First, let me say that Spec Bowers has a history of doing good work and I praise that. However, I have some problems with his new piece called “The Good Guys.” I will get into that, but I first give public thanks to him for identifying some House primaries of interest and pointing out the ... Read more
By Ruth Clough – The story of Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor who spoke at the RNC, echoes as well in the spirit of Frank Staples… well, sort of. Frank (Frank Negus Staples) is running for NH governor in the upcoming 2024 election. I met with Frank on Aug 20th, my first impression was that he ... Read more
By Wanjiru Njoya | Mises Wire – In A Cure Worse Than The Disease: Fighting Discrimination Through Government Control, M. Lester O’Shea criticizes the notion that we should legislate against unfairness. He poses the question as follows: “No one defends unfairness. So shouldn’t it be against the law?” In posing the question that way, his point ... Read more
The latest corporate victim of online harassment is Harley Davidson. They’d gone woke you see, and much like Tractor Supply or John Deere before them, have earned some social media cross hairs. Robby Starbuck unearthed the evidence and set the internet after them and it appears to have worded again. In a statement released Monday, the ... Read more
As a parental rights advocate focused on education, I hear many parents say, “Why don’t teachers speak out more?” I tell them, it’s because if they do, they will be punished one way or another. That’s exactly what happened to Martia Holloway. She explained in one of her online videos that the district administrators were ... Read more
By Wanjiru Njoya | Mises Wire – In Race & Economics, Walter Williams emphasizes the importance of causality in understanding racial inequality. He argues that it is not enough to document and track economic inequality — it is necessary also to understand its causes. Without understanding the causes of any perceived problem, any attempts to resolve ... Read more
The Vermont primaries are over, and the official general election campaign season of 2024 has begun! With property taxes increasing by unprecedented amounts, energy costs rising with a new, potentially massive tax on home heating fuels up for a vote in January 2025, another double-digit premium increase for health insurance just announced, a new payroll ... Read more
Okay, so given what we saw in Part 1, let’s consider what happens when a student leaves each of the two districts to open an Education Freedom Account (EFA). In District 1, what changes? Things that change are highlighted below: Before After Taxpayers 1000 1000 Students 100 99 Budget $2M $2M Adequacy $400,000 $396,000 ... Read more
Electric vehicles aren’t going away just yet, but the industry has been having a rough year. Multiple manufacturers have scaled back production and retooled EV facilities for gas-powered vehicles or, like Ford, are shifting some capacity from EV-only to Gas Hybrid. The company said it won’t build fully electric three-row SUVs due to battery costs. ... Read more
The Kamala Harris acceptance speech at the DNC was challenging and infuriating to watch. This speech on the convention’s closing night was the latest step in the coup that brought Kamala Harris from the least popular vice president of all time to the savior of democracy in six short, mind-bending weeks. As we still await ... Read more
Catholics have to be excited about the opportunity to take back England (or at least wrestle the Islamists for it). The experts ruining the Church of England have decided to drop the word “Church.” I imagine they will also have to drop the New Testament (not that they haven’t already). “Church” appears 117 times in ... Read more
In a strange twist of fate, two lifelong Democrats joined forces as Republicans to save Democracy by taking down the twisted Democrat, Kamala Harris. The 2024 presidential election has already been one of our most bizarre, if not unAmerican, elections. Still, on Friday, the Democrats may have gotten the punishment they deserved for their actions. ... Read more
One of the things that allows so much nonsense to be bandied about when discussing school funding is that almost no one — including legislators, judges, and DoE officials — seems to understand how SWEPT (Statewide education property taxes) and adequacy grants are related. In what follows, I’ll use nice round numbers that approximate but ... Read more
Big Pharma of Big Harma? Why not both? This week, the ladies delve into the history of allopathic medicine in the U.S. as they try to discover why the richest country in the world is also the sickest… Also, Carla has a bit of a hair meltdown.
The ‘Grok will publish letters to the editor (op-eds), event announcements, and press releases, even when they might promote ideas or issues we may not entirely agree with. There is a line, but as regards these formats, it is fuzzier, and we prefer to let readers judge and fisk rather than make arbitrary decisions about ... Read more
By Spike – On Friday, Rep. Michael Moffett (R-Loudon) defended himself against a “Hit Piece” from Julie Smith regarding HB-1002 (now law), the “Right-to-know tax.” Numerous Groksters submit Right-to-know requests and copy the text of them here, either to show how to talk tough to office-holders, to show how to burden office-holders to distract them ... Read more
Brenda Towne has been at the forefront of New Hampshire Election integrity issues for several years. Questioning the data, the voter rolls, and the ballot handling process. She’s back, and this time, she has provided a video and a PDF for voters. The presentation explains the material in the PowerPoint PDF. Take a few minutes ... Read more
By Spec Bowers – Previous issues of the RINO Report highlighted the terrible voting records of five RINOs in the upcoming primaries. This issue highlights some of the Good Guys who deserve to be reelected. These candidates are selected based on their RINO scores and their HRA scores. Belknap 5 (Laconia 1, 3, 4, 5, ... Read more
Google tossed this bone at me the other day. “National Hurricane Center tracking 4 tropical waves as we near the peak of storm season.” The headline comes from TC Palm, serving South Florida (part of USA Today). As an observer and blogger, I was caught by such things. Holy crap, I thought, here it comes! ... Read more
By Marc Abear – We all know the utterances of the MSM are utterly without value. For the last month, they’ve reported only, “Joy, joy, joy, oh happy joy…” Yeah, that’s bull. We all now know it. It’s ridiculous watching Harris dressing up as Aunt Jemima to pander to blacks. It’s about a half step ... Read more
