I've been mulling over the results of the Rasmussen "tea party" poll and while most are attempting to spell it out as trouble for Republicans, it's actually the Democrats with the most to fear in the results.
As we see more and more tea parties springing up every week we' [...]
Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as well as Vermont 's own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.
Maslack recently proposed a bill to register' [...]
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'" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As November comes to a close so does National Novel Writing Month. Congratulations to all those who were able to complete their 50,000 words in the 30 days.
New Hampshire had 473 people register on the Nano website attempting the challenge. 45% of those like myself were [...]
You would think with the Debt going up at record levels that the National Debt would be the last thing Democrats would want to talk about right now but over on Blue Hampshire they are doing just that, attempting to claim that Democrats are the party that best controls spending.
Tea Parties continue to spread across the country, the newest one in Merrimack, NH. The website "The Merrimack Watch" was recently launched as a local effort to combat over spending. You can view the website in full HERE.
Here is their message:
This site is dedicated solely to those who are [...]
Hats off to the Washington Examiner. They created a map looking into claims of jobs created or saved by the billions spent in the stimulus package to determine the validity of the claim. You can find the map in full HERE.
While they do not have any jobs listed from [...]
Doug Lambert said something stupid, he in turn apologized for it, but yet NH Democrats will not let it drop. Even after he stepped down from writing for the Grok website he continues to remain the focus of NH Democrats. What makes this mostly insignificant man writing for a site [...]
I was listening today about stories already surfacing about schools seeking to ban any mention of the word Christmas. One school plans to open a special gift store where students can buy gifts for people in the month of December but they are forbidden from having any Christmas items in [...]
November is national novel writing month. To celebrate the website www.nanowrimo.org offers a challenge asking people to attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in just 30 days. Over the past years several of the novels written this way have even gone on to be published with one even [...]
Congratulations to the New York Yankees on their 27th World Series Victory!
[...]Failing by just 2 votes, the NH Senate allowed the Govern Lynch veto of the law that would have allowed Marijuana to be used in NH as a medical treatment for the ill to stand.
Barnes, Jr., John RepublicanTake a moment and watch the following video of Al Franken and before reading on see if you can catch his slight of hand.
Did you catch it?
He is attempting to show that in a government run health care system all our problems will just go away. In Switzerland there are [...]
Magicians use distractions to focus attention in order to deceive audiences and get people to believe something amazing happened. In reality the other hand, the one they divert you away from is simply dropping a ball in their pocket or shuffling a deck in an improper fashion.
A story I read [...]
Amhest, Mass has officially opened its arms welcoming the detainees.
Town leaders in Amherst, Massachusetts, have endorsed an offer to make the college town a possible resettlement home for two detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison. The resettlement resolution was approved by select board members in a 2-1 vote. Tonight, [...]
An interesting editorial ran this week in the Union Leader asking whether or not Carol Shea Porter was changed by Washington. You can read it in full HERE but I'd like to share a small excerpt.
Has Washington changed Carol Shea-Porter?
It’s a question that’s being asked in New Hampshire as' [...]
At what point does Obama start to become responsible? Here we are not 10 months into his presidency and things are not only not improving but getting worse and all we continue to hear from the left is finger pointing back to Bush.
Now mind you, the mortgage crisis and [...]
In the feedback of one of my other articles a discussion began about how government grows. If you look back at nearly every thing government does it was done for one of three reasons. Either a politicians wanted to grow his or her power and did so by giving things [...]
With the State Employee Association turning down the contract offered to them with 19 furlough days Gov Lynch now must follow through with his alternative option, layoffs.
Now I'll start by saying no one ever wants to see layoffs but once in a while they are necessary.
In the private sector, when' [...]
I thought everyone was pushing for the same goal in regards to legalization of marijuana but I'm starting to realize that I may have been wrong on that belief.
There is a growing conflict between two groups who one would think want the same goal, the 420 protesters and those involved' [...]
The Democrats in DC once again out did themselves using the support of our troops as a way to promote their legislation and play politics. In the 2010 defense authorization bill Nancy Pelosi and company choose to tie in their Hate Crimes Prevention Act which had zero to do with [...]
In much of what government does, I consider "spending" to be "investment."
What should be pointed out in the case of Franklin, the town screwed up. They made a mistake in calculating [...]
Franklin voters yesterday sent a strong message to the tax and spenders who wanted unlimited access to the wallets of tax payers and that message was NO!
Mayor Ken Merrifield and Councilors Bob Sharon and Glen Feener won their re-election. Ken winning with 67% of the vote.
Tammy Simons sums it up [...]
Monday the 420 movement started in a 2nd NH town, this time in the park in Manchester. A group of roughly 40 activists meet at 4:20 in the afternoon in Manchester to openly smoke marijuana or at least come out openly in support of it. Dispite by watched closely by [...]
I wrote a few weeks ago about young democrats beginning to wake up a see the problems with their own party, now this week the folks over at Blue Hampshire finally began to acknowledge it as well. They wrote a two part article which can be nicely summed up with [...]
Let me preface by saying I'm not a fan of the Red Sox, I'm a die hard Yankee fan and have been since I first started watching baseball so read on knowing I'm bias against the Sox.
I turned on my radio this morning to listen to the news and low' [...]
I would like to share an email that was shared with me. Varrin Swearingen wrote this in response to an email from Paul Hodes asking for feedback about health care.
This letter is posted in full with permission by Varrin.
Congressman Hodes,
Thank you for your email. As far as I [...]
At first read my thoughts were, this is a good thing. We own ourselves, only we should be free to make choices for what's in our [...]
A growing number of marijuana smokers have been gathering daily in Keene's Central Square to protest drug laws as city councilors grapple with a resolution that would decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.
The New Hampshire Union-Leader reports about 75 people gathered in the square at 4:20 [...]
I recently read a blurb about an ongoing contest mentioned in the Nashua Telegraph. Here's what they wrote about it:
Essay contest
For the third year in a row, the New Hampshire Supreme Court, in cooperation with the state’s newspapers, is hosting a Constitution Day essay contest, with two [...]
Do you recall Bush building the case of the Iraq war on WMDs? From that moment on Democrats railed that Bush needed to show the WMDs and because he was never able to find them support for the Iraq war slowly dwindled.
Now Obama is setting himself up the same way. [...]
A lot of today's Republicans started off as yesterday's Democrats. There comes a point in each of our lives where we grow up and start seeing the world through grown up eyes.
In my life that wake up came just after the 2000 elections. Prior to that I had voted for [...]
Past Libertarian candidate for Governor Richard Kahn received a rather telling email from Congressman Paul Hodes. Rich wrote Hodes asking for his support of H.R. 1207, a bill calling for an audit of the FED. At the time of my writing this the bill has 287 sponsors including NH's' [...]
Carol this week made the following claim:
Shea-Porter expressed disgust over how some Republicans acted during Obama's health care speech to Congress last Wednesday, where some could be heard booing and South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson yelled "you lie!" after the president said health care legislation would not provide free' [...]
Bush was a screw up and was one of the worst things that have happened to the Republican party in my life time. Bush made a lot of mistakes and it cost the Republican party as a whole because the party backed him as he made the mistakes.
Now Obama is [...]
A recent facebook poll asked an interesting philosophical question which I'd like to share with my readers in hopes of getting them thinking a bit. The question asked was "Should health care be considered a basic human right?" At the time of my writing this the results are 72% yes' [...]
Democrats hate the US Constitution. They don't follow it, they don't respect it and they don't want it. If you need evidence of this have a discussion with a liberal Democrat and bring up the Constitution. Watch as they get red in the face and begin making arguments against why' [...]
I already wrote about Carol's town hall meeting farce but now a video has surfaced showing evidence of some of the claims I had heard at the event.
The claims were that Carol had her supporters taken in through a back door to fill seats before she allowed any of the [...]
While most are focusing on the tail end of summer or of those watching politics focus on Obama's antics NH Democrats are slowly plugging along behind the scenes with a plan to implement a state wide income tax.
Speaker of the House Terie Norelli let a [...]
Our founding fathers had a very specific view of government when they created this country. They were well educated and knew history very well. They understood that government was the problem, not the solution but that some rules needed to be established for a society to function. This lead them [...]
Blue Hampshire posted an article this week calling Mike Huckabee a liar. The article can be found in full HERE. In the article they quote him saying:
"[I]t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don't have as long to live might want to consider just taking a'" [...]
Health Care is now being viewed as a "right" what next?
For starters a lot of our health has to do with how we care for ourselves such as how we eat, how much excersize we get and so on. People who eat poorly and are over weight tend to have [...]
I continue to hear the opposing tell me that I have a right to health care. Now I've read the bill of rights a couple times and I don't recall seeing it listed anywhere but they tell me I have it. This got me thinking, what other rights do I [...]
This morning I arrived bright and early in Manchester at the Carol Shea Porter town hall meeting. Knowing the room selected for the meeting only had seating for 100 I counted how many people were in the line, by the time I got to the end I had counted around [...]
Every time I read something about Carol Shea Porter I'm left shaking my head wondering how she ever was elected to office in the first place.
For starters there is the story found HERE about her upcoming town hall meeting.
People who want to attend a town hall event for Rep.' [...]
I was reading the letters to the editor in the Nashua Telegraph and I came across one attacking Jennifer Horn for a letter she wrote. The letter itself shows hypocrisy of both sides by criticizing Jennifer for calling out Obama and Democrats for their version of free speech zones then [...]
I'm just going to give quotes from a couple different articles, no further comments will be needed on this one...
Eleven windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters on Santa Fe Drive were shattered early this morning in a vandalism spree that party Chairwoman Pat Waak' [...]
Its interesting how Teddy Kennedy's death is being discussed by different groups.
For instance look at the distinct differences between Blue Hampshire and Red Hampshire web sites.
Senator Gregg stated, “Today America lost an extraordinary leader, [...]
I found a perfect example showing the real problem with our health care industry which backs up something I've known for some time. The problem is the government. They want you to pay more, they want to create problems because they want to grow by presenting themselves as the solution.
Carol Shea Porter has finally crawled out from her rabbit hole to hold a public town hall meeting. Very nice touch in her picking locations that hold 100 people or fewer, once you fill the seats with the press, the paid shills and the democratic loyalists and party insiders there [...]
Remember Cindy Sheehan? She was the poster girl against Bush's war in Iraq. The media couldn't get enough of her putting her on the front page nearly every day while Republicans were in power.
Of course that was when she went after Republicans. Cindy is on Martha's Vineyard this weekend protesting' [...]
When Democrats changed the state abortion laws to allow children to get abortions without their parents ever knowing about it many of us, myself included, argued that this was protecting criminals. If an adult molested a 13 or 14 year old girl he would be able to cover his actions [...]
I enjoy taking and watching the polls on facebook. They tend to be made up of a decent cross section of America and give a good insight to what most normal people think.
Here are 10 polls I found this week:
1) Do you approve of Barack Obama's health care legislation?
779 [...]
I've been hearing more and more people claim that the Democratic party and Obama are centrists and only look far left because the Republicans over all have moved so far to the right. This really got me thinking, how could anyone consider Obama a centrist? I guess to answer that' [...]
From time to time people need to be reminded that our federal government was given a specific scope to its powers. This scope was documented in Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution. Here is that section along with a few quotes from the nations founders explaining it's meaning.
For the second time now in two weeks Obama events were attended by citizens carrying weapons. None of those open carrying broke any laws or did anything beyond demonstrated their 2nd amendment rights yet once again it made national news.
Yesterday in Arizona around a dozen protesters showed up carrying weapons [...]
Have you ever stopped to think about how much you pay to the government? What do you get in return?
Stop for a moment and start adding up what you pay in any given year to the federal, state and local branches of the government.
Add up what you pay in property [...]
I've been witnessing a strange occurrence here in NH. Democrats control all branches of the state and federal government. They are 100% in control and have the ability to get all the things they claim this country has needed put into place.
With their being 100% in control of every level' [...]
Is there any logic to the fear most liberals have of guns?
The citizen who open carried this week at a health care event in Portsmouth has sparked national debate about the concept of open carrying a gun. The discussions I've had and read have two parties objecting to the behavior.
The' [...]
We're continually told time and time again that Republicans do not care about the environment and only Democrats can save us from Global Warming and world pollution. Most people assume Democrats are the party that is better for the environment after all they are the party of Al Gore, Mr' [...]
As I'm sure you are all well aware by now, Obama came to NH to pitch his socialized health care sceme. A number of people I know went, not because they were being paid as you continue to hear Democrats imply but because they strongly object to what is being' [...]
As I continue to hear coverage about "angry mobs" protesting Obama you would almost think that anyone right of center who dare disagree with the president are a bunch of out of control savages and that the Democrats are the civilized calm cool and collected party.
When I think back [...]
The news has been beaming about Obama's Cash for Clunkers program and the government is even considering extending it, is this a good thing? Sure if you are well off enough to be able to afford a new car. If your a lower income family however its making things harder.
The Telegraph last week ran an article about a Nashua teacher who was picked to go to Philadelphia and learn about teaching the US Constitution. Nancy Hamann not only had the honor of being the only NH teacher but being one of the rare ones who were picked being [...]
There is an interesting article posted this week on Blue Hampshire discussing growth in Democrat voter registrants. They discuss the double digit registration leaps in several NH counties between 2002 and 2008. Now this of course only accounts for the time under Bush when let's face it, he turned [...]
While in NY over this past weekend I was listening to a lot of NY city talk radio stations. The two topics discussed the most were the arrests that Ed wrote about HERE and the arrest of Professor Gates.
The station I listened to the most discussing the Gates story [...]
This past weekend my wife and I took the kids to see the statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Being as my family just as far back as my grandparents came through Ellis Island (legally), I found it interesting to visit my roots and share with my own kids a [...]
I was looking recently at the national debt numbers over different periods of US history, mostly current history. I'd like to share with you all some of those numbers.
April 1993 when Bill Clinton took office (with Democrats controlling house and senate) the national debt was $4,225,873,987,843.44
In April 1995 when republicans' [...]
From today's Nashua Telegraph in an article found HERE:
The gist of the case is this: A well-known mortgage industry watchdog site founded by computer scientist Aaron Krowne in 2007, ml-implode.com, posted a story about a New Hampshire company, The Mortgage Specialists Inc.
MSI is being investigated by banking [...]
Today there was an editorial in the Telegraph written by Fred Morse entitled "Republicans fearful Obama will succeed", you can read it in full HERE. Most living in Merrimack recognize Fred's name as one of the more outspoken Democrats in Merrimack who writes this type of letter nearly on [...]
If I told you the government was going to pass a law outlawing private business unless that business was approved by the government and the only other option available was one provided by the government what would you call that? I'd call it socialism.
Welcome to Obama's America.
The new Health Care' [...]
Sin taxes are a popular way for tax and spenders who refuse to give up spending to add new taxes without getting people upset. So when I read the below story from the news I thought to myself, is this a sneaky way for either Lynch or Obama to balance [...]
Recently, not only on this site but nearly everywhere there has been a lot of talk about unemployment. Its reached a point where nearly everyone reading this is either unemployed or knows someone personally who has lost his or her job. The situation isn't pretty and instead of making things' [...]
As I stated in my other article, there is more to the Michael Jackson story above and beyond the death of Michael Jackson the person. The second story in fact has less to do with Michael the man and more to do with those now morning him.
The second story helps [...]
It has been impossible to turn on the TV or radio over the last week without being bombarded with news and tributes to Michael Jackson. There is so much that can be said, much has already been said. He was a great performer and talented musician. He was also a [...]
How each of us think about things and how we each draw conclusions is very telling as to what type of person each of us is.
This could not be better demonstrated when I was reading one of the articles posted today on Blue Hampshire. The article titled "A Dramatic" [...]
I think all school children should be required as part of their lessen plans to read the new testiment. They should all be required to learn about Jesus and the morals he preached.
Before reading any further take a moment to think about this above statement and see how you really [...]
Any time someone gets offended by labels it is usually an indication they are trying to hide something. If a label is truthful and it is what you actually believe then you should be willing to defend your position and hence defend the label.
I am a Constitutionalist. I believe we'd' [...]
I wonder how many people would willingly pay a licensing fee to be allowed to exercise their freedom of speech?
How many would be willing to pay for a permit allowing them to practice religion?
Both of these suggestions sound ridiculous as they should because you should NEVER have to pay for [...]
I was playing around on facebook and stumbled upon a couple polls that facebook uses have created. Now these are unsolicited polls who collect answers from everyone, not just registered voters so take them for what they are worth. I do feel they capture a good cross section of real [...]
In the last 9-11 conspiracy article I wrote, Ryan Towers posted a list of 25 questions which he claimed are proof of the conspiracy. I would like to address all 25 questions here and show why the conspiracy theories do not hold water. The questions are worded as Ryan [...]
NH Watchdog calls attention to some currently over looked discussions at the state house in and article found HERE. With the budget increasing from $1 Billion to $1.2 billion the state is left struggling how to pay for the increased spending. Considering they feel short in collecting what was [...]
I frequently read left wing web sites because I like to know what the other side is thinking. Blue Hampshire is a good peek into what the Democrats of NH see as important and their side of the arguments. Just today I peeked over to see if I could find [...]
Same sex marriage passed in NH with the religious exception that Gov Lynch stated needed to be part of the bill before he would sign it into law. Congratulations to all the same sex couples who felt this was a step in the right direction.
I've read a number of theories about 9-11 ranging from wild theories that missiles with holograms to make them look like planes were what actually hit the twin towers to theories that the government was involved in planning the attacks. Even now theories are popping up even on this' [...]
In 1984 Republicans put forth the Contract with America outlining their goals. I think it's time for Republicans to put together a new clear cut plan as they did then defining their goals and points of focus. I've put together 10 points I feel represent what it means to be' [...]
In an article about the Free State Project found HERE I found a rather interesting quote that got me thinking. In the article they describe the typical Free Stater as:
Many are single men; the majority are computer programmers. They tend to speak in precise diction and with overarching politeness. [...]
The story of Sarah Robator has now made National news. For those unfamiliar with the story, Sarah is a Manchester first grade teacher. The school board choose to eliminate 78 positions from the district, one of which being hers.
Now normally the fact that a school board cut back due [...]
As I read Dave Jarvis's article about switching back to the Democratic Party I began typing a long response but then stopped. It wasn't until I read THIS column that I found a response nessisary.
Dave asks the following questions (I'm leaving them worded as he worded them):
1) Do you [...]
As part of the attempts to fill the ever growing budget hole in Concord State Democrats are betting on a new horse... gambling. The Union Leader has an article discussing this found HERE.
The Senate Finance Committee wrapped up work on a budget yesterday that hinges on $185 million in [...]
Obama announced hours ago his first pick for Supreme Court by nominating Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Let's start by pointing out that Judge Sotomayor has more qualifications then anyone currently sitting on the Supreme Court did when they were first nominated.
But what about her views?
Clearly she's a radical liberal who in [...]
I had a discussion about the prison system and an interesting question came up which at first I though was easy to answer but then as the discussion continued I realized it isn't as easy as first thought.
The question is what is the point of the prison system, is the' [...]
The Union Leader ran a very good piece this week arguing that the Democrat controlled state government should now forget about the same sex marriage argument that we've already spent far too much time debating and discussing and focus on the real issue, the nearly $500 million deficit facing our' [...]
I don't trust John Lynch. I haven't for quite some time. The reason for my own distrust is because I was directly lied to. I wrote the Governor when Democrats were looking to take away the right of a parent to know when their child is going for a dangerous [...]
Last month I wrote an article exposing details left out of a story about a family having mortgage problems that changed how most readers would have viewed the story. Well once again I read a story, this time about a gallop poll that is thin on the details leading [...]
In the feedback to an article I read recently there was an interesting question posted. The poster wrote (and I paraphrase as I can no longer find the original post) "If anyone has answers to our economic problems please stand up".
Well allow me to stand up and present my solution [...]
The Telegraph printed a letter this week claiming that Republicans need to be part of the "solution". You can read the letter in full HERE but here is an excerpt:
The GOP today is more worried about the Republican “brand” than working with the Democrats to come up with real-world [...]
I've been reading a lot from both sides of the same sex marriage debate and I've come to the conclusion that the Republican party as a whole is wrong. Not that the argument the raise aren't valid, they are. Allow me to explain...
The crux of the argument comes down to' [...]
