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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
Why is the State of New Hampshire providing taxpayer backed loan guarantees to a Newspaper in Claremont? And what does it mean for the reporters and editors beholden to New Hampshire politicians for their jobs? They were out of work until the state came around and the Executive Council [...]
(MANCHESTER) Mayor-elect Ted Gatsas says Manchester taxpayers and budget writers won't be on the hook if the bonds on the Verizon Wireless Arena default. The current State Senator and Alderman, and incoming Mayor reacted to the Josiah Bartlett Center 's report that changes in the state budget could prevent' [...]
WMUR's Josh McElveen reports on opposition to the Pelosi Health Care Bill because of its reliance on state budgets to pay for many of its mandates.
The question of what it could cost states has piqued Gov. John Lynch's interest. He spoke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about his [...]
Here are the October 29, 2009 Meeting Minutes from the NH Right to Know Oversight Commission.
CNHT does not believe that our current RTK law (RSA 91-A) needs to be tampered with.
Often commissions are set up to ’study’ an issue with the result of new laws or changed laws.
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In case you missed it ABC unveiled a new TV series last Tuesday at 8:00 PM called 'V'. You can now watch the pilot full episode on ABC's website or at Hulu.com which I find worked best.
The storyline is a thinly veiled exposé of our current government. In this story, [...]
Washington elites have dared to commit high crimes and treason. Ignoring 72% disapproval of this draconian Pelosi health care bill, aka HR 3962, they have chosen instead to ram it down our throats. It remains to be seen just how they will be punished in the 2010 elections.
39 House Democrats, [...]
On November 7, the anniversary of Lenin's revolution (PDF) when the Bolshevik-led Red Guards deposed the Provisional Government and proclaimed soviet rule in the Soviet Union, the U.S. House of Representatives by a 220-215 vote passed a bill [...]
The LA Times' Gregory Hess pens a useful review of Steven D. Leavitt and Stephen J. Dubner's Super Freakonomics, the follow-up to 2005's best-seller Freakonomics.
The world, however, has changed since "Freakonomics," and now everyone questions the worthiness of economists during our current financial crisis.
Further down in Kevin Landrigan's Sunday column is a note on a the Executive Council backing a loan for the new owners of the Claremont Eagle Times.
Sign of the Times
The council approved a state guarantee loan of up to $250,000 for the new publishers of the resurrected Claremont [...]
Ed Naile is chairman of the Coalition of NH Taxpayers, the group which is responsible more than any other for the fact the NH has no state sales or income tax. Ed's been fighting the growth of government for 20 years, and has been successful. So when Ed talks [...]
Episode 91: Bob Bestani, candidate for CD-1
Denis chats with Bob Bestani, candidate for US Congress in NH district CD-1. Topics covered include the economy, health care, defense, the Middle East, and education.
Also: we share a clip by Mike Rodgers, US Congressman from Michigan, on health care.
Remember how the stimulus was supposed to keep unemployment under 8%?
Thanks to Innocent Bystanders, which updates this chart every month.
Union Leader reporter Jim Fennell reports that the U.S Department of Labor has canceled the bid process for a Job Corps Center in Manchester, following a disputer over whether union work rules would have allowed any New Hampshire firms to build it.
Anagnost said he spent most ofAC yesterday [...]
Update: Today was "House Call" day in DC... and Jon Voight minced no words in telling the truth about this administration.
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn) reveals what will happen if this health care boondoggle passes...
This adminstration that promised to be the most ethical and transparent refused to even talk to her [...]
What You Can Do About It
This week, New Hampshire residents found out that both Congressmen, Hodes and Shea-Porter, will be voting for the US House proposed Health care bill.
This monstrosity of a bill not only includes federal funding for abortions (see HERE), but it is set to unleash havoc on [...]
November 6, 2009
Cabinet Press
BEDFORD – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood defended the $787 billion economic stimulus package even though it has so far failed to meet White House estimates on creating jobs in New Hampshire.
LaHood on Friday didn’t directly answer a question on whether the White House had [...]
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the [...]
Lead Investigator Grant Bosse will join WEMJ's "Meet the New Press" Saturday morning at 9:35am to discuss the Manchester Spending Cap, Cash for Clunkers, State Revenues, and whatever other subjects Doug and Skip bring up.
Listen Live at Granite Grok.
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Ed Mosca responds the Rep. Candace Bouchard's op-ed in today's Concord Monitor in our comments section. Since Bouchard led her column by claiming that "Edward Mosca gets his facts wrong", we're going to repost Mosca's complete response here.
The Representative's rant was a respnse to my op-ed, which exposed this' [...]
The most dramatic shift in employment picture has to be in the number of people not looking for work. This figure has skewed the real unemployment picture all year but in October only about 31,000 more stopped looking, according to BLS data. The result is that the bulk of job [...]
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.
[...]Sled maker shut down because of zoning rules, parents in parts of the UK banned from going to public playgrounds with their children, the Downsizer Dispatch, marijuana decrim and war on drugs, and the world record for the biggest meatball is set in NH.
[...]Grant Bosse, NH Common Sense, Steve Mac Donald, Keene Free Press, Denis Goddard, CNHT, Motor Home Diaries, Lee Quandt, NH Capitol Access, NH Tea Party Coalition, Andrew Manuse, Free Minds TV, Steve Vaillancourt, Bill McGonigle, NH Seacoast Liberty, TakeYourMedicine2010, BikerBill, Free Keene, RLCNH
