a dog-eared town

What the hell is the problem with John McCain?
Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Monday proposed a $300 million prize to develop a car battery that will “leapfrog” today’s plug-in hybrids.
Hey John, leave your grubby hands off my tax money.
What is it with the republicans and their yearning for my tax dollars?
They’re supposed […]

I saw the following story from Drudge and was wondering whether this guy supported Billary or Obama.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels elicited several hushed gasps and raised eyebrows late last week as he lectured a conservative crowd that it was “time to let Ronald Reagan go.”
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“Nostalgia is fine and Reagan’s economic plan was good,” Daniels said. […]

So the legislature, in it’s own inimitable way, decided to hand control over the states only salt water port to a group who runs an airport. Brilliant, but that’s the brilliance of the legislature in voting on things and making it worse.
Anyway, the governor was asked about the bill and it’s affect on the local […]

I’m thinking that it may be too late to save New Hampshire from the stupidity that is Massachusetts justice. The Union Leader has a story about a fine upstanding yout, who I’m sure his rap career was about to take off, and his wonderful interactions with the Derry constabulary.
A 19-year-old driver who police say led […]

“[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore…never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.”
– Thomas Jefferson (letter to Judge William Johnson, 12 June 1823)
Reference: […]

Why should we let the little things like rules in our way. Just because the people have spoken repeatedly and we haven’t gotten our way, let’s change the rules so we can get our way.
That about sums up how some legislators feel when it comes to spending tax payer money.
Marlborough residents have voted eight times […]

“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.”
– Thomas Jefferson (Autobiography, 1821)
Reference: Jefferson: […]