School Choice for NH: Two Big Wins Today

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

The Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state’s tax-credit scholarship program may continue, resolving a three-year legal battle. This is the Institute for Justice’s sixth state supreme court win for school choice. This decision will ensure that 13,000 children can continue to use the scholarship program for their educations.

Also, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia vs Comer case that religious institutions can be eligible for state funding programs in a seven to two ruling.  | More…

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Mark Steyn: Fifteen Lawyers in Search of a Crime (Russia, Russia Russia!)

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Further to my observations on Deep State dinner theatre, the “Russia investigation” show goes on, undeterred by the lack of any evidence of actual crime: The more obvious the absence of any crime to investigate, the bigger the investigation gets. | More…

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Seattle’s “Win” in the Fight for 15 is Costing Jobs, Hours, and lowering Paychecks

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

God, I love being right especially after watching progressive narrative monkey’s puke their Union/Democrat party minimum-wage-talking-points all over my comments section. Being right is the best. And when it comes to Seattle, right comes easy.

This week’s Poster Child for Stupid Liberal ideas we told you would not work, is last weeks. Seattle. | More…

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Sherry Frost’s New Role Model? Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Drops the F-Bomb!

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s message about helping the public took on a bold tone Friday morning when she told a crowd at a conference on technology and democracy, “If we are not helping people, we should go the f— home.” | More…

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Will This Supreme Court Decision Change NH Law: Croydon Bill and Ed Tax Credit Scholarships?

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court has declared that a state may not withhold an available public benefit on account of religious status.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a Missouri church that sued the state after being denied taxpayer funds for a playground project because of a provision that prohibits state funding for religious entities.

This ruling suggests to me the possibility that public education tax dollars for public school tuition…  | More…

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Shaheen and Hassan are intentionally lying about cuts to Medicaid

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Last Friday, New Hampshire Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan held an “emergency field hearing” about the health care bill Republicans are trying to pass in order to fix the Obamacare mess Democrats (including Shaheen and Carole Shea-Porter) created. They held the event when most Granite Staters are working and paraded sob stories pushed by poverty pimps across the state. What they neglected to tell all of these people is that Democrats are lying about cuts to Medicaid. | More…

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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’ First Dissent – Is a Beautiful Thing

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Anthony Perry asks us to tweak a congressional statute—just a little—so that it might (he says) work a bit more efficiently. No doubt his invitation is well meaning. But it’s one we should decline all the same. Not only is the business of enacting statutory fixes one that belongs to Congress and not this Court, | More…

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Burned Quran filled with bacon found near Islamic center in California

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Deputies began an investigation Saturday into a possible hate crime after a burned Quran filled with bacon was discovered outside an Islamic Center in south Sacramento, officers said.

A citizen waved down a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy just after 2:30 p.m. and showed him to the burned Quran hanging by a handcuff from a temporary fence outside the Masjid Annur Islamic Center in the 6900 block of 65th Street, which is next door to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department Central Division Station, the sheriff’s department said. | More…

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Breaking News: Supreme Court Revives Trump Travel Ban

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

The Supreme Court has agreed to combine two challenges to the second Trump travel ban (EO-2) and hear the case. In the meantime, with one exception all injunctions against that Executive Order have been lifted and it may now be enforced. | More…

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Timberlane Regional Middle School And Spotlight Award Renewal

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

It is genuinely good when our schools and their staff earn recognition for work well done.  Parents should understand, however, that in the ed biz, some recognitions are completely unrelated to academic achievement – an issue previously raised by Arthur Green with regard to the High School of Excellence Award. You will note that there is not one question in this renewal form relating to academic achievement. | More…

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