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May 7, 2013

Who’s Talkin’ Crazy Now? NH Dem Lisa Whittemore – Gas Tax increase is a Good Deal for You!

This is New Hampshire House Democrat Lisa Whittemore who is expected to understand what every New Hampshire Democrat must know.  Your money is better off in the government’s hands than your own.  That is why, with little or slow growth projected in New Hampshire’s immediate future, she is not just supporting a 67% increase in your …

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Louisiana Follows Kansas On Federal Gun Law Nullification

Last month Kansas–those radical flatlanders–passed a bill that nullified a wide range of federal gun laws for weapons manufactured and sold within the state’s borders.  Holder and the gun ninnies were naturally put off by this.  (Feds no like when u nullify their unconstitutional power grabs.) The Missouri House has also passed legislation to send a message to …

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How Much More Does The State Deserve Your Money Than You?

Keep in mind that New Hampshire Democrats want to spend your money to achieve  immediate government growth of about 9-10% Boston.com Dennis Delay of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies told the Senate Ways and Means Committee Tuesday that New Hampshire’s recovery from the Great Recession is lackluster. … Delay predicted the state’s …

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When It Rains it Pours

As an after-thought to my post on SB 11 yesterday–which has stirred up some interest around the Grokosphere and well beyond–I went looking for some details about the environmentalist/regionalist motivations with regard to water and sewer.   It is a huge subject many parts of which we’ve touched on at the Grok already; you might say the socialist/central …

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Palate Cleanser (?) – Famous Vegan Eating Meat Again

Alex Jamieson was a vegan for 12 years, appeared in the movie Super-Size me, and has been a well-regarded prominent voice in–they actually have this–the vegan community, but she recently discovered that her body was asking her for things she was not providing.  Animal protein.  So she began adding it slowly back into her diet, …

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The basis of his economic theory

You can steal from your children and your grandchildren with impunity because, after all,  “In the long run, we’re all dead“. “We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom. We were, that is to say, in the strict sense of the term, immoralists. The consequences of being found out had, of course, to be …

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This isn’t even “Leading From Behind” (trademark, Barack Obama)

Full disclosure – unless the civil war in Syria crosses the borders into our allies countries (certainly Israel, to a lesser degree Jordon and downward from there), I don’t see as much of a National Interest in interceding.  Yes, oil is a national interest but with the shale finds, fracking, and newer drilling techniques, we …

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TreeHugger has decided to ban me – I guess I ask embarrasing questions

Good thing I have the ‘Grok’ to report on – I’d feel so bad over being banned.  Or, at least I think I’ve been banned – dunno why as I never use four letter words or sexual innuendos when leaving comments there (see, I’m consistent: I follow Rule#1 there just like I enforce it here).  …

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