26 February 2013 - Granite Grok

February 26, 2013

Organizing For Action Hijacked – Forgot To Register Domains!

Warner Todd Huston, of the Axis of Fedoras, reported today over at Breitbart’s Big Government, that the Obama team was getting sloppy in its old age. You see, when you change names as often as leftists have to do, it is essential to secure trademarks, copyrights, AND domain names for the new name BEFORE announcing …

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Action Alert: Preserve and Expand School Choice

ACTION ALERT! NH House Democrats Vote to Kill Education Scholarship Program HB 370, the bill to repeal the educational choice scholarship program instituted in the last session for low-income New Hampshire families, was passed by the NH House last week Wednesday. Apparently the hour and a half of testimony and the nearly 500 education scholarship …

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Another Cruz Missile – ‘Republicans Failed To Stand For Principle’

Yes, he actually said this: “An Awful Lot of Republicans Failed To Stand For Principle And Contributed To Getting Us In This Mess” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), a man who is not afraid to stick to his principles, and to call out those who do not. No wonder the Left is screaming about him being …

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This is interesting: The history of smallpox vaccinations

Did you know that during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington required all his troops to be inoculated for smallpox? I didn’t. The process was different from the vaccines all of us old people received in our youth; it was an inoculation that was referred to at the time as…

Report Claims: Manchester NH one of Ten Least Taxed Cities in US

There is a good deal of couched language in this article, but a few things stand out. According to Edward Wyatt, fiscal analyst for the Office of Revenue Analysis, while tax rates are certainly a factor in the tax burden on families, it is more the existence of certain kinds of taxes that determines whether …

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Will Beretta Leave Maryland?

Moving costs money but the owners of Beretta are thinking it might be time. Beretta is weighing whether the rifle line (which would now be illegal if proposed legislation becomes law), and perhaps the company itself, should stay in a place increasingly hostile toward its products. Its iconic 9mm pistol — carried by every U.S. …

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Government rules by sheer naked force…

Glenn Reynolds, Tennesse law professor, father of Instapundit, interviewed Russ Roberts, an economics professor at George Mason University, recently.  It’s a fairly lengthy (but very interesting) podcast and the talk shifted to discussion of a NY Slimes piece from last year on why the Constitution was really of little value to today’s hipster progressives.  To whet your …

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HB617 – Well, ONE Republican is making a big stink about raising the gas tax.

Well, I, Mike, and Steve are all over HB617,  the bill that will raise the gas tax 18 cents over the next four years – and to hammer home the point, we can thank Republicans for greasing the skids to push this through without nary a cross vote.  Well, one NH House Representative has spoken …

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Guest Post – NH State Rep Jane Cormier “Just a FEW of the MANY Taxes We Pay…”

FEDERAL     STATE of NH       Income Tax     Property Tax:     Corporate Income Tax       Town Property   Social Security       Town School Education   Medicaid       State Education   Capital Gains       County   Marriage Tax Penalty     Inheritance …

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