11 February 2012 - Granite Grok

February 11, 2012

Guest Post: Chris Crawford – “This mandate is an assault on religious liberty”

Chris Crawford is the Chair of the NH Conservative Future PAC: Those who support the new Health and Human Services contraception mandate have largely stated that they hold their opinion because they are not a person of faith or because they disagree with the Church’s teachings on contraceptives. As a sophomore at an extremely secular …

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Guest Post by Phyllis Woods – Preserving Traditional Marriage

  This past Tuesday, several hundred supporters of traditional marriage assembled at the State Capital in support of HB 437.    NH Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien spoke in favor of the bill  and candidate for NH Governor Ovide Lamontagne were also present.  In support of the rally, Phyllis spoke at the rally; her remarks …

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CPAC Dispatch 4: Cain Solutions

Herman launched his Cain Solutions campaign in a typical barn-burner speech, letting the people know that he’s going to drive a revolution in smaller, less burdensome government. He’ll be recruiting volunteers to help select and promote candidates who will pledge to adopt his program. His organization will be drafting sample legislation to implement it, especially …

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CPAC Dispatch (sorta) – Part 3 Pointers to Grok Friends DaTechGuy and “The other McCain” reporting from CPAC

Both Pete and Stacy, ‘Grok friends both, are at CPAC along with Grokster Mike and thousands of Conservatives and Libertarians. Here are a couple of their posts (text, photos, and videos): Stacy McCain It Was Almost My Pulitzer Moment Covering #Occupy, But Then It Turned Into A Madison Rising Groove Is This CPAC, Or A …

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At the same time CPAC is going on, so is the Washington and Lee University Republican Mock Convention of 2012

GraniteGrok extends it’s thanks to Scott McGrath for reporting from this event that is dovetailing with CPAC 2012! Day 1 of Washington and Lee University Republican Mock Convention 2012 Event started with a debate between Ann Coulter and James Carville,  The respective podiums were equipped with Red and Blue boxing gloves,    As such I expected …

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CPAC Dispatch – Part 2 New Directions Foundation

New Directions Foundation: A think tank defending conservatism in Europe.  Simple truths like hard work, opportunity, individual responsibility.  Reagan and Thatcher shared a belief in their nations and peoples, not governments.  Geoffrey Van Orden, president, was a Brigadier General in the UK, and notes that Thatcher is the patron of their organization. Noted that Thatcher …

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Why Conservatives Suck – but not for the reasons Liberals (or most Conservatives) think

Yes, we can suck. Especially in the eyes of Liberals as demonstrated  on Steve’s post (“Men Have No Say? Then Why Make Them Pay?“) as a liberal / progressive commentator ( who went by the handle of Painted Trollop, so you know where this is going) left a few bon mots for us (This is …

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