiring parental consent for psychological evaluations given in school, has been postponed to January 5, 2010.
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I’m reading a really good book right now. It’s called Putin and the Rise of Russia by Michael Stuermer, about the presidency of Vladimir Putin from 2000-2008.
A new book published at the end of September I think its quality, unlike many books like this tend to simply cover an autobiography of the [...]
Les over at Radioactive Liberty is running a poll to see if you are a Liberal - I flunked (natch)
Chris (also over at Radioactive Liberty) has a modern Pilgrim tale. He also has this pic from his other place, Angry Seafood (she needs a push bar vs [...]
On Afghanistan, Bloggers Aren't Going All The Way With Obama
Plus: Left-Leaners Want More Jobs; Right-Leaners Put In A Word For Deficit Reduction
National Journal has its latest poll out from its blogger stable and they wanted to know:
How much confidence do you have in President Obama's Afghanistan strategyThis article by Steve MacDonald sums up the reason we have few choices for health insurance in NH. The same person who caused this situation is now touting 'choice' with a government option. When you ignore history, you are doomed to repeat it.
Dear Catherine, It's Jeanne Shaheen's Fault
Someone shared ...
[...]Contrary to popular assumption, while some of us in the 'conservative' movement are for strong national defense, we are against war for the purpose of nation-building, and especially wars we can't win. No matter what one thinks, harken back to 2006 when any Republican, whether they agreed with Bush on' [...]
After the January 10, 2008 hearing on the College's motion to dismiss, Judge Vaughn's emphatic line of questions on the issue of consideration left a clear impression that the College's motion would fail. In today's summary judgment hearing, the Judge did not tip his hand: the only issue to [...]
Over the years I have learned to be cautious and skeptical of politicians who tell us that if elected they will run government like a business. I’ve learned that most of the time we would not hire the same dummies we elect to run our business. In real life terms [...]
Grant Bosse '94 reports on his blog that he was the only Alumni Councillor to dissent from the Council's otherwise unanimous nomination (89-1) of only a single candidate for each of the two open Alumni Trustee slots:
The Dartmouth Alumni Council just voted 89-1 to nominate two candidates for the' [...]
They are: Morton Kondracke '60 and John Replogle '88, the C.E.O. of Burt's Bees. More anon.
[...]After Obama's speech the other night at West Point Military Academy, commentator Chris Matthews made the statement:
"He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case.”
Now I don't know about you but for me I find it very offensive for anyone to use the term "enemy camp" in'" [...]
Our colleague Joe Asch is in Haverhill, New Hampshire this morn to witness and report on the hearing in the Dartmouth College Case. Keep refreshing for Joe's dispatch.
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As predicted, the impending Christmas season has tweaked the unemployment rate (down two ticks). I’d like to be optimistic, but I actually read the BLS reports. What we find is no good reason to believe things are turning around, and we won’t really have solid evidence until February when holiday [...]
As predicted, the impending Christmas season has tweaked the unemployment rate (down two ticks). I’d like to be optimistic, but I actually read the BLS reports. What we find is no good reason to believe things are turning around, and we won’t really have solid evidence until February when holiday [...]
Back in 1908 Charles Dawson and a few others, claimed to have found the missing link. A skull that would solve an anthropological problem. And for the better part of forty years, this "discovery" (in one way or another) drove our cultural and scientific understanding of the evolution of mankind.
There were skeptics, [...]
Back in 1908 Charles Dawson and a few others, claimed to have found the missing link. A skull that would solve an anthropological problem. And for the better part of forty years, this "discovery" (in one way or another) drove our cultural and scientific understanding of the evolution of mankind.
There were skeptics, [...]
Guest post by Peter Bearse:
For all the long deliberations of a conflicted President, supposedly drawn out so that he could decide what is best for us, we’re confronted with a decision that is in the political self-interest of Barack Obama. Thus, it now falls to Congress to be the institution [...]
In this bold story of Hope & Changes, Joe promises Bo that he never leave his Arab buddy's behind; providing the proper rearing, so tragically denied in childhood. This epic tail is sure to win this year's Oscars for Best Supporting Actor - Joe Bidenmytime, Best Supporting Actress - Nancy [...]
(Original GraniteGrok picture)
While I did not support Mitt Romney in the last Presidential, no one can reasonably attack his business acumen (and yes, I disagree with his idea of MassCare). Here's 10 good ideas:
Repair the stimulus. Freeze the funds that [...]Guest post by By Howard Rich
It's already being called the "Second Louisiana Purchase," but the sad truth is that a controversial payoff to U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's home state of Louisiana is among the smallest of the thinly-disguised bribes and kickbacks that are being offered in Washington D.C. [...]
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) is one of the TEA Party movement favorite politicians. Why? He harkens back to the Constitution and a more limited goverment. He is one of those politicians that, once in Washington, have not forgotten their conservative roots. In his book, Saving Freedom, he spoke of his [...]
Call Snapple; we've found better stuff. A longtime correspondent writes, in response to our recent digestion of the latest filings in the Dartmouth College Case, Autour de Deux:
Joe, in your Dartblog post, you referenced the infamous [Director of Communications Diana] Pearson notes that came out in discovery. I have' [...]
Granite State Gambling Poll Offers Good News for Both Sides
December 3, 2009steve vaillancourt
Editor’s Note: Having waded through the 77-page gambling study report prepared by Andrew Smith at the UNH survey center, Rep. Steve Vaillancourt hits some of the highlights here. The full report is available on the New Hampshire [...]
Breaking a three-day stalemate, the Senate approved an amendment to its health care legislation that would require insurance companies to offer free mammograms and other preventive services to women.
The vote was 61 to 39, with three Republicans joining 56 Democrats and the two independents in favor
The [...]
You know, the one who keeps saying that TEA Party type call THEMSELVES "teabaggers" - even AFTER being told that it was a sexual slur??? Yes folks, double standards if you are a Liberal!
Anyways, this caught my eye at NRO on a post that was discussing Democrats at risk [...]
"The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty-for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks, and to yell for [...]
My friend Chan over at WeekendPundit asked for a link:
I don't always read what others post here on Weekend Pundit.
... It's my blog and, in the end, it's my responsibility for what's posted here.
According to a report that appears in the Concord Monitor the New Hampshire Gaming Study Commission is considering its draft interim report. My take from what was reported.
Stall for time.
I’m not going to waste your time and mine by cutting and pasting intellectual quotes from Lew Feldstein about what the [...]
My friend Chan over at WeekendPundit asked for a link
I don't always read what others post here on Weekend Pundit.
... It's my blog and, in the end, it's my responsibility for what's posted here.
It seems that a co-blogger may have gone a smidge over a line' [...]
Left-wing moron and non-stop loudmouth Chris Matthews is a shining example of US progressivism – he is a hater and an elitist. And he, if you really boil it down, babbles as much as anything during his monologues.
Here is what most people are aware of Matthews saying about our cadets [...]
The N.H. Democratic Party expects to net about $250,000 from last night’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner featuring Bill Clinton. That would be the largest amount raised at a single even in the state Democratic Party’s history, and it comes in the worst economy in generations.
I’ve got no criticism of that. [...]
Impeached perjurer and serial sex offender William Jefferson Clinton was in town yesterday. Democrats of every sexual orientation smiled, and applauded, and glowed, hanging on his every word. I think that says a lot about the Democrat party in New Hampshire.
Warming is still cooling, despite new evidence that hiding [...]
You know it is bad for Al Gore when this happens....hoisted on his own petard, as it were
Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. OH. OH the irony.
- Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show
(H/T: NewsBusters)
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-President Barack Obama, inauguration, 1/20/09
In the same [...]
-President Barack Obama, inauguration 1/20/09
Dope of the Week - [...]
From the TaxProf:
GOP Introduces Geithner Penalty Waiver Act
Congressmen John Carter (R-TX) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) yesterday introduced the Geithner Penalty Waiver Act, requiring that the IRS assess the same penalty against U.S. taxpayers that came forward in the UBS tax fraud investigation as paid by [...]
My debate with Jim Splaine is along this same line that Dr. Walter E. Williams is making here: our Country was founded on the twin pillars of Classic Liberalism (not to be confused with the philosophy of the current crop of Liberals) - Freedom and Individual Freedom. Why, then, [...]
At his presentation on Tuesday, President Kim said that he knew numerous alumni who wanted to see how Dartmouth handled the financial crisis before they made further charitable gifts to the College. He is right. The alumni revolt of the last few years [...]
UK deems bowling as a health and safety risk, British parents who want to home school their children may have to undergo a criminal background check, the Downsizer Dispatch, city council to give man $50,000 after he was issued a ticket for giving a police officer the middle finger, and [...]
It’s just before the ski season and Cannon Mountain looks really good this year. Some other developments may make this the best ski season ever.
Recently I was driving north on the Franconia Notch Parkway and noticed the fairly substantial snow bases on both Gary’s and Paulies Folly. And then I [...]
Someone shared this letter from Seacoast Online with me. Catherine Jones, a Portsmouth resident, beleives that a public option is the best solution for what ails our states health insurance problems. I guess she's never heard of Jeanne Shaheen or SB 711.
Here's Catherine's Letter.
Nov. 26 — To the Editor:
Here in New Hampshire, [...]
Someone shared this letter from Seacoast Online with me. Catherine Jones, a Portsmouth resident, beleives that a public option is the best solution for what ails our states health insurance problems. I guess she's never heard of Jeanne Shaheen or SB 711.
Here's Catherine's Letter.
Nov. 26 — To the Editor:
Here in New Hampshire, [...]
Richard Ashooh is pondering a run at Congressional district One. And at first glance he looks good on paper but there is some potential baggage. His association with One Vote08 back in 2007/2008 and the One Campaign that drove it, is a problematic smudge on an otherwise impressive resume.
Back in 2007 [...]
December 2, 2009
by Ed Naile
They read the same papers, shop at the same stores, have many of the same friends, and some are even related.
So why did the Antrim Selectmen and various town administrators think they were going to be able to get away with hiding a [...]
They read the same papers, shop at the same stores, have many of the same friends, and some are even related.
So why did the Antrim Selectmen and various town administrators think they were going to be able to get away with hiding a deficit and unpaid municipal debt in 2009 [...]
"I have learned in preparing these answers that my bills were paid by Dartmouth College." -- Attorney Hilliard.
"...the most controversial question might be why the AoA, which is only elected for a year, would file to withdraw a suit with prejudice and prohibit future executive committees from acting differently." -- [...]
I received this email from a Left leaning person (supposedly a NH resident but I'm not totally sure; any NH person with any worth wouldn't take such a position!) complaining that because we do not have an income tax here in NH, people are SUFFERING! Because the State refuses to [...]
While listening to the radio this week I heard a couple interesting discussions about health care and an interesting philosophical question I think is a good test of how people truly feel about any government program.
NHPR was discussing how now that MA has a program in which everyone in the [...]
From NRO and NH's Pundit Extraordinaire:
This Just In! [Mark Steyn]
On this Thanksgiving Day, let us give thanks that the two greatest all-purpose pretexts for government regulation of every single aspect of your life - "health care" and "the environment" - have now converged. Forget the global warming, [...]
Mr. Hodes is NH's CongressCritter for our Congressional District 2 (I'm stuck with Pelosi cheerleader, Carol Shea-Porter in CD-1) that wants to become the Jr. Senator from NH.
As long as you both are insistent that Cap N Trade is flat out going to work here in the US, how about' [...]
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for?
-Thomas Sowell, conservative economic Professor
From today's D:
Kim, who said in the meeting with the Editorial Board that the College is still considering all of its options, added that he did not know whether Dartmouth would benefit from an external review [by outside consultants]. "If you pay someone a million or $2 million to find'" [...]Although the Dartmouth Fact Book provides extensive details on the admissions of different ethnic groups to the College, it does not offer any information at all on how successful these groups are at getting an education in Hanover and graduating -- which I think is the necessary bookend [...]
You run across the darndest things sometimes. Like this press release from the NHDP back in late September chiding Frank Guinta's campaign for accepting $2500.00 dollars from the CIGNA PAC. Seems Mayor Guinta wrote an op-ed not long after in which he (according to the thrust of the NHDP press release) promoted CIGNA's' [...]
As if I writing on this fine web site weren’t enough, I’ve accepted another assignment, as a weekly columnist for Manchester’s free weekly, the Manchester Express.
What a dilemma! I won’t know whether to break stuff here or to hold back so I don’t scoop myself in the print media.
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Oh for Pete’s sake, what’s the problem with those Swiss voting to stop minaret construction in their happy socialist utopia. They didn’t need to rile anyone up with a public vote.
Issue: Minarets are for calling some Hell-bent Muslims, who in their heart-of-hearts want everyone to be Muslims or die, to [...]
President Kim was more forceful today in apprising people of the serious budget difficulties that the College faces in the coming years. Cuts are on the way and they will be big. Though buckets of whitewash were used to explain how we got to where we are, President Kim did [...]
Everytime I start thinking that Vermont is 10-15 years behind New Hampshire in everything from education to transportation they do something cool that makes me wonder if New Hampshire isn’t the place that is actually behind.
In this particular case, its $12.00 Amtrak tickets. The link for the information is posted [...]
The rumors are that Mr. Obama will trickle 30,000 troops into Afghanistan over the next year. We won't know for sure until tonight. It is also speculated that he is going to show our hand and explain our exit strategy. That's a bad idea. You don't tell your 'enemies' the [...]
The rumors are that Mr. Obama will trickle 30,000 troops into Afghanistan over the next year. We won't know for sure until tonight. It is also speculated that he is going to show our hand and explain our exit strategy. That's a bad idea. You don't tell your 'enemies' the [...]
If you’ve been following the story of Maurice Clemmons, the man suspected of murdering four Lakewood, Wash., police officers, you know that he was granted clemency in 2000 by then-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Clemmons was one of 1,033 criminals to whom Huckabee, acting as a preacher instead of governor, granted [...]
Not one but two Poznanaski NHDP recruitment seminars were broken up this weekend. A few dozen minors were caught drinking in Bedford, and close to another dozen in Raymond over the weekend. Seems that the House leadership letting an underage State legislator off the hook for violating state law in [...]
Not one but two Poznanaski NHDP recruitment seminars were broken up this weekend. A few dozen minors were caught drinking in Bedford, and close to another dozen in Raymond over the weekend. Seems that the House leadership letting an underage State legislator off the hook for violating state law in [...]
I previously wrote this:
Jim - I would welcome a debate with you on what is the most fundamental issue separating Progressives / Liberals / Statists and Conservatives / Libertarians / Limited Government folks:
Which sovereignty should pre-eminent: the State or the Individual?
Who works for who?
Well, Rep. Splaine responded [...]
The Left (read Democrats) are always about helping the poor - too bad that they they don't actually ever review their programs to see if:
did it workdo other programs enhance the first one or screw it up?The underlying question that many Conservatives have is: what is poor? Really poor? It' [...]
When Chris Matthews starts to be a doubter, Obama has GOT to know he's in deep sneakers! From Newsbusters:
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Will this long deliberation, Anne Kornblut, you've got the tough question here to start with. Whip around here. It took three months to make this decision. Will he' [...]
Filing under "Political Correctness". "Dispostions" have migrated from Schools of Social Work to Schools of Ed. Freedom of Thought? Freedom of Speech? Freedom of Belief?
The philosophy of Individual Freedom is dying in the places where it should be carefully nurtured - in our schools. Seems however, with this nonsense [...]
Well, it is time to haul out the Dope of the Week award and dust off the dust - to an Arizona based Nanny Stater. Yup, one more politician that Knows Better Than The Rest Of Us How To Help The Poor; the story from Phoenix that the City Council [...]
And I Did Eat...
by Steve MacDonald
Senator Gregg got a letter from some “religious leaders” whose purpose was clearly to connote a statewide 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 [...]
And I Did Eat...
by Steve MacDonald
Senator Gregg got a letter from some “religious leaders” whose purpose was clearly to connote a statewide 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 [...]
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