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May 24, 2012

There is a meme going around that President Obama is the most frugal President in years – Ha!

Many of the major lefty oriented blogs are touting this – I think to deflect the actual spending orgy that the Obama Administration has actually done.  Does anyone not believe that their normal whipping boy – President Bush (hey, isn’t EVERY thing his fault?) is responsible.  The problem, as it always is, is in the …

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Obama’s Looking a Little Dog-Eared: Another Fraudian Slip?

American Thinker, which deconstructed Obama well ahead of the curve, and long before Dinesh DeSouza (example here), is now busily deconstructing the fraudulent images of his presidency, if indeed it IS his presidency. Mara Zebest is a Photoshop expert, author of several books on the topic, and has been observing some odd features of official White …

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Really, Judd – Part 2

“I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.“ – Glenn Reynolds, owner of Instapundit, law professor, columnist, author Sometimes, the posts just write themselves… Judd Gregg: This means that if there is no middle ground, nothing happens. Big issues of significant national concern …

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Anonymous Allegations?

Over at the Concord Monitor web site, someone going by the name of ItsaRepublic, has been doing some very heavy lifting for GraniteGrok.  They have gone to bat for us on our investigation of Public Employees who have been using the Monitor’s web site, during office hours, at taxpayer expense.  Not exactly a friendly environment …

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The Senate Democrats War On Women #EqualPay?

“”Of the 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus examined in the analysis, 37 senators paid their female staffers less than male staffers.”” That would be about $21K / year / female staffer (about 35% less, on average) Left Wing Projection Strikes Again! ( H/T: Washington Free Beacon)

Really, Judd?

“working” is only goodness when “working” is on the right stuff and achieving the right results inline with proper governance A few days ago, former US Senator from NH Judd Gregg had an Op-Ed in The Hill (an inside- DC-political-baseball newspaper) was decrying the loss of the “bipartisan centrist” and it included : …Our politics …

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42% Of Democrats Prefer NoBama!

UPDATED with map and video. Obama by the Numbers 2012 – When more than 40% of Democrat Primary voters (the most enthusiastic Democrats) simply cannot bring themselves to vote for Obama, he may truly have jumped the shark! Arkansas has an open primary, so it’s just possible that mischievous Republicans may have skewed the results, …

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