Common Sense For New Hampshire

As quoted by reporter Michelle Gladden in yesterday’s Asbury Park Press: “We are creating a conduit by which the business community can do something collectively to improve the downtown.” He says “can”. He means must. This is not empowerment. It is the opposite. It is force. It is collectivism. Anyone who believes in individual liberty […]

Seems three big potholes along the road to his shared police services plan have given the mayor a blowout. At Wednesday night’s council meeting Mayor Pringle expressed his great disappointment that three of our four councilmen have come out against the plan before even hearing the twice-postponed presentation about it. (The first postponement was because of the […]

One of the things I find most irritating about the Pringle administration is it’s enthusiasm for involving Belmar in state programs and grants. These programs are a significant cause of our astronomical state tax burden. Additionally, they damage the recipients’ autonomy because the state dictates all sorts of conditions on how the money is used. Their effect […]

I believe it was Winston Churchill who said when battling a deadly epidemic it is not necessary to give equal voice to the side of the virus. In political debates I often hear that we must give both sides equal credence and that the arguments of both sides must be considered with equal weight. We must […]

I’m sure many of you read the article in Sunday’s Press about the push for the beaches to be “free”. I object to using the term “free” in this instance. Their “free” beaches should actually be referred to as “paid for by somebody else” beaches. To my mind a “free” beach is one where you are […]