Chris Sununu Sounds Like and Sides With the Democrats on Obamacare

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Earlier this week Governor Chris Sununu released a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell regarding the Senate GOP’s health-care legislation, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, advising that, “the current version of the BCRA goes beyond addressing Obamacare’s flaws. This is not an approach I can support, and I am opposed to the BCRA as currently written.”

But when one reads Sununu’s letter it quickly becomes clear that Sununu’s actual problem with the BCRA is that it does not spend as much on Medicaid as Obamacare. | More…

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Planned Parenthood Funding, Claims of Misogyny and a Miss Andry Competition

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Guest hosts Susan Olsen, Jane Cormier, Bob Clegg, Evan Nappen and his son Ted talked about the funding of abortion facilities by taxpayers.  Jane shared about New Hampshire Right to Life’s petition in opposition to the move, before they discussed the misogynist movement. | More…

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US House passes Kate’s Law, as part of illegal immigrant crackdown

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.

One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate’s Law, would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the United States.

Kate’s Law, which would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the United States and caught, passed with a vote of 257 to 157, with one Republican voting no and 24 Democrats voting yes. | More…

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Governor Signs Town Tuitioning

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

This afternoon we celebrated a major school choice win as Governor Sununu signed Senate Bill 8, the town tuitioning bill, into law. SB 8 clarifies statute regarding local school boards’ authority to contract with public and private schools for those grades Kindergarten through 12th that are not available in-district.

The tiny town of Croydon provides Kindergarten through 4th grade and must tuition out older students. In 2014 they created a school choice program that allows parents of older students to select from a mix of nearby public and private schools. The former NH Commissioner of Education, Dr. Virginia Barry, and former NH Attorney General, Joe Foster, challenged the program’s legality. Last summer the NH Superior Court ruled against Croydon and their appeal to the NH Supreme Court is on hold pending the 2017 legislative efforts. | More…

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Study: TV News Is Obsessed With Trump-Russia Probe

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

How much has the media’s obsession with the ongoing Russia investigation smothered the rest of the Trump policy agenda? A Media Research Center study of every broadcast network evening newscast in the five weeks since the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on May 17 found a whopping 353 minutes of airtime devoted to the Russia probe, or 55 percent of all coverage of the Trump presidency during those weeks. | More…

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Donna Green: Does Summer Homework Agree with TRSD Policy?

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Timberlane School Board member from Danville, Stefanie Dube, has been asking parents for their opinions about summer homework assignments, especially at the elementary level.

It’s an interesting question because my children never had more than a summer recommended reading list, and that only in high school.  Seems Timberlane students at many grade levels have summer homework assignments.  Is homework being “required” of elementary students or just “expected?” | More…

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The Obamacare Enrollee Lie

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

They start with a faulty 2016 baseline that predicts that 18 million people will be covered by Obamacare in 2017, when the people who are actually in charge of tracking Obamacare enrollments, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services,report that the number will be between 10 and 11 million. On the generous side, CBO only missed the correct number of enrollees by 7 million people – oops.

The CMS report unequivocally states, “The average monthly effectuated enrollment in 2016 was 10 million individuals. While effectuated enrollment was over 10.8 million in March of 2016, enrollment had dropped to 9.1 million by December of 2016.” | More…

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Gardner says Trump election integrity commission call ‘couldn’t have been better’

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

More than a month after President Donald Trump’s Commission on Election Integrity was announced by the White House, about 10 members of the panel – including New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner – participated in a conference call Wednesday to discuss its upcoming work.

Gardner told WMUR that Vice President Mike Pence, the commission chairman, led the 90-minute call and announced that the commission’s first formal meeting will be held on July 19, most likely at the Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House. | More…

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The Progressive Boomerang

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

The progressive strategy of investigating President Donald Trump nonstop for Russian collusion or obstruction of justice or witness tampering so far has produced no substantial evidence of wrongdoing.

The alternate strategy of derailing the new administration before it really gets started hasn’t succeeded either, despite serial efforts to sue over election results, alter the Electoral College vote, boycott the inauguration, delay the confirmation of appointments, demand recusals, promise Trump’s impeachment or removal through the 25th Amendment, and file suit under the Emoluments Clause. | More…

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Sununu to Sign School Choice Bill Aimed at Small Towns

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

CROYDON, N.H. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is heading to Croydon to sign a bill that would allow certain New Hampshire school districts to send students to private schools using taxpayer dollars.

The bill affects a handful of small towns that do not operate middle or high schools and instead send their children to schools in neighboring towns. Among them is the town of Croydon, which got in a court battle with the state in 2015 after using public dollars to send some students to a Montessori school. | More…

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