27 August 2009 - Granite Grok

August 27, 2009

Bagged! Carol Shea Porter adopts apparent strategy to stack town hall meeting

  Guilty! So I’m reading Leslie Carbone’s blog post about a Howard Dean Town Hall event where local members of the DNC’s Organizing For America group were encouraged to attend in an email note. Included was  the information regarding where it was and what time to be there. "Please arrive as early as possible to …

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Summer Reading Assignment

Pulp?   From the NRCC:  Washington- With two weeks left in the summer recess and one step closer to the possibility of a government- run healthcare system, has Carol Shea-Porter read the monstrosity that is the Democrats 1,018- page healthcare bill? Has she read about the job-killing, tax-hiking, and government-run mess that is HR 3200? Well, …

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Add a new book to the shelf…

Leslie Carbone’s book, Slaying Leviathan: The Moral Case for Tax Reform has just been released. In Slaying Leviathan, Carbone argues that since the early twentieth century, U.S. tax policy has been designed to mitigate the natural economic results of both virtue and vice. When the government disrupts the natural order through taxation by creating incentives …

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Framed!

From our friends at Americans for Limited Government…  

Absence of government? Not while there’s “free” money to be had!

This is my weekly column for the Laconia Daily Sun published in today’s paper (pdf here, pg.4). More details regarding the issues mentioned involving the JAG grant can be found here, here here here here here and here. "All politics" is local. Exercising the First by Doug LambertFeeding the Beast As I dig deeper and deeper …

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Notable Quote – The Late Senator Ted Kennedy

Consider this our obligatory "Ted Kennedy’s passing" post and that you can almost always find something that is good from even your ideological foes: The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition.  They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations. …

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“…I’m a Proud Right Wing Terrorist…”

…who expects people to EARN their living and not feel that others OWE them their living! A Great American who tells his CongressCritter what to tell the King and all the King’s men what to do… (H/T: Hot Air)