New Hampshire: The Real Facts

In the American Thinker, Peggy Shapiro explains why Barack Obama needs to issue a rule book for exactly what criticism opponents are allowed to make.

Rule 1 Don't criticize family no matter who they are or what they do.

Sununu voted the right way on the farm bill

From Fosters.com:

Let's hear no more from Democrats that they're on the side of the poor and opposed to big business. The farm bill passed by Congress loaded $40 billion onto nutrition programs for the poor to the benefit of America's wealthy farmers.

The country's corporate farmers won the backing of Senate Republicans from the farm states as well as the Democratic majority this week. Meanwhile, the majority party, working to widen its margin in the upper chamber is trying to paint President Bush and GOP members of Congress as being insensitive to the needs of America's underclass.

Did you know that roll calls for every NH state legislator can be easily searched by the legislative body and session year?

Just click here and search.

For example, to see how Keene House legislator, Peter Espiefs, has voted in 2008 on each piece of legislation, just click here.

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State lawmaker proposes tax cap for Londonderry. Several other NH Communities considering similar requests.

LONDONDERRY — Londonderry residents could soon join Derry and a handful of other New Hampshire communities that set a limit on local tax increases.

Rep. Al Baldasaro, R-Londonderry, has sent a citizen's petition to Town Hall asking town officials to put the question on the November ballot. If his petition makes it to the ballot and voters pass it, the next town budget would be tied to the Consumer Price Index, long used as a measure of inflation.

The tax cap is not a new idea, according to Manchester's Mike Biundo, president of the New Hampshire Tax Advantage Coalition.

Will/can Keene be next?

Charles Arlinghaus writes in the Union-Leader: "Lynch moves from tax-and-spend to borrow-and-spend"

IT IS NOW widely accepted that the current state budget is in deficit. What is less well known is that the budget to be debated early next year will be worse. Many proposed changes will not help, but will just postpone the problem until the next budget debate, held at the politician's favorite time: after the next election.

Where is Senator Molly Kelly? Several times recently she has either avoided or delayed weighing in on important issues. Why isn’t she representing us?

She was criticized by the Sentinel March 25 for supporting a “crazy” education funding plan. Her answer was to state that “(t)his is a new beginning as we move toward solving this decades-old dilemma.” This is a beginning? Is the plan she now says she supports and voted for a good solid plan for education funding or not? Why would she say a “beginning” is enough at this point? Why is she supporting it if it is only a beginning and not the final answer? How can she call it a beginning when the issue has existed since 1996? The courts have issued many rulings over the past 12 years. This is not a beginning!

An interesting summary of what Barack Hussein Obama is and has said. Watch it... before it is removed.

May 6, 2008 Front Page > World > Article Title/Fixture Title

Frank Gaffney Jr.
Amerabia
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

May 6, 2008 Even Americans knowledgeable about Europe's growing accommodation to the totalitarian ideology known alternatively as Islamism, jihadism or Islamofascism tend smugly to believe the same thing can't happen here. Think again.

Every day, new evidence appears of similar acts of submission — the Islamists call it "dhimmitude" — on the part of the U.S. government, judges, the press and leading corporations. Eurabia, meet the United States of Amerabia.

A message from the Deputy Republican Leader.....
Volume 2, Issue 17 May 2, 2008

In Memory
MICHAEL D. WHALLEY
1953-2008
Our leader,
our colleague, and
our friend.
—continued on page 2

The much anticipated education bills (SB 530 and
SB 539) will finally come to the floor of the House this
Wednesday and, should they survive the legislative process
and are signed into law by Governor Lynch, they
undoubtedly will be challenged in the courts.
Despite facing a budget deficit of more than $250M,
Democrats in the House Finance committee have
amended and passed SB 539, adding more than
$130M in additional spending to the cost of an adequate
education. This bill is expensive, ineffective and blatantly
unconstitutional! It violates every one of the Claremont

Jim Steiner, Candidate for Congress, 2nd Cong. District
email: Jim@joinjim2008.com

This election is going to be about the economy and protecting Americans. I am the only individual to offer a combination of 20 years of military expertise, 20 years of small business experience and over 20 years of experience making laws to protect both small business and property owners' rights. Even Paul Hodes, who I look to replace, does not have the same level of experience, either in the law or through any military service.

Protection of Americans Cannot be Made a Second Tier Issue - The Senate FISA Bill Needs to be Passed into Law

My View
May 6, 2008

On May 1st the Cheshire County Republican Committee held their annual Lincoln Day Dinner. As usual the crowd of 200 or more gathered with tremendous enthusiasm regarding the upcoming 2008 election, but the person who lit the room with enthusiasm, hope, and delight was former Governor John H. Sununu.

When Governor Sununu came into office he, like too many Republican Governors, faced the dilemma of cleaning up the tragic and unnecessary debt created by the opposition.

May 04, 2008
Strategic Collapse in the War on Terror
By Joseph Myers
Words matter, and in the global war on terror we are losing the battle of words, in a self-inflicted defeat. The consequences could not be more profound.

Recent government policy memoranda, circulating through the national counter-terrorism and diplomatic community, establishes a new "speech code" for the lexicon in the war on terror, as reported by the Associated Press and now available in the public domain .

These new "speech codes" recommended that analysts and policy makers avoid the terms jihad or jihadist or mujhadid or "al-Qaida movement" and replace them with "extremists" and by extension other non-specific terms.

Alec O’Meara interviews Jennifer Horn:

Jennifer Horn, an award-winning radio talk show host and newspaper columnist, has announced a bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives 2nd District seat. A longtime resident of Nashua, with her husband, Bill, and their five children, Horn has been an active volunteer in the community since she was 18. She received the Spirit of Hope Award for her work with the Chernobyl Children’s Project, and has served with a number of civic organizations. This is her first run for public office.

Q:Why did you decide to run?

Monica Langley writes about Cindy McCain in the WJS :

On a recent balmy Sunday, John and Cindy McCain hosted the national press corps at their ranch here. Mrs. McCain's touches were evident -- the ceiling fans hung from tree branches, the art of their children displayed on the cabin's walls, the Budweiser beer tap from her family's business. Dogs she has adopted ran about.
[cindy]
Cindy McCain regularly introduces her husband at events, but often retreats when her duties are done.

Showing off his barbecue skills, Sen. McCain pulled sizzling ribs off the grill and dispensed them on the sweeping porch. Mrs. McCain, in skinny jeans with her hair pulled back in a ponytail, stood nearby and just smiled.

Getting to Know John McCain
By KARL ROVE WSJ April 30, 2008; Page A17

It came to me while I was having dinner with Doris Day. No, not that
Doris Day. The Doris Day who is married to Col. Bud Day, Congressional
Medal of Honor recipient, fighter pilot, Vietnam POW and roommate of
John McCain at the Hanoi Hilton.

As we ate near the Days' home in Florida recently, I heard things
about Sen. McCain that were deeply moving and politically troubling.
Moving because they told me things about him the American people need
to know. And troubling because it is clear that Mr. McCain is one of
the most private individuals to run for president in history.

AP
Col. (Ret.) Bud Day with John McCain at a campaign stop in
Pensacola, Fla., in January.