The reason I’m rarely blogging here is because I have spent most of my time over the past 6 months blogging at NH Insider.
Please navigate there for my latest posts.
http://www.nhinsider.com/steve-mac-donald/
or go to http://www.blognetnews.com/new_hampshire/
I will resume posting here as well at some future date.
Thanks. [...] 
Party
County
District
Vote
Belvin, William
Republican
Hillsborough
6
Yea
Bergin, Peter
Republican
Hillsborough
6
Yea
Bolster, Peter
Republican
Belknap
5
Yea
Brown, Julie
Republican
Strafford
1
Yea
Case, Frank
Republican
Rockingham
1
Yea
DeSimone, Debra
Republican
Rockingham
6
Yea
DiFruscia, Anthony
Republican
Rockingham
4
Yea
Dokmo, Cynthia
Republican
Hillsborough
6
Yea
Gargasz, Carolyn
Republican
Hillsborough
5
Yea
Gleason, John
Republican
Rockingham
5
Yea
Gould, Kenneth
Republican
Rockingham
5
Yea
Hunt, John
Republican
Cheshire
7
Yea
Jasper, Shawn
Republican
Hillsborough
27
Yea
Kidder, David
Republican
Merrimack
1
Yea
Lockwood, Priscilla
Republican
Merrimack
6
Yea
Millham, Alida
Republican
Belknap
5
Yea
Pilliod, James
Republican
Belknap
5
Yea
Rowe, Robert
Republican
Hillsborough
6
Yea
Veazey, John
Republican
Belknap
4
Yea
Wells, Roger
Republican
Rockingham
8
Yea
So now you know. [...] 
Find out if Stimulus is right for you. [...] President Elect Barack Obama called an early morning press conference this morning to announce his plans to run for re-election in 2012.
While the campaign could “take him away from the oval office more often that he’d like,” he expects to be able to make himself available for any important [...]
This tried and true maxim of the Democrat party comes alive as the polls spring to life at the opening bell. It’s a lot easier to vote more than once when you have already sent in your absentee ballot, and can use the day off (if you have it off) to get college students [...]
Me- This is a great piece. I present it without interruption.
Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof
Posted: October 20, 2008, 10:26 AM by Kelly McParland
In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the [...]
The Merrimack Journal is entitled to its opinion, even if it doesn’t actually have one of its own. In this weeks edition the editors (Of the Milford Cabinet) prove me right again by endorsing only democrats for Governor, Congress, and the Senate. They use the Journal as a natural extension of [...]
Autumn has placed some unusual demands on my time, so I have not been available for frequent updates.
I have also been front page blogging at NH Insider.com when the opportunity presents itself. You can access my blog there, from here.
I [...]
No, Not Click Click Boom by Saliva, (Available here if you are feeling mislead)…
…Clique Clique Boom!
My first real encounter with the Political Clique in New Hampshire occurred on NH Insider. It manifested itself as an idea from another blogger that the value of certain political opinions (mine, actually) were somehow [...]
The following comes directly from Reagan 2020.US . It’s modern day relevance–44 years later–is startling. Special thanks to Tim Condon and RLCNH for the link. Here is Ronald Reagan at his best.
Given as a stump speech, at speaking engagements, and on a memorable night in 1964 in [...]
Turns out Barney Frank, from 1991-1998, while actively involved in the finance committee responsible for Fannie Mae’s oversight, had a gay live-in Lover who was a high ranking executive at Fannie Mae.
Frank is on the record insisting that these GSE’s were not taking on unnecessary risk, that there was no [...]
This, Courtesy of “Friends of the US chamber“ is a video from the US Chamber of commerce. As Trex pointed out in his (her?) comment to an earlier post, its a great commercial. Have a look.
The letter below was submitted to the Cabinet Press on 9/27/08 in repsonse to a letter from Fred Morse: “Letter writer says don’t blame him; he didn’t vote republican.” Fred, using his trademark incomplete facts and gross abuse of suppostion, takes the opportuntiy to blame Bush and Republicans for [insert [...]
My wife (she’s a part time teacher) got this nifty piece of NEA propaganda yesterday, (we actually get enough annually to clear a small Brazilian Rain Forrest–just in case you wondered where those dues went, other than to Democrat politicians) and in it we have comments from four Arizona [...]
Snnator Joe Biden has been using the phrase “middle class” a lot. More than Jeanne Shaheen. You’d think they were getting a nickel every time they say it. But what I find most amusing is that Joe—salt of the earth, blue-collar—Biden, has lived the life of a US Senator for [...]
In the interest of showing interest in the troops when they are no longer troops, politicians have invested at least vocally, in promoting their efforts to improving VA care. I’m all for improving this care, but I question the need to take a bureaucratic system that is already a [...]
One of my favorite pieces of the Shaheen-Hypocrisy pie, of which there are many, is her evolving stance on the war in Iraq. She was for it before she was against it. This of course means she is party to the “we were misled crowd,” the excuse we [...]
Wouldn’t it seem odd if a town that tends to vote Republican had a local paper whose letters page overwhelmingly printed endorsements from and for democrat candidates? Would it seem stranger if it printed letters from “citizens” questioning republican candidates and their policies, but not those of democrats?
Welcome to Merrimack [...]
I have not gone looking but I can bet that if I swing over to Blue Hampshire, or some other local Left wing blog, I’ll find shadows of the grasped straws, passed along from a blinkered media, and the nut-roots, that are meant to make us ask if we [...]
Go ahead, act surprised. Raising taxes and fees cost us revenue.
The State is reporting that over the past two months revenue came in 11.6 Million under forecast. This clearly means that the people raising the taxes, and making the forecast, have some explaining to do, particularly when [...]
Jeanne Shaheen’s team has been making a campaign issue of out-of-state funding, but I wonder if they are ever going to bring up the fact that candidate Shaheen gets 75% of her own campaign money from out of state? SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT!! There’s a 2% difference between the candidates.
They also like to [...]
Shaheen has launched a four person committee whose sole purpose is to combat what PR gal Kate Bedingfield calls “distortions of Sununu’s record coming from the Republican side.” But her Truth team for justice and the Non-Republican Way™ is a non-starter from go because this very announcement, [...]
Equality of outcomes (the focus of every democrat policy) is the single greatest threat to liberty in America. As long as we allow the federal government and our representatives to obsess over how they can and should use government incentives or government largess to accommodatete every human weakness, or [...]
Shaheen has been ragging on Sununu’s economic plan, comparing it to Bush. She likes to emphasize big oil subsidies on top of that, but of course by subsidies she means less taxation, which means letting them keep what they legally earned. I mention it (again) because it reveals the stark reality [...]
(The YouTube link is broken everywhere I go. My apologies if you are unable to view the video at this time)
Just a reminder of how Gov. John Lynch condoned under age sex.
Now I missed the original press conference, but I bet I know how it didn’t go.
CONCORD NH–Ladies and Gentlemen, today, by rescinding New Hampshire’s parental notification law, I believe that we advance the democrat parties ideals and demonstrate [...]
Carol Shea-Porter likes to give constitutional rights to terrorists. She favored the Boumedine decision to provide Habeus Corpus rights to terror detainees, not because they should be entitled to them but becasue she has been told to go against anything George Bush favors. She also supported giving these murderers 4th amendment protections by hamstringing FISA, and surveillance of enemy [...]
Over the past 10 years Obama has spent well over half that time campaigning for his next job. That’s like hiring a guy to work the front desk, but he’s never at the front desk; instead of doing what you hired him for he’s upstairs chatting up your boss [...]
This weeks Merrimack Journal again has a “Letter to the editor” from another relatively well connected democrat who is endorsing another democrat—Carol Shea-Porter—without any specific mention of his party particulars. Peter Flood has a distinguished list of credits including service to his country as a 1st Lieutenant in the [...]
Gov. Lynch’s almost-ignored approval of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) a few months back is indicative of how the cataracts have grown wildly across New Hampshire’s traditional vision of a limited and responsible government. RGGI will make energy in New Hampshire more expensive and no one can dispute that. [...]
I suppose I just failed to follow the “support the troops not the war” pandering to its most logical conclusion, thinking all along that the Left might actually understand what supporting the troops really means, you know, like paying for the stuff that makes them “The troops.” Even the average misguided anti-gun [...]
Merrimack, August 7th: In a letter by Fred Morse, posted at the Merrimack Journal on-line (I don’t know if it made the print edition) Mr. Morse quotes the BBC’s Justin Webb to justify his interpretation of some things McCain has said that they (Fred and Justin) both [...]
Letters to the editor are probably the simplest way for a publication to openly express its actual opinions on matters of policy. Opinion pages are popular. Using its editorial prerogative the paper can publish letters by “concerned residents” that might just happen to represent some of their own personal [...]
The fantasy Democrats are expecting you to embrace in regard to taxes, is that no matter what the cost estimates may be for all their new government programs, no matter how many billions of dollars they will require annually to support, no matter what method they come up with to pay for it [...]
The Evil oil speculators have “speculated” the price of oil back down to $113/barrel, a $34/barrel drop from its high of around $147 a few weeks ago when Chancellor Pelosi claimed Bush’s lifting the off-shore drilling restriction was a meaningless gesture. (Unlike her two years as Speaker). What I find most amusing about [...]
Shaheen wants to distract us from the cold hard truth about her dark Blue roots by arguing that her opponent, Senator Sununu, is less capable than she simply because he voted with Bush 85% of the time. But a quick look at her policy and issues pages will show just how closely aligned she is with [...]
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.”
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the [...]
I stumbled upon a “heated” discussion about AGW at the Nashua Telegraph Website, based on this Letter. My response is posted in the comments section of the article link, and elaborated below. It’s premise is that no matter what we think the problem is the ‘cure’ [...]
McCain went to Iowa and told the people there that as President he would help them market their farm products around the world, and discussed ways to help them profit in international markets, but that he would not support ethanol subsidies. I find this very refreshing, and it is [...]
Kelly Ayott is after drivers who have failed to pay fines going back up to six years. Her office estimates that there are 3 million dollars in unpaid traffic fines due to the state. In the past five years two State Troopers assigned to the same [...]
I’ve decided, for the good of the country, to support the democrats plan to make oil companies give up their leases on land they are unwilling to drill on
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Democrats are sold part and parcel on this scheme they have concocted to make it look like they actually want [...]
Democrats like to spend tax dollars. They like to create and enrich social programs, multiplying them like rabbits one atop the other, all for each and every perceived need—always collecting the authority to administer them as high up in the government as they can. Now this is not necessarily [...]
I predicted that if oil went under $100/barrel that the left would completely abandon their “new found” interest in drilling, even in places with little or no oil. Here’s to finding out if I am wrong. Come on $100!!
[...] How can Jeanne Shaheen insist that depleting a 700 million barrel fixed supply of oil into an economy that uses about 20 million barrels per day will really help the middle class, when the same Jeanne Shaheen insists that drilling new domestic oil will not? If it’s such a great [...]
Your voice in Washington has been stolen from you, but is democracy officially dead?
When you voted for a congressman, no matter who it was, you got a person whose job it is, to ensure that they could cast votes on matters of national importance in your name. But what [...]
Jeanne Shaheen latest gripe is that Oil refineries are only running at 85% efficiency, and this is more proof that the Oil companies are milking “The Middle Class™” for profits. It’s a sad tale Jeanne, but did you know it’s the government’s fault?
Most oil refineries have to deal with [...]
Shaheen’s lawyers are after the Free Enterprise Alliance, the political arm of Associated Building and Contractors’ for a radio spot they are airing that attacks Jeanne’s energy policy, something near and dear to my heart. The rub it seems is the implication, in the ad, that Ms. Shaheen’s policy [...]
It seems to me that people whose primary job it is to protect our right to vote ought to be afforded the same privilege. But the Democrat majority in congress has proven again that their rhetoric about supporting the troops in not just empty rhetoric, it is barren. A [...]
Jeanne Shaheen on the economy (from jeanneshaheen.org)
It’s time our economy worked for middle class families again. For the past seven years, wages have remained stagnant while the price of everything else – from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk – has gone through the roof.
Liar! It’s [...]
Picked up from the Coalition of New Hampshire Tax Payers, Republican State Legislator Chris Nevins, in a guest post, takes issue with how some New Hampshire law makers are the running the numbers on the State Budget.
Compare what we paid in General Fund taxes during the last biennial [...]
Free thinking liberals, who speak too freely without thinking, often give us insight into what they really have planned for us. That can happen when you spend most of your time pretending one thing when you are really planning something most Americans might not actually vote for. Obama does it all the [...]
Every policy has a starting point and this beginning is the “perceived” state of affairs that we are to believe is less desirable than the policies stated objective. But if the starting point makes inaccurate assumptions or posits conclusions that are untenable, the policy is less than worthless. Carol [...]
He is a pork barrel scum-bag. He stands for nothing that real conservatives beleive in, and he and everyone like him (Democrat or Republican) should be run out of Washington and flogged by their constituents.
Republicans-and real conservatives, lose nothing if they stand up for their principles and call him out [...]
Since American taxpayers practically bought themselves an unprofitable railroad they didn’t need (disguised as a pick-me up) and the government is already busy buying up a few hundred thousand mortgages for us, to save people from suffering at the hands of their own poor judgement, we can [...]
Shaheen has made some noise about conflicts of interest, but she has plenty of her own.
Most obviously, she’s claiming to be fighting for middle class families, but all of her policies , particularly her pandering on energy policy, will remove massive amounts of wealth from of [...]
So the oil companies are evil for failing to drill on land of which the US Department of Energy has this to say…
Remaining U.S. oil fields are becoming increasingly costly to produce because much of the easy-to-find oil has already been recovered.
But the democrats are not [...]
The “independent” Senator Bernie Sanders from the People’s Republic of Vermont, had this to say regarding Judd Gregg’s vote against amendments to the Heating aide Bill.
“Do we vote to keep the old, the sick, and kids alive when the weather gets cold or very, very hot, or do we [...]
Front page, Sunday Union Leader, in an article assessing Sununu’s ability to shake “The Bush effect,” NH State DHC (Democrat High Council) senior adviser Kathy Sullivan sees Sununu as “a big part of the problem.” So what problem is she referring to? Let’s deconstruct.
The war in [...]
The 10th circuit ruled that the State of Colorado could not (in a nutshell) set itself up in the business of defining what is or is not too religious, and as such, struck down a State law that prohibited financial aid to students applying to certain religious colleges.
…a federal [...]
The fact is that the current Democrat energy strategy could destroy America before it makes the Left’s blessed sacrament of “renewable energy” a remotely viable alternative. Do you really want to take that chance? Risking our economic freedom to the whims of foreign nations because we like the idea [...]
I’m on a tight schedule this week so free time is at a premium, but this from the Concord Monitor was promising news for John Sununu. He is a statistical dead-heat with challenger Shaheen. This is great because it really brings out the fight in both candidates. [...]
[Updated]
Oil is now under $125/barrel, and still trending steadily downward. That’s a drop of $22/per barrel since lifting executive restrictions. The one year forcast has also started to drop, down to $161 from $166. This is a good sign.
But will it last? It’s a good steady trend over almost two weeks. [...]
The FreeObama Press stuck to form by not appearing in any considerable numbers to greet John McCain on his arrival to New Hampshire. (1 reporter is all the Press could muster). I realize we are not a critical electoral catch, but this is a man running for President and he [...]
Oil opened higher than its previous close for the past two days, but has dropped (so far) both days, and as of this writing is below $128/Barrel. This is a $19 drop since Bush lifted the executive restrictions on offshore drilling on a steady downward price trend. (I’m [...]
Plucked from Labor Pains.org we find this not so startling bit of news about the already less than accessible Carol Shea Porter. It’s no secret Clueless Carol can’t do anything off the cuff. Absent notes, prompts, scripts, or Nancy Pelosi, Carol has no depth on the issues, [...]
Thousands of persons claiming to be terrorists or somehow connected to international terror networks, are approaching US servicemen and women abroad, and allowing themselves to be arrested as enemy combatants.
“Many of these new potential terrorists represent a much broader range of profiles than what we have seen in the past. Because we can’t [...]
Jeanne Shaheen assumes that Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) is a real problem that her policies will help us navigate. I have blogged at length about them (her policies), but it’s hard to beat commentary like this.
Dr. David Evans is a man responsible for writing the carbon accounting models for Austraila’s Kyoto compliance [...]
Seems Obama has been receiving significant numbers ofcampaign contributions from overseas. Here is a link I found while browsing, with some interesting details and some important questions.
Like why would one person give 112 separate donations to Obama, 34 of them on the same day? (I get my share of [...]
In the Saturday Union Leader John DiStaso has an article in which NH-02 Rep Paul Hodes pins the “tax cuts for the rich”canard on John McCain, and declares his economic policies as detrimental to the middle class. You see McCain has this goofy notion that the people who earn the [...]
New Hampshire’s Democratic Reps, and former NH governor, tell us they have great ideas on how to resolve the high cost of energy, how to help the “struggling” middle class with the costs associated with it. But they never seriously relate the two with facts because anyone with two brain-cells to rub [...]
