29 March 2014 - Granite Grok

March 29, 2014

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The “No Soros Money In New Hampshire” Fairy Tale

I can picture the ruling class progressives telling a bedtime story to their one, adopted, Eastern-European, designer-child. It’s about the evil Koch Brothers and how they used their ‘dark-money’ magic to battle the brave Obama and his Knights of the redistribution round table.

Welcome to real world economics!

From the Laconia Citizen: County admins work to pay health costs LACONIA — The Belknap County administration and department heads presented a working budget plan to commissioners on Thursday that, in many departments, takes money from wages to pay health care costs… Now, the rest of it is behind a paywall, so I’m not going …

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Notable Quote – Fr. Robert Sirico

Many of the confusions of our age rest on a loss of certain crucial distinctions. The most apparent is the distinction between rights and privileges. John Hospers, my philosophy professor at the University of Southern California, used to say we have undergone a “rights inflation.” As in a monetary inflation, the value of the common …

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Well, I “wonder” whose missing from this picture?

This morning, I saw this photograph on the Concord Monitor front page – Governor Maggie Hassan ALL smiles as she signs the legislation that implements Obama’s Medicaid Expansion: Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat – ringed by all Democrats.  But nary a pixel of any of the real folks that made it happen: NH State Senator Chuck …

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Bruce Braley And the Rottenberg Apple

We should get used to hearing about Bruce Braley, the Democrat pretender to Tom Harkin’s Iowa Senate Throne. If you recall, New Hampshire/Missouri double voter Caitlin Ann Legacki worked as Braley’s congressional communications director while also being paid as his campaign communications director.  This violates House ethics rules.  Braley also violated state and federal tax …

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