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Steven Connolly: The Video Game Mentality.

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:02:39 -0500

During a challenging day at work I try to think about positive things. NH politics, policy and my most excellent roadtrips often come to the forefront of these thoughts. In August, I had a great trip across eastern Canada and then south to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

My venture began in [...]

Blue Hampshire: GOP Message Fail on Medicare Buy In Proposal

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:16:32 -0500

Watching the sausage making process of the health care reform bill has often been nauseating. I don't remember witnessing the major and minor details of other bills as they went through Congress. There wasn't this level of examination of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest (with the lone voice [...]

Joe's Dartblog: Figures Don't Lie #5 REVISED: Less Than 20-Students Classes -- Where Are They?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:00:00 -0500

Dartblog ran an earlier version of this post a while back, before course enrollments had been completed. I have now re-examined enrollments to look into the details of the College's oft-cited statistic that "64% of all our courses have less than 20 students." In a previous post, I noted that' [...]

Blue Hampshire: The United States Senate

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:52:27 -0500

Where progress for the American people goes to die.

Well, at least Jeanne Shaheen won't be on the ballot in eleven months.

Good luck, All Other Democratic Candidates!

Adding: Or?"All the things you've read in the newspapers...'the public option is gone,'--it's not true," Reid said at an impromptu press conference after' [...]

Blue Hampshire: NH-02: When Can We Expect Newt?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:43:12 -0500

If Charlie Bass is going to dip into the discredited ideologues of the past to try to outflank Jennifer Horn and the Tea People on the right, does that mean that we should be expecting a visit from Newt Gingirch sometime soon?

And if this is in fact the new [...]

Blue Hampshire: NH-Sen: Say Anything Ayotte

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:49:35 -0500

Kelly Ayotte. Against small business insurance pools that trample on state protections...The letter [signed by Ayotte] argues that allowing associations of small businesses to pool together to buy health insurance would harm consumers. By creating a structure that would supersede state laws, small business health plans would allow insurers [...]

Granite State Pundit: What does the Swiss ban on ...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:44:00 -0500

What does the Swiss ban on Minarets really mean? Anne Applebaum says it was not about bigotry.

The EPA is prepared to regulate emissions without waiting for Congressional action. That should help create more jobs, don't you think?

Gang tours in LA soon to' [...]

Democracy for New Hampshire: Delay of Game? No penalty in the House.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:23:56 -0500

SOURCE:Think Progress

New Childish Republican Obstruction Tactic: Refusing To Use Their Assigned Cards In Order To Delay Votes

In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, [...]

Steve Mac Donald Blog: Dispatched

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:14:21 -0500

Number of comments: 2

Ken Wyler dispatched a disinterested opponent in the GOP Rockingham 8 primary winning 91% of the vote. Rumor has it that George Melvin, the supposed GOP challenger, didn't even bother to go out and vote for himself.

That's kind of sad.

So this is the second consecutive special House election primary where a' [...]

Free State Blogs: Ken Wyler Wins Big!

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:37:45 -0500

Thanks in part to a big push from NH Liberty Alliance members, former NH State Rep. Ken Wyler won his primary by a landslide! Thanks folks... let's keep pushing the most pro-liberty candidates, in both major parties!

Wyler: 546
Melvin: 53

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