22 November 2011 - Granite Grok

November 22, 2011

From the NH GOP – “Your Help is Stopping Obama’s Occupy N.H. Effort” Oh, please!

#NHGOPFail I got an email from the NH GOP today IMPLORING me to send money: Tomorrow we can send that message to the President when he visits Manchester, but we need your help now.  Stop Obama from occupying New Hampshire in 2012 by donating $100, $50 or $25 today! No way, Chairman MacDonald (I REALLY …

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Political Object Lesson Day? Bad behavior gets you stuff from scared politicians

From the LA Times: Los Angeles officials have offered Occupy L.A. protesters a package of incentives that includes downtown office space and farmland in an attempt to persuade them to abandon their camp outside of City Hall, according to several demonstrators who have been in negotiations with the city. The details of the proposal were …

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Freestaters Provide Thanksgiving to Needy Families

The Basket Brigade of New Hampshire: FREE STATER BRINGS BASKET BRIGADE CHARITY EVENT WITH HER TO NEW HAMPSHIRE CONCORD, N.H.—When Manchester resident Amanda Bouldin wanted to honor the memory of her father who suddenly died this year, she cooked up the idea to run a Thanksgiving week Basket Brigade drive just like the one her …

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Newt Gingrich: The Attacks Begin

This from the New Hampshire Newt Gingrich campaign website, "NewtHampshire!" "ANSWERING THE ATTACKS: Setting the Record Straight on Newt’s Positions on the Issues and His Record" "Now that our campaign to rebuild the America we love is gaining momentum, those who want to see us fail are on the attack, digging through Newt’s past to …

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Free Markets, Not Redistribution, Is Best Way to Reduce Poverty

Another installment from the Center for Freedom & Prosperity Foundation Economics 101 series; this one is that driving poverty away does not come from enforced charity but from Free Markets: A primer: who is poor, who is defining poverty, what causes poverty, and what is an answer to break govt dependency?