18 January 2014 - Granite Grok

January 18, 2014

GrokTALK – January 18th 2014 with Joe Kenney, Joseph D’Aleo, Ellen Kolb, and Mike Gill

This Week on GrokTALK! Senator Joe Kenney  joins us to talk about his primary race for New Hampshire’s Executive Council, and about the importance transparency, consistency, and standing up for what you believe in. Joe D’Aleo, The Cofounder of The Weather Channel talks weather and science, what really drives climate, problems with modeling, and what …

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All Out War?

I get all kinds of email, from both sides, and this morning I read something from a TEA Party email that went something like this… The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — the National Democrats official campaign arm — has declared all–out war on the Tea Party. In panic to save Obamacare, they have announced the …

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Even in our jammies…

Attorney and professor Eugene Volokh is a tireless and ferocious warrior for liberty.  He wins another one for the good guys.

Data Point – Student loan debt vs Median Income (B.A)

Knowledge may be priceless, but a higher education is clearly not. University administrators keep hiking tuition, the wages of graduates keep falling, and a whole generation of Americans is struggling under the crushing burden of debt as they postpone their dreams for a tomorrow that may never come. (H/T: Wonkblog)

Voter Fraud: Well, FINALLY is the NH Attorney General’s office looking?

Good on them – a start:  finally, finally, finally – from the Keene Sentinel (reformatted, emphasis mine): A man who voted illegally in Keene during elections in 2012 has agreed to a settlement with the N.H. Attorney General’s Office.  Adam Kumpu voted by absentee ballot in the town of Milford, and on election day in …

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Notable Quote – Prof. Don Boudreaux

Do you not share Thomas Sowell’s concern that efforts to “de-concentrate” incomes among the people require concentrating power among the politicians? Asked differently, if you worry that abuses of power are encouraged by concentrations of income, shouldn’t you worry even more that abuses of power are encouraged by concentrations of power? – Prof. Don Boudreaux, …

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And this is why we blog…a thank you!

From a comment on “Duck Gate – New Developments”; (emphasis mine): All of you at Granite Grok have exposed, and kept in the limelight, the lack of integrity and credibility of the AG’s office beginning with voter fraud amongst their own staff harboring out-of-state voters in our elections!!… Thanks for all Granite Grok contributors. It …

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Data Point – The Obama Economy

From Big Government: 1. A Record 91.8 Million Americans Are No Longer in the Workforce …According to the U.S. Census, 317 million people live in the United States. 2. Since Jan. 2009, the Number of Jobless Working-Age Americans Has Risen 9.6 Million People …That means that the number of working age Americans that are not …

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