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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mr. Paul Hodes offered up his wisdom (and cover) on his vote in favor of the democrat health care plan(s) in the Sunday Union Leader. It contained all the usual lies. A list of greater goods all at no additional cost. No fiscal cost. No cost to access. No cost to service. [...]
Senator Gregg got a letter from some “religious leaders” whose purpose was clearly to connote a state wide 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 in play. But a cursory view of the [...]
While in Asia two things regarding Mr. Obama that I never saw reported in the press. His "unprecedented" town hall meeting in China was attended by "carefully vetted" young people and no questions were permitted. This makes the meeting itself (Clinton and Bush both held one) not only not unprecedented, [...]
Every female New Hampshire legislator has been invited to an event on the morning of December 1stat the Common Man in Concord at 8:45 am. The event is focused on introducing them to “Sisters on the Planet,” a project of Oxfam International, and Oxfam America. Curious minds might ask, who are [...]
I’ve been laying off Fred Morse for the better part of year mostly because he makes it too easy. Fred is Merrimack’s token socialist wordsmith. Fred writes letters to the editor (of every paper on God’s still-barely--green earth--evil oil, EVIL!) as often as the editors will let him. While I [...]
Hints of a 'War Tax' and comical rumors of attention deficit disorder, (that's where people hear Obama say they are going to focus on deficit reduction but no one pays any attention) tell us exactly what the plan is for Afghanistan. Cutting troop levels to save American lives (lives lost [...]
Mo Baxley made a sound bite stab last week at connecting every Republican in the state and chastising anyone who didn't stand up to her expectations of them. I wonder if she feels the same way about liberal progressives?
Take the SEIU for example. They are all about Obama's vision for America because it's [...]
The New Hampshire Women’s lobby wants’ your government to mandate sick pay. State rep John Knowles of Hudson agrees, according to this morning’s UL, claiming that “sometimes government does things for the benefit of all people…” Nikki Murphy from the New Hampshire Women’s lobby says studies show that employers save [...]
India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, recently released a report purporting western bias on glacial melt--his report claims there is no conclusive evidence to support claims of massive met and an impending loss of Himalayan glaciers.
As a reward for this, the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri called his report "schoolboy'" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Paul ‘the reaper' Hodes said he will fight, that’s right fight to remove a provision from the House Health Care reform plan that bans the use of federal funds to cover abortions. (Did anyone tell him the Senate already gave Kathleen Sebelius that power?) We could weigh in on all' [...]
Friday’s Union Leader includes an ‘In Brief’ piece from the AP on a movement within the UN to push for a global Blasphemy treaty. The primary purveyors of the initiative are the 56 member Organization of the Islamic Conference. AP suggests that such a treaty will meet with resistance from [...]
Some “lifestyle” choices are superior to others and your government is more than willing to tell you which ones it plans to advance by writ of law. Case in point, congressman James Oberstar D-MN, has offered up the Surface Transportation Authorization act (STAA). STAA is a wet spot on the [...]
RGGI carbon allotments have been trending steadily downward in the first twelve months of New Hampshire's participation in RGGI, from a high of 3.51 per ton, down to 2.19 per ton. To date some $15,250,316.16 has been spent on allotments (or credits) for New Hampshire. The next auction is on [...]
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 [...]
You try to say what you mean. You use whatever words or technique suits the subject matter or the audience, or the thrust of the editorial. Sometimes you wander off the reservation. But you must always be prepared to stand behind it, defend it, or correct it if it [...]
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 [...]
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 Democrat House leadership could learn a lesson from Colby-Sawyer College. According to the New Hampshire Sunday News. Police detained more than 100 students at another Poznanski recruitment seminar in New London, where 150 progressives like Rep Brian Poznanski (D-Budweiser), conscientous objectors to the states age of majority on all [...]
I hinted at this Thursday Morning; Hooksett has got issues with its Police Chief. Well this morning there's more news. [link] The chief is costing the town a fortune in Legal fees. Under his stewardship the town has gone through 35 police officers. He has personally been the object [...]
Hot air reports that the NY-23 election was never certified. Hoffman actually won a county called earlier for Owens. At his point Hoffman is only 3000 votes behind Owens with 10,200 absentee ballots still to be counted. A majority of those ballots will come from military personnel.
Fans of the [...]
On page A7 of today's Union Leader, and I have to guess in other papers around the state, AARP took out a full paid ad thanking Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes for their votes on the health care bill. Its 2000 pages of trouble, but the onlt thing that matters here [...]
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. [...]
Unfinished blog posts abound but I can give you a few hints at what's coming. Hooksett has issues. They have a police chief who is hard to get along with. He’s been at the center of a handful of controversies, and officers keep leaving. If that’s not bad enough home break-ins are [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
Never actually connected to the people millionaire Jeanne Shaheen got elected to the US Senate to some degree on the coat tails of the change rhetoric that ushered in Mr. Obama. But much like BHO we are discovering that the sales pitch was nothing but a sales pitch. It was [...]
Net Neutrality nut Susan Crawford, Sugar Coated Breakfast Cereal Czar (Zero to 130 calories per serving without milk)—My mistake, Crawford was the Internet Czar—was shown the door last Monday (resigned) according to BigGovernment.com. Crawford promoted what amounts to a nationalization of the internet for the good of all creatures great [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
Murtha at his finest. I invite anyone who would like to the opportunity to defend Mr. Murtha. I look forward to your responses.
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The only way to guarantee equality is to eliminate the risk of prosperity.
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The grow government first party needs to convince you that “No” is bad for you. But like everything else the liberals say the truth is exactly the opposite. “No” is the only word that can prevent the government [...]
Senator John Cornyn, Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has made a public statement. The NRSC will not be giving money to Charlie Crist in the Republican Primary with Marco Rubio.
Mission Accomplished.
Now if we can just get the NRCC to play along. No word yet on whether they get it. The citizens [...]
The Nashua Telegraph has a nice article (Nov 3) in which Brian Poznanski responds to some of my objections to his continued service as a House Rep from a blog I wrote and posted Sunday Morning. Nice of the Telegraph to offer him a place to hide without any [...]
There is some unusual colloquial slang for achieving a score of 111 in bowling. I don't know if it's still around, or around here, but when you hit 111, you were "In the Sh*t House." Well Carol's managed to find herself supporting Nancy Pelosi on a bill that creates 111 new government agencies, boards,' [...]
People in NY 23 are fed up with all the special interest groups. I can’t say I blame them, but I guess they should have held a primary instead of letting the local GOP anoint their candidate. Last time I checked people in New Hampshire (in both parties) were not [...]
Apparently there is no New Hampshire House Rule for dealing with a State Rep who is drinking at a party with at least 21 other underage drinkers. According to a news report in the Union Leader Nashua Rep Brian Poznanski was arrested at a House party in Bedford along with [...]
Dan Itse held one of several planned seminars on the New Hampshire Constitution last night at The Draft in Concord. I would say that this is an opportunity you should not pass up. Anyone who wants to know more about their state constitution--and I'd suggest that this include everyone--needs to' [...]
Barney Frank is headlining the Housing Bubble reunion tour only this time he’s leaving the private banking sector—or what’s left of it—off stage. Barney’s plan is to use the Federal housing Administration as the new primary purveyor of sub-prime mortgages, cutting out the middle man and exposing the tax payer [...]
Keep Manchester Moving and Granite State Progress want the state (and Manchester) to spend your money and with good reason. Their reports are funded by unions using dues money paid by taxpayer funded teachers. Put simply, you paid for reports whose goal was to demonstrate why you should not be allowed [...]
It's obvious that the biggest difference between Liberals and conservatives is this. Conservatives believe that only individuals investing their own income can have the best positive affect on the needs of their families and communities. Liberals believe that without your income they cannot use the power of government to advance their' [...]
Mr. Hodes wrote a letter to Edolphus Towns the Chairman of the House oversight committee on which he sits, suggesting he open an investigation into the Countrywide loan scandal. Hodes is looking for cover after being videotaped leading the herd of donkeys out the back door to avoid a recorded vote [...]
As the special election in Concord for the House seat in Merrimack District 11 approaches residents should consider not just the quality of the candidates but the tactics used in advance of the general election.
First, Jim MacKay is a turncoat republican which makes him either too moderate for the current democrat [...]
I find it amusing that this administration is pressing to get its social agenda passed at breakneck speed. It’s rushing to get its fiscal priorities accomplished—which looks to be spending us into perpetual bankruptcy. But the “right war,” the one in Afghanistan, no rush.
My prediction?
Even though NATO just offered to [...]
Hoards of scurrying little roaches have emerged on the left to bask in the shadow cast by a monolithic (steaming) pile of rhetoric. In a feeding frenzy of self righteousness they have poured out of their hiding places to infest the halls of the national bureaucracy, from which they shall right [...]
Governor Lynch has gone out of his way to ignore the surplus of available carbon-emission-free energy in his pursuit of a green agenda. Our congressional Reps, Hodesheaporter, have helped pass legislation that eliminates federal loan guarantees to nuclear energy development (The Stimulus) and favored programs that ignore or punish nuclear [...]
Maybe you have not thought too much about it but public sector unions are funded on the backs of taxpayers and those unions use your money to elect tax and spenders who grow government and expand union payrolls to defend their incumbancy.
It's a simple process. You work and the government taxes [...]
Deflation and low oil prices have helped flat line any cost of living increase for seniors. With no inflation adjustment the Feds can't justify tossing another pittance in their little tin cups every month. But why let that stop you. The White House and congress need seniors to think they care, particularly in the face of' [...]
Not since the days of Jimmy Carter have we had such a Foreign Policy novice in the White House. Carter, the standing champion as worst foreign policy president in modern history oversaw communist advances in Grenada, the Sandinistas takeover of Nicaragua, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the fall of Iran. (to name a [...]
Free speech—free political speech—is what the first amendment was driving at. More specifically, it protects speech the people in power do not like. This is easy to deduce because the constitution was written to define and limit the power of the Federal government. If government was able to discredit or [...]
What graced my mail box recently but a taxpayer funded mailer from the office of Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter. It was a thing to behold, in warm neutral colors, with a pretty health care worker (see Evil greedy doctor) and a cute and curious baby on front. (Victim of a Capitalist [...]
The same official who let the Black Panthers off the hook for voter intimidation in Philadelphia has just rejected the majority opinion of the residents of Kinston North Carolina, who voted to remove party affiliation in local elections. The predominantly black community voted overwhelmingly to approve the move, but Mr. [...]
The front page of The Economist calls it out in large type. “Obama’s War.” Apparently there is a PBS piece by the same name which I have not seen. And yesterday afternoon on WTKK Jay Severin argued that he did not feel it justified to call this Obama’s [...]
This will most certainly have gone viral by now. And in concept it is worthy of significant concern for the all the reasons mentioned but one.
The president cannot relinquish American Sovereignty, not that it doesn't appeal to him to do so. Even attempting it would (or should) result in his imprisonment' [...]
The tax and spenders in the grow government first party are holding a tax summit this week to negotiate the terms of your fiscal surrender. The main course is consideration of an income tax. While they would like you to view this shift as ‘fair,’ the move is more about [...]
A video has surfaced of all the Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee skipping out on a planned vote to subpoena documents in Countrywide's "Friends Of Angelo" program. Mr. Hodes serves on the committee. I brought it up last night on New Hampshire Tax Payer Radio, and the video [...]
The MO is so similar we should simply look for it the way the government used to look for communists hiding in the bushes. (Maybe that's why commies hate Bush's?) What I mean is we should constantly be on the lookout for leftwing driven government regulations that create or force market' [...]
Whatever happened to all that hoopla over ACORN back in September? Not much. After a big splash the ripples have been radiating outward in concentric circles to obscurity. Sure, the IRS and the Census have severed ties, and that's clearly something, but the House version, HB3571, is sitting in committee' [...]
I think this is a suitable followup to my post yesterday morning--Shoveling Snowe. Erik over at Red State posted this yesterday afternoon. Feel free to do with it what you will.
"Olympia Snowe has sold out the country. Having been banished to our world after Aslan chased her out of Narnia," [...]
Now that’s what I like to see. The commitment to public service shining through. It’s not about the money or the benefits, it’s about serving the people. And if refusing to compromise in any way on their portion of a deficit riddled budget (created by the same democrats they have [...]
Laying cover fire for RINO’s in the Senate, a Bloomberg article this morning touts the “Independent Streak” of Republican Olympia Snowe from the Peoples Republic of Maine (PRM). Snowe is on the Senate Finance committee set to vote on the future takeover of health care today. A vote in favor, [...]
The Taxsome twosome have already supported legislation that will make everything more expensive with the Super Massive Tax on Energy called Cap and Trade. They supported a House Health Care Bill that will raise taxes. They voted for Stimulus spending that will raise taxes. They supported the largest budget in [...]
Mr. Obama has earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize. I’d like to congratulate the President. I think he is an excellent choice. Not because the Nobel Peace Prize stopped being about Peace a long time ago, but because some small element of history will now be forced to measure his [...]
Speaking for you yesterday afternoon on the House floor, The terrible two-headed Liberal House-android from New Hampshire took a stand in defense of back door dealing, tax evasion, and corruption. Voting almost entirely along party lines they, along with a majority of the House , (246-153) chose to defer to [...]
Liberals like to tell people that conservatives don't like progress. That our mission is to stop change. They call us the party of no. But conservatives love progress, and we love change. We just happen to think free American's are better at deciding what progress and change is for themselves and' [...]
Early speculation that Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire was travelling to California to audition for a lead role—opposite Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger—in the sequel to the 1989 Movie “Twins,” fell apart when producers refused to honor hizzoner’s request that (just like in New Hampshire) all his dialogue be delivered while [...]
The US Senate, by progressive standards at least, is a far better judge of how to spend the hard earned dollars of Americans than the people who actually earned them. Case in point. Some 2.8 million dollars of stimulus money was appropriated by the democrat majority to finance Forest Fire [...]
The Grow Government First Caucus, (GGFC) which is comprised of the liberals who have absconded the democrat party, the regular democrats who have been assimilated by the Progressive Borg, and the RINO’s who remain hidden in GOP slates (but whose voting records reveal them for who they really are), are [...]
Yahoo had an article about the congressional GOPers and the RNC party leadership disagreeing and agreeing and disagreeing on who should or can our ought to make policy or policy statements. We could chalk that up to lefty Yahoos recycling AP stories designed to sustain the DNC propaganda mills angle [...]
Mr. Obama has 34 or so Czars, but even with a combined estimated annual salary of almost 6 million (and that just the Czars, not including their staffs or cars, or benefits, operating budgets ["From the office of....post its and so on] or facilities or whatever) he still makes unfortunate" [...]
When is Barry going to get it. The international community only likes him because he’s a handicap to the American advantage in the world economy. He’s the -7 on the spread in America vs. World. And our enemies like him because they will be able to grow stronger with less [...]
See what happens when you let democrats manage your money? The government-first liberals went on a shopping spree. They then imagined revenues to justify their spending. And what did they do when the money didn’t appear? They made the same mistakes and tried to hide them with highway robbery.
They over [...]
As statistical unemployment rises to 9.8% in September the real number of people actively looking for work continues to drop (down another 0.3%)as those unemployed 27 weeks or more continues to climb (almost 36% of the unemployed fit this category). As I have pointed out in the past, this skews [...]
Meet Kevin Jennings.
Mr. Jennings is President Obama's Safe Schools Czar. Safe Schools Czar sounds a lot like one of those made up high paying "consultant" positions those capitalist corporate pigs who swindle the middle class create for some good old boy they owe a favor to; or maybe some good ole [...]
Liberals like to insist that abortion is a right, but by no means a requirement—no one is forced by law to get an abortion. So you say it's a choice. Of course I apparently have no choice in whether or not I want to pay for them. You also want us to believe that Mr. Obama’s' [...]
The New Hampshire House has 400 seats for a reason. People with the sense to be suspicious of governments desire to meddle in business best left to local governments did their part to ensure that all the progress necessary occurred as far below the state level as possible. Who better to [...]
It’s fun to reminisce. So lets take a walk down memory lane, and look at some of Carol Shea-Porter’s past campaign rhetoric and even current populist pap, and compare it to reality.
..it's patriotic to pay your fair share to support this magnificent country! Let the wealthiest pay their fair share [...]
I just read HB 304, "An act relative to death with dignity for certain persons suffering from a terminal condition." It’s sponsored by Weed, Richardson, Watrous and Mitchell, and we’ve already got problems. For starters Life is a terminal condition for which, by the way, there is no known [...]
Edith Kelley embezzled $400,000 dollars from the school lunch program in Concord. According to an article in the Concord Monitor Kelley had to have stolen an average of $300.00 to $400.00 dollars a day for seven years to accomplish the feat. While we can only speculate about how she felt [...]
Today’s Nashua Telegraph has a front page story below the fold about New Hampshire’s national property tax ranking. Seems we’ve slipped to third highest in the nation. (We used to be second) If you follow the story to page six you find that we are 46th for state taxes. The story doesn’t [...]
Charlie Arlinghaus this week makes a case I have made before (believe it or not). That New Hampshire has a unique opportunity to use (what’s left) of the New Hampshire Advantage to grow private sector investment and employment in the State.
I have repeatedly called for Governor Lynch and the [...]
