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Sat, 2024-08-03 20:00 +0000
If you are a rank-and-file Democrat in the Vermont House of Representatives – a soldier in the Supermajority – you are told by Party leadership how to vote. The majority leader will, in fact, hold up a paper sign, Yes or No, informing you how to cast your ballot on key issues. And you better ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-03 18:00 +0000
We may have missed an opportunity here. Transition. Great word. To change from one form, state, style, or place to another. Public education transitioned from teaching kids reading and math to making them mentally dysphoric political activists. Democrats transitioned the American economy from a private-sector job-creating energy-independent machine into the geo-economic equivalent of Dementia Joe ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-03 16:00 +0000
The defamation suit that Nina Jankowicz – the former director of the Department of Homeland Security’s disinformation board (since closed) – filed against Fox News was dismissed in Delaware on July 22. Judge Colm F. Connolly’s succinct decision was notable not just for its powerful prose but also for its procedure. Jankowicz’s claims were so ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-03 14:00 +0000
The first Education Options (EdOpt) expo is just over a week away, on Saturday Aug 10, from 10:30am to 12:30pm at the Richards Free Library in Newport. There will be a number of tables where you can have one-on-one conversations with experts about different options for educating your children. Statewide resources will include: Regional resources ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-03 12:00 +0000
Have you ever had someone look at you and you think to yourself, they’re judging me? Well, of course, they are. We all do that. It’s part of the natural process of prejudice that defines us, and I don’t mean the narrowed modern definition. Prejudice informs your habits, preferences, and personal safety. It keeps you ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-03 10:00 +0000
Our Secretary of State announced New Hampshire’s first Civic and Voter Education Coordinator in a news release in June. The article reads, “Secretary Scanlan created the position of Civic and Voter Education Coordinator to increase voter engagement efforts within the state.” It would be easy for Granite Staters to read this article, agree with the sentiment ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-03 02:00 +0000
As if social media wasn’t toxic enough, it has now been weaponized by a Reddit group to target “fundamentalist Christians” explicitly. The group @FundieSnarkUncensored lists as its primary purpose: “This is a snark sub for fundamentalist Christians – keep it fundie & keep it snarky. While we welcome snarkers from all different backgrounds, the people ... Read more
Sat, 2024-08-03 00:00 +0000
Homebuilder Lennar Corporation recently faced criticism for using misleading photographs to advertise new residential homes in the Fort Worth area. The dubious advertising allegedly concealed the fact that the 763-square-foot houses crammed together on postage-stamp lots were selling for $197,999. Various social media critics condemned the mini row-housing as “kind of like communist housing meets ... Read more
Fri, 2024-08-02 22:00 +0000
News broke yesterday over the mercury fields of New Jersey that a Federal judge had thrown out part of the state’s “assault weapons” ban. U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan issued an order on July 30 declaring that including the Colt AR-15 rifle on the list of firearms defined in the New Jersey Code of ... Read more
