Rep. George Lambert, R-Litchfield, and I decided to sponsor this bill (HB 628) because we have been watching (and experiencing) the post-911 anti-terrorism apparatus get out of hand. We have seen horror stories and personally listened to stories from people we know that tell of TSA agents putting their hands underneath people's underwear–or worse; we have heard about body cavity searches conducted without any cause. We have heard about the potential risks of cancer from the backscatter technology and also how some agents have used the backscatter images as pornography. We have read about how the TSA is expanding its airport security into our train stations, bus stations and onto our highways. In the name of fighting terrorism, we have forgotten about our liberties and basic human decency.

CONCORD, N.H.--Newly elected New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O'Brien, a Republican state representative from Mont Vernon, N.H., promised to serve the people of New Hampshire in his acceptance speech on Dec. 1, 2010, in Representatives Hall. The statesman speaker urged unity to fix the state's fiscal and economic problems and ushered in a new era of limited government that respects individual liberty, personal responsibility and free enterprise.

CONCORD, N.H.―A group of principled New Hampshire legislators has organized a Natural Rights Caucus to ensure that an effective freshman class can work with senior members to advance legislation that guarantees equal treatment under the law and defends individual rights to life, liberty and property.

The non-partisan Natural Rights Caucus, which will be narrowly focused on laws that advance the principles in Part I, Article 2 of the New Hampshire Constitution, held its first official meeting on Saturday, Nov. 27 in Concord to help freshmen members learn how to be successful in the House and Senate. Former Rep. Don Gorman, a four-term House member, led the training meeting that attracted a committed group of about 20 state legislators during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

“It was very rewarding to lead a group of legislators who truly want to do what’s best for the people of New Hampshire,” Gorman said. “The dialogue was superior during the training session, and I’m confident this caucus is going to be influential in the state Legislature.”

Since the Web sites www.manuse.com and www.andrewmanuse.com are very similar, I wanted to make it clear to you that if you are here, this is NOT my campaign Web site, it is my personal blog. I also own the domain www.manusemedia.com, which I purchased for my business, but I have not yet built that Web page and it now links to a page on this Web site.

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When it comes to the U.S. Senate race, Ovide Lamontagne is a man of great honor and conviction—so much, in fact, that former U.S. Sen. Gordon Humphrey called him “honest, forthright and truthful” and “certain of principles.” We, the 48 undersigned activists, have vetted Ovide Lamontagne and are certain that he rises well above the other candidates in the field. He presents our best chance to redirect the U.S. Senate toward our nation’s foundation in liberty, as protected in the U.S. Constitution. We urge readers to support Ovide, too.

A protest to encourage reason, held in June in New York, opposed the construction of a mosque for Muslim worship at the location where Islamic terrorists used planes to attack and destroy the World Trade Center towers, killing 2,976 people in Sept. 2001.

While I strongly believe in the freedom of religion in this country, and I don't think we should use the force of government to stop the building of this Ground Zero mosque, or any mosque, I do think that we should do everything within our right to discourage the building of an Islamic symbol at this location, particularly one of this magnitude. If the building is constructed, its opening will be just as insulting to most Americans as it would be insulting to Muslims for Americans to bring a ready-to-eat pork roast into the same mosque's Ramadan service, if not more so.

I think the opening of this mosque will harbor resentment and create more problems and maybe even violence between the American and Muslim worlds than exist today. I am surprised that more people don't see this.

Please take the time to read the article, which was written by the anonymous El Marco. This article, which I have edited, is important, and should be considered by all.

The following article relates how the JournoList was used to kill the story about Jeremiah Wright, then candidate Obama's pastor, good friend and adviser who holds rather subversive views that most assuredly influenced our president. I'm sure the story about JournoList goes much deeper than the media's concerted effort to kill the story about Jeremiah Wright, but that's all Strong has been able to uncover so far. I wonder how long this has been going on? Regardless, this is the most outrageous betrayal we've seen in America since Benedict Arnold.

Our Republic is doomed if we don't work to subvert this and replace these conspirators with some real journalists. We must create a real, competing press that does its job to expose this and the nefarious acts of the government. Fox News isn't cutting it. We need three or four Fox News stations, or stations even better that do more for liberty. We need newspapers, we need radio, we need the Internet. Journalism must be reinvented by We the People in the free market, and this has got to be the impetus!

You will be dumbfounded by this story (PDF).

It saddens me to think that people today are being taught that more government control over their lives and decisions is somehow more enlightened than the ideas that our Founders fought and died for; namely, that every person is endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness.

There is nothing in life that is free--that is, without expense or effort--yet when this nation was founded there was nothing stopping individuals from expending whatever effort they could handle to achieve their dreams. And when they achieved those dreams, individuals could keep whatever it was they earned and do what they wanted with it. That is true freedom!

We live in a world today where government is posturing itself as the giver and taker of freedom. This is regressive, not progressive. In order to reclaim the dream of the most enlightened Americans who ever lived, we must reclaim the vision that was outlined in the Declaration of Independence and ratified on this day in 1776. I have been fighting to reclaim this dream since the fall of 1997 when it first occurred to me which direction we are now headed, and I urge all of you reading this, if you aren't already, to start fighting with me.

To get you started in the understanding that is necessary for this hopefully peaceful battle, let me first share with you something my Dad sent, written by one of our better presidents: Calvin Coolidge. He (and I) found it to be very relevant to the challenge that confronts us in the ubiquitous variants of progressive dogma that pass themselves off today as the higher wisdom. For those of us who understand reason and the true nature of being, we know this is not the case.

"About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

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Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.

Obama's Oil Spill To Do List from the Heritgage Foundation.

Thank God for WRKN in Tennessee, which revealed to the world (PDF) the fortitude, wisdom and conviction of Harpeth High School Valedictorian Amelia Bivens. Bivens fully exercised her First Amendment rights when she defied an illegal order to remove a Bible verse from her valedictorian speech and read from it anyway to explain the forces that have driven her to her success.