Category Archives: Legislation
Let’s Not Move N.H. Toward Assisted Suicide
Senate Bill 490’s title indicates it’s about studying end-of-life issues, but the sponsor’s recent Senate testimony told a different tale. Cornerstone Action’s executive director Shannon McGinley explains the organization’s opposition to the bill. |Keep Reading at Cornerstone
Is Gov. Sununu Going Poised To Break His No Tax Pledge?
The Family Medical Leave Insurance bill (HB628) making it’s way through the New Hampshire House has a great many things wrong with it, not the least of which is that it not only taxes individual income, a division of state … Continue reading
Give Homeschoolers Fair Treatment
The House Children and Family Law Committee planned to continue the public hearing on HB 1650 re educational neglect on Tuesday, February 13th; however, because it did not appear in the House Calendar, it is rescheduled for Wednesday, February 21st, immediately before … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Legislation, School Choice for NH
Tagged Home-schooling, Michelle Levell, School Choice
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Representative Karel Crawford Votes for Income Tax
Karel Crawford — who represents Tuftonboro, Moultonborough, and Sandwich in the state legislature — voted February 8 for a 0.67% income tax on New Hampshire workers in the form of HB 628. | More at Tuftonboro.net
Posted in Legislation, Local NH Politics, taxes
Tagged HB 628, Karel Crawford, Max Ledoux, Tuftonboro.net
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School Choice for NH: Schedule for Week of February 12, 2018
Only one school choice bill has a public hearing continued this week; the rest are awaiting amendments and executive sessions. The pause allows us to advocate for our bills while committees deliberate and handle other business. Below is the upcoming … Continue reading
SB 490: “A Thinly Veiled Effort to Study Assisted Suicide”
Nancy Elliott wasted no time sending a message to the New Hampshire Senate committee considering SB 490, the “end of life” study bill. The bill’s sponsor made her assisted suicide advocacy clear in her own testimony, if not in her bill. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Leaven for the Loaf, Legislation
Tagged Ellen Kolb, End of Life, Euthanasia, Nancy Elliott, SB 490
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Conscience Rights, Coerced abortion, and a Late-Term Abortion Ban Bill
Ellen Kolb joins me to discuss the upcoming 40-Days for Life and pro-life legislation including, Rep. Keith Murphy’s late-term abortion ban, Rep. Kurt Wuelper’s bill to ban coerced abortion, and Kathy Souza’s bill to protect medical conscience rights. | More … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Culture, Legislation
Tagged 40 Days for Life, Abortion, Conscience Rights, Ellen Kolb, GrokTalk!, Life
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NH State Income Tax Imminent & Soda Ban On The Horizon
The Statists of the Month for February are the 186 NH representatives who voted to create a state income tax on Thursday, Feb. 8th. Every Democrat present voted in favor of HB628 which creates a 0.67% income tax. 21 Republican representatives voted in favor … Continue reading
Posted in Legislation, Progressives
Tagged HB 1668, HB 628, Income Tax, Libertyblock.com, Soda Ban
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Victims’ Rights Enhance the Power of the State at the Expense of the Accused.
The focus of Marsy’s Law on providing victims’ rights against the accused (and in support of the government’s prosecutorial power) runs contrary to the whole notion of why the Bill of Rights was enshrined in the New Hampshire Constitution over two … Continue reading
Posted in Constitution, Legislation
Tagged Bill of Rights, Constitution, Marsy's Law, State House
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These 21 New Hampshire House Republicans Don’t Just Want an Income Tax, They Saved It.
The Commerce Committee report on HB 628 was inexpedient to Legislate. Kill the bill, they said. We don’t want to add dozens of bureaucrats and a mechanism to tax income in New Hampshire. But the 21 Republicans pictured above voted against the … Continue reading
Posted in Debt/Spending, GraniteGrok, Legislation, Republicans, taxes
Tagged HB 628, Income Tax, NH House, Republicans
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The New Media Militia 