July 2014 - Granite Grok

July 2014

Is Modern Immigration Policy the Death Knell For Small Government?

One of our upcoming guests this week is Ann Cocoran from the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog.  There are a number of excellent resources at the site, including the EAGLE Forum report on how mass legal immigration is certain doom for a Conservative Republican party.  (Phyllis Schlafly founded Eagle Forum, by the way.) Certain doom?  Yes, …

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Where I Disagree with Skip, Who Was Only Slightly Disagreeing With Me

Skip remarked on my post about Jeanne Shaheen’s Senate vote to keep the gas tax money the feds scoop out of all 50 states in DC, instead of returning it back to the states where it belongs.  In those remarks he says he slightly disagrees over who is pulling whose strings…. Where I slightly disagree …

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Palate Cleanser: water walkers

Given that none of us are Jesus, is this a way you’d like to try to walk on water?  Heck, who jumps out of perfectly good airplanes or off mountains? (H/T: Sploid)

Palate Cleanser: A capella version of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” by Home Free

Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” by Home Fire (H/T: The Blaze): I am a sucker for a capella groups with extremely tight melodies – and in this arrangement of the song, we get to see the basses front and center.  Jealous of their talent – always wanted that basso profundo low voice – that last …

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Observation on the nature of a Progressive and Progressivism: Jeanne Shaheen

Steve has a most important post up today where he brings up that Jeanne Shaheen, regardless of her campaign ads or sound bytes, is not really interested in the people of NH (but gets it very slightly wrong).  Emphasis mine, a bit of reformatting: I can’t say it often enough.  We need to elect Senators …

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GrokTALK! July 26th, 2014 with Doris Hohensee

Next Up on GrokTALK! Doris Hohensee, who is running against Democrat Betty Lasky for New Hampshire State Senate District 13.  We talk about the campaign, jobs, economic growth, education, and teacher’s growing opposition to common core.  We touch Federal interference, expanding Granite State commerce and real growth in exports, and where Doris stands on taxes, …

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Jeanne Shaheen – Fund Bureaucrats Before Bridges

The Democrats in the US Senate, with the help of 15 Republicans shot down a transportation reform amendment that would have… …devolve(d) the federal highway program to the states, allowing them to keep the vast majority of their gas tax revenues and to make their own transportation infrastructure decisions. No one who truly believes in …

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