20 August 2009 - Granite Grok

August 20, 2009

Hell freezes over. Pigs have taken flight. The moon is blue. Corpses have spun. There is a topic on which this Grokster and Blue Hampshire are one!

That’s right. I’m perusing the liberal Blue Hampshire blog, our always worthy counterparts on the left, and came across this video put out by New Hampshire Democrats. Now don’t get me wrong, by "worthy counterpart" I mean the ying to the ‘Grok’s yang. We stand poles apart on most issues, especially when it comes to …

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Selective outrage?

  [The following is an editorial from Americans for Limited Government (ALG) and is reprinted here with permission.]   "If the Bush Administration had done it, there would be national outrage." This phrase seems to be thrown about a lot recently with regard to the new administration and its ever-deepening slough of gross misconduct. Whether it’s Obama …

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Ayotte manager doesn’t want to ‘mislead’

  Kochvar and Ayotte Kelly Ayotte’s mysterious campaign manager Brooks Kochvar, the same gentleman who tells Ayotte when to stop talking, is in John DiStaso’s Union Leader column today attempting to argue that the National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser for Kelly Ayotte in Washington, DC on September 22nd isn’t really an NRSC fundraiser. "It’s our …

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Once again, I get to feel older…

Every year, Beloit College publishes the "history" for their incoming Freshman class – and yes, we need to realize that not all of us share a shared history of our nation or our world.  Every year, I gain a better appreciation of the nuances of what I missed when my "elders" spoke and remembered.  Things …

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