WASHINGTON — After multiple staff departures from gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety and its spinoff Moms Demand Action, activists say a top decision-maker at both groups is making life difficult for those in the movement. More…
“Shannon Watts is a self-promoting tyrant.”
Racist Letter to Black Student Revealed as Hoax
A “racist letter” left on a black student’s car at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College has now been revealed as a hoax. The letter was decried as a “hate crime” and sparked several days of mass protests organized by students to protest “racism on campus.” More…
Appeals Court: Christian printer doesn’t have to make pro-gay shirts
Blaine Adamson is the owner of Hands On Originals, a Christian company that prints messages on T-shirts, pens, mugs and other accessories.
He declined in 2012 to create shirts promoting the Lexington Pride Festival, an event put on by the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization, because he said the message on the shirts ran contrary to his beliefs.
Although Mr. Adamson referred the gay-rights group to another printing company that would fulfill the order, the LGBT advocates filed a complaint with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission arguing they had been discriminated against. More…
Chinese group to make bid for Stonyfield yogurt
LONDONDERRY — Chinese food and dairy company Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial says it plans to bid for Danone’s entire stake in organic yogurt business Stonyfield for about $850 million. More…
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NH State Rep Calls State Oversight of Hampton Beach ‘Tyrannical’
A State Representative from Hampton is asking the governor to fire the state’s top tourism and state park officials over the management of Hampton Beach State Park.
Republican State Representative and Hampton Selectman Philip Bean is calling the state’s management of Hampton Beach ‘tyrannical’. More…
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The Age of Eternal Protest – Don’t They Have Anything Better To Do?
Whether it is antifa teaming up with Planned Parenthood to lobby for the “rights” of criminal foreign invaders, or a “die-in” to oppose the elimination of Obamacare’s death panels, or whatever, we are living in the age of eternal rioting protesting over anything and everything that is non-leftist, and also things that were supported by the left until someone on the right agreed with it. More…
Will Speaker Jasper Give Rep Sherry Frost a Pass?
Needless to say, the #nhpolitics press will lose their minds if the House imposes any discipline on Representative Sherry Frost, aka Representative Potty-Mouth. Their coverage has ignored Potty-Mouth’s clear violations of House rules while portraying Republicans as throwing stones from a glass house. For example, More…
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State Supreme Court tosses out murder conviction
MANCHESTER — The New Hampshire Supreme Court has tossed out an attempted murder conviction of a city man who was sentenced to prison for 20 years.
Kyree Rice, 23, was convicted in the May 24, 2014, shooting of Curtis Clay at the Chicken and Biscuits Restaurant, 990 Elm St. Rice contended he shot Clay in defense of his brother who Clay, described in the Supreme Court ruling as a “large and powerful man,” was pummeling. More…
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University of New Hampshire hit by racism claims
DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — Some University of New Hampshire students say the school has failed to address currents of racism on campus and are demanding that it double the number of students and faculty of color, offer diversity training for all staff and amend the student conduct code to expel students who post “racially insensitive” content. More….
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