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NH state rep from Hillsborough 28 A+ rating from @nhliberty I came here to chew bubble gum and fight for a free New Hampshire...and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Nov 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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"DNI is supposed to fairly represent the views of 18 intelligence agencies"

This has it exactly backwards. 2/
The Director of National Intelligence is not a REPRESENTATIVE of the intelligence agencies / deep state, making sure that their priorities are fairly represented.

The "intelligence community" (God, I hate that phrase) is not a body that has some unique "stakeholder rights" >
Nov 10 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
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I did a deep dive on glyphosate a few years back. Had a friend who pointed me to a site listing ~30 papers.

I downloaded and read every single one.

One or two made actual claims...but the n and p values were absolute garbage. 2/
the vast majority of the papers, though, weren't even "papers" in the sense we know them ; they were just literature reviews, barely coherent rants, etc.

you've heard about the reproducibility crisis?
these papers WISH they were non reproducible !
Oct 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
the fact that "a public school teacher forcing you to slow down and stop learning because equality must be enforced" is such a universal experience among smart people that it's just the casual REFERENCE to make some other political point is amazing 2/
you're saying that the public school project of untracked classes is doomed to treat children like cattle, and thwart the desire of the smart ones to learn?

I believe you.

Sep 5 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
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Tim is right.

Even though African Americans commit 13.5 times as many homicides per capita as whites do (and 24.5 times as many as Asian Americans), the rate of whites and Asians committing homicide is not exactly zero.

Data from the CDC:

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… 2/
As a side note: this is one of the reasons that NH has such low crime: lack of diversity.

Every time a NH Dem talks about how NH needs to become more diverse, realize that for each 51 African Americans added to the state, we should expect one additional gun murder.
Sep 3 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

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I'm curious what other parts of Leviticus @alissandra4mht thinks are morally binding on modern Americans.

Ritual uncleanliness of new mothers?

Sacrificing a lamb for a new child?

Shaving the heads of people with acne?

Executing adulterers?

No, of course not.
May 22 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Penny auctions are evil.

Collusion like this doesn't happen automatically - it's enforced only with the threat of extrajudicial violence (See those nooses? That's an implict threat to lynch people who bid at fair prices). 2/
The goal is to defraud the elderly who invested in bank stocks and depend on dividends, to the benefit of people who declared bankruptcy.

I'm not castigating bankruptcy or people who are forced into it. It's good social tech to give people an out, to let them start over.
Apr 30 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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This is a point I make over and over and over again.

Dems profess to care for poor / marginalized / minorities / less fortunate (and I believe them, for the record), but their policies are always what @Chris_arnade calls "front of the classroom"

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(i.e. the good students, the eager studiers, the teacher's pets) think are good policies, and these implicitly (a) assume that following exactly in their own footsteps is the only way to lead a worthy life, (b) assume that everyone has the smarts and conscientiousness they do
Apr 25 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
The Woke Mob will not tolerate neutrality - every knee must bow.

I strongly support my constituent Chris Prunier, owner of Alphas Barber Shop, who didn't want to be part of the culture war, he just wanted to cut hair. 2/
It's worth noting that the mob tactics used by Goffstown Select Board Vice Chair Kelly Anne Boyer and the rest of her extremist retinue are explicitly those of communist totalitarians.

Vaclac Haval explained the technique in 1978:

nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/upl…
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Apr 7 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
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 Republican concerns re mixed sports are not about genitals, but about bone density, skull shape, muscle density, etc.

It's fine for Dems to engage in faith-based ideology, but when it comes to public policy, we need to use science.

...and the science is clear: >>> 2/
People who have been through male puberty (whatever their legal status, social status, etc.) have extreme advantages in physical contests.

...and it's not just that people who have gone through male puberty are going to be much better at competition
Mar 27 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Many thanks to the 170 sovereign citizens, none of whom live in my district, who sent me this crazy form letter. Image 2/
 Why not show the whole thing?

Because it went on for page after page after page and I screencapped as much as fit on my monitor.

Perhaps someone has a link to the whole thing.

Feb 29 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
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During the planning phase a local sheriff asked "why do you need to RAID the compound? I'm friendly with David Koresh, and he picks up his mail at the post office every week. You can just arrest him."

The ATF had their reasons, though...

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Specifically, the ATF budget was coming up for renewal in Congress soon, and inside the ATF there was concern that they didn't look macho enough.

So they decided to put on a big show. It was named "Operation Showtime", and scheduled to coincide w budget season.
Feb 15 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
R bill to allow voters to monitor books in schools.

Dems object.

Republican reading quotes.

Speaker Sherm Packer cautions Rep to stop.

Dems trying to shout him down.

Apparently adults in the statehouse can't handle words that 6th graders can read in taxpayer funded books. 2/
Dems keep shouting "No!" and "Stop!".

Attempted censorship from the left.

Dem whip called for a censorship vote to silence the Republican.

Utterly disgraceful.
Oct 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
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Today was "Veto day" in the NH statehouse.

Of the hundreds of bills that passed both the NH House and Senate, the governor vetoed 5.

These came back to the house, to let us override the vetoes, if we wanted, with a 2/3 majority. 2/
Most of the gov's vetoes were good ones - he vetoed bad bills that the Dems managed to get across the line with the narrow 200/199 house split when Republicans were out sick ... or were too lazy to show up. :(
Sep 15, 2023 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
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On my personal account I had a brief thread about police use of force.

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NH state rep @TimothyHorrigan (D) chimed in.

Jun 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Liberal Arts Educational Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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I'd like to extend consumer law to universities, and prosecute universities for selling dangerous / useless products.

"Unsafe at any speed", but applied to the educational malpractice.

Jun 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Towns have an absolute reckless disregard for the resources of the citizens.

Here in Weare they keep the corrupt Naomi Bolton on staff, even though she's explicitly lied to citizens, used her town email to castigate people for their political opinions, and violated RSA 91-A. 2/
Same the the corrupt head of the ZBA Jack Dearborn, who's lied, falsified minutes, failed to recuse himself, failed to read the zoning manual issued by the state, mocked me for caring about it, refused to follow NH SC precedent, etc.

BoS just shrugs and spends $ on lawyers.
Jun 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The town of Weare has spent a LOT of money on lawyers.

* false arrest of Bill Alemenan

* false arrest of Carla Gereike

* police assassination of some rando in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot

* police chief sleeping with subordinate, destroying evidence

* Weare v WearePowerful 2/
...and of course my three lawsuits v Weare.

I've requested lawyer invoices under RSA 91-A and the corrupt town administrator Naomi Bolton refused to provide them, saying that they were attorney-client privileged. I had to threaten a lawsuit before she turned them over.
Jun 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Reflect on why unionized school teachers hate hate hate HATE competition ... 2/
There are 150,000 students in NH.

Towns spend an average of $20,000 per student per year.

Education Freedom Accounts provide from $3k-8k per student.

Charter schools get $7k.

If we fully legalized competition with the monopoly government schools >>>
Jun 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
on a non-partisan note: cliffs in benefits are terrible policy.

If you decide that people who have X problem deserve help, and you say "...but only if they earn less than $Z", you create an incentive for someone just barely under $Z to never improve their skills or position 2/
The much smarter design is to phase out benefits gradually - e.g. for every $5 above the cut-off, benefits are reduce by $1.

This keeps incentives aligned- people on benefits would rather earn $5 and keep the $5 plus lose $1 of benefits.
Jun 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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There are two sets of laws out there.

One for us little people, and another entire set of rules for the politically connected Democrat elites. 2/
Jun 20, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Endorsed.

Investigating things (a) can turn up amazing smoking guns, (b) is actively fun.

In my fight with the Old Boy Network in the town of Weare, I've been firing off a lot of RSA 91-A requests (state level FOIA, basically), and the results have been AMAZING. 2/
I've found falsified meeting minutes by the chair of the ZBA (his written lies are contradicted his own words, and third party weather reports). I've found a member of the planning board who signed an ethics pledge about conflicts of interest and recusal, and then >>>