14 January 2011 - Granite Grok

January 14, 2011

About Mike Rogers

Mike is a British import of around 30 years, who was a conservative in the days of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Content for many years to work hard and pay taxes as a “Resident Alien” (some think he’s from another planet), he gradually came to the conclusion that generic low-level financial support for the …

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Scale and Perspective are Everything

Watch these YouTube videos, by “10000 Pennies”, putting spending cuts, stimulus, healthcare, and the Federal Budget into stark perspective.

This just made my head hurt – Illinois politics

Illinois – the State where famed Chicagoland politics is a corruption personified.  And not for nothing is a story of "somebody who somebody sent" with three players in playing musical political chair.  Yes, singular – chair: Someone who escaped Someone who slipped the handcuffs by refusing to sit Clueless The sordid tale of how the …

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Notable Quote – Abraham Lincoln

“I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men’s rights” – Abraham Lincoln How apropo, given this. 

Well, that didn’t take long, did it? DM – Herman Cain not being allowed to address the NH GOP State Committee at the Annual Meeting

Ah yes, operating at the speed of the blogosphere!  Just in – it seems that Herman Cain (who GraniteGrok has interviewed several times now) requested permission to take a moment (and only a moment) to address the assembled NH GOP State Committee at next Saturday’s Annual Meeting What’s the matter – is Herman not "the …

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Tweets in my ear – a trend: is John Sununu engaging in a political whisper campaign against Jack Kimball?

Betcha this ain’t gonna keep me on the Christmas Card list… Well, I’ll know what the deal is on Jan 22 – at the Dec. Belknap County Republican meeting, I was told by an NH GOP Staffer that "Sure, GraniteGrok can do GrokTALK! from the Annual Meeting!".  Better, three of us Groksters are Members as …

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Jack Kimball: Letter to the State GOP Committee Members

From the desk of Jack Kimball January 10, 2011 Dear Member, I am writing to ask for your vote in the upcoming election for New Hampshire GOP Chairman. The Republican values of limited government, freedom and individual responsibility are the same principles our Founding Fathers used as a foundation for our Democratic Republic.  It is …

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A report on Rick Santorum

Guest post by Robert Jursik who covered Ovide Lamontagne’s Granite Oath series of speakers this past Tuesday night.  The featured speaker was Rick Santorum, former Senator from PA. Granite staters are renowned for our caustic dismissal of snow storms, yet we are not foolish about them either. With a massive one only hours away, we …

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