This morning on ‘No Safe Spaces’ Rich Girard and I began with a recent article from The New Hampshire (TNH), the UNH Student Newspaper. Executive Editor Colleen Irvine does a nice job of pointing out to students on Campus that the first amendment doesn’t just protect speech on one side of the debate. Colleen also does an excellent job reiterating that these protections are limited to peaceful protest. But I think, maybe in a future article or two, she could go further. |Keep Reading (and/or listen) at GraiteGrok.com
You Can’t Defend Free Speech Without Challenging Social Justice Curriculum
Posted in Education, Free Speech, Girard At Large, GraniteGrok
Tagged Free Speech, No Safe Spaces, Rich Girard, UNH
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Economy is clicking: Innovation is faster than government
The private sector often moves too fast for government to keep up.
That’s a good thing. We certainly wouldn’t want to slow down businesses by limiting their rate of innovation to the public sector.
But that can lead to gaps that lawmakers never foresaw, such at the peer-to-peer online economy. People trying to make a few bucks on the side run into a state bureaucracy designed to regulate full-time businesses, and struggle to follow the law. *| Read more at the Union Leader
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Our friends at Firm B (Eversource) have some ‘splaining to do
New Hampshire uses about 9 percent of New England’s electricity. So, if a couple of rogue utilities pulled some sneaky tricks over three years that caused wholesale electricity prices in New England to be $3.6 billion higher than they should have been, that’s $324 million that was siphoned out of the pockets of electric customers in the Granite State. |Read more at InDepthNH
Catalonia crisis: NHexit.com intervenes! Sort of.
There’s this idea I’ve long championed that activism should be focused like a laser on NH, and most anything else is going “off mission.” But the explosion of “secession springs” around the world gives us a chance to promote the former while supporting independence everywhere else. | More at the RidleyReport
On Air News Read for October 23, 2017
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee of the New Hampshire General Court has approved asking the federal government for a waiver that will allow the state to impose a work requirement on able bodied recipients of the taxpayer provided health insurance through the Expanded Medicaid program. H B 5 1 7, which was passed in 2 0 1 7, included a work requirement for any person participating in the Expanded Medicaid program and gave authority to the governor and the committee to approve the application. | Keep Reading at Girard at Large
The 603 Alliance Presents – A Special Evening with Steve Bannon
The 603 Alliance Presents invites you to join us for a special evening with Steve Bannon, former White House Chief strategist for President Donald Trump and chief executive of Breitbart News. Come hear Mr. Bannon’s insights on current happenings in Washington and around the country and his perspectives on the 2018 elections. Join us for this dinner event on November 9th 2017. Seating is limited so reserve your tickets today. |Read more at 603 Alliance.org
Shaheen, Hassan Should Explain Vote to Keep State and Local Tax Deduction
CONCORD — U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan should explain why they voted against ending the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes, which aids high-tax states at the expense of New Hampshire, Andrew Cline, interim president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, said.
“Through the state and local tax deduction, Granite Staters subsidize the high tax bills imposed by neighboring Vermont and Maine as well as other big-spending states,” Cline said. | Keep Reading at Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Democrats, taxes
Tagged Deductions, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, taxes
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Song Explores A Post-Abortive Father’s Point Of View
This song, “Here with Jesus,” was written from a father’s point of view after suffering the loss of his aborted child. The inspiration comes from his own loss of his first daughter, who died from complications just two days after being born. The loss devastated him and his wife, and it still weighs heavy on their hearts thirty-four years later.
Tittle says, “We always wanted children, so I don’t know what it is like to be the father of an aborted child. I do however, know the pain that comes with the loss of a child. I hope this song eases that pain or better yet, prevents it. Hope lies in Jesus who is all things.” | More at NH Right to Life
New Hampshire governor all in on White House ‘Cut the red tape’ initiative
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu is a big fan of President Donald Trump’s deregulation initiative.
The Granite State governor is such a fan, in fact, that he and a specially appointed committee are in the midst of their own broad-based deregulation and bureaucratic reduction drive.
“Cut regulations, cut regulations, and then cut some regulations,” Sununu told Bloomberg news after last week’s “Cut the Red Tape” summit at the White House in Washington, D.C. when asked what Trump should do when it comes to boosting the U.S. economy. | Keep Reading at Watchdog.org
Posted in Debt/Spending, Economy/Economics, Reguations
Tagged Chris Sununu, deregulation, Donald Trump
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A Curfew For Men?
While I have no idea whether this is a tongue-in-cheek proposal (something I think that is likely) or the real thing makes no difference. It’s a totally unworkable and unenforceable idea. The proposal? A 9PM curfew for men.
The question many of those who commented asked, “Who would enforce such a curfew?” | Keep Reading at Weekend Pundit
The New Media Militia 