15 February 2011 - Granite Grok

February 15, 2011

An example of the low esteem in which Progressives hold others

The fact that the post also includes knocks against Wal-mart seems be a mere bonus for this person: Brenda Speaks, a Ward 4 ANC commissioner, actually urged blocking construction of the planned store in her ward at Georgia and Missouri avenues NW partly because of that risk. Addressing a small, anti-Wal-Mart rally at City Hall …

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NH House Passes Right To Work Bill

By a vote of 221 to 121 HB 474 passes the NH House. While this is not a veto proof majority 58 House reps did not vote leaving plenty of room for a veto override.

This sums up my agenda….

I have often been accused, as an elected Budget Committee member, of having an agenda.  Well, I’ve been pretty open about actually having one – and this chart almost perfectly sums it up.  This image pretty much says why I do what I do and how I approach the Proper Role of Government: (H/T: Big …

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Herman Cain’s Great Speech, and CPAC Commentary

Note: GraniteGrok welcomes Mike Rogers as a contributor! First class speech, and it was a little different from the one given at CPAC, too. As noted by our trusty scribe, Skip, Herman has been "changing up" the speech with each delivery, tailoring it expertly to the audience: (H/T:

Bedford School District Book Woes Re-ignite

The Bedford Public School system is back in the news again. Another book has popped up in the curriculum that is questioning the standards of the towns (cough-cough) educational experts. This time is it ‘Water For Elephants.”

What Zandra Rice Hawkins Was Really Selling At Her “Fake” Sale

Zandra Rice “The Huckster” Hawkins of Granite State Progress (an out of state funded left wing group) staged a bake sale based on words she put in State Rep Jeanine Notter’s mouth. Hawkins just decided that because Notter had more faith in individual responsibility and local control–and even trying free market competition to lower costs–that this guaranteed that people would suffer; that Notter’s solution meant people would need to have a bake sale to raise money to pay for cancer treatments if New Hampshire tried to opt out of the unconstitutional Health care mandate.

Socialist Democrat Moles in Action

At CPAC this last weekend former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield was booed and heckled. It is said that the people doing this were "Ron Paul supporters." I don’t believe it. For one thing, Ron Paul is not stupid; he disapproves of such behavior. Secondly, such activity is suspiciously like what collectivists on the Left always do, trying to shut …

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