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NH Governor Lynch blocks vote on pardon request for Ward Bird. Executive Council votes to commute Bird's sentence to time served.

Ward Bird is in prison for 3-6 six years because a trespasser on his property refused to leave and he had a gun. The stories conflict as to what role the gun played. In any case no shot was fired. I have not seen the details of the incident but suspect Ward is guilty of 'talking to police'. Note in this report that he refused to take a plea deal.

When confronted by police, he responded with a flinty New Hampshire-style defiance that has resonated with sympathizers across the state: "Yes, I’m not going to hang my head in shame; I smoke a little pot"
The town has rallied behind the farmer; "I SUPPORT FARMER DAVE" T-Shirts are still selling briskly, 2 years after the initial bust.

Until July 1, a low-income New Hampshire woman paid an average of $5 to fill a birth control pill prescription at any of the state's six Planned Parenthood clinics. She might have even gotten the birth control for free, depending on her poverty level.

But since the New Hampshire Executive Council voted to cancel the state's contract with Planned Parenthood, a woman now has to pay anywhere from $40 to over $100 for birth control pills at a regular pharmacy.

CONCORD, N.H. — “I can tell you in New Hampshire people don’t like sales tax,” a diner eating lunch in a Concord restaurant told the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO. “Don’t confuse the New Hampshire sales tax with this because you’re going to have to pay that anyway,” Cain said.

But the man quickly corrected the presidential candidate: “New Hampshire doesn’t have a sales tax.” “Don’t mix the two,” Cain insisted. “Some people say, well we don’t want a sales tax. It’s not a state sales tax.”

A spokesman for Gov. John Lynch stressed yesterday that a plan is in place to deal with violent offenders when they are freed from state prison under the new law mandating parole nine months before the end of a maximum sentence.

FTA: "In the video, Flint Farmer was lying on the grass between the curb and the sidewalk. It was shortly before 2 a.m. on a June morning in the West Englewood neighborhood, and Farmer had been shot by a Chicago police officer. Then, according to the video, the veteran officer, Gildardo Sierra, stepped onto the parkway and walked a semicircle about the prone Farmer as three bright flashes went off. The flashes, captured by a police car video camera, were fatal shots fired into Farmer's back, officials say.

U.S. Calls for Release of Chinese Activist

BEIJING—The U.S. ambassador to China called on Beijing to release a prominent property activist sentenced last week to more than two years in prison, a rare move by an envoy who has criticized China's human-rights record but has seldom publicly questioned individual cases.

Zoe Taylor is the badass heroine of our upcoming animated thriller romance, Silver Circle. We should be ready to announce the locations of our theatrical release by August, but there’s going to be a sneak preview of the film at PorcFest this year. PorcFest is the annual Summer festival of the Free State Project, which is a movement of liberty activists all moving to New Hampshire to consolidate their efforts. At the screening of the film we’ll be giving out the Zoe Award for female liberty activism. Here are the details.