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Thursday • October 16 • 2025

Vol.XVII • No.XLII

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MacDonald: Dumb & Dumber

Thu, 2025-07-03 21:00 +0000
For the second year in a row, it has become difficult to impossible for the usual suspects to play their tiny drought violins to scare the uninformed. Heat, however, has come in waves when it has not been cool. We had three very hot days in this corner of the globe while other “corners” have ... Read more

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Underwood: Make the Courts Co-Equal Again

Thu, 2025-07-03 18:00 +0000
This little gem made it into the budget bill, HB2, which was passed by both houses and signed by the governor. Legislative Declaration of Authority Regarding Public Education.  In its 1993 and 1997 decisions, in the so-called Claremont series of public school funding cases, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the New Hampshire Constitution imposes upon ... Read more

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MacDonald: The Truth About What Matters to NH Dems

Thu, 2025-07-03 16:00 +0000
Ray Bukley is the State Party Chair of the New Hampshire Democrat party. He’s had the gig for nearly two decades (seems like). During that time, on average, Democrats have increasingly lost control of the State Government. From 2006 to 2008, the Dems had complete control. In 2010, they lost the legislature and have failed ... Read more

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Cardello: Blind Squirrel vs. Democrats

Thu, 2025-07-03 14:00 +0000
Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden all had it wrong since 2015 when they proclaimed that Donald Trump would never be President of the United States. They couldn’t read the tea leaves then, and though they tried to destroy him in court for four years, he is back again. Trump has the luxury of a majority ... Read more

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MacDonald: Big Beautiful Bill Defunds Planned Parenthood

Thu, 2025-07-03 11:00 +0000
Much like the New Hampshire state budget, or more specifically, the budget trailer bill, The Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) just passed by the US Senate (headed back to the House for reconciliation), is loaded with wins and losses. Critics have every right to express concern over spending priorities and claims that the net benefits will ... Read more

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Opinion: The Queen of Burning Bridges

Thu, 2025-07-03 02:00 +0000
Recently, I’ve been reflecting on the Free State Project (FSP) and its leadership, and it’s opened my eyes to some troubling shifts. After this past legislative eye-opening session, I’ve grown increasingly concerned about the direction certain libertarian factions are taking. In a candid X post, I shared, “I’m increasingly concerned with FSP leadership (emphasis on leadership) ... Read more

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NE Take: Should We Spend $7,300 per Student?

Thu, 2025-07-03 00:00 +0000
On a special Wednesday edition of New England Take, what did the NH Supreme Court decide?!? A. J. breaks down the decision on Contoocook Valley School District v. State of New Hampshire to determine if Superior Court Judge David Ruoff’s ruling should stand, but will anything be enforced? Note: Justice 4 All is on Saturday ... Read more

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Opinion: Gov. Ayotte – Sign These Bills

Wed, 2025-07-02 23:00 +0000
New Hampshire is poised to become the 28th state to ban medical procedures aimed at disguising the sex of minors. I urge Governor Kelly Ayotte to sign HB377 and HB712 into law. I serve as the coordinator of the Desisted & Detransitioned Women’s Caucus of Women’s Declaration International USA. Women’s Declaration International (WDI)  is the ... Read more

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MacDonald: UPenn Just Erased Lia Thomas

Wed, 2025-07-02 21:00 +0000
The University of Pennsylvania, desiring to comply with Federal law and the current interpretation of Title IX (and wanting not to get sued or defunded) has agreed to “give up swimming records, titles or other recognitions awarded to trans athletes and give them to cisgender athletes.” Lia Thomas, the award-winning University of Pennsylvania swimmer, no ... Read more

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Howard Pearl Needs To Be Primaried

Wed, 2025-07-02 18:00 +0000
I am convinced that Howard Pearl was invited to that exclusive Bridges House lunch with governor Ayotte shortly before the legislature met to vote on that crappy budget.  Even though he’s my new senator, he will probably diss me as persona non grata for this article, but that’s ok.  It’s not about me, but about ... Read more

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Midweek Memes

Wed, 2025-07-02 16:00 +0000
We’re halfway to Friday and here to help you get over the hump with another collection of memes, ranging from funny to political and everything in between. With a smattering of classics – so old they’re new again. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Read more

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Scaer: Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess Despises the First Amendment

Wed, 2025-07-02 14:00 +0000
Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess has no problem with permitting the Satanic Temple to march behind him in the Nashua Pride Parade holding a flag and banner praising Satan, but the Pine Tree Flag is supposedly too controversial to fly on Nashua City Hall Plaza. Last year, Mayor Donchess turned down my request to fly the ... Read more

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MacDonald: Israel’s Attack on Iran Helps America … Create Jobs?

Wed, 2025-07-02 11:00 +0000
A happy customer is a great salesman and an asset. Word of mouth is a foundation of success, especially when it can be coupled with examples—a real-world demonstration of the product’s attributes or capabilities. Whatever you may think about Israel’s “decapitation” attack on Iran (or what followed), one thing stands out. Regardless of party or ... Read more

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Imani: A Call to New Resolve in Battle against the Iranian Mullahs

Wed, 2025-07-02 02:00 +0000
The recent ceasefire in the conflict between Iran and Israel has not brought peace to the Iranian people. Instead, it has unleashed a brutal campaign by the Islamic Republic’s theocratic regime to tighten its grip on power. The mullahs, sensing their vulnerability after widespread unrest and dissent, have launched a vicious crackdown, targeting ordinary citizens, ... Read more

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Smith: The Case For Dan Innis

Wed, 2025-07-02 00:00 +0000
Sometime in the spring of 2022, while Senator Giuda was sitting with us in the dining room, he said, “General Bolduc can’t beat Maggie Hassan.”  Before his prognostication was proven correct, my first thought was “let’s address the reasons for him saying that.”  I never got into the weeds of it, which was likely due ... Read more

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Granite State Live: 7-1-2025

Tue, 2025-07-01 23:00 +0000
This week, Keith and Julian are joined by NH Representative Bryan Morse to discuss the Budget and some other Bills that passed the legislature. Then, Gary M. Galles, a Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University, and an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, joins the program to discuss the US Economy and the ... Read more

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MacDonald: Another Test for “Local” Health Departments (And Politicians)

Tue, 2025-07-01 21:00 +0000
Remember when everyone and the grandmother they claimed you were trying to kill said, they “were just following the CDC’s orders. They meant advice, recommendations, suggestions, advisories, anything the CDC said during the pandemic was why they did it. Public Health “experts,” often just pencil-pushers or functionaries, did the same. “The CDC says,” was a ... Read more

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Underwood: Why is Jeanne Dietsch so afraid of the FSP?

Tue, 2025-07-01 18:00 +0000
I just finished watching a little scare session conducted by former NH state senator Jeanne Dietsch, which you can find here. I should start by saying that, in my experience, when NH residents actually talk to Free Staters to find out what they believe, more often than not, they end up realizing that those beliefs ... Read more

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MacDonald: Canada Had to Fold Like a Cheap Tent

Tue, 2025-07-01 16:00 +0000
Last week, Mr. Trump announced the US had ended all trade talks with Canada after the Great White North declared that it was moving forward with its digital services tax (DST). Canada, like every socialist nation on earth, needs revenue. The government meddles and crushes, and this planned decline would result in the government having ... Read more

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Cardello: Tell This Twenty-Something Fireball That Trump Doesn’t Like Strong Women

Tue, 2025-07-01 14:00 +0000
We were lulled into a sense of mediocrity and incompetence during the Obama and Biden years with Press Secretaries who never had enough presence to be behind the podium of the Brady Briefing Room. Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre mastered the idea, if not the actual line, “We’ll have to circle back on that,” and ... Read more

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