N.H. House Hearing on HB1337 to Apply RTK to Courts

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

House Bill 1337 to apply the Right-to-Know Law to the courts has been introduced in the N.H. House and assigned to the House Judiciary Committee. This bill is sponsored by Rep. Michael Brewster (R). RTKNH generally supports applying the Right-to-Know Law to the courts, but recommends amending this bill.

HB1337 is scheduled for a hearing by the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 10:45 a.m. in room 208 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord, N.H. | Keep Reading at Right to Know NH

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Nashua Rep Jan Schmidt Lies About and Defends, Assault of Citizen by Fellow Dem

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

On Friday, a Letter to the Editor appeared in the Concord Monitor that explains why New Hampshire Representative Katherine Rogers (D-Concord) should resign after pleading guilty to assaulting a citizen. A majority of Granite Staters, including Democrats, believe Rogers should resign.

New Hampshire House Representative Jan Schmidt (D-Nashua) decided to comment on the LTE | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com

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The author of the explosive new Trump book says he can’t be sure if parts of it are true

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages.

Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.

But some were nonetheless included in the vivid account of the West Wing’s workings, in a process Wolff describes as “allowing the reader to judge” whether the sources’ claims are true. | Read more at Business Insider

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Gov. Sununu Signals Opposition To Offshore Oil Drilling In North Atlantic

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

Governor Chris Sununu says he opposes oil drilling off New Hampshire’s coast, as the federal government proposes opening the North Atlantic region and much of the nation’s coastline to oil and gas production. | Keep Reading at NHPR

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Judge dismisses hate speech case against University of Vermont student

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

A Burlington, Vermont judge dismissed a criminal case against a University of Vermont (UVM) student who was accused of using racially disparaging comments during a phone conversation.

University officials claimed in October that continuing education major Wesley Richter used “explicitly racist and threatening language” | Keep Reading at Campus Reform

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In Which the Ventriloquists Feel Some Pushback

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

Update to a December post: In “Ventriloquists at Work”, I described cases in Connecticut and California in which government agencies are trying to tell pro-life pregnancy care centers what kind of signage they must post. The U.S. Supreme Court will take a look at the California case later this year. Just yesterday, January 5, the… Read More

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Cultural Appropriation

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

The idea of “cultural appropriation” has been on my mind for quite a while and I just want to take a few minutes to address it. I was on Instagram and came across an activist selling hair scarves. Interested in what she did, I clicked on her page and found out that I could not purchase one of these handmade hair scarves. Just because I was a white woman with privilege, and did not understand or appreciate all of the struggles that women of color have had to go through. | Keep Reading at A Millenial’s Musings

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The Real Myth About Voter Fraud in New Hampshire is the Myth That Voter Fraud is a Myth

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

Hillary beat President Trump by 2,736 votes, while Maggie got only 1,017 more votes than Ayotte.  The question, needless to say, is how many of these votes were fraudulent.

We can answer this question because we have a good handle on the number of drive-by voters from data provided by the New Hampshire Secretary of State and we can make reasonable estimates of how these votes split between the Democrats and the GOP. | Read More at the Ed Mosca Blog

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How Come America’s Socialist Government Schools Don’t Work?

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

…I commented that Yasmine was lucky to have a school so close and her mother told me she picked that school because it was close and Yasmine liked it. Apparently, citizens in Belgium can pick and choose the school where their kids go.

Imagine the horror that would ensue in the American government school monopoly if that was true here? | Read More at GraniteGrok

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Mt. Washington Breaks Cold Record Set 9 Days Ago

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Steve Mac Donald

The Mount Washington Observatory reported early Saturday that the summit tied for second-coldest place on earth, at a brisk -36 degrees Fahrenheit. | Keep Reading at NHPR

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